skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Qualcomm Cuts 1250 Jobs in California in Effort to Reduce Costs
I think the 'bigger fool' is more of a 'plan-B' than a main strategy. And it only works so often.

Edit: likewise.
Presumably the rules that govern a business and act like a moat around existing players, reducing new entrants and thus competition.
https://archive.ph/bq04F
Arbs! I had fun doing them years ago but there are some issues I had:

One side decides not to take the bet, or makes it harder “call us to confirm” type thing.

Opening loads of accounts is tedious.

Some sports are easy to mess up on. I think basketball (?) may have senior and junior versions with the same team names so you can bet on the wrong thing quite easily.

My best arb was about 50% profit! But I had to wait 6 weeks for the check to arrive from the US to the UK. I was worried!
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https://github.com/quadnix/octo

I have been trying to release this for some time now. Its a wrapper on top of cloud technologies, like AWS, so developers don’t have to understand low level devops operations.

Much like AWS CDK or Terraform, but build around familiar concepts like Server, Environment, Deployment, Regions, etc.

Its a framework that allows you to write your infrastructure in code, and an example in English would be like,

Hey Octo, build me a region in US East with QA and Staging environment. Build my Backend repo, publish my docker image, and run it in QA, then promote to Staging.

Of course this would be written in code, which would roughly be about 10-20 lines of code, easily testable, and easy to understand.
When the road doesn’t have a sign to say where it’s going or how fast you can go you’re ducked
That's true, sorry, I didn't want to sound that aggressive.

Let me try again: have you ever experienced the importance of delineators when driving?
What package is used to display the globe?
i am surprised you could meet him and people could pitch … his website made it seem like he did not want anyone to email him or talk to him???
If you look at the market, this is a pretty small fraction of gaming revenue. Sure these things will continue to exist in competitive format, but a significant majority of gaming is not highly latency-sensitive in this way.

fwiw I like owning my own hardware, but pretending that cloud gaming isn't going to happen because of the single-digit percentage of gamers that absolutely need locality for competition purposes is just ignoring market dynamics -- there's a huge amount of money to be made in cloud gaming and that's really the only thing that matters.
> we also believe the nation must make these investments

Interesting choice of words. Investment: the action or process of investing money for profit.
The Windows Start button is/was placed in the bottom left so users could just flick the cursor to the bottom left corner, no need for precise motor control. Could be moved to the top left or right as desired, too.

All that went away with Windows 11, though thankfully someone clearly had enough power to say "You are taking my bottom left Start button over my dead body.".
No, they won’t. It’s just more hype and blind faith in technology.
is there some prohibition at the NSA on bribing Europeans?
The conclusion for that seems to be that it just yields a model that has the surface look and feel of GPT3 or 4 but without the depth, so the experience quickly becomes unsatisfactory once you go out of the fine tuning dataset.
Your problem is that you wrote a bad comment, not that you wrote a comment
The sample means approach the normal distribution as the sample size grows, even if the underlying distributions are not normal. That's the the central limit theorem.

(Requires some very lax assumptions like finite variance on the underlying distribution)
HN Badges is still going. Check yours out. Hosting as a HTML/JS static app means I have had live for months without a thought!

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Canonical releases Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic Minotaur
To use your analogy, the gas station owner would have to drive by every competitor in their city, as well as all the neighboring cities, as well visit every similar populated city in their country to get the same information. A service that tells sellers what they should charge is what I don't like. I seriously expect in many situations, these "price aggregators" are probably corporate subsidiaries of the market leaders.
> You haven't made any arguments to address, just taken each dictatorial aspect, agreed it's real and then proclaimed it to actually be democracy.

I have shown that these so-called dictatorial aspects are also features of other democracies. Are the US and the UK dictatorships as well, then?
What kind of messed up clients do you have ? and what space is this ?
Whats thé point ? Dont they have actualn science studfn to do
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I think the word they were looking for is "fragmented".
I’d gladly enforce documentation on every piece of code, even if that means some dumb documentation in some places
Try right clicking on the .app file/folder and click on "Open" in the context menu, this normally skips the trip to the preferences and offers you the "Open anyway" option
I like the topics, just put off a bit by the delivery and writing.
I encourage everyone to watch/listen to Peter Thiel's "Why Monopolies Are a Good Thing."

Thiel is a objectivist (Ayn Rand acolyte). This puts him in a position to argue a libertarian/conservative-like position, but with a very different moral framework.

The idea that economics is a morally-neutral science is hard to find evidence for irl.

Divide economists into "Austrians," "Monetarists," "Keynesians" "Marxists," etc. They will divide politically, epistemologically and ethical philosophy into their respective schools. That is just how it is.

Anyway... Peter. His talk on monopolies reaches convergence on various points that don't normally.
Across U.S., Chinese Bitcoin Mines Draw National Security Scrutiny
OK, not what I expected. Surely a spec is a spec, the program fulfils the spec hopefully, and the proof is that the program implements the spec. How do you see it? thanks
Hetzner or Oracle, maybe?
Partykit is a nice open source tool that is trying to make this stuff easier around creating multiplayer applications https://github.com/partykit/partykit - built by ex core react team / cloudflare engineer
I've seen checkbox somewhere in settings, checked by default. If checked and OS decides that device is connected constantly, it limits change to ~80%
I used to from 2 different teams. I didn't stay that long at that company
> The biggest customer threw a gigantic hysterical fit and practically demanded to return the old root password which they knew. We just shrugged and complied. It's not like it will be ours network which can be breached. If they want to operate insecurely, they are welcome.

Did a PM or sales engineer from your org ever sit down with the customer to figure out what they were doing with root access that your solution lacked?

My naive read here is that the customer saw it as easier to keep root access because your product didn't expose what they wanted or did it in a cumbersome way.
the US FTC case is still ongoing, however unlike the CMA they don't seem to have statutory powers to prevent the merger

if the FTC wins Microsoft would have to spin Activision out
I've seen this at night in Finland as well, looking out of my hotel window at a snow covered street. Not a car in sight (or even tyre tracks in the snow) but still there were people waiting to cross.
It would be such a win for consumers if corporations weren’t allowed to just make up some currency and hide the true cost behind some translation layer and instead had to advertise the actual cost in dollars up front.

I get that completely outlawing the idea of credits would remove the ability to dynamically change the cost of computing for new purchases while still retaining computing units for people who have already bought them, so maybe credits themselves as a concept could stick around. But using them in advertising copy should not be allowed without providing the calculated dollar equivalent right alongside of them
Ask HN: Work for mgr who's never heard of Joel Spolsky?
Scenario: technical interview, question arises something regarding Unicode text in memory.

Interviewee: "hmmm, wish I could ask Joel Spolsky or at least remember his Unicode essay..." Interviewer (potential future manager): "Joe LaSpoli? Who?" Interviewee: "Joel Spolsky. You know, Joel on Software, co-founded Stack Overflow?" Interviewer: "Hmmm, cool, I'll have to check him out."

If interviewee is ultimately offered a job, is this a red flag or no big deal?
I used AI to generate white, pink and brown noise tracks for our baby
I am not disagreeing that in the wider context it comes off as a strawman. Which is why I was asking for specific benefits.

However, I was specifically responded to someone who seems to think blockchain = immutable system of record and I was pointing out that private blockchains don’t provide that because the mechanism public PoW chains uses to get immutability isn’t applicable.

I realize there are a lot more than just 1 way people are proposing private blockchains and most of them involve publishing something, but as long as we can agree the blockchain bit is pointless then discussing them is a waste of time.
I am having trouble following your opinion through this thread.

> Your argument demonstrates the usefulness of mathematics, but does not demonstrate that it isn't a language.

What is “a language” to you? What is an “isn’t a language” to you?

I can grok you referring to axioms and lemmas as a “mathematical language”, but I see such as just the way we communicate something more essential and wholly independent of any need to have been communicated.

A lot of contemporary research mathematics is layered and wrought of “useful” complexities for its desired domain, but how do you dismiss the essential and seemingly unrealness of its abstraction from our perceived reality?

Counting is an example.

Subjective boundaries illuminate the essentialism of distinctness. 2 apples describe the same abstract phenomena as 2 atoms, or 2 galaxies, or 2 orientations of stereoisomers.

What is the “language” here? The word/symbol 2? The subjective boundary that separates something more continuous into discrete forms?

Transcendentals and irrationals alight my meditation on what the hell all this is that we’re experiencing.

You have a triangle with edges that terminate at each vertex, but if two of those edges have equal length than you can interpret their length as unit 1 where the third edge then has a length of (sqrt 2) which is a number without a finite decimal expansion.

What language can be used to defend an infinitesimal equating to a finite value?

This points at an essentialism to me.

Any amount of “language” is incapable of both explaining this completely or explaining it away.

Similar with pi and its relation to a circle which has a well defined circumference that somehow expresses itself with a number that is itself incapable of being expressed or defined.

As you brought up the incompleteness theorems, they too have a similar “infinite in finite” quality.

I am unsure how you can understand godel but argue against the essentialism of the sur-real abstractions he brings attention to.
Those are actually long narrow tubes -- designed so that you can stick your hand in it like sort of like a glove to use to pick up the pieces, and then turn inside out. That makes the opening too narrow for the cat scoop and not enough room to put the wet chunks of cat litter (unless you scoop everything in a separate container, break it up, then poor it into the bag).
Assuming that your idea solves a real problem that people are willing to pay to get solved, then since the product is open source, why not put together your idea as a product/solution and market it?
I would love to see vehicles be this simple again. Could a manufacturer do this today? Would safety regulations be a road block? Come to think of it my side-by-side could probably be assembled this fast.
Also excellent, the 4-part "A Video History of Japan's Electronic Industry":

1) https://youtu.be/XLlIb_p11cM?si=LMA6uR-EcvjVZR_M

2) https://youtu.be/fRCqhSONNiE?si=8frYLqkzIEjxV1f-

3) https://youtu.be/dr39TOEAbpY?si=2v1r8UlV5Da5ffNh

4) https://youtu.be/1XjSFCZeWvE?si=0aJpApfgrl8mwzV4
He can't work around it -- that seems to be the problem.
This story will certainly start a trend of people covering MacBook lids with the most unique sticker combination possible.
Sometimes when using Wayland on my laptop, I have to switch back to X11 just because Wayland has no way of controlling the contrast.

(I tried searching a few times, no luck..)
Reminds me of a classic short story by none other than Isaac Asimov:

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

https://www.bartlettschools.org/pdf/TheFunTheyHad.pdf

People have been debating the utility and potential isolation of automated personalized learning from before we even had real computers!
You can use the tips from this thread over on Reddit to circumvent this message. At least it worked for me in Brave: https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/173jmog/youtu...
i wonder what happened when the stores told the students to pay for the software after / before having it ordered.
They’d have to do that iff someone would consider buying gas 50 or 500 miles away as a reasonable substitute for buying gas from them.

> A service that tells sellers what they should charge is what I don't like.

Is it only the “tells sellers what they should charge” part that you specifically object to (the conditional messaging) or do you also object to the lesser “tells sellers what others are charging”?
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They are not being "asked".
its funny because I am 100% sure the devs working on this feature use ublock/adblock :)
What’s their complaint? Do they have a workflow that requires the root password all the time and it creates too much of a management to not have QWERTY1234 as root password?
What about yellow text on brown background like [0] ?
I use this combo in my editor to avoid changing to light theme on bright days and dark theme at night.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/Ynvrm3p.png
lol not working! i guess algolia changed something
It's a start.

Would you say to someone they really don't understand what is happening in an Internal Combustion Engine, thus the manual/schematics to their Car is completely pointless. Wont help them understand things at all.

"You dweeb, it is completely pointless, but here is a manual and blue-print for your car, but you just wont understand it until you can solve for the fluid turbulence in the cylinder. Man, why are they even trying"
This specific person can't, after the event, no. But you're advising people reading this thread to avoid Apple in future.
My immediate reaction was that this in itself is entirely unverifiable. Did anyone plant a tree? Which tree? How do I know that's not someone else's tree?
related "Tell HN: "Ad blockers are not allowed on YouTube”" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37793375
Joel Spolsky was critical of Kai's UI:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/22/consistency-and-ot...

I'm reminded of that today because that article was the one place that I read about Kai's software before today.
Is it really as easy as "grit and discipline"? I find it hard to believe. Everything I've read about consulting work, indie gamedev, and one-man-SaaS apps has a similar message: that previous experience and luck are huge factors, and there's a lot of financial risk involved. Small businesses fail all the time for reasons other than lack of grit and discipline.
Your website is a guest in my house, which is to say, my machine, and I will do with it what I please. If the ad industry hadn't turned out to be predatory and malicious, I'd be just as apathetic to watching ads today as an adult as I used to be as a child. Google has nobody but themselves to blame for pissing in the pot and telling us to drink up. You'd have to be a fool to allow ads on your machine in the modern era.
The problem with the "walled garden" is that it is insidious.

At some point they control everything and at that point, it's too late to create an alternative product as it would be like 20 generations behind in performance.

You don't have to go so far back as to build your own NAND gates or a computer out of falling marbles, but giving the user almost zero ability to customize is just crazy.
uBlock Origin was updated to address it, I've never seen it. A/B test?
exactly. It's not often your motivation thats the problem, but motivation cost.
Being appreciated lowers motivation cost greatly. People like rewards.
This is how people play gamea for thousands of hours. Cause the motivation cost is so small.
Im not saying to gamify the workplace. But i do say that we have to stand up to appreciate our peers: cause we cant testify for ourselves without sounding petty.
Also some questions

- how much is the role of product vs distribution?
- should be go aggressive on distribution with a relatively new product?
You could get your MBA. It would help with getting promoted, and with operating a startup.

There’s some science behind leadership. It’s not an ability you need to be born with, and it doesn’t matter if you’re introverted or extroverted.

Jumping into a startup is taking a big chance. I did it and spent everything I had. You could try a side project, and if it gets some traction, look for investors. Then think about quitting your FAANG job.

If you’re looking for some more meaningful work, see if your company has 20% time. Then you can work on something because you like it, not because you have to.
They should update the article to link to that thread. I'm going to assume this was an oversight - not linking to it is a bad look.
Pedantic but thats GB, not the UK. NI's highway code is slightly different and didn't introduce that.
They don't need the password to be hardcoded to get access, but a lazy CIO/CEO is much easier to find
Apple has to do it the way everyone hates to prevent apple device owners from being regular victims of armed robbery.
Pricing software offers implicit collusion by providing competitors a way to agree on a price that is equivalent to monopoly prices, without them need to formally meet and agree on a price - which would be easily prosecutable.

There are examples in many markets, here is a well-researched example that comes to mind: https://economics.yale.edu/sites/default/files/clark_acex_ja...

This paper discusses how algorithmic pricing produces outcomes that are equivalent to collusion-based pricing in the German gasoline market.

Recent experiences with grocery pricing across North America and Europe look very similar to me. I know some computer scientists who have worked with major grocery retailers to implement fairly sophisticated automatic pricing tools. The goals they work towards are typically fairly simple metrics, like average spend. Even though the goal isn't to gouge consumers, it's easy to see how how this might be the unintended result.
Not to make it too much on road signs, but just plain removing signs to force drivers to think through confusing situations is a thing:

https://bigthink.com/the-present/want-less-car-accidents-get...

The same can of course apply to code: there's many instances where someone will assume they understand a tricky bit of code because they read a well written comment. That's a bad sign, as the code probably had a lot more nuance that was not covered by the commenter. And then did they properly understand what the comment is saying ? we now have a two level readability problem.

In general, I sympathize with the approach that making it easier for people to understand shouldn't happen in comments. It's frustrating for the people reading the code, but we're paid professionals, and frustration is better to me than lack of understanding or glossing over the actual behavior (I'd trade fewer bugs for hurt feelings any day)

Comments should bring additional info that complements the code in a meta way (link to bug reports, design documents, discussion threads etc.)
That seems like a "your company" problem, not an Apple problem.
No, by just sending HTML over the wire doesn't make your HTML interactive the way you want.
Stockholm Syndrome was invented by a man who didn’t even talk to the people he accused of it, but simply asserted it as explanation for why former hostages were criticizing the police, while those former hostages were clearly stating that it was because the police were aggressive and irrational, escalating with acts like unnecessarily pointing guns, and generally disregarding the safety of the hostages. The only other famous case turned out to be acting under duress. It is to this date not a real psychological diagnosis.

Similarly, if you’d like to understand why people put up with Apple’s moderate abuse, maybe ask not how one might write them off as insane, but instead what their alternatives are.
Sounds like you’re gatekeeping to be honest. People don’t need to know irrelevant concepts or hear stump the chump questions. If that’s how you approached it, great! There are lots of successful approaches and people shouldn’t be chastised because they took a different path or are interested in a different facet of the topic.
There's also an increasing prevalence and popularity of e-ink displays. Though some of these are colour-capable, most are monochrome, and I've definitely had challenges negotiating apps and content which use colour as a key differentiator.
35 Squid proxy bugs still unpatched after 2 years
This is typical magical thinking from Apple fan user. I have a friend like that. They seem to think that somehow a chip that will be limited to 10w by its thermal envelope design (and even then last iPhone shows that 10w is already too hot) will be able to compete will chips that can use multiples of that with no issues. It seems to come from a belief that Apple is so much smarter and better than everyone else that they can basically make magic.

In fact, even if you would somehow find a way to divide power consumption of current competent gaming system by ten it would still not be enough.
And all that is before talking about the fact that peoples who games for hours on end tend to prefer displays bigger than 6 inchs...

Anyone with functioning brain cells can objectively understand that AAA gaming on mobile is a distraction at best and a waste of ressource when you are not filthy rich like Apple. But Apple gonna use marketing to say otherwise instead of using it's money to offer more competent hardware at better price...
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And the cycle continues!
What about projects people made for fun and put it online because they're proud of it?

It's also common advice to put your portfolio online. They really don't show up in internet searches as far I've seen.
Music recording, just bought a Focusrite audio interface and a microphone and downloaded Reaper. Getting started slowly with bringing in drums and drum sequencing and editing, effects and mixing. I already have multiple instruments so that's encouraging me to play them more. I've recorded a couple of songs already.
>there are various programmer types who find the Apple way really onerous and problematic, because they want to control everything

Treating customers like renters after they buy your products at a premium is a pretty onerous practice and it's pretty surreal to see the pushback characterized as megalomania.
I don't care if it is a prevalent ideology. If the ideology calls for providing poor service to the customer, somebody will find a way to provide better service and will boot you out of the market entirely.

Getting your company disrupted or getting your market share diminished is extremely expensive and this is my understanding of what Jacques meant.