skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a generational thing. If you grew up with Minecraft, you won't be able to see its flaws. Growing up with pixel art from NES and SNES games, the Minecraft aesthetic was obviously low quality programmer art rather than something meticulously crafted for its medium by an artist with real skills.

However, ugly or not, most people don't care, and the gameplay itself was so interesting to its audience that it didn't really matter. Lots of things are more approachable and relatable specifically because they're ugly, and I think that applies to both Minecraft and Roblox. It's easier to imagine yourself making or participating in something that doesn't look like it took a genius to do. They made zillions of dollars and lots of people have fun with their games.

But that doesn't mean I have to like it.
It probably is both, to be honest.
> Why this focus on the weight of the vehicle?

Because more weight requires more energy.

> they want their funds to go towards subsidizing someone they'd rather not see gain more power

Rivian subsidizes Ford and Amazon. Ford 100 year influence on politics has been far worse then anything Musk has ever done. And Amazon is arguable the most influential company in the world, far more so then Tesla. Amazon principle concern is to have low skilled workers.

But I guess Musk had some tweets somebody didn't like that much.
Link that isn't blogspam (and far easier to read to boot): https://mexicobusiness.news/tech/news/samsung-blocks-smartph...

> According to Mexico's Federal Consumer Protection Agency (PROFECO), Samsung smartphones acquired through the gray market pose a risk of suboptimal device performance. Moreover, it could also expose consumers to incompatibility with Mexico’s mobile networks, limit technical support accessibility and inadequate cybersecurity controls within the device, among others.

looool at this bullshit. Carriers can block incompatible phones, and most Samsungs are locked up tight bootloader/firmware-wise so that bit about security is a joke.

> Since the acquisition of technological devices through the gray market is not explicitly prohibited by Mexican law, multiple technological companies have urged the country to propose legislation aimed at preventing and prosecuting the sale of unofficially distributed devices. However, only eight days after going into effect, the PROFECO and the Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) in Mexico petitioned Samsung to cease blocking smartphones purchased by unofficial channels, arguing that the measure applied by the South Korean company affected Mexican consumers' rights.

From reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/samsung/comments/16pgliq/samsung_bl...

Numerous people saying the prices from the official distributor are incredibly expensive. This is true in a lot of smaller countries - one distributor has official distributorship and somehow it becomes the government's place to help them protect their monopoly on distribution.
Any genuine customer purchasing phones could simply ask the seller (the phone OEM) for unlocked phones instead of region-activation-locked phones.

A potential scenario where bulk orders of region-activation-locked phones could end up in the wrong region is theft.

If the customers don't like broken phones, they should sue the person who sold the phones instead of complaining to the manufacturer to disable anti-theft mechanisms.
It's also used in the Nvidia Shield, which is basically an overpowered Android TV stick.
Is there any good video codec that the library is as small or not much bigger as Theora and that has no patent/license issue?

I tried to use VP9 in the past but it's like 20-40MBs a dll. The lowest I could find was dav1d and it's still around 4MB for the library dll and encoding AV1 and getting good compression rate was not trivial.
Facilitate it is more like it. There are a lot of less-smart humans who want to dominate others too. I don't think intelligence particularly correlates.
My concern is the enshittification of news media. Outlets must often optimizes for sensationalism over substance to survive in a market which demands outrage, fear, drama, and brevity.

There is no story here. Yes, we've all benefited from AI advancements for years, including occupations like politicians. Yes, multipurpose tools can do multiple good things and multiple bad things. Yes, the world is full of spam & convincing misinformation. Yes, we must continue authenticating people online and continue using trustworthiness (not volume) of sources to determine fact.

None of this is new(sworthy). Pieces like this are lazy, devoid of value, and are actively harmful due to warping people's perspective with hyper over-emphasis of a tool's negative use cases. For shame, Bloomberg. Do better.
I had to google what the author is talking about. It is rich animated advertising surfaces mounted on top of food retail refrigerator doors. How atrocious, and no uBlock to turn it off.
No, it means "not paying the highway robbery prices from the official distributor in Mexico"

https://www.reddit.com/r/samsung/comments/16pgliq/samsung_bl...
> Miata, but selecting a song from the touch screen while moving? No way guys...

It's a Miata. You should be listening to the sound the car makes. Car speakers sound like shit with the top down at highway speeds anyway.

The AC in my RX7 hasn't been charged in 20 years either and I live in the southeastern US. Driving these cars is a full experience...
80GB/week is ~4TB/year.
I currently live in Toledo and it’s amazing. They feed me well and there are no beatings.
We decided to use github because:

1. lots of other people used it

2. it provided auditable provenance for all contributions to dlang

3. I got tired of people copying my code and then claiming I stole it from them. Github ended all that

4. it provides a great distributed backup

5. nobody complained about it :-/

6. Dlang is in the D business, not the repository business. Best to not invent our own.

7. it provides everything we need

8. I didn't think git or github was going to go dark on us
0.05 BTC is $1500 not $150
Van Gogh is in the Steam Deck.
The article talks about the specification and it's more... specific than that:

> “In 1973, the government mandated through a cabinet order that traffic lights use the bluest shade of green possible—still technically green, but noticeably blue enough to justifiably continue using the ao nomenclature,” Allan Richarz writes for Atlas Obscura.
They would get migrated before it became an issue. And even if it happened, they'd just fork it with a quantum resistant encryption at the point of first known attack.
Not entirely, It'd still be macOS/iPad OS and the accompanying hardware, but say for the suggested toughbook-like you still get the useful ergonomics of apple's software but in a ruggedized form factor in a market segment that has been stuck with a few specific products because of specific requirements.

I don't think they're suggesting go full on wintel with every major computer manufacturer having a free for all making a same but slightly different styling and slightly different quality.
That color is common in incandescent green traffic lights around the world, not only in Japan. The idea was to use a blue-green lens to make a mostly green light when paired with a yellow lightbulb
You can get huge performance benefits, where performance may also imply stability or convergence.

For example, recently I had to make a parametric fit of a large dataset to an exotic distribution. Hand-tuning maximum likelihood and rounding observations to lower precision, i.e. having a custom likelihood function, made it solvable and numerically stable.

Using e.g. Julia, or JAX, you can get access to lower level primitives that are composable and let you do this relatively quickly, without needing to code everything from scratch, just whatever you are interested in changing.
> sex with flight attendants

I can't tell whether that is a stereotype or not.
> by being the only one who cares, I got promotions and salary raises.

Having also been in a similar situation, I'm going to guess that it wasn't actually the caring that made the difference, but the practical actions that you took (motivated by that caring) that made the difference.

It's one thing to "care". It's another to do data recording and a subsequent Pareto analysis of the sources of outage/downtime/bugs/losses, then to apply efforts to solve the 20% of things that likely result in 80% of the losses, thus dramatically improving the operations of the company.

Other people don't seem to care at all, while others "care too much" (meaning won't accept anything other than 100% fixes to 100% of issues, meaning they can skip over the hard work of data collection and analysis).

Creating good outcomes is generally rewarded; mere caring is not.
I didn't even know Github had stars. I just went and starred the dmd repository!
> Or are you just guessing?

There is no guessing involved. That is how you notify a company.

I believe you are confused about what I am saying. I’m not saying that google will change anything just because you sent a registered letter. You send a notice, and they might change things or they might not. The notice in and of itself does not compel them to do anything.

What power does such a notice have then? In a court case you can say “your honour, we sent notice on day x, by registered mail, here is our retained copy of the content of the letter”. And the courts generaly assume that such notices were received and read (consult with your lawyer about any possible edge cases, of course). This is not generaly true if you send your notice via carrier pigeon, or shout it at their air vents, or stuff it in a teddy bear and flush it down the toilet. Those are less legitimate channels in the eye of the law.

So what then? They received your notice and you can prove it. What will that change? Maybe nothing. Maybe everything. If you have some legally colorable argument, it can help you paint their action or inaction following the notice as willfull. In some circumstances that increases damages, or makes them liable.

In practice what it wins you is that it will be read by some lawyer kind of person, and if that person reads it and says “uhh, this person could sue us and that would be bad” then they usually have the clout to change things. That of course depends on what you are giving them notice about. If you wrote some rambling with no actionable ask and no chance of a succesfull lawsuite they will ignore it. They probably get plenty of those.
Based on a comment below: He succeeded, but it's reversible and the engine doesn't even go out immediately. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37992730
>any counterpoints that would bring housing prices far lower

Policy changes allowing substantially more construction finally bearing fruit?

We have a long way to go but there has been some significant movement in that direction, particularly in the most expensive housing markets.
And that's not just for Mac's, the same can help on Linux devices. It's somewhat hilarious that running a non-native app gets you better hardware accel but here we are.
Eh, can't bother to run the numbers youself?

$278k in August 2019 has the same buying power as $333,512.66 as in September of this year.
If we charge directly based on road damage, this is true. But I'm okay with residential road users subsidizing the use of commercial trucks; they're very useful to have around and charging appropriately would increase the cost of services not-insignificantly.

Mileage taxes are interesting; then the people who use the roads the most, and have the most interest in keeping them in good shape, pay the most to do so.

I'm also okay with charging heavy vehicles more based on them being a larger threat to life. But saying that tax is "because heavy residential vehicles do more road damage" is disingenuous.
Show HN: Clean and Simple Color Picker
People do ski faster than that but low friction means slower deceleration which is a huge reason it’s even possible to learn reasonably safely. This applies to basically all high speed winter sports and is under appreciated by most viewers. Similarly landing from a jump or fall on a hill the force vectors mean people are mostly sliding on the surface resulting in significantly less forceful impacts.

Biking at 45-48 MPH is rare, dangerous, and free of tripping hazards which I think are a much larger concern. Further, people also add extra protection for downhill MTB such as a back protector, thick gloves, goggles, helmets with neckbrace, padded clothing, and knee pads. Yet it also has similar benefits from being on steep hills.
Exactly. Lower prices will appeal to corps and folks who can pay in cash long before anyone else can afford the same price.
It was a minor incident, but it does remind me that centralized password managers seem to have an awful amount of concentrated risk.

Is something like 1Password truly secure at its core, even if an attacker penetrates some layers of access?
This recently released page might be of a lot of interest to this discussion regarding crypto algorithms and the size of the quantum hardware needed. (Disclaimer, I work on the Azure Quantum team that builds this).

https://quantum.microsoft.com/en-us/experience/quantum-crypt...
Attracting entry level hires is part of the point, but the problem remains that most companies lack the resources and/or desire to train entry level hires. Heck, most of the ones I've worked for didn't really train me at a senior level. But definitely yes on the personal issues.
> If TripleByte really succeeded with this, the customer companys could save quite some money by simplifying their hiring processes.

No, that's what happens if TripleByte succeeds at their fake goal of finding candidates who are good candidates. That's the goal they claimed to have without actually having.

If all TripleByte does is find candidates who pass your process, you can't simplify your hiring process without affecting the quality of the candidates you hire through references from TripleByte.
> A bill currently moving through the Colorado legislature would, for the first time, impose a “vulnerable road user protection fee” on heavy passenger cars, trucks and SUVs registered in the state, a reflection of research that shows such vehicles are significantly more likely to kill pedestrians and cyclists in a crash.

(That quote is from the article the linked one is a hasty rewrite of)

This fees appears to be related to the weight of the vehicle, rather than any objective measurement of its danger to pedestrians. I think this is saying that a heavier electric vehicle with a battery bank would pay more than a lighter, combustion-powered vehicle. For example, an F-150 lightning weighing 6000 lbs, would pay more than a gasoline F-150, weighing 4000 lbs. Is the former significantly more dangerous to pedestrians?

A new Tesla Model X weighs more than a 1984 Chevrolet Suburban—which has better braking? Which is safer to pedestrians? That is, when driven by a human...
It was a minor incident, but it does remind me that centralized password managers seem to have an awful amount of concentrated risk.

Or is something like 1Password truly secure at its core, even if an attacker penetrates some layers of access?
> The government is already doing it, depending on the country, you can get prosecuted if for example you buy alcohol for children or let them do something dangerous.

The difference is that alcohol can cause immediate and even irreversible harm to anyone, especially children. Alcohol is heavily regulated even for use by full grown adults, specifically because of its capacity for harm. Evidence that seeing nudity or hearing dirty words does the same is incredibly sketchy at best. But even then, in most states, it is perfectly legal to let your own kids drink alcohol on your own private property.

> Maybe, but this increases possibility for fingerprinting.

Maybe, I think that depends on the implementation. But either way, I doubt it is much of a concern for parents who just want better control over what their kids see and do online.
> its only a bubble when people want to sell or refinance though

The "everyone will just hold forever" theory doesn't describe markets well. People usually move because they have to: unemployment, run out of space, divorce, death, marriage, etc. This will not change, even if the rate of turnover is slower.
I don't think web dev is particularly taxing. I never hear the fans go off while working (also a web dev), but try playing a game and it spins up after a minute or two, especially when playing recent games on GPT. Diablo IV makes them go whrrrr almost right after the menus.

On a M2 MacBook Pro with the lid closed.
So I guess, regarding a theoretical "everything in the browser" future, the swiss-army tools like VLC and ffmpeg would either have to pack their own performant codecs in wasm, or stay as desktop / CLI applications.

(Not that it would make any sense to implement ffmpeg on top of WebCodecs on top of ffmpeg. Just needed an example.)

I hope I have not completely missed the train by focusing on other areas outside of web.
It looks like that chart at streets.mn is based on the well known rule that damage goes as the 4th power of weight.

What I've not seen though is what range of weights that applies to.

Take for example a chicken, an Eastern grey squirrel, and a mouse. The chicken weighs about 7 times what the squirrel weighs, and the squirrel weighs about 50 times what the mouse weighs.

But I'm having a hard time believing that the squirrel crossing a modern highway does over 6 million times as much damage as the mouse crossing that highway, and the chicken crossing the road does over 15 billion times as much damage as a mouse.
Approximately $333k after 20% inflation over the period.

https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=278200&year1=2...

Yes, I think you are right to frame it as a supply shortage. The prices might be rational, eg not a bubble, considering how many people want houses and how few have been built.

Compare Tokyo. [1]

> In the past half century, by investing in transit and allowing development, the city has added more housing units than the total number of units in New York City. It has remained affordable by becoming the world’s largest city. It has become the world’s largest city by remaining affordable.

> Two full-time workers earning Tokyo’s minimum wage can comfortably afford the average rent for a two-bedroom apartment in six of the city’s 23 wards. By contrast, two people working minimum-wage jobs cannot afford the average rent for a two-bedroom apartment in any of the 23 counties in the New York metropolitan area.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/11/opinion/editorials/tokyo-...
Another advertising revenue win for Query Jerry from marketing.
Grey market phones aren't stolen. Samsung sells phones cheaper in some regions, so arbitrageurs buy them cheap in one region and resell them at a higher price in Mexico. Samsung wouldn't sell region-unlocked phones at the cheaper price because they want to make money.
It's undoubtedly more than that, depending on where you measure. The gradient between e.g. the roof lining and the AC vent could easily be 20C+ degrees on a hot day. Most boards on a vehicle will have their own temperature sensors to measure enclosure temps, and there will be zonal sensors at various points in the cabin as well. The climate control loop will be defined in terms of those zonal sensors.
Congratulations! Which startup? How long have you been at it? How long did it take to reach revenue/profit ?
Yes to "existing bad hiring pipelines." In at least one case, the in-house recruiter was obviously offended that she had to speak to us at all. The one placement we made was with an old pal and I had to yell at him to even give the guy a chance. Six months after we'd shuttered for good, he contacted me to ask me if I had any more Bens. Nope.
Many times people use references (footnotes/endnotes) precisely to avoid breaking the flow. In particular, the usage in this article is a good one (IMO). There's no need to put the content from that note into the sentence, parenthesized or not. Same story for a related URL.

* https://pcable.net/posts/2020-02-29-heaviness-of-systems/#fn...
It's way better than other integrated GPUs though. And performance per watt matters a lot for heat and noise. I eventually gave up my gaming PC because it was so loud and hot, switching to Geforce Now instead.
Yep, this was exactly how I got into it at first. Didn't even really notice the social features for years and even now I'm only aware of the social features and don't actually engage with them.
You're right - not ideal to manually transfer. Maybe iCloud will offer transcoding as a service next haha.

Many smartphones support recording H.265 encoded video directly and the resulting file size is tiny and quality is amazing. Not sure if it's the default setting (or possible) on iPhones though.
Invisible, forgotten third partner here... more made it through all of them than you might think. They even set up their own Slack community to help each other out.
Yes!
https://github.com/cassidoo/blahg

Also, if it's helpful, I actually live-streamed my implementation and luckily a Tina maintainer was in the chat when I also struggled with the docs:
https://twitch.tv/cassidoo
Ah, that makes sense and I stand corrected. There should be anti-e-waste legislation that bans or penalizes for this practice.

I'm not sure if region-activation-locking as a concept is unethical. I definitely think that for-profit arbitrage on region-activation-locked devices sold in improper regions should be banned though.
>the contribution of the lifting leg is crucial to getting up to speed

This might feel true, but it isn't. Buy or borrow a dual-sensing power meter (Garmin Rally, SRM X-Power etc) and you can see for yourself - there's practically no useful power in the upstroke. Toe clips or clipless pedals can extend the power stroke, but only by a few degrees at the bottom of the stroke.

https://bythlon-pedal.myshopify.com/pages/the-myth-of-the-up...

The intuition of cyclists is a very bad indicator of actual performance. For decades people thought that hard, narrow tyres were faster, but nobody had actually tested it properly. Narrow tyres have lower rolling resistance on a smooth steel drum in a test lab, but they have much higher rolling resistance on real roads with bumps and ruts. When paired with suitable rims, the reduction in rolling resistance of wider tyres more than compensates for the penalty of increased weight and drag.
It's more complicated than that since the cost of housing is included in "official" and unofficial inflation numbers (33% of US Consumer Price Index is housing). So multiplying by the inflation rate and comparing to the current market is circular.
A better indicator might be the inflation in the money supply over that same period, but idk I am not a finance guy.
Informing a court isn't enough to enforce a law. Who is going to carry out the punishment of that jury if not for the police? I don't think you understand how society works, without the police the courts doesn't have power to punish you.

Police are called law-enforcement for a reason, it is because they are how we enforce laws.
Exactly... we don't know yet.
But sometimes very simple ideas have far reaching consequences.

Not this one.
I am hoping this at least leads to competition in the high capacity consumer cloud storage market. Onedrive only allows you to buy an additional 1TB above the Microsoft 365 for a total of 2TB and they charge you an additional $10/month for that 1TB. I could go for 6TB of Onedrive for $30/month for sure.
Russia is not a military threat though. It has an economy the size of Italy. Three US states each have bigger economies than Russia. The US blew past it on every level militarily, technologically, and economically decades ago.

It has nukes but Ukraine doesnt solve that.
I did! I used to work at Netlify heh. I liked it but it was a bit too clunky for what I wanted (I admit I haven't tried it since Decap took over though).