skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is anyone at Google even aware how much this hurts their brand?

I received an email from Google today with the subject line "Meet the new Google TV Streamer (4K)"

The sender was Google Chromecast. Apparently it's some sort of streaming hardware they are selling for £99.

I won't even consider buying one. How long until it's an obsolete brick? And when it's a brick, what are the chances I can wipe it and install my own software on it? Probably zero.

No thanks, Google. You've blotched your copybook too many times.
> without a credit card company in the middle extracting rents.

This is way too reductive. In the US, credit cards are complicated. For instance, I get about 2.5% of every purchase back, either in cash or kind. Yes, the merchant pays 4%, and VISA/matercard take a bit, and my issuing bank takes a bit, but calling that "extracting rents" feels like pure rhetoric.

FedNow is awesome and will make the market more efficient, but merchants aren't going to lower prices due to lower fees, especially while there's a mix of fee-less transactions and credit card transactions. At least in the short term, adopting FedNow is just giving money to the places you buy from (for retail transactions).
It bugs me how that site counts things that were just shuffled around, rebranded or obsolete as "killed". Google genuinely kills enough stuff that there's really no need to pad out the list by counting the Google Drive desktop client that still exists and was just renamed, or the standalone Street View app which was just a worse version of the Google Maps app, or Google Toolbar which was obsoleted by browsers integrating search and wouldn't be supported by any modern browser anyway.

Even YouTube for the Nintendo 3DS of all things is on there and they supported that system for two years longer than Nintendo did. Past a certain point it wouldn't have been possible for Google to update that app even if they wanted to.
Biden declares emergency as Florida braces for Tropical Storm Helene
Commissions work best when the customer and sales staff have long relationships and a decent knowledge of their markets. That's rarely the case at retail and pushes more hard-sell types.

In B2B, it's about a relationship and trust. My FIL sells clothes. He's the middleman between the manufacturers and the stores. He has a territory and based on what's happening in other stores in the region he can steer them toward the right stuff for their store. I.e., what's this store's target age range, how affluent is the area, and so on. In return, when he does a good job with them, they will learn to trust his advice on what will generally sell well, and he ends up getting better commissions. He sells about a dozen lines from about six manufacturers, though about three or four of the lines tend to make up the bulk of his income.

Since he's very good at his job, he can demand higher commissions than other salesmen just to take a line on. He's got the on-the-ground relationships, and a manufacturer will give him a bigger cut because he's not going to have canceled orders, returns, or headaches for them.
Benevolent Artificial Anti-Natalism (BAAN) (2017)
There does seem to be an exception for public outlets.

I clicked a link to NYPDs twitter and didn’t have to AuthN. Makes sense too; every org who wanted their content to be fully available to anyone would leave if twitter mandated login

(Although they still use Facebook)
That's because Matt's Foundation gave Matt's Automattic the exclusive commercial trademark license. https://x.com/photomatt/status/1838671002529665394
The xunzi as the basis of a metarational ruling ideology
> With just a threat.

This is actually the ideal state of regulators. That they take action against a select few, which in turn 'scares' everyone else into complying with the law. Self regulation is much better than actual regulation.
How quickly we forget Huawei... QC's fine, but I think the huawei situation shows that QC has probably been getting a little fat/lazy on the modem side for a few years too. Only a real competitor could prove that if true, 2013 intel looked like they were best in class too but the rot was already firmly entrenched.

So, I wouldn't say intel's modems were awful, maybe not as good as the QC's of the time, but it could just have been immature, and underfunded. Apple OTOH, is famous for taking somewhat failed teams and having a long enough vision to create great products. They seem to understand that 9 women can't create a baby in 1 month and are willing to keep iterating until its right if it solves a problem for them.
I was pleasantly surprised by the "OCR" results MiniCPM-V 2.6 gives on any kind of text, including handwritten, given an image and trivial prompt. I'll be sure to keep an eye out on this family of models.

It's no replacement for OCR of printed text, of course, due to sometimes generating random text, but it looked very useful for handwritten text and all kinds of decorative fonts (e.g. "inspirational posters"). I imagine this could work:

* if you're going to check the output manually or

* somehow make it part of a pipeline where this model recognizes the rough layout of the page and to get reliable text you cut it up and run traditional OCR on the blocks or

* somehow diff the VLM output and the OCR tool output

although keep in mind that MiniCPM-V can't identify pixel positions in the image like Gemini Pro here: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Aug/26/gemini-bounding-box-vi...
> androids can't call iPhones

Nextel had exactly this with the walkie talkie feature and the market sorted it out.
Profit sharing has nothing to do with the type of equity, any profit sharing agreement is specific and can be anything. An investor can ask for royalties forever if they want.

I think you aren't aware of how the real world works, and have a textbook understanding. But not even that because you don't realize you can end up with basically nothing at the end holding only common stock that is given to W-2 employees.

> your fantasy of founding a company

You misread? Maybe intentionally. The company exists and has more customers than 99% of these YC startups. How many businesses are you operating?

> preferred shares don't mean anything if you don't have investors

Obviously, that's the context we're talking about. Bringing on investors. You think common stock is no different than preferred stock which is your main error.
Always find it weird that we rejected compuserve and AOL yet ended up all using Facebook....
I can't argue against that. There is definitely a lot of noise right now. A lot of spin. A lot of people arguing all sides.

Hence also, no good sources of information. At least nothing trusted.

But I think anybody that has used latest AI tools can see the writing on the wall about job consolidation. How many 'new' jobs will also be created. Who knows. It's kind of word of mouth now.

This is definitely going to be as disruptive as blue color jobs going overseas.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-03-03-me-38444-...
It would be cool if there was some data to back this up, but it's impossible to get. It's really about young people being impressionable and having the mindset to be inspired by something such that they'll dedicate their mind to it.
It's a great tool, but no one is going to want to pay $10/mo for it.

You will get a better ROI if you replace the pricing with a link to your socials/ website.
"Invest in projects, not papers."

This is excellent advice, and in my experience does not represent the intuition that many young (and not so young) researchers begin with.

Papers come from projects and, if you care, good projects can yield many good papers!
Putting aside whatever anyone may think of this truck, if you were to spend $100K for this truck, which is stainless steel, wouldn't it be worth it to pay the $6K for a wrap? Wouldn't that solve most, if not all, of your cleaning problems?

Compared to the $100K you paid for the truck, the $6K wrap to make it easy to clean seems relatively cheap. Moreover, the best-looking Cybertrucks I've seen have all been wrapped. Your truck would look good and be easy to clean. Wouldn't this be the way to go?
T-Mobile: Unlocking Phones After 60 Days a 'Major Question'
Idk he has at least three alts (the weird baby role play one, Adrian Dittmann, DogeDesigner). Though maybe the people who have blocked him who he wants to see also know to block those to be fair
The simplest answer is that Elon is blocked by a lot of people, as are many people whose voices he wants heard, and believes that it goes against his flavor of "free speech".

He's been unblocking himself over the years, and this feels like the next logical step for him.

I think its simple... a lot of people have blocked Elon, so Elon thinks blocking is bad.
>living like a billionaire for nine years was worth the one year prison sentence he received

He's only been out for a little bit. Give it 10 years and ask him how being a broke felon is. Especially with a fraud conviction which will preclude him from employment even more.
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> No true Scotsman or appeal to purity is an informal fallacy in which one attempts to protect an a posteriori claim from a falsifying counterexample by covertly modifying the initial claim.

No one has covertly modified the initial claim. UBI has a long-standing definition that’s distinct from welfare.
Is being an avoidant parent a precondition to being a successful executive? My direct anecdotal experience with successful executives is quite the opposite.

I really think we're giving him far too much credit to assume this is all an intentional time-saving life hack to improve his ability to optimize his output for some planet-saving goal (which his most recent work, frankly, has not been).
I don't know if anybody challenged Darwin on that point. It's an interesting question.

The simplest explanation is that he deduced such a physical mechanism must exist but the science and technology available at the time could not locate it.
That may be a bad example - I'd imagine once you're into the multi-millions, connections actually do matter in a way they don't if you're trying to sell a $400k house.

I doubt it's much harder to sell a 600k house than a 300k house, but it could be quite a bit harder to sell a 4m house than a 2m house just because there's so many less buyers in the pool and they're likely to be a lot more particular than just wanting a roof over their head.
> He and a friend, prosecutors would contend, somewhat intoxicated and possibly playing a game of “truth or dare,” approached four youngsters dining on an extra-large pepperoni pizza.

Not defending three strikes laws from thirty years ago which have since been repealed anyway, but this was not someone "stealing to eat."
This article seems to specifically be talking about debit transactions, rather than credit cards (unless I misunderstand it).
For me, the last time I saw it was last week. Prior to that, probably the week before. It's definitely gotten better over the last 2-3 years, but it's certainly not perfect.
All of that is demonstration that money isn't an ideal means of incentive, but I have never worked a job without getting paid despite being asked many times to do exactly that.
There's literally a guard standing at the door. You are free to leave / not visit the site. And nobody owes you an explanation for the security practices of the business that you want to patronize.
This wasn't about money either. This was him wanting users to be able to boost reprehensible content without having to put their names on it.

He sees this as an antidote to cancel culture; he's allowing people to support things they agree with without society's repercussions.
Hmm what mass of black hole is needed to rip your arm off? Probably more than an asteroid I’m guessing?
> It looks like Visa debit fees are about $0.21 + 0.05%. Compare that to cash handling...

Debit fees are that low because of the Durbin Amendment, which legislated caps on debit card fees (amongst other things). Credit card fees are where the real money is made, and the meat of the complaint here.
That simple answer is wrong, because the changes don't make it so that people who blocked Elon see Elon's posts now.
Yes as long as you stay off the deeper parts of tube, e.g the Northern Line. One of London’s biggest sources of particulate pollution is now tube train brake pads
This is something most web developers have passively known to be true for a long time, but it still takes you aback to be presented with it all at once in a timeline. I don't see how anyone takes in this history and does not conclude that Apple's negligence (to put it charitably) has impacted the growth of the web.
How many residential houses have you personally bought or served as a realtor for? In my experience everything other than rote paperwork and sending over information is done via chat or in person. No realtor is going to walk a first-time buyer through an inspection report via text message or email.
Visa sets merchant policy, and they do not allow high chargeback rates.

The merchant bears the brunt of the economic loss, but chargebacks are a relatively expensive hassle for the network too, and ultimately they will drop merchants who cannot keep chargebacks low.

Around 0.5% is considered reasonable. Anywhere in the 1% area for more than a few months will get a merchant dropped.
I spent over a decade developing cross-platform software.

Even now (professionally) I'm getting back into it. My current job is in C#, and we're a little late to the .Net 8 game. It's much cheaper to host .Net 8 on Linux than Windows, so now we're getting into it.

Turns out timezone names are different between Windows and Linux; and our code uses timezone names.
>Can ordinary people use FedNow right now? How?

IIUC, your (and the counterparty's) financial institutions will need to participate[0] in the FedNow program.

My bank (one of the big ones) does not participate. Which isn't too surprising as they issue lots of credit and debit cards, with which FedNow directly competes.

Hopefully, one of these days FedNow will be ubiquitous. While I'm not holding my breath, I'm also optimistic that it can and will work.

[0] https://www.frbservices.org/financial-services/fednow/organi...
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More simply: people are increasingly blocking advertisers to hide their advertisements. This would prevent you from shielding yourself from ads.
What does Lina Khan have to do with this DOJ case? That they're both doing similar stuff?

I'm not sure why people get so offended at the idea that political appointees on their side time their actions around election cycles. It's easy to believe about the $other party (for whatever value of $other), but for some reason we're very hesitant to acknowledge that our own people play the same game by the same rules.

Acknowledging that doesn't imply anything about the policy or about the motives of the actors, it's simply an acknowledgement that they're good at their jobs and know how to time things. But I guess it must feel slimy and we like to believe our guys are above that sort of thing?
Tower Hamlets?
Great game, I seem to remember you could play two player using a serial cable, and my friend brought his Archimedes around, we spent literally all night playing it
I have given up trying to view content unauthenticated, I used to be able to close the popups but now I get redirected to a login when I do.
One fewer reason to use Google search. Solid effort killing the money printer all around.
You can get life in prison for three non-violent convictions of selling LSD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_L._Tyler
> [Google Cache] was meant for helping people access pages when way back, you often couldn't depend on a page loading. These days, things have greatly improved. So, it was decided to retire it.

I wish I knew what he's talking about - not only are sites disappearing left and right, but even those that remain will often change so quickly that your search term is nowhere to be found.

My cynical guess: websites want Google to index them so they show full versions of their articles knowing they won't be penalized for that. Everybody else gets a paywall, but Google Cache let everyone bypass them. Faced with the choice between users and companies, Google threw the users under the bus.
A fork is a copy of a repo at a certain version. A copy of the files of the repo without the .git folder is effectively a fork. Either way, their terms contradict what GitHub allows.
No, but only because the technology + processes for Wires + ACH are pretty complicated and slow. If they can be sped up, simplified with the same or better protections for account holders, then it would would be a game changer.

Of course Visa/Mastercard/Amex/Discover are very well moneied interests, positioned pretty tightly in the market and have no incentive to help it's success along.
Department stores are doing great in Mexico.

For example, the high rise Mitikah in CDMX was recently completed, and it has a mall complete with metro access, cinema and a giant department store chain called Liverpool. Pictures from the opening[0].

Another new mall, Portal Norte is under construction in Naucalpan, a suburb.[1] Not sure whether it will feature a Liverpool but I would almost be surprised if it wouldn't.

I went to Puebla last month and it has a whole neighborhood of malls called Angelopolis, including bike paths to connect them.[2] The last mall opened in 2018.[3]

I love malls because they are car free, pretty plants and have armed guards. It feels safer than being in the street.

[0]: https://www.facebook.com/liverpoolmexico/posts/liverpool-m%C...
[1]: https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/edomex/portal-norte-es-un-mon...
[2]: https://www.corazondepuebla.com.mx/descubre/parque-lineal/
[3]: https://www.e-consulta.com/nota/2017-12-14/ciudad/abre-soles...
I've always found the fact that zsh copes with NUL characters in variables etc to be really useful. I can see why this approach makes sense for OpenBSD but they can't prevent NULs appearing in certain places like piped input.
That's a much simpler project. It's deployment, not construction. Two metric tons of mesh have to be soft landed at the bottom of the crater. Then mobile robots pull it open into a large dish.[1] There's a cheaper approach where the mesh is pulled open by weights shot out from the central lander. Cost estimates are in the US$1 billion to US$10 billion range, most of which is shipping cost to Luna Farside.

[1] https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/d4pivfipd9rpb19fm87lq/LCRT_NI...
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I had agonising pain from dry eyes when I woke up. It felt like my lense was scratched, but it wasn't. An eye specialist told me that in fact my eyelid pores were bunged up and weren't release enough moisture at night. A predisposition that years at the screen not blinking enough made accute. He advised eyelid wipes morning and night and it cleared the issue. he told me that instead of eyelid wipes, to keep the costs down, I could use bicarbonate of soda (medical grade) boiled in water (about a teaspoon to 500ml I think, and then just dip qtips into it (cooled of course). Keep that mix in the fridge for no longer than a week before making a new batch.
I used to volunteer on the suicide hotline: 988, in the US. I also previously used to live near the Caltrain station in Menlo Park - suicide central for Silicon Valley.

This much is well known: making ANY topic "taboo" for discussion is bad for mental health generally, and prevents people (specifically suicidal people) from seeking the help they need.

It's not a big mystery why: attaching guilt and shame (or legal penalties) to some thought or speech or act will make people much less likely to discuss it. Even when it's burning up their mind from the inside.
Guido van Rossum is Dutch. Wouldn't it stand to reason that someone who's Dutch wrote the tutorial? If so, then it's not a stretch to imagine that English was second language to that person.

Personally, being a native English speaker, I'm not going to bust somebody's chops for writing a tutorial/guide/whatever that appears to be English as a Second Language. English is the de facto universal language, like Latin used to be, and so I expect to see "interesting" usages of the language. I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing.
>What thread has Elon lost really? When Elon bought twitter there was a huge wave of people and the media telling us it was over in 6 months, when Elon fired staff they told us X would go down forever in a few months.

Indeed. According to the media and on Reddit, since Musk bought Twitter, Mastodon, Bluesky and Threads have collectively gained 70 bazillion users on seventeen different occasions, and have caused Twitter to collapse and disappear eleven times.
I think it's likely people will build useful user experiences on top of FedNow. Or migrate existing uses (Zelle?). But it's just the boring settlement system in the background; not what end customers or businesses interact with directly.
> a single particle with mass and charge

FWIW, atomic nuclei have fun substructure. They behave like inhomogeneous sometimes-oblate liquid drops[1] when large, and alpha-particle clusters[2] when small. I wonder if one could craft an introduction to atoms for kids, with rather more "you don't need this for the standardized exams, but here's a bunch of fun stuff you're usually not shown".

[1] a plutonium fission model https://imgur.com/a/nlwzLyy
[2] fig.4 on page 4 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1406.2473 Note wacky bowling-pin-shaped Neon.
I used cache a lot, not just to view sites, but see the text versions of PDF and Word documents. RIP.
I didn't even realize this existed. Now it's too late to enjoy it.
> Ms. Ellison is set to report to a minimum security prison in the Boston area by around Nov. 7, almost exactly two years after FTX collapsed.

So it's Danbury, CT.
i don't think it can do everything visidata can do
Lain teaches you how to code
Was I being downvoted?

It wasn't even a criticism, just an observation for anyone else who was thinking the same or was interested in another popular project with a similar name (and seemingly similar functions? didn't look too hard).

Naming things is hard and we all kinda share one global tech namespace, so this is gonna inevitably happen.
It sounds like the solution is to attach the satellites to some sort of frame that could be assembled in orbit by simple robots.
Google TV, the hardware dongle, been around for a while already. Pretty solid Android TV device if you don't own Nvidia Shield. Really nice for travel.

> I won't even consider buying one. How long until it's an obsolete brick? And when it's a brick, what are the chances I can wipe it and install my own software on it? Probably zero.

You can install LineageOS on it today.

If you want to complain about Google TV, the strategy is to bring up the first product to use that name. No one remembers it, and completely unrelated to current Google TV. Probably why Google chosen than name - even they forgot they had a product with that name already.
I'm fairly confident that she would have been required to surrender all of her crypto as part of the plea deal. If she didn't, it's perjury and she gets to go back to jail.
Exactly, what nobody is talking about is she is only remorseful because she got CAUGHT
That you are getting a kickback does not mean they aren’t extracting monopoly rent. The rents, and your kickback, is in fact supported by slightly higher prices, which for you will roughly cancel out, but which are paid in full by people not using credit cards.

One can certainly argue that this system is net positive due, e.g., to greater credit availability for people who need it, chargeback discipline, etc. It’s a very complicated system that impacts a bunch of stuff. But it being merely a ~3% surcharge (on most retail transactions nationwide!) does not deflect the monopoly charge.
I can imagine a universe where payment systems selectively interoperate. It is pretty common now. tells can have multiple pieces of hardware.