skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like you're just guessing what "a regular company" would do. The company I work for, as boring as any "regular" company, was buying M1 MBPs with 16GB and 512GB two years ago. For anyone who preferred a Mac to a PC laptop. I personally know of three companies that just buy a MBP for anyone asking. They're not cheaping out on some Latitude or Inspiron pos.
> a pretty standard trick to make someone commit to a higher price.

The worst part is that, this is priced like automobiles. Now you're going to upgrade the RAM, and it reaches the price of its sibling products. You'll be tempted to consider that product.

Prices listed in Euros:

MacBook Air 13 inch M2 8core cpu, 8core gpu

Entry level price: 1299.00

Cpu upgrade +120eu: 8core cpu, 10core gpu <- why does this exist? Solely to upsell you into the Pro level.

Ram upgrade +230eu: from 8gb to 16gb <- essential

Storage upgrade +230eu: from 256gb (pitiful) to 512gb (barely acceptable these days at this price)

Total: 1879,00

Now you're goin to start looking at other options from here.

From here, you realize.. the 14" macbook pro M3 laptop is priced at... 2029,00 It's a 150 euro upsell to get that nice space gray M3 laptop.

The specs? 8 core CPU, 10 core GPU, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD. You're now going to want to upgrade that RAM once you start to consider the Pro model.

That pushes the price to 2259,00! Which is shy of the M3 Pro version of the 14" Macbook Pro (at 2549,00 but now it has 18GB RAM which, you know. For 290 euros more, you can get 2GB more RAM and the M3 Pro).

It's just clever positioning of prices to scale the customer into spending the most possible amount and to generate FOMO.
That seems harder to solve, but if it becomes a problem; maybe using a keyboard with more resistive keys (which sounds counterintuitive) might enable you to rest your fingers on the keys in a more relaxt way.
> For pseudo-Esperanto pluraloj, add oj. You will be doing your part toward world peace.

This is one of the greatest troll documents since the textfiles days. Outstanding!
Advanced Mobile Phone Service [video] (1978)
Even more funny that they're called "thumb drives" when that is a brand name.
It does doesn't even imply a question, it simply states the contents e.g. "How bicycles work" or "How to tie your shoes".
Is this the same DOJ going after SpaceX for the opposite?
They can. Do people not remember phone sex? Very understandable if you don't want to recall that, but if you are going to compare abuse in another medium you better know the history.
not membranes. mass spectrometer. literally shots particles up and sort them by distance. mind boggling stupid simple.
Does the tweet have a canonical tag in the HTML? Asking because HN will redirect to the canonical name. That's why I use an addon to show me if that exists to save me some hassle when I submit URL's here. HN seems to ignore canonical for some domains like Youtube video URL's. Perhaps that exclusion list needs an update but probably best to email dang to ask.
The "punk" in "cyberpunk" isn't about aesthetics any more than punk rock is. The punk element wasn't just in the relationship of the fictional characters to their settings; it was in the relationship of the writers to mainstream science fiction. William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Pat Cadigan, Rudy Rucker--they were very deliberately responding to the more utopian, and by then rather dated, science fiction of the 1950s and before, the Heinleins and Clarkes and Asimovs. Cyberpunk is manifestly about the contentious relationship between individual freedom, corporate power, and state control.

Solarpunk arguably is a minor niche thing, but any artistic/literary movement that calls itself "-punk" better damn well be political. Otherwise, it is rather missing the point. :)
This is a persistent, but in fact a poorly justified opinion. First of all, according to linked article, they were able to make something much better and cheaper than Chatgpt (for their task obv.) in quite a short period of time. What stops them from making the same feat again? What makes you think, that the same boring bland OpenAI wrappers are going to take off at all, let alone survive till next OpenAI iteration? People are not stupid, they can see that the product you are offering is essentially a low-effort wrapper, they have already seen, why would they choose you product at all?
I've gone to Svalbard a few times and spent a lot of time in Norway. It's a really interesting place.

GitHub has the Arctic Code Vault there. The Global Seed Vault is there. Lots of satellites and climate change research happen there. The local deer (reindeer) population evolved without natural predators there, so they aren't scared of people or cars like animals in other parts of the world. It's got pretty much the most Northern <insert anything> in the world, such as the northern most Lenin statue.

I wrote a bit about it and the Russian influence still there on Twitter a while back. https://twitter.com/elamje/status/1677013676635611146
That's another way of expressing exactly the same cognitive bias.
I won't follow the trend of self-hosting a large language model
It wouldn't let me login the other day until I completed my signup for "hello" whatever the f-that is. I had to pull the ethernet cable THEN I could login to windows. I promptly disabled any signup that had "hello" in the description. I have exactly 1 windows machine in my house and I am pretty close to making it 0. I was careful to setup that machine before connecting it to the internet so I could create a local account. The hoops people have to jump through just to use something they've paid for is getting pretty outlandish.
Never heard of the Sovereign Tech Fund but it looks like they are doing amazing work funding key projects. Very interested to come across Prossimo, a project they are funding that aims to "Secure critical and vulnerable internet infrastructure by moving it into memory-safe code".
Did someone, anyone, pay for this research? I really hope not.
We can use a fine-grained commit style to distinguish hand-written and machine-written lines of code. I like this style for command-line driven AI tooling, where my tool is making bigger code changes (completing a function or file). In this case, it's easy to include a "git commit..." command in the tool.

Unfortunately, it doesn't work with GitHub Copilot's style, which assumes really fine-grained interaction.
The main reason cities in Switzerland do not have new large suburbs is that since the last version of the federal spatial planning act has been accepted by the voters in 2014 there is a strict restriction on the buildings that can be built outside designated urban areas (in canton Vaud where Lausanne is it is 1 % of additional population per year, details may vary by canton). The planned amount of buildings outside these areas is enforced via zoning rule (only some land can be built and ant a given density. The main idea of this law is to avoid destroying farm land (which is important for strategic and ecological reasons) and increasing density of cities (which reduces various infrastructure costs compared to urban sprawl).
If you don’t own the API AND the customer, you don’t own anything: you rent.
Great movie, never gets old
It's worse for everyone else (plus it's mentally terrible for the soulless drones taking paychecks). If Google didn't waste money they could offer more value to society.

It's like the government redistributing your money to bullshit initiatives
> Year of the Linux Desktop will arrive shortly

I think we've been saying this since at least 1990.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38224097
One of my favorite bits of Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky is the use of base-10 time: ksec, Msec, etc. There is a nice time log scale with Earth time to base-10 time conversions.
IMO the counter argument is to initially rely on commercial models and then make it an objective to swap them out.
i guess its around 2% by biomass. But 38% of earth land surface is devoted to agriculture. https://www.fao.org/sustainability/news/detail/en/c/1274219/....

Just trying to guess at carrying capacity of the earth.
should redirect to nitter instead :shrug
I started using Kubuntu and I absolutely loved it. Leagues ahead of Windows 11 in terms of user experience, customization, and speed.

However, I had to switch back. I just can't get by without Adobe apps and other specific productivity apps and video games that I couldn't get to run on Ubuntu. Maybe some day!
Why can't two things be true?
Blah blah blah wrote Hacking Healthcare for O'Reilly, managed large hospital and multipractice groups, ... Self checkout scenarios remind me a lot of the difficuly in building electronic medical record interfaces and workflows. UI really, really matters but is barely given a second thought by most vendors. These things frequently fail on UI but the blame is placed elsewhere. It took us roughly 8 years to create a solid reliable UI and workflow for most acute care and primary care settings that most of the people liked most of the time.

A good example I can think of personally is at McDonalds. It takes 22 finger clicks on the screen to order a medium iced coffee and approximately 140 seconds. There are numerous slow animations, the screens are slow to appear, slow to respond, multiple upsells, positions of buttons change on reflow after clicks. In person it takes "I'd like medium ice coffee light sugar", approximately 7 seconds for that and then the card processing time. Self service is 20 times worse.

Someone else mentioned theft reporting. Having recently spoken with a criminal defense attorney in a social setting, this is an out of control problem. He is in a medium sized city and has seen the number of shop lifting bans increase over 500-1000x. He would typically see a dozen or so per year but since self checkout became dominant in the area he is seeing thousands per year, nearly 1% of the population. This becomes a major problem in an area like this, if you get banned by walmart and safeway you have to travel 2 hours to get groceries, there are no other food stores. There is no recourse, the stores have no interest in trying to resolve these cases where, as the other commenter described, very common human errors resulting from terrible UI are criminalized.
Fentanyl is a last resort painkiller that is extremely heavily regulated in other countries and prescribed for things like tumor pain and heavy burns. It's not a regular painkiller, it's a narcotic. If you dose it high enough it can be used during anesthesia.
How often are the flights to Longyearbyen canceled?
Sure, that's how it works, and reservation is the solution to it, not the other way around.
Is there another link? I just see four pictures but no text, I’d love to read what you wrote.
In fact, there are, as in much of Big Box retail.
I know this is an unimportant thing, but why tf doesn’t kit kat just sell desirable flavors here themselves? What is the deal with the boner these companies have about withholding certain flavors in certain markets?
It's also comforting that the path says "beta" so you know your email credentials are being sent to a secure location.
Ask HN: We're trying to start a services company
My friends and I recently started a services company specializing in DevOps/infrastructure/cloud, security (pentesting, assessments), and mobile development. Despite having a website, an LLC, and a presence on social networks, we've hit a roadblock in reaching potential clients.

We've tried reaching out to friends of friends and experimented with cold-email campaigns, but we're looking for insights from the Hacker News community.

Have any of you faced similar challenges in the DevOps and security consulting space? What strategies have worked for you in client outreach? Any advice or lessons learned would be immensely valuable to us.

Thanks!
Half joking but I try to make sure to ask the AI to "explain line 5 - 20 as if I am new to coding" and throw that in a comment
For what it's worth, despite the name, this is torrents their client sees that you've announced interest in any part in.

If you feed it the IP of a DHT Crawler, for instance, it will claim to have seen pretty much every torrent ever being shared at that IP.
This article links to https://9to5mac.com/2023/04/25/ios-16-restrict-features-base... which I find almost more interesting:

> Currently, Apple uses hard-coding techniques to restrict iOS features in specific locations. This means that most restrictions are simply tied to the region of a device, either by software settings or where that hardware comes from. But the company has been working on a new, smarter way to precisely determine the user’s location.

> Based on our findings, the new system internally called “countryd” was silently added with iOS 16.2, but is not being actively used for anything so far. It combines multiple data such as current GPS location, country code from the Wi-Fi router, and information obtained from the SIM card to determine the country the user is in.

> But why exactly is Apple developing this system? Well, we now have a clue. [...] With the new “countryd” system, Apple will be able to easily determine if the device is being used in an EU country to allow sideloading.

...so here's what I want to know. I live in the US, but I absolutely must have sideloading if there is any chance it's possible. What unholy things will I have to do to convince my iPhone I'm in Europe?
We have tablets and phones now all running unix variants
The issue here isn’t AI, it’s not shovels and goldrushes, and it’s not about building how others are doing it.

It’s fundamental value.

It’s who is creating value that cannot be destroyed. Who owns the house is determined by who builds the foundation first, and that means those that control the ecosystems.

All others will play, survive, rent, and buy inside of those ecosystems.

If you’re not building fundamental value, you are an intermediary, which may be huge companies, but ultimately companies built on others. If you don’t own the API and the customer, you’re a renter. And renters can get evicted.

Those opportunities may still be worth chasing, but we shouldn’t get confused or over complicate what’s going on or we risk investing and building straw houses when brick was available.

Nothing wrong with that. Respect to success. But let’s keep fundamental value in mind, as it’s the most important thing for first generation technology companies.
hahahaha this comment made my day
If you use Ammonia as fuel, you can ship it worldwide in an energy crunch.
Image you have a feature branch where you changed a block of code two times and are rebasing that branch onto main, where that block of code was also changed. During the rebase, you'll need to resolve that conflict twice. If you had merged main into your branch you would only have to resolve it once.

No matter how complex your branch gets or how much it diverges from main, you'll only ever need to resolve a conflict once. For rebasing you may need to resolve conflicts multiple times for changes you may have made hours/days/weeks ago.

If you're strict about rebasing and keeping your working branch clean and remembering what you were doing in that commit from three weeks ago the rebase process might not be that bad, but it can never be easier than a merge.

Rebase conflicts are like short-selling stocks; there's no upper limit on how bad it can get.
This to me doesn't sound mediocre, this is actually a nightmare.
I think this all makes a lot more sense when seen in a practical context rather than the blown-up examples in the feature documentation.

Take a look at the code editor examples on the main site for Github Monaspace: https://monaspace.githubnext.com Scroll down to the "Five Fonts" section and try unchecking the texture healing toggle.

The fisheye effect you get when looking at the font in 200pt goes away at 16pt, and in the context of a busy code block, has the effect of smoothing out the visual rhythm of the characters with only a minor disruption of the monospace grid. Perhaps it's not for everyone (it is a trade-off), but I think it's a smart compromise.
Could be a huge opportunity for Valve to work their compatibility layer magic on iOS, and allow us to finally play sooo many quality games that the iPhone is perfectly capable of running - new and old.
Wait what was the scam how did it work? Was the plan to ransom the container to the owner?
Presumably in this case it has something to do with how Hershey owns the rights for Kit-Kat in the USA, but Nestle everywhere (at least as far as I know) else.
> Unlikely. One reason Google Cloud is so terrible is that nobody in Google actually uses Google Cloud.

Well, actually, Google Cloud is just an abstraction on top of internal Google infra, so this isn't the right question. So, it depends on what you want to infer/compare.
> window panes appeared to have been warped by the thermal heat

Are there kinds of heat that are not “thermal”?
The manufacturers likely don't want to deal with additional SKUs and logistics for what is a low volume item in those regions. Allergies/ingredient disclosure might present challenges as well.
>As far as I know, army doesn't have long range strike options.

Army bought Tomahawk, thus putting it in line with the other services. <https://breakingdefense.com/2020/11/army-picks-tomahawk-sm-6...>
Because it's two different companies.

KitKat around the world is Nestle.
KitKat in the US is under license to Hershey. Licensing is expensive.
One of the interesting things is that Dell was really the only retailer with significant online sales at the time, and their online store was built on NextStep's WebObjects, just as Apple's store would be.

Also interesting that Jobs had Apple pay to use Amazon's one click ordering patent at a time when other online retailers didn't see the point of removing sales friction.

> Why Amazon’s ‘1-Click’ Ordering Was a Game Changer

https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/podcast/knowledge-at-wha...
Decoding BarbarousKing's Battle with Bowser in Kaizo Mario World 3
Japanese retail space (as in, the physical space available in the stores) favors small batches. US retail space favors economies of scale.
As your second link mentions in section 2.4, Borg has "allocs" which are basically pods.
Unelected in a way, but their boss is elected, and they are absolutely accountable. There is no “whim” upon which these rules change, there was however an election that replaced their boss with someone else.

You either care about accountability and therefore laud their changing position based on that accountability, or you’re just parroting a blind argument conservatives have been making for a number of years now because you don’t like their most recent decision.
A Brief History of CI/CD Tooling
Why are you so negative? It actually makes you sound like you're arrogant and don't consider academic jobs "real jobs". The point about how to write a resume is simply that an academic resume emphasises very different things than a industry resume, because job requirements are different.
> You would have to have a system on the same subnet as the public interface of my router

Making sure I understand, you mean an attacker sends dst=192.168.1.2 directly to your router without any extra hops, which the router forwards to your PC. I don't know if that's what happens in practice (there's no legit reason to do it), but I can see a router doing that.

Yes, you shouldn't rely on NAT alone, rather the router should have a firewall. Usually it does, but not always. When that fails, at least it's still pretty hard to exploit. How often does this kind of attack occur?
No, I mean the economics. Oklo's issue was, and I quote, that they "repeatedly failed to provide substantive information [...] on the maximum credible accident (MCA) for the Aurora design, the safety classification of structures, systems, and components (SSCs), and other issues needed for the NRC staff to establish a schedule and complete its technical review."

The NRC denied them, without prejudice might I add, a license based on an evaluation of the technical merits and safety of the reactor, not on its economics.
If you absolutely must have sideloading why don't you buy an Android phone?
I agree it's confusing and I think Amazon's reasons for dropping PyPI support are pretty lame:

https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/issues/4947#issuecomment-5860...

They also have't provided a reason for why they don't distribute via Homebrew:

https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/issues/727
> I intentionally don’t want my half-broken commits to be in the production branch.

That makes no sense. What does it matter that interim versions from a merge might not work, what matters are the milestones like merges and tags. Basically you're imposing a silly aesthetic restriction on what's supposed to be a functional tool.
First time with psychedelics, not prepared for it, no sleep. Doesn't surprise me he had a psychotic episode. But also that doesn't mean he shouldn't face consequences for his actions. When I've been in similar mindstates I just waited it out because I knew I needed rest and things would eventually be normal.
>Year of the Linux _Desktop_ will arrive shortly

I don't consider my phone nor my tablet to be a "desktop".
And that mission, if understand it,is dropping hydrogen bombs a few hours later than the ICBM and hypersonic bombs hit on doomsday.
The publishers are just pocketing the extra cash, and why wouldn't they?

Looks like even in situations where Steam isn't in play (Epic/Console exclusive games) the publishers just sell it at the same price as other platforms that take more of a cut:

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/05/why-lower-platform-fe...
KitKat in the USA is run by Hershey.

KitKat globally is run by Nestle.

That's one reason why.

The second is that in Japan Kit Kat sounds like "good luck" which is why they became popular, and two, why we see such regional variation.

(I have 4 Japanese flavors in my NYC fridge right now -- Sweet Potato, Adult Sweetness, Wheat, and Caramel Pudding (which you bake!)
I can only support you there. Imho, it's fair to see diversity efforts as highly problematic since they lead to discrimination, but on the other hand, what women have to endure in academia is astonishing.

One example from someone near to me: She got permanently harassed by a colleague in the office. Friend of the boss - which complicated things, the boss on his own was nice and helpful - that guy even gave me the creeps later, as a man, with his constant women hostile comments and a specific aggressive behaviour. The guy was just unhinged, clearly dangerous, and that he looked strong did not help. It went so far that she hit him with a piece of equipment she just had in her hand after being verbally barraged by him again, an involuntary automatic reaction. Thankfully that made him back up for good.

Another "nice" story at the same university: The married older professor, who told her how lucky her boyfriend at the time was to have her and a good job, clearly implying the compliment how attractive she was. He was right, sure, and a simple compliment is okay, no? But given the power dynamic it was not a good situation for her, and she saw it as more than a simple compliment because of the way it was delivered. Became a problem later, iirc, when a possible job offer would have meant working directly under him - no pun intended.

Add to that the typical academic situations of professors hating other professors, not attributing work, and being in a discipline where the majority is men, and even that normal - but of course never great - part of academia always had the question mark of how much of that behaviour was made worse by discrimination against the minority she was part of. And if she had reached a good position, how often would she have been seen as only being there because of being a minority, and not because of her effort, even though she was as far as I could gather one of the best in her field, doing bleeding edge research in a highly prominent area?

There were positive aspects of that environment, sure, but the negatives existed.

She does not work in academia anymore.