skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Americans have unrealistic expectations. From my perspective, you're all wealthy. There's a reason people are climbing over fences and walking through the desert just to live as migrants in your country.
Of course! I didn't actually rewrite my framework just to counter someone on the internet. I said that more to call out the low effort response as fitting an extremely predictable pattern of uninformed people trying to pose their drive-by hot take as fact, and the unreliability of said information in practice
I could been specific - I mean passenger rail.
Yes, that would be good. This goes for all predatory businessmodels, especially the ones where bait-and-switch is used to gain market share and then to change the model (looking at you, Youtube).
The fact that a credit card CAN have an outage is ridiculous. They were invented as an eventually-consistent system first! Just save up the credit card info, and charge the bank when the network connection is back up.
Since HN doesn't let you edit after votes have been applied, let me clarify that 'crazy' does not refer to the person/comment I'm replying to.
> Also Mercedes is accepting 100% liability while their cars are in self driving

That's what I thought too, but apparently it's not that clear cut. Their manual says that the driver must be ready to take over not only when prompted by the system but also "due to obvious circumstances". It's not clear what that means — cue the lawsuits. https://safeautonomy.blogspot.com/2023/09/no-mercedes-benz-w...
Around 2015, I read an article saying that computer science was the most popular major for Harvard undergraduates. I found it quite surprising. I would think that a Harvard student could basically do anything with their life that they want: medicine, law, business, politics, anything they set their minds to.

Why, I wondered, would they want to enter this strange industry with all our odd characters and personalities? To me it's like, this is a place where you're going to compete to fix or improve something in the Linux kernel in order for Linus to swear at you and publicly humiliate you in an immutable ledger called the LKML. (Welcome to tech!) Even now, I don't really understand how this could have become the most popular major at Harvard.

I think things will sort themselves out in time. A person might start a career with little inherent interest but stumble into something that excites them and excel at it. Or a person might work in technology for a while, decide it's not right for them, and move on to something else. We'll have to see where it goes.
BDO Italia attests that Tether has their money. https://tether.to/en/transparency/#reports

The Chairman and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, a primary dealer and banking partner for Tether, says Tether has their money.

Deltec bank, a banking partner for Tether, says Tether is fully backed by reserves. https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/01/22/tethers-bank-de...

That's not convincing?
Individual words aren't comparable to the things people are worried about getting copied. People are much more able to tell you where they learned about more sophisticated concepts and styles.
I expect you think you're thinking clearly, but you're not.
Come now. Plenty of people on HN insist in AI threads that artists and creatives should only work for passion and love and not corrupt the purity of their craft with the vulgar drive to make money. Suffering and hunger only drive one to greater innovation after all. So why not apply that philosophy to tech as well?

When so much of the web is currently being destroyed by capitalist incentives, shouldn't we go back to the days when quirky nerds just built and maintained websites as a hobby? Why should any of us be paid for any of this when money ruins everything?
Compared to many comparable countries, the US has such a huge number of local governments, with so many functions devolved to the local level.

If state governments took over more of the functions of local governments, or if local governments were merged – such as a single local government for an entire metro area – that might solve many of these problems.

When the state government takes over, the suburbs contribute to the state-wide tax base. Similarly, when the suburbs are merged into a single metro-wide local government, their local taxes now start contributing to services in other parts of the metro area which they commute to or rely on.
It's a consequence of the relationship between absorption and index of refraction in glasses, which follow the Karmers-Kronig relationship [0]. As the wavelength approaches atomic resonance, the index increases or decreases depending on which side of the absorption peak the wavelength is.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kramers%E2%80%93Kronig_relatio...
Sounds like a long winded way to say No.
Oh man, last week we had a small outage. Database queries took much longer than normal. I just so happened to be doing ad-hoc querying on the same table at the same time.

“Luckily”, the problem was unrelated to my querying but two coincidences are proper scary.
Generic tangent? This is an actual problem and real life potential consequence of Apple's decision.
FileCoin strikes me as yet another crypto scam.

On April 1, 2021, “The FileCoin Foundation” announced that they were donating 50,000 FileCoin to The Internet Archive, valued at $10 million. That announcement got a lot of PR for FileCoin and drove its price to its highest value ever - $237 - that same day. It never saw anything near those prices again.

Just a guess, but I bet the creators cashed out big time right after pumping their coin by announcing their generosity by press release.

FileCoin’s current price is $5.85.

A while ago, I contacted The Internet Archive to ask if they were able to sell their donated FileCoin at the price it was trading at when they received it. I didn’t receive a reply.
Healthcare isn't _intrinsically_ different, but it's a really distorted market.

Americans don't "value" their health 2x more than people in other developed countries. But Americans pay more for worse outcomes. It's silly to say that our worse-performing, often racist, hostile-to-the-poor healthcare system is providing "more value" just because corporate interests have aligned to price it higher.

If I live in a company town where my employer owns the water supply, and tells me that the 'cost' of that water has increased by some enormous multiple, and now they'll pay me a 'water benefit' in lieu of compensation increases, it would be absurd to say if I'm doing the same work, consuming the same amount of water, and getting the same pay, that my company is suddenly providing me "more value" just because it has declared that the cost of the same amount of water is higher.
> And Visual Studio sure wasn't free.

Visual Studio wasn't free, but it also wasn't required. There are a wide variety of ways to develop software for Microsoft OSes.
That's not what they meant. Ruby made breaking change by breaking change, and it was still easy to have gems work with both ABI versions. Python 3 had changes that made it necessary challenging to support both, all while being slower (IIRC).
> in the context of apochromatic lenses: those that are optimized for three different wavelengths of light, not just two, which an achromatic lens does.

Achromatic lenses (corrected for blue and green) was acceptable for black and white orthochromatic film and plates which are only sensitive to blue and green. Even with panchromatic b+w film, achromatic lenses are usually satisfactory, but the chromatic aberration becomes visible with colour film. Aprochromatic lenses are corrected for blue, green and red.

Lenses can also be corrected for broader spectrums that include UV and IR: Nikon made such a lens – the UV 105mm f4.5 – for technical/scientific applications.
> I find this kind of politicised editorialising from publications like Wired quite tiring.

You're making it political, but it's just positioning. A PR firm pitched Wired this story as part of a campaign to remind everyone that SoundCloud once mattered¹ in preparation for their forthcoming fire sale.

¹ Probably not as much as this story suggests, though. Artists who started on SoundCloud weren't using it exclusively. For example, TikTok (not SoundCloud) broke "Old Town Road".
Oh no, I got what you were saying. I'm saying it's actually just a single edged sword. It's just gonna encourage people to commit suicide.
Looks good thesis. supportive family is important factor. In 1990 to around 2015, Japan had been in notorious deflation, so there were no enough jobs for everyone, hiring women full time wasn't popular in early 90s (especially for not young people), and full-time housewife was somewhat popular. That's part of why supportive family existed. Now it's time to inflation finally, salary haven't increased much so women need to go work, we understand that we might live long and pension may become poor so retiring age is increasing, and worker shortage is now becoming a serious problem. Family support model no longer work.
Then it might be :)
True, although I’m not sure if Apple doesn’t pass that through to developers anyway (at least in terms of losing the purchase, if not the fees as well).
Workers & Resources, bro
> The root cause here seems to be fairly clear: (Excessive) vertical integration of platforms (or rather their owners) across domains.

Which is exactly what RMS and like minded individuals have been warning about. Meanwhile Microsoft is working very hard to retro-fit this onto the remains of the PC market.
> Mahmoud would regularly spend 10-12 hours a day - sometimes as many as 16 - at his computer, editing and publishing social media videos promoting Tate daily as part of the required coursework.

He mandated they do affiliate marketing for himself... for those wondering how the guy got into your feeds so often without you soliciting it, i wondered for a long time.
>Zayda's testimony concluded that Mitchell's submitted gameplay "could in fact depict play on original unmodified Donkey Kong arcade hardware if the hardware involved was malfunctioning, likely due to degradation of components."

So either he cheated, or he was using malfunctioning hardware? Like that was his defense? Prick.
And Epic only cares because they want to run their own private, exclusive App Store.
This article shows a "map" of available glasses, with each glass shown by its refractive index and dispersion constant -- in a particular way. The explanation is that if all you have are glasses on that "glass line," you can make a lens with equal focal length at two wavelengths but not three. You need glasses that are not on the "glass line," and one of them is calcium fluoride. Also, some plastics such as acrylic and polystyrene can be used, but have their own issues such as thermal expansion.

Finding a lens with 2 equal focal lengths is equivalent to a graph of focal length versus wavelength that's roughly a parabola. With 3 equal focal length, the graph looks like a cubic curve.

https://www.opticsforhire.com/blog/apochromatic-lens/

The glasses also have to be economical, able to take a good polish, clear, chemically resistant (to avoid staining), mechanically robust, etc. It's not an easy design problem since the "exotic" glasses with extreme refractive properties also tend to have worse properties overall.
Okay, so I tagged the wrong product. I know there was a Z-80 to x86 cross assembler for CP/M because I had a copy of it.

I think it was called something like xlt86.com.

XLT86 is mentioned here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/M

I see that this one is a translator for Intel mnemonics and isn't for Z-80, so that would make the task of porting even simpler.

I know that there was a translator for Z-80 to x86 though. Sorry I cannot remember everything from 40 years ago in precise detail.

I also remember ZCPR, which was a Z-80-only CCP replacement for the CP/M CCP. If you had a Z-80-based CP/M computer, you could replace your CCP and gain some new command line intrinsics. ZCPR was circulated on the CP/M BBS circuit (RCP/M). Digital Research couldn't do much about it because the author was not identified, and it was not distributed for profit.
I guess it's technically possible a malfunctioning machine could output literally any string of bits.

The chances they would just so happen to look exactly how a particular emulator wrongly displays them, and do so over and over, is virtually zero.
I agree. No naive ideals here. There should be a standard that makes it easy and private for the consumer. Doesn’t mean it will happen.
this is completely pointless:

func SortIterator[E cmp.Ordered](s []E) func(func(int, E) bool) {
sortedSlice := make([]E, len(s))
copy(sortedSlice, s)
slices.Sort(sortedSlice)

return func(yield func(int, E) bool) {
for i, v := range sortedSlice {
if !yield(i, v) {
return
}
}
}
}

the whole point of iterators is to be lazy. this is the opposite of that. its
sorting the entire slice before you have even iterated a single item.
In any other country this would be bribery. If it happened in another country the USA would call it bribery...
Some of those customers are indeed clueless. But the machines themselves aren't that great either. Automation and efficiency almost always come at the cost of decreased resiliency. They work great as long as you're on the happy path.

To give a practical example, fresh produce have that 4-digit code to identify them (e.g., 4011 for bananas). But some fresh produce comes in containers that have barcodes on them, like grapes in plastic bags or clamshells. The machine expects the 4-digit code (printed on the container), but the customer expects to be able to scan the barcode just like everything else that comes packaged. The barcode fails to scan, and the customer will hold up the line to have a worker explain the mismatch in expectations. All because the machine designers built in an assumption (for efficiency's sake) that doesn't match the real world, and the machine can't adapt to it on the fly.
The future of warfare is AI powered drones, zero doubt in my mind.

Imagine the micro from Starcraft Go on a real life drone with a gun and bombs.
> It'll probably need to be another lawsuit since it's in the developer agreement.

Mind you, you can be blocked from doing needed Apple dev stuff (eg sign binaries, etc) until you've manually logged into your Apple account and clicked on the "I accept" button whenever they change terms.

This happened to us (sqlitebrowser.org) in recent weeks, as our CI just stopped working one day.

It turns out there was a new developer agreement that needed signing, and until I'd logged in and done that then Apples servers would no longer sign binaries.

There's literally no choice but to sign the things - regardless of terms - if you want your users to have software that runs.
Unfortunately, unless the JIT can prove that the address you are accessing via the segment is non-negative, it can't elide the bounds check. See https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/panama-dev/2023-July/0194... for a bit more information.
My company's SaaS product used to have an iOS and Android app which we discontinued a couple of years ago when Safari finally started supporting more web-standards that enabled our PWA to more-or-less have parity with the old app (confession: our app was using Xamarin instead of being truly native, not that it mattered much).

...so with that context in-mind, we don't benefit from - nor really need at all, most of those services you're referring to;

> Bandwidth

We're a small B2B SaaS with a userbase sized under 100,000 users and our old app bundle was around ~20MB and updated a handful of times per year, so even if 100% of our users used the iOS app with auto-updates then that's less than 2GB of data-transfer per published update - the cost of serving that is far less than a rounding-error on AWS/Azure.

> Running the App Store for users

I accept that.

> Marketing the App Store

No-one should be paying for Apple to market their own App Store - and as a B2B SaaS app, Apple would never promote us or do marketing for us.

> App review

I also accept this - but ostensibly this is what your $99/yr developer fee pays for.

> Security efforts to keep malware off the store

This is the same thing as App review; if we look more broadly, then it's better to compare this to Microsoft's Windows Defender which is free, and is funded independently of the Microsoft App Store.

> Making App Store optimisation tools for developers

Again, this is Apple's responsibility to pay for, not ours - and even-then consider that efficient update/patch distribution systems have been around for decades so it's hardly cutting-edge development (e.g. those ~KB-sized binary diff patches for CD-installed games in the late-1990s when we were on dial-up, like EA had for SimCity 3000 or C&C Red Alert 2)

For a B2B SaaS client app for BYOD users the iOS App Store is perfectly fine as a distribution system, and morally I'm fine with paying Apple some kind of fee for the benefits of their distribution system, but Apple has no legitimate claim to any percentage of the subscription fees we get from our users - so what this means is that we can make our app available for free to our users (which is fine, honestly) but (as per my understanding of the rules) we cannot offer any kind of account-management or billing-management for their SaaS subscriptions from within the app which isn't ideal.

I think Apple's main mistake here was deciding that having a single set of rules and fee-schedules/commission/etc for everyone, because the revenue models for exploitative mobile games (especially their gold/gems IAPs) differs massively from my company's unimaginatively dry B2B SaaS client.
I highly recommend getting into Bandcamp if you haven't already. SoundCloud has proven over and over that when it comes to supporting indie artists versus selling out to the majors they will choose the latter, and ironically they still can't turn a profit. Meanwhile Bandcamp has been profitable for years, and you can discover and buy all kinds of great electronic music from the most obscure bedroom musicians to established names. I feel much happier giving my money to them, at least for now. (It remains to be seen if their new owners will mess it all up.)
Midjourney is decidedly underwhelming if you've spent any time using the expansive tooling and control nets of Stable Diffusion. Yes, it's easy to get impressive first gens with MJ, but all of the coolest work and integration happening is using SD.
> A person helping out for free can justify ending the service without threatening the relationship.

Be careful. People often respond to that with astonishing ungratefulness.
Future improvements in simulations and manufacturing will probably enable micromanaging light in 3 dimensions. Ive seen some very strange fractal and composite lenses.
User Data Migration
> Do you want your sons and daughters to fight a fair fight?

I don’t want them to fight at all.

But more importantly, I don’t want anyone friend or “foe” to die from faulty AI decisions.

I can sort of reconcile some human bomber pilot making a mistake and hitting a family home, but if AI does the same thing it’s just wrong.
> Even the relatively small cost of an NFC tag is going to be a real problem given how thin most groceries' margins are (and how cheap small amounts of food can be, even now).

something that's been worrying me: how long until grocery stores stop keeping fresh fruit and vegetables because it just isn't worth it anymore?

or has produce always been a loss-leader to get people buying other things in the store...

maybe just put NFC tags on the milk and butter, and let people walk out with as many oranges as they can carry?
I am a software engineer and nerd at heart, constantly trying to build new things. This is my latest project.

SureHire allows you to record yourself answering interview questions. Your answer is then analyzed and you receive feedback a couple of seconds later. Currently, you can use it for mock interviews. I'm actively trying to expand the network of businesses on the platform to use it as another way to source awesome candidates.

I would love to hear any feedback, and whether this is something you would use or not.

Thanks!!
I've been in the cryptocurrency-space since 2012. If anybody (back then) ever traded you a popular website's monthly membership for "just 1BTC"... thank you.

>That's... not convincing.

Tether is a toxic creation within the cryptomarketcap, similar (metaphorically) in nature to how [some] hedge funds [can] use dark pools to make non-public trades, ensure public fund liquidity, obscure equitability, lie, cheat, steal; etc. Don't ever forget that YOU ARE JUST DUMB MONEY — all the bells&whistles are intended to get the money to it$ rightful corporate owner [1].

Tether's implosion (hopefully `when`, not `if`) would rock the entire cryptomarketcap; but ultimately would return the cryptocurrency-space to the principles founded within Satoshi's fundamental "white paper" [e.g. unlimited block sizes, no lightning/segwit, PoW, verifiable self-accountability].

I'll keep holding my breath, but until then... I'll keep HODL'ing.

[1] "I can spend it better" I once heard a philanthropist laugh to his subordinate.
Which is fine but they didn’t merge any PRs either. I might have a go at a fork of this but I don’t take a phone with me running or track them these days.
Of course prices won’t drop because price is based on what people are willing to pay. However the actual creator will have up to 30% more funding instead of a rent seeker, which means the creator will have more margin to increase quality, which benefits the consumer.
I think "Made in the USA" has tremendous cachet. However, I do not think people will pay up for it unless there is something unique being offered.
Ask HN: Online services/apps (or books) for an intermediate Japanese learner?
I've had up to the mid-college junior level of instruction, but that was almost a decade ago, and I'm participating in a conversation group. I'm looking for good resources to pick up from. I know about the Toriba book, and I don't particularly like Duolingo.

I'm working through this book right now, which is helpful, but I'd benefit from additional materials: https://www.tuttlepublishing.com/japan/japanese-stories-for-language-learners

I also enjoy watching Japanese movies and shows subtitled, to help pick up on dialects -- the books are almost always in teineigo.

Any tips are appreciated. Ganbarimasu!
If a Wall Street CEO is uncomfortable directly stating that Tether is completely pegged, then I am a bit unconvinced.
Planned Difference: Consciously diverging from standards
The people that work for big tech in SV are overwhelmingly liberal, in nearly all respects.

And sometimes they contain contradictions in their belief systems.

It doesn't have to be one or the other. In reality people are very frequently a wild mixture ideologically.

Just because you work for a defense contractor making cruise missiles, that doesn't mean you aren't / can't be a liberal. It means you're perhaps inconsistent in your values, which is more typical than not with people generally.

Our human history is filled with sayings and rules about these things, precisely because of how common hypocrisy, contradiction, irrationality are. Do as I say not as I do. Preaching the golden rule and routinely breaking it. Judging others by what they do and judging yourself by your (good) intentions. Pot calling the kettle black. And on and on and on similarly across all cultures.
Why I hope the Atari 400 Mini will bring respect to Atari's platform
> The centrepiece of Tate’s business empire, the site bills itself as “the world’s most advanced financial education platform” and promises to equip young men with the entrepreneurial skills to allow them to “escape ‘the Matrix’” – Tate’s disparaging term for mainstream society – and avoid an otherwise inevitable future as a “brokie”. Mahmoud was convinced it would make him rich.

It's interesting how the Matrix still has this influence today. I don't think there's any movie that has had a worse influence, and I don't think that's an accident.
https://archive.is/EEyv9
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