skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also have a very constant inner voice, sometimes multiple, maybe it's an ADHD - although my ADHD I can read fine (although sometimes I need to get up and walk around absorbing what I've read and considering the implications)
How much is this policy (say in terms of your normal owners policy). Are you in the US? This would be good info to know about.
Also recently written to be a dumping ground for all the worlds leftover cheap clothing. https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/latin-america/chiles-desert-...
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I mean, I'd agree, but 2.8 Billion is a LOT of money. I'm impressed that the EU is willing to even hammer Google that hard. From what I can tell, Alphabet only ever has ~120 Billion USD on hand at any given point in time.

While the fine seems to be doing better than mere pocket change, the fine must be more costly than the benefit of the anti-competitive behavior in order to be effective.
And where do you live if I might ask? Even Iran and Russia are experiencing galloping inflation. North Korea maybe?
The market price is set so that demand and supply match. If supply of some good decreases, then the price will keep increasing until a sufficient amount of people can no longer afford it. This can range from something fairly benign, like keeping an old car around a few years longer, to something disastrous like people starving.
It makes sense given that this is both an area where they've historically had to deal with the competitive disadvantage of Windows having a large “built-in” market and one where they've made huge inroads with iOS.

For a small business this is especially interesting since an iPad / ChromeOS device is a better call for an awful lot of workers and this makes that switch even easier.
Its still electromagnetic waves not pressure waves so they're not audible.

Still, I'd recommend not being very close to the transmitter if its putting out megawatts of power.
> Now you're being deliberately disingenuous. Apple has a long track record of developer-hostile behavior.

No I'm not. Developers are clearly user-hostile. Facebook anyone? This is obvious.

> Why does you not wanting multiple app stores matter?

Because if developers can leave the Apple App Store and move to third party app stores, then all of the benefits of collective bargaining that go along with Apple making developers do things like support Apple anonymous ID, or state what they use data for, go out the window because Apple loses it's dominant position on the platform. And there is little to no benefit for me as a user. I don't care if Netflix (contrived example) makes less money because Apple takes a cut. Apple provides me with a valuable and easy to use payment mechanism. It's not worth the trade-off for me. So yea I'm going to oppose something that doesn't add value to me and takes away value from me.
If the attacker is on your computer, he can access your bank account while you are being logged in (and possibly after that, if he disabled the logoff). He just needs to copy your session cookies and use your computer as proxy to use your IP address. 2FA doesn't really help in that scenario.

2FA 'only' prevents attackers from breaking in without having access to your computer, and you being logged in. If an action needs to be confirmed using 2FA (like a transfer of money), it can prevent this as well.
> + From now on, the default for communications professionals and people speaking to The Verge in an official capacity will be “on the record.”

> + We will still honor some requests to be on background, but at our discretion and only for specific reasons that we can articulate to readers.

I must applaud. And stomp and holler too.

I think many people assume that this is already the default state of journalistic practice.
If you're into this, Huygens Optics has an awesome series where he builds a wafer stepper at home. His is a little less advanced than Sam Zeloofs but the videos are way better -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w0Z2Y5vaAQ
You can sign apps without Apple being "in the loop" and distribute them via the web with an enterprise cert. As far as pushing out updates I think you have to build your own system for that. My company uses enterprise certs and our app will notify the user when there is an update, redirect them to a web portal where they click a link, are prompted to install the app, and then the app is installed.
However, in this case it was technically helpful content and sharing a frustrating story. It was one paragraph that was easy to ignore. There was no popup or call to action past that simple paragraph. As far as native advertising, this is as benign as it gets.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29175511
That next step is a leap. I view it as the difference between parsing and processing spoken English and parsing and processing spoken Mandarin Chinese. The letters and numbers are 36 symbols to understand, plus capitalization and punctuation. Understanding words means mapping out the brain pathways for each word.

There is actually a path for this that's been done before, in a way. Dragon Naturally Speaking was evolved this way.

As I understand it, that evolution took decades.

In 1952 Bell Labs came up with Audrey (Automatic Digit Recognition). Voice specific, and could only recognize numbers 0-9. This is where the OP linked Brain Computer Interface (BCI) is.

In 1962 IBM revealed Shoebox at the World Fair. Shoebox could understand 16 English words. It would listen to the words and complete an instruction for example adding up numbers and providing the result.

Harpy came in 1971. Funded by Darpa and developed through a collaboration between CMU, Stanford and IBM. Harpy cold work with ordinary speech and pick out individual words, but it only had a vocabulary of around 1000 words.

In 1974, Kurzweil forms Kurzweil Computer Products (KCP) for development of pattern recognition technology.

In 1976, KCP introduces the Kurzweil Reading Machine, combining three technological firsts.

In 1982 Dr's Jim and Janet Baker launched Dragon Systems and prototyped a voice recognition system that was based around mathematical models. The Bakers were mathematicians and the system they came up with was based a hidden Markov model – using statistics to predict words, phrases and sentences.

In 1983, Kurzweil Music Systems launches a keyboard synthesizer that accurately reproduces the sounds of acoustic instruments.

In 1985, Kurzweil Applied Intelligence introduces the first speech-to-text computer program.

In 1990, Dragon Dictate was launched as the first general purpose large vocabulary speech to text dictation system. This was a groundbreaking product for Dragon, but it required users to pause between individual words.

In 1994, KurzweilVoice for Windows 1.0 is launched, bringing discrete speech command technology to the personal computer environment.

In 1995, Kurzweil Technologies is founded.

By 1997, the problem of having to pause between words had been overcome and Dragon Naturally Speaking v1 was launched, 45 years after Audrey.

In 1997, the Continuous Speech Natural Language Command and Control software is launched as Kurzweil Voice Commands; The Medical Learning Company is formed.

In 2000, Kurzweil forms FAT KAT, Inc. to develop artificial intelligence that can make decisions about buying and selling on the stock market.

Then in 2001 KTI introduced "Ramona," the virtual reality rock star.

Yes, the last two have little (maybe even nothing) to do with speech recognition, but I found them interesting, so I thought you might too.

The sources for the above are primarily:

[1] http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/kurzweil-te...

[2] https://whatsnext.nuance.com/en-gb/dragon-professional/histo...
I think media playback is delegated to the OS by the browser through some API, I doubt every browser bundles its own decoding and playback engine. And it needs to handover to the OS for picture-in-picture as well, makes sense to delegate.
Super nice! Will give it a try
> Who even benefits from payphones still existing?

This is quite clearly outlined in the article.
There are ways to bypass any 'downing' China can do to a service. Unless they start using missiles to bomb datacenters in US and EU, of course.
My favorite is "What's the point of this product? This is very easy to do today. All you have to do is (insert very complex series of steps and tools)"
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Technical debt, yes please
If the worst case scenario happens and Tuvalu is submerged, how will the state manage to survive even without territory? Is that in the best interest of its citizens? Can any of the nation's collective wealth be preserved, either in the form of an enduring landless state as proposed, or by in some way transferring that wealth as the citizens emigrate somewhere else? Or is this proposal the futile death throes of a state about to be obliterated by a human-made disaster?
Could you please expand on that? This is a very strong claim with literally zero arguments.
You know what would piss me off, if I had kids; would be the lack of support the iPad, in particular - has for multi-user logins.

It would be huge for families, and it would also make parental controls way more of a breeze.

Does anyone know why this is the case? I was positive when they made iPadOS its own thing, we'd finally see this.
For apartmentlist's purposes it makes sense they do it that way, because their target audience is presumably people who are looking to rent a new unit, and those people care about what newly rented units go for. But if we're looking at changes in cost of living in the broader economy, most people don't move constantly, so it doesn't make any sense to exclude the cost of living of people who are staying in the same unit. You end up massively exaggerating both increases and decreases in cost of living, e.g. apartmentlist showed huge deflation in rents in my city during 2020, even though most people didn't move and most people's actual cost of living didn't decrease. But there were a lot of vacant units listed cheaply as people left for the suburbs during covid. Now the vacant units are back up again as people come back into the city, but my rent still hasn't changed either way, and neither has most people's. So you could tell a story of massive deflation followed by massive inflation, but that is not in fact what most people who actually live in the city experienced. So for an overall cost of living number I'd much prefer just an average of all rents.
What's your point? The standard of what's good keeps improving.
All I want from Apple is a separate environment for corpware and all of its associated baggage to run. I’d love for that profile to even acquire its own EPS bearers so that its traffic is distinct from personal traffic.
Can you elaborate on why your view of the situation is so bleak?
You need to take this seriously.

the reason you should be concerned about these prices in relation to their 2008 crisis prices is because the countermeasure that resulted in 2008 relief --Quantitative Easing-- cannot be used again because we effectively never quit using it to prop up the last decade of commercial market performance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing#US_QE4

the Federal reserve also has no leverage to modify the prime interest rate to combat this inflation, as it already sits near-zero and the fed funds rate has been agreed to stay at under a quarter of a percent. modifying any interest rates in 2021 would blow up the corporate credit bubble, so the fed is mostly just bloviating about "transient inflation" to no ones real entertainment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_debt_bubble

finally, the bond buyback taper the Federal reserve has been touting since July 2021 but too terrified to implement is effectively meaningless as its not set to end until next July at the earliest, effectively allowing uncorrected inflation to continue another eight months. the fed hasnt announced any further countermeasures after this...they just assume a bond taper will coincide with the purported end of covid and surge of consumer confidence which never manifested in 2021. Instead the supply chain continued to fail and vaccine targets were never met.

Id conject the level of wishful thinking driving fed policy at this point should be enough to tenure Powells resignation sometime in March. the only thing combatting stagflation at this point is corporations like Amazon who know if they dont do something about real wages in the absence of effective federal policy it will start to reflect on their earnings reports, and even they seem recalcitrant to take any real steps unless the union comes a knockin.'
> In the 90s there was a massive hushed up scandal where the programmers developing the early Barclaycard made the pseudo random number generator for pin codes just issue three distinct pins. This meant that a stolen card could be easily used because they could guess any pin in three goes before the ATM swallowed the card.

Citation for this?
These remind me of the era of Netbooks in mid 2000s. None of those lasted more than a year. Not because they broke, but because people just wouldn’t want to deal with the slowness and fitting 2 paragraphs on the screen all the time. I lived in a third world country at the time doing home computer support on the side and every time someone would call me complaining about their netbooks we’d come to the conclusion that it was just a limitation of the device. Not to mention that back then they would ship full of bloatware.

“But Linux works great!” Yeah well no one wants to have to learn a new office suite or learn how to use Flatpak to install Spotify.

Great that they are repairable and all but no one will want to spend a dime on these things, ever. The moment they break a few times or people get fed up with the limitations they’ll just stop using them.

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... the ones that appeared on Joe Rogan! /s

Seriously though, .. it sucks to see obvious well-poisoning in the comments of HN.

I don't know about Kathleen Stock, but Peter Boghossian and Ayaan Hirsi Ali aren't exactly what I would "right wing nuts".

Maybe they're referring to Joe Lonsdale who is on the board?
How or where did you acquire such specific beliefs about what minds can or cannot do?
That feels paying a hooker
Fair warning for anyone considering the phone: it doesn't appear to support group messaging. If you live in Europe, you might not care. If you live in the US, this is quite possibly a dealbreaker.

https://forum.mudita.com/t/group-messaging/975

Of course, now that it's open source someone could add it, but... too fundamental of a feature for me to start daily driving it in the first place.
They didn't even follow through with their threat to leave the Australian market or the UK or France or Belgium or Germany. I don't even know whom they didn't threaten.
Same here. But 256k? Mine was upgraded to 128… I didn’t know 256k was a thing
Just seen one converted to a defibrillator in Bath in the UK, and painted yellow so very distinctive. Not seen any in London though for example.
Relevant scene from a sci fi movie called “Chaos Walking”

https://youtu.be/Od-0XFHlcto
Hey everyone - we need to chill out for a second. Stop buying the knee jerk reaction of the media trying to freak everyone out and get some good advertising dollars.

This is going to take until after the new year maybe Q1-Q3 timeframe to see if it is transitory.

Reminder: we had an unprecedented global supply collapse followed by shutdowns and border closures for more than a year combined with historic levels of fast moving monetary growth during that time. We now have a situation of incredible levels of built up demand, a labor shortage and supply chain issues. Not to mention significant amount of illness and deaths as a result of a pandemic.

There were bound to be second and third order effects. The system needs some time to adjust.
Indeed, there are legions of non-dual meditation apps and meditation teachers who train people to deal with this inner voice in ways that are helpful.

If such people were not rampant, I do not think these teachers and apps would be so popular.
> It's called 'monkey patching' and python does make it particularly easy

Inheritance and overriding method in the descendant class is cleaner, and more broadly supported. When you need monkey patching, sure, its nice that most modern dynamic OO languages support it quite naturally. (Ruby even supports scoped monkey patching via refinements, as well as classic monkey patching and per-object overrides.) But this is not at all unique to Python.
Given the pricing, this strikes me more as “we’re confident enough that we’re going to grow the Mac business, that we need to offer something to enterprise to check a box so we don’t artificially limit sales.”
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>... Alphabet only ever has ~120 Billion USD on hand at any given point in time.

"Only".
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Serious question - what percentage of businesses do you think reach the nightmare scenario you've painted? You said that "usually it does" go that way. That seems to mean more than half - is that seriously your opinion of the 10.75 million companies that are in the United States?

I owned a computer service company for five years. I never did any of the things that you mentioned. All of my customers were small businesses and they never did anything you mentioned. You seem to be basing your opinion on the 1%.
If anyone is interested, I wrote an article a while back exploring which unicode characters Python allows you to set variables equal to: https://www.thelisowe.com/why-can-be-a-variable-in-python-bu...

This was originally done with the goal of trying to hide/encode one program within another using non-displayable characters (such as zero width spaces), I just never got around to it. But reading this article has kind of reignited that interest for me and I think I might take another crack at that soon.
On-site repairs sounds interesting, although their computers are all glued together and every component is soldered to the board so I have no idea how they'll manage that.
Do you publish some number about how sure you are?
Have any of you ever answered a poll? And answered truthfully?

I'm inherently suspicious of most polls because everyone I know either refuses to participate in polls or deliberately lies to the pollster, either for fun or to get taken off the spam call list.
The poster didn't refer to the demand slump as a deflationary period. They referred to the time period where prices decreased as a deflationary period.
These nations will need to make arrangements to migrate to welcoming host nations, that will allow for local governance similar to how tribal lands work in the US.

Wealth could be preserved by seeking restitution from nations according to lifetime emissions (which has led to sea level rise), and creating a trust to manage and distribute the returns from those funds invested to citizens where ever they are. Once submerged, it’s unlikely the land has any value beyond tourism for diving yachties transiting the pacific.
> I worry that if I start taking fixed-fee projects the incentive to make good software will be gone (the faster I deliver, the better). There's no incentive for documenting things, writing tests, creating a CI/CD pipeline or any of that. These things simply become nice-to-haves that will not matter once you deliver the project and cash yourself out.

The things you listed sound more like deliverables that the customer either does or doesn't want. If, as you say, most of your customers don't want them, then you shouldn't do them or bill for them. For example, if the customer doesn't even know what CI is, and they don't already use it, then if you do provide it, it likely will be ignored: it isn't part of their culture and they aren't likely to adopt it as part of their development practice just because you delivered it with your project. If they are paying you to educate them about CI, why it's important, how it works, etc., that's obviously different.

IMO, a fixed contract (I've worked both ways for large corps) doesn't mean you will produce "bad" software. But it does prevent you from futzing around too much with unimportant details like code formatting, giving variables better names, changing 10 lines of code to remove 2 duplicate lines, etc. These are the kind of things that programmers routinely do to make their code "better" (I do it myself), and as a personal project, that's great; I think it makes you a better programmer, and the next time, maybe you'll come up with better variable names the first time. But a paying customer probably doesn't care whether you name a variable n or nrows, so billing extra hours to write "good" software is not worth it. If it works and is not a maintenance nightmare, then it is "good enough" for commercial work. Another way to look at this: if you asked the customer "I need to spend 5 more hours to change the names of some variables to make the logic more clear, and need to reformat a few functions", are they likely to tell you to go ahead and be glad to pay for that or "that's not important for this project"?

Edit: I didn't write that very well. The main distinction I was trying to make is between paid-for commercial work for clients vs "craftsman" quality work that you personally care a lot about, not about hourly vs fixed.
LIGO collaboration member here: we focus on maximizing the cumulative number of detections over time, and it turns out that by turning the detector off for a year to upgrade it, we can increase the sensitivity so much that a year after that we will have more total detections than if we had left it running continuous for two years. So you also have to think about all the distant/faint signals we would never be able to detect because we kept listening at too low a sensitivity...

(We do make sure that we have a dramatically less sensitive sister detector in Germany, called GEO, listening whenever we're not so that we'll see something really close and loud, like a galactic supernova, even when LIGO is offline.)
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It really disappoints me just how easy it is to make macOS crash. USB and DisplayPort especially seem to trip it up. And now HDR in Safari. These are things that you'd expect from 90s era monolythic kernels. Not a 21st Century flagship OS for the most successful IT company on Earth.
People just need to look at a money supply chart.

Edit - it's true. There's a very well established connection between inflation and money supply. Hell, the entire point of QE is to try stimulate inflation to encourage spending to encourage growth. It's not some unknown effect...
> What a business would want in this case is Backblaze like functionality with versioning / restore

Maybe. Some businesses just back up just their user's files and just reimage machines when something goes wrong.
I don't think the cost of propane nearly doubling is bull whip, not out here. Therr are going to be a lot of people wearing extra layers and looking at getting wood stoves out here this winter.
I assume you would be mining on other people's hardware which drastically changes the equation
I have no evidence for this but I expect the experience would be similar to visiting an Apple store.
US is world reserve currency. We have the ability to print unlimited dollars. All other currencies are primarily backed by US dollars. Most important commodities like oil are priced in USD. Therefore, US drives inflation globally.
Primes? ...sorry not familiar with the lingo.
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