skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Such statistics can be difficult to parse. Hypothetical:

Person A chats with five people. Two seem okay, two seem like poor choices, one seems unhinged and is quickly blocked. Of the two good options they go on a date with each, selects one of them, and forms a relationship.

Person B is deluged with messages, many of them vulgar. After some filtering, they end up trying to hold coversations with twenty different people, but struggle to form a connection with any of them. Eventually they go on a date with the person who seems the best, it goes okay, and they form a relationship.

In this example, is person A or B able to be "choosier"? Which experience would you prefer if you could choose? I would argue that quantity is not valuable independent of quality. Or to put it another way, I suspect you would find that most single women would argue they have no greater number of acceptable choices than single men do.

The (obviously real) difference in the number of men sending women unsolicited pictures of their genitals compared to women sending men such pictures isn't really relevant.
The amount of redundancy on that list is hurting the point you’re trying to make.

In terms of tracking double/quadruple etc counting the same company isn’t meaningful. So, once you start noticing it the list seems significantly shorter than it actually is (2. amazon-adsystem.com vs 4. c.amazon-adsystem.com). Worse, 5 of them are the same domain with www. in front (12. google.com and 32. www.google.com) which most people subconsciously see as the same thing.

Therefore, a slightly curated list comes off as more impactful:

1 amazon-adsystem.com
2 concert.io
3 coralproject.net
4 d35xxde4fgg0cx.cloudfront.net
5 google.com
6 memberful.com
7 moatads.com
8 narrativ.com
9 parsely.com
10 polyfill.io
11 rubiconproject.com
12 sail-horizon.com
13 sentry.io
14 vox-cdn.com
15 z.moatads.com

PS: I mean Google representing 10 domains on your list does say something, but it’s only tangential to tracking.
Thank you for reading the article.
I got a 2019 Mazda3 sedan a few months ago and I'm very happy so far. It has a few more features than I wanted, but I was reassured by a family member who is a mechanic for a Mazda dealer that everything is very reliable.

I really like that all the auto stuff can be turned off if you want, and all the capability of the screen but still having physical buttons. Plus I got 36mpg on my first road trip with cruise control set at 85.
That no one actually read the post is a much broader problem of HN's unfortunately. In my experience it's just not a concern of moderation's either as it would require them to read every single post.
Seems like "dud" will all depend on whether it sells or not.
Go without your iPhone for a year and you might change your tune.

These companies have a hand in everything you do and touch. And they tax any business that wants to do business with you via your phone.
> Regulators can say that you can't block other companies from the "iPhone in-app payment for digital goods" market without being anti-competitive, but it is much more onerous to force a company to continue to provide a set of services (maintaining developer tools and SDKs, reviewing and signing binaries, providing backward compatibility in new OS versions) but for a fee schedule determined by regulators.

A rather obvious thing they could do is just prohibit the fee from being a percent of the developer's revenue. If Apple wants to charge everyone $1000 for a copy of Xcode and the iOS SDK, go to town. But then, people should be able to make competing developer tools and SDKs for iOS, and have competing stores where someone other than Apple is doing the reviews etc.

The main issue isn't even what they're charging, it's that they constrain you from using the alternatives that would induce them to charge less via competitive pressure.
More expensive not to do it.
I couldn't get GPT4 to answer it either, even with several variations on the prompt. It gets too fixated on the "bear" part, so it just assumes that the answer is "white", because that's a "common trick question".

I find it interesting that it disregards the rest of the question, and just picks "the most common answer to a trick question involving the color of a bear"!
This is what you get when you think of HCI holistically.
> Perhaps podcasts have broader appeal, but I always thought that talk radio was a good proxy for podcasts.

I prefer audiobooks. At least audiobooks tend to have a beginning, middle and an end (and an editor!) so the content is a little more well planned vs just rando jabronis bloviating which sometimes happens in podcasts.
We can't; at least not before shit goes down. Even people in the National Security Council with access to all the latest intelligence can't answer that question with any certainty. Hell they might just be as clueless as we are, depending on how much effort they've put into obtaining intelligence on North Korea. There's no guarantee that the people working on it are there because of merit or of nepotism.

As lay people, we don't stand a chance and any armchair bloviating is purely for our own entertainment to help cope with our powerlessness. If the past few years have taught me anything, it's that anything can happen. Just believe whatever narrative helps you sleep at night and you'll be alright.
ARM should gain about 30% in a single gen to be competitive with Apple/Qualcomm processors. It's going to be interesting to see if they can achieve this. Ultimately, competition is good for the consumer. Android phones are so far behind Apple, it is not funny anymore.
I thought we were trying to make statements that made no sense.
I think this really comes down to how we define "difficulty".

If "success" is defined as "being able to quickly find a partner for sex and/or a relationship". Yeah, sorry. The genders ain't equal here. Women have a VASTLY easier time with that.

Admittedly anecdotal, but throughout my entire life, every single one of my female friends has had multiple people figuratively lined up to date them. And no, the standard of comparison is not my personal experience. I thankfully don't fall into the "incel" group that everyone likes to villainize and dismiss.

On the other hand, I have reams of male friends that are basically invisible to women, despite being reasonable, respectful human beings who do not fit the "angry hateful incel" stereotype. They're just not particularly interesting people, which is one of the multiple requirements to get into a relationship as an average looking male. Women, for the most part, just have to exist.

If we flip to a different definition of "difficulty" being "relationship satisfaction", things seem to balance out. Ease of getting into a relationship does not translate into "relationship satisfaction". Over the years, a surprisingly high portion of my female friends have had nothing but complaints about their partners, even the ones who are long-term married.

AI partners are going to completely upend society for both genders, and it's going to be a really really interesting time.
Its the new delorean.
All yoir vested unvested stock can give that flexibility !
This kind of lineage is interesting, but I don’t give large amounts of credit-for-success to a company that failed at what they were trying to do, or gave up and sold themselves off. How much of why Android is huge today could really be attributed to Danger? Not too much, in my book.

Can we really say that Danger could have accomplished the same thing? I was in the carrier industry at that time and Danger was just another handset company.
>I predict I will never see 5 guys with lunch boxes and hard hats get out of one

I'm sure you will around Boca Chica, but they probably won't have much of a choice either. That said, it could be a pretty good 'proving ground' if they use them to run 120/240V equipment onsite.
brought tears to my eyes, thank you for giving out such valuable lessons by writing this article. i hope you and your family will have the best days ahead of you <3
To put it plainly, in America, the value of Healthcare compared to the cost is shit.

Your beholden to your employment to keep it and if you work for a smaller company they usually have shittier plans leading to worse bargaining power. Also if that company is looking to cut costs they may choose even worse plans which you have ZERO control over.

Just because that's the way it is doesn't mean things couldn't improve.
Newi
Because they're all on each other's boards. There's no incentive to do otherwise. And all they need to do is cater to wall street to maintain their positions because the vast majority of their shares are tied up in 401k funds insulating them from any oversight.
You’d have been licking your lips way sooner because that’s completely legal in the US.

In fact increasing the switching cost either monetarily or in other ways (e.g., time sink) is a very common way of locking customers in.

That’s why cancellation fees are so common in many industries.
7 years of updates for what? The S24 models and up? Or all phones up to 7 years ago? It doesn't specify, and the cynic in me makes me think it's only on 2024 models as a selling point.
Sad and terrible! Reminds me of a story I read when I was young.

An Indian emperor invited a wise man to his court and asked him to write a wish that will last forever. He wrote:

1. The emperor dies

2. His son dies

3. His grandson dies

The emperor was furious and ordered him to be punished. The wise man asked if he can have an opportunity to explain and the emperor agreed.

The wise man explained that he wrote what he wishes as the natural order of life in the kingdom. He asked the emperor to consider how terrible the situation would be if any of the order in that is changed. The emperor realized the truth in this and thanked the wise man.
Nice report.

One nitpick of mine would be, majority of books made on the list are actually timeless, they are classics. There isn't too much 2023 about the list. Not really a fault on your side, but inevitable if mining such recommendations in a crowd sourcing way.
The one imperial unit I prefer is temperature. Fahrenheit works so well for the human experience, 0 is the point where it's so cold it could kill you, 100 is the point where it's so hot it could kill you. Outside of laboratory applications don't really care about the freezing point of pure water at sea level, I'm rarely AT sea level and the few times I am I've traveled to sea level specifically to observe salt water!
Which country or geo are you located in? That is a huge factor.

Are there kinds of vehicles that are completely off limits for you, eg because of difficulties parking, the environment you live it, etc?

Does it have to be new? If not, how many years back are you prepared to go?

If you are in North America, AWD/4wd puts you in a special zone: some light trucks and SUVs, a vanishingly small number of wagons, and Subaru.

If it has to be new, layering on your reqts 1-4 pushes you away from anything premium and towards lower end models. And (sadly) it also pushes you away from the very newest models. For example, if a truck is acceptable, a 2022 Ford Ranger instead of a F-150.
i love when my first reaction to a headline is "why on earth would anybody want that" and then the first comment completely answers that question.
You shouldn't have to jailbreak a phone to sideload your own software. There is a long stretch between not helping you and making it practically impossible.
>There has to be a way for the physical owner to have full control over the device. It's not even a matter of inmediate benefit, but rather good consumer/human rights policy.

Really? Do you have "full control" over your TV? Your dishwasher? Your microwave? Your car?

I hear this argument on HN, but I've never met an iPhone customer who complained about not being able to side-load apps. Anecdata to be sure, but Apple's goal is to satisfy customers and therefore sell lots and lots of phones. If there were significant customer demand, Apple would work to satisfy that demand.
What did they use to build this site? I could have sworn I saw what looked like LaTex when it was loading?
They're used because of the nonsense that was JS' beginning, in that you couldn't use integers safely past 2^53 - 1 due to floating point limitations.

Limitations that were because of JS chose to only support one primitive data type for numbers, and that was only recently resolved with the introduction of BigInt & BigInt literals. In 2018.
Huge dud built on lies and ketamine dreams. The target audience is small, if it exists at all. It under delivers in every regard. I’m not sure if there’s anything it truly does well.

I don’t understand why everyone is going the behemoth truck route. It seems the market is ripe for a cheap, electric, light duty work truck maybe even work van shared platform.
> no mention of certificate based digital signatures. Without that this is dead on arrival in a real world business context

no, its really not. I have been using PDFs in a "real world business context" for many, many years. and out of thousands of PDFs sent and received, less than 1% (probably 0.1%) had a use for a digital signature. signatures are useful, but you seem to be inflating their importance for typical daily business use.
This was posted in 2019. The website still says you should sign up for “early access.” I don’t think I’m jumping to use this document format if their main product has been in early access (which I read as “public beta”) for over four years without a full qualified release.
The Peter Principle says people get promoted until they can’t do the job. If you aren’t being promoted to a higher position people wonder about you…

I see your point, did you know it’s a book?

Dang

Harvard Business Review:
https://hbr.org/2014/12/overcoming-the-peter-principle
They say

> There are some associated file formats like WARC and MHTML that attempt to solve this problem but only really get you about 30-50% of a complete solution.
Life is a gift. Death is a gift. Anger is a gift. Sadness is a gift.

It all comes and it all goes. Let it come. Let it go.
What an era we are experiencing! I wonder when we collectively gave up our rights. We can no longer do what we want to with the devices we own :( I sincerely hope consumer rights are better protected and big tech does not get to dictate as much as it does now.
I was convinced that the Cybertruck would never ship and it was just trying to dupe people into laying down a reservation payment to fund whatever dumb idea Musk came up with next.

While I still think that’s mostly the case, I am surprised to see the thing ending up on the road, and that there’s more than one. While I hate the look of the Cybertruck, dislike Musk a lot, and don’t care much for Tesla, I’m pleased to see them hold to the plan.
This pdf is like 10yrs old, but graph in the top right outlines the rate based on distance.

https://www.lpi.usra.edu/opag/july2014/posters/9-DSOC_OPAG_P...
As a 20 something y/o, jealous of the 50 y/o's going thru a midlife crisis who can afford this!
I just can’t see anybody who would want something that looks like that except some Tesla faithful and a small number of others.
> I don't expect this truck to be very popular with the people who use trucks for a living

"People who use trucks for a living" are a vanishingly small part of the market for trucks, though. And the trucks they buy are the low-margin vehicles, for the most part. Does the actual market want the Cybertruck? Damned if I know either. But the people to ask are precisely the socker moms and mid-life insecure tech nerds you're making fun of.
I find it strange that this is presented as a "dud", on the one hand, but on the other hand he places it somewhere in the middle of the pack with respect to the competition, and concludes that he "wants to buy one".
The problem is that the promise was weak too… I think people thought that this would turn out better.
Every time something comes out, an industry expert comes out and says “they’re doing this all wrong. It’s not going to work” and then the thing sells like gangbusters. Each time I’m like “No way.” And each time I’m proven wrong.

The obvious answer is that there’s no information in these guys.
Same! But then I read another answer further down that suggested it might be a Chinese word for axe, romanized in pinyin as yuè (for 鉞). Since the knock-off ball seems to have been made by a Chinese company, that seems more likely to me.

That doesn't explain the weird u-boat thing, though.
Are digitally signed PDFs actually common in your industry?

All DocuSign contracts I’ve ever interacted with were signed using the “click here to sign your name” flow, i.e. not making use of PDF signatures at all.

I’ve signed PDFs using a “qualified digital signature” myself a few times, but that was in the EU.
Very short and undetailed "article-based-on-youtube-review" ending on this confusing note:

"Even with its shortcomings Conner wants to buy a Cybertruck but believes that Tesla oversold what the vehicle would be capable of, and for that reason, he believes it's probably Tesla's first dud."

My personal definition of the word 'dud' would definitely exclude any desire to purchase.

Clickbait crap article / title.
The geometry of the ball isn't relevant - the "smoke" as depicted is going out of the side of the "yurt" at a right angle and continuing in that direction. That's not how smoke works. And the "yurt" itself is clearly depicted as a wedge. With the "smoke" attached to it as a cylinder.

If it's supposed to be a yurt, one has to ask why someone went through obvious effort to make a yurt look as much like an axe as possible.
I'm from WNY, I was forged in the snow. Nearly every problem people have driving in snow is a skill issue, the rest is hills.

Subaru does do a very good job with the symmetrical AWD, letting you feel overconfident and forget that you have awful braking traction.
Google could have built a system like that from the start, where Google-certified Android means you have a vanilla base image, plus (openly available) drivers, plus whatever crap the manufacturer wants to layer on top. Basically not unlike Windows.

Unfortunately they didn't do that, so it's still a mess.
And, you do have to give it to him... he did kill Hitler.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Kyiv_convoy

But I guess you are right on one point, Russia knew how weak their armed forces are and doubted themselves so heavily they never said it out loud. It was just the rest of the world that finally saw what a paper tiger Putin's forces are. This really doesn't help your argument that they are in the running to be a world power one day.
agreed. its a shame how many websites are ruined by over use of CSS and JavaScript.
Pretty much every Tesla product that has been promised or announced has been delivered, albeit late. I don't know why you would expect this one to be a dupe.
https://www.dw.com/en/will-climate-change-cut-off-the-panama... discusses some possible solutions:

> solutions [...] include water-saving sluices that would collect freshwater in basins so it can be reused. To this end, possibilities are being examined to develop and exploit other water sources near the canal. The construction of reservoirs and saltwater desalination plants are also being considered.

There's also:

> The transport route from Asia through the Panama Canal to the US' east coast can be partially rerouted through the Suez Canal

whoops.
> So how can Epic now argue that they have standing for harm caused by Apple’s plan for compliance that affect the way they do business with developers in their developer program when they are no longer in Apple’s developer program?

Maybe they want to be the competing payment processor for third party developers who are in Apple's developer program, but don't have the resources to litigate against Apple themselves.
No need to demean Deloreans like that.
The thing I like most about the truck is that it has no paint. It lends itself for sooo much customization.
A new game for the Minetest engine.
> The first obvious signs that a decision had been made and a decisive break with the past was underway came in the summer and autumn of 2021

Does anyone know what the signs were? I may be misreading the article, but it isn’t clear to me from the text how this conclusion was reached.
I think that's what it's supposed to be. Probably one artist's initial sketch was handed off to another artist who misinterpreted it as an axe and rendered as such
ePub indeed sounds like the standards-based answer here, but there are simply no great readers for it that I know of that don’t insist on somehow making every opened doc part of some library, assuming it must clearly be a book.
Where can one go to verify these claims straight from the source? the Internet is full of "mobile news" sites that claim Samsung are doing this or Google are doing that, but they are impossible to verify. I would hope that Samsung would at least put out a press release, or there'd be a link to some release note, or _something_, but nothing.

Where do other HN readers go to verify these types of stories?
"You can't capture the CSS that actually makes the page look correct only via the static stylesheets because many of the styles on the page are added dynamically by javascript."
> I don't care what a distributor takes as long as I have other options

> this 30% is more or less a lock-in cost for the only official way to do business on IOS

As an app developer you're pretty much "screwed" TBH. You don't have a choice as to what platform your users choose (as long as you want to be in the market). Let's say Apple allows sideloading, but it is somewhat tedious and most users choose to stick to the official App Store -- then you're back to where you were, because you still want to sell your app/services to the users who stick to the official app store, and presumably your app is not so essential that users will actively switch if you dropped support for the official App Store.

If as an app developer you could influence the platform your users choose, then you would have asked them to move to Android and directly download your APK already, instead of bickering with the App Store (or even Google play store). The fact that you aren't proves that you're still at mercy to your users decisions, and whether they decide installing your app via sideloading is worth the trouble.

I'm not trying to denigrate you, but I suspect you might have unrealistically rosy expectations of the world where Apple is forced to allow sideloading.
As a 50-odd year old, I wouldn’t be seen dead in one…
Peter Schickele, composer and gleeful sire of P.D.Q. Bach, dies at 88
Well, we more or less agree up to the last sentence, I suppose
Definitely misaligned. The need for unlimited growth and profit will never align with healthcare, who's goal should be to keep as many people as healthy and out of the system as possible.