skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based on the reviews I've seen, the buying experience with Dell is a joke now and their computers are overpriced underperformers
They're raised with different expectations of what is acceptable... do you really think society treats horny men and women in the same way?

Am I an effeminate man for reading erotica? Is my girlfriend a masculine woman for watching porn? So bizarre to watch people misuse evopsych for these takes
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/16/technology/synopsys-ansys...
govdeals is good for that. caltrans has an auction site for people in california; presumably other municipalities have something similar.

abetterbid has listings of where local auctions are -- these are often good for that type of purchase.
Yep, and IIRC Buffet suggested S&P for wife's investments. His research-heavy investment, and ideas around stock-picking, seems to be how he wants to spend his time.

So, if trying to steer people away from obsessing about growing/hoarding more money than they'll ever need... maybe just steer away from Buffet altogether, and towards Bogle.

(Bogleheads can also become a time-consuming activity, but more likely to instill the message of just stuffing it in total-market index funds, keep it boring, and don't think about it.)
Have you ever tried using a trackpoint?
I wonder if AR goggles will someday allow you to replace your partner with your AI lover so they can borrow their body to interact with you physically. Maybe your partner could even have an AirPod or something that receives instructions from the AI on what they need to do. Could be fun for everyone involved!
I designed some worksheets in Typst and it is the best experience I've had with a typesetting system, hands down. It's not for everything but its defaults are good and very simple.
You make some good points. I definitely understand where a non-native speaker would have trouble following American cultural references and phrasings; I was more confused by the people saying that they're also native speakers, but that following McKenzie's writing is still difficult for them.

> 3. The salary negotiation article may be simple for you and for many folks on HN, but I can’t tell you how many people I’ve sent this article to (with purpose) who didn’t even finish reading it. Specifically, I think the structure is longer and more involved than some folks like. Some of the (important, imho) topics also can put people to sleep — fully-loaded salary costs comes to mind.

This is also a good point. I think it's because a lot of people, even college-educated people, just don't read much, so most won't read a very long article, even if it's written in a casual tone, particularly if it's boring. Partly, I believe that reading has to be practiced and maintained, similar to maintaining a muscle. If you don't read articles regularly, reading a long one will be very mentally taxing. Even if you do, if an article is longer than what you're used to, you'll feel mentally tired after you're done. And it's harder to read long articles when they're about a bit of an unexciting topic, like salary negotiation.
Oh wait technically there is a touch screen in the 2022 one, but since I forgot it was there I guess you can tell it isn't very distracting.
This is so sad and well written. Lars is one of the best people I've ever met, no one should have to go through that, especially not him.
After reading that lengthy, well-researched answer, I felt a bit deflated when I saw another answer lower down, that seems pretty plausible given that the ball in question a knock-off created by a Chinese company:

> 鉞 is yuè in pinyin, a romanization of Chinese. This translates to ax.[0]

We'll probably never know if the origin is yxa or 鉞... or even something entirely different, sadly.

[0] https://english.stackexchange.com/a/395521
I was hoping it would come to the S23 at least but also no :'(
Toyota just released a hilux that's so bare bones it doesn't even come with seatbelts by default. Maybe find that locally and start adding only the features you want & see how much that costs?
And yet a vast amount of hentai and erotic art is created by women, and a vast amount of porn targets women.

Almost as if the sexes are complicated and not easily reducible to simplistic dichotomies.
Informal workers make up 60% of global workforce
Honestly I did fine with FWD and no snow tires on my 97 Ford escort in college in the snow belt (200+ inches of snow a year). People love to waste money on AWD/4WD.
Epic says this is about protecting small developers... which, frankly, is BS.

Epic charges $100 per game in their store, vs. Apple's $99/yr for access to the store, and the latest tools. This is pretty much a wash, unless you're not regularly releasing games.

Epic charges 12% for their game store. For most developers, those earning less than $1M, Apple charges 15%. So again, pretty much a wash.

Epic doesn't take a fee for DLC if games use their own payment system, but presumably takes the same 12% if you use them (it's not at all clear)... but one of the benefits Apple gives customers is that you don't give your payment details to everyone, decreasing the odds it gets mishandled. Again, smaller devs aren't going to have a lot of DLC, or DLC revenue, and would have to pay someone to handle all the transactions.

Epic also uses its market power to direct large customers to use their store. It waives Unreal Engine fees for anyone using Epic as a payment processor, which would normally be 5% if you go over $1M in sales.... for those large customers:

$1M+ Using unreal:

Apple would be 30%, plus 5% to Epic. + 30% DLC
PC/Steam would be 30% to steam, plus 5% to Epic. + 30% DLC
PC/Epic 12% to Epic for Epic store+Unreal. + 12% DLC

$1M+ Not Unreal:

Apple would be 30%. + 30% DLC
PC/Steam would be 30% to steam. + 30% DLC
PC/Epic 12% to Epic for Epic store. + 12% DLC

The fight, most likely, is over these numbers. Instead of being an extra 3% for a small developer, it's an extra 18-23% for the larger developers. A large enough percent of a large enough pie to fight for.

Does that make Apple evil? Epic would have you think so. But Epic also just needed to layoff a bunch of people, despite Fortnite being a money printing machine, despite their Engine royalties, and despite their own store's fees. Sure, Apple has cash to spare, but should we really be legally forcing Apple to adopt a business model that is failing Epic itself?

I'm not so keen on forcing successful businesses to ruin themselves. Especially when the claimed reasons for doing so don't seem to make any sense, and don't benefit who they claim to benefit. This isn't about helping all the small devs... it's all about Epic wanting a bigger slice from the big devs. They're just trying to get enough small devs riled up that lawmakers think this is a change they need to make.
Did you read the entire answer? Because they did exactly that.
You can get a 2023 or older wrangler, and replace the radio with anything else. Without the factory radio there's no internet connection. The 7" and 5" radios don't even have the modem to begin with (although apparently some 7" come with a 'telematics module' to give them internet). You can swap them out for any double din radio that fits (There's a kit or two) but the dashboard doesn't offer much space so it'd have to be a radio without a cd player.
Pricey, but seems to check my boxes. Thanks!
I'm honestly surprised they even added an accounts system. How many years has iOS existed without even the thought? iPadOS only got it because educational institutions treated the lack of accounts as a deal-killer.
I once experimented with doing math homework in Xournal++ using a [drawing display](https://www.xp-pen.com/product/artist-pro-16.html).

It was heaven. I could write at my normal speed. If I made a mistake, one tap of a button erased it, faster than if I were using a pencil. Then I could select symbols by just drawing through them, then copypaste them a line below without worrying about copying errors like dropping a sign. If my writing started to get too messy or cramped, I could just drag things around. And I could change colors of things anytime I needed, which helped me reason through a lot of things.

At least when it comes to math and manipulating symbols (e.g. proofreading marks), it's not the screen that's the problem, it's just the keyboard and mouse.
Ah, totally missed that part. I was mostly thinking about the low/no tech angle.
Open table formats are inevitable for analytical datasets
Those charts show each of the newest satellites buys ~400 paying subscribers (per additional satellite). Build, launch, operating for one satellite--while low for SpaceX--is too expensive for that to make sense.

If they try to do more than 400 users per satellite, the service throughout plummets.
Only if you're in the Us, China or Korea unfortunately. The S23 had Snapdragon everywhere. The S24 only in those three markets sadly.
Is it somewhat like SingleFile?
I would be somewhat skeptical of that without hard evidence.

It's certainly trivial to find (many, many) examples of single men complaining that there are literally no women in the dating pool while simultaneously discounting out of hand all women who are too fat, have had too many prior partners, are too ugly, are too tall, are older than them (or in extreme cases, are the same age as them), make too much money, have incompatible political or religious views (generally but not always being too leftist), violate some cultural norm (piercings, dyed hair, vegan, etc.), and so forth. And none of those are hypotheticals, but actual examples I've seen in the wild. Repeatedly!

So while yes, I would be willing to believe that more men than women might report that there are "no available partners", that may have more to do with a difference in language than a difference in the actual objective dating landscape.

(To be clear, I don't have hard evidence to prove this is the case; I'm just noting I've seen plenty of anecdotal evidence to support that it could be the case, and haven't seen any hard evidencr to the contrary. Hence, my skepticism.)
> I’m one of the few (it seems) that’s very happy with Xcode and its improvements, I’m also very happy with the advancements made on frameworks and SDKs over the last decade or so. It has made my work so much easier and without many of the latest improvements much of what I currently do wouldn’t be possible.

> Code level DST support has also proven to be invaluable to me.

You're talking about things that have nothing to do with the App Store. These same tools are used by Apple to make their built-in software. They're also used by Mac developers outside the Mac App Store.

I'm talking about the App Store itself, as well as tools and services directly related to the App Store, such as App Store Connect.

> The answer is easily found I’d say, try and reinvent the wheel for yourself, leave as many frameworks to the side and let me know how it goes.

> For me SwiftUI alone is worth its weight in gold given how much time it has saved me.

Again, you're talking about things that have nothing directly to do with the App Store. The iOS and macOS system frameworks are not the App Store and would exist even if the App Store were eliminated.

> Something that would’ve been impossible without the available tools and frameworks, something that was completely absent in the software market decades ago.

Same thing here. Nothing to do with the App Store. And in any case, they were available decades ago. Xcode is 20 years old. UIKit is based on AppKit, which itself originally came from NeXTSTEP over 30 years ago.

> But pushing 100 units at $100, leaving you with $300 is less than pushing 1000 units at $0.99 leaving you with $690 and that’s a conservative estimate.

Your math is wrong. 100 x $30 = $3000, not $300.

Anyway, indie developers can't "make it up in volume". One of the most difficult things for an indie developer is marketing and getting discovered by customers. That's why we need sustainable prices. Not to mention paid upgrades.

> You can choose to ignore that part, but that doesn't change the fact that everyone and their mom was cheering for a 30% haircut and a simple publishing process after having gone through hell with carriers.

Was the pre-iPhone mobile software market even as big as the Mac software market? I'm skeptical. It certainly wasn't as big as the Windows software market, which is also open. Open platforms were the norm.
As a former problem designer for IMO and similar contests, I deeply enjoyed reading this paper. At the same time, I'd like to point out that it was clear Geometry had to be the first topic to give up against AI (i.e., smart knowledge and inference-method indexing)
Among math olympiad topics, Geometry problems are often the most "mechanical." Once you can express the problem in terms of coordinates (think XY or complex plane) you're looking at a finite set of steps a computer can use to find a solution. Of course, time limits and human error get in the way of this being practical during the IMO itself. Back in the day, I'd use WolframAlpha to verify geometry proofs for problems I designed (+conjectures) using this approach.

Algebra (especially inequalities) can be similar – pull off some intense calculations and you often have your answer.

Where I'm really excited to see intelligent systems make progress is with Number Theory and Combinatorics problems. The search spaces are far more complex and they often require proving that something is impossible. These are the problems that would be difficult to solve with brute force computation.
Dealerships are essentially cartels already. There's a reason it's illegal for manufacturers to directly sell vehicles, and it's not because the consumers don't want it. It's not because the manufacturers don't want it. What does that leave you?
Yes there is, and I have been reading good things about Costco too when it comes to hearing correction. I wasn't sure if I should see a proper doctor/audiologist first before going to something like this.
Man what an absolute bummer of a CEO
Seems that some will reach the US, and I hope so. This seems great, and thank you!
They're kind of in a weird position because each of those companies are sticking them up, but because mobile isn't the bulk of their revenue, they can afford the legal costs of proceeding against Apple even if Apple retaliates against them in the meantime. Whereas if they got kicked off all the consoles they'd be out of business before the court case is over.

The argument that the consoles are subsidizing the hardware is just an excuse which has the causation reversed. They're not charging 30% because they have to subsidize the hardware, they're subsidizing the hardware in furtherance of their scheme to charge 30%. Without it they would stop subsidizing the hardware, but so what? People would pay less for games and more for hardware.

You might even pay less for hardware, because there would be no more reason to restrict games to a particular console and then you would only need one to play all the games, and Sony/Nintendo/MS would compete like (or be replaced by) Dell/HP/Lenovo.
> How about using the etc hosts file

Works for one computer, doesn’t scale.
Volvo 240 - if you can find one
arguably most reliable car ever; and without any modern features
Ziply Fiber
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziply_Fiber
Imagine what the world would look like if BSD became the dominant OS instead of Linux.
Another very interesting point here is, nobody seems to have read the actual post, and gone on about cheap shots against "women" as if were some general object you can collect together.

Like the post explores fictosexualism, the escapism of an AI girlfriend/boyfriend, the general agreed upon sense that its a coping strategy, taking a strange turn into true crime and AI characters, summarizing with that this "AI gf/bf craze" is going to continue to be a minority of people, but that instead this will develop (author's claim) into a sort of erotica, similar to romance novels, and that "romance scams" on places like Instagram may become common.

Like there are like 7 or 8 different subjects one could have a great discussion about from this post alone. Yet we talk about how you can meet a man in VR, how men are bad (?), and that women are in hetro relationships when men are not. It's a strange deviation from the rather intellectual nature of Hacker News.
We agree actually. SpaceX is not doing this for some research project, or for a commercial internet service. It's a military project-- see the Wikipedia link.
Funny because right now my son is busy building a "Doors" clone in Roblox Studio. I don't think it will have any logic but he loves just building the map so far. He's 7.
It is not from Bob but I highly recommend Designing Data Intensive Applications from O'Reilly.

Edit: Which is number 2 on this list hah.
Dell is awful
It could just be a collection of volcels as reddit posts like that do not really prove it. If you had one of them join a dating discord and try and act cute I'm positive they could get into a relationship with someone. There are plenty of people who are desperate for even a tiny bit of female attention.
Well, the US abandoned 100% of the land it had captured, and the enemy it was fighting against then took over that land.

Isn't that pretty much the definition of losing the fight?
'Ask HN' posts that have 'book' in their title".

Yeah, that kinda puts a damper on it for me. Only selecting "book" Ask HN's leaves out a lot of stuff. Just to illustrate: I was initially surprised not to see The Four Steps to the Epiphany on the list. Heck, I probably mentioned it 6 or 7 times last year on my own. But when I went back and searched, it seems like all the times that I mentioned that book were in threads that weren't about books per-se. And I'm sure plenty of other people will have similar anecdotes.

For example, it would also make sense to exclude such threads, to get a more representative idea of what books HN comments tend to talk about in natural contexts.)

Yes, exactly. I'd like to see a similar analysis done, but excluding those threads for the same reason.
Yeah, but that's why you have to veto very carefully someone that you're considering spending the rest of your life with. I mean, how much further are you willing to go just to keep the relationship? What if they want to live somewhere you don't like? What if they want kids and you don't? Etc. etc. And there's nothing wrong with compromise either, as long as you can live with the consequences, and god help you if you misjudge your ability to do so when you make your decision.
About $40 per unit in profit, compared to about $600 per unit for the iPhone. I'd probably feel differently if Apple clearly had to make it's margins through software.
Apple and Google are extracting so much wealth from the people who use and develop smartphone software it is insane.

I am continuously shocked at how supportive the HN community is of Apple collecting these tolls.
Why?

PE owning healthcare is especially problematic because nickel and diming on healthcare is playing with actual lives.
Jon Skeet is who Chuck Norris calls when confronted with a regex[0]

(Apologies for the Medium link)

[0] https://medium.com/geekculture/the-chuck-norris-of-programmi...
Oh this is the worst thing that could happen to any parent, but the writing was beautiful and so moving. Thank you for sharing. I am feeling such a great sympathetic grief but also great awe at how palpable the love and care is in this writing.
> "You can't just take the CSS stylesheets and references and store them."

Yes you can - just save them locally?
And probably also German WW I submarines which were a factor drawing the US into WW I but might be less discussed as the war had less impact on the US and was longer ago
> Your bike tires need to be at around 3 bar.

Yo, what? I'm pretty sure I do my bike tyres up to about 6.5 bar. And that's down from the 7 I used to use until I heard that lower pressure creates lower rolling resistance and is better.
He provided it in the third tweet: https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-2524684/v1 (He does this to avoid being penalized. Tweeters generally now exclude all external links from the first tweet in a thread because the glorious new Musk Twitter heavily penalizes tweets which contain links, so anyone who would like their tweet to be seen makes sure to segregate links into a quarantine tweet at the end.)

I assume you are logged out and so you only see 1 tweet, on the glorious new Musk Twitter, which also comes with no indication that there is an entire thread & discussion (including, ironically, Elon Musk himself: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1742409933411299706 )?
So basically UnPreparing for war.
For various reasons that are beside the point right now, most companies will degrade over time into a boring standard corporation. What was different about tech was that there were so many young companies that simply hadn't had the time to degrade. Whenever a company got old and shitty enough, it died and got replaced with newer companies.

For whatever reason that stopped happening. Google was founded in 1998 and went IPO in 2004. Facebook was founded in 2004 and had a billion MAU by 2012. It's 2024; we should have had an equally big success by now.
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Lars, I was in studio with you at A&M. I’m devastated to hear this, and praying for you and your family.
The main disadvantage of FWD is that sometimes you'll be legally required to put chains on in circumstances where the AWD/4WD is exempt.
Maybe its time to leave the community then.
>> these cities pretend there's nothing they can do and continue to sue for the right to inflict cruel and unusual punishment on their citizens

The punishment for vagrancy was the same as the typical punishment for many other crimes - a short stay in jail or a fine. That's neither cruel nor unusual. Far from being unusual, it is a completely ordinary punishment.

The cruel and unusual punishment clause was intended by the authors the Constitution to prohibit the use of torture in order to get a confession. The founders were worried about things like the Inquisition or the use of torture devices like the rack.

The 9th Circuit completely ignored the original meaning of the Constitution, as it has done in so many other cases. Hopefully the Supreme Court will uphold the rule of law here, instead of continuing to allow the judicial branch to usurp the functions of the legislative branch by ignoring or misinterpreting the law in order to enact its own policy decisions.
Why is that a ridiculous statement? I work in the system. The incentives are misaligned at best.
That applies to most things humans so for fun.

No one needs these contest math problems solved -- by requirement, they are solved before any student attempts them.
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Cesil controlled Xmas tree on the Raspberry Pi (2012)
30MPG and AWD is already a pretty tough combo to satisfy. Guess it points to Subaru.
Moreover, if they would actually admit what they were nominally charging for then someone could create a third party implementation of whatever that is, people would want to be able to use that instead of paying the fee, and what is their excuse supposed to be then?
There's a beauty in the fact that Podcasts are decentralized and built on RSS. Let's not ruin that.
This reminds me of a wood board alphabet puzzle that was gifted to my kid which was made to both work in English and French. Every letter from B to Z were easy to guess. However the letter A was the drawing of a little girl playing in a puddle...

We figured out it might stand for Anorak: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parka
Proposal for porting fish-shell from C++ to Rust