skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might have bought into musk's used car salesman pitch and were not one who used their car for just commuting. Few years ago things he said most ppl followed then he bought twitter and things went a bit south for him (putting himself in the sh!t show that is politics) and now EVs.

For me the thought of plugging in my car at home and cutting gas station visits by half or more sounds great! Yet I road trip frequently and if I'm paying tons of money for a car the experience better match that of an ICE car(no problems working in cold weather like Fairbanks AK, EV chargers need to be in every nook n cranny of this and other countries like gas stations are & most importantly don't inconvenience me making me wait 15 to 60 or more minutes to charge my car on one of my road trips when I paid thru the nose for an EV/Telsa).
He was made of meat.

Singing meat.
Layoffs are an indication of failure, as much as hires are an indication of success.

That is to say: not at all.
Toyota is leading the charge on the holy grail of EV powertrains and promises 10 minute recharges and 1200km+ range isn't far away
Doesn't seem very fair or consistent with how we balance individual freedom vs societal costs of other recreational drugs.
Planes have a limited life and a shelf life. If you are an airliner and your planes are either aging or becoming not competitive due to fuel consumption (this is the biggest change from a generation to another), you are forced to buy anything you can find. Waiting lists are 5 to 10 years long, depending how big pockets you have. There is no competition, it is a duopol, so many times you are forced to buy.
If memory serves, the "tattoo" was nothing more permanent than a Sharpie.
It’ll tank for a few days, maybe even weeks before it resumes it’s upward trend.
> money isn’t cheap anymore

I know nothing about economics but I wonder if it’s time to ease up on the interest rates. Inflation might not be due to too much money in the system but rather supply simply drying up as China economy circles the drain. Maybe it’s a good idea to let money be cheap again so people could quickly set up alternative non-China suppliers to relieve the supply pressure. But then again I know anything about economics so add salt as required.
I don't think it works like this, if you get the Tesla insurance. Switching to Tesla insurance indicated to me, that the current premiums are heavily distorted.
Most of these losses are self inflicted, considering Disney forced all these films to debut on Disney+ in an attempt to boost subscription numbers.
I mean, these numbers are almost dishonesty misleading when looking in a vacuum. Onward released March 6th 2020. It was receiving mid reviews but it was very much on par to st least break even if theatres stayed open for more than 2 weeks.And Soul IMO is one of Pixar's greats completely screwed by circumstance, released in June to Disney+. I'm surprised it even crossed 100m to be honest.

I'm not in charge of business, but the curve of box office seemed to rise back with the waning of the pandemic. Even for the critically panned Lightyear, so it's not like the better movies did better. It's no secret that streaming services make nowhere near the revenue of a theatrical release, but Disney aggressively shifted so it could get its handle in as 2nd in the streaming wars. I figure that unprofitable movies were a price to pay there.
"If rich people want to have a few extra houses, that's fine. Just keep building more, as long as they want to pay for it."

Not really. You can't have them taking up land and services for houses rather sit empty. If they aren't used, they aren't helping to alleviate the constraints. Just like all the vacant rental units.

"Most taxes on houses should drop, if their value drops. Eg that's the case for property taxes."

Yes and no. The municipality and schools have costs they need to cover. They can only drop so much, especially when we're talking about the top 10-20% houses.

"Utilities don't drop automatically, yes. But you can eg not run the heated pool, or you can retrofit insulation etc."

The retrofits are major capital expenses that my mention later on. They get more expensive the bigger the house is. You still have larger costs on things like a new roof or flooring since there's simply more of it. Yes, they themselves generally wouldn't become a limiting cost. But neither would the property cost nothing.

There are multiple problems - corporate owned vacancy, building sizes, and even distribution are factors. The root problem is not lack of building new homes, as you claim. It is a distribution and utilization problem at its core. About 10% of the housing stock in the nation is vacant. If you more evenly distributed population and didn't hold units off the market, you'd fix the issue. It would be better for the nation to increase investment (jobs and infrastructure) in moderate or smaller sized cities in depressed areas with higher vacancies. Otherwise you end up with a vicious cycle consolidating people in a dozen or so major cities with people paying exorbitant amounts of money. One often overlooked aspect is that people have preferences towards single family homes. Simply allowing more density isn't going to fix that preference.
Is this supposed to be a good deal?
Seems pretty lackluster, would still rather have whatever you can get with 24GB from Nvidia.
Mine is too. But average!? It's 40% more expensive than Kindercare Mountain View, for example. It's definitely on the pricey side.
Hi. I fix AWS bills for a living and also shitpost a lot.

This is a smart play that costs them basically nothing. Remember that egressing data costs customers at worst 3x the monthly cost of storing it. Nobody is avoiding leaving because of the egress fee.

What this does do is assuage the “lock-in” fear common in cloud-reluctant customers, while presents them as being forward thinking.

I’ve never heard of a cloud migration where the data egress wasn’t at least an order of magnitude less than the engineering cost of the migration itself.
People literally kill themselves for being depressed. Not because they want to, but because depression is so bad. It's like severe chronic pain. Poverty has many definitions, and some are quite compatible with being moderately happy.
Less so when you opt out of portions of it and self-insure. Not recommending anyone opt out of personal liability when that's an option.
I don't know how they shipped them, but apparently you can ship some animals through the US Postal Service.

https://pe.usps.com/text/pub52/pub52c5_007.htm

Spiders and poisonous insects aren't allowed though, except scorpions under certain conditions.
Most companies try to avoid holiday layoffs.
how is it possible to have such huge budgets for animation movies???

can anyone explain what are the biggest cost drivers for pixar in spending 200+ mills on a movie??
Thanks Scott <3
It's both.

"The new two-stage High Pressure Turbine section adds advanced coatings for cooling metal parts that will enable the same metal temperatures as today’s engines despite hotter gas path temperatures."

https://web.archive.org/web/20150418191419/http://airinsight...
"Amazon has gross margin of 46%"

Reference please? Amazon has massive retail sales and it's not even making a profit on this much of the time--and the rest of the time it's low.
Dated source, but AFAIK that's not common.

https://blog.auditanalytics.com/when-does-a-companys-year-en...
Normally yes. But I wouldn't be surprised if marketing budgets were slashed with the pandemic as well. So all our usual rule if thumbs are out of whack.
Fascinating, please tell us more?

My muscle memory is tied to keyboards and multiple windows so I just couldn’t get productive on an iPad and found the 12.9 a bit heavy and awkward for a couch computer. I see where the money went: M2, amazing screen but it’s not my first choice. Curious about your usage. eg how do you use the (janky imho) windowing and multitasking?
There would have to be a canonical source of truth (with private key). Then one could be reasonably sure an update is blessed by the owner. Makes me think of nostr + git + torrent/ipfs.
+9000. I agree. It is so tiring here.
Seems more likely that they'd upgrade the screen at higher tiers instead.

They did something similar with the M1/2 iPad Pros had 8GB of RAM while the expensive 1/2TB models ($1500/1800 for the 11/12.9") got a quiet bump up to 16GB.
RT does not offer "perspectives". Its sole purpose is to warp viewers' perceptions towards the position beneficial to Putin's clan without any regard for truth and objectivity.

Since the latest crackdown, the entire Russian public sphere has become performative. You have a wide variety of discussions shows, but all their guests are pre-vetted by the Kremlin and all they do is reiterate official talking points. Officials hold press conferences, but all questions and answers are pre-agreed. The country has thousands of newspapers and radio stations, but they only repeat the same central messages from the Kremlin instead of expressing the ideas of their staff and collaborators.

It is astonishing, really, how the public exchange of ideas has ceased in such a short time and how the entire society now willingly accepts a fake reality just like in Brezhnev's era.
Bitcoin Is a Database
There was no way to raise the fuselage. That would require longer landing gear with no space in the wings to retract it, so it required new wings, leading to re-certifications of both the planes and the pilots and the associated costs.

This grand-fathering of 737 is the reason it still does not have fly-by-wire in 2024: it simulates the antique original 737.
A few colleagues and I were baffled about the launch. Anecdotally, between the group, we consume a huge amount of tech news daily and were all caught off guard by the launch. How were 10k sold in a day if no one's heard of this company before?
> Microsoft have a diverse range of revenue

This is probably the bingo statement. Everyone has seen the layoff's recently. Markets are expected to take a turn for the worse. In such a situation, a highly diversified company would be perceived as more valuable than a high-end consumer brand.
> Rimworld ... fortunately lightweight.

That depends entirely upon how deep into the modding rabbit hole you go.

<Typed on my iPhone while Rimworld loads through a couple hundred mods>
The economy is hot. Money is being allocated away from the jobs that powered that last decade’s tech boom; we’re feeling that in Silicon Valley. (It doesn’t help how expensive commodity talent is in the Bay Area. Unless you’re doing AI or something tremendously collaborative, you’ve probably already built the systems that enable your team to phone in from anywhere.)
This family is quite interesting. It has MCUs that cost under 15 cent and compare quite strongly against entrenched 8bit MCUs that cost considerably more.
Problem with page.
The text “rod logic” connects to a page that doesn’t exist :
https://sites.google.com/site/santiagoontanonvillar/Home/leg...

Does anyone know where the page moved ?

Is the page : https://anthony-zhang.me/blog/rod-logic/
A good substitute ?

Or is the page : https://keshav.is/building/lego-logic-gates/
A good substitute ?

Shakna, what were you originally planning ?

Thanks in advance.
I wonder if the US will ever get first-world tier labor laws that prevent companies from screwing people over like this.

Doesn't seem likely any time soon, but it's so insane how healthcare and everything is tied to an employer and in most places they can just fire you on a whim and not offer severance or anything.
Not really. If you include the costs of marketing and distribution, a film needs to gross about twice its "budget" to break even. Furthermore, this rule of thumb only applies to US gross, where studios get much more of the actual ticket price (75% iirc) than overseas. In some markets, India for example, American studios get about 15% of the actual ticket-price gross.
A 24gb 4090 is $2000. Not sure what other 24gb options from Nvidia there are.
Random site[0] claims that Alphabet has ~$120 billion cash in hand. Methinks the incremental extra cash of a daycare closure is not going to make a new business opportunity materialize.

[0] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GOOGL/alphabet/cas...
Some of these would likely require constitutional amendments. Given our threshold for passing that (38 states out of 50 must ratify), this is extremely unlikely to happen for any suggestion that is likely to negatively affect either or both of the large parties that we have.

For the remaining stuff, you need federal bills passed, so we're talking about both chambers of Congress + president. So the one party that isn't opposed to all that needs to have a trifecta, for starters. Majorities are razor thin these days, especially so in the Senate, so filibuster in the latter is another hurdle (although it could be dropped for something like this).

That's why it's such a nasty deadlock - the system is in a state wherein there are no legitimate methods to recover its operation.
Why can't we just acknowledge that "extreme gaming" in a rather absurd term to describe the APU in question? The fact that the performance doesn't suck as much as it used to doesn't make it less absurd.

Extreme gaming is close to maxing out currently available performance oriented hardware regardless the cost so unless those APUs can produce results comparable to top of the line CPU paired with something like RTX4090, it doesn't belong with "extreme gaming" in any way.
There will never be a single factor that drives outsourcing. That being said, I kinda agree that if everybody is remote, adding one more remote employee is a lot easier since your company is already setup as a remote-first org.
> She's just at the head of a one-trick poney

A really, really big pony.

Disney's biggest opportunity of the last...forever? (Tied with Marvel)

And an opportunity that was squandered more than it needed to be.
Don't go crazy internet list person on me; arguing with you is part of the fun of HN.

Now I've got 2 persapectives here. There is "largest weapons cache and standing military in the history of humanity" from pyvpx and there is this rather smaller list from yourself. I'm inclined to go with your list - I don't think the US is in a position to deploy the largest weapons cache in the history of humanity.

The evidence we have is that the US is broke and only capable of bullying people with this rather less impressive list of ad-hoc assembled gear with no air support. Which is not nothing, but has observably failed to turn back the Russians. They don't have the industrial or financial foundations to project do-what-I-say strength overseas any more against larger economies like Russia.

It is pretty obvious they don't have that capability, or they'd have used it.
A quick google says the general consensus is you need 2.5x the budget of the movie to breakeven.
Boom. On one hand, seems like a trend, Google, Twitch, Amazon, etc... Now Pixar.

But on other hand, it seems like each case is just isolated issues to each company. It isn't a general tech downturn because Disney isn't making good movies. It isn't a general tech downturn because less people are watching Twitch.

So, is it isolated problems at each company.

or

Some disaster on the horizon.
Have you ever tried to have a real conversation with someone that old? And I don't mean whatever this cryptic rant is, but an actual attempt at connection between adults.
But 4090 is the tippy top, not "mid-range".

Hell, I'd still rather have a 3080 12GB for $400 than an AMD/ATI 16GB card which can't do CUDA

It's hard enough getting the Nvidia cards working properly.

Edit: @cjbprime we're saying the same thing..
Mostly I use pytorch for statistical modeling https://pyro.ai . Under the hood that package uses a lot of Monte Carlo integration and variational methods (i.e. integration by optimization). It does support neural nets, but probably >80% of pyro users stick to simpler hierarchical Bayesian models.
I’ve ordered bees through the mail before; it’s quite a common way to get them actually.
If 10 years of bombing by the Saudis (with American assistance) couldn't dislodge them I don't imagine this will amount to much either.
Efficiency is mostly irrelevant - unless you're going into the wilderness, you have a gas station within minutes of driving, and unless you are extremely careless, the chance you may end up in a place where you can't drive to a gas station is pretty much non-existent. Gas station locations are available on any phone that has internet connection, which again unless you are into extreme roughing it, is everywhere. I don't remember any time where I needed ever to plan around filling up, unless a) I am driving very long distance for hours (even then it's pretty easy) or b) I need to fill it up before returning the rental (usually there's a gas station right next to the entrance, with a properly inflated price to punish the fools that couldn't plan it in advance, but sometimes you may need to make a detour to get to it). With EV, it looks like much more of a chore.
Is it possible managers were afraid of offshoring but forced WFH via COVID opened them up to it more?
90s Apple ?
This is a CAD program? Strangely enough this is mentioned absolutely no where on the official website.

Hmm now I am considering buying a license...
Don't know anything about htmx, just popping in to see if anyone else remembers "dhtml", and "dhtml guru". A different time. A different internet.

htmx triggered that random memory, and then a flood of others, like:

the gold rush of people, sometimes kids, renting servers or colocating space, installing cpanel, and starting a shared hosting company

dreamhost, remember dreamhost?

vps hosting providers that offered emulated systems, before public cloud was a thing, before vmware or hypervisor OSs, before kvm, or virtualization in general

webmin/virtualmin (which is still going strong it seems)

turnkeylinux (which is also still going strong)

linux from scratch

macromedia

betaarchive.com

Chris Pirillo
I bet you too could’ve produced Star Wars and landed on that list a few times. It’s /Star Wars/.
When I was apartment hunting, I asked about this at a place that had smart locks, and they said I just had to fill out a "Reasonable Modification" form (or something to that effect) and they'd install a traditional lock.
Diversity equity and inclusion
I don't play games or do anything too resource-demanding on my phone normally. Pro models typically have more memory than non-pro models and running LLMs on device might be the only scenario where it can realistically make a difference for me.
Most carriers operate both Airbus and Boeing. Low cost carriers have less diversity and operate either 737s or A300s. Southwest is the only airline I can think of that would have their hand forced in this way.
> It isn't safe to keep operating the same airplanes for decades.

Me, crying while flying a 50 year old Cessna 172.

Oh, luckily you are wrong this time: most planes at top airlines are replaced with more competitive ones, not because they depleted the airframe. The rest is replaceable - airplanes replace engines more often than some people change their socks and everything else is either regularly checked or replaced based on a strict schedule.
So I now get advertised to by windows:

1) On the login screen (if you let it do its OOBE login background thing)

2) On the post login screen every time I update asking me to sign in to cloud (which is actually asking me to pay for cloud)

3) On the OS notifications on login prompting me to sign in to cloud

4) On the badge of my non-cloud user in the start menu with an orange blip that looks like a notification but is really a prompt to sign in and pay for cloud

5) At the top of my start menu begging me to pay for xbox live

6) Looking at email

7) Any app with AI features that'll be horny to beg you to buy new AI credits. Like notepad.exe

Is there a reason I shouldn't continue showing people how to steal their software or /ideally/ invest in alternatives?
This is a scheme to tax capital gains, not wealth. The point of this prescription isn't that "the rich have too much money," it is that we have gotten to the point where some of the largest capital gains go untaxed, period.

The idea that a gain isn't a gain until the asset is sold is nonsense. That'd literally be like saying that Bill Gates or Warren Buffett never made a dime on any of their stock that they are giving the charity. It's a ludicrous conception of capital gains, but it's exactly the one we use.
See also our first four COSMIC applications with the default dark and light themes[0]: a terminal, file manager, text editor, and settings application. SavvyNik also demoed a slightly older build of these applications in a recent video today[1].

[0] https://fosstodon.org/@soller/111733526892594130

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfN9WjaRP3U
Sure, but when the overall degradation is pretty minimal, this doesn't matter terribly much. I'm at 96.5% rated capacity after 12K miles. That's pretty typical. I should be down near 90-93% capacity at 100K miles. I probably won't keep this car long enough to get down to 80%. At that point I -might- consider replacing the battery, but given how old the car will be, it's not too likely. The only way the battery ever gets replaced in this car is if it fails altogether.

Right now if I had to pay that out of pocket it would be more than a new engine, but not by a huge amount. By the time I don't have a battery warranty, the cost will most likely be in line with a used engine for a similar ICE car.
There are quite a few numbers on the breakeven point but a quick google says it’s usually 2.5x-3x the budget - due to marketing cost and distribution fees.
Some business that have spending limits like professional football clubs use amortization to make their spending look lower than it is.

They can amortize the cost of new players over the length of that player's contract while accounting player sales as instant profits.
Looking forward to "egress fees for leaving GCP" being added to Killed By Google (in a personal capacity, unrelated to my work).
Layoffs ruin human lives. Suicides happen. Breakups happen, with and without kids. Homes are defaulted on. Depression is almost a certainty. If the choice is between layoffs and total company ruin, okay, they’re necessary. If the layoffs are because you don’t want to try fixing anything else with the company first, you ought to be the first one fired.
> They handle specific subsets of text rendering across a wide range of languages.

People radically overstate how hard this is. Yes there’s a lot of cases. But God bless UTF-8 which provides a very clear path.

There are countless hobby text editors and libraries that handle literally all of this.

> I can't imagine implementing a screen reader without relying heavily on the OS....

Of course. You “just” need to use the documented OS APIs. It’s not trivial. But like it’s not that hard to use the APIs that lots of programs and libraries already use.
I do tend to agree that a lot of peculiarities of Teslas are unnecessary and/or bad, but for what it's worth most of the ones you listed are less of an issue for a vehicle that you own. Unlocking with the phone is convenient, you tie seat memory to the user, and you learn the button functions. (Some aspects are still definitely stupid, like the intermittent wiper function, the auto high beams, and autopilot on anything but clearly marked highways. And of course the lack of stalks on the new ones.)

Anyway, they're a terrible choice for a rental fleet. You want rental vehicles to behave as much as possible like the average vehicle, so there's a minimal learning curve. Next to manual transmission vehicles in North America, Teslas have to be about the worst choice for that.
Where do people get the idea that 1) This will work. 2) it's a good idea 3) that in US, you won't get sued for it.

This is some weird 1950's mob loan shark tactics.
there* (I was very tired when I made this post and its too late to edit it).