skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps your usage doesn't challenge the throttling, i.e. you use it for calls, imessage, and apps you haven't updated (thus not as much CPU-demanding) for a few years. I have a Philips stereo on which I can plug/dock older iphones (3-4-5), and for that I got a very old 5, with Spotify. The phone is docked (and charging) on the stereo 24/7/365. So no complaint for that. But if I were to use it for other purposes, it would be super painful to have super slow performance or battery dying on me.
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> Why use C in 2024?

Jesus Christ, it's 2024!

Enough with this constant insecurity that forces people to derail every damn unrelated thread with drive-by comments about how C programs should be rewritten in a different language.
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My team is pretty small right now so yes I do end up doing a fair amount of technical decisions but at my last spot, I was more of a head engineer over groups of engineers and I really need to learn to let the teams below me make their own technical decisions only stepping in when there was a conflict, they were explicitly asking for guidance, or in a few rare cases where I could see they were clearly going down a wrong a road.

I think I would need a bit more information about your current seniority and skill levels before I could give you more specific direction. There is always the default answer if you want to move up higher that communication skills are important, and that's true but what I don't see as often is developing the skill to let decisions go and to not only find ways to live with them but actually accept those decisions and move forward with them.

Absolutely speak up if you disagree, and communicate clearly the prior experiences that is helping guide your decision. Talk about your assumptions and where you think future pitfalls might be. If your team or manager decides to go down a road you don't agree with or don't think is optimal... Let it go. Work with it. Try and accept that as a path forward and embrace it. You might not have the full picture, it might be a legitimately better strategy, or you might be right. In any of those scenarios though fighting against the current, trying to go rogue to prove your path is correct. Those will only lead to ill-will. If it does turn out to be the wrong path, don't play the "I told you so card", take the high road and just move forward.

A lot of engineers, myself included, look back at prior decisions more than looking forward. Reflection is important, and lessons can be learned but we're there to build things, not be right all the time. The bigger your team the bigger and more intense things you can build, but only if you're all working with the current of development.

The more you work with your team, the more they trust you and as you gain in seniority you will have a peak of silent "I told you so moments", that's usually when I've found it was time for me to go up to the next level of seniority as its probably time to start mentoring the people around you.

None of this is about getting more coding time, but I don't think I've ever really optimized for that. Maybe think about what you're trying to get out of that coding time. Maybe what you're actually looking for is unbroken focus time, that I have optimized for but also involves working with your team. Communicate with your team that you would like more focus time, propose things like protected afternoons (meetings only in the morning) or meeting free days (I've found Tues/Thurs usually work best for this).

If you provide me with a bit more detail I might be able to give less general advice.
It's always about that 0.01%.

And expecting people to come up with their own solutions for problems that banks struggle to solve, is going to be a recipe for disaster for 99.99% of the people.
Agree this completely. So much scientific evidence I see published is just survey results from participants...which is sometimes just marketing or question phrasing. It's often enough to run with a headline though.

The standard for that evidence should be very different than the standard for reproducible physics, chemistry and biology experiments.

Other times it's just an extrapolation of a preexisting data set. Running this query produced this result.
That's terrible. After all, the purpose of fines is to bankrupt companies for the emotional benefit of angry and resentful people, and not to discourage certain behaviour in proportion to how bad it actually is.
Non-X/Twitter Link: https://nitter.net/christianreber/status/1744292271858622518
firefox killed of pwas
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My first thought was "can this run my containers?"
> I worked out that it would cost an extra 50 lifetimes a year sitting in traffic.

Sitting in traffic is not the equivalent of being dead, so it's not as bad. The other side of the argument is that the people sitting in traffic are missing out on their peak years, while the reduced lifespan from a traffic death removes the last years, which at best are less enjoyable.
"direct experience by judge" sounds like a can of worms. What if the judge believes religion is real based on their "direct experience", in a blasphemy trial?

[Edit: Interesting replies, thanks!]
I still got nostalgic when I see web pages like that. I miss them.
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This is interesting, and I have not heard it before. Thanks.

But I'm not really interested in WB so much. I'm more interested in his claims about investing. I understand him to say that he has done well over decades, better than the broader market, with Value Investment. Is that true?
Maybe but copyright on a remixed song that samples other artists is really difficult to deal with in terms of rights unless one party owns the rights to all the samples it’s difficult to negotiate and you might not get any royalties. AI art is basically just other people’s work remixed so the same problem applies
Stay the course!

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS
Agreed.

The entire post reeks of unwarranted self-importance and posturing and contains equal measure platitudes and balderdash.

He needs to watch the documentary Waging a Living to get some real-life perspectives (this documentary legitimately made me very angry at the "American System") - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waging_a_Living and https://www.pbs.org/pov/films/wagingaliving/

Seems like it is available on Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIXFyLXSBuo&t=6s
Not much of a point since Apple ][ has the SWEET16 interpreter already as part of its BASIC ROM. But yes, it would be nice if the LLVM-MOS6502 folks put some effort towards feature parity with this toolchain. LLVM almost certainly has better auto-optimization than a new bespoke compiler.
This story appears to be over a year old - was there a reason it’s relevant again?
How does this boost sales.

Wasn’t defending their PR handling—in fact that’s what I specially called out as the problem, so I don’t know why you’re replying to me.
"How Google perfected the web" is a pretty misleading title for this HN post. The article is about how websites make themselves worse in response to the imperatives of Google's search algorithms.
Or, worse, they let you in, someone does a random check against NSA or whatever databases, finds out you lied and now you get deported and a permanent ban on reentry.
I think even back when that was filmed it was silly. It was just some cute scene that would have no reality in any foundry
I am a pilot, and in aviation related topics pilots tend to be almost ridiculously pedantic about stuff.

I want to congratulate you on writing the most pedantic thing I've ever read in my life. Truly a masterpiece. I can't wait to bust this out in my next aviation related discussion.
He always endorses index funds for people who do not spend their entire life doing the stonks and even for most who do.

Berkshire itself is basically an index fund of Buffet’s index.

What he’s most strongly arguing against is managed funds where people “sell the ability to beat the market” which is bullshit.
Analogue clocks used to be Roman numerals, and you can still see this on older public clocks such as Big Ben.
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Google does everything else, but not perfecting the web. The examples are everywhere.
Forth really changed the way I think. I now take notes in a Forth-like way. Very underexplored.
From the wikipedia article where this number is taken from:

> Suppose each person in a sample of 100,000 people were asked how much he or she would be willing to pay for a reduction in their individual risk of dying by 1 in 100,000, or 0.001%, over the next year. Since this reduction in risk would mean that we would expect one fewer death among the sample of 100,000 people over the next year on average, this is sometimes described as "one statistical life saved.” Now suppose that the average response to this hypothetical question was $100. Then the total dollar amount that the group would be willing to pay to save one statistical life in a year would be $100 per person × 100,000 people, or $10 million. This is what is meant by the "value of a statistical life.”
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It costs me 100 bucks to produce and sell an item, the market is only ready to pay a price of 80. I loose 20.

In terms os life: the value of life is universal (at least it should be), the cost of saving one (or ending one...) depends on circumstances. And the price someone is paying in order to safe / end said life is again something different.

Edit: The value of the item initially mentioned can be anything: from the 80 for the customer at the time of purchase, 500 because it provides the customer with clean water a week later or even negaitive (e.g. because it is a replacement part, non-original, for a classic car and the resulting values of the car decreased after installation).
Shareholders of large public companies have limited ability to challenge the actions of directors, as proxy fights are in a majority of cases unsuccessful and shareholder lawsuits are also difficult as courts such as the Delaware Chancery are generally highly deferential applying the business judgement rule. For optimal effect, if non-corporate liability desired, suggest liability attach to directors and officers first instead.
To some degree, during periods of relative peace, yes.

But could you point out any large Israeli companies which are any sort of "neutral" in the current Israel/Hamas war?

Or any large Ukrainian company which is okay with employees voicing pro-Russian sentiments?

Or any large American company ... in the year or so after the 9/11 attacks?

Or any large Indian ... during the Indo-Pakistani war of 1965?

Or any large British ... during WWI?

This really is not a new thing.
Wi-Fi 7 certification is now underway for new routers and devices
Not sure it's that straightforward. Case studies are anecdotal data of this sort, you just have to understand the limitations of this sort of evidence.

You could presumably check if Carl suffers from regular hallucinations, maybe run him through an fMRI to check if he's lying (assuming they can make that reliable), and so on. Each check increases confidence in the claim, even though it will never by itself be persuasive.
same. a lot more users than the Dutch media

for the non-Russian speakers, the v in VK means 'in' so VKontacte is basically InContact.
Your graph does not show the real return of the SP500, as it does not include dividends.
My own desktop is a mid tier machine from 2013 and I do game on it and it still is fine. Of course, not everything will run on a ten year old machine, but surprisingly many games still work fine. I am thinking about an update for some time and holding back because of the much increased price and annoying availability issues, but unless I want to play something high end like say, cyberpunk, which I really would like, I don't think I would actually need a real "gaming machine" to play much of what I play today. Just a few more gigs of vram would go a long way (I only have 1).
The people who use the phrase "No evidence" mean "no good evidence that moves the dial to a significant degree". But for brevity they shorten it to "no evidence" and assume people are capable of filling in the gaps instead of interpreting it extremely literally. We often speak without perfect precision in order to communicate ideas quickly and easily, and it's up to the reader to extend charitable and common sense interpretations.
It's kinda sad that the website doesn't prominently display which features have "universal" support across iOS and Android. The whole point of PWAs is to provide cross platforms apps so if a feature isn't available on all/most platforms, I don't think it's fair to say that it's really usable at all in your PWA.
Could you say more about what it means to "take notes in a Forth-like way"?
That's true of video playback, it's not true for other apps I want to keep open without the phone auto-locking. People making those comments aren't like lying or delusional, they're just using different apps.
WINE is better at running old Windows software than Windows, so there seems to be some consistency at least.
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An uncle who lived in the Kansas City suburbs was careless about parking and did not pay his parking tickets. Then one day he was pulled over by the police. They checked his information and took him to jail. My aunt showed up to pay his tickets, and discovered that the city did not take checks. A grocer kindly cashed a check for her.
The text was really small but also garbled/twisted in weird ways. Looking back it may have been an upscaling issue possibly, I don't know, I just expected a "verified" title to run well and be playable with default settings.
Not easily portable to most microcontroller targets: No SDK for our target SoCs and official SoC/µC support. Increased code size (which is also a performance issue in many SoCs). High cost of retraining engineers. High cost of reenginering existing code base and tooling. Lack of commercial support.

I'm optimistic about Rust, and it taken great strides to replace C, but there are still many hurdles that prevent it replacing C in microcontrollers and SoCs. Even if it wasn't for the lack of a platform SDK and porting existing code, the risk is too great with lack of official support for many commercial SoCs.
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Correct, which is why I'm mentioning it here. Stracing another instance of strace does not involve any of the processes ptracing themselves, though, and I don't think it ever has.
Researchers create first functional semiconductor made from graphene
Recent article with more details about the current state of Soundcloud – ("achieved eight consecutive months of profitability"):

https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/spotify-chasing-annua...
I know a lot of people are rightfully concerned with the viability of this product, but I'm unbelievably excited! Definitely going to be pre-ordering one and picking it up on release day if I can!

I'm sure it won't be perfect or anything, but I'm mostly just stoked about the possibilities I see with this thing.
Oh I agree that if you're going to fee based on something, revenue is better than profit. My post wasn't trying to say otherwise. It's just that I don't believe it makes sense to gauge how fast companies pay off the fee in terms of revenue, such as was done in the article.
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I passed everything up to and including the three digit sequences on my first try. 10 fail, 110 pass. I guess I'm random enough?
Can you provide a reference for this? I searched and found nothing.
> Also note at the utlity aspect - as a purchasing power, $1.33T and $138B are the same, and the only meaningful difference is to keep some kind of score

This isn't quite true. There's a noticeable difference in ability to change the world.

With $138B you can eradicate a few diseases and give scholarships to all high performing poor children in the world for a decade.

With $1.33T you can do something like transform Colombia into a developed country.
It's just newer
> Technically Apple absolutely did the right thing.

> Where they failed was in not communicating this and trying to Apple Magic “it just works pay no attention to the man behind the curtain” when they should have been straightforward.

So they technically did the wrong thing.

> Even this throttling was really about prolonging the usable life of your phone.

Not really. It was the cheapest way to protect their reputation without acknowledging anything was wrong. If it was really about prolonging the usable life of your phone, they would have notified the user the throttling was happening and how they can regain the performance.
Well, it is the title of the article. You are right that it is probably sprinkled with a bit of sarcasm.
Awesome, best of luck. I could see this in gadget mags esp around xmas, they often look for lower cost items to contrast the £500 phones and £1k laptops ;)
Biggest material advantage but still losing
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As a non-native English speaker, it's not my intention to be disrespectful or rude, or anything on the same line.

I'll not edit that comment to keep your comment and the context intact, but keep that in mind.

Thanks.
> > As of seven days and three hours into 2024, they had already earned enough revenue to pay it all off.

> revenue is not the same as profit. this is basic stuff.

And all of "Big Tech" isn't going to run and pay off their 2023 fines this week either.

It's an illustration. This is basic stuff.
'Impossible' to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenA
You laugh, but I've been using this technique to fully support offline behavior with htmx. (not a SPA though)
It was also a choice; life is full of risks, having stuff (or even worse, other people) decide for me which I should prioritize drives me bonkers.

The same person who's super disciplined about seat belts likely takes other risks that another person would deem at least as serious.

Having an optional reminder feature is great; forcing it, not so much.
Let's say company has stock price of 100. Then it kills million people. Court decides to set fine of 99%. Now the stock price stays the same, but next time holder of share sells it 99% of price goes as fine to society.

Their liability is limited to that 100. Just that next time they transact on the share they entirely justly lose most of it. As they did horrific job in controlling their property.
There are tech companies and there are tech startups. They behave differently, and it gets incredibly hard to remain a startup when the employee headcount is in 5-6 figures. The ability to f-* prices up is more a startup thing, imo. I think these large tech companies are, as you say, something different now.
Cool stuff, seems to be competing with cc65 (not very performant, includes a stdlib), sdcc (very new port), vbcc (not open-source, best performance), and kickc (not standard c)
Including the OP, if you actually read it.
Where have you actually ran into that issue?
Ah, cost is the amount to produce and price is the amount to consume then? I never actively tagged those ideas with distinct words, but I appreciate the insight.
WhatsApp, famously launched and served millions of users with a small team using Elixir. Seems to me that speaks to the language's production capability, or enterprise capability, if you will. Considering that, can you go more into detail about your assertion here?

> But for a long list of reasons, I wouldn't use it for anything other than prototyping/hobby projects.
Well it technically links to itself.
What? I have no idea what you tried to say here...
This is one thing you can probably easily test on historical data. In fact I wonder if there is an automated tool/framework that can consume some structured log of accessed keys to select and tune the optimal policy.
Great idea! I just wanted to know why there is no pricing present on your website. Additionally, what are the other tasks that Mavy can perform? Can it help me write a document based on my previous email replies, or can it also assist me in summarizing my meetings more effectively?
Why not? Sometimes people downvoate a perfectly good, informative or interesting comment for completely stupid, bullshit cliquish reasons on HN and it absolutely deserves to be called out when it's obvious.
> I don't think the AIVD has been criticized for being ineffective, if anything the other way around.

reputation, carefully curated, is that they're small but can punch above their weight.

they watched the Russians hack the US Democrats in real time, for example. that's how we know Guccifer was the Russians -- Dutch intel was already on those systems. Woulda been nice if they stopped them, but you don't become an APT by intervening constantly or blowing 0-days willy-nilly, and the attribution was useful enough.
I'm wondering why there isn't a calendar API available. I wanted to create a simple PWA to track upcoming events for my favorite sports. It would be convenient to sync these events with my phone's calendar. Currently, downloading .ical files isn't a sufficient solution because it requires accepting prompts for each event and doesn't allow for modifications (as I am aware).
I'm rolling down the blinds, brewing coffee, putting everyone on blocklist, and tweaking my website. See you all in 2030!
Bogle basically invented the index fund because he couldn’t work out anything that could beat the index. The “aha” moment is a fund that just copied the index would be quite cheap to manage and maintain.

His math always worked but over time the returns have become more and more impossible to ignore.

(Interesting for those who follow Bogle he later pointed out an issue with index funds eating the world - what he called manager’s capitalism.)
If you can set different fixed channels on different transmitters, you could use Multipath-TCP routers to aggregate multiple routers:

https://github.com/Ysurac/openmptcprouter
https://www.openmptcprouter.com/

I mentored the port of MPTCP to OpenWRT years ago, and OpenMPTCPRouter took some of this work in their port.
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Luckily Steamboat Willie copyright was held by corporation thus it was 70 years after publication, otherwise it would be 70 years after longest living creator in Europe - Ub Iwerks died in 1971.
I just prefer personal accountability because it seems a fair and just way to organize things. These things don't happen as a force of nature: it's someone (or a bunch of people) making a decision, and then someone (or several people) implementing it.

If I scam someone in my brick and mortar store with fake products I will be held personally responsible as the owner, and rightfully so. And if other people knowingly participate in the scam they will be held responsible too. Never mind all the other stuff like lying reviews, dangerous products, etc.

So why aren't we holding Jeff Bezos and the rest of Amazon leadership's team similarly accountable? They're not innocent bystanders here.

Somehow there's this idea that personal accountability just doesn't apply except in cases of VERY blatant outright fraud (Enron, VW Diesel, Theranos), and even then it's haphazard and often weak (no one went to prison for e.g. Deepwater Horizon). IMO it's one of the worst ideas in the history of bad ideas. The bigger the company (and thus stakes, and negative effects) the lower the accountability is.

The Devil's Dictionary from 1906 already observed this with:

"CORPORATION, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility."
Public health officials summarily denied any association early on. The only serious risk they acknowledged was propylene glycol allergy.