skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Again probability cannot help when an earthquake demolishes the entire state and I have to write a check for every damn house I Insure. I actually need to keep in the bank amount equal to the price of each house

I’m not sure what you mean. Insurance companies don’t hold liquid capital sufficient to cover 100% of their active policies paying out simultaneously.
Never bother someone who has just came out of a rabbit hole.
Like you I picked up the hardcover reprints.

Now I find there was a 4th Mad Scientist's book published posthumously that came and went (The Big Chunk of Ice). Off to eBay....
Would the abstract "one" you're thinking of happen to be a middle class college educated American who has never been on the receiving end of American benevolence in the form of saturated bombing of civilian areas, nor been at risk of being drafted to fight overseas?

Is your point that those people's lives are somehow inherently less valuable or is your point that you're willing to sacrifice as many of them as it takes to get a good outcome for you?
I paid for a month of FSD over the summer to try it out, and it was an extremely stressful experience.

It was very twitchy and jarring at stop signs, there are several uncontrolled T-intersections around my house that FSD just flew through (almost striking another car one time), and I didn't like how it always tried to get into the slowest lane on the highway during rush hour.

Maybe I'll try it again this summer to see how it's improved, but some of the close calls last time soured me on the experience. It felt more like I was babysitting a new driver and less like I was being chauffeured around.
Yes at all. 6174 is specific to base-10 and 4 digits. For 4 digit numerals in base-9 there are 2 cycles. Same for 4 digit numerals in base-8. It's unlikely that there's any special meaning for 4-digit numbers in base-10 having a single cycle of length 1, but even if there is (possibility which I cannot just deny, of course) — it doesn't translate to other bases.

So, yes, the described "special" thing about 6174 is actually a special thing about the string 6174 (representing a number in base-10). And I'd say the fact so many people in this very thread don't understand it is exactly the proof that the GPs comment actually has some merit. People kinda mix up properties of numbers and properties of some other mathematical objects — like their representations in base-10. Most of numerological games are concerned with the latter. Which is why it's especially interesting, when something like that happens to hold in other bases, which sadly just isn't the case with Kaprekar's constant.
Well if they try any shady business here (e.g. forcing a fee, limiting competitors contractually, lot's of big scary warnings for everything) the EU is standing by for rounds two, three etc.

The regulatory rules passed in the DMA are written to allow action without the need to go through the whole legislative process.

I predict it will come to that. Apple is gonna fight this tooth and nail to the very end. And unless they change their attitude and business practices, Europe has very little too lose by piling more and more rules on them.

The 27% is not really a problem if there were a competitive market. If one emerges we'll see if not...see above.
Provided that blueprints are already finalized, and certain distribution eagerly awaits to consume the amount of product you intend to manufacture at the rate you intend to produce, it all boils down to raw materials and labor in an American fabrication/assembly facility.

When you do the math focused on the manufacturing task alone, you can come up with a baseline estimate on what it might cost to make each item and how that compares to what it will sell for, wholesale of course since this is just manufacturing.

This would be your "toaster baseline".

Now you may plan to produce an artisan product but toasters themselves are not only a commodity but the market has been saturated for quite some time.

You can't expect to compete with the mainstream on price or volume, but that's OK you're not going to be able to make that many to begin with.

Never mind how few you make, if you make money on every one, and through some excellent good fortune you can sell all you make, you will be profitable.

Whether that's enough profit in comparison to other oportunities, well you have your baseline to work from.

You might be able to find an alternative product (most likely addressing a completely different market), which can be produced at similar unit expenditures in similar facilities, but sell for a better price into its market in such a way as to be a much better choice. Maybe better off with something that's not a commodity, maybe so, you have to do the math.

If you're expecting the manufacturing phase alone to be a core value-adding operation.
My point is that the rights of creators, while important, are not the purpose of copyright.
Am I getting this right? Say I use Stripe as my payment processor. Stripe takes 2.9% + $0.30, then Apple takes 27% so I'm at 29.9% + $0.30 being taken out of however much I charge for my app? For a $10 app, $0.30 is 3% putting the fee at 32.9%.

For the privilege of paying 2.9% more, my users get to see a scary privacy message and when I bill the customer a year later for a subscription, there's a 20-30% chance that their credit card will have expired.

If this isn't a monopoly abusing its dominate market position, then what is?
TG put up a historical record of the scores before it changed ownership, Billy’s scores are in that one, not currently updated high score tables.

The real “victory” for him is getting the dispute thread deleted from the forum (and obv not having to pay for lawyers during a trial that imo he was going lose)
> Buy with Apple Pay, or visit our website and pay 20% less

Worth noting that they only charge the commission on In-App Purchases, which are "Not Apple Pay".

Apple Pay itself is just a way to pay with Wallet-saved cards and Apple only charges a nominal 15bp fee to the bankcard issuer.
> You can't compare Javascript to C or Bash

I'll remind you that you are the one who mentioned C. I just mentioned the Unix philosophy, which really should be language-agnostic.

> So what even is the point?

There actually is a reason, which is bundle size. There is no standard library in JavaScript, or at least any standard library present may not match the version you expect, due to different browser versions. The target platform also has no pre-downloaded dynamically linkable libraries, so everything must be bundled statically. If many of your dependencies can use some common logic, that reduces the bundle size. The fact that they aren't is too bad, but reflects mismanagement more than nature of the system, since the system enables sharing.

But regardless, what's the point of having small dependencies at all? I think there is a pretty strong reason to do that and it's to make the dependencies easy to think about, their scope limited, the chances for bugs small. In Python, it is quite trivial to end up with two incompatible dependencies, since you cannot reconcile versions easily. Recently this has gotten better with Poetry, but NPM has had a long head start on it in this aspect.
Writing a program that can dump itself is a great learning project.

Good bit twiddling practice too
The best brains don't go work for the CIA or the DoD, or at least they don't stay. It's not an environment in which you can strive and do your best work. Nothing against what they do, I'm ex-military, but the culture in these institutions just doesn't cut it for the Vibes required. In addition, one's career is much better served working in the free market than submitting yourself to the government's arbitrary levelling/career ladder.

The government is just structurally incapable of attracting this type of top A+ talent at scale. They get and keep smart people but not the smartest people. For this, they absolutely need to use industry relations.

Just picture yourself in a position to work at either OpenAI, or GE, the DoD or GM. The average tech worker will much prefer the hip SV company than the old quasi-government dinosaur corporation or the government's agency.
I use Kagi every single day, ever since the beta. I don't remember the last time I used that other search engine, the G one..can't remember the name. Anyway, absolutely love Kagi and the work you guys do. Thank you!
Everyone’s working on a general solution, including Waymo. Everyone has large real world (and even larger simulated) training data. It’s not just Tesla despite what is widely claimed in Tesla circles. Others just choose to deploy in certain places because of market, operational and safety reasons. This notion of Tesla just ingesting training data which magically outputs a general self driving solution is nonsense.

The levels aren’t just slapped on by the companies for vanity. They indicate liability and therefore capability.
It's been grifters non stop since Reagan, whether you paid attention or not.

Trump was just more open about it.
Among the countries interested in joining NATO during the 90s was Russia itself, even as it began waging brutal wars against its neighbors, who thereby have earned far more right to be paranoid than Russia has.
Pretty much a settlement that lets them both pretend they "won." Billy can keep saying he has a title and Twin Galaxies can keep pretending like they have a good reputation.
> There's a hell lot of money to be made from this belief so of course the HN crowd will hold it.

That is a pretty unfair response when you're skipping the part about how commercializing should not be fair use.
> the entire iPhone experience is the product.

It seems like the "iPhone experience" is paying a ton more than you should have to, including the 30% price hike for in-app purchases. Since Apple is already a status symbol brand that might not hurt their image much, but at least this case helped to raise awareness about what people are buying into or have already signed up for with the iphone.
I am curious if any businesses operating with the ‘pay Apple their cut’ on outside sales actually do?

Does Apple have the manpower to chase every developer for that fee? Do they really expect to collect it or is it more of a threat?

Any HN people with first hand knowledge of a business paying that fee?
>Especially when the hype is added by a third party.

I think this is ( or should have been ) obvious but also an interesting observation. At least it never came across my mind. The Hype driven feedback loop that generate a positive ( so to speak ) hype cycle.

The Rust community has definitely toned down a lot of their evangelism in the past 2 years. After obviously enough people came out to say enough is enough. But the third party continue the trend regardless.
> Kagi is a small team.

I figured this was the case when you said “our devops engineer” singular and not “one of our devops engineers.”

I’m glad you’re willing at this stage to invest in SRE. It’s a decision a lot of companies only make when they absolutely have to or have their backs against a wall.
I'm seeing mixed responses, so it may be a locality thing as to whether machines generally accept cash. For example I remember almost all machines in Japan accepting cash.

The machines at the Whole Foods near my house, for example, only accept cards, phones, or palm prints. Only half the machines at a Safeway near my house accept cash. The machines at another grocery market (Haggen's) are card- or phone-only, and they furthermore show a video feed of you on the screen with a "You're Being Watched by AI" warning to try to cut down on thefts.

The last time I tried checking out at one of those machine it flagged me as trying to steal something because the system didn't know that a container of chips I had were free with the sandwich I bought.
The infuriating part is that this isn’t about computing or distribution. They already charge for that separately. It’s a triple dip just because nobody stops them.

Most of the modern digital consumer economy is based on products and services which are device-agnostic. If I’m using Spotify or Netflix or something they are service providers and the iPhone/ipad is just a client device. Apple should have no marginal returns (a cut) on money that should go to artists, actors, developers. They’ve already charged massively for both their physical products and their services.

Antitrust law is a joke. This has always been glaringly obvious since Jobs first came up with this shit. The fact that it still ain’t fixed is a travesty, not just for tech nerds, but it impedes the digital economy at large.

The greediest thing of it all is that they’re actually providing a service people would pay premium for - in-app purchases and their “all subscriptions in one place” without dark pattern harassment is very nice for consumers. They have a legit product worth a ton yet they still refuse to compete fairly. Anti-market capitalism..
Is there a 3% savings there or is that just covering the typical fee from the payment processor?
What about the people that hire these workers?
Where is the discussion of their responsibility in this?
People are electing to hire in this fashion, so these are the results.
Do you mean an in-app browser in the Kindle app, or just amazon.com in Safari?

I don't see how Apple would prohibit me from visiting a website, and they've allowed use of content/subscriptions purchased elsewhere in iOS apps for a while now.

What has not been allowed (at least until today) is to directly link to that external website.
nightmare for who? go stand in line with everybody else if self-checkout bothers you so much.
Comments like this, doing the exact thing they said they aren't open to, will surely convince them astroturfing doesn't exist!

Being serious, comments like this make me trust the Canadian government more. It sounds like how American conservatives discuss cities they've never been to. And they tend to be surprisingly good inverse indicators when it comes to actually being in the cities. I'd bet Canadian hospitals are better than what I've got now, solely going off of this discussion.
Use Aegis.
"I remember hearing brick-and-mortar retailers would take even more than 30% of sales"

I'd say the key difference there is that Microsoft didn't own all those retail stores.
> Did you look at the link of the SCP Z-80-to-8086 cross-assembler manual that I posted?

It's an assembler that takes 8086 mnemonics and produces 8086 binaries but the assembler runs on a Z80 computer. It's a common type of assembler -- all the assemblers I use these days run on x64 Windows or Linux but assemble for other architectures (6502, Z80, SC61860, ARM).

> x80 and x86 have quite a lot in common.

They do. But they also have some pretty massive differences. If you're trying to run 8080 programs on an 8086 you can translate but you're still getting an 8080 program with it's limitations. You wouldn't write an OS for 8086 that way! It wouldn't make sense at all.

I think you need a better understanding of the technologies involved here before you try and defame Tim Patterson.
And I was in a Tesla 3 in sunny weather about 2 months ago, and it nearly crashed into a tow truck and a cyclist that it didn't see. It's embarrassingly bad at handling basic use cases and it pretty much the poster boy for why vision alone won't work for actual self-driving.
Depends.

If we’re talking about the details of the implementation, maybe.

If it’s about the commission that still needs to be paid, then no. That’s directly mentioned in the original ruling by the district court, a commission is due regardless.
Not only can you change the track around easily, my kids have proven again and again that the track is not necessary and that the train can keep going (and going and going…) without the track.
To make it even more stark, people don't kill people, it's the gun that does it.
27% only applies to the US.

I’m curious to see what happens in the EU. Apple could do a couple of things to make their life easy but I know they’re gonna go down kicking and screaming and make things worse for themselves. It’s what they always do.
It's stable enough.

https://llvm.org/doxygen/classllvm_1_1Triple.html#a547abd13f...
A big factor in my industry was scanning damaged barcodes, which was frequent since they're attached to indoor/outdoor plants and physical boxes that get moved around. They get weathered and scraped.

If there's even slight damage to the barcode, forget the browser scanners, you can scan that thing until the next Olympics and not get a read. HID scanners don't skip a beat.
For proof, compare Spain's GDP to Netherland's GDP in the 1600s. Spain at the time controlled the most valuable mines in South America, but Netherlands invented the stock market and that eventually surpassed the value of the mines Spain held in South America. It makes me think about all the cyber criminals who if they channeled the same effort they do to commit crime into some kind of entrepreneurial business would do much better.
Hate to say it but I get the impression (having learnt "hardcore" programming first then learnt react recently) that web dev struggles a lot from having smart-but-tasteless amateurs who don't know when to stop.

That and npm has gamified the package registry so one is incentive to funnel as much shit as possible if one cares about these things.
> License: Other

> Commercial Applications

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what exactly is the license lol. can people use this or is this "see dont touch"
Growing income inequality is driving public mistrust
It seemed to, the dispersion is different so you can cancel the dispersion from glass (dispersion is the refractive index variation with wavelength).
I've noticed that, in my circles at least, after Russia's invasion of Ukraine working in defence is no longer considered inherently immoral.

Maybe they don't see anything wrong with it either.
Fluorite (CaF2) lenses and windows are also used for infrared applications as they transmit much better than glass.
iOS and Android taken together are clearly a monopoly though. So call it a cartel or duopoly with price fixing if you like rather than a monopoly. It's exactly the kind of situation that antitrust laws were created to prevent.
The demo in https://www.dual-n-back.io/should show the instructions, because nobody clcik o the ? buttor to read the instructions.

In my computer I don't see the letters, only the flashing squares. (Chrome, Win11)
I disagree. This is an important context a non US person might overlook.
What does the US have to lose?

I don’t think that really matters at all. No one (in the legislative branches) cares enough to pass something about this. Is basically impossible to get things past anyway recently, even far more important things than this.
My eyes glazed over while scrolling the OP's list of restrictions. I'd probably want to sue rather than try to implement all that too.
you dont need to clean all the junk created. you just need to clean enough to feed the models.
> Apple is putting its competitive interests ahead of its users interests

I kind of figured this already when there's no way to filter apps by "doesn't have in-app purchases".
Just FYI, but you do not need to switch away from setuptools if you do not want to. `setup.py` isn't going away, rather it is no longer the interface that "build frontends" (i.e. pip, but also pypa/build) use to build the project (there is a well defined interface made up of a number of task specific functions).
This article feels like it’s a collection of anecdotes more than a market shift.

My local Walmart recently did a major renovation that doubled the number of self checkouts. My local target usually has as many self-checkout slots open as cashier-operated lanes, and there aren’t caps on number of items.

Several parallel commenters have pointed out that self-checkout can be good or bad (pretty much the same way there’s places where cashier-operated checkout is good or bad). But I also think it’s heavily dependent on things like regional crime rates / customer volume, among other variables.
> They don’t perform at industry averages though: they crash more, and at an increasing rate

(1) Not but two posts ago you were pointing out that past performance is not an indicator of future performance. This is an area where that applies; airlines remediate defects after they are uncovered.

(2) Unless you are suggesting Boeing has an intentional criminal conspiracy afoot to sabotage the planes, they can't be crashing at an 'increasing rate'. The rate will be either roughly constant or trending downwards.

> but one can practically guarantee given the current Boeing approach to engineering that there will be a lot more

You can't. There have been more than half a million flights by these machines; we've probably already seen everything that is happening at a one-in-a-million frequency, and even if we haven't we've probably seen most of them. There are 1-2 other issues lurking tops and there might not even be that.

> Recent immigrants to a country are the most likely to be poor

Not if they're flying planes around; if they've got enough money to do that they've established themselves and have opportunities for savings that put them ahead of the vast majority of families. The people who are poor come and go by foot.

Causing metal to float through the air is an energy-intensive and hence expensive activity. While I'm sure you get the occasional poor person on a plane, the vast majority of flyers are affluent people who have access to a bit of luxury.
The Navy's indoor ocean [video]
I can guarantee you no apps will drop their prices 30%. When Epic pulled their stunt[0], 1000 v-bucks that normally costed $10 were only discounted to $8. They still pocketed $1, maybe ~=$0.68 after CC processing fees.

0: https://www.fortnite.com/news/announcing-epic-direct-payment...
I've dealt with at least four different US banks so far, with a credit score ranging from "zero" (no history) to 750+, and none has engaged in predatory behavior. Some less scrupulous loaners that target people trying to pay their bills might qualify. I'm talking those that advertise with lines like "$5000 now, no credit check". It's probably true that you can borrow money more easily in the US, and I get ads for loan products or credit lines a lot more than elsewhere, but the banks don't conceal their terms or falsely advertise, so that's not grifting.
Does this mean it has an index of refraction that depends on wavelength? How can that be? Is the bond length some multiple of blue (or green/red), where there's some quick "change" in what the photon "sees"?
It is nice, but I found it distracting. Understanding what they do took longer than necessary, at least for me.
> Twin galaxy’s lawyer just got caught contacting witnesses directly which is a huge violation of the court

I wasn't aware of this. Here's a source, which also links to the relevant complaint submitted to the court:

> Twin Galaxies' own lawyer, David Tashroudian, faced misconduct claims of his own after he improperly contacted two witnesses in the case — prompting Superior Court Judge Wendy Chang, who's overseeing the case, to consider referring him to the State Bar for discipline.

> ...snip...

> The court was scheduled to hear arguments on both motions for sanctions on Thursday morning. Instead, a settlement was announced.

https://www.courthousenews.com/notorious-arcade-gamer-billy-...