skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wasn't the market for mobile app small at the time. Almost everyone was focused on desktop and web applications. If you're looking to make millions, even preferential deals don't look like a good deal.
Not macbook good but okay. I think 4ish hours of real world programming use, at full res and good brightness (with games less) before it gets dicey. I use an external monitor that draws from the USB C port, so that brings it closer to 2.5.

Hibernation is absolutely not there, one other loss vs the macbooks.
This may be true in the case of getting an ESTA from the US, but that's a very specific non-visa case. In general rules vary wildly depending on the source and destination countries. I'm in the UK, my colleagues here in the UK who are Indian citizens for example, have a much harder time getting entrance to the US.

> So yeah, it's nothing more than a scam.

I want to be really clear here because it makes a difference. I completely agree that this site is bad behaviour, and I think it shouldn't be allowed to operate, however I don't think it's a scam (i.e. illegal), and I'm not certain how one would craft a law that makes this illegal while keeping morally justifiable businesses.

Calling everything we don't like a scam makes it easy to miss things that are useful to someone that just doesn't have the same requirements as us. As an example, there was a time when I thought payday loans were scams, why would anyone get that it's just a terrible financial decision. Well, cash flow is A Thing, it's worth something, and people earning much less than me are more exposed to cash flow issues.
I think you have it backwards - most people don't know what AI as a product really accomplishes. They're probably more accepting of products that use AI when it enhances an experience they already understand and want.
At least our planes can fly.

(that was free, I’ll take the downvotes)
maybe relevant ...

https://lwn.net/Articles/961510/

(CPUs may have hrngs but there are certain observations on their behaviour that create concern)
I overlaid bluefin-dx [1], the developer oriented build by ublue, over my Fedora Silverblue system and it's been pretty great so far. Feels a little bloated for my taste, which is why I started my own fork [2]. The ability to change things up in a layered way (basically a Dockerfile) without risking breaking anything at the host level is really nice!

1. https://universal-blue.discourse.group/docs?topic=39
2. https://github.com/sqwxl/sophon
Did you ask for a refund of those billings? If they refuse, you should report them to the State Bar if they're doing that. It's unethical to charge for services not rendered.
This is very problematic when monopolies are involved. “You are banned from Taco Bell for the rest of your life” is very different from “You are banned from all restaurants anywhere for the rest of your life.”

If all restaurants are Taco Bell, is it reasonable to allow such bans by taco bell?
I can't prove it, but I am quite sure NYT got a positive ROI on the acquisition of Wordle. They paid in the low single millions of USD, which isn't much for a brand as big as Wordle had become by then (2 million+ daily players) and it's been used to drive new digital subscriptions [1]. It's diminished somewhat since then but it has remarkable staying power. I can tell that from the Google Trends data [2] as well as the anecdata that I and so many of my friends and family still play Wordle every day.

[1] https://www.afr.com/technology/why-on-earth-did-the-new-york...
[2] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...

[Edit: And, nearly two years on, they say they get "millions" of players per day, and they've assigned a dedicated Wordle editor and write articles about the game frequently. (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/17/upshot/wordle-bot-year-in...). They're definitely not having buyer's regret.]
> A big reason that the US trades so much with China is because they are an adversary. It's a similar concept to nuclear MAD doctrine. Mutual Assured Economic destruction for both of the countries if there is a war.

No, that's wrong. It sounds like a regurgitated libertarian talking point/post-hoc justification, not actual history.

The reason the US trades so much with China is that, during its over-confident post Cold War high, it convinced itself that economic liberalization would inevitably bring political liberalization. That theory has been proven wrong, and China has shown you can have capitalism without democracy.
Aren’t regulators by definition establishing regulations which make all choices more similar to each other?
Well, except for: "Europe tends to be much less diverse and less creative in its foods."
It's a much better experience on windows to not be stuck with a windows store. Third party stores like steam are way better
It’s interesting that they seem fine with blatently copying part of the BBC game show Only Connect for their Connections game:

https://www.reddit.com/r/onlyconnect/comments/169j2p4/have_y...
> Where do housing in the rental market come from if they aren't purchased and rented out by investors?

Purpose-built rentals. Also, the need for rentals and rent prices in general would go down if most of the new builds weren't scooped up by investors and people could actually buy homes to live in.
One of the hardest pills to swallow when you are doing a startup is that there are customers you don't want. A customer that takes a week of grinding to close and makes you $27 IS NOT A CUSTOMER YOU WANT. You should pretend that sale never happened. It is just as much validation of your idea as a car salesman who manages to sell a brand new car to someone for 10% of what it is worth.

My honest advice is to get a job and stop digging yourself into a financial hole by living off credit. Work on your project one day a week. Try to take what you have and pivot it to a problem more people have and you can solve. Your goal should be to make something that you can spend 1/3 of the selling price on ads to acquire a customer. If you can't sell it with ads and you need a human involved to close people, you need to be selling your product for however much it would cost to cover a full time sales person (not you).
It's so easy to come up with stories about this that you don't really even need examples. I think everybody just sort of understands that if you put CVSS to the test, it would be ludicrously easy to stack two 8.0+ vulnerabilities next to each other with wildly different severity.
I was quite shocked after a few years of liquid checks to discover that it is actually in response to a realistic threat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_transatlantic_aircraft_pl... -- details that emerged during the trial, and the conclusion reported by El Reg: https://www.theregister.com/2008/09/10/liquid_bomb_verdicts/
And the poster began by asking for advice on how to appreciate it. It's obvious that the mishmash criticism is subjective, limited to them, and they're trying to understand better.

Many people, including myself and (apparently) the poster, don't understand jazz, at least not this kind of jazz. There are jazz artists that move me (you'd probably consider them of lesser quality or "easy listening"), but I've never understood what's so amazing about Miles Davis. And it seems like every time we ask for directions, we get the same incredibly obnoxious answers, that range from "oh my God do you even have ears" to "if you need it explained, you'll never get it".

Maybe I'll never get it, maybe there's a bit of pretentiousness in the fandom, maybe a bit of both, who knows.
Is this a distinction without a difference?

In the original qualitative write-ups for the Marshmallow Test, they described the children using all sorts of distraction strategies to basically make themselves forget that there's a tasty marshmallow sitting right in front of them. Maybe this is all that self-control is - having enough self-awareness (and valuing your future self highly enough) to direct your attention elsewhere so that temptations disappear from your view. It fits with the neuroscience we know about consciousness as well (that it's effectively a brain network which taps into the other brain networks and can observe and direct their firing) and even into how attention mechanisms in GPTs work.

It also is how most mature adults approach the world. If you're an alcoholic, don't go to the bar. If you're married, don't go to the strip club. If you want to lose weight, put less food on your plate. Most of what we know of as self-control is really having the skills to avoid temptation.
Hmm... okay, it only works on mobiles. Hypercard vibes good.

How do I get my work out of my phone? How do I distribute it?
Paying out 35k a ride on every 20 dollar canadian ride for a handicapped person is good business?

You're losing money on every transaction.

And no, you don't make it up in volume. You need to do 1750 other 20 dollar canadian rides just to make up for each handicapped ride. That's assuming you only want to break even, and you don't pay anything to your drivers.

That's a horrible business.
I love my G3. I found with a beefy i7 8 core cpu that sips 7w at idle. These machines are gold
You seem to ignore the fact they already know how to compute, down to the cents, everyone's tax.
Microsoft isn't forcing anything upon the devs other than signed binaries. This is not the same thing at all.
I wouldn't be surprised to see an account that used an LLM to do this very thing for any concept
It feels like you just falsified AI.
This smells very similar to the issue with the tetris clone a number of years ago. The overall issue is that while games aren't copyrightable, the look and feel of a game can be copyrighted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_Holding,_LLC_v._Xio_Int...
> evicting tenants for things that would be trivial in America, such as failure to pay

Evicting tenants is a MASSIVE pain in the ass in many American states.
The state of Linux on laptops, including from OEMs shipping devices with it, is the reason why around Windows 7, I ended up using VMWare Workstation instead, with exception of a netbook, now gone.

WSL just made it easier not having to depend on VMware or Virtual Box.

The other devices get bought with WebOS and Android, just work.
The economic advantage of countries with higher labour force participation of women is predicate on countries with lower labour force participation having babies and those babies becoming immigrants, otherwise they will continuously shrink which as Japan makes evident will make growth just about impossible.
This might have something to it, but there are plenty of common expressions that have the same phonetic properties you're describing (IPA transcriptions provided):

* fast track /fæst træk/

* swim meet /swɪm mit/

* Fat Tuesday /fæt tuzdeɪ/

* hat trick /hæt trɪk/

* fake coin /feɪk kɔɪn/

* drip pan /drɪp pæn/

BTW, I don't know if your account of how the phonetics of such words works out is correct. The traditional account is that in situations like this where the same consonant appears on either side of a word boundary, English speakers actually hold the consonant for a "double length", which is called gemination. (This is in fact very common in some languages, such as Italian, e.g. "sette" 'seven' vs. "sete" 'thirst', but English only recognizes consonantal length contrasts in consonants in this limited sort of situation.) The Wikipedia page has a good discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemination#English

You can verify this for yourself by comparing some minimal pairs. Consider:

1a. fast track /fæst træk/

1b. fast rack /fæst træk/

2a. fake coil /feɪk kɔɪl/

2b. fake oil /feɪk ɔɪl/

In my personal English, each a-b pair differs only in the amount of time I produce the /t/ or /k/ closure for at my alveolar ridge or velum.
Ah yeah you are right, TIL they are different
Well, despite that physician-owned hospitals have better outcomes than profit-above-all-else hospitals run by MBAs, Congress outlawed future physician-owned hospitals in the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).
Is this meant to sell F-35's or just to move the hands on the doomsday clock closer to midnight? Or cynically, both?
I suppose I should have added an /s… my point was, the actions of IDF soldiers are contrary to the "intellectual history of the european enlightenment".
I guess we found Ted Chiang’s alt account.
Could somebody explain in simple terms why modern nuke can’t be delivered by any aircraft capable of carrying its weight?
The EU is on a roll politically, it's much more agile and expertise-focused than most governments. Also he ceiling is a lot higher than in the US given that half of the EU is underdeveloped. Look at Estonia's potential for example, Bolt is the fastest growing transportation company globally.
I'm not surprised you don't understand the point.
I suspect I'm spot on, and you're taking personal offence for that reason.
> A 15 minute email from my lawyer costs about $150

Unless your lawyer is an equity partner, he's not getting much of that $150.

In the US, the median doctor makes almost 75% more than the median lawyer...
Or perhaps really well trained AI? Until they named him I was expecting that to be the answer. That’s exactly the type of question a well trained LLM could answer, the proof is what gives it away as not AI, as most AIs I know are unable to offer up any sort of evidence to back up any claims they make bec they don’t actually know what they’re saying or why they “believe” something.
> the amount of work necessary to try to support PWAs with third-party browser engines securely was way out of scope for the time frame to support the DMA.

Rubbish. The DMA became law in November 1st 2022. A trillion(!)-dollar corporation had approximately a year and a half to work this out.
That is called spam.
> > But, if this is the "Cargo is the best vs all others" debate...

> It isn't.

You could've fooled me with how uncharitable you are being here by blowing comments way out of proportion.

> Only you have the power to stop posting.

Full context: "But, if this is the "Cargo is the best vs all others" debate, kindly count me out."

Using ellipses and quote mining to make your opponent look foolish is the lowest form of sophistry and against HN policy. There isn't a "debate" to "win" here. So, why go to this sort of trouble over nothing?

> > If you're using other languages or platforms, there are plenty of excellent alternatives.

> True! But C isn't one of those languages.

I fail to see what C has to do with the choice of build tools. C isn't a build tool; it's a language.

> And let's be real, that's really why you're mad.

Who is mad? Literally, I replied with a comment about build tools. You keep trying to have the debate you want here by inserting words in people's mouths. It's disingenuous.

> C isn't perfect and it's not the best at everything.

No one. NO ONE, has made any claims even remotely like that. Yet another silly strawman for the debate you desperately want to have here.

> But what it isn't is a modern language with modern tooling.

Actually, there is excellent modern tooling for C. There are proof assistants and model checkers. It's possible to do similar things in modern C as in Rust or other languages, from proving the absence of UB to proving memory safety features. But, seriously, no one is having this debate, so it's silly. We were talking about build tools...

> I'm not particularly concerned with how I represent the Rust community.

Good, because these silly "debates" -- over a build tool that has somehow mushroomed into a C vs Rust debate in only your head and no one else's -- might seem cool to you, but are counter-productive.

> as I've written orders of magnitude more C code than Rust code.

And yet, you've never done any reading about modern build tools or package systems with C support. That's a mighty shame.

By the way, did you know that you can build C/C++ projects using Cargo? Yeah. Me neither. Huh.
> while Ukraine has everything to loose.

the point is that many countries through the history surrendered very fast and agreed on whatever aggressor demanded.

> It's not like Russia needs any further territory

that's Putin's wish, he wants to become some historical figure, and people have little choice but follow to meat grinder
I agree. For most people just starting out, it's a lot more worthwhile to get a single cheapo repurposed desktop or a single Raspberry Pi to run PiHole or something on and then expand from there. My homelab[0] started as a single Pi running PiHole and has expanded to four machines running everything I need from Jellyfin to Calibre to DNS, etc.

That being said, when I finally got around to rackmounting and upgrading some of the other hardware in my lab, this "beginner"'s guide was really helpful.

[0] https://blog.janissary.xyz/posts/homelab-0
Randomness from a CSPRNG (cryptographically-secure random number generator) never really gets "depleted," since as long as the seed contains enough entropy and isn't compromised, then it's computationally infeasible to learn anything about the internal state of the CSPRNG from it's outputs. See https://research.nccgroup.com/2019/12/19/on-linuxs-random-nu... for a nice overview.

The Linux random number generator did used to have a notion of entropy depletion, but that is no longer the case (at least for x86-64 systems: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Random_number_generation).

On older systems that have a notion of entropy depletion, you would eventually deplete the entropy counter and /dev/random would start blocking if you aren't feeding new entropy into the system.
Everyone gets murdered, commits suicide, transformed into crazy magic people or giant sandworms, or repeatedly dies then comes back in different forms over centuries.

LotR had them do a bunch of hero shit, then everyone either went home to hang out at the pub for a while, or took a boat out west.
I find it kind of sad for you that you have not yet met a savant. Spending time with someone that has more than encyclopedic knowledge is very interesting, and even sometimes creepy. But that can be said about any super human ability regardless of the form it takes.
All legislation not voted on dies at the end of each Congress.
The entire Dune series is an examination of consequentialism. There are good consequences for all of humanity.

Whether Herbert endorses consequentialism in the real world is not something you could guess just from the books. The cost of the good consequences is unfathomably high.
Imagine if we spent this much time and effort into providing healthcare, housing, and food to everyone in the world.
Nice article. It is good to bear in mind the perception of selfcontrol by observers does not actually correlate with the actual selfcontrol that a person exercises.
Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39630759
> Introducing another piece of software instead of using one you already use anyway introduces new failures.

Okay, but we're talking about this on a post about using another piece of software.

What is the rational for, well this additional dependency, Hatchet, that's okay, and its inevitable failures are okay, but this other dependency, RabbitMQ, which does something different, but will have fewer failures for some objective reasons, that's not okay?

Hatchet is very much about aesthetics. What else does Hatchet have going on? It doesn't have a lot of history, it's going to have a lot of bugs. It works as a DSL written in Python annotations, which is very much an aesthetic choice, very much something I see a bunch of AI startups doing, which I personally think is kind of dumb. Like OpenAI tools are "just" JSON schemas, they don't reinvent everything, and yet Trigger, Hatchet, Runloop, etc., they're all doing DSLs. It hews to a specific promotional playbook that is also very aesthetic. Is this not the "objective discourse at work" you are looking for?

I am not saying it is bad, I am saying that 99% of people adopting it will be doing so for essentially aesthetic reasons - and being less knowledgable about alternatives might describe 50-80% of the audience, but to me, being less knowledgeable as a "professional" is an aesthetic choice. There's nothing wrong with this.

You can get into the weeds about what you meant by whatever you said. I am aware. But I am really saying, I'm dubious of anyone promoting "Use my new thing X which is good because it doesn't introduce a new dependency." It's an oxymoron plainly on its face. It's not in their marketing copy but the author is talking about it here, and maybe the author isn't completely sincere, maybe the author doesn't care and will happily write everything on top of RabbitMQ if someone were willing to pay for it, because that decision doesn't really matter. The author is just being reactive to people's aesthetics, that programmers on social media "like" Postgres more than RabbitMQ, for reasons, and that means you can "only" use one, but that none of those reasons are particularly well informed by experience or whatever, yet nonetheless strongly held.

When you want to explain something that doesn't make objective sense when read literally, okay, it might have an aesthetic explanation that makes more sense.
The hospitals are poorly run. Please hate your hospitals management more. Or if you are a good manager, convince some friends to run a hospital. Imagine

10 appointments a day, 30 mins each.

You have to write /everything/ down the patient tells you. You often have to go over the 30mins because some patients need it. You need to follow up to order extra tests, you need to occasionally google something.

You skip lunch often. You need to find time to reply to messages from previous patients. Nurses will mess up something or a patient will show up late. Want to see patients past 5? The nurses have left and you can't legally 'bill' or code the appointment without the nurses.

day is over and you review tomorrow's patients. You read through their histories. Now you check the messages. There's between 5-45 a day. You see a lot of patients.

Then you're told that your department isn't bringing in enough money. They want you to see 11 patients a day. The reason? They didn't bill people correctly. For the past year.

A lot of doctors quit.
Enthusiastic small developers existed while there was a profitable market. Third party app stores allow piracy and make being a small developer much tougher, I doubt there will be much enthusiasm going ahead

What is happening seems to benefit mostly massive competitors like Epic or Amazon.
Fraud and waste are estimated to be 10% of healthcare costs: https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual...

Which is almost ~2% of GDP alone...

0.1% of credit card payments are fraud: https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/othe...

That's a more typical number.

Something is extremely broken with US healthcare.

The interesting thing is that every side seems to be losing.

The winners are certainly not average doctors.

Compared to the size of the market - health insurance is one of the worst insurance businesses.

Hospital administration is also not a great business.
But gosh darn it we accidentally caught a lot more and yes, this is my new boat.
>I can only watch cable news on TV, am I going to call that an essential computing device too?

If that is the only way you can find out about what is happening to the government responsible for your safety and wellbeing or alerts about impending disasters... absolutely!

Phones are literally essential computing devices in modern society as it is the primary source of important information whether it be about family, government, or national emergencies for a large swath of the population.
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