skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Windows was already losing relevance in the data center when Nadya took over -because of Linux. At AWS in 2008 / 2009 adoption was all about LAMP stack - AWS's tools were all geared for LAMP. AWS offered some Windows + SQL Server licenses on their cloud, however it was a struggle to get a deal (any deal) with Microsoft.

On the mobile side Windows was losing relevance to iPhone - which Ballmer so famously derided.

Satya figured out that with cloud computing Microsoft would still interpose between hardware makers and the customer - and the results show. (Why hardware makers do not figure this out for themselves is a different topic..)
The brilliant article you post argues against ring species, but it does so by demonstrating geographic breaks that caused... speciation. So perhaps ring species as a concept sadly aren't as much a thing as was suggested in my HS days (I suppose science moved on, thanks for updating my knowledge) but if you accept the contents of that article then you must also agree that speciation is a thing that happens.

But in the interest of considering the topic from an intellectual and academic point of view, what is your proposed alternative explanation for the huge number of species we see today, apart from evolution and speciation?
Perhaps number of comments, or number of non-flamewar comments, or proportion of flamewar comments together with number of comments?
What software can do this?
To be fair, Buurtzorg doesn’t scale either, as they’re perpetually short staffed.
Hell, supply and demand are regularly called out as fake on HN, where you'd expect people to know better.
Is Landmark Technology's Two-Decade Patent Assault on E-Commerce Over?
Discussions at the time of the study (2021):

(207 points, 124 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27733827

(77 points, 108 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27780872

(52 points, 17 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27784964

(53 points, 4 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29425081
I think most people's problem with "effective altruism" is rather that some of its more prominent adherents end up defining "helping humanity" in very weird and rather counter-intuitive ways. Like that whole argument that we basically should care more about future humans than present ones because there's a lot more future ones.
There's also a different kind of coordination problem.

The incentives of an organization - or at least of a corporation - are to make money and to continue to exist and to enrich and empower the people who control it. But employees' incentives are usually pretty different. Nurses usually get into nursing because they, at least to some extent, want to help people. Engineers get into engineering because they, at least to some extent, want to build something really good. Teachers get into teaching because they want kids to learn. And so on.

If you're the principal of a school, and your goal is for a teacher to teach, you don't have a coordination problem. Most teachers want to do that. But if your goal is for teachers to maximize standardized test scores, or to minimize the number of frustrated parent calls, etc, you do have a coordination problem, because your goals are misaligned with your employees'.

If you're the CEO of a tech company, and your goal is for your engineers to build good software, you don't have a coordination problem. Your engineers want to do that. But if your goal is to maximize conversions, or to ship faster, or to raise money, etc., you do have a coordination problem.

If you run a hospital, and your goal is for your nurses to care for patients, you don't have a coordination problem. But if your goal is to maximize profits, then you do.

It's usually these kinds of coordination problems that managers are, effectively, in charge of enforcing. Their job is not to help individual employees achieve individual employees' collective goals, it's to make employees feel (sometimes truthfully) like their goals are aligned with the organizational goals, or to use the threat of loss of income or work to force them into line.
They don't need to retool all the factories at once. They could have gradually introduced 48V systems in parallel with 12V, slowly phasing in new components as they replaced the old 12V.
I'm in the US. Your idea violates our justice system's notion of transparency, and it's one I agree with wholeheartedly. Things are different sometimes in cases where the charges involve sexual violence and/or minors, where courts have upheld that the potential damage of publicly naming the victims was worse than the potential damage of not allowing the defendant to publicly counter the accusations. See for example: https://www.gdnlaw.com/blog/internet-law/anonymous-lawsuit-t...

So in the US, at least, if you're going to sue someone over IP violations, you should plan on your identity being made part of the public record. As a country we're pretty adamant about that. It's a feature, not a bug.

I'm including DMCA notices in things I believe should be -- must be -- transparent. They're legal filings after all, strongly implying that if you don't comply, you're about to be sued. Your proposal would allow, say, Oracle to hide their identity if they were filing a complaint against the Linux kernel so that they could get the benefit of launching a legal salvo without the reputation hit for having done so. I believe that's far more unfair, and more likely, than your scenario.
> It's to reduce unit costs

The increase in per unit cost probably would be entirely insignificant and minuscule compared to the revenue they'd lose by not being able to charge predatory prices for storage upgrades. So it would be a secondary or a tertiary concern at best..
> If every morning I got in my car and left for work and my neighbor followed me, writing down every place I went, what time I got there, how long I stayed, and the name of everyone I called, it would be incredibly intrusive surveillance data, and I'd probably be somewhat freaked out.

It's not "surveillance data," you are in a public place and have no expectation of privacy. It's only through such neighbourhood watch and open-source intelligence initiatives that our communities can be kept safe from criminals and terrorists.

Why are you so protective of your goings-on and the names of everyone you call? Are you calling terrorists or engaging in illicit activity at the places you visit? What is it that you have to hide?

I would actually take the premise of (national) security even further and extend collection to not only metadata, but data as well. Further, these capabilities should be open-sourced and made available to all private citizens. Our current law enforcement systems are not powerful enough, nor do they move quickly enough to catch criminals - by the time sufficient information has been gathered on a suspect, it may already be too late.
Yes, one can't blame Ballmer for the missteps of the Xbox team directly (that honor goes to Don Mattrick, VP in charge of IEB at the time of the Xbox One launch). Divisional VPs get a lot of latitude in how they run their org. However, Ballmer does have to accept ultimate responsibility for allowing Mattrick to head up IEB and how long he allowed him to stay there.
No, it is not justified.

You just said it was, in the plainest possible language.
More robust, cheaper (far simpler wiring harness), eventually ability to do zonal assembly.
Show your work. Are those competitive scholarships? Maybe women are just out-performing men. Are those government services disproportionately aimed at women because they are caring for children? Or elderly parents?

Before we start thinking of men as a "disenfranchised minority" we should be crystal clear on the facts, don't you agree?
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> It's a failed experiment.

Failed? Because one project went wrong? They are incredibly successful - one large success after another, and they archive more and make more available to the public than any other 'archive'.

Maybe those other questions don't come up for traditional archivists, but IA delivered. The idea that archives should sit inaccessible to the public is bizarre, I think, to everyone but (some?) archivists.

It's easy to sit back and criticize others. They delivered. I use IA all the time.
We live in a sick society where peoples identities are intertwined with their consumer choices and they feel personally attacked by criticism of a megacorporstion. An engineer is more likely to be aware of design tradeoffs and skeptical of marketing fluff.
I don't have access to any devices with Douyin on it, so I cannot confirm current usage.

My knowledge of their usage is from discussions with ByteDance some many years ago when I was in charge of the Flutter project at Google. At the time they were using Flutter in 50+ applications (probably most of them internal), including Douyin (TikTok for China) as well as physical hardware kiosks on their campus, web apps, etc.

https://flutter.dev/showcase/bytedance
Yes. It leaves out the Jeff Bezos intervention, so we can conclude it's a post hoc rationalization.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/25/washingto...
We cannot tell if the currently most profitable divisions would become that profitable under Ballmer.

That's the whole point - Satya somehow was able to develop the platforms through acquisitions and business vendor lock much better than Ballmer ever could. And we saw what happened with Windows division under Ballmer - it was profitable but it had no future. MSFT could become another IBM.

With Ballmer we could get some Windows hubris like "Azure only with Windows OS license" or something.

My only issue with Satya is that he is not "a cult of personality" type of person like Jensen Huang or Phil Spencer. He is basically a guy who "walks softly and wields a big stick".
It's possible that the "permanently switch to next layout" works reliably, but not the "switch while held" (which I do because I'm selecting single symbols at a time)?
I think Mathpix API [1] can use used to do something like that in realtime/ish

[1] https://mathpix.com/
I’ve been really impressed with Tesseract - I used it last month to add invisible OCR text (1) to scanned PDFs I reference a lot. My scans are quite good, but I was still impressed with the accuracy.

I also OCRed the TOC, playing with the page segmentation setting (2) in the terminal until I got output I could copy & paste to add a navigable table of contents.

1: with the help of https://github.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF

2: https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/tessdoc/Command-Line-Usage.h..., “ Using different Page Segmentation Modes”
Dont forget Canada speaks the same language as USA so in order to keep skilled medical staff Canada, rather than going to USA for better salary, has pay competitively. USA skilled medical salaries are quite attractive. Therefore Canada has to spend a lot on wages. More than European countries. This makes "socialized" medicine that much more Expensive than the same In Europe
It would be fascinating if the universe actually has a “NaN” phenomenon that conveniently can never be observed or directly interacted with because it’s always inside an event horizon.
Feel free to upvote comments you like here. The incel brigade will inevitably come through and downvote most of our conversation into oblivion.
> at some point a child that is fed pancakes every day will gain the ability to look back and regret how they were raised

I regret nothing. Pancakes are and will always be great.
I find myself dwelling on Karaoke/Cold Lazarus more and more as technology progresses.

It seems to exist on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwYlzSQTL2A&list=PLmRu2axUu2...

It's hard to say how it's relevant without spoiling it too much though.
And it worked. Congrats for reaching Front Page, Bruno!
You could buy an SD card that goes up to 2TB and keep it permanently in your macbook using a shortened version like so:

https://www.adafruit.com/product/1569
Yes but my point is it doesn't have to do that fast, as in unit test speeds.
> $$$s to be gained. A large number of people read finance blogs because they think they themselves make money with the knowledge therein

Levine's blogs aren't geared to this audience. The pitch is simpler: people in finance have money and the people with the most money in finance tend to enjoy (or at least spending way too much time) thinking about finance. (I'm in finance and I'm good at it.)

If I could pay for Matt Levine separately from Bloomberg, I would. Not because I expect to profit off it. But because it's fun, informative and once in a while helps me explain something to someone else (usually a friend) more concisely.
For React Native it’s common for navigation to be weird compared to UIKit/SwiftUI apps. Also common for things like padding/margins to be off since standard layout facilities aren’t being used, and devs of RN apps will often visually customize controls (web style) that native devs don’t.

For Flutter, the most visually obvious thing (aside from usually using Material Design) is that its animation curves are all totally different from those of UIKit/SwiftUI and interact with gestures differently. The Cupertino theme is a poor facsimile of UIKit and lands squarely in the uncanny valley, which is arguably worse than Material Design. Flutter on iOS also tends to hitch where UIKit/SwiftUI don’t.
Oh, I mean like with the vacuum command. As the databases get larger it can become unwieldy.
Valve figured it out when making the Steam Deck. But they're a brilliant exception that makes your point.
Would you recommend a different distribution mechanism? The Apple binaries are all signed (in accordance with Apple policies), and the team has historically invested significantly in supply chain security. e.g. (a now 2 year old article)

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2022/09/flutter-slsa-progr...
I have this 2017 iMac and I hate that I can't use it as an external display. Felt it more during covid since I wanted to plug my work laptop on it and it as an external display.
That said, this display is old and I feel it more now when editing/viewing HDR videos. Though it was one of the top displays till a few yrs back
> And in follow-up posts in this series, we’ll use that reward model along with reinforcement learning to create a model that can write high-value HN stories!

Well, thanks HN, you were good while it lasted...
Assembling a Game Boy Game with Meson
They've used `required={true}`, not `required="true"`, which is JSX, not HTML. The one with curlies isn't even valid HTML. In the old HTML spec, the correct value, if you wanted to set a value, was to set `required="required"`, but these days the spec is looser since it tries to conform to the web, not the other way around.
Which in some sense is intuitive: any closed form that can model general computation to any significant degree should be hard: if it weren't, you could encode your NP-complete problem into it, solve it in an efficient closed form, and collect your Fields medal for proving P = NP.
That’s exactly what I thought.
UWaterloo students build an EV GRU-mobile in 3 days
hey! my friends and i spent 3-days during mid-term week (aka hell week) building an EV in the shape of Gru's car from Despicable Me. Check it out!
Maybe show some of the 2D cellular automata.
It's basically the same thing but the mechanics are different. Regular betting you place a bet wait till the event. Prediction markets you can buy and sell your position any time more like a futures market.
One of the things I dislike about HTML form validation is it starts running from page load. So if e.g. you tie error state formatting to it, the form loads up with a bunch of errors which may be intimidating to the user.
Well technically a spark plug is the tube part.
https://github.com/marmakoide/pestacle

Be warned, zero documentation, because things are at larval stage and change often. Will include a couple of demos this week.

In the spirit, yes, but targeting different hardware, public, and environments.

* It runs on Linux, Mac, Windows. Bare metal on rp2040 and rp2350 is planned.

* It written in C, build with Make.

* It is meant to run on something like a Raspberry Pi, Latte Panda, etc

* A setup is a text file, no fancy UI.

* The plan for live parameter fiddling will be a web server. Web UI will be tailored to each setup, no one size fits all UI. Typically I pay someone to do the UI.

* For now, it's only video, no sound output

It will be used for several large interactive LED displays and object tracking systems. It's a way for me to factories all those projects I was contracted for.
It's nonsense -- plenty of people use phones and iPads while tethered to a charging cord. The port is well secured to the logic board of the device because it has to survive a lot of yanking, accidental falls, etc. It doesn't explain the Magic Mouse design.
> A large number of people read finance blogs because they think they themselves make money with the knowledge therein.

Do you actually read his work?

I certainly don't expect to make money from reading it. I'd be surprised if a significant number of subscribers had that reason.

It's entertaining and informative about the overall world, not something I expect to make money from.
Flutter has seen a lot of Xamarin refugees. Even the founder of Xamarin himself is a big Flutter fan:

https://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/1778759403451081159
Big bad government enforcing those pesky human rights.
I have a Lightning FLIR camera and it works identically well when used with Apple’s Lightning-to-USB-C adapter, it even works with my 2018 iPad Pro which kicked-off the iOS+USB-C process all those years ago.

My iPhone today is rather aged (and uses Lightning) so I’m switching to an iPhone 16 later this year, and I’m confident all of my Lightning accessories will continue to work do long as the apps are available on iTunes.

Related question: now that desktop iTunes is useless for iPhone app management - how the heck do I save and load the iOS I’ve purchased after they’ve been pulled from the store?
Can you name an example of an AIO (or laptop) usable as a display?
> MS should've been able to simply just extend their OS monopoly into all platforms and all architectures, but they didn't, and to a vast swath of the world have become irrelevant, and worse, have lost their ability to become relevant.

Microsoft is, pretty famously, on the receiving end of one of the most significant antitrust judgments in modern history. Choosing to further a monopoly seems that it would be a phenomenally bad decision for the company.

Despite that, Windows remains the dominant operating system for businesses worldwide. So I would argue that the OS is far from "irrelevant".

Beyond the OS, they are comfortably #2 in the public cloud market, with little threat from #3. Indeed, #1 has been relatively stagnant in market share, while Azure has been steadily growing.[0] It seems that a consistently growing market share in such a large industry shows that not only are they relevant, but they are becoming more so, and have not "lost their ability to become relevant". Additionally, it seems that they are "overcoming competition".

> It's a decline from being the monopolist to simply a player ....

> MS should've been able to keep control of the internet, but they lost their moat to Google (Chrome),

They legally could not maintain that monopoly. Again, see the antitrust ruling. The antitrust case was about the impact on Netscape, and was too late to save Netscape. But it is a pretty straight line from a case about bundling IE with the OS.

To be clear, the finding in this case originally held that Microsoft needed to be broken up.[1] Microsoft won on appeal, because of impropriety by the original judge in the case, but the appeals court upheld all findings of fact.[2]

Much of what you are saying Microsoft should have been able to do on the basis of their OS monopoly would have been begging for further antitrust action.

> Bing was a decent win

Bing, on its own, would be the 12th largest tech company in the world, per the original article.

And Microsoft is worth $3T today, largely on the basis of investment under Ballmer (and continued strong execution under Satya). Is the argument that Microsoft should instead be a $10T or $100T market cap company today if you graded Ballmer better than a D?

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/967365/worldwide-cloud-i...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor...
I used to think this, now I think nobody cares except people "in the know"

Every time I've ever mentioned it to anyone they really didn't seem to understand or care
> And we saw what happened with Windows division under Ballmer - it was profitable but it had no future.

Microsoft under Ballmer was insanely profitable, more than its competitors and far more than before he took the helm. And despite that Ballmer launched Azure, started the push towards Entreprise software and at no point stopped investing.

I don’t think Ballmer was the best CEO ever but his poor reputation is very much undeserved.
> When you are fat, the thing everyone will tell you is "eat healthier and move more"

> That has been our approach to the obesity epidemic since the beginning. And it's not working.

If you don't actually move more and eat healthier, yeah it won't work. Saying something and doing something are 2 different things. Anyone that does it will lose weight and be healthier. There's really no getting around it.

> If you legitimately think culture, economy, and physical environment has nothing to do with policy.

I never said "nothing" to do with policy. Read my comments again. I'm arguing against policy being the only solution and you took that to mean something else.

Culture and personal responsibility have a role in health. Next!
The Lightning FLIR camera works fine with USB-C iPhones and iPads when you use Apple’s adapter.
That's pretty funny 8-)

Their declaring their freedom and independance in a Matrix chat channel 8-)

This reminds me of the recent Guardian article headlined:

"Americans who believe in democracy have no choice but to vote for Harris"

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/26/vote-k...

How can it be democracy if there's only one choice?
That’s cool!

Very familiar with BMSs but the lack of open standards and protocols has been extremely frustrating - makes me appreciate how good we have it with HTTP, etc.

Lots say they support BACnet but that’s only if they’ve been configured and the points exported, etc.

Haystack is a great step forward for labelling too but adoption seems fill with complexity :)
I think the key thing to check is that the device is no longer shown on the previous owner's iCloud account when checking through the website. It's Apple's servers that you have to ensure no longer hold any association between that machine and an iCloud account that you don't have the credentials for, because the activation lock that survives a complete erase of the machine is implemented server-side.
> Bonds have (relatively) low returns but almost 0 risk

Each of the asset classes you listed has risks. Bonds are subject to term (i.e. inflation) and credit (i.e. default) risk.

Bonds may be less volatile than equities and commodities, but they can definitely go down (e.g. 2022).

The only free lunch in investing is diversification.