skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- Nintendo Switch hardware only runs Nintendo Switch OS -> Nintendo monopoly on Switch OSes

- Nintendo Switch OS only runs on Nintendo Switch hardware -> Nintendo monopoly on Switch OS hardware

- Nintendo Switch hardware and OS only run officially licensed Nintendo game -> Nintendo monopoly on games for Nintendo Switch and OS games

- Nintendo Switch games only run on Nintendo Switch -> Nintendo monopoly on hardware that runs Switch games

(Apple and iPhone are in the same situation)

Compare to the situation with Windows:

- x86 hardware can run any OS, including Linux and Windows -> mostly no Microsoft monopoly, although Windows and Microsoft keys are often pre-installed

- Windows can run on any x86 hardware (and ARM I think?) -> no Microsoft monopoly, although they don't release source to port to other CPU architectures

- Windows can run any software from anyone at no charge -> mostly no Microsoft monopoly, although they can favor their own software

- Windows software can run on any OS, such as Windows or Linux with Wine -> mostly no Microsoft monopoly, although one can argue that having an OS API without an open-source implementation induces lock-in and creates a partial monopoly
The problem with that is you're ruined if you lose the court case. Few people would be willing to take on such a massive risk.
> Asteroid mining

Think of all the science you could do with asteroids! Peer into the early history of the solar system . . . see what precursors to life existed before Earth was habitable. . . and all people think about is how fast they can strip-mine our extraterrestrial heritage. . . All that belongs in a museum!

/s
> State controlled medicine is essentially the only solution to the already partly collapsed US health care system.

But wouldn't government control and subsidy lead to the same malinvestment and cost explosions as college tuitions?

Wouldn't fierce competition at all levels be a good thing?

Why not force insurers to cover everything up to a set cost on a per-disease basis? That is, let patients spend a set allowance before forcing them to use in-network?

Why not adapt upfront cost estimates? Allow overages, but if a hospital goes consistently over estimate, then they get penalized?

Allow patients to access cheaper doctors and services if they waive their rights to medical malpractice lawsuits.

Give patients cheaper healthcare for demonstrable good health practices (taking into account diseases and existing conditions).
Modern ( and ancient) democracies are not direct democracies.

There are many reasons why popularity alone of the voting public does not translate into policy. The dangers of tyranny of the majority is well known, will of the people is a necessary but not sufficient reason.

There are also some pre-requisites for a functioning democracy like a well-informed electorate which is questionable today at best.
It’s also nicely segregated to designated times and places: Fassnacht, and…well, Fassnacht!
Testcontainers is great. It's got seamless junit integration and really Just Works. I've never once had to even think about any of the docker aspects of it. There's really not much to it.
The stock market used to be a pretty dull place. Now it is a bit too interesting.
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Google MusicFX DJ Mode
Thank you. Correct, there is not "pot" where the winner takes all. The fund is simply and always split 50/50 towards lawyers and fees.
I love the picture on BoingBoing [1] for the corresponding article - an Apple Magic Mouse with little wheels crudely drawn on the side.

1. https://boingboing.net/2024/02/27/apple-reportedly-cancels-e...
Poor response in the context of reducing CO2 emissions as a goal.
i too prefer the microbot factory future to the paperclip factory future

we just have to teach AI 'fun' :D
Bluesnooze: Sleeping Mac = Bluetooth Off
I think Open foundation models have huge potential, but their development could accelerate even faster with increased funding and contributions. We cannot neglect the gap, but the question would still be would you contribute or support the usage of an open unrestricted model?
Remove the residency cap, allow foreign doctors to immigrate and quickly certify their skills, allow nurses to attend night school to become doctors, etc.
Things fly because of thrust, not wings. Rockets, missiles, don't have wings and yet they still fly even longer distances. Shut the engines of a 747 and it will fall like a rock, no matter how perfect the airfoils.

Bernoulli and Coanda are important but without thrust/velocity there is no lift
UnitedHealth is by far the worst health coverage I have ever had. They are so bad at paying claims that our local hospital network has dropped them; all of our emergency care in the immediate region is now out-of-network. They absolutely are criminals and deserve to be put out of business.
There’s a weird advantage in US tax code for buying a house with your friend. An individual can write off the interest on up to $750k of mortgage. A married couple gets $750k total. Two unmarried people get $750k apiece, and they can use it on the same house. This could be worth like $20k/year depending on your situation.
Does it? Not if you switch away from the 9-5 routine. Daily work makes life feel fast, as do routines of all kinds, family kids etc. Switching to on-demand employment leaves a ton of opportunities for our attention to drift away and travel.

It s true that novelty is rewarding. When mice are placed in a novel environment, their neurons become more excitable, but that doesn't necessarily correlate with subjective perception of time
TLDR this form, under "Equal Pay Act" claim: https://dir.tfaforms.net/327

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In case you don't trust "tfaforms.net" # 327 to be the official source, here's some details...

First, this news site interviews a few gov officials, who say to contact a Department of Industrial Relations field office: https://calmatters.org/economy/2023/03/california-pay-transp...

> What can you do if you see a job posting that you think violates the law?

> You can bring it to the attention of the labor commissioner by contacting any field office [https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/DistrictOffices.htm], either in person, over the phone (833-525-4635), or via email, said [DIR Public Information Officer Paola Laverde]. This can be done anonymously.

> Laverde also said that people can file retaliation complaints [https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/howtofileretaliationcomplaint.ht...] anonymously if they are alleging violations of the part of the law that requires pay scales in job postings. However, the retaliation complaint form seems to require a first and last name. CalMatters has asked the department how people wishing to file a complaint anonymously should proceed and awaits a response.

That last site links to a direct form where you can submit an "Equal Pay Act" complaint: https://dir.tfaforms.net/327, but it's hosted on a third party forms site.

Equal Pay Act FAQ #29 clarifies that this is indeed relevant to the pay scale disclosure in job postings: https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/California_Equal_Pay_Act.htm
Good. If we want cleaner air and quieter cities, we have several alternatives to gasoline cars. I imagine a graph of CO₂ production goes a bit like this:

Walk -
Bike -
Train ------
Electric Car ------------
Gasoline Car ------------------------------

On the one hand, it seems silly to debate electric cars versus trains while we have gasoline cars on the streets. On the other hand, I like that we focus our news on the low emitters, so gasoline cars drop out of popular culture. To change a paradigm, it helps to speak with assurance from the new one.

(Edits: formatting, pith)
Ineffective altruism strikes again
They didn't lose out on any of those things – at worst, they lost the potential that someone who recently played their game without paying for the hardware or software would pay next time.

"This game was so great that I would consider paying next time, but I'm definitely not going to pay this time" doesn't seem, to me, like a credulous position.
I know this is HN so I don't want to distract from the technical achievement and how genuinely useful this can be.

I also don't want to tell you how to raise your kid. You do you, it's not my family. But I want to share how important it is to watch foreign spoken language movies and TV, especially as a kid, to be able to speak multiple languages later in life. You'll notice that in every country where TV and movies are regularly dubbed in the local language, the English levels go to shit. Dubbing is partially responsible for this because kids are not exposed to a different language on a regular basis.

I remember wanting to watch a dubbed movie with my mom as a kid, and she told me "We will watch the original instead, dubbed movies don't have a soul". It stuck with me. She was absolutely right. Today I am working on my sixth spoken language. Causation not guaranteed, merely implied.
it's such an interesting subject matter, presented visually in a really nice way, but his script-writing is so jarring to listen to, and it feels like half the time he doesn't even really comprehend the words that he's reading out. perhaps it's just me though; he's got a lot of subs
Sure function coloring can be a problem, but the gp just spoke about async/await being a mess.

Function coloring can be handled by just blocking on an async function. Though the reverse takes some planning.
I'd love to see fewer parking spaces if it meant better transit/walking/biking, and yeah trees are part of that (especially for walking).
If I recall correctly, when everything ran on petrol and diesel, it was said that a single-occupancy car emitted 5x as much CO2 as riding a packed ("efficient") train. That this ratio has dropped from 5x to 2x says to me that electric cars have gotten a lot more efficient (more aerodynamic designs, which helps increase range).
Maybe you learn best that way, but that doesn’t mean everybody does
Testcontainers are for testing individual components, apart from the application.

I built a new service registry recently, its unit tests spins up a zookeeper instance for the duration of the test, and then kills it.

Also very nice with databases. Spin up a clean db, run migrations, then test db code with zero worries about accidentally leaving stuff in a table that poisons other tests.

I guess the killer feature is how well it works.
And it’s kinda funny as both China and USA aren’t really cutting emissions to fight climate change, but push all other countries to do all the legwork. Whe news outlets argue what are worse cows or goats farts, electric cars or electric trains and so on. Just pure hypocrisy tbh.
This opinion isn't actually all that drastic. If we just got people on the HSA + disaster coverage* train a lot of the issues with the system would disappear. I am far far from the cheapest patient but my annual spending doesn't even get to 50% of my portion of the premiums of my employer's PPO plan.

* Where if a doc prescribes insurance pays for it no questions asked (to you the patient). They can claw it back from the doctor if they think it's excessive. I think for disaster only coverage you could successfully pass laws to this effect without insurance companies starting a third world war.
> planes can obviously fly inverted

Many (most?) planes cannot sustain inverted flight.
I know Germany dub most video, but wouldn't a seven year old be able to read subtitles? It's a great way for her to learn English, it's how most Swedes learn it before starting school. I think there's a pretty strong correlation between countries' average English proficiency and how common dubbing is.

https://haonowshaokao.com/2013/05/18/does-dubbing-tv-harm-la...

Edit: I forgot to mention that the samples on the website is impressive and well made. How do you do the speaker diarization and voice cloning?
Reason #6479 of why WFH is a godsend. Never again will I have to suffer a useless VP rearranging the floor for the nth time in their quest to optimize inter-team collaboration.
Cool, but in the US we dont have a third the population living in one metro. Americans are not willing to give up space or their yard.
Wondering if the author ever contacted Nodemailer for sponsorship?
> Sure, if you have a walkable/transitable/bikeable city. If you don't, then losing parking spaces can be an issue.

But a huge part of what makes cities terrible for walking/biking/transit is having too much parking.

Shop entrances being right next to the sidewalk is ENORMOUSLY more pleasant for pedestrians compared to needing to walk across a veritable sea of asphalt, as is the case in typical American strip malls and similar developments.

> I would have to walk for 24 Google Maps minutes to get to the nearest store of any kind.

Probably a zoning/density issue. We've intentionally designed our cities to be shit for walking and to our credit we've succeeded enormously.

> Five minutes into it, she said, "Now I know why everyone is fat here. This is miserable." And my reply was "Yes, and this isn't as hot or as humid as it gets. It's actually not that bad today."

Nope, that's not it at all. The American South has a somewhat similar climate to Japan, and even the warmer parts of Japan have way skinnier people.

I lived in Alabama for a couple years, and I'd say it's mostly just transportation design and culture around eating. I biked a bunch in Alabama and it was fucking terrible. That shit sucked. Granted, biking almost anywhere in the US is pretty bad, but Alabama was definitely worse than some of the other places I lived, and infrastructure was the biggest part of that.
Basically, most forms (including ours) of capitalism turn into a oligopoly where each oligo-member is highly vertical and controls the whole narrative.

Another word for this would be corporation-states.

Amazon is another example of this. So is Google. So is Apple.

It's high time that government steps in and breaks these 'too big to fail' corpo-states up into actual competing interests that, in the end, do better for the citizenry. Cause each corporation is a dictatorial 'state' acting in opposition to our elected government, and much of our monopoly laws, either in spirit or in application.
I definitely think this is a generational thing. Like you, I come from the land of "everything costs something" and treat free with suspicion, but also, we have been conditioning people to expect things to be free, and to bury and distract people from the real cost of those things for quite some time.

Two of the largest video content distribution platforms on the Internet, YouTube and Twitch. Free!* (just watch these ads). Store your data on the cloud with Dropbox, Google Drive, or OneDrive! Free!* (just let us harvest data about what you put in there) Hell, 25 years ago, you want to get on the internet? Use NetZero! Free!* (just look at these popups) And this pattern continues to be pervasive. And the real killer here is that we keep getting things for free*, so people that weren't around during the introduction of these tactics have grown accustom to it as if it's how things should be.

So, I agree, we really have a problem here in messaging and in using misleading psychology to bury dark patterns like the true cost of Free in services we use. We probably should be teaching more folks to beware of the true cost of things, that if it's free, you're the product, not the user, so on and so forth.
> since I started giving interviews in 2021

You meant taking interviews?
GitHub created this defense fund after they came after youtube-dl. Not very Micro$oft, but they will probably help when it comes to that, but so far they did not file for DMCA takedown in GitHub. Maybe they did and Gihub changed the rules and requires some court judgement to take things down first?
I found it funny that Linus of LMG endorsed this setup not because it is better, but because Yuzu doesn't hold your savegames hostage. If you don't know: you can't backup saves, they get written to NAND, not the SD card. you can however buy cloud backup, but only for games that don't opt out.

Truly a problem of Nintendo's own petty making if even switch owners with a legitimate copy prefer to not run on their hardware.
It’s not coming across in your comment, but Testcontainers can work with unit tests to start a container, run the unit tests and shutdown. For example, to verify database operations against the actual database, the unit test can start an instance of Postgres run tests and then shut it down. If running tests in parallel, each test can start its own container and shutdown at the end.
The article talks about a "detailed analysis by rail industry", but doesn't link to or even mentions the title of the report. Which analysis are they talking about exactly?
Either I misread you or you at least implied it's a problem though:

> This sums up so well the current state of the world. Quality of life is relatively high so people expect a lot.

> [..]

> Now life js unfair if you can't afford the latest iPhone.

Or maybe you agree life is unfair if you can't afford the latest iPhone, I don't know.

Apart from that... what's with the fixation on iPhones from people who bash on the poor and the supposed entitled ? Reading other threads iphones are the best bang for bucks (resale and quality, costs less per day than an android equivalent flagship or something) and then there's that TP quote "A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.”" that is brought a lot... wouldn't that justify people complaining about not being able to buy quality stuff ?

Or is an iphone quality stuff for rich people but extravaganza for the poor ?

> Now life js unfair if you can't afford the latest iPhone. Not a criticism of OP, because indie startup stuff is very hard, relativly.

Or life is unfair for people who tried indie startup stuff but not the other people.

Is this a tribal thing ? A peer thing ?

Whatever.
It's the difference between being a publisher/game developer and a hardware company.

Hardware companies see games as a means to sell consoles.

Game developers see platforms as a means to sell games.

If you're coming at things from the perspective of a hardware maker it makes sense to be as restrictive as possible, since that provides the differentiation that sells your (overpriced) hardware. In addition, if your hardware becomes common then you can charge game developers for access (more broadly, this is what Apple does, mostly)

From the game developer side, it makes sense to be on as many platforms as physically possible, since that's just more places to make sales and money.
Nah. If you read my response to the comment above, you can see it’s based on actual experience. Maybe your conclusion is based on assumption?
The old Apple would've pitted two (much smaller) teams against each other. Not sure if the company culture really aligns with that type of structure now, but it's a big assumption that 300 people would all be a single team/org.
It would probably be even easier to patch the license check function. That's presumably against the software license, so due to copyright you would no longer be legally entitled to run the software.
Wait, does this not leak the state that Springfield is in?

That’s always been a ‘secret’ the Simpsons kept hidden and is the subject of other gags!
https://archive.ph/njmN3
Cannibalizing your own product is an achievement when done correctly. You don’t see Apple running to add a touch screen to MacBooks because that would cannibalize the iPad.

Let’s take iTunes. People were clowning Apple for releasing Apple Music because they had millions of people buying Music on iTunes. Spotify showed it could work but they weren’t exactly making money over fist.
Last I checked, you needed to actually own a switch and a downloadable version of the game to use yuzu... has this changed?
I agree this is the solution rural medicine needs.
Yes, I could see that, it is very mysterious. Let me think about some updated copy about it being a text messaging service specifically.
Wow wasn't aware of such connectors exist. Thought you must pay for something like that. CDATA (https://www.cdata.com/connect/connectors/) charges a fortune for connectors.
Nothing; what the author is calling a wide event is a structured log.

> Structured Log which is pretty much the Wide Event

The OP's point is that you can just capture anything that one might call a metric/span/trace in a structured log.

So, it's a bit more specific, in some senses: a "metric" is a structured log bearing some value. E.g.,

{
"@timestamp": "…",
"query_kind": "list_people_in_org",
"query_time_s": .051
}

Is a structured log. It's also a single datapoint along a timeseries. The metric might be something like "query time", with a dimension "query_kind".

ELK stacks let you visualize such structured logs into graphs with only moderate pain.

A "span" is a structured log with start/end timestamps.

A trace is just a tree of spans, built out of many structured logs. In a prior life, we'd have,

{
"span_id": "root_span_id/subspan_a/subsub_span_b",
…
}

You can pull out whole traces by doing a "span_id startswith 'root_span_id'" query in whatever your query language is. You can pull out sub-traces similarly. It works even across microservice boundaries, if you coordinate the span IDs appropriately.

I think where I depart from the OP: it takes too much space. The OP advocates sampling; I'd rather a specialized data structure for metrics that can store a data point efficiently. I.e., at least in sizeof(timestamp || f32) bytes, ideally better, and then I can just not worry about sampling. (In a sense; if you're watching a continuous value, you're always sampling. But for discrete events that you're recording, I can just record all the events. But I'll only get a number. Sometimes, that's okay. I feel like this is a bit spiritually different than the sampling the OP is discussing.)
it could make a pretty cool film. baby taken as a child turns on his captors and destroys their queen.
That right. The point being, they are very different systems with different information inputs. Meaning what works for one may not be a good method the the other.
Possibly a misconception of mine; Australia has some added complexities that not all of us face. What creatures will my mini forest it attract and will my little forest set fire to my home?

I’m in New Zealand where life is less spicey.
Not shilling here, merely impressed by the work of journalist Marshall Allen—he has a book "Never Pay the First Bill". Search around on podcasts and YouTube for some interviews to get the jist.

I've bought a few copies for friends that had expensive health issues and have used the techniques on relatively small stuff for myself.
Apple Ends Quest to Build Its Own Electric Vehicle
https://archive.is/xJab0
I was not aware that Yuzu worked well enough to be worth suing over. Thanks for the tip.
> Also very nice with databases. Spin up a clean db, run migrations, then test db code with zero worries about accidentally leaving stuff in a table that poisons other tests.

Are you spinning up a new instance between every test case? Because that sounds painfully slow.

I would just define a function which DELETEs all the data and call it between every test.
On the Android side of the fence, Xiaomi car looks nice:

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/26/this-is-xiaomis-first-elec...
We have implemented zero-code distributed tracing with eBPF. https://github.com/deepflowio/deepflow