skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a trend because it's an incredibly successful business model and most gamers want new content delivered monthly or so. They might not like the company or pricing, but Gaas/live service is popular for a reason.

There's also plenty of new games that are "one and done" outside of patches, probably more than ever.
The Hacker's Laptop (MNT Reform) [video]
What's there to explain? You defined the terms:

>They wear costumes intended to represent [Person]

>adopt a persona under Fake name

>act out every demeaning, offensive stereotype for s/laughs/entertainment, boften leaning heavily on the physical experiences.

>Then they take off those costumes and get to go about their lives, without having to live under those same stereotypes they helped perpetuate for fun or money

How is RuPaul doing anything different that America's next top model, Hollywood, or any other competition based on looks doing? It's just personal interpretations if you view it as empowering, demeaning, or even bigoted. They all get the same accusations levied at them after all.
You can posit the existence all sorts of entities as "hypotheses that have not been disproved". See for instance Russell's teapot [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell's_teapot
Samson Maw said the will make it open source soon.
And in large ships, the Bridge Navigational Watch Alarm System or BNWAS.

Over night most normal operations cease, so it's quiet on the bridge. But an officer is on duty to keep watch, because the ship is still moving, often relatively fast, and it needs a human to obey pre-existing route plan decisions, observe changing conditions, stay alert to other vessels and so on. However, the bridge (on a modern large ship) is warm and dark and at night tired humans in warm dark rooms will sleep.

So BNWAS will (if operating correctly) periodically need to be "nudged" to show that the officer on watch is awake and somewhat paying attention. If they do nothing for a while the BNWAS will alert them and if they ignore that it will eventually alarm critical crew, often the Master ("Captain") of the ship or other senior officers who are asleep in their cabins.

Now of course nobody wants to leave a nice dream to discover that instead of your teenage girlfriend agreeing to go on that picnic you never got to that sound is their boss, very angrily demanding to know what the fuck you're doing curled up by the radar console. So unfortunately sometimes after a serious incident (e.g. cargo ship has "decided" to wait right next to a small island a few miles from the usual route from 4am until midday, and then when it gets to a dock it seems very smashed up at the bottom as though it was grounded and had to wait until higher tides lifted it clear...) we find the BNWAS has been disabled crudely (it's not as though ship's crew tend to be IT experts)...

But this is a completely different scenario. The BNWAS is not something which causes a disaster if you forget to react, it's an alarm to prevent such disasters which would otherwise be commonplace.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge_navigational_watch_alar...
Fair enough (author here). I just launched support for any databases other than DuckDb and published a guide to create adapters for new dbs. I’m expecting the community to step up here, since I’d rather spend my time adding features to Harlequin. ODBC should be coming shortly. The hard part is honestly just having access to a DB server for testing.
The fact that none of the Apple apps have privacy labels for users to see if extremely annoying.

I can go to AppStore and see what data each app uses or read user reviews but there's no way to do that for any Apple apps for some reason.
Sure, sure. Some pathetic 1080p monitor, or a monitor with ridiculous pixel density and an awful TN matrix. Some oven-like CPU and “turn off your heater” GPU. And, because you are talking about laptops (you are not comparing laptops to desktop computers, surely), it will be a 3-5kg monster. But cheaper, hurray!
> The problem is that this sort of documentation is often incorrect, incomplete, or out of date, so people learn not to trust it.

That's not a problem with the documentation, it's a problem with those people's attitude.

I find "incorrect, incomplete, or out of date" documentation extremely valuable. Documentation is always just one data point in a constellation of data points needed to understand something, but it can often fill in important gaps that can't be filled in any other way. Not having it always leaves you off in a worse situation.
> They crammed so much into so little time, it's truly impressive.

It is. I'm aware I'm gushing about it a lot but it's very impressive. It doesn't even feel rushed. To reiterate a point from earlier, this is all while being a fun thing for young children to watch.
To save anyone a click, 3rd party cookies are defined by Google in this case as cookies that have the “samesite=None” attribute. So explicitly only cookies intended to track users by sending cookies across domains.
The touchy part is the end-to-end encryption. The whole point is that Apple is the trusted party there. As an iMessage user I don’t want my messages passing through who knows which other parties’ servers when I send messages to others.

The point of the blue bubble is to ensure the encryption is there.
On this topic...anyone know the best way to export an entire iCloud Photo Library at full resolution?
The fault with that headlines has little to do with a small dedicated following. Apple isn't a "small" PC manufacturer when it's got more than half the shipments of the largest manufacturer. The real fault with that clickbait is it ignores Apple desktops had an enormous boon with people migrating to M* based desktops and they aren't ready to upgrade yet while simultaneously ignoring shipments are still higher than pre M* Apple desktops. Besides that, clickbait articles about other things other companies do don't even say anything about this topic.

Again, focusing on how the usage share is abysmal compared to competitors while consistently shrinking down to where it is over the last decade lets you easily see why this particular headline isn't clickbait. Even with millions of users, Firefox having such low usage share, especially compared to alternative competitors, is a risk to its main funding source. This is a problem for an organization like Mozilla which makes very little from its users vs one like Apple which has become the most valuable in the world through the exact opposite.
I remember when Epic tried to do this and the internet piled on them for being greedy.
It's most definitely not a myth. I upgrade a component or two every year around Black Friday. This same machine has been evolving for a decade and many spare parts have been handed down to family members.
I have trouble reading this format so I threw it into ChatGPT to summarize:

This article, authored by Elizabeth W. Dunn, Daniel T. Gilbert, and Timothy D. Wilson, explores the often weak relationship between money and happiness, and suggests that this might be due to how people spend their money. They propose eight principles to help consumers derive more happiness from their spending:

1. Buy Experiences Instead of Things: Experiences tend to bring more lasting happiness than material goods because they are more central to our identities and hard to compare with others.

2. Help Others Instead of Yourself: Spending money on others, or prosocial spending, can lead to greater happiness than spending on oneself.

3. Buy Many Small Pleasures Instead of Few Big Ones: Due to adaptation, indulging in frequent small pleasures can lead to more sustained happiness compared to infrequent large ones.

4. Buy Less Insurance: People often overestimate their vulnerability to negative events, and thus overspend on unnecessary protections.

5. Pay Now and Consume Later: Delaying gratification can enhance happiness both through the anticipation of the event and by encouraging more thoughtful consumption choices.

6. Think About What You're Not Thinking About: Considering the peripheral aspects of a purchase, such as the daily realities or inconveniences, can lead to better decision-making.

7. Beware of Comparison Shopping: Focusing only on the differences between available options can lead consumers to overlook the importance of how a product will actually affect their happiness.

8. Follow the Herd Instead of Your Head: Other people’s experiences can be a valuable guide to what will make us happy.

The authors argue that while money can indeed buy happiness, it often doesn’t because people do not spend it in ways that actually increase their happiness. By following these principles, they suggest that individuals can make more fulfilling spending choices.
Author here. If that disappointment fuels a half day of dev time, anyone who knows Python can just create their own adapter.
You might like Biscuit: https://github.com/mit-pdos/biscuit

It was specifically written to measure the performance overhead of a high-level language in kernel, so it explicitly makes the same design choices as Linux: monolithic, POSIX-compatible.

Results look pretty good.
You make it sound as if it's something innovative or special.

It is not.

The only reason it's causing problems is that it is an intentional tool to drive users as OP into the environment through the external pressure from his peer group.

This is a highly anti-social behavior by a company which obviously has to do it because it lacks true innovation or actually good reasons which would draw customers such as OP to their products.

It's nothing to defend or be proud of.
"We don't need dedicated hardware that's marketed as a DAC on the ESP-32-S3"?
There's no reason to expect that FF will "fall" any day soon. If not for any other reason then Europe. We have EU-wide legislation that demands alternatives in the browser space. And while Eurocrats are not extremely tech-savvy they are not extremely stupid either, they will not likely be fooled by four flavours of Chromium. Just an opinion.
It probably is accurate for someone with stock grants from a while ago vesting now. For new hires I'd lower that expectation though.
it was always the "Right approach" and everyone knew that there was nothing in the laws of physics that prohibits this. But you are writing that as if it's still be solved.

No one has ever had a fully reusable orbital rocket.. still to this day. Althought starships got a shot.
Thanks, you're right. I do look at these things from a product standpoint most of the time.

Harbor was just a weekend of coding for me, as we work in neurotech focused on sleep, and I hadn't published anything that people could use in a long time, and it was getting to me.

We decided not to pursue Harbor because the science behind the impact wasn't compelling enough.

I'd be keen to find out more about the work you did at the Imperial College.

We may pick Harbor up again in the future, if we can be convinced of the efficacy.
Google's rocky path towards killing off the web cookie
Oh there were 400 mile cars cheaper than ice cars before?

Look Tesla can already build EVs at price parity with ices, they are currently sitting here n their profit margin. This isn't a hype cycle, Chinese EV makers and battery suppliers have 200+ wh/kg lfp and 150 wh/kg sodium ion in mass production scaling.

This isn't a hype cycle, there are entire car companies in mass production with equal to ice costs now, and the cheaper than ice can ever be is in production scaling.

Yes it won't be over night, but if you are doing production planning, financing, stock prediction and other 5-10 year planning, the writing now on the wall.

This is without solid state and sulfur techs. Im only talking about the CATL LFP and sodium ion techs. Those alone will beat ices on cost at initial purchase, to say nothing of cheaper permile "fuel" and maintenance costs.

And keep me n me and wind / solar is STILL dropping in cost, under what any old school power generation method has been. EV costs will only drop.

" Very real problems"

Please name one
So a base of N+1. I was a designer in the late 90's/early 00's. I worked for a large, well known global agency. We had iMacs. I also had one at home and remember the "pain" of USB, though supported peripherals (Iomega ZIP disks spring to mind) came fast, mainly aimed at the largest userbase for Macs at the time - designers.
From the builder: https://mntre.com/reform.html
"51% Dynamical Bias in the Coin Toss [pdf]" (2007)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38725981

"Researchers flip coins 350k times to find out if odds are 50/50" (2023)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37958554 :

"Fair coins tend to land on the same side they started: Evidence from 350,757 flips" (2023)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.04153
AltStore exploits a loophole that exists for app developers, and you have to “refresh” the app from a computer each week. It’s quite inconvenient and not practical for the average user.
I am guessing the 30% quoted is specifically for digital goods because 10-15% is the fair price for connecting buyers with sellers of physical goods. At least that is the case with platforms like eBay, Walmart, and Amazon.

Maybe someone can explain how the selling/labor costs of digital goods are twice that physical goods and justify 2-3x the commission. I would like to hear it because I am admittedly ignorant when it comes to the costs of content delivery - all I know is that egress can get expensive.
It sounds "fluttering" as if there's periodic pauses in the bitstream being sent.
http://archive.today/jkk5L
On one hand it's "obnoxious" to ask people to switch to another messaging app, on the other hand, the solution if you want people to not use iMessage is to "simply" use a different messaging app. But if it's obnoxious, it doesn't really seem that simple.
> With respect, I've always found the "why do you get to decide" retort unfair. First, it actually isn't a counter-argument: it's an appeal to shame. Secondly, everyone is entitled to come to their own conclusions and form their own judgements.

It is possible to explicitly state if one's statement is intended as an expression of fact or opinion, although having the presence of mind to remember that the distinction exists (wrt to one's own "reality") is typically required.

> I do think the "utter nonsense" was a bald statement in that there wasn't much of a warrant given for it, but people tend to do that when something seems self-evident.

Is the irony of technically delusional atheists criticizing theists for delusions not a bit too rich for your tastes though?

I am fascinated by what religion and religious ideas do to the minds of both believers and non-believers, it makes it very hard for me to believe that there isn't something supernatural ("beyond scientific understanding") going on here.
Fixing Macs door to door
Author here. Thanks for more love for Harlequin. I’ll be checking back and responding to feedback and questions for the next few hours.
I'm amazed that you've written this post (presumably in good faith) and not provided a single concrete example.

The replies disagree with your assertions and are providing concrete examples. All of the replies are civil. One might call it civil discourse.

However, I suspect from the priming of your last line that you will not view it that way, and instead view it as "the average HN user" being intolerant of your ideas.

Instead, may I suggest engaging with the replies?
Agree with the overall sentiment.

But to pick on this point, from a systems perspective, isn't a single thermostat still a single point of failure? So to address the issue, they'd need to add multiple (2?) thermostats, each linked to a different bus etc.? Asking out of curiosity on how these systems work...
Synchting uses the same protocols to establish the connection, as far as I know. It even has relays. It will sync without VPN even if you are outside home.
They were lying. They didn't actually want to hire anybody, but wanted to pretend they were, so they change requirements whenever it looks like somebody might actually meet them.
Let's see

* $450 -- 12-core Zen 4

* $250 -- x670 motherboard

* $130 -- 48gb RAM

* $100 -- 1TB SSD

* $170 -- 750w PSU

* $130 -- case

* $600 -- 3070 GPU

* $80 -- CPU air cooler

* $200 -- Windows

* $100 -- so-so speakers, mouse, keyboard, etc.

We're very close to $2200 if we go with solid, midrange stuff and don't include a monitor.

The cost to apple self-repair guys for a 16" mini-LED display is $670 with Apple offering around $100 back if they'll turn in the old screen.

If we add in $600 for the monitor cost, we're up to $2800 while the 16" MBP we compared to is actually $4000. The savings of a desktop are there, but they aren't what you make them out to be.

If we look at a comparable laptop with good build quality like a Lenove Thinkpad, we're going to pay as much or more. For the same price, we'll have terrible battery life and our performance when not plugged in will drop off a cliff.
Come on. It's such a known problem in the US that even people from other continents know about it.

It is nice that it works for you, but do not play stupid here. You know it's huge.
Exactly. This is the most problematic anti-competitive behavior and it's easily addressable by existing antitrust laws.
I originally wrote this because sometimes a CLI or TUI is just super convenient. I used to use the DuckDB and Sqlite CLIs a lot, but was frustrated by their limitations, especially for doing data analysis work (my background).
Textile Markup Language Documentation
>It literally hurts me to see people destroying themselves with drugs.

It's a bit of a trap to build society around this, though. It hurts Christians to see people living a homosexual lifestyle (destroying themselves with sin). It hurts anti-miscegenists to see biracial marriages (destroying themselves through corruption). Et cetera.
I have amazing memories, as a kid, of going on vacation with my parents, from Belgium to the french riviera... We'd load our car, a Lada (the Lada Riva, an horrible car btw), on the train and then, in the same train, we'd go to the passenger car. The trip was about 1100 km / 685 miles. The train would drive over night and we'd eat and sleep in the train and then arrived near destination next morning, we'd hop into our car.

We'd do that every year. There were both 2nd and 1st class cabins.

You'd save 1000 kilometers to the car (and in gasoline), times two.

I miss that a huge lot: apparently some european countries, including France, are planning to reintroduce these.
Would be good to have a formal notification on glass stating 'this window/screen/etc contains a camera that may broadcast your image'
they are selling off their assets and focusing on selling engine that could be "Reusable". I won't hold my breath.
I honestly have no idea why you feel compelled to be so rude.
Show HN: Fitlock – Block apps until you reach your daily fitness/health goals
Introducing Fitlock, the privacy-focused app designed to empower users in curbing screen time and enhancing fitness through the utilisation of Apple Health and Screen Time features. Fitlock's innovative approach involves blocking apps and websites until users achieve their daily health and fitness objectives.

Here's how Fitlock operates: users can establish a personalised schedule to block specific apps at chosen times of the day, adjusting the strictness level of the block to suit their preferences. Once the user's schedule is active, the blocked apps remain inaccessible until they successfully meet their health and fitness goals. For instance, a user might set up a schedule to restrict social media apps daily, unlocking them only for 30 minutes each time they reach 2000 steps within the specified timeframe.

Beyond its core functionality, Fitlock boasts additional features like progress tracking over time and a range of strictness levels to cater to diverse user preferences.

It's worth noting that Fitlock is currently exclusive to iOS, but stay tuned as there are plans to develop an Android version in the near future. I'd love to hear your questions/feedback.
For Windows 10:

Install "Microsoft KM-TEST Loopback Adapter" using Device Manager (Action -> Add Legacy Hardware, Install from a list, network adapter)

From Control Panel -> Network and Sharing Settings, go to Change Adapter Settings

Rename your Loopback network connection to something else (such as LOOPBACK) so you can tell what it is.

Go to Properties

Uncheck everything except for IPV4.

Go to Properties for IPV4, and assign an IP address. You used to be able to assign something beginning with 127 there, but windows doesn't let you do that anymore. It appears that 192.0.2.1 is a reserved private IP address.

Hit "Advanced...", go to WINS page, disable NetBIOS for that connection.

Now you have a custom localhost-only IP address that has no SMB server bound to it!

You can also use this special loopback device with an SSH client. If you forwarding all the local SMB ports on the IP, it will make it looks like 192.0.2.1 is a computer on your network that's sharing files. Hopefully Windows Firewall isn't interfering.
Neither do most storefront windows and yet they're often made to reduce the transmission of UV light to protect displayed goods from sunlight or intentionally darkened so they're less transparent when the display is not lit up. You just don't notice it normally or dismiss it as an effect of ordinary glare, which is the point.
I've had similar things happen, although I was an external candidate. But for whatever reason they needed to post the job again, have me apply again, and then I'd get hired. Which is what happened. What a weird way to start.
Using Mistral ft optimized 1218 7b q5km - very useful for basic queries/creative input. Often just as useful as ChatGPT and feels far more "real" to have it fully local, don't want to depend fully on one proprietary service for something as fundamentally useful as this!
There's so much more to relationships and human connection and even romantic relationships than that.

Get your mind out of the gutter.
These weapons are the next generation of targets. Guys driving those trucks are going to get really nervous when HARM drones show up.
Thanks for finding this.

The paper mentioned in the Description section can be read here: https://www.academia.edu/52566311/_title_Volume_phase_hologr...

My guess is that each of the items in patent diagram labeled 20 and 22 are gratings of this sort, perhaps with the fringes angled at 45 degrees.

Some additional info may be gleaned from the one patent citing this one, invented by one of the co-inventors of the latter: https://patents.google.com/patent/DE102019206354A1/en
I happened to use a ZIP drive as well on the PC. There’s no relation to Macs here. Designers in the US tended to use Macs, yes, but this isn’t what drove USB adoption, and it would have happened in much the same way without them.
This gets brought up every time someone talks about macOS and MacBooks.

Another thing people don’t take into account is the time and thus money saved not dealing with this crap.

Building PCs from raw parts is annoying for heaps of people. Warranties are annoying, making sure all the parts fit together is annoying. You’ll spend the extra cost in short order just making sure you have the right parts.

Also resell value of MacBooks is very very good. When it’s time to upgrade you typically are losing 20-30% of purchase price at around the 2-3 year mark. Where as PCs are hard to give away at times.

Everyone has their own needs but Apples machines for me are a work tool, I need a laptop and nobody comes even close to the quality or peeper dollar spent in the form factor.
Wait for just 2 days, 17 hours and 18 minutes - and NVIDIA will give you (rumored) 96GB of RAM inside GeForce RTX 4090 TI: https://www.nvidia.com/en-eu/geforce/special-event/
Sure it has a sensor, it's not magic. But OTOH if it can capture the POV of a real line of eye contact with another image projected _through_ the camera, the effects are transformative, it doesn't matter whether ultimately there is a sensor somewhere or not