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Ask HN: Is Google Postmaster Stuck?
Some of Google Postmaster's most important parts, Spam Report and Feedback Loop, haven't been updated since Nov 2. I'm hearing hear and there that others are experiencing the same thing.

Has anyone been getting updates here through the UI or their API?
Previously

New York Times tech workers end strike without contract deal (9 points, 21 hours ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42112415

New York Times Tech Guild goes on strike (716 points, 8 days ago, 1291 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42040795
I want to buy a MacBook Pro but the problem I have fundamentally is the increasingly locked down experience they seem to be drifting towards, like the walled gardens on the phone. I feel like I am supporting an ecosystem not aligned to my needs. At the same time, Microsoft isn’t much better with user hostile dark patterns, ands, and things like Recall. It would be nice to have laptops that have the physical build quality and battery life of MacBook Pros but with a Windows 7-10 era OS without all this new anti customer stuff.
Can we please get voice-to-text/action using LLM for cars and home automation. Voice activated anything in a car is such a hassle, because you have to say exactly, "Hey car, turn the temperature to x degrees". You can't say, "Hey car, turn up the heat" Or "Hey car, more AC please". Or "Hey car, max cold".

Alexa in the home is much better now than it used to be, but still way worse than voice chat with ChatGPT.
Florida removed more library books than any state last year
There are multiple comparisons vs multiple chips on both CPU and GPU. Keep scrolling.
Any feedback on how it comes along for regular Software Development (backend stuff) activity and as a common home PC? Looking at the benchmarks looks like there shouldn't be any issue but any first hand experience would be greatly appreciated.
Is that the only concern? That's good because Apple probably won't go and turn the feature off.

I was worried that there might have been some other regulatory concern, perhaps to do with volume. Though I can't think what that might be.
For what it's worth, the apple silicon machines are much more efficient on RAM than most - a 16gb m1 absolutely mops the floor with the 32gb of ram I have in my thinkpad with an i7. It's not really even close.
The continuous use of "tautology" and painting everything as circular kind of fell flat for me.

"Earthquakes are bad because they shake your house, and they shake your house because they are earthquakes."

It's not much different than

"processed foods are bad because they make you fat, and they make you fat because they are processed"

Not that it's true necessarily, but there's nothing wrong with idea, just the tortured phrasing. A implies B, B is bad, therefore A is to be avoided.

So I'm confused by a big chunk of the article dismissing dietary trends (which are likely ridiculous!) based just on a weird way of describing them. And saying "tautology" .

If the issue is that A and B reinforce each other (e.g. insulin resistance and obesity) then just say that - just say it's an indicator or symptom not a root cause.
So is paying the full price and signalling to Apple "we can afford it just fine, don't sweat about cutting margins or lowering extra disk/RAM pricing", but I don't see you complaining about that :)
Production and trade are the same thing. That's what we mean when we say trade.

Why would you object to the idea that the amount of global trade in cheese is equal to the global production of cheese, but not to the idea that the amount of global trade is equal to the amount of global production?

You could argue that there's more trade than there is production, because of reselling, but that would once again dramatically shrink the share of cheese trade that you could attribute to US cheese exports, which don't take future reselling into account.
Shout-out to my postgres server that has been sitting untouched doing it's thing perfectly for 10 years, you're a real one
Pretty sure people already are abusing it.

I think this is a lot like the situation with oldschool Photoshop: for a long time, people pirated Photoshop, and Adobe really didn't care — didn't bother to do anything to make piracy the least bit challenging.

This was seemingly because they considered the amount of money they could make off of sales to individuals, to be relatively trivial next to the amount of money they could make off of corporate volume licensing; and they knew that corporations wouldn't be pirating Photoshop even if it was trivial (because corporations always have the thought of an acquisition-time assets audit on their minds.)

Apple likely thinks the same way about this education discount: all their material income comes from volume purchases or alternate distribution channels (e.g. cellular carriers for phones), or in-store sales; with online retail sales being a relatively-trivial fraction. So it doesn't really matter if they're "losing" part of their margin on these online retail sales.

(Or, if you think about it another way: this is essentially customer-driven price discrimination. Like coupons are for grocery stores. The discounted price is Apple's true price — the price that builds in a profit margin they're happy with. The higher price is pure gravy if they can convince people to part with it. They put the higher price front-and-center, and make the lower-priced offer a bit obscure. People "spending someone else's money" don't care about hunting for deals; they just want to get the thing and get out. So you can milk the gravy from them. People who hold their bank balance more dearly, hunt for the deal, and find it. Still fine; still made a profit from them!)
1) Kindle - best ROI ever, for dollars spent per hour of entertainment

2) Proper Japanese Chef Knife - makes me love cooking again
It's a desktop computer. What's keeping you from using an external SSD?
A 3600 MHz 286?! Clearly you jest.
Even Apple Store employees will freely give you the discount. Apple doesn't discount because they aren't a discount brand, but they will give you this discount if you ask.
Take a pottery course at community college. Pay $65 in tuition, get your education discount, and um, relive the scene from Ghost? :)
Yo, Imma need you to provide more details, this sounds super awesome! Do you perhaps have any pictures or the original paper for your project?
Jobs would have removed the power button entirely.

And then when there's a fault requiring a hard reset to fix you have to insert a bent paperclip into a tiny unlabeled hole on the bottom, or spell out a message in morse code by unplugging and re-plugging the power cord with some special timing. (This is not sarcasm)
Tailwind CSS MacBook Air Mockup
My UI Library is not hosted yet, so apolgies for the reddit link.

I am creating multiple new "device mockups" for Tailwind CSS. The current ones available are not great, and when I tried to use other mockups I noticed they took away from the overal design.

Please let me know what you think, or other mockups you would want to see.
>claiming it not only holds up to the classics like GF but actually surpasses it

I didn't.

>the improvements in graphics

That would be the big one. Also whatever changes in development/publishing that made it producible by an indie outfit no one had heard of, rather than Tim Schafer(TM) backed by LucasArts(TM).
What stops someone from selling replacement cards?
The article implies that they're trying to avoid copycat attacks, trying to avoid raising the killer to celebrity status, and trying to prevent a preventable media frenzy. All things that are, on balance, pretty well-considered.
You would live there if you can effectively shield yourself from the safety risks, by doing things like avoiding mass transit and bad neighborhoods.

Also, because you may have family and ties to the area.
I mean honestly, it's pretty bad either way — even the 15% estimate you cited would be enough for me to make the point.

I just wanted to emphasize that the situation is worse than most people — and specifically, most Ukrainians — think, because the country really needs to start figuring out how to incentivize people to move to Ukraine (including, but not limited to, getting people to return to Ukraine), and both the government and the people need to be on the same page (as long as people don't care, the gov't won't lift a finger).

Take it as less me arguing with you, and more of ringing the alarm bell everywhere I go until enough people have heard it.
Is the hearing aid feature unavailable if you use the AirPods with an Android?
I've enjoyed NearDrop[0] for file transfer. I don't do copy/paste between devices.

https://github.com/grishka/NearDrop
won’t happen. all will crumble with the startups pumping it.
A lot of yachts were bought by AI vendors, does that count for a novel development?
Did not know about this, this is what I've wanted Google to do for so long. Pinterest, etc. will be banished to the nether realm.
Wow that's almost what I want.

wget https://github.com/brettcannon/cpython-wasi-build/releases/download/v3.13.0/python-3.13.0-wasi_sdk-24.zip
unzip python-3.13.0-wasi_sdk-24.zip
wasmtime run --dir .::/ python.wasm -c 'print("hello world")'

So far so good! But... it looks like that --dir option mounts the current directory as both readable and writable:

wasmtime run --dir .::/ python.wasm -c 'print(len(open("python.wasm", "rb").read()))'
# Outputs 28775526

But malicious code can break the system like this:

wasmtime run --dir .::/ python.wasm -c 'open("python.wasm", "wb").write(b"blah")'

And now it fails with an error if you try to run it because we over-wrote python.wasm. Even if I move python.wasm out of the current directory I'd still be able to break things by breaking those other lib files.

Although... I guess I could use unix filesystem permissions to make those read-only? That could work.
The biggest problem I see with it, almost daily, is that I'm trying to type in a sticker, by typing some text that brings up relevant stickers, and it just doesn't work. Usually, I can type in something like "happy" and a bunch of stickers will pop up that are relevant to that keyword, and I can select one and send it. But sometimes (it seems once a day lately), it gets into some state where it just never brings up the stickers at all, no matter how long I wait. So I have to kill the app and restart it, and it works again.

I almost never use it for voice calls these days, so I haven't seen issues there. But the sticker thing happens to me frequently, and it's not a good sign I think. I'm guessing the app has gotten too bloated and now weird bugs like this are showing up.
AI github
The production quality of any Apple tv show embarrasses a Netflix show. I think Netflix is going to follow its big brother, blockbuster.
And Thailand, apparently.
are you referring to the act of playing video games or the act of not playing video games
Rivian and Volkswagen officially launch their new EV business partnership
It's not cheating if they intend for you to do it (but just can't explicitly say it's allowed because then everyone would do it and that would collapse their self-assortative price-discrimination strategy.)

> If you can "cheat" on getting the discount, people just keep finding reasons why they are justified to cheat. "They should toughen the verification procedure if cheating is possible".

You seem to misunderstand the argument. It's not "they should toughen the verification procedure if cheating is possible." The argument is that they would toughen the verification procedure if cheating were possible and they cared; which proves, at the very least, that they don't care (and potentially proves that they in fact want you to do it, at least sometimes.)

To be clear, this argument doesn't apply to bureaucracies — governmental, academic, or Enterprise — where there's so much red tape in the way of making changes that it's almost impossible to fix issues like this even if several people care quite a lot.

But this argument very much does apply to a relatively-agile, not-so-Enterprise-y-for-its-size corporation like Apple. In fact, it applies especially to Apple, who has an almost Disney-like obsession with micromanaging all customer interactions as an extended customer-lifecycle marketing opportunity. (For example: you'll never find a rotting out-of-date page on an Apple-owned website.)

Apple know exactly who they're giving this discount out to. They've almost assuredly sat down at least once and done a hand-analysis of one or more months' purchases, to determine the proportion of education-store purchases that are from genuine education customers. (Heck, they probably have gone far beyond this; far lazier corporations than Apple set up heuristics for this kind of "promotion fraud"; run continuous analyses on them; and spit out a weekly reports to mull over in marketing-KPIs progress meetings!)

If Apple's education store gives discounts to group XYZ, then you can assume that that's the intended outcome. At least under the Apple marketing department's current paradigm of thought.
Your code sections are almost unscrollable on mobile
Turn your smartphone into a playable wind instrument with this USB-C mouthpiece
> This isn't about an individual. It's about America's economy, which is broadly doing very well

I think you may be missing the parent's point, because you're repeating the mistake.

An individual doesn't care that the economy is "doing very well" if they're personally struggling. It probably makes it worse, actually. And telling them that they're wrong or stupid certainly doesn't make it better either.

Bernie gets it: https://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-support-democratic-v...
Many years ago I experimented with making recipes into Gantt charts. For more complex recipes this proved incredibly useful. I spent some time trying to automate turning some of the recipe formats into Gantts, but it was pretty cumbersome. I'll bet a good LLM would make this achievable now.

For an example, here's a gantt chart for Beef Bourguignon:

https://ibb.co/c3TVTnX

Note that when I print it on a (physical) recipe card, I have the 'prose' instructions underneath.

I still think this is a pretty good idea, and I still use the cards for this recipe, and Beef Wellington.
I haven’t powered down my iMac once all year

How often are these people powering down their iMacs? Why!?

People love complaining. Apple doubles the base ram and keeps the price the same, people complain that base storage is too low. If that doubled then they would find something new.
Previously (11 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42120672
>They are OK using a fax and it works excellently for them.

You obviously don't live in Japan. No one here uses faxes unless they're at work, doing business with old-fashioned companies. It's not much different than the USA, where fax machines are commonly used by lawyers and realtors.
Not exactly equivalent, but I am working on a project that might achieve some of the same goals: https://www.agentstation.ai/

We are providing the infrastructure for AI agent computers at scale, with an API to drive agent actions. You can use prompted workflows (ala the Claude Computer Use API), or use your own models to drive actions within the workstation.

Is this what you were thinking? Happy to answer any questions on it!
Of course you can design a road to be safe at high speeds but normal roads aren't and normal people can't judge the safe speed.
Presentation and structuring is really, really important. The best I've found so far is a multicolumn format: https://i.imgur.com/w0UrJt5.png

Column 1 is the quantity. This doesn't really belong in the first column but it matches traditional ways of writing things and doesn't cause any actual trouble to do it that way, so whatever, we can do it that way. Column 2 is the ingredient. And column 3 is the cooking instructions. The rows are then grouped (shaded) by which ingredients go into which cooking instructions.

You can scan down columns 1 and 2 to get a prep / mise en place list, or just column 2 to get a shopping list (possibly involving deduplication if an ingredient is called for more than once), then execution is just running down column 3. The only real problem with execution is when it gets nonlinear (you want to overlap steps 3 and 4 in that recipe, for example) but that's a problem with any format I know of.

It's not perfect, but it works really, really well, and better than any other format I've ever seen.

...also now I want chili since it's cold and wet here in Seattle. And I should probably revise that recipe to reflect what I really do, but it's just chili, it's pretty tolerant of whatever you have lying around....
There are hundreds of chemicals we now know you need to eat or you get horribly sick, thousands of chemicals we now know you can’t or you get horribly sick, and hundreds of products we know perfectly well you shouldn’t eat but do anyways because we like it. (Sorry coca cola. Also sorry milk of opium). The author mentions none of these, implicitly arguing that they are obvious because we worked them out so they don’t count as nutrition science, and then complains that science hasn’t worked out anything about nutrition that wasn’t obvious.
This reminds me of a two-part documentary about a family living in the Russian far east: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BGo1vMdHEo
Jesus, how do you know that? Did you work there, like me?

Or, did you work for the evil empire (M$) and were you pimping HTML+Time?
I think that depends on the place. I can imagine that US cities with straight wide streets and roads are very hard to judge. But I can't imagine anyone having trouble with that in any European city... The top speed would be your last problem in any capital - you celebrate when it's not 0.
Don't sleep on daycare. It's good for the Childs social development. And a good daycare centre will follow modern pedagogical practices. If and your partner both enjoy your jobs, you'll appreciate not having to compromise your careers. And the break during the day is welcome, believe me.
Biden was free to do as he wished in Afghanistan.

Actually no, because Trump signed the Doha treaty with the Taliban which (though it wouldn't have been impossible) would have required significant effort to undo.

But the drop-kicking wasn't so much in the terms, but in the way the Trump administration openly side-stepped the local Afghan government (leaving them to believe, obviously correctly, that they been effectively hung out to dry, and that wouldn't be able to rely on any promises of support from the US after that).

Furthermore, if it was really Trump who "drop-kicked" Afghanistan, Putin would not have felt encouraged to invade Ukraine under Biden.

No logic there. From Putin's perspective, what matters is that Afghanistan got squarely drop-kicked.

I agree that Biden contributed to the debacle, also. But analyzing the situation strictly in terms of who was sitting in the Oval Office at the times of the respective invasions (and not looking at broader events leading up to them) is way too simplistic, and quickly leads to flawed conclusions.
In same boat, I have the 5950x with 64gb memory running PopOS and there are times I'm hitting swap a lot more than I'd like. 16 or 32gb of memory is just not feasible, and even 2TB of storage would likely cause headaches, I have a 4TB and a 2TB nvme at the moment which will come with me next upgrade.

I'm leaning towards an upgrade next year to the 9950x3d if reviews pan out. Sure, it's going to be a bigger machine with louder components, but the upgrade will likely be half the cost of anything close from Apple since I can take my existing GPU, PSU and storage at the very least along with me.

And "upgrade costs" is highly misleading for most of the components. You are buying a different machine config that you can't change, up or down, later on. I get that most people don't want to bother opening up a PC to swap out components, but the easier they made it, the more people will do it, and Apple is running the other way.
IMHO, developing with Node.js, Java, Python, Go, etc.. within MacOS is more convenient compared to Windows machines.

Also I can highly recommend using version managers (e.g. nvm, jenv, pyenv, gvm, etc..) for these languages to quickly install and manage different versions.
not wanting extensive interactions with Apple's legal team. Charging $400 for $10 of storage means they have a lot of money to harass you with very well payed lawyers even if you are in the right.
I'm not a genius but it seems pretty trivial to take the input from a microphone and pipe it to the output of a speaker, the hardest part probably is the device drivers for the airpods (or any bluetooth ear buds for that matter). It looks like others have already done this in hardware [0] for $84.99 on amazon.com. There is also "Sound Amplifier" app for Apple iPhone [1] that amplifies the surrounding voice near the phone.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Hearing-Seniors-Rechargeable-Bluetoot...

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sound-amplifier/id1615079093
The detecting of increments has been in Perl6 for ages so that's not new. [edit Perl6 not Perl)

I guess (apart from the Whatever), the laziness is new since Perl6/Raku.
It’s basic market economics. More discounted purchases tends to lead to an increase in the non discounted price. Of course, that’s baked in at outset. Apple knows x% of sales come with a edu discount so the non-edu price is offset to account for the edu discount. I don’t have any problem with a vendor doing that. It’s how they forecast a profit margin. Apple, apparently, has allowed “people who know someone in education to also claim an edu discount” to be part of their pricing model that ultimately leads to increased prices for those those do not know someone with an edu email.
Yea I know it's generally bad most of the time. But I think the details of what is and isn't corruption are too complicated for ordinary people to decide based on morals because they'd have to understand all the implications. That's what the law is meant to be for, but does corruption magically stop being objectionable if it's made legal? I think we'd still call that corruption in obvious cases.
Thanks for the feedback! ChatGPT and I made the change to hide individual holidays for a country per year, click "edit list" :)
Lies, Panic, and Politics: The Targeted Takedown of Backpage
Pilotless flying taxis carry people in Thailand
> (2, 30, 4, 50).map(* + *) returns (32, 45)

Should it be `returns (32, 54)` ? i.e. 4+50 for the 2nd term.

Maybe this is a consequence (head translation) of some countries saying e.g. vierenvijftig (four and fifty) instead of the English fifty-four.
Crusoe.ai is hiring strong Software Engineers & Systems Engineers to help build Managed Kubernetes and Managed AI Training Clusters

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Crusoe/129d0b49-d55e-4d9d-85df-14af...
https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Crusoe/bff2c9a6-2842-499f-adbe-c7b6...
It's all very regional. Despite its namesake, the world-wide-web is aggressively local. Some properties are global but after a handful, it's all country/language/region based.

No matter what type of market analysis I do, I almost invariably find there's something different that say, the Koreans or the Europeans are using. The Yelp of Japan is Tabelog, the Ubereats of the UK is deliveroo, the facebook of russia is vk.ru etc.

That's really the beach head to capture - figure out what a "web region" is for a number of query use-cases and break in there.
Not sure what you mean by 'efficient', they are faster for sure (amazing memory bandwidth thanks to on chip memory), but to my knowledge they would be the same for amount of data stored. So that same think pad will likely be faster at tasks that need 24GB for example, highly depend on the use case as always.
I just struggle to believe this. What OS is the Thinkpad running and did you put everything there (i.e., no corporate crud?).
So did Australia.
I've tried a few of these directory pages but the results are really not good. I've even emailed the chambers of commerce for each country and no one replied..