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Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avery review Dark Star on their first podcast episode. [0]

It’s worth listening to even if you don’t really follow their work. It’s what finally motivated me to watch this movie after seeing it in the video store my whole childhood and then forgetting about it for decades.

[0] https://videoarchivespodcast.com/episodes/dark-star-cocaine-...
> As other than the horrific events of October 7th, and the hostages from that day, the only visible acts of violence and terror associated with Palestine appear to be towards anyone Palestinian

That's a wildly inaccurate statement. There has been continual rockets fired into Israel, as well fairly regular incidents of stabbings, shootings, etc.

https://www.tzevaadom.co.il/en/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/three-seriously-wounded-in-ter...

Not intending to make any justification or moral comparison in either direction, but it is objectively untrue that violence/terror has only been in one direction post Oct 7th
Keeping the separate projects at the national level also precludes the furious lobbying efforts against it that could target members of the union with... "friendlier ears". It also allows for smaller scale testing to work out kinks, in the same way that some US federal law started as laws in specific states.
Apple can change this silently in the future, as long as it remains compatible with their T&C.
Simple to verify with strace -f bash -c "> file":

openat(AT_FDCWD, "file", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666) = 3

man 2 openat:

O_TRUNC
If the file already exists and is a regular file and the
access mode allows writing (i.e., is O_RDWR or O_WRONLY) it
will be truncated to length 0.
...
So you're saying digital sovereignty provides leverage. That itself is valuable.
As much as I congratulate them for moving away from Microsoft Office as much I feel this is a step in the wrong direction. We need to move our administration away from the paper centric workflows of a world that is long gone for most people.
MC68xx series also had a 16-bit indexed jump. It's a very useful instruction.
There was a giant federal subsidy for charging infrastructure in the infrastructure bill that passed a few years ago. I wonder how that's going...

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/05/congress-ev-charger...

A few months old, but I doubt that much has changed. I think I heard a few came online, so that's over $1B per charger. Maybe they are made out of solid gold and sculpted by hand.

The problem as usual is that we can't build things anymore. This is a civilization scale existential risk problem at this point. It's not just EV chargers. I wonder how many decades (plural) the Baltimore bridge will take to replace?

Edit: I still don't fully understand why we can't build things anymore. It's tempting to say regulation but the EU has a lot more regulation than we do and they at least seem capable of building things when they feel like it. Neither China nor Russia are paragons of free market liberalism, and they are able to build things. India is known for batshit crazy levels of bureaucracy and they can build things.

We have some private companies that can execute, of course, but overall our society seems to excel at rent extraction and delaying things for more rent extraction.
El Mariachi has entered the chat.

$7000 budget in 1992 that made director Robert Rodriguez famous, and happens to be a good movie.
I primarily work with people who have an issue with killing other people.

That, and that it is non-trivial without a gun, or more powerful weapon, to kill someone.

Which is why, in a lot of places it's extremely difficult to own or have a gun. And sane people consider very carefully a guns use. Most refuse to own or even consider even holding one never mind using one.

The AI discussed here is similar to me. It shouldn't be available or in use, ever. It even strips away the benefit a gun has of the user contemplating the end result.
NotePlan (https://noteplan.co) stores everything in Markdown files with a directory structure mirroring that created in the UI
Machine learning enables viability of vertical-axis wind turbines
A lot of talk on missing air defenses for this topic. But I’m curious about the lack of radar detection and Air Force intercept on such a slow plane. It seems like this might be a weapon that can exploit Russian incompetence, but would otherwise be written off as too easily defeated to be worth considering.
You let the mentally ill person be the judge of that?
Would you mind also looking a bit further please, like on the main European continent? Our wages here are even lower than in London/UK and we also speak good English. You can hire a developer here for what you'd pay a barista at your San-Fran HQ. Thanks!
Pretty verbose article that can be summarized as “Credit cards charge merchants a fee, sometimes more when co-branded, to entice customers to use their credit card in favor over others.”
I never had a problem with updates on my Epson, but having bad experinces with other products, I can understand your concern. I don't remember now if there was an option to disable updates or not, but when I last reorganized my home network, I put all untrusted devices including this printer in a no-gateway subnet. It can't call home, check or download anything. The only problem is that scanning to computer from the printer panel is based on multicast, and I couldn't figure out how to route that yet.
I think it's reasonable to invite people to reinvestigate their preconceived notions of what folks who don't speak english do and do not know. The original comment was essentially "well how would they know to use a # for a heading? I don't expect that from a non-english speaker", which is definitely a statement that should result in some introspection.
> Why?

Privacy, security, latency, offline availability, access to local data and services running on the device, just to name a few.
The link is just about a move from one part of Munich to another (MS German HQ has always been in Munich). From what I remember it was more that we had a coalition with the CSU for four years and unsurprisingly, the moment conservatives were part of the cities government all went back to "help the companies".

(MS had tried to pressure against the move from the start, but wasn't really successful in the first years)
Do the americans exclusively use MS Office in government computers?
Launching a Live Tracker for GPS Spoofed Flights
Hey HN,

we've just launched a website that uses live ADS-B data from the OpenSky Network to track and display GPS spoofed aircraft positions in real time.

We got inspired by Lomonodor's work on GPS jamming: https://gpsjam.org/

We will soon also display airplanes location before and after spoofing but this is not ready yet.
Curious? Check it out and share your thoughts. Feedback is especially welcome as we improve!
From the article:

“The user is given the option to enable or not enable Siri, Apple's virtual assistant. But enabling only refers to whether you use Siri's voice control. Siri collects data in the background from other apps you use, regardless of your choice, unless you understand how to go into the settings and specifically change that”.
I don't think Apple's UX for enabling privacy is half as confusing as that "diagram" in the article.
Yes outsourcing to the UK where the average salary is ~$37,000 is I'm sure highly cost effective for US firms. Where we'd reach to say India for cheap labour the US now comes to us. I've seen US Interns get paid more than the vast majority of brits.

Even the average dev salary is only say, double that average. Not even accounting for taxes - which supposedly cover healthcare but almost none you can readily access.
No I am saying lots of women seem to be struggling with something at any one time

Maybe one in five or ten are depressed
Kinda related, but why the heck are all third-party recruiters British? Every single third-party recruiting agency seems to be British
> the system doesn’t work if a 3%-fee card isn’t held by a low-risk, high-spend rich person

There's many rewards cards that require an annual fee (which encourages a high spend to recoup the fee with rewards). But there are plenty of 1.5%-2% cards with no annual fee. You just need a good credit score.
JPEG XL Reference Implementation
I bought the cheapest (shortest range) Tesla. I can charge at home. The money I save, I will use for renting ICE for roadtrips.
It's a sad story.
My spouse is working for the city in some legal department and she was happily using LiMux for years with no big issues.
The main problem was that the IT department was understaffed and underpaid...

One reason for their switch might be that Microsoft thought about opening up a big office here.
Another reason might have been the study conducted by Accenture [1], who have some close ties to Microsoft...

I also enjoyed reading the interview of former Munich mayor Christian Ude [2]. Apparently, Steve Ballmer was interrupting his ski vacation in Switzerland to visit Ude and personally try to convince him to ditch LiMux.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20170219053640/https://www.ris-m...

[2] https://www.linux-magazin.de/ausgaben/2019/10/interview-2/

[edit: typo]
Oil & Gas

Where does the data from Oil & Gas companies who prospect for new drill sites come into play?

I know companies like Shearwater are paid for their sea floor data.

https://www.shearwatergeo.com/
A day in the life of a Hot Wheels designer
People born in 1985 entered the workforce in 2006 when finishing a three year degree. The worst financial crisis since the great depression started two years later.

Not sure what sort of rose tinted glasses you have about the 00s but they were a lot worse than today.
Disagree. It is a huge mistake that intelligent people make and especially hackers make, to think that human behaviour can be fixed or controlled through some kind of abstract system. You can have the most wonderful constitution and laws in the world, but they mean nothing if the people and the culture aren't up for it. People can not be controlled the same way you control your docker images in Linux root.

Rotten politicians and leaders are not because of any lacking in some "system", it is because you have a rotten people. And getting people to a higher level is very difficult, but not impossible.
I haven't seen a particular productivity boost anywhere from regular office + sharepoint and office365.

I also haven't noted a productivity difference between sharepoint (which office 365 really is) and other content management platforms.

Ironically the only place where office 365 offered a boost is in the linux world really. You don't even need a local suite office to open msoffice documents.
Based on this article it looks like AI kills indiscriminately.
it's still recursion whether you're using the call stack or are using an explicit stack structure

Recursion means defining something in terms of itself, so no, using a stack isn't recursion. The call stack of lots of different function calls in a normal program isn't called recursion either.

the idea of having the problem solved by way of breaking it down into smaller problems.

That's not recursion, that's organization, modularity and all sorts of other descriptions. Where did you get these ideas?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursion

Recursion occurs when the definition of a concept or process depends on a simpler or previous version of itself
Vosk has a Hindi model but for some reason its not baked into the demo

https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models

https://ccoreilly.github.io/vosk-browser/
90% of those components are in/for React tho?
We’re very far away from H100 firesales. Pretty sure capacity is booked out for years in advance still so even if it is a bubble and pops they’re unlikely to feature on eBay
> Humans can tend towards liking more highly saturated colours, which would be a distortion of the original image.

android with google photos did/does this whereas apple went with enhanced contrast.

as far as i can tell, they're both wrong but one mostly notices the 'distortion' if used to the other.
EVs undercut one of the main 2 revenue streams of rental car companies - gouging people on gas charges when they don’t fill the tank up themselves. (The other being overpriced insurance). I recently returned an electric rental car to Hertz without charging it. It cost $15 extra. To me, that price is low enough I’d likely never charge it before returning it.
Heh, that's actually pretty compelling - it sounds like a darker twist on the plot of a Stargate episode I recently rewatched: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revisions_(Stargate_SG-1)
Server side, Remix does not hold a candle against Elixir.
You can actually see the domains being contacted in the app privacy report. I’m not sure if it includes the OS level connections, but it includes for all apps, including Apple apps.
That is pretty much the definition of staff shortage, yes.
To make the enemy kill civilians....
My point is that you can cherry-pick specific examples all you like, but the data clearly shows that the purchasing power (real wages, whatever term you prefer) of average Americans has stayed (nearly) flat for the past 40+ years.
What a fascinating article. Probably an unsophisticated model but the way I approach my credit card rewards program is as a “forced savings” deal. I’m aware that they are subsidized, I’m also aware that I’ll pay the same thing if I were to pay with cash (at least in all the places I buy).

Would we be better off by having capped swipe fees? Idk. Would merchants actually lower their prices instead of keeping the extra revenue that everybody is now used to pay? Idk either. I don’t trust in the goodness of the heart of merchants or credit cards issuers.

But, would I have an unexpected 3 or even 4 figures “unexpected” rewards at the end of the year that I can only use for vacations? I don’t think so. I could possibly set up something with my bank, but I don’t need to think or plan rewards… they just happen.
Congrats: WordPress plugin has just become a "core" feature
In those cases, there's not really a practical non-proprietary option.

Whereas with a lot of software, there is a practical non-proprietary option.
Since you're the author you can add 'Show HN' to the title. The https://news.ycombinator.com/show page is for presenting project and looking for feedback.
I knew a company where they had cookie data for ads.
They were able to figure out how tons of companies were related from that.
Company A would own a bunch of other companies. But certain people would be common to all of them. Creating connections.
You are underestimating German federalism - there are several competing providers for each specialized software used by German municipalities, often with huge customisations. There is no way you could mandate a specific product. What can be done from above, in some cases, is specifying requirements (for eg data storage, privacy laws, code auditability...) and APIs (like APIs to federal agencies) and let the customers and providers create solutions. It might be messier, but in the end you are not dependent on a single product.
> Are you talking about the cash back? Isn't that just a shell game? If the consumer is getting 2% cashback, but the merchant is charging consumers 2% more to pay for it as well, how is it "feeding back to the consumer"?

One of the issues is that the cash back rate is not evenly distributed across the buying population.
Also from Ireland. I think English language being their main strength, versus in non-English speaking EU countries where recruiters tend to only look locally where their native language gets spoken instead of venturing into foreign countries where they don't know the language and culture very well.

The other I think is how hungry and agresive the UK is for service sector opportunities, having always positioned it's economy as a middle-man. They have that US inspired go-getter mentality, that's lacking on the mainland.
Haskell Weekly – Issue 414
> Can I ask people to upvote my submission?

> No. Users should vote for a story because they personally find it intellectually interesting, not because someone has content to promote. We penalize or ban submissions, accounts, and sites that break this rule, so please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
As someone who lives in the UK it's pretty depressing that we somehow seem to have succeeded in mismanaging ourselves into being a low-wage economy. The 20% or so depreciation in the pound as a result of brexit, and the subsequent futher devaluation as a result of the chaos of Boris -> Liz Truss -> Rishi Sunak definitely played a part in making the UK relatively attractive for firms from the US say, but there are also structural considerations such as years of real earnings decline and underinvestment in infrastructure, especially in the North of England, Wales and much of Scotland.
Yeah, I figured my version needed to solve that problem :P
Saving cloud costs by writing our own database
I'm an American software dev that has been in London for ~11 years now after working in Silicon Valley for years. The lower dev salaries are definitely a thing here. But I personally don't see much evidence of US jobs coming here to get filled on the cheap. Certainly not from A-list/exciting companies any way. Maybe it's a growing trend, but it's not something that many people here are taking note of.
It's extremely easy to criticize the terrible philosophy represented in the article (which I haven't read due to the source, but am taking at face value for the purpose of this reply because the philosophy exists) without resorting to petty fallacious gotchas. Almost nobody says "race doesn't exist" in the literal sense, or without the purpose of criticizing the way we use the word. This is like calling somebody a hypocrite for saying "beauty is only skin deep" and also using the phrase "beautiful mind". It's a pointless word game.

And regardless, what is "that philosophy"? You're making up a bucket and putting people in it who might not agree with each other. That's a very common political fallacy - pointing at any two disparate ideas from the same 50% of the political spectrum and calling "hypocrite".
It is interesting that a bunch of finacial careeerists decided to jump on EVs without thinking - "Hey, we are going to need chargers as convenient as gas stations, or else people wont use them!".

In an alternative world, Hertz could have become _the_ EV rental company if they turned every rental office they have in the US to a fast charging center, and told customers "Look, just drive this thing and dont worry about returning it at a certain charge level". Such an action could have actually had a positive impact.

Instead they focussed on "technology that will automatically open the doors for the users, adjust their seats, adds their favorite playlist"... I mean... Darwinism and all.
New Leadership for Hanami
Botswana threatens to send 20000 elephants to Germany
To support many other models you should look at ollama - it provides a REST API on your machine for local inference that works just like OpenAI
As an American, I've heard way more stories about endless application for white collar jobs going nowhere than white collar jobs not being able to be filled (unless we are talking about something specialized and niche.). American companies have no problem selling out their own citizens for their shareholders.
Its not even incompetence. Its impossible to cover such a big area with radar and AA.
About Scherr:

"One former colleague said he had off-the-charts “EQ and IQ.”

"Scherr didn’t want to give up his New York existence and move to Florida, where Hertz was based, and the board agreed that was fine"

About West:

"In December, GM dismissed him along with eight other executives in the struggling unit"

About O'Hara:

"The warnings Wagner and O’Hara had brushed off were proving all too prescient."

"Meanwhile, little of the $150 million in profit O’Hara forecast from rentals through Amex GBT had materialized, and O’Hara himself had moved to Italy"

What a joke these men are.

Mark Cuban often says on Shark Tank that every billionaire is just incredibly lucky and that luck doesn't translate to knowledge in another field. Yet year after year people give these "smart" men (mostly investment bankers) the reins of failing companies that fail even harder under their watch and they just golden parachute their way to another grift.

And the two "successes"? No numbers of course, just vague statements like this:

"Uber drivers have put more than 1 billion miles on EVs rented from Hertz. Carvana has helped the company recover more value from used vehicles."
In Norway we have more chargers in the big cities and fewer out in the country side or up in the mountains. This means that if you rented an electric car for your Easter holidays and drove up to the mountains like a lot of other people do then you would be routed to a charger with 20 cars in line to charge in front of you.
I don't see anything like what you are describing. What line exactly are you talking about?
Have you read a recipe on the Internet? The first half is all filler. Not sure why but it's a plague
The only thing I would add to your comment is that merchants aren’t the ones being forced to pay these stupid fees, it’s their customers (and primarily their poorer and often non-card using ones) who are being quite heavily taxed to fund a marketing scheme for rich customers. Most competitive businesses can’t afford to fund such an elaborate targeted marketing campaign directly out of their fees without some competitive pushback: hence the actual question you should ask is why the entire system exists, and the answer has to do with a pile of inefficiency and rent collection based on regulatory capture.
You mean emailing .doc files around to co-workers, like what happened yesterday?
There's no suggestion that I can see that Apple collects this for marketing. It's collected on-device for suggestions. The exceptions are adverts in the App Store and News
Sure, but I just get an interactive prompt when I type `> file` and I honestly don't care to troubleshoot. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> gibbering madness

If there is a better name for the table of rates (or the list of rates on a monthly CC transaction table for your business) I don’t know it. It’s absolute madness and near impossible to make sense of.

Often I feel like they exist only to confuse the merchant into just throwing up their hands and saying “I mean, I guess it’s right”. It also means that almost none of them can tell you how much they’re paying for credit card transactions. All they know is the sales person said “I can get you the best rates” which may or may not be true, those people will lie to you and tell you anything that you want to hear, I know this from personal experience. These people are snakes and dealing with them makes my skin crawl.

I’m aware that there’s a chance that I’m leaving money on the table, but this is one of the main reasons I use Stripe. I prefer predictability an inscrutable of data that may or may not show that I’m saving a little bit more. It’s also why I normally avoid credit cards that have rotating categories or this or like. I prefer a flat, easy to understand rate that I can compare to other cards instead of having to keep track of which card I’m using which month. Again, this means I’m leaving money on the table, but I do it for my own sanity.
In November, I visited USA for a holiday and hired a Hertz Model Y for a road trip from Philadelphia - Orlando FL - New Orleans - Houston. It was amazing.
There is also a lot of "fake" saffron. Keuringdienst van Waarde (Dutch TV show that analyzes the quality / scams in food) has a whole item on it: https://kro-ncrv.nl/programmas/keuringsdienst-van-waarde/pep...