skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You can easily say the same thing about someone who does work a high-tech job

No you F-ing can't, and if you even remotely think that, you have never experienced poverty. Life's a lot different when your bills are $X this month and working 60 hours only makes you $X-$1000. "Change your expenses" Oh yeah? Am I supposed to WILL cheaper apartments into existence? Am I supposed to magically reduce the cost of my groceries? Am I supposed to pray away the late fee on my cell phone plan because I literally had $10 in my bank account and couldn't pay it?

It is expensive to be poor, intentionally so. It is a huge source of profit for numerous companies to make poor people pay more for the same service and access.

I'm sick and tired of privileged jerks saying "Just be better with your money" as if you can magically stretch your $15 and hour job to cover $1500 a month in rent, or that you should have no problem scheduling things when you can't even know your work schedule the week before.

What part of "personal responsibility" changes that your rent goes up %5 every single damn year, and your pay check does not?

I grew up in poverty. I only escaped it through sheer luck that I am above average intelligence and my hyperfixation was computers and computing history and programming, and despite a literal full ride scholarship to a second rate state college, I still couldn't afford it without my jackass Rich Uncle, who is exactly the type to complain about "personal responsibility", writing a $10K check. Now I pay $20k or more in taxes every year, for the rest of my life, which clearly offsets the 16 years times $10k a year "tuition" it costs to put someone through public school.

But notably, that doesn't undo the actual, physiological changes in my brain that come from growing up in poverty. These changes cause you to make less rational and less value-positive decisions. But no, definitely my fault that my brain broke when my mom spent most nights screaming and crying and trying to not starve to death.

Meanwhile she has literally won awards in the state for being one of the best teachers. For 30 years. She still cries about the suffering we experienced. But no, better that poor people get screwed over if they don't make perfect decisions, that they are empirically wired to not be able to do as easily as someone who grew up in a not financially stressed household.
MacOS 9 (PPC)runs OK. A little slow (macbook air m2)

https://mac.getutm.app/gallery/
Low single digit millimeters for current chip designs.

One reason that clock speeds are going above 5 GHz these days is that chips are getting smaller. That means shorter signal propagation distances.
Reserves are very different from resources though. In mining jargon the resource is how much you think is out there, a reserve is ore that you drilled, analysed, mapped out and shown to be profitable extractable, so a lot less.

Because turning resources into reserves is expensive only a limited amount is done before it is mined.
People have been saying that about Apple for 40 years now.
Nah man. The best is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=241000

Hans Reiser gives a jailhouse interview to Salon, and when he comes off as unremosrseful murderer, the peanut gallery says:

> I find it to be just another case of math envy, the imbecile KNOWS that he could never in a million years achieve 1% of what Reiser has achieved, however Reiser is now a convicted murderer, thus the idiot can now feel better about himself, and hurl contempt and scorn on Reiser.

Like anyone gives a shit about some computer filesystem.
Broadcom's VMware Overhaul Draws Attention of CIOs
minio is good but you really need fast disks.
They also really don't like, when you want to change the size of your cluster setup.
No plan to add cache disks, they just say use faster disks.
I have it running, goes smoothly but not really user friendly to optimize
If my investments' success were dependent upon a bunch of people who don't have any personal interest in my investments being successful, then there's a high chance my investments won't be successful.

Seems an excellent justification for the board to fire the CEO for fiscal irresponsibility.
A new entrant wouldn't necessarily need to compete worldwide; they could exclude any jurisdictions with regulatory or payment integration challenges.

The easy path to PCI compliance would be to use something like the Stripe iOS SDK and never see any payment card data. Agreed there are still some risks with card processing, but it's nothing unusual, millions of businesses deal with card processing.

Overall I agree it's not easy, but the challenges seem like normal ones that many startups deal with, mostly in smaller and/or more competitive markets which could never dream of the revenues or profit margins that would be possible here.

We could also look to the PC market to see that quite a few businesses do find it worthwhile to avoid the 30% charged by some stores. E.g. Epic Store undercuts it with 12% fees (7% if using UE), and larger companies tend to sell to consumers without using third-party stores, like EA, Blizzard, Adobe, etc.
Thanks for finally explaining stickers to me.
This sounds better in theory than practice. When it comes to apps, I'm a privacy maximalist, turning off all the ad tracking and that I can, and a notification minimalist, turning off every notification that is not something that needs immediate attention or at least action within a short timeframe.

But my settings are changed out from under me constantly. So I wouldn't trust being reliant upon them. Which in that case I'd rather have no signal, as this gets categorized differently in my brain where I think we are naturally inclined to believe any signal is stronger than it actually is. So it's harder to lull myself into a false sense of security and the friction is sometimes purposefully self inflicted. I can totally understand how the same explanation and justification can be used in the opposite direction though, to I guess this is a personal thing.

I do still believe that there should be a __legal__ requirement that users must verify and approve any price change to a reoccurring fixed rate subscription. I'm open to not being aware of nuance that needs to be considered or how it can/will be trivially abused, but I have a hard time seeing how this would not be simple basic consumer protection. I do not think it is in the public interest for companies to be able to employ strategies which are intentionally designed to trick the public and/or customers. While I appreciate you laying our your strategy (I just don't think it'll work for me but I'm sure it'll be beneficial to others) I want to make sure that we also do not codify coping mechanisms as solutions to problematic behaviors.
It's been a few years since I did frontend dev, but Safari was _absolutely_ the most difficult browser we had to develop for, _especially_ on iOS.

With IE, you can polyfill missing APIs. With Safari, you have to put in extra work to ensure your polyfills override Safari's built-in implementations in all sorts of exciting ways based on which particular Safari version someone is running, because it's _obnoxiously_ common for Safari to have broken or incomplete implementations of web APIs. So if you're just checking for the presence of some particular global, it'll be there...but it'll be subtly broken in various ways. We had constant issues with Safari's implementations of LocalStorage and IndexedDB, and with its weird tendency to "ghost-hover" over elements after a completely different element in the page was tapped/clicked, and that's just what's off the top of my head from when I last did frontend dev consistently (about 7ish years ago).

The only way to repro any of Safari's weird bugs nonsense, of course, was to shell out for a Mac or iOS device. You can't repro any Safari issues on any other, less-expensive platform. It's classic Oracle-style vendor lock-in with their vertically-walled-off tooling and lack of test images.

Except at least Oracle never put out a constantly-broken browser, let alone one that had -- and still has -- monopoly capture of an entire platform.

If you've got a desktop Firefox or Chrome issue, you can launch Firefox or Chrome on a cheap Linux or Windows machine or VM and repro it, and then snapshot the VM for reproducibility.

If you've got a mobile Firefox or Chrome issue, you can launch Firefox or Chrome on a cheap android device (or emulator), and if for some reason it really truly proves to be something Google or Mozilla hasn't implemented correctly _and_ you can't polyfill it...then you can advise users to try a different browser as a workaround.

There _is no_ "different browser" on iOS. If Apple has screwed up yet another standard web API, your users are hosed unless you can get really creative at dancing around their broken pile of crap.
This. I feel fortunate that I didn't start out in tech - I didn't become a programmer until I was 30. I'd been working since I was 15 or so, so I'd had about 15 years of experience in various industries.

I think a lot of devs who go into comp-sci and land into tech right after college have very little understanding of how hard life can be outside of tech. This isn't an easy industry, but goddamn it's so much better than the vast majority of other options out there.
Pool costs become more manageable as you have more clusters sharing the same pool. You can also have it have no incremental cost increase by setting the timeout to be 0, but it makes it less useful. You can have more clusters take advantage of it by using the same instance families. If you purchase reserved instances from Azure/AWS, you might as well make a pool with those as well. You may also want to check out fleet instance types.
There could be a rule where should be able to cancel with the same mechanism that signed up. If signed up and use the service with app or site, then should be able to cancel with them.
> How to workaround too little RAM problem? Let’s load pixel graphics if player is far away and call it mip mapping

Hold up, mip mapping is not a way to save RAM in fact it consumes more RAM because not only do you need to have the full-size texture in RAM you also need to keep smaller copies in RAM.

What it does save on is memory bandwidth, because you don't need to sample from the full-size texture for objects that are far away. And it improves visual quality, since you can use expensive scaling algorithms to produce high-quality downscaled copies.
Oh thanks for that. Looks like I should keep all revisions of firmware on oldest possible. I print through CUPS, so it should be quite safe to do since printer cannot require upgrade unless it's time-limited already.
See if there's a farmers market local to you. Even there they aren't (relatively) cheap, but IME way cheaper than the supermarket.
If you go back to Steve Jobs' original iPhone speech, the crux of it was: revolutionary user interfaces (mouse, click wheel, multi-touch) enabled revolutionary products (Mac, iPod, iPhone).

And while we know the LG Prada shipped with a capacitive touchscreen that's a technicality: LG took the UI of a feature phone, minimally adjusted it for touch and that was it. Meanwhile Apple took their desktop OS and shrunk it to the phone.

This is to say, if Apple is working on something big, we can't predict it. To quote David Pogue's first iPhone review

> The iPhone is revolutionary; it's flawed. It's substance; it's style. It does things no phone has ever done before; it lacks features found even on the most basic phones.

Even if we had an inclination of what they are cooking, figuring it out is near impossible. And we don't.

Of course, as a person who lives with T2 diabetes, I'd love an Apple Watch with a noninvasive glucose sensor. But while I have no doubt it costs dearly to develop and most importantly, validate that, I would guess it costs like 9 figures total (which is enough for most companies not-Apple not to be able to crack it). These numbers here are 11 figures. Yearly. Not even close.
This logic doesn’t work with anything else. If I say we’re going to fly to Jupiter you’re going to ask me for specifics not just presume that I know what I’m talking about. Or any of the other infinite things I can claim to be able to do. Why is this one different?
R v Sinclair (2010 SCC 35) is a leading case from the Supreme Court of Canada on a detainee's right to counsel under section 10(b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Specifically, the case addresses two issues regarding the police's implementation duty under the right to counsel: 1) does a detainee have the right to have a lawyer present during police questioning, and 2) does a detainee have the right to make multiple phone calls to their lawyer. A majority of the Court answered the first question in the negative, and answered the second question in the negative, subject to a change of circumstances.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Sinclair
So, when I talked about the length of the path in number of transistors, I oversimplified a bit. The length of the path would be measured in nanoseconds (or even picoseconds).

That number depends not just on the number of transistors, but also on the routing delay (are the interconnect wires between transistors long or short? How high is the resistance/capacitance?), and a lot of low-level details of the fabrication process that are extremely not public

But say you buy a brand new CPU and it's clocked at 5 GHz, you can easily get a rough estimate of how long the critical path is, since 1/5GHz = 0.2ns

What you can't easily get is the speed of the transistors or the number of transistors in the critical path, that info is not public, and you could only make a very rough guesstimate.
That’s a really high net loss. He’s going to need to do more than ask people to work more.
Kindly read the part of the paper about expert knowledge, it's not very long. Huemer is not arguing that all knowledge is useless, not even close - he's concerned by the fiendish complexity of political knowledge specifically.
Sadly no heat pump on a 2019 M3; no way to retrofit it either. A companies offers battery insulation solutions —but I don't know if I trust a solution that alters the heat transmission properties of a battery.

(The previous owner of my car had a heated garage but that might be too extreme a solution for me.)
not impossible but also not viable.
many decades before we create a sustainable "Biosphere X" experiment on earth, robots will be way better equipped to settle the solar system ... for themselves.
For context, this is what Apple's autonomous vehicles look like:
https://dmxvlyap9srmn.cloudfront.net/article/pictures/8e1f6d...

They're Lexus' with mattresses on the roof.

Ghost has a weird pattern and their name on the sides of the vehicle. Nuro is uses Prius' mostly. Woven planet/Toyota tends to have slicker looking vehicles. They're the right vehicle in this picture:

https://thelastdriverlicenseholder.files.wordpress.com/2023/...
> All logic following from illogical things such as religion, are flawed and utterly useless.

Interesting take considering the scientific method arose originally as a method for understanding God's consistent and ordered creation.

Just because you don't agree with something, or are not otherwise familiar with it, does not mean it is illogical.
Dear HP CEO,

please just sell me a rock-durable/repairable, PS/PCL-compatible, easily-refillable printer (I know you can, you used to make these when I was a kid) for whatever a price which satisfies you and leave me alone with it forever. I'm not an investment, I'm a deal, a good old "right here right now" kind.

Or wait... actually I am also an investment because, if satisfied, I will convince almost every client and friend of mine to buy one or more printers of the same model (now I do so for Brother but there's room to compete in quality).

Or maybe go the Lexmark way - sell dirt-cheap printers to up-sell expensive ink cartridges. This also is a fair deal some will be happy to choose because the printer itself is so cheap. As long as the carriage head is replaceable and won't clog to death when not used often enough.

But in whatever a case - no cloud/app bullshit please, just plain drivers.
We have to understand our brains better first. Real neurons are substantially more complex than what even our most “biologically inspired” models are greatly simplified.
They're pretty efficient at moving public money into private hands though, which why there are such persistent lobbies to continue these subsidies.

Socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for the poor.
TFA: "...R&D spending as a percentage of sales, to levels last seen before the iPhone launch..."
Minio gives you "only" S3 object storage. I've setup a 3-node Minio cluster for object storage on Hetzner, each server having 4x10TB, for ~50€/month each. This means 80TB usable data for ~150€/month. It can be worth it if you are trying to avoid egress fees, but if I were building a data lake or anything where the data was used mostly for internal services, I'd just stick with S3.
Ask HN: Why have WiFi routers become so expensive?
In February 2022 I bought an Asus RT-AC86U for 85€. Its price has nothing but increased. Today it costs 245€ almost 3X more!!! A 5 year old model that doesn't even support the latest wifi standards. All the Asus modems I occasionally check (as I would like to test mesh) follow a similar pattern. Anyone has an explanation why even Nvidia lowers it's prices but not wifi routeurs?
In England and Wales perverting the course of justice carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. IMHO this would be appropriate for the lawyers who rewrote those witness statements.
What you want is latex.
Gotcha. I imagined you were driving a busload of roughnecks with convictions to the oil fields.

It is absolutely BS that an arrest with no conviction would lead to delays at the border.
Scalability is adapting the characteristics of your instances to demand increase or decrease. You can adapt the number of instances (horizontal) or adapt the CPU, RAM, I/O characteristics of every single instance (vertical).

A basic rule of thumb I try to follow is: as long as you have at least two instances, don't immediately think about hundreds or thousands of instances for spikes that will never exist. Scaling from 1 to 2 (to remove SPOF) is much harder than scaling from 2 to 3, or 20. You have already removed some implicit "localhost" assumptions.
I didn't buy the first generation iPhone (or even the 2nd generation); I bought the 2nd generation iPad and waited until the 4th generation for the watch. I am waiting to see what the next iteration brings.

I think that people hoping the next generation will be cheaper are going to be disappointed, but I expect the hardware and software to be a huge improvement over this first cut.
The Wikipedia article on Paula Vennells tells me that the Post Office prosecuted 700 subpostmasters between 1999 and 2015 [0]. That works out to about one prosecution every 8 days.

I do not know the baseline rate at which postmasters commit fraud or are prosecuted, but isn't one prosecution every 8 days an awfully high number? Shouldn't the Post Office have conducted some sort of internal investigation as soon as the frequency of prosecutions hit a number this high?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Vennells
I dunno man. Pay them millions in options per quarter like you.
It’s pretty impressive, right? I don’t think if you took random New Yorkers and dumped them into that same situation they would have achieved the same outcomes.
> When their conversations about the nausea were overhead by mission control, Alan Shepard, the legendary Chief of the Astronaut Office, issued the first official reprimand of a crew during a space mission.

An insane way to introduce Alan Shepard
The vast majority of non-office buyers just grab whatever is cheap on the shelf. They see "oooo color" and take the inkjet.
The first useful steam engine, according to Wikipedia's entry on that year:

"The first known working Newcomen steam engine is built by Thomas Newcomen with John Calley, to pump water out of mines in the Black Country of England, the first device to make practical use of the power of steam to produce mechanical work."
That land will get repurposed organically when electric cars overtake ICE cars and the demand for corn-derived ethanol drops.

Hopefully for something that tastes better than corn.
in early games it was a metod to save RAM too, for a short time but it did. Because you didn't have to store all mip map parts in the RAM
One great advantage of modern inkjet systems is that heads are included in the cartridges. I am cheap so I got an Epson Ecotank and the heads (which are build into the printer) are clogging months after purchase.
They may well just not operate in the UK, but it remains to be seen if anyone will speak openly about being given an order they're not supposed to reveal the existence of, even in cases where that order is to break a law passed by their own government without telling their own government.
Isn’t this a bit of a narcissistic take? Tons of creatives use it. It’s a mainstay in a lot of media and entertainment use cases, from on set work to visualization etc just as an example of things I’ve worked on.
How come printers don't have cheap Chinese device duplicates? The fundamental laser patents are from the 80s and 90s. Surely a reimplementation of these exist somewhere. I would gladly AliExpress one of these and just USB to print.
They've been working on an EV since several years ago, wonder what happened to that project:

https://i.redd.it/2npa5ztl1o751.jpg
That's for academic papers and textbooks. This is just a message board. It's akin to a pub - water tight arguments not needed.
Thanks for the advice, I appreciate it since I know advice like this comes from a place of kindness and caring.

I have mixed success with telling people about my autism. Some places will take it as a sign I’ll be a unique problem and ghost me. I’ve learned mostly I have to mask as good as I can and hope it works. People only seem to be kind towards obviously autistic children, older men who are only low level autistic and can pass for “normal“ tend to be seen as dickheads regardless. I’m trying to be better at social stuff so I don’t seem an asshole, but my brain just can’t get some things down!

But maybe I should try to bring it up again next time I interview, honestly it’s been years since I’ve had to really interview hard, maybe people are kinder and more understanding today. Lucky for me I was laid off and can get that practice in now!
No, as a percentage.

They’ve always been spending more than last year. It goes up every year.

What’s new, as the graph in the article shows, is that as a percentage they back to spending the level they used to before the iPhone.
So if Brother is out, which printer is still reasonable to buy? Are there any?
Apartment living.

Probably for china, also environmental destruction is coming soon to really ding fertility a few notches
These are really good (we buy them and give them away after conferences because it's cheaper than renting a printer from the hotel) - but be aware, they are not photo printers.

Color laser printers shine when doing documents and office-style graphics with charts, etc, not photos.
> I don't think it's anything as sexy as some world-shattering AGI, etc.

AGI is a moonshot, and Apple doesn't talk about their in-development moonshots until very late in the product development cycle. There's evidence that ChatGPT lit a fire under their butt¹ as it did the rest of the tech industry, so I'd be surprised if whatever they're working to launch this year didn't have tendrils reaching years and decades into the future.

¹ https://www.macrumors.com/guide/apple-gpt/