skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, that's true. I have no problem with businesses making money.

But when a business can run an operation in a market with 90% (or whatever) profit margins, it's an indication that the market isn't open to competition. Which is exactly why anti-trust law exists.

Why? Because competitors will see how much money Apple is making and move in to capitalize. I don't think computing devices should become walled gardens where companies are free to gouge their customers.

Fees are most assuredly passed onto consumers. They cut into the providers bottom line. Providers must charge at least 30% markup just to break even when offering through the app store. This is simple math, and self evident.

The app store itself is not a particularly great piece of technology either... it's simply a monopoly on the iPhone user audience. Could the app store improve if it had healthy competition? e.g. better searchability/functionality?

Personally I'm amazed at how bad app discovery still is on both iOS and Android app stores.
> Javascript doesn't have a logical xor operator

x != y
That still doesn't let me install (real) Firefox.
I now get the joke about Emacs and OS
If Ford falls on it's face in battery capacity due to a lack of planning, it will be the biggest belly flop in years. They have to know they're sitting on a gold mine with this. At this moment, the game is theirs to lose. The Ford I know and love is likely to screw it up, unfortunately, now that Mulally is long gone.
>, but fundamentally what SpaceX do is iterative development.

Yes, SpaceX and many other companies (aircraft companies, car companies, etc) also "iterate" ... but you're losing sight of the original question[1] that was ask by gp (Stratoscope) and the context of "iterative development" for this thread.

The author of the paper was trying to explain the difference between "classical analysis" vs "experimentation" to drive new business strategy.

Yes the companies forced to do "classical analysis" _also_ do product "experimentation/iteration". However, when the author breaks out "experimentation/iteration" as a separate type of "business learning", he's talking about Eric Ries' version of "fast & cheap iteration" and not SpaceX's slower more expensive iteration.

>It is ten billion dollars to build the old system, [...] Yes, they are all more expensive than software,

And these are the real-world financial constraints that bias "classical analysis" over cheap iteration of the author's two learning styles.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27232118
This need might be better handled by allowing delegation of approval to a trusted contact.
This. I had an old VW pickup which was a charm to use for my small business. Could also park it in tight spots too.
Totally agree with you. Now, would you prefer being hit by a Ford F-150 or Fiat 500 (same speed)?
Indeed. Also, GP comment might want to remember we're in a thread about the F-150, a truck that many consumers will want to use to get to job sites. Arguably, such a use case needs even more charging infrastructure than average electric vehicle use cases.
(From the South West) I agree it can be like that, but I also think the quoted bit is fair - to me it doesn't have to be adversarial 'ha, take that!' it can be more 'eesh, I'm on your side but ugh, what a blow'.
This could be even more aptly applied to real estate though, no?
"ponder (and put up with!) what has been said or done, even if it is unwelcome" would be a more correct definition. It's basically equivalent to the Americanism "chew on that". It can be pretty neutral or quite hostile, depending on how unhappy you think the listener is going to be with the news.

I'm not sure why this caught HN's interest to be honest, but it's no harm. If you want more, you can read P.W. Joyce: https://archive.org/details/englishaswespeak00joycuoft/
BMW is trying to do this with their cars, every little feature is an odd on or subscription. I hope they fail a miserable death in this endeavor.
I can go on Amazon right now and buy a 55-gallon drum of sexual lubricant and a ten-inch, anatomically-correct silicone horse dildo. If it's making them money, they won't complain.
I feel like that's pretty true worldwide for languages with diacritics, at least for all the Latin-script languages I'm familiar with.

It's really no different from people in English shortening "you" to "u" in texting as well, or "lol". Everybody saves keystrokes wherever they can.
the $40k cybertruck gets you 250 miles.

(...in late 2022)
Interesting! Any reason why bindings for torch or tensorflow weren't created instead?
The point is opening it up so users have a choice. Third party stores will emerge, and it is up to the consumer, not Apple, to decide whether the extra features are worth the new apps being a little rough around the edges like they are on Android. If it's as bad as you say, the new stores will not be successful anyway.
So... how do you get an ENA driver if you don't have one already? I see Amazon provides Linux and FreeBSD drivers at https://github.com/amzn/amzn-drivers - is the answer to start with the the FreeBSD one (because it's under a more permissive license) and adapt it to your OS?
Pinia, an Alternative Vue.js Store
Surely you can’t be serious
I have a garbage laptop from 2012 that's still enough for basic browsing. Thanks to a replacement battery and reasonably accessible internals it's still working fine. The case is all busted but whatever.

Customers should be able to legally get parts. If the original company is done making them someone else should be allowed.

I highly doubt repaired devices are massively cutting into sale. Most people don't want to deal with the hassle and would rather have something new anyways.
There's a difference between the upper strata of society rediscovering Puritanism and a counterrevolution. Revolutions require means to enforce norms. If we have seen one thing it is that there is no means any more by which elite can force a discourse on the population at large.

In the same sense how old fashioned aristocrats used to live by suffocating norms I guess we now get the techbro version of the same thing but ordinary people will not throw Tinder away because Ivy league graduates adopt the values of Victorian England.

Revolutions always require a certain amount of energy and momentum in society which we don't have. You can see it with the other sort of old-fashioned ruling class attitudes that even progressive, liberal, elites have rediscovered. Veganism, exercise, obsession with health etc, it hasn't really percolated down much.

Case in point, the author of the article who I happen to follow on twitter also just retweeted this:

https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/1395792792945844227?...
I think neither paradigm is invalid and neither is a clear winner so fashion drifts back and forth
The gp was simply stating that being struck by a truck is more lethal than a car due to their flat, tall fronts. They weren't, by my reading, insinuating that trucks are more likely to hit people. That is indeed, in my opinion, a function of operator error all things equal.
Did they say it was something you couldn't opt out of?

Tesla seems to do okay convincing people to accept OTA updates.

Also, current F150s can do OTA updates, they're just rare.
> I'm claiming physics implies that it's astronomically unlikely if not impossible for us to be visited by alien spacecraft

What part of physics specifically? The one where there are billions of planets in out galaxy alone? Or the one where FTL travel is possible with warp drives?
> don't we allow this level of control with video game consoles?

The copyright industry allowed themselves this level of control via extensive government lobbying.
And me by jerking off and crying in a cold shower
I don't want to make a numbered widget or put it at the top of the page. That doesn't feel right somehow. Yes, I know it's taking a long time; we're just that slow over here.

(I've detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27239842 so there isn't extra offtopicness up there.)
Rather, the question is, how can Apple control access to a device they have sold to customers by forcing all app deployments through their App Store? They can run the App Store quite whimsically if they allow side loading apps and other app repositories.
1. łaskę mi robisz

2. laske mi robisz

--

1. you are (not really, pejorative) doing me a favor

2. you are doing me a blowjob

...must be one of better ones.
>>> US highway speeds are crazy

Crazy as in high or low?

I-5 between San Francisco and LA is about ~70mph limit. That's ~113km/h.

A lot of highways in Europe are often at 130km/h sometimes going up to 140km/h limit.

P.S. And if you think those limits are even remotely observed, try a road trip in Italy or Bulgaria :P
Just look at other cultures and time periods to get perspective.

Some cultures had a role for people who are not heterosexual or the culture didn't care.

In Abrahamic religions sexuality seems to be is tightly connected to the role in family and society. If cultures don't see sexuality as a important part of role people play in the society, it does not matter so much.
> Despite the damage to the cars, that sounds more like a mental health problem than a crime problem.

In the long term, I agree with you. In the short term, it would be nice if the people who we are forced to pay for the task of preventing antisocial behavior would stop the person who is causing tens of thousands of dollars in property damage, since broadly speaking nobody else has the right to do so.

To put it another way, how much more damage does this person need to do before you consider it a crime problem?
Hmm, I kinda liked the original code.
Why Google? They sell very little hardware, and they could even benefit from the repair market. It is also one of their best weapon against Apple, in the same way that privacy is one the best weapon Apple has against Google.
There are about a hundred different ways the elite can force a discourse. Control over regulation, cultural osmosis via mass media, financial influence, etc..

I think you might be impressed just how much cultural power there is that can be wielded.
I am not talking about individual VCs, but in general, all of them, their collective role is to protect money (from their clients) from potential disruptive innovation.

The goal is not to create value or even to make money, but to not lose it.
Surely this is down to one key error (pun intended) - Medium deciding to override a standard browser shortcut 'for the good of their users'. If they needed a manual save function then I might understand it, but they tried to be clever and made things worse in a subtle way.
Yes, falcon is a thread-based app server.
Apple’s argument is that their land has value because of the work they did/do. They also may argue that rents for their land are at market rate, as demand for it stays high.

Of course, that may be (is for a large part, in my opinion) because of their market power, but that, I think, isn’t much different from Walmart. Market power and sales volume are how Walmart can negotiate lower prices with sellers.

Theme parks such as Disney World may be even better examples. If you want to sell ice creams there, I bet you have to pay a huge sum of money to Disney. It wouldn’t even surprise me if that were a percentage of revenues.
It claims better performance than puma.
Speak for yourself.

Proportional fonts are more aesthetically pleasing and legible (the entire reason for their existence).

When I'm editing "symbolic content", I like it to be easy on my eyes. If I'm constantly re-reading what I've just written, I appreciate the added legibility.

(With the exception of heavily punctuation-based computer code, of course, where monospace results in greater legibility.)
I agree you should take Edmunds' numbers with a grain of salt - they tend to be extremely pessimistic about European cars, for example. They probably also figure on your replacing tires, batteries, etc with OEM. They don't say but they might be taking repair costs somewhere else off the distribution than the mean or median to produce a budgetary number.

Also, are you going by age or by model year? Understand that the TCO they give is for the next five years, as if you bought that model year used now.

You could just have a car whose repair costs vary a lot.

The problem with your data, given your use case, is that you can't really compare it to anything but more of your data. I'm sure if we could see how the sausage gets made there'd be plenty to criticize on Edmunds' TCO calculator but it at least provides a way to compare different new and used cars, and it breaks down the numbers in ways that allow you to work with them a little - or compare them to experience - if you are skeptical. It's also not too hard to do a similar model for comparision for different use cases (driving only 5k miles per year brings your TCO on a reliable older car way down, for example) - you'll have your own estimates for each line item instead of their data - if you want to compare against their numbers as a benchmark.
Sure. If it works on 5 year old hardware, it almost certainly works even better on new hardware. I don't find this an unreasonable expectation.
One problem here though is the combo of family holiday and moving lots of objects. When you need all the mentioned cargo space, the van becomes a two-seater. A crew cab truck can move 5 adults comfortably as well as a full load in the bed. Huge advantage for camping. I know you can use roof storage on a van, but i'd argue its more of a hassle, with less capacity, and more dangerous as the vehicle is much more top heavy.
but will be a horrible unibody truck
Steve Jobs was friends in college with Robert Friedland[0], a mining billionaire (self-made, his story is fascinating), and it is rumored that Jobs learned some of his persuasion skills from observing Friedland. There are some videos of Friendland online, and though he is a bit of a huckster, he is a great speaker.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Friedland
I haven't experienced the first, and .. I guess I never went looking for software for the second. That github link looks good though.
What? The reason for the historical death of "free love" is even more base, it's literally about resource conservation as populations pass what is feasible to support balanced against the need for field labour.

If anything, prehistorical attitudes about love are much, much, much more sophisticated than what came after.
More recently, the meaning of "based" seems to have shifted to something closer to "completely unapologetic about one's beliefs, even if it seems unpopular." It's usually brought up when someone poses a strawman but it ends up being completely accurate.
I maintain pg8000, and it has two APIs: the standard DB-API 2 accessed with pg8000.dbapi and its own native API at pg8000.native.

The native API is a lot simpler, and so I'd use that if you can. The native API is really my suggestion for the next version of DB-API, so DB-API 3. I'd be interested to know people's thoughts on this, and maybe we could put together a draft specification?
It's literally no different than mining and they have already stated the bitcoin and ethereum are not securities.
No, they don't want to admit to being a porn site. Tying themselves in knots with silly rules like this means they're just a gateway for people to promote their OnlyFans pages.

If they want to be a game streaming site, why allow player video at all? Pare it back to what it was actually for.
Scotland checking in!

I've always understood it the same way. Checked with my partner from half this country away, and she agrees too.
In 2012 when our house was built, the builder tried to convince me to drop the RJ11 jacks. I guess I'm old fashioned, I told them to put them in anyway. Haven't used them for anything, oh well. They're not useful for anything more than actual POTS.
https://archive.is/gBwWE
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Worst of it is Google was not even in the title of the article. The title was editorialized to include Google.
Or just up there with Beanie Babies as an investment vehicle
That’s fair. I should say instead the historical basis for such protections is rooted in logic similar to what I wrote.
Fixed it, but same kind of result

https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/hx1zjE5xW
I've had problems with my (large) upstairs neighbor for the past year. The building repeatedly fined them, the police refused to come out, and I knocked on their door sometimes several times a day for about 9 months straight.

My solution was to offer to pay them $$$ for their moving fees and, when they turned that down, I just picked up and moved to another building.

That's not really much different.
Will facebook, instagram and linkedin follow up with the same feature in three weeks?
I got 1gb from them just to rise my upload speed.
That is not a nice thing to say about Barry Dillers.
ive always wanted touch screens in my truck!
I wish municipal Internet was an option by me, but much of the US is purposely broken:

https://broadbandnow.com/report/municipal-broadband-roadbloc...
Actually, I have in fact been speaking "raw IRC" quite a few times. Not much anymore but back in the days when working on a new servers it was quite convenient to just telnet irc.x.yz 6667, NICK Hultner, USER Hultner * * * * (don't care for quick sess), JOIN #xyz-help, PRIVMSG #xyz-help Hello, anyone familiar with error Z1 on XYZ?, pong.

That's basically everything you need to know for some basic chat.
UFOs are here, so buckle up
Being paid a lot doesn't necessarily make the job less annoying.
I have an android phone without google play enabled or installed. Not even a replacement framework such as MicroG or whatever. Works fine. Check how f-doid apps are running, or what it requires. No google license, api, nothing.
PagerDuty has a useful guide to postmortems, among others: https://postmortems.pagerduty.com/
Couldn’t the same be said for literally every security ever?
I love everything about what Nix is achieving, and have a lot of problems with how it achieves it.
It's largely random which submission of an article ends up getting traction. That's true across every topic, so I doubt that inserting Google into the title made the difference.

As for why - perhaps the submitter felt that it was misleading for the title to pick on just MS and Apple when Google is also implicated in the article? That's a legit reason to edit a title on HN—it's one of the unlesses in "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait".

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> But then you have e.g. GPT that is reproducing some (largeish) parts of the training set word-for-word, which might be infringing.

Easy fix - keep a bloom filter of hashed ngrams ensuring you don't repeat more than N words from the training set.
As a kid who grew up using logo in the 80s at school (Alberta though, not BC), it was the pictures that i could make that actually got me to do more than just the basics that the teacher had us go through. I ended up getting a CSC degree, in large part because of fun programming like that. So thank you for your effort regardless.
My understanding was that much of the design of ARM was literally based on 6502: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#Design_concep...

Edit: Granted, Sophie Wilson, one of the designers of ARM, is on record stating that 6502 didn't inspire anything in particular, beside being one of the few inputs to her pool of ideas (16032 and Berkeley RISC being the others): https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/admired_designs.html#wil... So... arguably :)
They should be forced to open up as well. The whole software platform business model needs to die.
Although with the looseness around booleans in JS, I'd imagine that you might need to do something more like `(x==true) != (y==true)`
> The best result for customers is that there are alternate ways of putting apps on their own phones that do not require apple's permission.

Should Apple still be allowed to prevent Chrome from running it's own rendering, javascript, & other web platform engines? How much editorial & technical control are we going to let Apple keep, if we do allow alternate distribution mechanisms?
Why is that the "worst of it"? Google is mentioned eleven times in the article and not in a "pro right to repair" kind of way.

> But it was Google that surprised advocates with the vigor of its opposition.
Nostalgia. I started with PHP/FI 2.x. Was a great relief from writing web server apps in C.
iOS is. It's a software and a set of associated services and apps provided to you under a license.

If you wanna install your own OS, you can set up your own App Store.
You do have a point. I also have seen many benchmarks use cloud instances without any disclaimers, and it always made me raise an eyebrow quizzically.

Any such benchmark I do is averaged over a few instances in several availability zones. I also benchmark specifically in the local region that I will be deploying production to. They're not all the same!

Where the cloud is useful for benchmarking is that it's possible to spin up a wide range of "scenarios" at low cost. Want to run a series of tests ranging from 1 to 100 cores in a single box? You can! That's very useful for many kinds of multi-threaded development.
This is exactly me.
Inconvenient truths often elicit negative responses.
A OneWheel - I'm sure other eScooter / e-personal-transport owners can relate - this has replaced the need for me to own a car while travelling within city limits.

There's crossover with a good ol' analogue bicycle, but I found it awkward to rock up at places and events sweating.
I wish you success. I really like Dart and the concept of Flutter.

However: I'm still waiting for a 100% Flutter-based iOS app published in the app store that I can try to make sure that it does not have any apparent jank.

Yes, I know that Flutter 2.2 which launched a few days ago included tools designed to fight some of the sources of jank (e.g. bundling precompiled shaders) but after such a long time of promises from the Flutter team I just want to see a 100% flutter app hitting a solid 60 fps on my own phone, for real.
Consumers couldn’t care less, for sure. It’s only developers and corporations who cares.

It is a lot like all the furor over patent trolls. It only really hurts large companies, but techies decided it was somehow victimizing them and screamed about it constantly but consumers still didnt care.
The previous holder of that job, Christel, had access to the DNS account, why couldn't Tom?

Like, yeah, Tom was maneuovered into place to take control of the DNS account, because thats what a head of staff does. Do you think that each new US president shouldn't get the nuclear codes either?
Fun fact: Python and QBasic both came out in 1991. Though QuickBASIC is a few years older.

> should the missing characters be tabs or spaces then?

I'm not sure what QBasic does. But it's irrelevant since they control the format and the display. All Microsoft needed to care about is whether the file displays the same as before when loaded.

But it's really no different than text editors that let you switch a tab character to insert 2/4/8 spaces. If you've ever had the misfortune of working on a code base that allowed both tabs and spaces (fake tabs) then you'll be keenly aware that plaintext has always been modal. Your editor either has to figure out how many spaces to display a tab character, or how many spaces to insert on the tab key. Even line endings, CR+LF vs. LF. I think Mac even just used a single CR once upon a time.

Makefile is another format that is particular about requiring an actual tab character. The first time I "discovered" this I had the urge to toss my computer out the window. That was probably the late '90s when that sort of information was a bit more difficult to come across.