skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think this is surprising.

The upgrade cycle for computers is 40 months.

With the move to work from home, or people just spending more time at home during covid, many people upgraded with a 15% increase in 2021 and 16% in 2022.

Everyone felt flush with cash, and wanted something to spend it on.

Now people don't feel rich. I've been waiting to buy a new computer until things get REALLY cheap, and I don't even think we're there yet. Maybe another quarter or 2.

On top of that, what are people upgrading for? I'm avoiding Windows 11, and based on the messages I'm not getting in Windows 10, I'm moving to Linux.

I also have a mac, but I don't love the OS, and the pricing for a new mac with the memory I need/want just doesn't make sense.

My Mom can easily get buy on an 8 year old machine, as long as she's getting security updates. Everything is in the cloud, she has no reason to buy something new.

My nieces and nephews (surprisingly) have chrome books. But they could also easily get buy on an iPad.
> gaza was both occupied by egypt and fenced off by egypt, unlike joran that annexed west bank. israel brought to gaza electricity, phones, sewage systems. built hospitals and schools. "global trends" do not make things happen. people make things happen

Yea no. That is actually just not relevant. Once again, this is a global trend! Massive infrastructure projects, massive new investments in the economy. Post war economic miracle.

Global trends are literally set by people. Literacy rates were increasing rapidly during that time. Medical technologies saw massive investment and growth due to the experience of, and aftermath of a global war.

> so, after Hamas massacred PA authority/PLO people in gaza (you know, throwing people from buildings, drugging them behind cars) in 2007, PA in west bank spends considerable efforts to eradicate hamas from west bank. Hamas is mortal enemy of PA in west bank. PA in west bank has deep security cooperation with Israel in order to deal hamas.

This is literally my point! Israel can, and has that ability to fight Hamas in the west bank!

And now because Gaza is a convenient political tool, the PA have started losing votes to Hamas in recent elections in the west bank!

None of that would happen, were it not for keeping Gaza as a literal open air prison!

Your view is literally the opposite of reality.

> Good Life => No reason to join radical terrorist group => Hamas weakens.
Rsync?

MTBF on a WD Green is 1M hours, we’ll replace it at 900K and be golden…
> It's more under Russian influence today than then.

Yugoslavia no longer exists.

While Serbia may be -- I've been there twice and it's a rather scary country -- the other fragments of Yugoslavia are far less so. Bosnia has a distinct Ottoman influence, while Croatia and Slovenia are very Western Europeanised indeed.

I haven't been to Montenegro yet, but had the best beer I tasted in Bosnia was Montenegrin (as opposed to the awful Jelen).

So, no: only one of its fragments, I think.
Nodes broadcast transactions, not users. Metadata is deliberately not included.
Scrollbars Are Becoming a Problem
shields smarttube beta is one of the best things ever https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext
thumbing through encyclopedias published in 1938 is pretty enlightening
I was talking about clients and servers in the classic setup, not for cloud gaming. My parent was talking about game ping and I was pointing out that cloud services are even more sensitive since you’re not interacting with the game client locally.
ARIMA is very very slow and computational expensive.

>Even if true, they could take a random subset of size 100 out of the 300k and compare on those.

Sure...but there's a chance that ARIMA won't even finish training on that subset either.
> What if Linux had a Windows subsystem

It could be called WINE, because it wouldn’t be an emulator.
The M7 forecasting challenge makes this goal explicit. Not the only use of forecasting, and IMO it would be good to have other timeseries data to present to models.
You don't actually have to be this way, you know. You could show people a little more grace.
That kind of depends on the language, but it's a fair point. I think it might only matter that the general algorithm/solution is the same, not the lines of text themselves.
openAI self-selects only people who drink the AGI koolaide. Its the only way to get a job/keep a job there.
In days of yore, when scrollbars were fat and mice lacked wheels, we did indeed drag them.
Possible meant: "Window's resize widget is outside the viewport, so have to first move the window by dragging the titlebar until the resize widget is accessible, then resize, then drag the titlebar again to approximately restore the window position".
You’ve picked the only time where the systems overlap.

Try converting something like 45 minutes into this convenient time system and let us know how efficient it is
Overcast (iOS) supposedly can block ads and skip intros/outros. I haven’t tried using those features though.

It also blocks some audience-measuring redirects.
Perhaps a stupid question, but why train it only on time series data and not in conjunction with e.g. news sources like the Financial Times, etc., since LLMs are good at language so why not use it?
when one makes a statement it happens in context, this context is often important to consider to get the meaning of the statement, this is especially important in the English language.

This importance of context in English is the reason why "Buffalo Buffalo buffalo Buffalo Buffalo" and similar expressions are valid sentences.

One should try to be precise in usage, but it's also reasonable to assume interpretation follows normal usage all of which is preamble to pointing out that:

Hey, given the context it should be obvious that "because they want to control everything" actually means "because they want to control everything on their computer" which is a commonly expressed desire by a large portion of this community and thus the expression is not an accusation of megalomania.
U.S. antitrust pressing on with fight against Microsoft/Activision deal
Eh it's not as if you could just project down the 300k time series to something lower dimensional for forecasting. The TimeGPT would have to do something similar to avoid the same problem.

Though I can't quite figure out how the predicting works exactly, they have a lot of test series but do they input all of them simultaneously?
It's so good I sold my rokus and bought two shields just to use that software.
> Is there evidence that the police are mass surveilling people using Amazon/Ring without investigating a specific crime and/or a specific person? Please show me. If that's actually the case and not just speculation, I'm not for it.

Oh, this is entirely speculation. I doubt it's happened, but I don't think there's anything in place to stop it, and I'm unwilling to believe in the infinite goodwill of Amazon and the police.

This is mostly a personal thing. I don't even think Amazon and the police are doing anything particularly wrong (if it's documented), I'm just not comfortable putting a surveillance device on my home. Unfortunately for me, a lot of people are...
>>tyranny does not begin with violence; it begins with the first gesture of collaboration. Its most enduring crime is drawing decent men and women into its siege of the truth

If you enjoyed the OP parent, you might enjoy "IBM and the Holocaust":

>IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation is a book by investigative journalist and historian Edwin Black which documents the strategic technology services rendered by US-based multinational corporation International Business Machines (IBM) and its German and other European subsidiaries for the Nazi government of Adolf Hitler from the beginning of the Third Reich in January 1933 through the last day of the regime in May 1945 at the end of World War II. Published in 2001, with numerous subsequent expanded editions, Black outlined the key role of IBM's technology in the Nazi genocide, by facilitating the regime's generation and tabulation of punch cards for national census data, military logistics, ghetto statistics, train traffic management, and concentration camp capacity.

via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
I just tested it and it works just fine. YouTube seems to support multiple “mobile” devices connected to a single TV/console
Canon claims its nanoimprint litho machines capable of 5nm chip production
> e.g. tomatoes have lost most flavor and nutrition over past few decades

can't speak for nutrition (nor do you provide support for that claim) but as to flavour, you clearly haven't been round long! Old fashioned tomatoes were shite I can testify (at least those available in the UK).
With apple DEP+MDM, You can wipe it no problem. It's trying to reinstall the OS and then activate it, is where it will fail. If you added your icloud account and turned on activation lock. The system is locked to your account. In that scenario, apple feels the device belongs to whoever locked it with their icloud account. Unless I can prove ownership of the device with a credit card statement, invoice, or MDM/DEP screenshots apple will tell me to kick rocks.
My solution is to have two machines, one for Windows, one for work, each optimised for its intended use: for work I’m fine with integrated graphics, but I need more memory and faster CPU, but for play, the core count can be much lower, as long as the GPU is nice.
I feel like there was a meeting about data security risks at the White House, with CEOs from Open AI and Google, as well as a doc, calling out this exact situation (recording of metadata, queries). Is there really no consistent way of filtering out classified/restricted information from Open AI's GKR?
I've been there with custom keyboards and unicode. Today, my keyboard has only 52 keys and only one layer for numbers and the number-symbols. The rest is done by the OS. This way I can use both the integrated laptop keyboard and the 52-key custom keyboard the same way.
Those who repeat history are doomed to learn from it.
Runtime Verification for Trustworthy Computing
I've looked a little at the literature and I doubt Linus Pauling was right.

His ideas remind me of a saying from a favoriteprofessor: "I am the primitive of my way."

I am all for using nutrition to heal people but I think his ideas were half baked. He was maybe kind of "on to something" but in a general ballpark kind of way, I suspect.
What Happens to Snap?
https://archive.ph/TqtNB
You prompted me to go through the FreeTube settings. SponsorBlock is just right there. I didn't even think to look for it. Amazing! Thanks.

I wonder how many of the open source clients have it built in.
I'd say much older than that. PCs were being subsidized by adware and bundling starting in the 90s at least, for example.
> You could just jump on a train for 35 euros and be in France in a few hours

So first off, you're assuming that they live in London, as that is the only place with a direct train link to France. Second, the Eurostar website has ticket prices "from £39" which equates to €45. But that's the "from" price. Looking at all availability up to the end of October, there is one day where you can get a £63 ticket, another day where you can get an £86 ticket and all other days are £97 or over. So just "jumping on the train" isn't the cheap carefree jaunt you're making it out to be. The average full time salary in London is £37,000[1] and average rent in London is a staggering £31,524[2]. Those numbers only work because a lot of people are house sharing - it is impossible to live in the UK on £5476, especially in London. That one way ticket to France is approximately 1/7 of the average Londoner's weekly wage.

[1] https://upthegains.co.uk/blog/what-is-a-good-salary-in-londo....

[2] https://news.sky.com/story/rightmove-reveals-average-rents-i...
This is why the IRS would rather go after us chumps, the easy targets, rather than the ones who are openly and blatantly dodging gigadollars in taxes. If I so much as thought about under-reporting $15K of income, the IRS would come down on me like a ton of bricks for taxes, interest and penalties, but I guess if Microsoft under-reports $15B, but sends lawyers, the IRS simply chickens out. Ridiculous.
The correct link: https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/product/introducing-AI-power...
I drag the indicator when scanning a document. It's only a single click, and then I move the mouse to part of the document I'm interested in (and then can keep moving it if I want to look at another part). If I was to do this with negative space it would be multiple clicks (and even then negative space clicks tend to jump to the position, whereas a drag will show everything in between).

Though I find it's more common for a negative space click to just move a page and not jump to the location, so maybe that's influenced me.
AFAIK some people have used it on synology successfully in the past. A PR including specific steps would be amazing though
Ask HN: How do you figure out what you have (personally) that you can sell?
From the recent conversations that have occurred [0], [1], I determined that I have no idea how to figure out what I have that I could sell to someone else. I mean that: I'm a software engineer, I know how to write and deploy software for full stack applications. But what I don't know is what I could sell to others, what would be even marginally useful to other people.

All of this serves a larger question: how do I get customer number 1?

In order to get customer 1, I must have something they need, and they must be convinced that they need it. Setting aside convincing, I don't know how move towards acquiring/discovering a saleable idea.

I can ballpark some ideas that I picked up from the other two conversations:

- Know and speak to professionals in a variety of fields. Know them well enough that they will complain to you. This will be a source of potential things that you could solve.
- Scratch your own itch. Someone from the EatThisMuch app showed up and commented that they used this approach [2].

...and, that's it.

My question to those who have gotten to customer 1:

- How do I do what you did? How do I go from skills and raw talent to selling to customer 1?

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[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37834908

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37868705

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37873897, this is why I love HN.
Buying Skype wasn't such a bad idea. It was what they did or did not do to it later.
The open world genre is going to be an interesting application for AI over the next decade or two
>I already has a license for it

You only have a license for playing it and not a license for copying it.
Criticism – Our Theory and Practice
They should be able to. It would be classified as a repeat repair or DOA. To get a replacement airpod they have to create a repair. Almost all of the "repairs" are covered by a 90 day warranty.
> I can add alt text for accessibility

Math ML is much more than alt text. It presents mathematical expressions in a hierarchical, tree-like way, letting you explore parts of the expression in detail. Depending on the implementation, you may also be able to adjust the verbosity or render the expression in Braille using one of a few different math codes.

If you want accessible math, just alt text is not enough.
Most maintained GTK 3 apps replaced menu bars with hamburger menus.
Disney – DEI requires a history of privilege
For background, I am currently a Principal Engineer at a close to FAANG level company, with 16 years of experience in the software industry and a college drop out. I had my own startup for 11 years, chased VC funding, managed and scaled software teams, and scaled software systems to millions of daily active users.

I decided it was time for a change so I applied for some lead software engineering roles at Disney. Today I had a phone screening that lasted about 10 minutes. The second the recruiter asked about my highest form of education and I responded that I am a drop out, I could hear the hesitation in her voice so I asked if that was a deal breaker. Of course it was, but based on the years of experience they can see if I still map to the role.

Unfortunately after she did the math my 16 years of experience with no degree only qualifies for a junior engineering role across all of Disney Engineering. To even qualify for a senior role, I needed 17 years of experience, and the lead role i applied for requires 19 years of experience to even move forward. And the junior role started at a minimum 15 years.

After hearing this and realizing I had no shot at a role at Disney I decided to poke at their hiring requirements and learn more. The recruiter informed me that the way HR maps no degree applicants was to help foster Diversity, Equity and Inclusion within their workforce.

This stunned me because the role I applied for without a degree asked for only 7 years of experience. So the way they are fostering inclusion is that if you don't have a degree you have to have almost 3x the years of on the job experience? How is that DEI?

Here is the JD for the job (posting not in the url field on purpose): https://disney.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/disneycareer/job/Lead-Software-Engineer_10057295-2
I don't understand why I should use something like Nebula or Tailscale. I've got a Wireguard setup where all of my users connect into a VPN. What does Nebula give me?
>Out of curiosity: are you never / sometimes / always conscious, as you are doing it, that you are mixing languages?

My parents mostly stopped talking to me in Italian when I was a toddler, so I'm not fully bilingual. Whenever I use Italian, it's done consciously, because I have to actively think about what I'm supposed to say. The only exception is with a few words that were only ever said to me in Italian, like basilico (basil). In those situations, I usually have to catch myself and remember to use the English words whenever I'm around people who aren't also Italian.
There are latex to unicode convertors [1], that understandably only convert a very limited subset of latex to unicode. They are not very clever at the moment, and I imagine could be improved to actually process \frac in your way.

[1] https://www.unicodeit.net/
Yes, the stated question is about one specific individual. But unlike most of the answers posted so far, "RcouF1uZ4gsC"'s answer acknowledges that there are people for whom, yes, it might be a red flag. As opposed to your answer above, which states "strange enough to think that something like this matters," implying there is absolutely nobody that might raise a concern.

As I mentioned, if the interviewer never heard of Linus Torvalds or Bill Gates, would you really say "it doesn't matter?" If yes, then I kind of wonder about your judgment a little bit. If no, then the question could be re-worded as, "Is Joel Spolsky sufficiently famous or influential among professional software engineers that you'd hesitate before working for someone who had never heard of him," which is a more nuanced question, as it asks the respondent to place him along some spectrum and to determine where the cutoff point is.
Do you mean "it shouldn't be illegal" as in you wish it was not illegal or as in "it is probably not illegal"? Because in most jurisdictions (including the USA) it is illegal to download a backup ROM of something you own. Regarding making a personal backup, some jurisdictions are more permissive but some do not even allow it.
Laying in bed while playing my game on the cloud is real neat. Call it whatever you’d like, I love it!
But can someone summarize using a baking analogy?
With wine 8.18 there are some changes being merged that finally get the affinity graphic suite from serif.com running. It's not Photoshop but it's the closest thing we have and I am unbelievably excited about it I can finally switch full time to linux.
OpenSUSE Leap Micro 5.5 released as a lightweight host operating system
I have experience in this area :D

Here are some relevant notes and pictures of mine about that subject

https://text.nstr.no/~erik.nordstrom/game_boy_color_forever....

https://casa.nstr.no/0001

I bought two different devices for dumping ROM and save game data, and the one that worked best for me was the insideGadgets GBxCart RW.

I even thought about offering as a service that people could ship their GameBoy carts to me and I would dump the ROM and SAV files for them, and then I would ship their cart back to them and provide the dumped data along with a video showing the process of dumping the data.
I want a cashmere one to use as a pillow
Ask HN: How did you manage to lower Stripe fees?
We are building a marketplace for the sport community, our early adopters are BJJ academies and we are quickly expanding using Stripe Connect. We've recently surpassed 1M (YTD) in Total Payment Volume. Is this a good time to negotiate fees with Stripe? Has anyone actually done that and can point me to the right direction?
I've made bochet. It's very different and quite tasty, and also a big hassle because you have to cook the honey for so long. The boiling honey smells amazing, though.
HN is the only place on the net where I've ever seen people defending the premise of cloud gaming and it's usually (not always) people saying something like "Well I don't game much myself but cloud gaming sounds compelling..."

I think this is why tech companies keep trying to implement cloud gaming and it keeps flopping with consumers. Tech industry people who aren't much of gamers themselves think there is some large untapped market of people who aren't gamers right now but could become gamers if the barrier to entry were lowered. In theory that logic makes sense but in practice that market just doesn't materialize. The barrier to entry for gaming is already quite low, it's a very cheap hobby and almost everybody who really wants to play games has already found a way to do so without cloud gaming.
Now if only you could do the same thing for other streaming apps. I’ve tried some dns blocking but it tends to just mess things up.
Microsoft has one of the two biggest gaming subscription services. They would like to see gaming be a subscription business. When they say, we will still sell Call of Duty on other platforms they don't say that they will give it away on GamePass.

What's wrong with subscriptions? It lets a distributor scrape off the excess profit. Games are a hit driven business. It sounds great when a platoform offers two or three times the cost of development to a developer, but the model won't really work unless some titles make like 10x. Listen to Jason Blum explain why Netfilx is terrible for independent film.

You will just see a lot less independent developers (not hobbyists) and small publishers. Maybe no one cares. I will probably be retired by then.
I was responding to the GP who incorrectly stated that there wasn't Polynesian gene flow to the Americas prior to 1000 years ago. The evidence of early admixture events is quite strong. No one thinks the Americas were initially peopled across the Pacific — please do pardon my imprecision!
Introducing Visual Copilot – Design to Code in a Click
Field metrics as measured by the Core Web Vitals / CRUX are a factor in search ranking, not Lighthouse.
I moved to Seattle from Utah. I. Utah when it rains it's big fat drops that splash on your face. You almost want to wear sunglasses to see.

That is relatively rare in Seattle area. It is really more of a mist most of the time. Where I live there are so many giant trees that even when it's "raining" you often stay pretty dry.
The Wirtz Spiral Pump
Amazon Germany has them? They are just the DVB dongles…
Someone that's systematically disagreeing with my opinions, that cannot be!

Must be a bot indeed. Or maybe, just maybe, someone with a different experience than yourself.
I am wondering if there's any performance comparison between js based approach like mathjax and katex with the built-in mathml rendering? Given that the the browser needs to parse and render the generated html and css for the js approach, it seems that mathml should be faster. But is it the case for real performance?