skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you said (if true) makes Apple a great business. And your reasonable arguments make a good case for that.

But does it make a good investment? A good investment is investing in a great business at a reasonable price. If the price is unreasonably high, then even a great business makes for a bad investment.
If you had colleagues you liked as friends then RTO is usually more fun. If not then there is no difference in productivity if your developer works from anywhere or in a cubicle. Mandating RTO comes usually from clueless managers who think they can get some control over the teams (hint: you won’t)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorodango
I don't like that the homepage says "free, free, free", then reveals that it's charging recruiters. This is perfectly reasonable way to monetise, but it's not a free platform - it's a platform that charges the recruiters.
It’s pretty simple. Can he get ~5% risk free from Uncle Sam or more than that in a year on the apple position. $14 billion a year you don’t have to pay any state taxes on. For as long as he decides to hold it. That’s like the net income of a bank like Wells Fargo.
I don’t think this has anything to do with apple. It’s about getting out before a likely market crash, that will inevitably lower the value of almost all companies.

The only risk here for buffet is the fed coming in with a huge rate cut or just suggesting it, or restarting QE in light of a market crash, which will give stock markets an insane boost (including apple)
It’s using the Nerves project! I’m bias since I work directly with the Nerves Foundation a lot these days but it’s such a wonderful development experience to get Linux based embedded stuff up and running :)
I have a feeling TE realised ages ago that as long as they design something well and provide a hip marketing page for it, they can sell everything. Borderline trolling by now.

One can admire their consistency: started with overpriced toys and continue with overpriced toys.
You have very strong opinions about correct English for someone who doesn't speak it as a native language.
Mussolini was fond of making that claim. Wikipedia says "the entire Mediterranean was redefined to make it appear a unified region that had belonged to Italy from the times of the ancient Roman province of Italia, and was claimed as Italy's exclusive sphere of influence."
Acknowledging I’m not a casual computer user, I personally find https being the unnecessary friction (must [learn to +] setup setting user/password for https, username/password do not work for https because 2FA, etc.).

With ssh I upload my key and I’m done.
Gotta say they handled the post jobs era well financially.
I know how powerful that argument feels, but since it can justify breaking any rule, I don't think it's convincing. Of course HN's rules are less important than the planet being boiled. What isn't?

HN mod comments are not about climate change, cryptocurrency, Javascript, individualism, AI, theft, suicide, or mankind, or truth. They're just about whether your comments are sticking to the intended spirit of the site, as expressed in the guidelines.
Software from taradov is always joy
Don't know about other languages but the python bindings are pretty ok to use imo. You can also stay in qml longer than you'd think, especially with all the tooling kde provides.
I was responding to

> You’d need to run that election 100 million times

You don't. It might happen the very first time. It's as probable to happen this time as it is in any of the other 100 million times.
Is this sarcasm?

Only way the ROC could do that is by declaring that the ROC no longer exists and that they are now an independent state of Taiwan. Even if they didn't frame it exactly that way from PRC's perspective any attempt by the ROC to renounce its claim on the rest of China would be the equivalent of them declaring independence.

> And why it isn't vise-verse?

You mean why ROC/Taiwan isn't threatening to invade the mainland if the PRC changes its policy of considering Taiwan to be an inalienable part of China? It's hard to tell..
>processing the individual assets after they arrived over the wire

Could this take place at compile time?
I don't think he's necessarily bearish on Apple. Buffett could feel like the entire market is overvalued like in 2001. Even Microsoft fell for a few years with great profits.
What is the scale you are talking about here? Because at any significant scale the hard part is not where and how you spray the water but how you get the water there. Are you imagining a robot with a tank? How much water can that carry?
More fun but less productive. Anecdotally my work friends and I do way more now that we cant distract each other constantly. We hang out on weekends now to waste time.
I see, so at some interval you take a sample and directly test it on a meter. Thanks.

By 'air' I'm meant air leak from stuff you're trying to can or preserve, as others began mentioning preserves and canning
Same here. I think that would be a terrific idea.

$ cat /cal/2024/08/04/events
They've moved on to offshoring.
From my cursory reading of v8 blogs, most of its optimizations revolve around detecting patterns in JS objects and replacing them with C++ classes.
I would strongly recommend not working remote for the first year or two and preferably to work someplace that defaults to pair programming.

Especially early in your career, an environment that accelerates knowledge transfer is what I’d prioritize.
> I think the bears are vastly underestimating the size and power of the moat (or garden wall) that Apple has built.

See 'Are "Good Companies" Good Investments?' (references used in the description):

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY_NFQNUr_k

The above is a summary of this podcast episode, 'The "Good Company is a Good Investment" Fallacy':

> It sounds reasonable to say that investing in the most popular companies would produce the best returns, but this is just not how asset pricing works. Today on the show, we unpack the ‘good company is a good investment’ fallacy. Before diving into the main topic, we kick off our discussion on the subject of index funds with Robert Wigglesworth’s Trillions. From there, we share some updates about custom indexing and home buying in Canada, along with the immense valuation of Tesla as well as Elon Musk’s net worth. This acts as a great segue into the focus of today’s show: a so-called good company has high historical returns, strong earnings growth, strong forecasted earnings growth, and high prices. But just because the good companies have done well historically, this does not mean they will continue to be a good investment. In fact, there is a premium that says that higher-priced stocks earn lower returns than lower-priced stocks and value stocks. We unpack several papers that explore the concept that it is the lesser-known companies that tend to have better returns. We also get into how growth extrapolation, the skewness effect, and the big market delusion plays into the good company is a good investment fallacy. Our discussion concludes with the idea that investors are better off paying attention to expected returns rather than falling victim to extrapolation errors. Tune in today!

* https://rationalreminder.ca/podcast/174
Supposing the locals enforce this, that would be evidence that property rights in the Yukon still have the consent of the people. Will they in 20 years? We'll see.
You're making the classic mistake that thinking a company makes a good product they're a good stock. If the stock has sky high expectations and the company does "only" very good, the stock might still fall.
Everything you say can (and probably is) true, but the company can still be vasstly overvalued on a P/E basis.
Carmel, Indiana is nearly _all_ roundabouts, and pedestrians/cyclists do well relative to other US cities because the crossing distances are short and cars speeds are slower.

https://www.carmel.in.gov/government/departments-services/en...

https://www.iihs.org/topics/roundabouts (ctrl f pedestrian)
Mentorship remotely is really tough; nothing quite replaces sitting next to someone, discussing the code and working on a solution together.
All this really means to me is that the major culling is approaching an end. If the company didn't have any huge real estate investments, the only other use of RTO is as a soft layoff without paying out severance (an inefficient one, but 2020's tech hasn't exactly even pretendeded to be efficient).

The other underlying issue is outsourcing; it's a bit hypocritical to force an RTO while more of your workers are in another country. We're ramping up another phase of "let's try to hire cheaper workers overseas" as well as "nearshoring
", so the remaining people have less need than ever to come into an office.
You're gonna get left in the dust by everyone else embracing LLMs.

I am ecstatic about LLMs because I already practice documentation-driven development and LLMs perfectly complement this paradigm.
Show HN: Muky – A kid-friendly music player for iOS
Hi,

I've developed an iOS app called Muky (https://muky.app/) that allows parents to create and manage music playlists for their children. It provides a focused, distraction-free audio experience for kids.

I created this app because my 4-year-old daughter loves music, but existing solutions like Tonies or cassettes didn't meet our needs. Using an iPhone or iPad directly with Apple Music wasn't ideal either.
Muky aims to solve these issues under the motto "Music for the Kids".

Here some key features:

* Dedicated music player for children

* Parent-controlled playlists

* Compatible with Apple Music (Spotify support coming soon)

* Distraction-free interface

* Works well with iOS "Guided Access" feature

* Keeps kids' music separate from parents' personal collections and algorithms

* iOS 15 Support for Older Devices

* Direct Start in Audio Player

* Password Protection (Secure the audio player mode with a password. Exiting the audio player mode requires the password set by the parents, ensuring kids cannot exit the app simply.)

I'd love to get your feedback and hear your thoughts on this approach to kid-friendly music streaming.
I'm curious whether this helps anyone - why and how.

I suppose there's some value in minimizing the "cultural impedence mismatch" - using genz terms/style/jokes.

But the quality is not as good as "normal/longform" (let me coin "oldsplaining") coverage on the subject. And really, shouldn't we all aspire to do a good job, rather than just a meh job that's comfortable?

This is the TT of explanations: not entirely accurate, relatively shallow, aimed at being quickly scroll-through-able to obtain a facile sense of knowing. For people who find Blinkist too slow-old-fashioned. You can survive on Pizza Pops, but you really shouldn't.
Berkshire's insurance float value is on the same order of magnitude. They underwrite both property insurance and cyber insurance. That's a scary business to be in right now. Hurricanes, thunderstorms, tornados, cyber attacks have all become devastatingly more damaging recently. Maybe that's a good reason to stockpile cash right now regardless of their outlook on any particular stock.
Indeed great moat and brand loyalty but a big question is how much can they grow now that they’re so massive
As a 100% remote employer this has been a boon for our hiring as it has freed up highly skilled employees that can’t/won’t RTO.
> It's confidential, and as such, it attracts passive candidates

The cold start problem is really tough. Overcoming it will require things that are orthogonal to site design and business model design.

Actively and cleverly priming the pump on one side or both.
can you help me understand more.
This is so awesome! I cannot wait for it to be finished. The DC is still my all time favorite console and having all these projects pop up the past few years has been great.

Now we need someone to cross compile all the N64 games for the DC :D
I decided to read the README and saw the following notice:
Version 4 is now available at
https://warriorhq.archiveteam.org/downloads/warrior4/

Which then contains a README with a link to the source for the new version: https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/warrior4-vm

This new version is also mentioned on the homepage of the Wiki:
An updated Warrior virtual appliance (v3.2, v4.0) is now available with better support for newer projects that utilize wget-at.

ArchiveTeam should update the appliance download URL.
What's unclear here is the refresh rate, but knowing the Kindle(s) this is hardly faster than 0.5fps
Hmmm, my experience is vastly different. I wanted to make a graph using 5 cols of data, first col is x labels, then data for 4 lines. The cols are not next to each-other in the sheet. Then add linear fits trough that. Then give specific html colors (woops no impossible) custom colors and line types to the original lines and the fitted lines. It's possible but the ui is terrible. Changing line type is simply bugged half of the time.
Interview with Eric Gunnerson, Program Manager: Microsoft Visual C# .NET (2003)
Yes. Top tip: you can use * as a wildcard in the search box, eg, mm512*epi8 to find the byte-wide AVX-512 intrinsics
This was my life before the pandemic. CEOs seem to have forgotten how hard they pushed for distributed teams and off shoring for the last 20 years. I'd be in the office on video calls with South America, Chicago, San Francisco, Tokyo. Then maybe get coffee or lunch with whoever was around from other projects. I could not show up some days and nobody would notice.
> It feels like something that should be provided by the OS somehow.

The OS is also written in a language and its idiosyncrasies sometimes do show through in system calls.

From what you're saying it sounds like the problem is less that Qt is not part of the OS than that the Qt API wasn't designed with interop at all in mind. A well-designed API can live outside of the OS and vice versa.
Rich, western countries face a stark choice: 6-day workweeks or more immigration
Misread the title thinking someone invented nerdy dating service on github. But it's not that. Disappointed.
This would be fantastic and very in line with Unix philosophy.
Housebuilding is a route to bigger, better homes for all, not just the rich
Are they putting their cash into gold or similar then? A market crash will also coincide with the US dollar crash, no? Or is a market crash separate from the US dollar failing?
Historically, guilds were first and foremost a tool to enforce monopoly power on the part of masters against anyone else trying to enter the market (and against eachother to maintain monopoly pricing and supply). Luddites were actually just doing what guilds normally did.
Hybrid is such a joke. I‘m seeing colleagues coming to the office to dial in to teams calls all day long and the rest of the day working quietly by themselves. Probably 10 minutes of social interaction in the office on a full work day. What’s the point..
Same insanity at Google. Doesn't matter that you are the only team member at this location, it's 3 mandatory days per week in office, or else your VP starts getting notifications.

A cherry on top, HR scripts don't properly account for partial vacation weeks, so if you have 3 vacation days in a week, you are still supposed to be in office 3 days a week, or else your VP gets notified.
I think it’s more about security? Having a tent city on a vehicle path is a big no no no matter who the VIP is. The secret service doesn’t put on the kiddy gloves for this kind of thing, well, they at least shouldn’t.
It stores file data as calendar events, sort of like that YouTube FS from a while back

This is probably considered abuse under the ToS since you're using more storage than any typical user, and they can't use it for whatever they normally sell customer data for
My guess is that if they dropped "baby" and just said:

> people seem to prefer ELI5 talk

they might've not gotten downvoted. (Didn't downvote myself, but this makes sense to me.)
Where are you getting that information?

https://svdp-sf.org/navigation-center/

"Among the unique features of the Center are the capacity for couples to shelter together, bring in pets, and have clients possessions stored. "
You got good responses from fellow users and I don't want to pile on!

But in case it's of interest or helpful: "huh?" is one of the many markers of internet putdown, and in the weird hierarchy of these things, the punctuation matters: "Huh?" comes across as snarkier than "Huh." or "Huh," or "Huh!" would. I wouldn't have posted a mod reply for that alone, but since the comment also included the name-calling "complete nonsense", it tipped me over the threshold.

I totally believe you about your intent, but that's where things get dodgy because no one (else) has direct access to that. Hence these years-long sequences of modtalk:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
> Better to start with 64bit registers these days, it's rare to find a 32 bit system when you are just starting out learning assembly.

x86-64 ("x64") versions of Windows can run x86-32 binaries.
Could use a 2014 in the title.
One of the authors is the inventor of GNUnet.
Good, hopefully this lifts some of pressure to monetize us
If I understand you correctly, then no, aphantasia is not the inability to induce sensory hallucinations. "Typical" visualizing is different from actually seeing/..., see other comments in this thread for descriptions. Not sure what you mean by conceptualized, but most people do "see" images, but thet don't "actually see" them. There is something between aphantasia and hyperphantasia, and it's where moet people are actually.
DOS just isn't much of an operating system, it's more like a bunch of helper functions preloaded into RAM, and you're free to do whatever you want with or without them.
> Having a standard state exact possible behavior is meaningless if in practice it isn't followed.

No, it means that the bug is documented to be in the platform, not the program.

> If this is such a big issue for you, you could just name another example. It'd take, like, 5 words to say another feature in question unnecessarily changed.

Okay, how about `signal()` being called in a multi-threaded program? Why couldn't they define it in C11 such that it could be called? Obviously, such a thing didn't really exist in C99, but it did in POSIX, and in POSIX, it wasn't, and still isn't, undefined. Why couldn't WG14 have simply made it implementation-defined?

> I quite like that my compiler will optimize out dead null comparisons or some check that collapses to a 'a + C1 < a' after inlining/constant propagation.

I'd rather not be forced to be a superhuman programmer.
This new look on websites is so common amongst new projects being launched. I love it.

What CSS framework is used to create this type of UI?
One thing to note, is you don’t have to feel compelled to master every combat mechanic the game throws at you (which is a lot), you can just pick your favorites. A “fox with one trick vs a thousand” and all that.

I for example basically ignore the shield for the vast majority of the game, only doing some very basic usage for some bosses, but perfect counters could very well be your favorite thing.
If those managers could read, they'd be very upset.
One of the final nails was the infamous Chrome 45 aka the Chromepocalypse in the video ad world.

Chrome 45, in the name of performance, defaulted to only loading flash from 3rd party domains after a "click to load". This was bad for ads for obvious reasons, but it was much much worse due to an implementation detail.

In order to get the page laid out properly, Chrome loaded the flash component and then suspended it after a single frame. From an ad perspective, that was enough to trigger the impression pixel, signifying that the ad had been shown and the advertiser should be billed. However, the ad was not shown and there was no way for the ad to detect it had been suspended. Just a nightmare. We (I led the effort at BrightRoll) had to shift a ton of ad auction behavior to special case Chrome 45 and it limited what kind of ads we could serve.

That was the inflection point away from flash for ads. While ad formats like VPAID supported JS/HTML5, they didn't start getting popular until after Chrome 45 was released.
let them get notifications
Posted on GitHub:

"unfortunately I lost the Go source code"
Might this have anything to do with Apple starting to reposition production outside of China?
I did 5 game jams this year, 4 of them in various WebAssembly languages (C++, Zig, Odin, Rust).

In the end I switched back to JS/TS, because I found way more benefit from minimizing layers of abstraction and translation (WS is set up so you are forced to interface with JS to actually do anything), more than the benefits of any language or library.

(An exception might be something like Unity, due to the excellent featureset, but the IDE has become so slow it's unbearable...)
Users are punished if Google is unaware of them. I built an iOS app for a major brand but the web view would load with no cookies in a sandbox, and we realized after roll out that all users were needing to solve 10+ hard CAPTCHA challenges to be let through, as Google was unfamiliar with the users. You’ll get a similar experience loading over a VPN. We removed it.

It’s easy to why device attestation is so alluring to these companies. Anonymity and bots look alike.
To be fair, there is a "For Talents" and "For Recruiters" selector at the top of the page. For talents, it is a free platform.
Without civil wars. Both experienced substantial street violence in the transition to democracy. And only Taiwan did it without US military forces in the country to influence the political process.
Yeah it was over for me when he went on that Watson will change the world rant after the jeopardy stunt.
World of Goo 2: now available
linux-hardware dot org

you can check there and on google is some devices have problems
The point is, the western world is still in a "stable decline" so as the article said we will see the result of it in a century.

The China problem however..thats 2 decades from now..
> I usually open a PR with at least a proof of concept implementation without prior discussion. I find that trying to discus a new feature without a concrete thing to look at often goes nowhere or even goes completely unanswered.

You should do both: get a soft ok that they'll consider the change ("If I put up a PR/POC will you be able to take a look? Will you be able to approve? If not you then who would I reach out to?") and then put up the PR so there are concrete things to discuss. This saves you time because why put together even a POC if they're never gonna approve it.
I don't think just geometry will give you any of that. Weight distribution and dynamics might.
> keys are hard to manage and use just because they never reached mainstream.

I think they never reached mainstream because there is a fundamentally difficult problem to solve that hasn't been solved.

Identity. There are so many similarly named people and organizations that a signature doesn't mean much, unless you understand the identity, and identity is fundamentally hard to understand.

Add on to that, images have a very long lifetime, and signatures become difficult to verify over time. After the key is changed, the old key may no longer be published. It can be difficult to verify when a signature was made, although there's options for signing services that can help... but when those services rotate keys or disappear, it can be difficult to validate their old signatures.
What's trending on GitHub in the last week – August 4th
I’ve just finished mentoring an intern at a FAANG fully remote. They were able to get me in chat whenever they needed, it never felt like communication was a problem. They were actually in the office, though.
It's a good signal of incompetent management. Even if you like going to the office and would go there anyway, you should take this as a warning that they will be making other stupid decisions not based on reason and logic, and fighting them will be frustrating.