skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s unlikely that 30% is reasonable.

In the absence of a competitive market we don’t know whether 30% is reasonable but it’s unreasonable (or naive) to suspect that a closed system has hit on an efficient fee structure, from the end users point of view.

More broadly — a competitive market would allow innovation on many many variables, not just different rent-taking numbers.
history will judge her
Sure, but friend aren't we just discussing this on the Internet? It's all an argument for court :)
Yes. Except there is no axe.
No your point 1 still stands, and 2 sounds like a feature I would enjoy as well.
I still much prefer Markor for all the quick notes, todo.txt, images and speed in general.
> You buy a book because you want the physical possession, which gives you the ability to sell it or give it to someone or display it. Not because you want to read the contents - else you would just borrow it from a library.

Please back up this statement.

I for one, buy primary market books for the content; and to support creators whom I wish to support. Not to display the book or resell it. That is some capitalist jive.

People typically use libraries because

A) they are too poor to afford the books, and libraries therein provide a valuable community function

B) they are doing research and only need the books for a short time

C) they read more books than they can afford

and other such reasons.
I don’t think it’s special for Spotify. It comes under the “Reader” apps clause (originally carved out for Kindle?) where apps which sell: music, movies, books, email can require that a user create an account on the web first (but cannot link to it, which is stupid)
People can bring up WW2 or whatever all they like, Israel will do what it wants. It is about sending a message to the world that if they are messed with they will starve and blow the enemy to bits. Adult or child. No obscuration

USA will not place limits on human losses when it comes to backing up its ally. It is the cost of regional influence and maintaining a Jewish state in a region surrounded by potential enemies.
The funny thing is that even with all the bloat, these apps always fail short in subtle ways. Samsung notes still can't rotate drawn lines.
I don’t have that kind of bandwidth and I’m a developer.
Dallas Buyers Club vibes
Cutting the tape isn’t just for the aesthetic. It’s a sign of respect to your coworkers.

The baby manager stench is strong with this one.
> k always seemed like a bunch of those kids managed to become highly accomplished and brilliant engineers without ever breaking that terrible habit. Is there actually a reason to write these array languages (and interpreters for them, apparently) this way, or is it just a cultural difference?

They're more readable and less buggy that way. But unfortunately most programmers would rather spend 10 days reading 100,000 lines than 4 days reading 1,000 lines.
O wow. Impressive. I am going to have to give it a try. Do you have any video tutorials?
IMHO much of the key training data can't simply be downloaded/scraped/labeled, no matter what code you had - it's not like it's freely accessible to everyone and just needs some code to get it and process it. You can't scrape all of Google Books archive or all of Twitter, and quite a few things that could be scraped at one point may actively prevent you from scraping them now.
A drought has forced authorities to further slash traffic in Panama Canal
Don't doubt yourself Atreyu. Most news sites aren't aligned with the best interests the tech industry. Tech is a whipping boy that eats its own tail. I must admit I blinked for a few seconds after reading your comment since it's not everyday I get to read an opinion that's firmly pro-tech on the Internet.
I think you have a project with a massive undertaking. You need a team of people to work on this. Have you been looking at this site: https://github.com/jgraph/drawio?

The first features I see that are missing is the ability to define objects using text markups. Properties of the objects would also be defined this way. Dynamic constraints would be defined.

The other feature that is missing or just shown wierd: rounded corners. I put a hexagon down and made the corners round max. It looked like a wierd circle.

Keyboard shortcuts should be configurable. I don't like draw io's keyboard commands. I don't like excalidraw's keyboard commands either. They seem to borrow the concept from the mac or some obscure program. (I use visio.)

Get rid of the pricing thing for now. Also get rid of the online storage scheme.

Add multi user feature using shared link (webrtc?).
Vi and Vim seem a bit under-represented

PG uses vi - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14573802

Roberto Ierusalimschy, creator of Lua, uses vim - https://usesthis.com/interviews/roberto.ierusalimschy/

Chris Wellons uses vim - https://usesthis.com/interviews/chris.wellons/

Drew DeVault uses vim - https://usesthis.com/interviews/drew.devault/

Derek Sivers uses vim - https://sive.rs/2011-12-usesthis

Other vim users - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30848456

https://paulophagula.com/2019/02/15/famous-vim-users.html
Apple spends a ton of money on marketing so people don't read their terms of service and privacy policy and realize it's not really any different from other companies.
Have you registered on the mouthpad website? they may get you one.
Ask HN: My father is starting to lose his hearing. What should I do?
My dad is in his mid 70s. He is otherwise very healthy, but has started showing signs of hearing loss. What steps can we take to prevent, reverse, or correct this issue?

Seeing our family doctor and getting a hearing test, and perhaps a hearing aid seems like the obvious next step. But as great as modern medicine can be, there are gotchas because of incompetence or greed that you have to watch out for - for e.g. dentists pushing for unnecessary procedures to fund their next car or doctors prescribing nasal sprays that do more harm instead of treating the root cause etc. I am just trying to be cautious of going down the wrong path with this stuff.

Given how insightful this community is, I thought I'd try posting here. Does anyone have any experience in this subject? What kind of a doctor/specialist/institute should we see? What are the best aids?

Note: I'm in Canada
Yeah, but the point is that, no matter the degree of trust you may individually have, the consumer should always have the full control, which should extend to all devices, not just a choice at the time of purchase.
I'm surprised the sibling comments have had a good experience. I currently drive a former rental and there were so many issues early on, especially with the transmission.

Anecdotally my friends have had similar experiences with ex rentals. That said, maybe it only comes up because we're bitching about our cars and there are plenty of ex rental lovers out there.
> I think the used market in general is so bad right now

I'm in the same boat, only I've never owned a used car after the one my parents gave me as my first car. But after going through several new cars, I thought I would try the used market. All I'm seeing are not good deals that makes me wonder why anyone would take a 5-10 year old car for not enough of a difference from new to risk the maintenance.

All of these high prices just feels really really artificial to me. I've been around enough dealership owners that it just feels exactly like what they would do. If there was ever a real reason to explain the way the prices shot up, there's no way the dealers were just going to leave money on the table by lower their prices.
> It also benefits developers and users that tweaking apps to cheat in games is as good as impossible.

This would be just as impossible in a well-designed version of iOS that allowed arbitrary app installation - iOS could do client-side attestation, and app developers could choose to prevent users from playing online matches with app versions that aren't attested by Apple (or a hypothetical Steam for iOS, for instance).
The 30% goes back to retail markup, i.e. the what the seller who buys and physically stocks your game could expect to keep for gross profit.

Of course digital store fronts do not have many of the costs associated with physical retail, but there is still value in them bringing the customer to you.
“The constitution” is certainly not in favor of abolishing copyright, as it explicitly provides for its legality and usefulness.

I am not sure where the “unnatural restriction” quote comes from, could you illuminate me?

As far as what the constitution says about copyright, it seems only to say that it is “To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts”
Your experience is well out of date
Indeed. I don't know that something like this can ever happen again, barring another major upset. Many people don't realize or remember how transformative the dot-com era really was. The amount of money firehose that was there to go around was staggering. We're just at a much more mature point in the market. Ironically, a lot of the people that make it difficult/impossible to have the money firehose are the ones that made their fortune from that environment!

It's still possible for a one-off startup here and there to maybe get into this boat, but at this point the big tech players are there to slurp up the real money makers early and often and assimilate them into the borg.

If this sort of environment were what I wanted to work in, I'd probably look at specialized teams/niches inside of big corps. Surely very difficult to find, but they do exist.
Can you buy a warranty? If so, for how much?
What is a chief people officer?
So glad I could help :)
> There is disagreement on this from legal point of view its not a settled legal question.

The disagreement is Israel says there is no occupation while the rest of the world says there is. This is hardly a disagreement as much that one party is simply wrong. It is like Iran stating it does not have a nuclear weapons program or Russia claiming their elections are fair.
AI: The not-so-good parts
Epic used to charge insane fees for the Unreal Engine too.

They really only changed their tune when Fortnite became so successful they could print money via skins.
Switching from stock to grapheneos more than doubled the battery life of my pixel 6 pro.

They install plenty of bloatware on google devices, but since it’s all background surveillance stuff, it doesn’t clutter the UI.
Will this be one of these "private collection" things where the goods are not even scanned for preservations, but instead just left to rot by the elements?

We'll see. I suspect so, because that's how it tends to go.
Bc a lot of them read HN?
Typically the board is supposed to do that in a startup setting, not sure how that would go down at a large company
you would also have to require them to ship software tools and actively support development by those that want to use their devices.
searched the "family tree" page for aurora [https://texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Aurora] but sadly it seems to have died without issue
Yeah, but it's not a good look when the influence-weighted average of all those people applies double standards for different groups in similar situations. I mean, even when you take just a single person, they're probably going to have a couple conflicting feelings towards any one topic. And yet, if the emergent result of that internal conflict doesn't produce some level of self-consistency in resulting opinions and actions, then something's not quite right.

Like… the entire idea of words like "society", "culture", "zeitgeist", etc. is that they imply a greater level of organization, shared values and ability to act as though one autonomous entity or whatever, than if you merely took "hundreds of millions or billions of" people and dumped them all in one place.

A society or zeitgeist can absolutely have 'hypocrisy'. If it can't, then it's not a culture, just a mass of hominids.

Plus, though it's hard to track, there's probably some degree of hypocrisy aggregated from an individual level too, where people who took one side before are taking the other side now.
It’s still a screen
Give me a municipality that currently requires its citizens to sell their ICE vehicle and purchase an EV and I will eat my words.
We can turn lead into gold. With particle accelerators. Just not economically :-)
I think v8 and the multi-process model were the big differentiators of Chrome when it first launched, and how it originally got marketshare! Regardless, I think "ground-up" building isn't a great way to measure product building; after all, macOS is "just" a BSD fork, as others have pointed out Webkit was originally a KHTML fork, etc. And just about any web product runs on Linux and is effectively a wrapper around libc, which wasn't ground-up built by any modern tech co.
> I think difficulties arose when newer kernals wouldn't work with the older hardware drivers that were available.

That's a problem of Samsungs own doing. They can mainline their drivers and force their subcontractors to do the same if they want to sell to them. They're definitely big enough to be able to do it if they wanted to.

Samsung doesn't see this as a problem.
That regulation seems completely irrelevant, PayPal charges much more than that in Europe.
Already been scanned: https://archive.org/details/the-amazing-spider-man-1
Relevant press release https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/01/apple-hongdae-to-welc...
Gotta ask....do you play the banjo?
Damn and I thought I was the only one who had this genius idea…
Knowing the way people drive rental cars, not a chance.
Sorry, yes, what I meant was you can use builtin if/while/for, but they're magic special cases that you can't reuse. E.g. if you have a repeated snippet of code that uses if/while/for, you might have exactly the same code in one async and one regular function, but you can't factor it out into a shared helper function (you can write the async and the non-async version of that helper function, but you can't write one that does both).
Roblox was like that for a while. They did some nice work on scaling up big MMOs with user-created content, something I'm into. They overexpanded, losing money on every user. They'd gone public, and the stock is way down. Peaked at $126, now $40. Despite many attempts, they just can't retain users beyond middle school.
Format agnostic layers are a good thing. HTTP2 depends on it with different encoding but same meaning. But have to choose some encoding for communication to happen. Otherwise it is a meta protocol.
I agree that's probably a good approach. It's very time/effort intensive though.
I imagine it's much better when dealing when real life people you know because internet randos may even have been hired to spread disinformation and waste the time of people trying to educate others on the facts.
Looks like some people failed to understand your comment.
> This is unfair! After all you’ve done, how could Google do this to you?

> Please understand: Google is not a person. It’s many groups of people following locally-varying processes, rules, and culture. To that end, it makes no sense to either love or be angry at “Google”; it’s not a consciousness, and it has no sense of duty nor debt.

This is a such a strange view. You shouldn't be angry at google, because google is just people. No mention of being angry at the people, who maybe it would be unfair to blame for "google"s actions. Conveniently there's no appropriate subject (or object) to feel about.

I think the shorthands he attacks, though they're literally untrue, are also really helpful metaphors. Large organizations have a character that no one person is responsible for and personifying them and assessing how we feel about their actions is a useful tool for reflection and assessment. Each member of those "groups of people" should reflect on how they as individuals (and their group) contributes to it. A company isn't "just" an aggregate of all people in it - but it is mostly that.

You can't hurt a company's feelings (just the feelings of the people who work there) - but you can be upset at what it does to you and speak about that.
My default for all browsing is to use Private Safari window and never stay logged in for longer than needed.

Btw, there is hidden Safari setting in iOS, under Advanced at the bottom, “Privacy Preserved Ad Measurement” that was on, for some weird reason. And check and purge Website Data periodically.

Oh, and use iCloud Private Relay. A must.
Recently there has been an explosion in hearing aids from new manufacturers and the rules for selling them have been loosened so there is more competition than ever.

My understanding is that, unlike dentists, audiologists are pretty honest, but hearing aids have been crazy overpriced for a long time.

See https://hearingreview.com/hearing-products/hearing-tech-inno... and https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-06/hearing-a...
Apple could easily corner the US smartphone market and a big part of the LLM hardware market in a few years.

US smartphone market? It's growing every year even with huge margins, lowering the price would accelerate this pace.

LLM hardware market? Like really, what is the incremental cost for 8gb to 16gb to 32gb to 64gb to 128gb for their macbooks? The could probably shave a few grand off the 128gb and still make a decent profit. Now you have 128gb unified memory macbook going for almost the same price as a rtx 4090 with a computer (and with only 24gb vram). That means a huge shift in hobbyist developers who will turn all their focus to ML with macbooks (e.g. MXL vs Nvidia/cuda). and if they do this with new macbooks, suddenly the market for older slower macbooks collapses, leading to much higher demand and even more hobbyists albeit with slower Cpus/less ram.

It sucks but apple laptop cpus and mobile cpus dominate anything else out there. I wish there were more competition. And their margins are massive.
Worse by some arbitrary metric that supports your point of view.
I also think that experimental culture is gone due to things like startup culture. Any half viable idea, they leave and create a startup.

So Google has really only been doing obvious ideas. Like Pixel phones, Pixel buds, getting into cloud too late.
There are relatively few reversible/preventable causes at that age. This is just life. What he can probably do is eliminate nearly all practical impact from this problem.

To do that, get an audiologist-administered hearing test, then discuss the results with an otologist/ENT. Often this is done in the same office visit.

Among other things, the audiologist will test where the loss is occurring (Google "Rinne and Weber tests" or bone vs. air conduction), and at which frequencies. Get hearing devices tailored to those frequencies. The otologist will recommend options. These aren't likely to be all that expensive.

There's no real opportunity for greed or snake oil here. If the otologist's advice works, the results are literally audible.

This is not a difficult problem to almost completely solve, and it makes a huge difference in quality of life and healthspan: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-preventi...
(Update: apparently this study was retracted - see reply)
How is “they sent facebook a list with my name on it, and facebook showed me their records showing I was on their list” compatible with the statement “this is NOT data being sent to FB”?!?
I also want to know the answer to this, but I'm starting to think I might not recognize it.

Part of Google's perceived aura (IMHO) when they started was that they seemed to be like the nebulous group of pre-Web Internet-savvy techies. Which were a smart group, tending towards altruistic and egalitarian, and wanting to bring Internet goodness to people, and onboard people into Internet culture. What seemed like one sign of this was times that you'd see old-school techies outside of Google treating Google like stewards rather than exploiters. And when they said "Don't Be Evil", I thought I knew exactly what they meant.

Well, the dotcom gold rush happened, huge masses of people rushed in looking for what it was about, huge money rushed in and soon tried to landgrab and then exploit those masses rather than onboard them, Doubleclick acquired Google :), techie job interviews started looking like rituals to induct affluent young new grads into their rightful upper-middle career paths, unethical behaviors became so commonplace that people can't even see them, and academia was infected a bit. Which I think means...

...If another Google happened, would we even recognize it? From where could it draw its culture that's not pretty completely overtaken by big money and all that attracts and builds?

Maybe the next Google can't be in the space of computing/communications/information at all, because big money and and coattail-riders would be all over that too quickly.

Maybe it would instead arise from people that really love to study insects. And they have a cooperative community around that, and have been trying to explain the importance of insects to the world for years, but not many care. Then it turns out that insects are the key to averting an imminent Earth extinction-level event. So the bug nuts get huge infusions of cash, and can work on all the problems they've wanted to.

And it'll be at least a few years before people with no interest in insects, other than chasing money, can really take over and start perverting the field, set up gatekeeping to pass people like them, while excluding the actual people who created and loved the field and saved the world, etc.

Personally, I have always disliked bugs, and will never be a candidate for Bügle.
> A car, especially an electric car, with that many miles is likely over half way through it's lifespan and it's in the most maintenance heavy half to boot

as someone whos never had a car but is interested.. is there a good estimate for what modal maintenance costs look like? is the used car market efficiently priced for accounting for those costs?
Boot up practically any Windows machine that hasn’t run for a few months and you’ll get the same thing - unusable while Windows update & Windows Defender both hog all the resources.
Can ultraviolet lightbulbs end the next pandemic before it starts?
I would love to see a series written on representing all these datatypes in JSON.
Bc what sorry? I didn't realise HN was a big story about people's personal journeys, which the post is.

I thought HN was about smart tech folk who like tech stories with something novel about the thing.
It absolutely deserves to be there!
Head of HR
I think it was. Apple saw the writing on the wall and changed it. Hopefully, they'll see the writing on the wall again and lower it further. 15% is still too high, and what activities it's levied against is so ridiculous that I expect law makers to continue to intervene.

Either apple behaves or it's golden goose will die from a thousand cuts. Their choice.
AMD, Apple, Qualcomm GPUs Leak AI Data in LeftoverLocals Attacks
See that's the thing. Yes we all are individuals. This individual in the original post is one.

Who are these commenter's that demand for him not to post an FAQ? Why can't he just post an FAQ and they are like "oh yeah thank you very much!" and everyone is happy? Why does he have to feel bad for his FAQ and instead answer the same uncomfortable questions over and over even though he's fine but nobody believes him?

Why do these normies demand that the world adjusts to them?
An HTML page which is also a valid PDF file and JPEG image
Hitler wasn't on track to 'get the bomb' before the end of the war.

So it wasn't an America or Germany situation, in fact nobody on the planet was close to 'getting the bomb' in 1942. Though not for lack of trying. The Manhattan project was a stupendous effort compared to anything else done to move science forward by brute force up to that that. And short of the space race nothing like it has been seen since until the current effort to bring AI into the world and in some ways it still pales in comparison.