skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's enough demand for prebuilt Linux machines to meaningfully reduce your Windows sales such that you fall into a different discount bracket

That's the easy one to satisfy when Microsoft is tailoring your discount bracket to be just below your predicted total sales numbers.

> A sufficient percentage of those (apparently significant number of) people who want a Linux box will fall back on Windows rather than looking for another OEM.

Millions of people need a machine to do basic web and email, so they go to Best Buy or similar and buy whatever is on the shelf. They have only weak preferences in either direction and then get Windows by default.

Look at what happened when Google started paying for a tiny bit of shelf space for Chromebooks. Suddenly they're a percentage of the market proportional to how much shelf space they bought. If people actually had a preference for Windows, shouldn't they have rejected those instead of grabbing them off the shelves in proportion to how many of the machines in stock were Chromebooks?
Made this for my kids for Christmas:

- take an ebook in any language
- AI translates it to German
- AI speaks it using the voice of their fav narrator
- a UI showing the text as it is being read

Now they can read Asimov, Kulansky, Bryson, regardless of whether a translation or audio version exists. :)
There are plenty of alternative controller options for the Switch, it's not that much of an issue.

For portable play, yes, the stick drift issues suck, but Nintendo will fix it for you. And yeah, most portable systems today overall just have better analog sticks.

But if I'm at home I'm going to be using a Pro controller or an 8bitdo or something like that.
I'm talking about the Apollo Lunar Module.

You know, this bit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Lunar_Module that descended to the moon, landed, some guys walked out and grabbed some moon rocks, then they took off again and made it back to earth.

That's a rocket-propelled space vehicle gently landing tail first, and ready for immediately reuse.

Given that it clearly had been done, I doubt anyone who knew what they were talking about was telling Musk it couldn't be done.
Hello! I'm a co-founder at DBOS here and I'm happy to answer any questions :)
Lovely word "materially" there, doing a load of work. That way you can just say that subsidizing renewables, or battery manufacturing, or efficiency refits for housing isn't "material" and now you aren't a liar!
https://www.reddit.com/r/Nokia/comments/vf8k58/comment/m7gor...
The darkpatterny malicious compliance approach to consent buttons is very much the companies doing not the EU‘s.

At most we can blame the EU for naive assumption that companies would act in somewhat good faith.

These flows irritate me too though and hopefully we’ll see additional enforcement of it
same. it's a great product and the guy who runs it wants it to exist solely in the world to combat the algo.
Multiple apartments should be more profitable than a single family luxury home.
very few times we are encountered with developing from scratch
I would like a workstation with 900k cores. lmk when these things are on ebay.
I can't remember where I read this, but I came across someone talking about the fact that these AAA photo realistic games are hugely expensive to make, but if you look at what young people are spending their time playing, they're games like Fornite, Minecraft and Roblox. As soon as I read this, it clicked for me.

I have two teenagers (15 & 17) and this is exactly right. My son plays games all the time and although he's played Elden Ring and GTA and other games of that sort, over the years I would say 80% of his time has been Minecraft and this other 2D game with a platformer vibe whose name I forget that has procedurally generated maps. He's frequently calling me over to his computer to check out his latest architectural creation in Minecraft. I know it's not just him, because he plays multiplayer with his buddies as well, and again, a lot of it is these games with quite frankly primitive graphics. But they're fun!
There are a bunch of questions, and some answers to these questions too.

But one question-answer pair is missing. I can only ask the question: who are you?
He addresses this clip in the linked post.
Well, there are also a lot of assumptions and complaints about the iPhone and its impact that were commonly made at the time that ultimately didn't matter:

- Has no changeable battery

- Has no physical keyboard

- Is too expensive

- Has no support for Java applications

They clearly thought that these might be potential vectors for attacking the newcomer, but none of it worked out. Rather than having to play the game that the legacy phone makers like Nokia were playing, Apple just changed the entire game, and now Nokia et al were suddenly playing at a disadvantage where their existing knowledge and experience didn't really matter.
There have been so many updates with Igloo and actually he made a completely new client, why is it not in the list?

https://iglooirc.com

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/igloo/id6475702560
> so where did the soften anything?

That's not true. Hamas agreed to:

* Allow Israel to patrol the Philadelphi corridor.

* Allow Israel troops to remain in a buffer zone

* Provided an actual list of hostages which they refused originally

* Agreed to a temporary ceasefire with hopes of negotiated a permanent one (they wanted the whole thing in one shot).

Israel on the other hand changed nothing except possible the specifics of who would be released (Israel will releases murderers, which earlier they did not want to do).
Yes one member of my family would be thrilled if Red 40 was banned. They don't have an anaphylactic reaction, they "just" barf it back up shortly.
And those German short-sellers (and to a lesser extent their British counterparts) were aggressively bullied by their local government market regulators
https://www.reuters.com/article/technology/germanys-long-lon...
Not if it's hot enough that the water molecules reach escape velocity in the exosphere! (As happens with helium today, helium atoms being lighter move faster at a given temperature than water molecules)
Hypothetically speaking, if the event could be attributed to incompetence, mismanagement or malfeasance - Which incentives would drive elected officials or bureaucrats to take responsibility?
Anyone remember the Morph concept?

https://repo.aalto.fi/uncategorized/IO_35687268-3fde-4493-a0...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX-gTobCJHs

Blew me away back then, but forgot the name. This archive helped to recover the bits in my head. Thank you!
Why did Prisma ORM initially only have application-level joins?
Altadena isn't one of those exclusive neighbourhoods though.
>The most equal US state (Utah) is still more unequal than the EU country which has the highest income inequality ( Bulgaria).

That can be true while at the same time the 3rd percentile of income earners in the US earn more after taxes than the 3rd percentile in Europe, ditto for the 4th percentile and so on up to the 99th percentile (since the average income in the US is significantly higher).
> That's the easy one to satisfy when Microsoft is tailoring your discount bracket to be just below your predicted total sales numbers.

This is rank speculation, and I don't see any reason to believe that Microsoft would need to do this in order to see what we're seeing in the market. Low demand is a much simpler explanation that does suffice (unless you have evidence that it does not suffice?).

> They have only weak preferences in either direction and then get Windows by default.

They have a strong preference for a machine that just does what it's supposed to do without maintenance. Aside from Chromebooks, Linux is not that at the moment. Best Buy in turn has a strong preference for people not returning their machines angrily.

Chromebooks are an exception because they're nominally Linux but the interface presented to users is basically just Chrome. They actually are a general consumer device, which is not what OP is asking for.
Oh true, forgot about that. You need someone to invite you IIRC.
Sorry for misunderstanding your point.

I agree it should be throttled. Maybe they don't need to throttle because they don't care about cost.

Funny thing is that servers from AWS were trying to connect to my system when I played around with this - I assume OpenAI has not moved away from AWS yet.

Also many different security scanners hitting my IP after every burst of incoming requests from the ChatGPT crawler Azure IP ranges. Quite interesting to see that there are some proper network admins out there.
Show HN: underattack.txt Internet Standard
You can use a single type of issue in Jira and just rely on linking them together
It’s the same story in every place where elections are won through political machines that mobilize voters along ethnic lines (e.g. Chicago, New York City, etc.) Whoever controls the political machine will win the elections, regardless of competency. And to be clear this isn’t a red versus blue thing—even within the parties, specific factions control the machines.
Exposing obscured state media influence by causal inference of quote propagation
SQLite Studio 3.4.14 Release
I think you are (rightly) pointing out that "quantity has its own quality".

As an analogy, this is similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrasekhar_limit.

To GP: It's less "no one should have any mass". It's more "Billionaires are like Black Holes, and therefore should be avoided" -- yes, it is a value judgement; no, it's not a blanket statement about money.
Mike Lazaridis is may have his blind spots, but he is a great engineer by all accounts.
We shouldn’t rebuild at all in many of these places.
Microsoft tried to do the same thing on the Desktop side too, but on the desktop they were forced to keep the backwards compatibility in place so it didn't finish off the platform the way it did on the Phone side.

Amusingly Microsoft is still trying to make the walled garden happen. Lots of cheap Windows laptops and Desktops ship in what is called "Windows S" mode where only Microsoft Store apps are allowed to run. But again because PC owners don't abide that kind of bullcrap they also have to supply a way to tear down the walls (it's surprisingly easy, albeit permanent: just download and run a free app from the Windows store) if you want to use the machine in a normal way.
"I'm unhappy, so I'll force everyone else to be unhappy too" :/
I think the concern here is somewhat misplaced...ammonia powered passenger vehicles are probably a bad idea.

But there's no reason that needs to be true for e.g. automated shipping industries. The danger to the water seems relatively low as well, as water dilution seems to be one of the best ways to deal with spillages. I'm uncertain the environmental repercussions, however it does seem to be the case that aquatic mammals and humans have natural methods of elimination, making it a game of concentration and dispersion vs e.g. an oil spill that is both highly toxic and nearly impossible to properly clean up.

The majority of other applications are industrial (fertilizer, energy storage): there are major issues with our current distribution systems, cheap ammonia batteries could be the key to efficient electricity and hydrogen production and distribution.
Prop 13 is the third rail of California politics that is choking the state.

Until someone is willing to grab the nettle and fix the property tax situation to be fair and equitable to everyone then California cities are eventually going to run out of money to maintain infrastructure.
I'm a huge Nintendo/Mario fan but I've recently been playing through Astro Bot on my PS5 and I must say, when you combine super fun mechanics with amazing graphics and performance, it's quite an experience! But there isn't nearly enough content like this on the non-Nintendo consoles, so point is definitely not lost on me.
Nice. I had gone looking for this a week or two ago and was surprised it wasn’t available to me.
Correct. Developer ID certs cannot be revoked self-service, you have to email Apple.
U.S. Air Force FOIA document about its social media surveillance practices
> Do folks like you exist? Yes. Is the economy built on folks like you? No.

Are you sure?

If you ignore human constructs such as companies and organisations and quantify based on classifications that make more sense for aggregates of workers, you might be surprised how little of the economy is built on the F500 let alone venture capital unicorns.
Redefining Our SDKs Developer Experience
We’ve overhauled our SDKs with Speakeasy, leaving the limitations of our old OpenAPI generator behind. The new versions deliver major upgrades in usability, error handling, and performance.
Most likely they don’t, but safety margins for experimental rockets need to be large.
Uploaded the PDF here: https://files.catbox.moe/y94qdz.pdf
I think I understand you: everyone at the bottom end of society should just have more money or more personal time, or both. I wonder how we could make that happen.
Ugh, Meego was so good. I still remember watching the presentation, then Nokia tanking when it was announced they were switching to Windows.

Imagine a world where Meego, a proper Linux, took over instead of Android. And I like Android as a product, but the software stack is so strange...
Schedule a call is a huge red flag to me because:

- it implies differential pricing, meaning they will charge you as much as possible both now and in the future (when you may be locked in)

- it usually obscures what the product actually does

Differential pricing is really pernicious because if the product happens to be super valuable to you, they're likely to find out and charge you even more
A fifth of an acre of higher-water corn will provide more than 10k calories per day for a year. So about 5 acre inches, about half a million liters, if the price spikes up to 0.1 cents per liter that's $500 of water.

I'm not particularly concerned with the viability of people farming their own food but that seems plenty cheap.

Even desalinated water would be under a thousand dollars, and we could 10x the water supply at that point.

> and again we would predict that rationing measures would favor politically powerful agribusinesses and perhaps the Indian reservations over most small farmers

If the system allocates free water which can then be easily resold, the end result is basically the same as everyone paying but some entities get free money. Anyone expecting to buy their water should be no worse off.
If I copy "https://www.google.com/search?gbv=1&q=test" into the URL bar in Firefox 128.6.0esr on Linux and hit enter, I get a page that says "Turn on JavaScript to keep searching."
Now I'm wondering if right-to-left languages (e.g. funnily enough, Arabic) write the least significant digits at the left or the right.

EDIT: numbers in those languages are the same way as in English, the "ones" are at the right. Kinda strange!
SpaceX Launches Starship Flight 7 and Attempts Another Booster Catch [video]
he is gonna get a ton of applicants and be overwhelmed trying to choose winners. This is why charging a fee is useful because you weed out those who are not committed, and also to compensate him for his time.
What genocide? Since when is there a genocide? Do you mean when Hamas tried to genocide Jews?

And you think Hamas wanted to nuke Gaza? Do you mean Hamas wanted all this destruction of their country? What did they gain from that?

Biden should have told Hamas to surrender, he should have told Palestinians that their Hamas leadership is leading them to death and destruction, and if the Palestinians don't stop the US will get involved. Which is what Trump did, and now there's a ceasefire.

Hamas feeds off of Palestinians support, believing it's for them. They need to know that everyone wants them dead and destroyed. But that didn't happen till Trump. Biden was weak, and did very little helpful.
> I remember for years after the iPhone came out the blackberry die-hards were insisting that they'd easily be able to make something that was "iPhone like with a blackberry keyboard"

Part of the problem is that there were not enough of them to sustain a company the size of RIM. The vast majority of the market did not care and instead valued the other side of the tradeoff, the things you can do with a touch screen but not with a physical keyboard.
This and https://hint.userweb.mwn.de/understanding_mp3/index.html are both amazingly fun examples of literate programming that I recommend all of the time.
I don't think they would lie but they just don't release the compiler. Maybe they give it to Meta.
https://archive.ph/tFkfC

Right, so this is only for cigarettes, apparently. Doesn't touch vape, snu, nicotine-injections nor powdered nicotine for snorting with $100 bills. Still a start, I guess.

(Personal thought: why can't all these tobacco companies just simply be burned down to the ground?)
Median household income in West Virginia is 60k USD.

Mean household income in Bulgaria is 11.5k USD.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/real-median-house...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1269125/bulgaria-gross-a...

Its difficult to find either the mean or median for both.
I'm sure this depends on where you live, but my Amazon shipments are late such a large portion of the time that they end up refunding most of the shipping costs I pay. It's like free prime for the patient!
I totally love it!
I'm a founder (and started solo like the OP) in the tech / devops / infra space. Doing calls, and in-person meetings is the 10x accelerator for sales. The OP is quite right in his assessment of what types of calls there are. Pretty spot on.

However, the moment you can afford to have AE (Account Executives) and "sales" in general to field these calls, you might benefit. He IS leaving money on the table.

(yes, we have all pricing, free plan and super extensive docs on our site. But still calls and meetings seal the sweetest deals)
I think it's even more complex than that. There's only one human I can understand pretty thoroughly, inside and out, and that's me -- and even then, there are a lot of limitations!

We cannot know all the thoughts and experiences of another human being. Even when that person is 100% genuine, there will be aspects to that person that will surprise you!

And that doesn't even get into the weeds of autistics, ADHDers, and intelligent people (I happen to be all three) -- who learn from an early age they have to pretend to be something they aren't, otherwise they'll face intense bullying and ostracision. And even then, there's going to be something "off" about them ....
I don't understand why DeVault's website is still allowed on Orange Reddit. There are people who I really respect who write good, non-spiteful, intelligent pieces who are still shadow banned after 5+ years.
You could eject from the Space Shuttle? At what speed and altitude? What was the mechanism?
I’m not knowledgeable in the deep technical details of rocketry. But curious - how else would the first stage be operated? Should it be autonomous?
Not in some of these areas. This was some of the best real estate in the country. $80M homes burned down.
Rokt Acquires MParticle for $300M
> users could choose to have their browsers just block cookies if they cared

1. That would also block functional cookies.

2. That requires users to know that it's a thing they should care about. It's not cool to spy on people just because they haven't realized what you're doing and taken countermeasures.
The article explicitly says cyclists crash there going at ~30 km/h.
No, just collective punishment. Why are you asking?
So you are saying that people should remain irrevocably loyal to institutions that have lost their trust, do not further their interests, and are not meaningfully accountable to them, out of some notion that the most important thing to them ought to be optimizing aggregate statistical metrics involving large numbers of strangers, at the expense of the actual direct social obligations and communities that are central to their own lives.

It's an interesting perspective, but I'm afraid it fundamentally misunderstands the nature of real-world human societies and how they hold together over time -- advancing that perspective will inevitably result in society fragmenting into factions that are increasingly at odds with each other, and ultimately collapsing.

Societies are not monolithic entities unto themselves that people somehow owe loyalty to. They're emergent patterns of people -- often with disparate interests and values -- cooperating with each other in pursuit of mutual benefit. Forcing people to be locked into monopolistic social relations that no longer offer those benefits to them is a sure-fire way to destroy society.

We'll be much better off when education in our society is offered by a wide range of approaches that adapt in a bottom-up way to the full diversity of that society, an not dominated by a politicized monopoly that tries to shoehorn everyone into a conformist model that is optimal for no one in particular.
Low probabilities become certainties with billions of tests per year over hundreds of millions of years.
They’re not voted into office based on competency. The political offices are controlled by political machines; whomever has the support of the machine will likely win the election. So the incentive structure for the politicians is to optimize for the navigating the internal politics of the machine, not for competency. As long as you can’t be singled out for causing the machine too much embarrassment (and that might happen with Mayor Bass) there is no accountability.
That reminds me, in a couple years I'll probably have to choose between keeping my gas car, whose CVT will eventually break, and putting up with gas pump videos screaming at me, or switching to a BEV or plug-in hybrid, and having to neuter it, because all the car companies decided that my private data is actually their private data, especially if the car is electric, because all other electric devices are pieces of shit anyway so why not your auto?
First of all exposing IDs and having non-enumerable IDs are completely different things.

Second, HN usernames are 100% enumerable. 'asdfgf' is an example of account which has never posted.
building up gets you more square feet and is almost certainly going to be the profit maximizing approach delta regulation in an environment like this
> Prop 13

Presumably it's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_California_Proposition_13

> Proposition 13 (officially named the People's Initiative to Limit Property Taxation) is an amendment of the Constitution of California enacted during 1978, by means of the initiative process, to cap property taxes and limit property reassessments to when the property changes ownership, and to require a 2/3 majority for tax increases in the state legislature.
Honestly, that's not wild at all to me. They invented AI with other people's money. But they have to use their own money to fight fire.