skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Your system is a ton of work for very little benefit to anyone

It has the obvious benefit of discouraging people from increasing your costs with rewards cards. Keep in mind that businesses often have net margins in the vicinity of 5% of revenue. Paying 3% of revenue or more to the credit card company is heinous.

And what work is there to do? The calculation is done by a computer. If your attitude is "just price in the cost" well then there you go, you can pay the true cost of the card you have without even looking at the alternatives. Whereas if you want to get the lowest price then you have to figure out which card has the lowest price. Removing your option to do this is not going to save you money, it's just going to cause you to pay the higher price at all times, which you still have the choice to do.

> they see the “expense” but they can’t see the revenue that aren’t getting.

Increasing sales by e.g. 15% while decreasing net profit by up to 60% is often not a fantastic business decision.

> Credit card users spend more than cash users.

Which is why you accept them but provide a discount for the people who don't use them and thereby don't expose you to their fees.

> And credit card users that have to pay higher prices will go elsewhere.

But they're not higher prices. Restaurant A charges however much to everyone. Restaurant B charges exactly the same amount to people who use credit cards and a few percent less to people who pay cash. The people who insist on using credit cards can go to either place and pay the same amount, anyone willing to pay cash can get a discount at Restaurant B.
No, you're missing the point. The whole point is you're implementing the runtime that defines the safety semantics. Your proposal is essentially "implement your JS engine GC on top of the JVM by just using the JVM's GC", i.e. don't implement the GC yourself. The unsafe code is now the JVM GC, and you've just moved the problem from "implement the JS engine's GC" to "Implement the JVM's GC", and they same problems continue to exist.

I am really struggling to understand where this gap in understanding is occurring. It does not matter what environment or language you implement a JS engine (or whatever) in. The attacker is going to attack the unsafe portion of the runtime. If you build you JS engine on top of the JVM, then the attacker is not going to attack your JS engine's runtime, they attack the JVM's.

The JVM, .NET, etc runtimes are not doing anything different to what the JS engine runtimes are doing, and aren't magically free of the same bugs. If anything they're probably doing less to protect from or prevent attacks, because they have a much much smaller attack surface (because they aren't generally exposed to everything on the internet) and the reason attackers have to target the JS engine runtime is because the JS sandbox does not allow the general system access "correct" and completely uncompromised .NET or JVM code have. Attacks on the JVM and .NET generally mean "convince the VM to load correct code that does something that a specific app/service is not meant to do but the VM generally allows applications to do", whereas a JS VM does not allow an attacker to do anything outside of the JS sandbox, so they must compromise the runtime.

It may be easier to understand if we try to present this in a different way:

JSC can be compiled as an interpreter for any cpu architecture because there is a fall back C backend for the interpreter code generator, so you can compile JSC to WASM. Then you could make a version of webkit than executed all JS through the WASM build of JSC running under the native JSC runtime. You've now built your JS engine on top of a safe runtime (WASM), but it should hopefully be obvious that an attacker is simply going to continue targeting the native JSC runtime.
>It comes from the company taking 75% of profits

I know nothing about Roblox, but this YouTube short (from Pirate Software) came up for me recently, and made it seem like the revenue cut is a bit more nuanced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkihEtuVliU

His pinned comment also goes into a bunch of detail.
Planck's Principle
I've recently watched this guy's journey, maybe something interesting for you as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OfNePKRPGY
Ask HN: iPhone users, what's stopping you from switching to Android?
Could you have GPT summarize all those links please? And into 3 sentences max ELI5 please.
I thought I would be into smart home devices, but the companies fucked up by turning them into privacy and security liabilities, with poor interoperability and likelihood of turning into junk when the company goes under.
How much do you estimate you make off of it? It feels like the intersection of marginals gains and a high level of attention you need to pay to sniff out good deals, not hurt your credit score, remember how to balance charges across cards. I feel like it would need to be a fair amount to be worth the "time".
Even factoring parity drives its still absurd. $55 a year per tb per life and we somehow never see depreciation in spinning rust storage prices hit these plans. If anything they get more costly over time. Why? Their overhead literally goes down every year with depreciating costs of drives and all the other hardware they currently use for their storage arrays.
Repeat after me: Docker is not a package manager, and OCI not a package format.
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> Robotics… seem like a miss to me. Very few tasks at home are as simple as vacuuming

Even vacuuming was pretty hard. Most vacuum robots were a disappointment until maybe 2 or 3 years.
Not mentioned yet are DocBook tables, of which there are several types. The kind we used starts here: https://tdg.docbook.org/tdg/5.1/cals.table. You have to drill down to get inside the tables. They have some--but I think not all-- the structure of GT.

There's also of course LaTeX (mentioned in a couple other comments here), which has "ordinary" tables and long tables (tables that span more than one page).
> Near its campus in Cupertino, California, Apple has a secret facility that resembles the inside of a house — a site where it can test future devices and initiatives for the home.

Apple has a condo in Cupertino?
I also can't imagine a home robotics use case that I would get excited over. Can anyone think of anything? I would guess any new product would be more complex, less efficient, and a security risk. It'll be cool and trendy for a few months and then die off. Just like the Alexa and Google speakers that can tell you the weather or adjust your lights...is it REALLY that useful outside of entertaining your nieces and nephews? My guess is that they'll make some revenue from collecting user data and selling it to data brokers or something.

Edit: someone below said laundry folding robot. I'd see that as useful.
Same, and I note that the OVERWHELMING majority of other customers that I see at the grocery store or Target are still inserting plastic credit cards into the readers (I do think swiping is going extinct though, as the readers push you to insert instead).

However, this is HN and not at all typical of the U.S. or world overall. Even though we frequently lose sight of that.
I don’t understand why there aren’t any horizontal rules or stripes etc to reinforce the idea that each row is its own record.
You'll definitely have a much more pleasant time following conventions – which arguably provides the best user experience. But for those times when you just really have to have something non-conventional, I've found that the UIViewRepresentable fallback works well. Just easier in those circumstances to not try and mix the two approaches, but separate them.

Example in a recent app was it was easier for me to use a UIScrollView for the image panning and zooming functionality it offers. Simple matter of wrapping that one element in the Representable.

Generally, for me it's been a ginormous productivity booster. I can rip apart and re-design a SwiftUI app and it doesn't break. That was always a lot more of a challenge with pre-SwiftUI apps.
It depends. My backyard lawn is about 2 acres in size. It takes me 1.5 hours to manually mow it with a small 21 inch powered push mower. I just let the auto mower do its thing continuously and it charges itself. Costs almost nothing since I sharpen the blades about once a month myself. It’s also nice because the grass is always trimmed. You don’t have to go through the let it get tall and the landscaper mows it down every two weeks cycle.
Can't read behind pay wall. Does the article actually provide data or is it just based on the 5 "examples" provided in the beginning?
> a 4% card that gives you credit card points…

Sure, plenty of cars just lie about how valuable the rewards are. That’s a completely different game.
I am aware they are hosted on servers with mirrors or parity drives. It still makes no sense how these services seem to raise prices over time instead of seeing the savings from depreciating storage and hardware costs passed to the consumer, unless you realize they are squeezing you.
1. You're talking about Tesla ownership, not rental.

2. You still need a very specific payment source, even if it's not physically on you at the time of purchase. If you're a foreigner, this may be literally impossible for you. Many places only work by linking with your local bank account. Tourists do not have local bank accounts.
> In an natural economy, mortgages would all be variable rate, or fixed rate but much higher than what is available today.

> This would also mean that the housing rush of 2021 would have been crushed by rate increases in 2022/23. In fact there probably wouldn't have been much of a rush at all.

Interestingly, you described almost exactly how mortgages work in Canada: you pay more for a fixed rate, and even then, you can only get a fixed rate for a term of up to 10 years. And the average term is more like 5 years. People's mortgages have been going up now that interest rates are up. This was not impossible to predict.

And that certainly didn't stop the housing rush of the last 15 years.
There's also profiteering and security issues. Thermostat that wants to connect to "cloud" and needs to know my street address, my name etc.? -- Not happening. Companies selling "smart" devices instantly overcomplicated relatively simple appliances making them beyond DIY repair level, and, on top of it, wanted to sell service of supporting these overly complicated devices. It's just very hard to see the benefit, when all that eg. the thermostat does is turning the boiler on and off, saving a few seconds to someone who'd otherwise have to do it manually.

There also aren't that many areas where automation could possibly accomplish much. I think, the main directions are:

* Optimize energy usage (the same thermostat thing). It doesn't really amount to much. It could be useful in industrial setting, but for households it just doesn't save that much money, even if it works well.

* Cleaning. Making roombas deal with furniture or large objects left on the floor seems like mission impossible without a significant change in approach. Similarly for surfaces that are above the floor (desk, shelves etc.) Cleaning the exterior could be its own an quite an interesting thing though. Stuff like removing dead foliage from the roof for instance, or repainting the walls.

* Cooking. This could be potentially interesting, but will probably require a complete redesign of the tools used for cooking today to be reasonably priced. Eg. there would be no need for knives with handles for humans, because it's easier to make a slicing / chopping machine that has a very different configuration. Stoves and ovens would need to have some way of moving pots in and out automatically. Also, they'd probably have to be connected to the fridge and other kitchen storage... Which, in the end, means that it's not going to be an incremental upgrade. It will be also probably difficult to make the automated system coexist with human cooks...
Microsoft Safe Link technology does not actually inspect the link until the user clicks on the link. This is to avoid that confirmation links, used by some service to confirm registratio or as 2FA, may be triggered by the security engine without user consent.
Replying to my own comment for posterity. I was able to figure it out!

In the LXC, I created a new non-root user and then set it's uid and git to a LOWER number than what every tutorial about rootless Podman recommends (devel being my non-root user here):

# cat /etc/subuid /etc/subgid
devel:10000:5000
devel:10000:5000

Then I also had to edit configuration for the LXC itself on the Proxmox host to allow tun and have it created on container boot:

# cat /etc/pve/lxc/{lxc_vmid}.conf
...truncated...
lxc.cgroup2.devices.allow: c 10:200 rwm
lxc.mount.entry: /dev/net dev/net none bind,create=dir

Note: I have no idea why a lower number of ids works...
I just want a machine that will produce a cup of something that is almost, but not completely, unlike tea.
Why call it "Perplexity clone" when this is much more than what Perplexity offers?

Btw. This is the first time I hear about Perplexity, which after 10 minutes of experimentation, looks like a worse clone of Phind.
I like that Apple is taking on big hard futuristic problems, like AR/VR, AI, and home robotics.

But from a business perspective it seems unlikely to be successful. Apple could "easily" sell a luxury car and TVs and print many billions of dollars right away. They wouldn't need unproven tech -- they could just use their design skills along with vertical integration to have very nice products that people would want to buy. Apple should eschew some of Silicon Valley's obsessions, like self-driving cars, which most people do not care about at all, and instead focus on their strengths.
I'm curious about the coffee maker bit. I drink espresso and I can't really imagine a benefit in turning something a device on if someone isn't there to also put coffee in it, pour it etc.

How much time does it save you having your coffee maker or before you go to get coffee?
I imagine an ageing population with social isolation might be the golden ticket for this kind of work.
> > the copyright system creates a (relatively) shared understanding between creators and consumers that, by default, content cannot be redistributed, remixed, adapted or built upon without creators' consent. This shared understanding made it possible for a lot of content to be openly distributed on the Web.

> That is not remotely a shared understanding, is wrong, and has nothing to do with making it possible for a lot of content to be openly distributed on the web. Content is distributed quite widely without concern for copyright.

I'm not sure if the switch from active voice in the original quote to passive in yours was deliberate or not, but "understanding between creators and consumers" is very different from your "content is distributed".

It is the case, yes, that people widely distribute content on the web with no regard for copyright law. But those people aren't generally creators of that content.

The article is talking about the incentives that the web places on content creators. If the result of AIs harvesting every bit of content on the web and regurgitating it without sending consumers over to the creator's website, then creators will stop putting stuff online.

People cloning and resharing content without regard to copyright has not so far seemed to have systemic negative effects on the web. Search engines seem to be pretty good at pointing users to upstream original sources of copyright content, so plagiarism is commong but apparently not common enough to cause context authors to stop putting it online.

AI risks tipping that balance such that content creators really might stop posting stuff online. Why waste a meaningful chunk of your life creating a thing and putting it on the web if the only thing that will ever see it and know that it came from you is an AI slurping it up?

> It's the "less wealthy" who routinely find ways to distribute content outside of rent-seeking channels.

Again, I think you're presuming a world where content magically exists a priori and the network is simply a mechanism for deploying it. The article is about what happens when the system discourages people from making at all.

Poor people can find ways to pirate just about every book on Earth... except for those books that never ended up getting written because the incentives placed on the author didn't work out.
These services are cool but I almost always end up doing it myself anyways. Doing it yourself is more fun anyways.

Typically I just make my own one click deploys that fit my preferences. Not knowing how your container starts and runs is a recipe for disaster.
Every mathematical introductory text that excludes zero from the natural numbers contains an unwieldy additional notation like N_0 in the very next sentence. Why the hell should the number that is both used in the first Peano axiom and is the additive neutral element of the natural numbers not be included in the natural numbers? I've never understood why so many people insist on this, relying on pseudo-anthropological reasoning or something. Zero is at least two and a half thousand years old. You could just as easily claim that the natural numbers end with the number 10 because humans don't have any more fingers.
I would've been stoked as a kid to be able to create games and also make money off of it though. Instead I had to spend time on useless education so I could do as an adult what I could've already done as a kid if someone showed me it was possible to make money with coding.

So many years wasted in school not paying attention because no interest in given subjects at the time. But since they didn't pay me, it wasn't technically "exploitation".
There was a rain-triggered debris flow not far from me recently that impacted several families I know; they were well outside of the evacuation area, though were told to "be ready to leave just in case"

They had their cars packed, facing out of the driveway, but it didn't help. The roads were impassable about 15 minutes after the rain started.

Improvements to the models of these are definitely welcome.
It doesn't, but that wasn't the point I was making.
Works where archive.is is blocked:

https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?d=3118053273395&w=mX8eXvPdcg...
Never rented a Tesla through Hertz, but I did rent one through Turo once. The owner did stipulate that I return the car fully charged. However, he pointed out hotels in the area that offered charging. So, I just charged the night before I returned the car; couldn't have been easier. Not sure if Hertz has/had coordination with hotels that offer EV charging, but that would help in a lot of cases.
When security matters: working with Qubes OS at the Guardian
Are millions in gold from a British shipwreck still in the East River?
Is this still true if you use flakes to build NixOS?
I expect the thieves are in and out before loss prevention even shows up, especially if they are masked up. Think about it logically: if loss prevention was able to actually work, they wouldn’t have to put so much merchandise under lock and key in high theft areas.
Honestly one of the wildest internet things barely anyone noticed of the past decade was the small minority of cliquey early twitter adopters who had big blog followings all proudly proclaiming "Whats the big deal? I just get all my updates on twitter these days" when reader was killed. Because they all had four figure followers at the time which was top 1% of twitter and obviously were deep in the dopamine spiral of seeing that number go up and the death of RSS made it go up.

Then exactly 10 years later Elon buys Twitter and the exact same subset who are like twitter royalty by this point despite in the grand scheme of things just being a subset of geeks and tech bloggers and their cronies all have a collective freak out and bail from Twitter to Mastodon and Bluesky, proclaiming Twitter dead and expecting the same thing to happen as when they proclaimed RSS dead but this time the thing they left didn't die and now their audiences on their new platform have a fraction of the influence.

Hmmmm If only there was a completely open format free of politics and admin influence where you could carry your audience till the end of time based upon your own infrastructure..... maybe it wouldn't have a public follower count but also maybe you wouldn't lose the followers if you throw a hissy fit when the wrong person buys the system that owns your followers...

Sometimes you don't know what you had until it's gone.
Ah I gave up until I read this comment
Is there anything specific you'd like to see? What would be the highest value improvements we could make to our service in your eyes?
I'm shocked by your comment. Everyone that doesn't enjoy cleaning, cooking, doing laundry, mowing the lawn, or taking out the trash would LOVE a home robot that really works.

Of course, these are very hard problems to take on -- much harder than a "smart" light switch -- but the market is absolutely there.
Also worth noting that in Norway, they will often have cars with engine block heaters (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_heater), with associated plug points in parking spaces/places.

Makes it much easier if there's already infrastructure.
I can't get 0.05G reliably in most suburbs, even when I do the worst-case ping in a typical 10-minute window is 500+ms, and there are still many places in the US where the best internet I can find is under 0.001G.
Thank you for reminding me of this fabulous book.
Not using any of those, but here is a plausible reason: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26639261
Yeah,true even Russia doesn't openly state that their goal is to level Ukraine to the ground and displace the population one way or the other.

Israel also gets away with encroaching and colonizing palestinian territory (that they don't even deny isn't theirs until they "settle" it). Again, Russia at least gets international condemnation when it does so
You can't downvote direct responses nor does a downvote prevent a response. YOu might find that the reply button is not present on a comment immediately after it is made. If you click on the stamp eg "1 hour ago" you will note the reply button is evident and can be used.

The predicted false targeting rate is explicitly NOT the civilian casualty rate nor is it even supposed to be. You are seizing dishonestly on a low number because it appears justifiable.

It's not the overall civilian casualty rate which appears to be 2–3x nor the expected casualty rate of AI guided bombing of residences which appears to be much higher yet. It does appear that the maximum allowable rate according to Israeli policy is 21x for such bombing raids.
I'm not sure it was ever implemented. Netflix had already moved onto streaming, and recommending a show to watch next became irrelevant because the cost to switch was so low.
> If the average fee is 3% and the high-end customer is getting 2% back ...

You're not picking realistic numbers. The fees range from around 1.5% to ~3%, and the 2.5%-3%+ fees are limited to ~10% of customers. An average fee of 3% doesn't make sense. Very basic napkin math would be 0.9((1.5+2.5)/2)+0.1((2.5+3)/2) = ~2.1% average. So only in the 100% passthrough case does the high end cardholder actually lose. That's not likely.

And if you look at the chart, if 740 is 10%, there are probably far fewer than 10% of transactions averaging 2.75%, so this is likely still way overestimating.
i do cold dehydration with forced air, no heat; for various things. it's great for delicate flavors etc that can't take heat. it requires time.

ive had freeze dried fruits and didn't care for the results, compared to regular "dehydrated". but others might prefer things that way; perhaps its especially good for blueberries. i think it makes apples into packing peanuts.
Bypassing Content Moderation in OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google Gemini