skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is true but then there are giant corporations earning giant profits trading at a PE < 10.

It's only sexy stocks that people get excited by that go to the moon on a paper kite.

For example:

- Comcast (does the public hate them? yes. does the public send them ~$35B in revenue every damn quarter? also yes): PE 8.7 (https://valustox.com/CMCSA)

- JP Morgan, 5th largest bank in the world, biggest bank in the USA. Is banking risky? Yes. Is JP Morgan going to evaporate? Hell no. PE: 11.7.

- General Motors. Setting the world ablaze? No. Going anywhere in the next 20 years? Probably not. Look at their revenue trend. (https://valustox.com/GM) PE: 7.4.

- United Airlines. Yes, they break guitars. Yes, airlines have been a risky bet. But their PE ratio is 8.1. (https://valustox.com/UAL) When you buy cheap, risk is low.

If you see a company's products everywhere but you never hear about their stock, your bargain-stock spidey senses should kick in. When it's the inverse, I stay far away.
This makes sense. Musk is an authoritarian and buying the most popular browser lets him force Twitter and his crypto shit on everyone at once. Especially at a time where Mozilla is faltering. The moral of the story in all of this is that there are no viable alternatives to most things.
This is the only administration that will be able to get away with being this incompetent hopefully. Even if the stock market does go in a free fall this administration, in four years, it should start recovering. Looking at the rest of the leading Republicans, most of them are spineless. But don’t have the same belief system as Trump. You didn’t see any of them parroting Trump’s economic policies during the primaries.

As long as you have at least a ten year time horizon - and you should if you are investing in the broad stock market - you should be fine.

From a completely selfish standpoint, the stock market being down is great - it’s time to buy.

I do feel sorry (not really) for anyone who invested in Tesla. Its brand value is shit globally and the fundamentals aren’t good.
> One of the definite positives of AI is that kind of stuff is now fairly easy to solve.

I agree that 'AI' feels like a fancier/faster 'Google' (I've done the thing where I find a Github issue from 4 years ago that explains the problem), but when we will see a local AI agent that looks at your current configuration/issue and solves the problem for you, and then gives you a summary of what it did?
We've propagandized a generation of people into believing that there has been no wage growth for 40 years when the deal was actually that there were falling wages in the 80s, stagnant wages in the 90s, and growth since then (with a recession after 2008 that has been fully caught back up to since).
I don't understand how this worldview coexists with countries like Russia and China.

If the feds kneecap US companies, it's not going to make the next generation of US companies stronger, just cede influence to worse jurisdictions.
GPSJAM had a non-free map for years that didn't have this issue, but as the site got more traffic I could no longer afford to pay for it.
Indeed. Kagi proves users are willing to pay for search (me included, recently).
I just want my XRP to rise again
> reduce the present value of future cash flows

> Deep cuts of 50% of more to government employment, selective default on government obligations, convert formerly independent institutions to ideological organs, devaluation of the dollar, and picking winners and losers based on ideology and diktat

All of these reduce the present value of future cash flows by reducing said future cash flows. Like a sibling poster said: If the government stops spending, the US economy is screwed. The US is a lot less "free market" than most realize. Much of the economy is propped up by various subsidies at the raw inputs level.

Also when you choose winners and losers by diktat, this inadvertendly reduces the present value of future cashflows for any company that doesn't get picked.
Micron's First PCIe 6.0 SSD Hits 27GBps
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I have close to 0 food waste. My small refridgerator sits empty often. I buy enough fresh food(meats, veggies_ for a 3 days and go get more when I have close to or at 0. Most people's refridgerators are completely full and most times, they don't even know what's in there.
On the Internet, nobody knows he’s actually a human
I have done similar work with physical CDs for most of my life to ensure 320kbps quality as mp3 and also share your frustration at the state of the legal landscape and consumer hostile (monopolistic) practices. I get downvoted frequently here for mentioning the landscape should change but simply side-stepping the laws is still just that and throwing tantrums is a bad look (re: my critique of Ars Technica / TechDirt in another thread).

Unfortunately it seems like legislation will have to be used to fix the problems we both face, but the likelihood is slim. Perhaps a wholesale collapse of the Federal Government would free states to experiment with new approaches. Thanks for sharing and I really wish I had an answer as well.
This conspiracy theory doesn't make sense because safari's content blockers (ie. the nerfed version of adblock) block most ads just fine, especially from google ads. The only ads that get through are first party ads (eg. youtube), but as of a few years ago adblockers could block those as well, so it's a moot point.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43322776
> none of them show [how uncertainty etc.] reduce the present value of future cash flows.

They don't reduce the value of future cash flows, but they reduce the certainly of future cash flows that are discounted to present value. Additionally it's widely demonstrated that people will accept lower returns for lower risk/volatility. That's why T-bill have the lowest return, then bonds, then equities.
Tesla shares plunge 14%, head for worst day in five years
Overclocking Celeron's those were the days. Intel binning down a bunch of processors capable of reaching higher clock rates but selling them as a lower end part was a boon for college students everywhere.
Door Handles – The Latest Car Technology Is Starting to Drive People Nuts
The Bible is a widely trusted source on topics such as the origin of the world, and life.
Luckily there's an extension for that: [Under New Management | Chrome Web Store](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/under-new-managemen...)
So competition isn’t actually good for free market economics?
https://archive.ph/HjzA3
Because journalism costs money?
assoc-in reminds me a lot of lenses in Haskell. I figure you could probably implement something like it using them. This is what I came up with:

import Control.Lens
baseLens --> nextIndex = baseLens . ix nextIndex
assocIn structure keyLens newValue = set keyLens newValue structure

It works like so:

setTo256 structure = assocIn structure (ix 0 --> 0 --> 0) 256
-- setTo256 [[[1]], [[2]]] returns [[[256]], [[2]]]
I can tell you if you're talking about urban centers like NYC, Chicago, Washington etc. When the United States stops immigration from wealthy immigrants. Everyone buying in my area are Chinese, Arab or Indian immigrants with far more money than the native population. They are propping up home values. Would have popped by now.
But that's exactly what the copyright act provides for... statutory damages not tied to the actual damages lost by the copyright owner, and they are only available in limited circumstances. And statutory damages still have to be tied to something tangible, like the lost license fee, and they do explicitly allow for a jury to add a punitive element.

>The RIAA has a track record of these kinds of punitive measures; think of the music piracy lawsuits they were filing in the mid-2000s.

How were those punitive as opposed to not? Should they have not sued at all and just let the infringers continue?
Chrome, search/ads, youtube, consumer apps - gmail & docs etc.
Not only not a good defense, but practically indecipherable. What scale of abuse couldn't be excused by this? I'm not sure I even understand what the notion of abuse means to a person who thinks it could be excused by such a logic.

It seems to completely lose track of the face value significance of any individual instance of abuse because it gets lost in the comparative equation to hypothetical worst harms.

It also confusingly treats restraint as though X amount of restraint can then be cashed in for a certain amount of harm, rather than something that's supposed to happen by default under good stewardship.

And it shifts the whole question to whether or not that position is being abused when I think the criticisms are more fundamental about the fact that they shouldn't be in the position to have or not have that leverage in the first place.

So that, long and short, would be my detox from the assumptions at play here.
Thanks for the additional context. This is very interesting.
Breaking monopolies doesn't kneecap US companies. Noncompetitive markets do that. Forcing healthy competition is how we keep competitive advantage, failing to do so is how we lose it. See: Deepseek
Innertube is youtube's internal name for some of their libraries
I personally think of a bubble has having a significant speculation component which I don't think applies wholly to the housing market in the same way it does today's stock market. The reasons that housing prices are so high, in my opinion, is primarily because of structural problems. But certainly others may feel differently or define a bubble differently.
I purchased an Acorn Atom in 1980 (the prebuilt one - a friend opted for the self-assembly and regretted it) and I still remember the thrill of setting it up and turning it on for the first time. It feels like I didn't sleep for a week but I suppose I must have.

When you entered a line of their BASIC, it would check the line for errors. At one point, I kept getting error XX (I don't recall the actual number) and couldn't see the error in my code. Eventually figured out it meant I was out of RAM. There was only 2K and I think the 6502 took some and the screen too so there was only about 500 bytes left over. What a joy it was after I saved up for the 6K upgrade.

And then there was the local computer club presentation that ruined any chance of a public speaking career.... :)
but great for the occupants
It's just a matter of time. Now that anti adblocks are way more effective, they'll become common.
If you're active on social media (twitter), you will still see people, like the FFmpeg account, still bashing higher level languages (C) and praising hand written assembly.
More that, almost all companies are expected to perform worse when you elect an economically incompetent government.
Show HN: I built a container for computer use agents
Hey HN,

I started building my own computer use agent - and ran into a bunch of issues. While there are platforms that offer virtual desktops, I wanted full control over the configuration of the OS and programs that were preinstalled. Looking at the open source computer use projects available, most were either proof of concepts or tightly coupled to a very opinionated designs. It ended up being a pain just to get a basic setup going!

Here’s my entry into the mix: A docker container that encapsulates any desktop, with bindings for computer use actions, and a VNC client for viewing. By default it comes with a preconfigured lightweight Linux image that has Chrome and some other tools preinstalled.

I built it over a weekend and I’ve been tweaking it over the past week. It’s meant to be fully extensible - build your agent in whatever language you like, using whatever model (via api or locally), swap in whatever OS image you’d want, and deploy onto whatever hardware.

In the next few weeks I’ll be tackling some low-hanging fruit including adding MCP support, native Terminal and Text Editor implementations, sensible defaults for deployment machines, as well as my own default “batteries included” agent.

Check it out, give it a star, and leave a comment below if you’re building a computer use agent!
I would argue that subscription is the only sensible model for browser (if payment is needed). For browsers you do want to keep up to date with security patches as well as new features, that is pretty critical for both usability and security.

For normal software you can buy and use some fixed version without too much issues, for browsers you probably need the updates.

Security-wise maybe something like buying a ESR version may be possible, but it will not be cheap and you may miss the new features when some webpage you visit breaks.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TSLA/
I don't mean this because he is topical but Musk makes the most sense. In the same way Brave has Brave Wallet, if Musk really wants to force his X Pay and Wallet on the world, integrating with the most popular browser is a solid move.
But the cost to develop falcon 9neas peanuts.

Europe can toss that money to a bunch of different groups and get the results of the talent is there while maintaining an ability to launch with Ariane 6 in the meantime.
You don't need an extension. Right-click on a tab and "Select All Tabs". Right-click again and it has the option "Close 1,122 Tabs". Your number may be smaller.
Makes no mistake, it's not an insult. I'm saying that precisely because I have been there.

Apple is the master at creating desire and building narrative in their customers' mind about the many things their devices would allow them to do. It's very aspirational and in practice most of the Macs get used for things that could have been done with a much cheaper option.

It may not be obvious to you but it's somewhat funny seeing you rationalise all kinds of dreams of what this machine could potentially be when in practice the people who would really be working on the kind of stuff you are talking about don't even consider them viable for many good reasons.

It's not that those machines cannot potentially do it, it's just that they don't really fit the goal very well.

A lot like people buying Cybertruck to "haul" stuff when they are a lot more option that are just plain better and make a lot more economic/practical sense.

It's OK to desire the thing and be excited about it but it really doesn't serve anyone to rationalise it so hard, you are lying to yourself as much as everyone else, it's not healthy.

If that was not clear, people working on AI stuff professionally really don't have to deal with a Mac Studio, they have access to better stuff. If you want to get one personally to experiment/toy around it's ok but it's not going to be this amazing thing for AI.
None of those are owned by Google
Why would a prominent member of a government administration with a central narrative of being besieged by (particularly internal) enemies which necessitates taking extreme action to liberare the country lie about a large scale attack directed at one of the things most publicly associated with them?

The reasons are quite obvious.
There is no “should”

A big factor of stock performance is the r market’s assessment of risk and its risk tolerance.

Both of those can change, and have nothing to do with company performance.
Here is my experimental maybe type for C: https://godbolt.org/z/YxnsY7Ted
>Well, this country (the US) decided in November to go the exact opposite direction of having a government capable of, let alone willing to, pursuing litigation like this

No? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43299886
Except for anyone whose employer requires them to use Google services, since Google Apps (or whatever they call it these days) is a hugely popular offering for central company email/contacts/calendar/office suite. And frankly, it's better than dealing with Outlook and its unrelenting AI slop machine advertising.
This would kill xbox
Don't forget the other industries suffering from the same problem: Walmart, UnitedHealth Group, Berkshiere Hathaway, ExxonMobil, JPMorgan Chase, etc.
I think it's good to publicly express our disapproval. Because — as we have sadly seen recently — there will always be a small group of apologists defending villains or systematic oppressors:

(It's worth also considering that the group size does not always correlate to its power or influence).

But you are totally correct that thought-terminating expressions of Schadenfreude towards those who exert harm are not enough.
open-interpreter has been around for a while by this point.
Stock prices are one of the economic indicators people love to point to, but they're also a pretty bad indicator of how things are going.

Firstly, only a small percentage of people are directly invested. A larger group is tangentially invested (through retirement funds) but that isn't applicable in the short term.

Secondly, traders (as distinct from investors) make money on volatility. So there's always short-term movement going on.

For a long time now the market is largely driven by emotion not substance. Big news event, dock of some company drops 5%. By the end of the week it's out the news and back where it started.

So yeah, the market does what the market does. It'll trend upwards, because that's what its designed to do.

There are other, more concerning indicators in play, which are more important than the stock market. Employment (or the loss thereof) has a much more immediate impact. We cheer as tens of thousands are fired. Yay?
Yes; the movie where running genuine Microsoft Windows is damn near a requirement if you want to interact with Windows applications.

Using Firefox and whatever for the Google cloud is kinda like running Windos applications in Wine or ReactOS.
I imagine their VPN service is financially viable if they've still stuck with it this long.

Aside from that, they've just about cut all other initiatives aside from "Firefox and AI". The latter gives me pause, but hopefully they really are more focused moving forward.

I think Mozilla has done alright, but I agree the folks is in charge of their business direction and especially PR are abysmal. Personally, I wish a company like Proton was at the helm.
Since 2009 banks have been able to ignore "mark to market" rules thus allowing them to keep unrealistically high valuations on deflating properties.
Nobody wants to see grift, but we should also normalize non-profit employees and CEOs making a good living.
In terms of software-defined radio learning resources, I can wholly recommend PySDR: https://pysdr.org/

It's written by one of the GNURadio developers, but it uses NumPy and SciPy instead so you really get a feel for the low-level algorithms. Concepts are well explained and build on each other from module to module.
Not sure why you're being downvoted.

None of the wage growth has kept up with inflation, for any quartile of workers.

Wages are still down 0.5 to 1.5 % from pre-Covid times adjusted for inflation.
Breaking up workspace would hinder Google in competing with Office and Zoho
It depends on whether Google bends the knee, as Amazon and Facebook have done.
i mean what's the breaking point? why is ublock no longer in the store whole the lite is?
Subtitle:

> Though they varied in length and severity, the market always recovered and went on to new highs.

True. But that only works if the nation itself recovers and goes on to new highs.
My gen 1 is also not working…
This is so dumb.

Look, I hate how dominant Chrome is. It’s basically a glorified data vacuum for Google—and it’s only getting worse. But at the end of the day, people choose to use Chrome, and I don’t see why Google shouldn’t be allowed to own and develop it. There are still plenty of other browsers people can switch to.

Now, what’s actually dangerous is the growing trend of sites blocking non-Google search engines from indexing their content. That’s a real issue—and it’s escalating fast. Selling Chrome won’t do a damn thing to fix that.

Besides, no other company has the budget or incentive to maintain Chrome at the level Google does. If they’re forced to give it up, then what? A half-baked, underfunded mess? A fragmented ecosystem? None of this feels like a win.

... unless your goal is to have Elon be able to pick up a new browser to go along with Twitter and TickTock.
Major DOJ Antitrust Cases

1. United States v. Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey (1911)

- Duration: 7 years (1904–1911)

- Outcome: Standard Oil was ruled an illegal monopoly and broken up into 34 companies.

2. United States v. Microsoft Corp. (1998)

- Duration: 4 years (1998–2002)

- Outcome: Initially ordered to split, but after appeals, Microsoft avoided a breakup and instead agreed to business restrictions.

3. United States v. AT&T (Bell System) (1982)

- Duration: 8 years (1974–1982)

- Outcome: AT&T agreed to a settlement, leading to the 1984 breakup into seven "Baby Bells" to increase competition.
my version of this was "do convenient linux distros and binary package managers rot the mind?" after setting up a freebsd box with everything built from source and everything configured by hand. then again from building an arch-based Linux system from the wiki. you learn a lot from doing things by hand... but eventually you need to get stuff done.
Stocks have always been influenced by stuff outside of company performance. This is why you should look at other metrics to see how successful a company actually is.

Also, companies don't exist in a vacuum. Every US company is impacted by the actions of the federal government. Some companies may be able to come out ahead, but many others will struggle. And predicting which is which is incredibly difficult.
That’s the saddest part, you’d think that, but the fraud here (and other similar cases) is so blatant it’s painful.

Modern academia has terrible incentives. The easy path to success comes from not rocking the boat, even the guys at Data colada (who did the leg work to prove the case) have made a lot of enemies in the field.

I’m willing to bet there’s a large amount of less significant fraud that gets better defended, it’s only the people who are so successful they let they guard down that get caught in this silliness.
Amazing website. If I didn't know better, I thought this content came from Canon itself. A couple of comments from me:

> The following comparison chart shows all of the autofocus drive types that have ever been used in Canon's EF, EF-S, RF, and RF-S lenses.

They missed mentioning EF-M, Canon's foray into mirrorless interchangeable-lens cameras.

> Although the ultrasonic noise cannot be perceived by the human ear, it can be picked up by sensitive microphones which can be problematic during video shootings.

I used several Ring USM lenses and can hear the noise when focusing. It's a soft swishy kind of white noise, not harmonic. The Ring USM definitely generates noise in the audible range, not only ultrasonic.

> The latest types of autofocus drives, including the Stepper Motor, Nano USM, and Voice Coil Motor, offer focus-by-wire.

Though I have nothing against focus-by-wire on principle, the implementations have not been good. Having used several EF-M (all STM) and RF (some STM and some Nano USM) lenses that have focus-by-wire, I find that the motor actuation significantly lags behind the user turning the focus ring (which is a digital encoder), and the granularity of the focus steps are visible.

Meanwhile, the old EF Ring USM's full-time manual (FTM) was really good by comparison; it didn't take much force, was fully responsive with no lag, and was fully analog when turned by hand and had no discrete steps. I miss that, as new lenses don't use this design.

> Canon EF 15mm F2.8 Fisheye (et cetera)

Please change the syntax to "f/2.8"; this is even in Canon's official pages. https://global.canon/en/c-museum/product/ef263.html

Why? Because f is actually a lowercase italic variable that denotes the focal length (15 mm in this case), and "/" (slash) really means division. The size of the aperture is (15 mm / 2.8) = 5.4 mm; that is the real diameter of the hole that light passes through. The absolute aperture is 5.4 mm and the relative aperture is f/2.8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-number
I quit my FAANG job because it'll be automated by the end of the year (2025)