skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My solution is much simpler: I've opted out of all App eco systems entirely because I think Google and Apple already have enough power as it is. My software is free, free to download and free to run.
The 8080 and Z-80 had 16-bit registers and could do some limited 16-bit arithmetic. The 8088 (used in the first IBM PC) used an 8-bit bus to communicate with memory and I/O. The 8086 had a 16-bit bus. CompuPro had an 8086 S-100 board, which may have been the first target for DOS, but I cannot recall for certain.

Both 8086 and 8088 ran in what is now called "real mode", which allows direct access to only 64k of RAM (just like the 8080 and Z-80). To access more than 64k at a time, you had to use segment registers. CP/M 3 (x80) employed bank-switching, which was a similar technique, but done with hardware that was external to the CPU instead of built-in.

There really wasn't much difference between the Z-80 and the 8086 in terms of performance. Yeah, the 8086 had a 16-bit bus, but the instructions were 16-bits too, so running a program from non-cached RAM (because there wasn't any such thing as RAM cache then) was about the same. The 8088 (at 4.77MHz) would under-perform when compared with a (4MHz) Z-80, because they both used an 8-bit bus, but the Z-80 needed only one memory fetch per instruction, vs. two for the 8088.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_memory_segmentation

I do not fail to realize anything, but I'm wondering why you are so passionate about trying to disprove that SCP/Tim Patterson ripped off DR/Gary Kildall's code to produce QDOS when there is so much strong evidence that he did.
> become a resident for a year

Not really a tourist situation. ;)
Comments here are always wild. I’ve double scanned numerous times (they either actually come to the kiosk or remove it remotely) and they more often than not accept cash. Amazing how such adroit engineers can’t use SCO.
So I've got to prove I make $70k a year, and then put down a $7500 deposit on a small apartment that costs me $1800 a month in a crappy part of Seoul, and get insurance and a bunch of other things, and then I only get to stay six months, and if I extend it it's only up to two years? No thanks.

When will the demographic time bomb racial supremacist countries learn that people want to ACTUALLY IMMIGRATE to countries? Become a part of the society and live their the rest of their lives? Like you can do in Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, USA (if you get off H1B).

Too little, too late. Sit back and watch their population pyramid implode and enjoy the popcorn.
That’s why I took it to another industry that is clearly charging a fee that is unrelated to its costs.

Capitalism says: the market will figure it out.

Given Apple does not have a monopoly. I don’t see how any of this is a problem. If they want you to sacrifice your first born child in order to publish an app on their App Store. That’s okay. Just don’t publish your app to their phone.
Pursue more of the interesting opportunities when young, and don't let women get in the way - they're effectively unlimited in supply.

Opportunities to get in on something like the dot-com boom having ~all the relevant skills? Far fewer per lifetime.
That's precisely what gets them in trouble though. Every bank, credit card, giant corporation has an app and has to pay Apple nothing but indie game developers subsidize them
I don't think there's been 3 generations to test this across, since the post-war boom.

Sure there's data from before, but society hasn't been "at scale" for very long. It sure seems like the recently emerged mega-economies have a few star powers, ever consolidating their hold.

Squeezing out other wealthy families isn't helping the total distribution, if that is the case.
Companies keep getting bigger and bigger & the ultra rich get ultra-richer. Families could keep falling like flies, but wealth could still be ever more owned by ultra-wealthy.
I wouldn't build on others APIs. Figure out a way to own the content itself or not at all.

I would commit to things more fervently rather than trying to decide if it's good value to commit. There is a lot of value to be had in commiting that can outweigh flexibility
Because WASM is not C and there is no "nullptr" in WASM. In WASM, zero is just an address, as valid as any other. And C actually doesn't require the null pointer value to have bit pattern "all zeros", precisely to allow for architectures where treating zero address as invalid would be way too cumbersome. And some implementations actually took that option.
How is this any different from brick&mortar big box retailers beating on their suppliers to lower their wholesale prices to the point they can only make a profit with large volume in sales? I guarantee you that 70% of your MSRP is way more than selling in a store.
> I'm not convinced that this would result in lower prices for me as a customer.

That's perfectly ok because that's not the intended effect, the intended effect is to stop Apple/Google from exacting a 30% toll on their platforms, not to improve consumer prices.

> I'm much more sympathetic toward lower fees for smaller companies.

This already exists.
Going for a 30-90 days to a country usually means you rent a short term overpriced Airbnb. With longer visa you can get a normal one-year lease, for most likely the same price.
If there's wind Parts of California will turn off power
Ask HN: Best sci-fi for near term future?
I have always thought some of William Gibson's more recent stuff could become a reality in the near term future.

What other sci-fi authors do you think also do well with near term future predictions?
Historically true but definitely not once rich people figured it out. They created all sorts of financial and societal instruments to solidify this (various trusts and non profits as examples). There are many many families that are much older than 3 generations at this point.
I've got to say, Apple definitely lost me on this one. This feels bad enough that despite having an iPhone since the iPhone 3G, I'll likely jump ship when I need to upgrade unless they make a U-turn on this move.

EDIT: Wow, getting downvoted for saying Apple is losing me as a customer with this move is surprising. I don't understand how people on Hacker News of all places want conformity of thought. I switched from using Microsoft products to Apple when Vista came out. Microsoft lost my trust by that point and Macs were a viable alternative. Despite having a Macbook, iPhone, and an Apple Watch it seems like Apple is starting to lose me with this move.
Good points, thanks a lot!
Yes ear piece should be great. But how about using it with Apple or Android buds simultaneously?
Sandler companies already pay 15%. That includes payment processing. So effectively 12%.

For this you get nice things like you don’t need to deal with taxes in all the different countries.
Einstein's 7 rules for a better life
> This didn’t exactly come as a surprise to us, as for the entirety of Kagi’s life so far we have actually used the cheapest, single-core database available to us on GCP!

Wow, love that you guys are keeping it lean. Have you considered something like PolyScale to handle sudden spikes in read load and squeeze more performance out of it?
I don't know how the whole digital nomad model works, but I'm guessing that it's kind of a hassle to have to spend money every 30-90 days to cross out of the country and back in. Plus, some countries have policies to counteract this "infinite visa glitch" and can punish people for doing this.
As long as your source of income is entirely outside the country, which it typically is, then in most cases you're fine. You're essentially just like a travelling investor. It's earning income from within the country that you can't do legally without a visa.
It's illegal, and also in Korea it's extremely annoying, as many online or daily services work with an Alien Registration Card, which you don't have with a simple tourist visa.
What is biochar exactly? I see some relationship with the Amazon Dark Earth in the OP - is it the same thing? Related?

EDIT: From the OP:

ADEs have up to 7.5 times more carbon within compared to the surrounding soils. As ADEs accumulate, the carbon becomes trapped underground, where it remains stable for hundreds of years – locking it away and delaying its entry into the atmosphere.

It's not clear why the carbon within ADEs behaves this way, but scientists suspect that it has something to do with "black carbon", also known as "biochar". This key ingredient is made from organic material that has been turned to almost pure carbon at high temperatures, in the presence of little oxygen. The process doesn't emit as much carbon dioxide as charcoal production, but leads to a fine, crumbly black product that has been found in ADEs across the Amazon.

So how much carbon does biochar release? What is the climate impact of it?

> Not quite got grass clippings sorted yet, but trying to hack a solution. I'd love to know if a solar oven would work.

This is awesome work! I hope you write up the results, and even Show HN.
I imagine you point it at a location where only enemies are.
>"This is extremely dangerous to our democracy." [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGIYU2Xznb4&t=29 ["Sinclair requires anchors to read script bashing 'fake' news"]
Buy a shitload of crypto.

Smoke less

Waste less time

Explore more of the world

Arrange certain finances earlier.
NHS dentistry "gone for good" without action, think tank warns
A man's pay-to-use toilet gag showed Google Maps can be used to track people
Anybody who treats Hamas as a legitimate organization has disqualified themselves from the public debate. That is a values statement I am unafraid to make.
So get a top 10 audit firm to confirm it?
For people reading along, the crux of the matter is that MAME and the original cabinet draw the screen in a different direction. Here's a SO explanation of the implications behind that: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/8179/why-...

TL;DR MAME would have to emulate a CRT's electron beam drawing in the original cabinet's direction if it wanted to be spatiotemporally identical. The notion that a cabinet could glitch out and accidentally perfectly emulate MAME beggars belief.

Like you said, I suppose it could happen, in the sense that it wouldn't violate the known laws of physics.

But it didn't.
> Fluorite just has low dispersion and therefore a lens made from it has less chromatic aberration than glass.

So why not make the entire lens from fluorite? Because pairing an element with one with different refractive index can lower the overall dispersion.

Typically you'll see compound lenses are made of pairs of elements where one is positive (convex) and the other negative (concave): instead of making one lens with power of, say, +4, the group is made from one that's +5 and one that's -1 of different type of glass so the refractive indexes cancel-out dispersion and other aberrations.
I wish I'd been diagnosed with this incurable sleep disorder and gotten treatment earlier. That and I wish I'd sold my house in 2019.
> Your original comment used the term “abuser”, which refers to a very specific kind of crime that not only frequently does involve a victim’s acquiescence to their abuser, but that is often the ultimate purpose for the abuse. I understand what you’re trying to say, but I think it’s probably for the best to simply avoid using domestic violence to make such analogies altogether.

Abuser has much wider connotations than just domestic violence and I'm not so focused on sex crimes/domestic crimes that I see the term as inexorably connected but for those that do feel free to substitute another term that indicates a power relationship between two parties in which one takes advantage of the other even if the other willingly entered into the relationship.

Note that class action suits are not powerful enough for this: they simply allow Apple to partition the world into many small fiefdoms each of which will have to fight individually for their rights. Much better to tackle this as all developers versus Apple, that way you stand a chance of making it stick.
Actual report (pdf):

https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/sites/default/files/2024-01...
We were later in contact with an account that we blocked who claimed they were
using their account to perform automated scraping of our results, which is not
something our terms allow for."

Set QPS limits for every possible incoming RPC / API / HTTP request , especially public ones!
That's not true, and it's often not well known, but your own physical location is also a factor, not only your source of income. Most countries would never detect this anyways, but you shouldn't think that it's legal at all.
I mean, that pales in comparison to the power the government has. And our government (in the US at least) is clearly not democratic (DNC rigged their primary to prevent Bernie from winning... we have an election between Trump & Biden and most Americans hate both choices, etc.)

You should be far,far more afraid of that since government spends more than a trillion every year.

So yeah, doesn't really make much sense.
> The billionaires really, really want you to perceive this distinction as a real inequality problem. When people making $30K are resenting/fighting people making $300K, the people making $300M are sitting back and laughing.

But that is inequality, too.

Just as a thought experiment, if you were to take the global GDP and spread it perfectly evenly over every person on the planet, you'd have less than $13k per capita. That's around half of the income per capita in Hammond.

I think there's a perception that there's this massive hoard of wealth at the very top, and if only we could distribute it more fairly, we could solve a bevy of social ills. It's not that simple.

It's absolutely true that there are some unbelievably wealthy people, but they are also small in number. If you were to magically disgorge, say, every American with $50M+ of 90% of their wealth, you'd be lucky to be able to use the proceeds to raise all the Hammonds to the living standards of all the Boca Ratons, which as far as you're concerned here, does not really change their lifestyles.

Honestly I'm much more disgusted that billionaires exist while there are infants dying of malnutrition than I am disgusted that billionaires exist while there's people worried about their kids and their retirement. Those sorts of things are really unavoidable as long as we're grappling with scarcity.
So... pretty much everyone who matters in our current system.
George Hotz take was that vision alone could be trained to get to human or near human driving ability, but that the sensor fusion part was confusing the machine learning and much harder to get to that level.

Maybe he'll be wrong in the future but for now even Tesla seems to have pulled the radar stuff from their cars.
Is Micro[0] not a better, more purpose-fit solution to these issues? (Syntax highlighting quality, etc)

Prev discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37171294

[0]: https://micro-editor.github.io/
Not much new or of substance in this article, unfortunately.
Today's rich families in Florence, Italy, were rich 700 years ago: https://www.vox.com/2016/5/18/11691818/barone-mocetti-floren...

Inheritance in a republic is disgraceful.
People seem to be very poorly informed and are up in arms over the 27%.

This is directly part of the underlying court decisions.

While the courts haven’t explicitly stated a percentage, and the initial judge questioned the percentage, it was made clear by both the district court as well as the appeals court that Apple can still charge a commission even when payment takes place outside of Apple’s IAP system.

The courts consider it payment for Apple’s IP that’s directly tied to the sales, not IAP:

“In essence, Apple uses the DPLA to license its IP to developers in exchange for a $99 fee and an ongoing 30% commission on developers' iOS revenue.”

The district court even went as far as to outright state Apple’s entitlement to a commission, despite hemming and hawing about the exact rate (and ultimately not making a decision on it):

“Even in the absence of IAP, Apple could still charge a commission on developers. It would simply be more difficult for Apple to collect that commission”

“Indeed, while the Court finds no basis for the specific rate chosen by Apple (i.e., the 30% rate) based on the record, the Court still concludes that Apple is entitled to some compensation for use of its intellectual property.”

“Apple is entitled to license its intellectual property for a fee, and to further guard against the uncompensated use of its intellectual property. The requirement of usage of IAP accomplishes this goal in the easiest and most direct manner, whereas Epic Games' only proposed alternative would severely undermine it. Indeed, to the extent Epic Games suggests that Apple receive nothing from in-app purchases made on its platform, such a remedy is inconsistent with prevailing intellectual property law.”

“Suffice it to say, IAP is not merely a payment processing system, as Epic Games suggests, but a comprehensive system to collect commission and manage in-app payments.”

The appellate court echoed these sentiments, if not outright making stronger statements about this, while at the same time complaining between the lines that the district court wanted its cake and eat it too by insisting that the anti-steering provisions are not kosher while simultaneously stating that it would be too cumbersome for Apple to retroactively audit sales to collect their commission.

Either way, the long and short of it is that Apple collecting a commission from developers using third party payment processors has the blessing of the courts.

Even when the district court in particular isn’t entirely happy with the rate of the commission while simultaneously not willing to make an official determination on the rate because Epic never fought the rate, rather the existence of the commission itself.

Now that SCOTUS has declined to look at it, this situation, including the blessing to collect a commission even when using third party payment processors, is the law of the land.
Whenever I think about what I could have done better 10 years ago (there's a lot!) I also remember that if I'd been more successful then, I probably wouldn't have found my way to where I am now, and I really like where I am now, and with whom. You've gotta sin to get saved, as they say.

But strictly in career terms, I wish that ten years ago I had taken full advantage of my legal right to work part-time, and gone to get a doctorate in a non-tech field. A couple years of living cheap would have given me career-mobility superpowers that I wish I had now that I'm older.
This is a complex topic: I’m a firm believer that Pax Americana has been good for the world as a whole, but there are also no shortage of terrible crimes, and no small number of people who are worse off (including many members of the military itself).

I don’t believe it’s “childish” to have serious concerns about the military.
The older I get the more I too realize that “the best time to start anything is yesterday”
Three generations of wealth is a common belief, but the research doesn't bare it out. Try 28 generations.

https://qz.com/301150/this-is-the-proof-that-the-1-have-been...
Why would you think so? Google lost
You cycle it more, but it's smaller. I'd rather replace a 25kwh battery every 5 years, than replace a 75kwh battery every 15.
Trying not to put words in OP's mouth, but I definitely know people in real life with this attitude, who also get weirdly bristled by innocent mentioning of things like "sexualities" in businesses' PR/positioning pieces. If I were to open a cafe and mentioned somewhere in my Grand Opening PR that the cafe is "inclusive to all genders and races," I know real acquaintances who would absolutely complain to me that my business was "too political". It's weird that the mere act of affirming that your business is welcome to people has become politicized but, hey, welcome to 2024.
I would cut out alcohol from regular consumption much earlier.
I already posted this article on the previous SoundCloud thread last week, but it's worth mentioning that a string of decisions that SoundCloud made after their glory years of the late 00s lost them support from the very artists and DJs that originally made the site popular: https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/21/15999172/soundcloud-busin...

Speaking only for myself, I canceled my paid account in 2014 after already not visiting for a year or two due to the spam problem and copyright strikes.

I am not deeply involved in making music any more, so I don't know where the hot spot for musicians to collaborate is today, but cloud storage is counted in the terabytes now so sharing projects, samples and stems is much less expensive than it used to be. Timestamped comments and being able to scrub back and forward without loading up your DAW is probably the main differentiator that SoundCloud offered, but I'm not sure that's as unique as it used to be either.

One weird site I saw linked on last week's thread was this one from Audacity's new owners: https://audio.com/ It's full of janky little samples and snippets that people have uploaded. It reminds me of the early days of musicians uploading whatever unfinished ideas to BBSes and newsgroups for feedback or just to feel like they weren't alone in the world. Artists will always find a way.
It is no different, which is why suppliers to such stores routinely collaborate if they feel that they are being squeezed too much.

It is also why house brands are a thing.
COVID-positive Californians now allowed to attend school, work
If you're into game engine development and C++, Godot is very accessible for new contributors. It's a great place to explore that stuff while also making (small or large) contributions which will actually get used and appreciated by a growing number of serious game developers.
BSON is more like traditional JSON. All collection elements are ended with specific sub element (just like ']' '}' in JSON), you don't need the complete document before output the first byte. So it is streamable and memory efficient when output.

But this also affect decoding. Not prefixed with size means the memory size you need to allocate is unknown at the time of decoding. You may need to allocate more than required amount of memory or grow on demand if you don't know the size at the time that decoding starts.

Beside this, BSON is also an exchange format. There is full spec and you can use it outside of mongodb. (For example, you need to write an object that contains ArrayBuffer to disk? Just serialize it as BSON and write to disk.) While jsonb in progress is just a DB internal representation, you don't actually see the binary format anywhere.
Yeah, we don’t know yet. Maybe in the future!

But Tesla or anyone else pulling radar stuff doesn’t really suggest he’s right. Until any of them succeed, it doesn’t mean much.
I think you have to take a pay cut regardless

I worked in games ~20 years ago at my first job, and then got a huge increase when I moved outside the games industry

Games just don't pay well. I respect people who do it for the love and art of it. As far as I can see, low pay is part of the deal.

There is the outside chance of a massive hit, but most game devs aren't owners, and risk is proportional to reward