skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which kind of gets to the point. The limited capability is only artificial, and only on things that would give users more freedom (and themselves less money).

It's forced Internet Explorer on Windows, except 100 times worse because it permeates through the entire platform.

You can't get any other storefronts because that wouldn't funnel money to them. You can't get any game streaming apps, because see first point.

They're general purpose devices in anything that makes them money, and nothing else. It's not because they won't spend money to introduce that functionality, but that they specifically spend money on denying that functionality.

AOL won a suit against Microsoft for integrating IE in Windows. How on Earth is Apple any better? Just to make an add-on point they even force every other browser on iOS to use webkit.
The dictation looks really good. The main reason I don't use it currently, even though it would be the most natural way to enter text, is that I want my text to have punctuation without me having to be explicit about it. Looking forward to trying this eventually.

Also, given that they have translation and live transcription of videos, live translation of videos was the next logical step. I hope it's available for all audio sources.
This guy wasn't inexperienced though
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It's truly incredible that the operator of like half a dozen of the most heavily used web properties on the planet still can't operate a basic e-commerce store that caters to the few fans who buy their phones. Maybe they should just start selling them on Amazon instead.
The definition is from NCMEC[0] and ONLY from NCMEC. No FSB, no MSS, no FBI.

This is the EXACT SAME database EVERY cloud provider has been using for about a decade. Look up Microsoft PhotoDNA.

The only difference is that the company doing it was Apple, who wanted to do the checks on-device BEFORE upload. And with multiple redundancies and human review.

Not like Microsoft, who have - for example - shut down the MS account of a German man for having photos of his own children on a beach. No human review, no way to complain. Everything gone from Outlook mail to Xbox account.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Center_for_Missing_%2...
Everyone derides Apple for not listening to the demands of users and then, when Apple finally does give in they... continue to deride them. I'm just happy with +magsafe -touchbar. Even if the price is Apple saving face and pretending this was their idea the whole time, so be it.
Some of the online shops now actually allow you to upload a selfie, and they'll composite your chosen frames onto your face.

Probably not quite as good as a live view, but not bad.
I hated React when I had to jimmy it into a Drupal website, I loved it when I was doing React + Redux on a data-driven project.

Pre-shopify, I loved Magento when we were just building basic eCommerce websites. I hated it when we had to provide bespoke functionality to suite various niche business purposes because rarely did any of the community plugins work well together, and life became a routine of building custom intermediary plugins that resolved the conflicts - but at least Magento had a way to resolve conflicts between plugins.

I loved Doctrine when I could define my object model with simple block comments. I hated it when the client's business model enforced an object model incompatible with Doctrine's, and we had to extend Doctrine to allow for it.

I tried making a game from scratch many times over the years. From writing my own assembly pixel routines (draw a line without gaps... that's a fun challenge), to decoupling logic from rendering, custom double-buffering, etc. At the end of the day, fuck it, Unity does everything I need much more efficiently than I have the time to figure out.

Unless you're doing really low-level embedded (and even these day's there's off the shelf hardware with frameworks rather than bit-bashing IO ports), having no framework at all is usually worse than having "a" framework. Want to build an entire game engine from scratch or why not just use Unity? If you have a good reason and can justify the cost of doing the stuff Unity does yourself, just to achieve the stuff Unity can't do, then go for it!

Like I guess, I don't hate frameworks, but I don't LOVE them either. Pick the tool for the job. I hate jingoism, where someone will tell you Redux is the only way we're going from now on because functional reactive programming is Jesus, or we've decided from now on the project will use webpack, even though it's been working fine for a decade using a different build strategy. Oh and we need to convert the APIs to GraphQL instead of OpenAPI on no budget, it's your fault for not understanding best practices duh...
It does make sense. Thanks.
>I now just buy contacts online from Europe or New Zealand.

I would love to do that, could you share which vendors you use?
100% thought it was a scam until I saw major news outlets reporting on it.
A conflict of interest is one thing, but as long as it is disclosed to all parties who might be on the downside of that conflict it need not be a problem in and of itself (but it still could be, and may very easily become one).

An undisclosed conflict of interest is always a problem.
Russia allows methane leaks at planet’s peril
It’s really hard on your family too. I had a few friends in high school who’s dads drove trucks, some of them single fathers. Those kids almost certainly did worse in school and got into more shit because their dad was gone all the time. It’s a really tough gig.
I hope they keep making the A series midrange phones with head phone jacks.

EOL for my Pixel 4a is August 2023. So maybe there will be a Pixel 7a with a tensor v2 chip and headphone jack by then.
> Why the US can’t follow the models followed most elsewhere in the world is unclear

To the contrary, it is very clear: regulatory capture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/03/apple-delays-controversial-p...
It would be interesting to learn whether some other forms of treatment or drugs have appeared in the years people have been taking daily aspirin. The article makes it sound like "whoops we've been wrong all these years, sorry for all the bleeding" but in reality the risk balance constantly shifts so what made sense for great-grandma may not make sense for grandma.
> from the only phone vendor outside of Apple who appears to give a damn about that aspect

I hope the hardware is solid too. After having 2 Google phones die just outside of warranty to bootlooping, I'm skeptical they'll be able to make them last.
By going to product hunt and making exact copy of something.

By lurking on HN and making a copy of one of "Show HN".

Just pick something that seems interesting for you.

Spend 2-3 years building it and marketing and if it works well you have it. If it does not work, start over again.

Unless you want a sure money making product - then stick to your 9-5 job that is money making product you have for sure.

Which is also like "find people that want something and build it for them" because that will be your next 9-5 job then.
What is the warranty experience like on earlier Pixels?

I've heard some bad things about Google's consumer-electronics-side customer service, but I don't know how representative those stories are.

I dislike iOS, but AppleCare+ is the one thing that tempts me to go back to iPhones. If, after spending my entire work day writing code and fixing bugs, I have a problem with my phone, being able to say "you know, screw it, this is is a problem for the Genius Bar" has a very strong appeal.
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Obviously the more people using a language, the more 3rd party libraries/frameworks proliferate, of course, and Java is very popular.

But: Technologies are separate from their cultures. You might think the tech enforces its own culture, but that's a half-truth at best.

Most language designers are pragmatists at heart, and inasmuch as they remain leaders, that sense of pragmatism is cultivated within the community around their language. For example, Python's creator - Guido VR - remains a very emphatic leadership figure within the culture, so that it's a culture big on pragmatism, not just because of Python the technology, but because of Guido's leadership. Also ref. Rob Pike, or in a different technical sphere, Linus.

With Java, James Gosling started receding into the background when "Enterprise Java Beans" came out, because he knew that was garbage tech and he was being shushed by the corporate honchos, so a leadership vacuum appeared in his absence. Any and all asshats proclaimed themselves the experts on what programmers really need and started pushing a lot of junk frameworks that the community happily adopted, being readily impressed by the self-confident asshats, and really, just about anything compared well to EJB.

So nowadays many folks would find it hard to believe that the creator of Java was a pragmatist at heart, but yeah, he was; he just didn't stick around as a leader.
Circulating Exosomes with COVID Spike Protein Are Induced by Pfizer Vaccination
What sorts of activities do you use this for? For example, most relevant to me, would it be conducive to programming or other technical work?
Having worn hearing aids a long time (don't turn sh*t up to 11), I should point out that they require setting per-ear and one can have multiple programs (voice, music, ...). My fear of rechargeable aids is that with serious+ loss they'd burn through batteries in a (very) short time and if they're not replaceable it makes the aids disposable. Fitting is helpful as it's also done for mid-high earphones.

This will have to be paid for somehow, and somebody has to do the tests to know what to set. Same as glasses. So we should be able to get the raw aids at a lower cost and then deal with the extras. Costco sells reduced priced aids, so there's a little flexibility in the industry.

For my last set pre-covid, there were behind-ear (big), in ear (small) and in ear canal (very small). If you saw True Lies, their "radios" were probably dummy in-ear-canal aids. As I'm not blessed with a 15+ dex and like other posters I don't mind being see so the behind ears are ok. They can be hidden as dangly earrings with a sheath to make it interesting if you'd like. Otherwise, it's a bloody conservative industry re: colors. I wanted blue and red so it matched stereo wires :-).

And my attempt at bluetooth connectivity for phone calls failed as the things could not stay sync'd during conversations. Better to just use a headset.
that's too bad. it worked well for me, but I never used it regularly.
There are commercially available cables that do HDMI (and DisplayPort, etc) over fiber. I've seen these from PremiumCord and also some Chinese ones on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.de/s?k=premiumcord+hdmi+2.1+kabel
Visiondirect.co.uk sells contacts to US customers without a prescription FYI
Boris Johnson strikes £400m deal with Bill Gates to boost green technology
I think lately they use wireguard as well, so it should be comparable to Tailscale.
Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28914889
It reads more like she had just finished teaching some amateurs, and she decided to go for a very deep dive for fun, and it went wrong.
This piece entirely misses the point of the recommendation.

The new recommendation is that aspirin should not be used to prevent heart attack in those without a history of heart disease (ie avoid routine aspirin for "primary prevention"). Aspirin for primary prevention has always been a grey area. The reversal came after a large trial in the New England Journal of Medicine looking at this. The trial showed the decrease in cardiovascular events was balanced by a similar increase of bleeds. So it's still grey because some people would prefer to bleed because blood is easily replaceable, your heart is not.

What remains clear is that people who have had heart attacks, strokes, or peripheral arterial disease should in most cases continue their anti-platelet agent.
"Bostrom himself argued that we should seriously consider establishing a global, invasive surveillance system..."

I read Bostrom's book on existential risk and that does not sound like something he would advocate. Looking over the cited paper, I think the conclusion the author reached is extremely simplified.

Rather than point to existential risk as the most important thing in the world, Bostrom has said that the gravity of the consequences means that a very small portion of our resources would be well spent to address existential risk, similar to Musk's take on the importance of space exploration. I think the author is grossly mischaracterizing "Longtermists'" views and how important they think it is.
I like this solution, but it really only solves the problem for licensed use. I don’t think all uses need to be licensed or even should need to be licensed. The trouble with copyright is that there are no automatically protected rights for the non-rights holders. It’s all legal defense, which is unapproachable for the average individual.
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> Maciej Ceglowski describes the new macbook pro
You're right but it doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things, though.

For every vegetarian, vegan, or anyone just willing to scale down, there are hundreds who would happily consume more of that sweet subsidized meat, even if it kills them.

Sorry for the rant
That's how Android felt for me. Too many knobs, and a lack of good apps. I'll take Apple's integration over what amounts to nothing any day of the week.
I've never eaten it before only ever heard of it, though after some "research" there does seem to be dessert variants of it.
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I spent the last year "writing" web backends in Java using Spring Boot.

Wasted days trying to figure out the latest magic spell to do the most trivial things.

This is the kind of code that will be automatically generated any day now.
Tech could certainly be used to increase safety, but there are major barriers to uptake. Blackout recovery vests have existed for decades and have essentially no ultilization.

In freediving, minimalism and freedom are emphasized, so additional gear runs contrary to the central ethos.

Regarding masks, the mouth and often nose are not covered to enhance the mammalian diving reflex. Many divers forgo goggles as well.
Maybe the point is that's on the server, not on the device.
Right. Requiring exact matches for this kind of material is absurd as a single pixel change would foil any detection. So everyone, practically speaking, trying to detect it is going to use some form of hash algorithms. And every hash algorithm, by definition, permits potential collisions and false positives. Which is why any sensible program will use a manual review process before pushing anything forward to law enforcement. Apple's system, requiring ~30 matches, means that you'd have to have 30 or so false positives that also happen to look like CSAM to manual reviewers to end up getting a false case sent off to law enforcement.
You can compensate for all those things, and some drivers do. Taking walks on their breaks, doing calesthenics, bringing good food from home, etc. Many of them don't, just as many other people don't take care of themselves and are fat and sedentary.

The amount of sitting a software dev does is comparable if not more to most truck drivers, I'd guess.
I know Whatsapp photos that I never even opened (from groups I probably muted long ago) end up in the phone library whenever I do the (manual) monthly photo dump to my PC.

But yes, I agree with the comment, there's no reason to hide between details: Apple plans to introduce the capability of scanning photos on your local device and comparing hashes against an opaque (non-reviewable) list of hashes that they (along with governments) control (details about how they plan to initially employ this capability are irrelevant).
How interesting that this clearly made made you uncomfortable. I imagine it's similar to how people of color feel when seeing seas of white faces on product pages past.
This is just a general thing I've learned from working adjacent to US healthcare... It's annoying to work with and there are all kinds of little rules because of how inefficient the system is.

First, always have a list of all relevant phone numbers (at a minimum, but other information is helpful too) to any healthcare entity you need to work with. Your primary care doctor, your pharmacy, your hospital, your preferred lab, any specialists. Also have all your insurance information on that same list - especially the different numbers for different departments (e.g. provider lines, authorization lines, etc). Just assume they don't have any of your information on file or their information is inaccurate and needs to be updated.

Always get a paper copy if possible (I think some things have to be electronic in certain states, but just strongly emphasize getting a paper copy for anything else). Pharmacies, labs, other offices always say whatever you need wasn't sent (even if you watch them send the request and it says it successfully went through). And yes make sure it has the doctor's signature on it! I'm not sure if it's specific to insurance companies or just certain medications, but they sometimes require diagnosis codes in some states. Find out prescribing rules in your state... I think it has to do with narcotics, so make sure you know the rules in your state for narcotic prescription.

Always know, ahead of time, the exact lab you're going to and hound the doctor's office about using the right paper work and ensuring diagnosis codes are present (there is apparently no universal lab paper work, so knowing ahead of time is important). Get a paper version of the signed referral. It needs to have the diagnosis codes and whatever other codes are required for billing (honestly not sure why medical offices aren't doing this by default, but whatever). Make sure one of "with contrast" or "without contrast" is selected if you see those options on the request sheet for radiology. Assume you won't be able to contact the doctor after this visit to have the lab order sent again. Also assume that even if you can reach the doctor, that the lab won't accept the order without a written copy.

Always get confirmation from the doctor if the prescription is covered by insurance. There are apps like Coverage Search[0] that can give you some information about whether it will be covered or not.

And of course there are a bunch of other annoying little rules that I just haven't encountered yet.

On top of the ridiculous costs, it's your responsibility to make sure things go smoothly ;) gotta love US healthcare

[0]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/coverage-search/id834992816
Apple is becoming more and more like other brands. It's losing it's think different mojo.
> I don't understand why prescription lenses are gatekept like narcotics

Unfortunately, the answer is regulatory capture. Optometrists in the US make the majority of their income [1] from selling glasses and contact lenses, which of course they also prescribe. There's been a lot of lobbying, collusion, and non-compliance in the industry which the (admittedly biased) link below outlines well.

[1] https://keepcontactlenschoice.com/the-issue/faq/
I don't think this is true, but the hearing aids this might be possible on will not be over the counter anyway -

> The agency proposed a rule to establish a new category of over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids. When finalized, the rule would allow hearing aids within this category to be sold directly to consumers in stores or online without a medical exam or a fitting by an audiologist.
> No, just that their price places them way beyond what a large percentage of people on this planet are able to afford.

1000$/€ MBA is in the same price category with similarly-performing machines. I mean, I doubt you can work as a developer without being able to run a load of tools at the same time. That phone guy example is an exception.
Found it [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEkI0cH_rK4
Apple's solution was to scan stuff that was going to be uploaded anyway on-device before upload.

Using that they could add multiple redundancies and they wouldn't need to look at your stuff on the cloud at all before getting multiple positive matches. And even then the first level is a human checking if it's an actual match or a false positive.

This was somehow a huge invasion of privacy, when people were competing on who could misunderstand the very simple premise the most.
I think that the new laptops are a huge deal for Apple. Some folks argue that we're celebrating them putting back ports that should have been there from the beginning. And that the keyboards should have never gotten so bad.

I see it as a celebration. It's essentially an acknowledgement that they were wrong about all that, and they've built a heavier and "uglier" machine that people actually want/need.

As SJ said, design is how it works. Dongletown + bad keyboards was a bad design, and now they're back to prioritizing usability.
Accurate, but note that intent as OP referred to is not the same as implementation. Fucking up doesn't mean you intended to fuck up.

With Google you can be absolutely sure that their intent is to eat all your personal information and data for short-term profit. With Apple it was "just" a stupid attempt at legal (over?) compliance.
Shared with You does not actually save the images to your photo library. It just surfaces them inside the Photos app. I will admit it's not very clear from the press release, but those are the facts.

I was not being disingenuous, frankly. I said that Apple is scanning your cloud photos, i.e. they are scanning photos that are uploaded to the cloud. Photos not being uploaded to the cloud are not scanned. I made no claims about where the scanning is happening, and I'm not particularly sure why it matters in any material sense.
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Oh I thought it's a real thing, started googling it and landed on Salesforce's Big Object! Thanks.
It can depend and IANAL buuuut I do have an LLC taxed as an S Corp, because you can dramatically reduce your tax burden. Essentially you buffer your money in your LLC and pay yourself a "reasonable salary". For example: maybe you earn $200k this year as a software contractor. You go to glassdoor and find that mean salary for software engineers is $96k/yr. You pay yourself $8k/mo (pre-tax), deducting payroll taxes and putting $1,650 (the max contribution) into a 401k. You also max out your 25% 401k business contribution at another $2k. Depending on state taxes, your total tax burden is something like 19%, after you've put $43,500 into retirement. If you didn't have an LLC, it'd be closer to 30% (or higher, ugh) with only $19,500 in retirement. In raw dollars, in this hypothetical you're down ~$24k.

Your business also gets tax breaks you don't, namely on (paying for your) health care, (paying for your) retirement savings, depreciating assets, (paying for your) salaries, food, travel, lodging, equipment, and services. Further, the cap on business 401k accounts is way, way higher [1]. The ability to sock away even more pre-tax money in a retirement account, and deduct your health insurance from your taxes is insane.

The biggest downsides, at least for me, have been the infra to get it all going. I have an accountant, a lawyer, a financial planner, and an army of online services that help me stay legal and paid up. That said, I'm still coming out ahead (e.g. they don't cost $24k/yr and you guessed it, startup costs are tax deductible), so the gains are there.

(I think paying taxes is patriotic, but I don't think it's reasonable to pay taxes on $200k of income for one year, and then only make $60k of income the next year. I also don't think it's reasonable for me to pay ~40% of my income in taxes while big corporations and the rich pay very little so....)

[1]: https://www.fidelity.com/learning-center/personal-finance/re...
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The race to reinvent document editing
The right time zone is UTC.