skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The broadening of the MacOS market would more than make up for the initial loss in hardware sales.

Why? I mean Android has a much bigger market share than iOS yet Google isn’t making any money (after costs) from it if we exclude ad revenue.

> At the end of the day, Apple would be selling more Macs

I really don’t think that would be the case unless Apple significantly reduced its profit margins to remain competitive. They would be making way less money. So again, why?

> So Steve Jobs came back, shut the clone program down (which, again, would have succeeded for Apple AND other players in the end, IMHO), and the rest is history.

Which was one of the smartest things he did (if we’re prioritizing Apple’s longterm financial success). Apple can only charge excessive premiums for its products compared to everyone else because there is no other way to use their software.. which is why they are a multi trillion dollar company it’s that simple.

> I discussed the idea with ChatGPT and here's how that went:

I’m sorry but that discussion seems to be worthless (also what’s wrong with it? Why is it using such a weird style?).

Apple would have to throw away their entire business model to do this which is a massive risk on it’s own. Considering that Apple has been the most successful consumer hardware/software company in history in large part because of their current business model throwing that away to try and do something that many companies (including Apple) have tried and failed would be an extremely bizarre thing to do.
> 1000W sub woofer amp
Your car subwoofer is surely not so stiff that it needs so much power. But after using it, your ears will definitely be.
Reply by Seller: "We only source original parts from original computers on original garbage heaps. We make these undesirable traits up with a very doddgy remaining lifetime of component. The Lord giveth, the lord taketh.."
It's pretty hard to believe anything else.
In the conclusion of the article:

> It also pointed out that some investigations started by the model conclude that the CNAF actually owes the beneficiary money.
Rather looks like a risograph effect to me
The alternative being showing actual level of diversity in the company?
I think it is also about the use cases and apps you use. For example:
I have 1 phone older than 10y serving as a music player, almost never having Internet connection, almost always being in airplane mode. Another phone as my normal phone, also nearing 10y old, with a screen that is partially broken, but still accepts touch input fine everywhere, inherited from someone else, used usually only for Signal and Hackernews reading, rarely browsing in Firefox, nothing really feeling slow. Then I have one much newer phone, but waaay cheaper phone and it felt terribly slow right from the start, got it only to separate concerns, and as a throwaway. Not sure what its issue is really.

My point is that with reasonable apps old phones work just fine. Just don't install crap apps or facebook or something like that, stick to well working apps. Use a phone as a phone, not as your universal computing interface and you should be OK for a long time.
Kernel Recipes 2023 – Faster and Fewer Page Faults [video]
I liked the first version of the game, but found it impossible to finish after a few levels. I hope there’s an easy mode for people like me who want to enjoy a game without having to aim to be the fastest or best player in the world. I’d appreciate a super easy mode as well (easier than easy mode).
A few months ago I wanted to add arithmetic parsing to my game's debug console, and went with this approach.

While researching the area, I came across this exact blog post, and thought it was perfect. It explains things clearly and concisely (without even needing code/pseudocode). Granted, it's a simple algorithm, but this post was just so much nicer than any of the (higher ranked) results that Google gave me. And it has no ads!

It made me sad. Years ago, it seemed like Google helped me find lots of nice little pages like this one. It's much harder to find web articles of this quality anymore.

Back to this article specifically, I particularly appreciated the "Advanced Usage" section, where it briefly (and clearly!) goes over some useful extensions to the algorithm. These were very much on my mind (since I wanted parentheses and function calls). They are simple extensions to a simple algorithm, but it's nice to have them summarized for you before you dive in.

It was a breezy joy to implement (did it even take an hour?). And I can think of other easy ways to extend its capabilities further. This style of arithmetic parsing would be a wonderful thing for beginner programmers to cut their teeth on. It exposes them to a number of important computer/programming ideas, yet is simple to implement while also being directly useful.
Nikki Haley says TikTok makes people '17% more antisemitic, more pro-Hamas'
This was wonderful to read. It reminded something that happened to me:

During early 2000s me and my friend used to create custom Counter-Strike maps because we enjoyed mapping. We created several maps but almost none of them got played on internet servers because people liked to stick with more known maps like de_dust or cs_assault.

Maybe 10 years later somebody asked me via some messenger or email if I still had the .bsp file of a particular map of ours. I was very surprised about this message because it was so random at that point in my life, I already moved on to other hobbies than mapping. But apparently the map was a hit among Turkish internet cafes and people were looking for the BSP file to play it after internet cafes lost their popularity and everybody had internet at their homes.
Samsung DEX was exactly this. When I bought a Pad 6 it came with Dex bundled and it queued quite nicely as a simple Linux-ish desktop environment.
It’s been around for so long, and the Lightning version for even longer, that if it was a serious problem we would know by now.
We're no strangers to it. You know the rules, and so do I; these jokers make a full commitment and make you think about it for so long. You wouldn't get this from any other pull request.
Mom and pop grocery stores hardly ever sell different products from the supermarket. They will have less product diversity, higher prices and less fresh stock of perishables (vegetables, etc).

They work out best if they specialise in less in-demand items, like asian stores or fruit stores (where freshness of produce is their sole goal). But at the same time these simply can't exist every few blocks or so by the nature of being specialised.
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> I also liked that the page didn't really politicize the issue.

Are we looking at the same page?

>For vulnerable recipients who struggle to navigate the complex rules of the French social security system, the risk of their benefits being reclaimed or terminated is high — even if they unintentionally committed mistakes.
Its certainly atleast trying to do something.

In a way this would be like cap the % profits. And just like capping the profits… you cant do that because why should the super effective companies get punished and not gain massive profit!

There is a contradiction in our system - if the companies drive the prices down they digg their own grave. And since they have to grow not stagnate then at some point they need to stop driving prices down and also more and more fuck people over.

So it is greed. Imagine companies that wouldnt grow.
Just a couple of weeks ago, and this is a perfect moment to share, a colleague told me how he wanted to reschedule a flight and in a hurry clicked on one of the first Google provided links (ads) and got redirected to a scam site which was identical to the one his airline uses. In the end, he had to suspend his credit card and lost money. He lost more than any of the Kagi billing plans would cost him.
But you are right, ppl tend to justify their choices more, especially when they paid for them ;) Still, no harm knowing there is a good alternative out there I guess.
Do you remember the name?
Might be fun to play!
Part of the reason I enjoy languages like Haskell is because of the abstraction maximalism enshrined at the language level, rather than the coding level.

We all agree on what an Applicative is supposed to do. The challenge shifts right in the idea-to-code pipeline to finding the right Applicative for the problem. Most OO design patterns have natural, well defined equivalents in such an environment, but the difference is this way helps minimize the amount of project specific abstractions you have to deal with.

The downside as a beginner is of course a greater upfront cost to learning the language, and quite frequently opening up another Haskeller's work and realizing there are like 12 compiler extensions you've never heard of that you now need to grok. But even there I would argue that's a net win: you can carry those compiler extensions with you to all projects in the future. (The downside as an expert is realizing you have to get a PhD to get a sense for how much RAM your cats will gobble up!)
I mostly use DDG. Kagi results are comparable. When DDG fails I sometimes resort to Google. I can't use Kagi routinely with just 100 queries but I try it sometimes. It is subject to the same spurious results as the others afaict. And I haven't yet seen it find anything that the others missed.
Not really. Where I live, big box supermarkeds are often more expensive, at least for non store-brand items. Also I buy less when shopping using my bike or walking. When I drive, it's so easy to just throw in a fridge pack I don't need etc.
His MacBook Air from 2012 has (roughly) the same specs as the Lenovo I bought for my son in 2021! Poor me! :)
Aw shucks... thank you :)

And I find myself waiting to catch the various creatures twitch.
Is it that rare? I also use smart phones for over 10 years and have never broken one, only inherited a broken screen one. And I have never even used protective hulls or anything. I sometimes do consider myself even rather clumsy and yet I still did not break a phone.
The distinction can be fuzzy, tho.
> 60 volts is nothing UNLESS you are completely wet or sweaty.

From experience I'm not touching 60v, sweaty or dry as sand - that voltage hurts! And 48v is seriously uncomfortable. People have died from less DC voltage in industrial settings.

Following EN61010, the max safe DC voltage in laboratory equipment is 35v for wet locations. For a car, we ought to assume that being wet is a possibility.
It's probably because they are so close. I would imagine many americans would do the same if their neighbourhood was in walkable distance. I live in Germany and I do the same I go shopping everyday for 10 minutes for the things I need for the day.
This is completely right. People read about design patterns or DRY, usually apply them wrong since they're still learning... and then act like it's the source materials fault?
On another note, props for the writer to :

- actually write a story relevant to the lesson learned, and not make up some fable that takes 1/3 of the article before even starting to make a point
- not have any sort of popups asking me to subscribe or login
- not have any sort of annoying javascript animation that gets in the way of reading the article

it's rare enough to be noted.
Try counting the number of businesses involved in making a vehicle.
I generally agree: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38471297

However I make an exception for existentially dangerous technology
The most "surprising" thing about both clean and unclean code ... is that they DON'T USE CLASSES.

> Use the platform, use JavaScript !!
UK accuses Meta of empowering child sexual abusers with encryption rollout
How is your refactoring clean ? Lmao if this is clean code I'm the Queen of england...
I'd qualify the most popular chains here (like Albert Hein) as super markets. You can buy not only food, but also all the basic home supplies (cleaning products etc), large choice of drinks and sweets and so on. Basically all you need on daily basis as long as you're not too picky about the brands. But not home _equipment_. In years of living here in few places I've been only going to the store by feet. Indeed it's every few days as apartments are mostly small and you have no space for storing/freezing a lot of food. And there are mice everywhere.
Well, if investigations are triggered only by algorithms, if you intend to commit fraud, you can run their statistical model against your future data and see if alarms fire off. If so, just massage the data until they don't.
Just chiming in to mention that xylitol seems to have a beneficial effect, similar to what this sounds like, though very different mechanism.
The social fraud in France, combining all type of social fraud, is estimated at 1.1 billions (probably more, because Healthcare fraud is massively underestimated and growing, due to private clinics helping a lot with producing misleading claims and documents, but considering The total healthcare budget, it cannot be that much higher).

Corporate tax fraud is 27 billions

Social security contribution fraud is estimated at 14 billions (to compare to 200millions for the share of social security fraud)

Income tax fraud is 17 billions (and wages are automatically declared, so this fraud is mostly on non-work income).
Every once in a while, I looked for an alternative to Google. I have given them all a go, but none of them stayed as my default for more than a few days. Until Kagi.

I absolutely did not think I would pay for a search engine. Especially as I've recently been on a quest to cut every unnecessary subscription. YouTube Premium is gone (thanks to 83/% family plan price hike). Half of my dozen or so domains are gone... you get the idea. Who would pay for search, right!? I signed up for the free trial, fully expecting to walk away.

But have you noticed how the quality of Google has steadily deteriorated over the last decade or so? How it now just surfaces ad filled garbage, listicles, and regurgitated content, ad nauseam?

I'm sure it's not just me who prefers what Google used to show around 2011.

Kagi is like the Google of 2011. Except, better. You can combine a bunch of domains you think are related and create a "lens" to just search them. It comes with a bunch of pre-built lenses, so you can search for academic results, or forum posts or pdfs. You can tell Kagi if a website is good or not, and it will then tailor your results according to your preferences.

It kind of feels like what Google could have been, if the brilliant minds employed there weren't just tasked with chasing billions more in ad revenue every quarter.

Honestly, its results are better than Google's. Forget the lack of ads and them not tracking you and not selling your data (from which Google Search apparently makes on average $300 USD every year from every user). Just purely based on the search results, Kagi is better.

I've recently converted my plan to a "Duo" plan, and the SO, who doesn't over care about privacy and ads and stuff, also likes it. #win
System Observability: Metrics, Sampling, and Tracing
Depends on the region.
56V AC and 72V DC here. -48V has been the standard voltage in telecoms for +100years, so 48V systems and parts are not that exotic.
There's always one... Where do you live?
Boots on the ground had a financial stake in Sam staying on as CEO so they could sell their equity: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/30/openai-tender-offer-on-track...

I'm concerned that boots on the ground may be susceptible to motivated cognition due to their financial interest. I suspect that their finances come before upholding the charter for many of them. Why else did they get so upset when Helen said that shutting down OpenAI could be the right thing to do? That's pretty much implied by the charter.
And yet https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/dec/08/police-still...
Is it more common to go daily because there are so many grocery stores? I'm not in Amsterdam, but Switzerland, where I am, there's supermarkets for every neighbourhood, I took to buying groceries nearly every day because it's so easy to pick them up on the way home, I can just go in and see what's on sale to make dinner.
I hear andreflnr is a giraffe.
In the dynamic realm of Saudi Arabian E-Commerce, InConcept Labs partnered with a visionary client to reimagine the trading dynamics of digital vouchers representing products and services. The result is a groundbreaking platform that redefines how users securely and seamlessly trade digital vouchers.
ISS astronauts find tomato that was lost for 8 months
Do you have the usage to worry about scaling at this point

Vertical scaling can take you quite far
As a UK user I find Kagi returns results from Australia far too often which is a super weird issue DDG used to have as well
You should add attribution on the poster to GP as it is an original creation of theirs and their kid.
The thing is, majority of ppl cannot evaluate this too and we end up with code with clean code ^tm traits that sucks
The real question is not whether they are a problem but why such wildly inefficient systems exist, and the answer is likely a factor in the desperation.
I think one factor is that Tolkien had read a lot of actual classical and medieval literature. So he would know what felt right for a story even if he didn't know the historic and economic details.
> Your whataboutism argument isn't going very well.

Gotcha. One rule for me and another for thee.

It says a lot about people when they'd prefer to believe a comfortable lie, than be told an uncomfortable truth.

I never once defended Musk's idiocy, but you've made it clear that you have no problems with child abuse, anti-Semitism, or hypocrisy.

Best of luck to ya.

> The End.
Let's see, Disney started out entertaining and ended up with serious broadcast TV stations, operating news departments publishing overwhelmingly fact-checked information, and their appeal to the consuming public has been growing at a healthy pace off and on for decades.

OTOH, Twitter was mainly a gossip rag a year or two ago, more amusing than entertaining, and it has gone downhill steadily since. Nothing like the kind of fact-checking you would need from a reliable information source, and the overall appeal just isn't the same any more. And that was people who loved Twitter.
I don't think there's a distinction between those two things in The Netherlands. I'd translate them both to "supermarkt".
Creativity is a good thing, sad to see trust abused this way.
Everything they say is advertisement. But they show a minutes long video of a conversation with gemini that isn't near possible.
That is almost like claiming you can fly warp speed and then it's just a visual effect.
What is the difference? In Europe we call basically everything a supermarket and its a synonym for grocery store. The only exceptions would be minimarket which are extremely tiny and hypermarket which is your US Walmart-style extremely large store that also sells electronics and clothes etc.
Seems two things are at play here, the model, and how the model is
used. The article was quite dry, refreshingly analytical and not
overly critical of the expected ground truth that the poor are
punished for being poor.

It's great these models are legible and open. Looks like civil service
doing a job as well as possible.

The other half of the story is how, in practice these models are
interpreted and what actions follow. Are further modification of the
model a direct result of that and how iterative is it?

Doing that aggressively changes a bare "model" into an investigative
tool, not simply a thresholding utility. Sorry if I missed it, but I
don't remember reading anything about how it feeds back. But what I
did read was unsettling - entering people's homes at random, quizzing
neighbours, pretty fascist stuff. am I wrong?

I guess my point is that if you look at a bare data set, or even an
algorithm, sure you can probably infer a lot about biases and intent
that might be built in, but you can't see the bigger model within
which this functions - and that's the real story.

Is it a persecutory investigative tool?

Like Hicks said we could use cruise missiles to drop food into the
mouths of hungry people... a benefit system that could identify people
who are struggling (of which crime is an indicator), and, I dunno,
give them some money and help? That would be preachy, and quite
possible imho.
Would this firmware update help in high-radiation areas in Earth like inside Fukushima?
He says quite clearly in the GP. It solved all their scaling problems and massively reduced their costs. With a note that their traffic was particularly bursty.
> Of course this is paid for at the till...

I’m not sure how true this is everywhere. Within walking distance (inner suburb of Dublin on the edge of the city center) I have two Tesco Superstores and about eight Tesco Expresses and Metros (Tesco splits its shop types into broad categories). The ‘superstores’ have the same pricing as each other and as suburban ones, the Expresses and Metros have the same pricing within each category, which is sometimes slightly higher than the Superstores. There’s also an Aldi and a Lidl; both are priced the same as any other Aldi or Lidl, as far as I can see.

If anything it’s more rural areas where you may see higher prices, in that your local ‘supermarket’ may be essentially a jumped-up chain convenience store.
You can tip any amount. You chose if tipping inflation would affect you.

US tipping is sick, and it is not fair to people who are involved in preparing your experience. Why only servers receiving tip? Why not the cook? Or cleaning lady? After all, dirty toilet will ruin your dining experience.
The Internet Shutdown Game
ChaChah is a stream cipher and was never a SHA3 candidate.
I travel with cables every day. The only cables I've ever broken were due to some accident like tripping over it or something. I'm talking like 1 or 2 in my entire life. I have never considered cables to be a consumable part.

How on earth does someone get through one a year? Are you using it as a rope? Copper isn't cheap but should last decades, not one lousy year.
My father was a magazine editor in the 1980s.

Paragraphs for his publications had to be short due to the limitations of magazine layouts.

“For the bulk of your work, a paragraph can only be one or two perfectly written sentences” he insisted.

I feel like there’s a parallel from that to writing functions.

Magazine readers, and programmers both read high density text rather quickly.

We should make it easier for future readers to quickly understand your point/function.

We should write short, correct functions.

Only add abstraction when you absolutely have to and write more documentation in the case that you do.

Edit: missed the length of the function comment, ignore my diatribe
It's not that. I've taken it apart numerous times and cleaned out any dust I see. There's no clogging or anything going on.

Maybe it needs more thermal paste, but honestly whenever I've tried that in the past on older laptops it made no difference.

Not sure what else it could be. Besides, it still works fine, just hear the fan whirring up pretty often.
What's the difference?

In the Netherlands you have supermarkets, some big, some small and sometimes smaller mom and pop stores that sell the basics. They are outcompeted by supermarkets that tend to be very close as well. There are no supermarkets that sell everything, like you might find in France (Hyper Marche, Carrefour) or the US (Walmart).