skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the US we used text messages for years so just sticking with that makes sense. I guess most of us just never really saw a reason to move to anything else. Why would I when I have been communicating with everyone through my phone number for 15ish years?

I have honestly been curious why the rest of the world doesn't do this? Was SMS not used as much?
I don't think they care about HA at all, but they do care about Amazon not going through them to get access, and from the API server's perspective, both look identical.

Personally, I hope that Amazon doesn't play ball. You can TRY and seek rent from the world's largest retailer, but you need them, they don't need you.

My main takeaway is that Amazon should offer a discount to deliver packages to buildings with staff to accept the packages. They never go missing, so less refunds, and the building staff does not charge Amazon to receive packages.

The business dynamics are pretty interesting, though. It could be that paying this company reduces missing packages so much that it actually saves Amazon money, which they pass on to consumers in terms of lower prices. Or, it could be that they charge $1 per access, and Amazon passes that on to the customer, and then people are disincentivized from using Amazon. Meanwhile, a competitor (say, Walmart?) brokers a deal where they hide that fee, and take enough customers away from Amazon that Amazon has to play ball (and now the price is $2 per access). Costs go up for everyone.

The phenomenon of partnerships like my hypothetical above are very interesting to me. Every so often I check what I can use my credit card rewards points for, and most of the offers, to me, seem like "failing retailer desperately needs a customer" rather than anything I actually want. Thus, the partnerships must be a pretty important tool for companies that are not in first place.

Finally, I think about the long term effects of this sort of thing. Everyone wants a % of every transaction. "Oh, you turned your lights on when someone came to deliver a package? Pay the manufacturer of the light bulb $1 and your electric company an extra $1." This will look like "economic growth" to each of those intermediaries, but in the end, they just devalued the dollar. ("Inflation.") We end up with bigger numbers, but actually decrease the amount of "value" floating around.
Starting to crack = just regularly high home prices, not super duper high home prices
Non-paywall link: https://archive.li/w6srl
Software is a commodity, period.

That's why "technical novelty" ranks ridiculously low on scale of things that make most successful software businesses these days: if anything technical novelty is more of an albatross on most software businesses than a saving grace.

Building traction in software is more about the 100s of other concerns that apply to every business: brand recognition, communicating your value proposition effectively, being able to sell to the target customer effectively, having the correct UX, the right proofs, the list goes on.

Copying that is just as hard as ever, if not harder.
I recently switched my work laptop from a ThinkPad running Arch to a MacBook Air M2.

I was very efficient in my Arch environment that I have tweaked gradually for over a decade so I was quite reluctant to make the move.

Trying to keep an open mind, I told myself that at least I will get the pleasure of using the amazingly intuitive and beautiful UIs that Apple have been tweaking since before I was even born!

Imagine my disappointment. Simple things are slow and annoying. Difficult things are impossible.

Something so basic as moving a file between two directories. Can you Command-X, Command-V it? No. If both folders are open in Finder tabs you can drag the file to the tab, then wait for a blinking animation to complete before you are allowed to drop it into the target folder.

I guess you should open both folders as separate windows and then drag. But that creates even more windows, and window management in Macos is just impossible to tweak, so you are forced to use Apple's weird gesture-based paradigm. It might feel productive since you make so many animations happen but switching to the window you're thinking of should - and could - take fractions of a second and feel like an extension of your mind but in this new reality it's more like choreographing a bizarre window ballet even when you get used to it.

Things could be so much better. But hey, the hardware seems pretty good.
I'm going to repeat what I said to another poster.

If your shit is breaking so often it's affecting your willingness to estimate, that's a you problem.

I'm driving to another state for the thanksgiving holidays, and I have an estimate for how long that will take. Is it possible when I walk out to my car that the battery died the night before? sure. Am I going to factor such an unlikely event into my estimate? no. Does that imply it's impossible for me to accurately estimate how long that trip is going to take? No it doesn't.

Only in software could someone be using a tool that constantly doesn't work and they never consider replacing it or fixing it. Imagine if a carpenter showed up to your house with a hammer whose handle fell off once or twice an hour but they expected you to pay them for the loss of productivity rather than purchasing a hammer whose handle doesn't fall off.
It’s built into the TV. Why buy an extra box that also shows ads?
I found this to be the case, but was able to get work done via the playground[1]

[1] https://platform.openai.com/playground
John Romero wants you to feel okay about the term "boomer shooter". [1]

Pull quote:

"The funny thing about boomers, it doesn’t even matter because for people who made up the term boomer shooter, anyone who’s old as a boomer, boomers are actually the kids of World War Two vets.

"That’s my mom. My mom is 20 years older than I am. She’s actually a boomer. So, boomers are not typically developing games.

"It’s funny. It’s a funny name. And I usually say it is a boomer shooter. It’s got a shotgun in it. It makes a big boom sound and you’re shooting. it doesn’t bug me. It’s really like you’re trying to nail the aesthetics of the style and that’s like that’s a phrase that kind of says what you need to know."

[1] from https://howtomarketagame.com/2023/09/25/john-romero-on-his-b... and HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37649594
Honestly, that's what you get for not buying a cheap pc that can be hooked to any screen. It's easier, cheaper, and you don't have to deal with "apps".

I am continuously amazed HTPCs are losing ground to commercial setups that are objectively worse by any conceivable metric. No, dealing with "apps" is not simpler.
Imagine...our current reality? If you insist! ;)
Call it what you want but for some unlucky people when they run a deficit they completely shut down mentally. Their ability to lose weight is entirely dependent on how long they're able to avoid doing any mentally taxing activity.
What is so special about OpenAI's cloud hardware that one can't build themselves a similar server to run AI models of similar size?
Why not instead imagine spending small 10% of world's annual miltary budget, $150B every year, on any worthy scientific endeavor.
It's really quite easy (for the average HN reader) to do this too, no cables required. I used FLauncher and followed this guide. https://gitlab.com/flauncher/flauncher#method-2-disable-the-...
I live in a place that has received awards as a retirement destination, IE: we have people in the scenario you describe... I don't really see a difference in these outcomes in terms of inventory. One observation I'd make is that many people who stay in their homes to the end often don't have the means (money, health, etc) to maintain their homes, meaning those homes are often in worse shape and thus a lower valuation. Often too if you think of a "last home" it is either going to be a "downsize" or it's a "dream home" neither of which may be appropriate for all segments of the market. This segmentation is something that gets overlooked when we talk about supply side problems. I have lots of houses available in my market, but they may not be the square footage or condition that all buyers are willing to accept.
My town has a nice little small-town library. I know they have talks from time to time and there are definitely people there. But honestly? Yes, there's inter-library load but, unless I were doing some local historical research I doubt I would go to the library to look for something in particular. And if I just want something/anything interesting-looking to read? I have piles of unread or read years ago books at home to say nothing of the Internet or the ability to buy a Kindle book or download a public domain work in seconds.
You answered your question with your last sentence.
They're a new entry into the space and with something as "groundbreaking" as Rust their idea is probably to push for better/cheaper up until there is enough seats that they can start charging more once people have invested enough to not want(or be able) to change toolchains.

At that point they not only have locked in customers, they also have them as references for other customers to justify why new customers should pay more (Existing customers will probably be the ones paying least for the longest).
Until the last edition of Mac Pro, at least the components workstation crowd was still catered for.

Now just like OS X Server, not really markets that are relevant for Apple's business.

It is turning into consumer electronics.
Not necessarily, it could mean the ads get better at tricking you into buying something you never use, or that it adds greater costs to the supply chain for something that you would have found out about via conventional means anyway.
This is nothing unique to maps. It has to do with Unicode bidi algorithm mixing RTL and LTR text in various contexts. Note that in RTL languages you have things like numbers that are rendered in LTR and mixing them introduces complexity.

https://unicode.org/reports/tr9/
It is wild to me that someone prefers to use a medium that is not end-to-end encrypted.
I think built-in to your phone is part of it. It’s also very simple and replaces SMS automagically.

Otherwise you need to sign up and log in to some other service. Meaning everyone you talk to needs to do the same. With the SMS fallback this doesn’t “feel” like that.
I gave amazon my code for a Christmas present that absolutely could not have been stolen from my porch (as many other recently had). As a working man, I couldn't sit at home to wait for it. I was a little nervous, but I have cameras at least. I then removed all reference to this code from my account. Then, one driver entered while I was going about my day in there and saw me waiting with a hockey stick, as I was wondering who was breaking and entering, and Amazon wrongfully told him what my code was to get in and that it was OK to go in without my permission. I quickly understood what was happening and I think he did too, so I dropped the stick and he dropped the package. No harm, no foul.

Of course, I changed my code after that, but drivers still tried to get in with my code code. I opened countless tickets with Amazon to get this reference to my code removed from their system. They gaslit me many times saying it was removed. They were incredibly rude to me when told them they were lying to me, and now I sometimes get delivery drivers getting pissed off at me (for some reason) that the code doesn't work after they ring my doorbell.

What I want people to get from this story is, don't give Amazon your code. Get a separate delivery box instead or even a storm door works to hide most packages.
They exist, but they're expensive. And the products they sell are not really consumer devices, they are B2B products marketed at contractors.

They're really two different markets, the bulk of the home automation market doesn't want to spend $10K+ for a contractor to check the same feature boxes that something on the shelf at Home Depot can do for a 3-digit price tag. Labor is really expensive, so home automation contractors operate almost exclusively on the high-end of the market.
Sam Altman's Political Candidate Preferences
Bad Rails conventions got me a weekend stay with the CEO of Airbnb
You just don't get access to the resource in the app. Like if you deny the calendar app from reading all your contacts, it works as if you didn't have any contacts.
What security problems are you worried about? I never cared for security, there's no money they can get or data, and if there's someone who wants to hack my network with it, good luck lol itll be easier to phish anyway.
It's weird that this is news in the US. Here in Spain they've done that for 2 years now. Chocolates, perfumes and other stuff are advertised on the fire TV home screen: (
Ow, My Balls
I think "inventory" = "supply of houses available for purchase [or sale being processed]".
And dealing with mismatching guava versions brought in as transitive dependencies.
I do have some slightly concerns about iMessage being opened up and no longer linked to Apple products for a spam standpoint. But I get plenty of SMS spam so I guess it's really not much of a difference.

However kinda related I am curious about RCS. I tried looking this up but I can't find much concrete information on it. Is it actually universally E2E or only some? I find some reddit posts implying it's some.

Do all RCS messages go through Google's servers? Or some other central servers that are not the involved carriers.
Not 100% sure why this is here, considering its age, but it always struck me as strange that they never did anything with Dates. The stdlib offering for Dates in Java/JVM environments is atrocious.
> 'Please do not climb on this artifact. It's not safe.'
...
> offer a lot of challenging and also risky play, which is a good thing

tricky thing, that. "risky play is good" followed by "don't play on it, it's not safe".

I suppose in this particular case it's because it's rusted all to hell, but I can't help but think of all the play grounds I played on as a child that were bulldozed and named "unsafe".

I'm curious - what's the modern version of this "risky play"?

You see someone swing across the monkey bars, but your grip strength and arm reach isn't good enough, you fall, you cry, repeat. 4 months later you're the fastest monkey in the playground.

What's the modern "risky play is good but only if it's safe" version of this?
AppleTv is amazing, and I use it for everything but YouTube. For YouTube, I use a Fire stick with SmartTubeNext
Almost all folk discussion of the recent housing boom will include the words "Blackrock" or "Wall Street", but investors with less than 100 units own the overwhelming majority of the 24% of houses purchased by investors [1]. The 2017 tax cuts introduced several provisions favorable to real estate investors that in my opinion accelerated the blow-up when mortgage rates were cut to well below the inflation rate during the pandemic, already a massive stimulus. Bonus depreciation allowed you to buy a used, already depreciated rental property and deduct its entire value from your taxable income in the first year [2]. Theoretically you have to pay this back when you sell, but not if you exchange it for another property (1031). This is being phased down and will be only 60% starting in January. Second, pass-through deduction allowed buyers of rental property to deduct the rent from their W2 income up to 20% of their gross income, as long as you declare that you spent a certain amount of time managing the property [3]. This is due to expire in 2025. Third, large parts of the US were designated as "opportunity zones" where gains are tax free if held for 10 years and improvements are made [4].

All this, combined with consumer stimulus, increased remote work, major swings in domestic migration and household composition [5], and you have red-hot housing prices.

[1] https://scrippsnews.com/stories/corporate-investors-are-purc...
[2] https://tax.thomsonreuters.com/en/glossary/bonus-depreciatio...
[3] https://www.bakertilly.com/insights/new-regulations-provide-...
[4] https://www.nar.realtor/qualified-opportunity-zones
[5] https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/the-...
Unfortunately, they will require very pure methane. Methane purification probably won't be easy to do at well sites.
It means that when you look at government revenue vs expenditure per square mile, urban dwellers are massively subsidizing surburbanites. It's mainly because maintainence of roads, parking, and utilities for a spread-out surburbia is vastly less efficient than it is for a tightly packed city.
> Freelancers constituted 36 percent of the US workforce in 2021, according to Upwork

The stat seems plausible if you replace "freelancer" with "independent contractors". Although some quick googling surfaces stats closer to 10-20% for the percent of workers who are contractors.

(The majority of these contract jobs aren't ones you would find on Upwork, though)
or dealing with the 100 conflicting versions of Guava being pulled in as transitive dependencies.
Stuff like that usually in billions
I can't see them sending their lawyers after you if link to their site without informing them. You might get a cranky cease-and-desist email but that's as enforceable as it's going to get, methinks.
There was a time when ML brought us things like
https://kingjamesprogramming.tumblr.com/ and we had a good laugh.

Then came ChatGPT. The tens of billions dollars poured into the next hype, often by the same hustlers who hyped crypto (but for sure they were not the ones who lost the billions or stood in front of the court). Same environmental damage due to wasted electricity poured into wasteful, pointless computation. Same hype without any actual usefulness. In both cases this sentiment is met with a huff but it's factual.

Came the AI-written mushroom hunting guides.

Came AI Modi singing trending garnering votes for him. Our worst fears of democracy ending in favor of the candidate with the most processing power aka with the most money winning.

This pandemic (for covid didn't end yet) already 300 000 people died because of hand written propaganda (https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/05/13/1098071...) when the next pandemic will come the AI produced oh so plausible bullshit will flood everything and millions will die.

Aza Raskin compared it to a zero day vulnerability for the operating system of humanity and he is oh so right.

Who is laughing now?
Solara is a fantastic project! The user experience is excellent, and I can quickly get ideas up and running. Solara can potentially become the framework for shipping ML/AI apps.

We (Ploomber) have been working with the team to help their community easily deploy applications in our cloud platform: https://docs.cloud.ploomber.io/en/latest/apps/solara.html
WhatsApp is owned by Facebook. Signal is a SUPER pain in the ass, and you need a phone number. I dont know a single person who uses Telegram where I live.
I've heard so many of these stories about Samsung that they are automatically rejected whenever I am buying consumer goods.
If you don’t own the API you don’t own the product.
Sure - link in profile. If you can't tell, I'm trying to figure it out as I go.
You were actually late to text messages, not early.

The US still had huge pager numbers when consumers in the EU was all in on text messages.

For example this article discusses low SMS usage in the US from 2000:

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/07/technology/us-is-lagging-...

Just like you were late to dropping cheques vs chip and pin, the US has been a laggard in consumer adoption of some technologies. Might be something to do with the relative power of your state governments vs federal meaning your infrastructure is sometimes less co-ordinated, as a guess.
The first thing one installs on every mac is Rectangle. (and then brew).

I use Cmd+X Cmd+V all the time, so I'm quite confused by your issue.

But indeed Total Commander is the thing I miss the most.
afaik the jury is still out on this. There is a lot of correlation, but the causal relation is not widely accepted by science yet. Happy to be shown otherwise!
ITT: Americans with no clue about foreign languages
I wasn't aware of this platform feature. Can you share some links that have descriptions of how to use this or examples of using it productively? I have only recently subscribed to the service and still learning how to use it effectively.
java.util.Date is kind of bad, but java.time.* is pretty good.
TBF that’s a higher end TV. I love mine.

The lower the cost, the more likely this crud is. If you buy a $250 55” TV you’re (unknowingly) signing up for ads.

Sadly, there isn’t much middle ground anymore. Ads and spying, or a ton of money (and spying).
Short laser pulse detection.

So-called "close" SETI looking for emitters in our outer solar system.
Enforcement is violence.

The only real ways to effectively end violence are all-out victory or de-escalation.
First, the word Jihad in Arabic doesn't mean holy war. It generally means to struggle or put effort to improve. Someone could say "jahid nafsak" to mean "stop your desires".

Based on [0] which links to [1] there was an agricultural initiative called jihad of construction to improve and develop the country. It was later merged 2ith the ministry of agriculture.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Agriculture_Jiha...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jihad_of_Construction
And advertisers will pay more than whatever that premium is to target you who have the disposable income to pay for ad-free experiences.
Beyoncé's Cardiff gig crowd was scanned for paedophiles
Tales of San Francisco. A bit on the long side but colorful.

I don't really see the complaint though: this is one case where the many videos did come out and helped understand what was going on. No, video doesn't solve everything but yes, clearly it's the abundance of video that allows framing the story here. It's easy to feel that it would be too much work to round up useful video (it does seem to be a lot of work) and most video would be already deleted - but no, it did work.

Buried in there is the shocking "The district attorney ended up going through with the charges against Doty after all, and didn’t charge Carmignani in any spray attacks." and the mix of [the police showed up - and not much more] and [the judge shocked at the lack of action by the police].

It did work but the situation in that neighborhood is unchanged: a major nuisance from mostly just a couple persons.
> Something so basic as moving a file between two directories. Can you Command-X, Command-V it?

try Command-C, Command-Option-V. works for me :)

also, if you're in need of a launcher, Raycast is nice. i don't use any of their fancy AI stuff and opted out of data tracking. i have several window management functions there that are indispensable.
As if money was going to be replaced overnight? The amount of stablecoin and CBDC and blockchain activity in general is massive. I frankly don't understand people who think the tech has no use case. It flies in the face of existing adoption, and also imposes an unrealistic assumption of how fast the entire world was going to change.
One thing that annoyed me is that I constantly had to pause and Google all the locations. They really could have put some images about the different places and buildings so that it's easier to imagine what they were talking about.

... and I think I'm about to throw up, but that's a smaller issue, I take one for the team to encourage creative web development.
It would be weird to avoid the only reason I have to use this button attribute. I thought the disabled state only existed to fix this problem. I can't find any other use that wouldn't end up being a complete UX mistake.
"Terrorists" as well.

All part of the plan to push for facial scanning everywhere.
We're using the same stack, along with automerge-repo-rs, we haven't needed much in the way of updates, what are you hoping for that doesn't exist?

Edit: Typo `autosurgeon-repo-rs` to `automerge-repo-rs` and link. https://github.com/automerge/automerge-repo-rs