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Under the terms of the deal, Google will pay SpaceX $920 million per month from October 2026 through June 2029 for access to “approximately 110,000 NVIDIA GPUs, CPUs, memory, and other related components.”

That part is not equity - that's revenue for services rendered. But a commitment for nearly $1B/mo in revenue will likely increase SpaceX's share price, and Google owns some of those shares, so their holdings will increase in value.

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https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This is not just free speech, it's commerce, and the government has the ability to regulate commerce. Warranties and lemon laws are not regulating speech - they're regulating sales and the legal requirements for those sales. Providing a method for playing a game a customer purchased after the company decides to abandon it is putting a legal requirement on the sale of goods.

I would guess that the big reason is Microsoft is the owner of Typescript. Apple, Google, and Mozilla probably don't want to be tied to the whims of someone else's language specification. It's the same reason Dart isn't a browser language, NaCl doesn't exist anymore, ASM.js development wasn't widely adopted but sowed the seeds for WASM.

Web standards get worked on by committee where those four companies each have some pull, and standards are voted on.

Node's typescript support is by default just stripping all of the type information out of the source text. There is experimental support for some transformations behind a flag.

https://nodejs.org/api/typescript.html#full-typescript-suppo...

She had serious debilitating medical issues from pregnancy where she lost a ton of blood and was in a coma for several days and nearly died. Of course she's going to take her severance to help care for her family given the atrocious state of our healthcare system.

The argument Socrates is making is specifically that writing isn't a substitute for thinking, but it will be used as such. People will read things "without instruction" and claim to understand those things, even if they do not. This is a trade-off of writing. And the same thing is happening with LLMs in a widespread manner throughout society: people are having ChatGPT generate essays, exams, legal briefs and filings, analyses, etc., and submitting them as their own work. And many of these people don't understand what they have generated.

Writing's invention is presented as an "elixir of memory", but it doesn't transfer memory and understanding directly - the reader must still think to understand and internalize information. Socrates renames it an "elixir of reminding", that writing only tells readers what other people have thought or said. It can facilitate understanding, but it can also enable people to take shortcuts around thinking.

I feel that this is an apt comparison, for example, for someone who has only ever vibe-coded to an experienced software engineer. The skill of reading (in Socrates's argument) is not equivalent to the skill of understanding what is read. Which is why, I presume, the GP posted it in response to a comment regarding fear of skill atrophy - they are practicing code generation but are spending less time thinking about what all of the produced code is doing.

I saw myself years ago that Verizon injected marketing tracking headers into http traffic. My ISP was the MITM.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/verizon-x-uidh

I don't think it was explicitly to compete with Microsoft. Gabe explicitly said when the Windows 8 App Store was announced that Valve was going to ensure Microsoft couldn't lock them out of the desktop market. He said Valve benefitted for PC's openness (up until it was threatened).

Microsoft also had Games for Windows Live at the time, which provided similar functionality to parts of Steam (friends, multiplayer, voice chat, achievements), so with that plus the App Store, one could easily see it as Microsoft coming for their market.

Mr Newell, who worked for Microsoft for 13 years on Windows, said his company had embraced the open-source software Linux as a "hedging strategy" designed to offset some of the damage Windows 8 was likely to do.

He said the success of Valve, known for its Half Life, Left4Dead and Portal titles, had been down to the open nature of the PC.

"We've been a free rider, and we've been able to benefit from everything that went into PCs and the internet," he told the conference. "And we have to continue to figure out how there will be open platforms."

"There's a strong temptation to close the platform," he said, "because they look at what they can accomplish when they limit the competitors' access to the platform, and they say, 'That's really exciting.'"

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18996377

Chrome's engine was WebKit originally, which they then forked. Not an acquisition, but benefitted greatly from prior work.

Which SoC should they switch to? Google's Pixel phones for Android 16's release just updated[0] their kernels to 6.1, which means the bleeding edge kernel version for Android phones is a release from December 2022. What Qualcomm SoCs are supported by this kernel, and how fast are they?

[0] https://www.androidauthority.com/pixel-linux-6-1-android-15-...

Look up 996.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-58381538

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/11/15/1039650/china-te...

I wanted to use KDE 4 when it released, but it kept crashing on my machine. I would update it every once in a while and try again but issue would always pop up. By the time "plasma 4.4 is stable" was declared, I had lost interest and started using tiling window managers .

That said KDE 6 is pretty solid. I rarely have issues with it.

Portugal did it nationally. Oregon did it as one state that already had soft enforcement of drug use and a lot of social services, which had already drawn people from other states before the ballot measure. The weather here in the valley isn't as hard to deal with as other places, rarely dropping below freezing or getting too hot. And then the fentanyl crisis hit.

We're not a huge state with unlimited resources. And the law should have handled public use. But digging people out of both addiction and homeless is incredibly difficult, and the longer they experience it, the harder it is. And compounding that: the more services we provide, the more people come from other states to use them. It's not something we can do alone.

Reagan repealed the Mental Health Systems Act in 1981, which had aimed to provide federally funded treatment services for the States. With it being very difficult to institutionalize people and no federal money to treat them, where will they go?

Copyright makes the legality of arXiv and SciHub questionable at best. It locks publicly funded research behind paywalls. It makes being able to search the law (including case law) of the US incredibly expensive. It puts a burden on platforms to be beholden to DMCA takedowns, lest the content owner go to their hosting or DNS provider, has happened to itch.io. It adds licensing fees onto public musical performances (ASCAP).

Additionally plenty of people making videos for YouTube have had their videos demonetized and their channels even removed because of the Content ID copyright detection scheme and their three strikes rule. In some cases to a ridiculous extent - some companies will claim ownership of music that isn't theirs and either get the video taken down or take a share of the revenue.

I watched a video where someone wrote a song and registered it via CDBaby, which YouTube sources for Content ID. Then someone claimed ownership of the song, so YouTube assigned the third party 50% of the ad revenue of the video.

There is a niche for small, mobile handhelds, with companies such as Retroid and Ambernic making devices with smaller screens. Interestingly even in this niche the proportion of truly mobile vs. portable is seeing the same continuing shift to larger, more powerful handhelds over time.

It seems in all categories people tend to purchase devices with larger screens. I wonder if this is caused by the nowadays much larger proportion of adults using these devices, where the Gameboy, etc., we're seen more as children's toys - meaning smaller form factors and screens might have been a better fit.

Having used the API with a polyfill, it is a bit verbose and may seem a little obtuse at times. However, it allows you to explicitly differentiate between Date, Time, (Plain)DateTime, and ZonedDateTime. I have had to fix plenty of bugs because a datetime in the browser, datetime on the server, and UTC got mixed up at some point, and this API makes that a lot more difficult (and not likely to happen accidentally).

It need not be someone in the US, just a country which is not one of a few named adversaries. A Singaporean owning company would comply with the law just as well.

Shopify actually might be appropriate for many of their use cases.

I'll second the sibling poster here by saying anything useful you want to do with WordPress will probably have a non-negligible cost, and usually a subscription. WooCommerce for instance requires a subscription to add a minimum quantity to a product! I volunteer for a non-profit that uses it, and it's absolutely insane how many plugins will give you a little for free but charge $5/month or $50/year for just slightly more features.

A couple of factors keep most hurricanes away from the mountains. There's a strong gulf stream current that tends to lead hurricanes up along the east coast, sometimes as far north as NYC. And also the Gulf of Mexico can draw hurricanes away. Hurricanes dump so much rain on land that they have to be constantly replenished by water sources, otherwise they'll peter out pretty quickly. Land also exhibits something like drag on hurricanes and tends to slow them down.

I bet there have been some hurricanes whose edges have grazed central NC, but the most intense weather (heavy, sideways rain, storm surges, and 200mph+ gusts) are experienced at the edge of the eye. It's rare that hurricanes are so big and intense that land far away from water experiences the worst of it.

Source: grew up in south Florida.

Likewise I've used Fantasque Sans Mono (related to Comic Sans) for a long time as a coding font.

I'm running SUSE Tumbleweed. Fast package manager, up-to-date versions of just about every package you could want. Never had any driver issues or issues installing.

The iPhone 15 pro has a Thread radio, so we may start to see it become more common.

Ge'ez and its adaptations are abugidas, which means one symbol is a full syllable. For Amharic there are over 200 individual symbols. [0] That would be a big keyboard! It does seem that most in-use languages in Africa are alphabets or abjads, which could be adapted to keyboards. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ge%CA%BDez_script#Ge%CA%BDez_w...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing_systems_of_Africa

Programming books are definitely becoming more hit or miss, as the volume of books has increased dramatically in the last 10-15 years. There are still great books, but there are a lot more bad ones out there. There's a lot more software out there, and a lot more people learning about it.

I had a horrible experience with Packt. I had subscribed andwas in the middle of reading a book. The book suddenly became unavailable, so I created a ticket. They threw a few tokens at me, and asked if they could just close the ticket, even though there was no mention of whether the book was going to be available again.

Then weeks later they signed me up for six(!) separate mailing lists without asking me, one for each tag I had flagged as interested.

Supabase is built on top of PostgREST, which is written in Haskell.

We don't like it because it can cause widespread damage to the ecosystem, not just to us. Life didn't evolve in a vacuum, and the balance of natural ecosystems can be fragile.

[Feral pigs] are invasive and cause millions of dollars in agricultural damage each year, rooting and trampling through a wide variety of crops. They prey on everything from rodents, to deer, to endangered loggerhead sea turtles, threatening to reduce the diversity of native species. They disrupt habitats. They damage archaeological sites. They are capable of transmitting diseases to domestic animals and humans.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/feral-pigs-are-inv...

Interestingly, in their native range in Europe and Asia, pigs do not cause as much ecological damage. In fact, some studies indicate that they may modify habitat in important ways for species that have evolved with them, such as frogs and salamanders.

https://theconversation.com/feral-pigs-harm-wildlife-and-bio...

With Tango/Hi-Fi Rush, MS decided to make it free with Game Pass at launch, which obviously hurt its sales.

If you sell chips but charge people $1 for two weeks for unlimited chips, then just $10/mo for unlimited chips, you might be disappointed with direct chip sales.

I have one. The keyboard is quite comfortable, even with my large hands. The screen is both high resolution and almost square, making it quite comfortable to code on. The touchpad is a comfortable size and responsive.

I think the size and proportions are ideal for a small, thin laptop. Conversely all of the large tablets I've tried have had uncomfortable detachable keyboards and OK at best touchpads.

Indeed, although Sony hadn't created the DVD format (Phillips), having it did boost sales of the PS2. With the PS3 Sony was pushing its own format in direct competition to HD-DVD (also Phillips), and I'm sure losing Beta max market to VHS was still in their minds. So they decided to sell PS3 consoles at a much greater loss. It did pay off as well, but the first few years cost Sony a lot.

Thanks for the clarification. I must have conflated "more general purpose" -> "more like PC".