skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know it seems absurd, but as an android user I really do get cut out of group message convos due to not being on imessage. I realize many other countries use whatsapp or whatever, but my social circle in the US explicitly does not and won't. Even my parents have issues and frequently try to send me large videos. I've had to to completely decouple my phone number from my imessage email to be able to chat with people. Frequently things get messed up because iOS will always default to imessage over sms, so if your primary way to talk is via sms, but you do have an imessage and the person has both in your contact card you don't actually get anything on your phone. I can't really see how it isn't anticompetitive.
And then there’s the fact that the employment gains for October and November were both revised downward in the latest report. "The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for October was revised down by 45,000, from +150,000 to +105,000, and the change for November was revised down by 26,000, from +199,000 to +173,000. With these revisions, employment in October and November combined is 71,000 lower than previously reported."

Zero Hedge https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/inside-catastrophic-jobs-r... points out that this trend is deeply concerning because the job gains for 10 of the last 11 months of 2023 have all been revised downward. “Why? So that the White House can take credit for a strong number (one which also sparks algorithmic buying in the market) only to quietly revise it lower one and two months later when nobody is looking."

But here’s where things look really bad. https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t09.htm According to the BLS, the number of full-time workers went from 134,727,000 in November to 133,196,000 in December. That’s a whopping 1.531 million decline.

There’s another dirty secret lingering in the data.

Next we turn to the numbers behind the headline job prints which were rather terrible: the monthly nonfarm payrolls (from the Establishment Survey) may have been weak at 216K but the far more accurate Household Survey showed that the number of Employed workers actually collapsed by an unprecedented 683K, the biggest drop since the US economy was shutdown by covid!

"In short: December was a catastrophic month for the jobs market, which is why we expect the usual theater: non-stop spin and lies from the Biden admin, and not a single relevant question from the liberal media whose job is not to educate or inform, but to carry water, spread lies and enable propaganda,” observes Zero Hedge.
> There's no such thing as "safe to fly" or "not safe to fly."

Except the type certificate issued by the FAA for a given aircraft is by definition the FAA saying that the type meets all applicable standards and is safe to fly. So is the granting of exceptions to any applicable requirements.

The FAA doesn’t say “eh maybe, it’s a judgement call” to an aircraft manufacturer when telling them whether or not the plane can board passengers. They may include various factors, probabilities, and judgement calls in their own determination of if the type gets certified or not, but ultimately there _is_ a determination made: either it can fly in a given context, or it cannot.

If the argument is “we learn and get better over time, and just because we approved something yesterday doesn’t mean we approve it today”, I fully agree with that, but within reason. And while I don’t agree with this mitigation being an acceptable exception, I also don’t think it’s “insane” or incredulous for Boeing to ask for it, given that the FAA already approved the same thing previously.
If you intend to - and are able to - create and distribute cracks, downloading the game's depot in the first place should probably not be an issue you're facing. :)
A former coworker now runs a bandsaw blade sharpening business and he also has a portable wood sawmill that he takes to people's properties to mill lumber for them. It's not cheap to hire him to bring his sawmill to you and mill your trees but in some cases it's the cheapest way for people to deal with downed trees, or some people are very excited to be able to actually use the trees on their property to build things so don't mind the cost.

It doesn't seem like his endeavors require a TON of smarts beyond knowing how to sharpen blades and run the mill. But the human interaction aspects of running the business seem to be why he succeeds at it. He's prompt, thorough, upfront, on time, and a VERY hard worker. Lots of these aspects of running a boring business seem to be done very poorly in general, often because the boring business owner hires inexpensive staff, so set yourself apart from the rest by being really good at them if you start a boring business.
100% - I could've built this in PHP if I knew it
Today I binged the Youtube of House & Garden, an upmarket English interior design magazine… now I was aware that in the mainstream minimalism has peaked, but I learned that all along there’s been this whole subculture of posh English people designing rooms with ornamental wallpapers, fabrics, moulding, antiques, trinkets—without it looking stuffy. My own house is going to look nothing like this but I found it inspiring regardless.
Is Job Stacking Rational?
First Public Demo of MouthPad
>Addiction is a dangerous disease and we should protect everyone from falling into that trap and harming themselves and others around them.

Addiction isn't some disease that can strike randomly, the science shows that people who are already unhappy/unsatisfied/deprived are much more likely to succumb to addiction. Addressing the societal problems behind that would go a long way towards eliminating problematic addiction, and conversely banning all narcotic substances wouldn't stop those people from finding other ways to harm themselves, like alcohol, gambling or overeating to fill the emptiness inside.
Right. We don't name the methodology. If we did, people who claim to be "doing it" by mentioning the name of the thing. It's the individual practices that are talked about, and that's on-purpose. We can't afford to have the system of practices be obscured by the kind of grasping at status that can come from being able to claim something by name. It's a means of protecting the methodology itself from decay, and from protecting the people on the team from the shallowness that inevitably making something "a thing".
FWIW, on a Das Keyboard, the Windows keys have a little Das logo on them, rather than a Windows logo.
And there’s sequel going into more detail, beyond the aforementioned Phistomephel Ring.

The Most Mathematical Sudoku - (Numberphile)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=h8AulgkjyIc

Feed me papers, I’ll look them up in due course; and I bet I can’t understand the maths, but maybe one day…
That video is pretty cool. Truly an invisible camera.
Boeing's main argument seems to be that, even if the pilot forgets, the overall risk isn't worth the remediation:

In its petition to the FAA, Boeing argues the breakup of the engine nacelle is “extremely improbable” and that an exemption will not reduce safety.

“The 737 MAX has been in service since 2017 and has accumulated over 6.5 million flight hours. In that time, there have been no reported cases of parts departing aircraft due to overheating of the engine nacelle inlet structure,” the filing states.
I got custom keycaps for unrelated reasons that have that on the super key and I wondered what it was.

Comically to me, it has both the diamond and Apple's command key logo. Windows is the only one missing.
> So doesn't seem like the Palestinians should be allowed to have their own government

Why not? Isn't that an universal right? How are Sudanese or Lebanese better than Palestineans in that regard?

Your attention is worthless because it did not led Israel to implement two-state solution. What would you want? Retirement benefits?
I’m one of the apparently few people who use the Menu key [0] at that location all the time. I find it frustrating that this key location is constantly being repurposed for other functions, if the key isn’t omitted altogether. It wouldn’t be so bad if the key could be remapped back to Menu, but it often either has a keyboard-local function like Fn, or is hardcoded to a key combination, or uses some out-of-band USB protocol instead of sending a normal scancode.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menu_key
I'm not sure what you mean by high regulatory barriers. I make an appointment, the very next question is "do you have insurance?" When the answer is no they inform me what it will cost, I pay with a credit card at thet time services are rendered and thats all there is to it.
Whats regs got to do with it?
Really. Crossing borders within the Schengen-zone is trivial and goes unnoticed for most travellers. You can even cross multiple borders in your sleep on the night trains.
> Might be referring to top "business plan innovations"

No. 1 and No. 2 are positing a private space company and mass manufacturing. Those are, hands down, SpaceX's transformational business plan innovations.

COTS, No. 3, is a business-engineering hybrid. Using NASA funds as stepping stones, versus treating them as the ends, No. 4. Maybe we can slot Starlink into No. 5, but it wasn’t unpredictable; telecom was always the moneymaker in space. (I’d argue published pricing with online ordering nudges it out.)
I don't know, the guy in Kona running the coffee farm seemed pretty happy. And the coffee was great (and I typically dislike coffee! It was that good...)

In any case, legal production can be regulated in ways that illegal crops cannot. It's hard to draw a legitimate comparison.
Nor is Apple's as AltStore and browser PWA app stores exist.
It's not mandatory yet, but they expect it to be.

I don't recall seeing similar statements from Microsoft about the office/emoji/etc. keys being expected to be mandatory. Was there statements along those lines?
In Windows land there's a library someone made for ahk to access CPU etc APIs, I used that to make a basic CPU activity/mem usage UI.

It's underneath other windows, but usually visible off on the side.
This is a really beautiful write-up!

I have one small gripe in that on my browser (chrome-windows11) the scroll bar is imperceptibly small, so I can't easily scrub through by grabbing it with the mouse. Other than that this is awesome.
I had really good success abusing the PWM pins on AVR microcontrollers into acting as 8-bit DACs. Hooking up earbud headphones or a tiny powered speaker was all that was needed for decent (for 8 bit) fidelity. No low pass necessary since the PWM artifacts were at the upper edge of audibility.

Those micros were much weaker than the ESP, so the audio was all synthesized with a roughly nintendo-parity waveform selection rather than samples. In fact the earliest version was on an attiny85 which had no hardware multiplication, so.. lots of fixed point arithmetic and lookup tables were involved.

My pet project was DuinoTune, which would convert tracker-music into ready-to-compile code.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFqvPWnolfY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3baH5iTcFM

https://github.com/blakelivingston/DuinoTune
Yeah! It being at or below waist level makes a huge difference. I usually get at least one skeptical look when I pull up to the local lumber yard with it. I'm always the only non-truck or van there.
How much should the farmer raise prices by? Hard to say when you don't know what it was priced at.

Did the farmer bring 5? 15? 5 bushels? Selling your stock in an hour may be an optimal strategy.
People often say they're being "punished for their success" but I think that's an interesting concept.

Apple raked in $93bn in profits last year. It's such an aberration compared to other companies I feel like there must be anti-competitive barriers somewhere. You expect me to believe that no competition is able to take a slice of that? It's too juicy not to! Competition should be eroding those margins to a more reasonable figure and it's not IMO.
Note that it only includes gpt-3.5-turbo (the current iteration), not the original gpt-3.5. It's not exactly a secret that "turbo" models are noticeably dumber than the originals, whatever OpenAI says. There's no free lunch - that's why it's so much cheaper and faster...

That said, we do have public 120b models now that genuinely feel better than the original gpt-3.5.

The holy grail remains beating gpt-4 (or even gpt-4-turbo). This seems to be out of reach on consumer hardware at least...
I assume you choose the services you depend on wisely, to make sure it's possible to integrate with them? E.g. thinking of common apps like Facebook, WhatsApp, some email providers: they don't necessarily provide an API that you can call into, and sometimes you rely on a library a 3rd-party developed but which breaks regularly.

Looking forward to your post on HN!
i've heard from a few acquaintances who have sold at Ford dealerships refer to their fircely brand-loyal truck customers as "grapes," and greatly prefer them to car buyers for that reason.
I never understood bigger and more numerous camera bumps until I used optical zoom and took photos at night. Image quality with thick lenses is incomparably superior to that of thin lenses and 3 image sensors collect 3x as many photons as 1 so you don't have to hold the phone still for such a long time. Ideally the entire backside of my phone would be lenses
Oh, TIL.
It makes you wonder if the aviation experts posting here, many of whom could not find their own ass without JavaScript automation, could understand a world where you have complex machinery (such as an airplane) controlled only by a trained operator (such as a pilot). It's for the same reason they don't allow just anyone to drive forklifts.

It defies how we made it through the first hundred years of commercial aviation with pilots having to deal with more complex tasks than an "up/down" switch.
Cartels don't seem like the most laissez faire employers, especially when they need a lot of people for risky menial work like drug mules. There's probably quite a bit of coercion involved in these roles.
I just took a trip around Arizona in my campervan.

The lowest I paid for gas was $1.99 (with a $1 off promotion from Chevron, but all the apps have some sort of discount... and you don't even have to pay cash!).

Gas is absurdly cheap and people there seem to drive with a lead foot. Until that changes, I don't think people will stop buying giant vehicles.
> Amid concerns about climate change, demand for rail service is strong

This attempt at spinning it as people being motivated to use trains out of concern for the climate is hilarious. Almost nobody thinks like that. Trains are just a hell of a lot more convenient than alternative modes of transport for long distance trips.
The government of Ariel Sharon removed any Israel military presence from Gaza way back in 2005. So it is very far fetched to say Israel occupied Palestine — unless you pretend all of Israel‘s territory belongs to the palestines which does not give much room for compromise.

Since then Hamas established a brutal dictatorship taking all of the inhabitants of Gaza as hostages. Freedom of speech? Nope. Women‘s rights? Forget it. Gay rights? Of course not. Taxes and international monetary support was side channeled to establish an underground military force using hospitals and schools als command centers. For decades they fired rockets on Israel civilians and still Israel let them going on. Until they crossed the border last year killing hundreds of civilians and even took over a thousand of hostages including children.

When you insist Gaza being „Israel‘s gulag camp“ you are being delusional, put yourself far outside any civilized discourse and make yourself essentially a supporter of a truly criminal and violent gang.

I wish Gaza people all the best but their only hope for freedom is the total and utter destruction of Hamas‘ network of terrorists.
Sorry to burst your bubble but the trains in western Europe are a transport mode that caters to a specific class of people, mainly urban well educated people that work for in government, academia or for big corporations. I would occasionally take a train to go to a conference if the venue is close to the station otherwise it is just not practical.
"You mean you want us to make this a new type and now pilots have to get re-trained and re-certified?!"
I believe the intended effect is that the writer is reconsidering their statements after they are written, giving the text a more spoken quality.

You are all a bunch of unrepentant nerds :D
But this is standard in every other business. Want to buy a samsung phone? You can buy it at a samsung store directly or from amazon/walmart/your local telco. Printer? hp.com, or amazon, or walmart or whatever. You can even buy apple devices directly from apple stores or from other retailers.
This is true even for web apps. If you want to debug web apps to make them work on iOS, you need an iOS device and a macbook.
And you do that by ruining the market, by offering free drugs, let the cartells go unemployed.
The scale of the country is an excuse in many cases. There are densely populated areas in many parts of the USA, but nearly all of Europe is densely populated. The EU has an average density of 112 people per square km compared to 36 in the USA.

The USA still can and should do better, but there are important geographical differences to the EU.

And as an aside, I don't think many Europeans are taking the train from Madrid to Berlin ;-) most people still prefer to fly rather than take a multi-day journey on the train. Maybe that will change if more sleeper carriages are introduced.
oh right - as if a Billion users are forced to use iMessage </sarc>

edit an OS web browser tied to the base OS is not the same as an instant msg app on a phone. The OS Browser bundling is not at all comparable, by a long measure. Some context is needed on such a large situation.

source: read direct testimony on the MSFT anti-trust case
"This is not a job--it's a business opportunity, and like all business opportunities, it requires a meaningful up-front investment from you. This investment buys you access to the tools you need to [...]" - Fraudster

I can see trusting or impressionable 18-19 year olds falling for this, especially if this is their first interviewing experience and job offer--they might think it's normal.
Nothing beats an actual human spending a couple hours with the model when it comes to meaningful evaluation.
I remember the day I stopped giving a crap about Firefox.

It was the day they broke my extensions for the second time within a week.
Not just that, but you can buy an iphone in an apple store directly or on amazon, in a walmart, or whatever local tech store is near you.
https://nitter.net/dhh/status/1743341929675493806
What do you think has made it a highly developed shining city on the hill? Something to think about.
It's nice to see agreement on the issues of snap on ubuntu.

The whole practice of third party package managers is a disaster.

One of the biggest improvements in secruity of a linux desktop as opposed to windows is the model of loading applications. In windows, binaries are loaded from random third parties over the internet, in linux distributions the applications are built, and the biniaries provided by the distribution.

Even if applications aren't methodically audited, the pathway for inspection and debug is already in place due to building teh application at the distributor, not by the third party proving the application.

Third party package managers are an aggrigated version of this, they bypass the infrastructure that provides binaries for distribution user's to execute.
If they wanted an REPL having an interpreted Go compiler isn't unheard of in the space.

It isn't like a hypothetical C++ REPL would use unmodified LLM under the hood after all.
The happiest people I have ever met are filipinos. And they do not have so much going well at most times.
I suspect a "The Catalan people deserve self-representation" would get lots of yes votes and Spain would vote no.

I suspect similar for "The Quebequois" and Canada. The Scottish and the UK.

On a surface level it doesn't say much.
The literal most obvious start is apple, who doesn't allow users to even install another app store, or even an unapproved app at all.

After that sure, they can try to go after Google.
Oh, this is brilliant. I wonder if it's a new thing, though I can't remember when I last looked at trains STO-HAM
Starlink isn't even a new idea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teledesic

As always, ideas are cheap. SpaceX is doing well because it's actually managing to successfully implement lots of old fantastical ideas.
I agree with everything you said, but the example on the CES floor does not have an apparent tint.
It must be a conspiracy involving Microsoft. :)

For years, noisy hard drives with blinking lights served to highlight the difference between thrashy Microsoft operating systems and smoothly running, performant alternatives.
Why start a business? Buy a sleepy business - there’s already customers paying money and it’s unlikely to get disrupted

Laundromat etc have higher value multiplier because they’re passive. Something like a large plumbing or trade business is great because you can have someone manage it but lower multiple.

Real estate can be good but typically hard to do better than 10% cash on cash return. Vs a business could be 100% on cash return. But obviously more risk and active management needed, and the real estate is more likely to appreciate. All about risk vs reward
I hadn't thought of it like that, but I agree with you. The magic of good puzzle design lies partly in figuring it out yourself and feeling clever, and you miss out on that when reading the solution to the puzzle in a guide.

I absolutely loved what Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks did with the hardware they had available to them in terms of game design. I'd love to see a remaster of Spirit Tracks, but I'm not sure it'd be possible to capture the cleverness of their controls (admittedly not always a good thing) and puzzles on the Switch?
He spoke out against the narrative, you do not need to search any further than that. He took what was a reliable narrative amplifier and turned it into a channel where not just who followed the herd could bleat - I mean tweet - out their 180 characters but also those who disagreed without immediately being reach-limited, greylisted, shadowbanned or outright banned.

Nearly all other 'big tech' companies are narrative followers and Twitter was one of them. Now they are no longer and with that they are bad.
This same author wrote an article titled "Is Firefox Toast?" back in 2011: https://www.zdnet.com/article/is-firefox-toast/

> Firefox's market-share is fading; the browser itself isn't that good anymore; and its money supply may be drying up. Is Firefox coming to the end of the road?
Momčilo Gavrić – became a soldier in WW1 at the age of eight
Thanks!

Sorry, I'll try to make it more accessible.
If you’re interested in build caching for Gradle or Maven, we support it at Buildless

You can use the local agent entirely for free and upgrade to Cloud caching if it fits your case.

Maven and Gradle are two of our best integrations.

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The Four Books of Architecture
If the aim is for a Starship to fly multiple times a day, I’m guessing they’ll need to build a large fraction of towers and installations.

Several thousand to go to Mars? Are there enough volunteers? Or will Elon clone himself 10,000 mini-mes?