skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That said I don’t own any property within 7 feet of sea level so I don’t really give a shit if the people who do lose a little bit of their waterfront property.

Are you implying that those who are the most concerned about climate change are wealthy people afraid to lose their possessions?

How do you explain then that the wealthiest people, that is those possessing the greatest number of companies and contributing the most to climate change, are those that will do the least for climate change and will even fight to maintain the current economic model?
How is a completely proprietary OS more private? I think LineageOS is the most private.
Maybe a lot of people are just really tired of crappy android phones and want to try the other side of the fence.

I’m not referring to the nicer phones like the pixel or some of the galaxy phones. But the cheaper phones that are often given away for free.

I’m not saying that’s everything, just a guess. I’m kind of surprised the difference is as big as 8%.
Wow, that issue is kind of mindblowing. To me, it proves that making GC observable rips a large hole in the semantics. The damage was ameliorated somewhat with [[KeptAlive]], but the destruction is not contained in any understandable or bounded way, and we'll be bumping into it for years to come.

It feels like we managed to add something a lot like C and C++'s undefined behavior into JS. I thought it was just an issue of nondeterminism, but that issue proves that it could be a lot more problematic than that. I don't find the suggested optimizations particularly far-fetched, especially in a trace-compiled or otherwise specialized subset of the code. Something like inlining in a way that looks for all of the things provable locally even if they may not be true globally; it could totally do things like build alias sets of values and optimize down `w.deref() === obj` to `w.deref() !== undefined`.
I just bought the Pixel 6. That's the flagship device for Android. It doesn't really get any better. It's fine as a phone. It's got a nice screen. The camera isn't bad. Reasonably priced (I payed 555 Euro). And all the other specs people seem to obsess about. But other than that, I struggle to see how this thing is any better than the cheap, four year old Nokia 7 Plus it replaced. I feel slightly ripped off actually. The only thing wrong with that device: the usb c connector was getting flaky (could not charge unless I held the cable just right) and it was no longer getting any security & feature upgrades because Google are being idiots. Lets face it: there has been no meaningful progress for Android phones in the last half decade. It doesn't matter what you buy. You get the same apps & experience with slightly different screens, batteries, cameras, etc.

That's the challenge in this space. A four year old cheap smart phone actually doesn't look half bad compared to the latest and greatest Google has to offer. Whatever Google did since Android 9, I don't really care for any of it. It's not really any better in any way that matters to me. IMHO the gesture bullshit is gimmicky & annoying and the endless Android theme tweaking close to irrelevant at this point. It doesn't feel exclusive to me; just different in a way that doesn't matter to me at all.

The reason Apple has progressed in terms of market share is that they doubled down on what matters. People seem to like IOS as it is and they did not mess with that too much. Other than that, good hardware improvements, software updates for almost anything they sold in the last eight years, and improvements where it matters (screen, camera, speed, etc.). You pay a premium for it but you get what you expect. And then you use the device until it breaks down and you get another one. They offer stability and incremental progress for the life time of the device. There's nothing that Android offers that IOS needs. It has it all.

With Android you're haggling on a lot of different specs between different vendors. And somehow you get a worse deal no matter what you choose. You can go Samsung and deal with their proprietary crap-ware. You can go generic Chinese & out of favor brand and deal with the fact that they've been cut off from the Google Play services. Or you can buy a few me too products from generic Android OEMs and obsess about how many pixels the screen has; how many redundant camera lenses they have, how bad the battery is, etc.

I actually like the Pixel 6 as a phone. But excuse me for not getting too excited about it because it's not exceptional in any way and Google will abandon supporting it in hurry for whatever their next shiny new hot thing is in six months.
Just append “2022” to your game’s name and update the copyright.

I just played a “new” Pool & Snooker 2022 game in Apple Arcade and it looks and plays like Pool & Snooker 2012. The copyright says 2012-2022 so I assume the devs just lazily update the name each year and nothing more. Not seeing 10 years of improvement in this. Some of the graphics still don’t even have anti-aliasing…
Only if you're doing it constantly for every SDK update. But if your game is complete then you have no reason to do it, and if you haven't updated your SDKs in 2 years, chances are that you will not be able to do it without re-writing a huge part of the software.
Rather than twitter ads, in the case at hand.
I will the day the US gets serious about cracking down on monopolies and I have several gardens to choose from or can start my own.
You people are exhausting with this shit.

When the market tanks as it inevitably will, you can enjoy the sweet salty boomer tears.
Does it? Someone should do a study and...huh wait a minute.

That's quite a claim to make, and impossible to falsify in the universe it posits.
The principle of not letting a company or government have more power over a device you own that holds your private actions, whereabouts and even inner thoughts you communicate with those closest to you.

I'm not paranoid, but it's not the direction I want to see computing evolve in.
For a long-form answer, Marques Brownlee has a video[0] that discusses the technical, commercial, and social aspects.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuaKzm7Kq9Q
This is a war that Apple has already won even with their lower marketshare. I think the only interesting thing left in the mobile OS space is the idea of dumb smartphone OS's such as KaiOS for people who want to simplify their lives a bit.

KaiOS is a long way from perfectly usable just yet but you know that wonderfully relaxed feeling you get when you forget your phone and decide against driving back to get it? Perhaps that's the impetus for a new kind of challenger to iOS. A phone /OS who's best feature is that it actually does less.
I have no idea of what you are talking about. Likely your are using a rather old version of web client. Email me andrew.nenakhov@redsolution.com, I'll schedule you a demo of our latest stuff.

(We're currently not considering everything ready for public release, thus apps available to public lag from what we ship to our customers and use ourselves)
Only if you truly, and I mean truly, understand the depth of chaos that has been brought on by "progress".
So... I'm curious, why were you spending a lot of time arguing vehemently that Android was superior, at the same time you weren't actually liking it yourself?

[I have an Android phone, and don't love it or hate it.]
The purpose of the school library is to provide access to school materials first and anything else is secondary and tertiary. The same children who are qualified to check out a book from the school library may also check out books from a local public library.

Unfortunately sometimes they aren’t. For example, I could not check out books from the public library because my one parent could not check out books because she didn’t know where the books she checked out were nor was she able to pay to replace them. That’s life, but it isn’t world shattering and when they have disposable income and reach the age of majority they can make their own life’s choices and not continue to suffer the choices of their parents. There’s no shortage of excellent reading material and no school library or public library will have every book one might want to read. Either will have a lot though, so make do.
I understand being upset with Apple at this arbitrary cutoff. But can we also talk about why a recompile isn’t as simple as opening the old project and hitting “compile”? I work on a large project (millions of lines of code), which has been in continuous development for 20 years. Every new compiler or IDE release results in us having to dedicate at least one engineer full time for a few days to get our project compiling again with the new tools before the team can switch over. That’s a project that previously compiled with no errors or warnings (because we set warnings are errors to true) suddenly can’t build. It’s ridiculous! I can’t imagine throwing something like Unity in on top of that.
Related:

Making of the Gettysburg Address PowerPoint (2007) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9449075 - April 2015 (1 comment)

The Gettysburg address in PowerPoint - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1136536 - Feb 2010 (10 comments)

I thought there had been more - anybody?
Your last sentence is very interesting and probably captures our different perspectives. I see Cage’s work as pointing towards an experience that I might enjoy and be enriched by in practice (not always but then I don’t always enjoy performances of my favourite works) and the concept is part but only a part of that.

Messiaen found sitting in a meadow quite a musical experience!
Its just rude to support such eco system.

As an experiment i tried an iphone4. Apple support helped register an account which didnt work any more for multiple reasons, the app store works just fine, you just cant get any software. Clicking on download does dl the apps but then it says you must upgrade your OS.

There is no software!

Developers say they have a version for it but you may not install apple says. What kind of deal is that? Its a good device, it could have all kinds of applications.
This is great. No longer will I need to see people claiming that climate is an existential threat, likely to snuff out human society by the end of the century. Oh wait, those aren't the untruthful extremists we're talking about?
Advertising on Twitter should not be the way people try to change the consensus.
we could go around endlessly constructing examples where someone would or would not be able to get help from friends or family. the main point is that it doesn't make sense to generalize. everyone's circumstances are different. and to get help each one needs to be addressed individually.
Pascal might not be weird but it is unpleasant. It has many inconveniences to offer the modern programmer. In its day, in comparison to C -- by programmers for programmers -- Pascal was derided by one computer scientist as "a police-state language" for its many strictures and missing affordances.
> I remember when we progressives used to be against the 3 letter agencies and authority in general.

Neither the IPCC nor the UN are three letter agencies
> whenever

lol, once, at the beginning before it had traction...
I got my wife a new iPhone right before the war started, and I swear, every time the migration process gets worse and worse. I installed iTunes, took a full backup of her old iPhone, restored it to the new one, and it was still missing her music, her movies, her books, despite containing all of that judging by the file size. I had to resort to 3rd party software to rip the data out of it and shove it into the new iPhone. And even then it managed to delete the books when I uploaded the music, forcing me to repeat the exercise.

At least with my Android phone I can simply plug it in my PC and copy the files I need in either direction.
I'm ok with turning off subtitles, but then I can only watch English language (or Spanish) films. Only subtitles let me watch French, Japanese, Korean, Italian, etc.

Dubbing is out of the question because I do not hate actors and cinema.
As long as you can export 1) energy, 2) food, 3) weapons, you will be okay anyway. What's the real value of ruble anyway? Did Russia just shrunk to 50% of its size? It is all manipulations.
The triple parentheses being an anti-Semitic marker indicating that it is “the Jews who are behind it all”. I suppose most visitors here already know this though (the use of these parentheses, not the nonsensical conspiracy theory).
The same thing applies to crypto.
It is like not knowing stuff about Windows 15 years ago. I find peculiar as yet alone the curiousity of a tech-savvy person (which I assume you are based on yout comments) should drive one at least to one of those modern OSes.
Indeed. If it's supported (tacitly or explicitly) by the Russian government, I would expect them to have books that polarize Americans.
I haven't actually kept up with that. What is the "Don't say gay bill" about?
The Hofstadter crash of 2023.
No. Google is the operating system vendor. They either fix this with all Android phones or they haven't fixed anything at all.
> The one selling the warranties or the support needn't be the developer. Even if the developer does offer those things, others can step in and compete. The outsiders' costs may in fact be lower. They're not also spending on gratis software development, for one.

A healthy market for support is good for the user.

> Speaking of money, customers will usually pay a lot less for warranties or support than for use of software, or use of software along with warranties and support. That means fewer resources flowing back to the develop to invest in quality, security, IP hygiene, and the other drivers of risk driving demand for warranties and support.

Definitely not true from my experience in supported B2B software. Most of the time nearly all of the real money is in the support contract. The license purchase normally only covers cogs and R&D.

> Offering support in isolation can produce a perverse incentive: invest too much in usability, bug hunting, architecture, and so on, and suddenly customers don't need paid support. Fundamentally, warranties and support are for when things go wrong. Training and consulting have a similar potential conflict with open documentation.

Equally true of proprietary software given the above calculus of how support is where the real money is. That's why you see little cottage industries of people who know crappy software, proprietary or FOSS. See the scene around maintaining Oracle DBs where uptime and throufhput seems to be measured in credit score.
It would certainly be disingenuous to say that TV shows did not have political themes in previous eras: obviously they did. I believe what's different now is simply the speed of change and extremity of political viewpoints. This debate is sort of similar to when people worry about misinformation on social media, and someone answers back "well there's always been bias and misinformation in the news." This is true, but it fails to address that the nature of the problem is different now than in previous eras.

I think what you have these days is a splintering of the mainstream, and the rise of extremist viewpoints. Both of these, in my opinion are due to social media.

In the 80s, (and before) there was a true mainstream culture. For certain, people fell outside of that culture, and if you did fall outside of the mainstream I believe the consequences were harsher than they would be nowadays. But, broadly speaking, that mainstream culture encompassed more Americans than the mainstream culture of today. In modern times, there is no real majority mainstream culture, and because of this centralized media is reflective of a smaller and smaller portion of the country. In other words, there are simply going to be a larger number of people who might not feel represented by views and positions they watch in TV or hear on the news. And to be clear, I'm not talking about "racial representation here." I explicitly do not mean that "if I don't see a person of my race or gender in a show, I don't feel represented." I mean instead that the social and political values of a given show today reflect the views of a smaller percentage of Americans than the political and social values of a show in the 50s or 80s.

I'm not even arguing that this is a bad thing in the objective sense: simply that the political views of the current "mainstream" feel narrow and extremist to me, to the extent that I just don't want to watch a lot of popular shows.
The democratic institutions are broken, and the leaders are unwilling to put in fixes, and the electorate can't hold them to account without them

Preserving voting rights, reducing gerrymandering, and limiting the filibuster to be an infrequent tool have no real priority.

The old guard of bad 3 letter agencies have some insulation against that, making them the old evil instead of the new
The text was sent in 2018
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31135216, which was posted earlier.
If you can't even finish the piece before its copyright expires, then the duration for copyright protection is way too short!

Is there a list of edge cases like these collected somewhere? E.g., this piece for music performance duration, avocados for a high-fat content fruit, qmail's small issue list, etc. I'd like to use it as a reference to sharpen my shitposting.
Were the removed apps compiled with Bitcode enabled in Xcode?
I had an i5 9600k that ran 5ghz all cores, and swapped to the i7 12700k. The i7 is still a lot faster out of the box and I undervolted it a bit while running at 5.1 ghz so it's also very quiet.
Twitter is not banning ads that contradicts "scientific consensus".

They are banning ads which contradicts the current scientific consensus on climate change.

Do you see the difference?
I've published a few non-fiction books in the tech space--one through a major publisher and couple independently.

Certainly some people do well but, in the main, the finances don't really work. I've never done a serious marketing push beyond book signings at some industry events (with someone else paying for the book copies) but I'm not at all confident that incremental sales would cover significant PR/marketing activities.

What it has done in my case is a likely pretty significant enhancement to my visibility/stature professionally. Which has been very beneficial.

I did shareware for a while too back in the 90s (MS-DOS mostly). I enjoyed doing it for a time, liked interacting with my testers and other users, was part of the shareware community, etc. And made reasonable side hobby business money. But certainly not at my day job level.
As with so many Apple policies this is perfectly understandable but becomes unacceptable because they monopolize access to applications on their platform.
Actually it seems like it’s explicitly about misinformation promoted by those with an interest in denying the realities of climate change.
How does allowing people to advertise on Twitter make that process better? I don't see it.
Isn't the whole point making the decentralized network itself the computer...?
There is one thing worse than government regulation: having your market regulated by a company.
There are many other, less inflammatory topics about Google Docs that could be discussed, though.

In fact, I could easily see one forum discussing the product's language policing and another one discussing its engineering. Yet a different forum might focus on its various successes and failures in gaining market share.
the single biggest thing we can do to slow down climate change is to drastically rethink our zoning policy.

why do I need to get in a car and drive 10 minutes to grab some milk? because none of the land in the next few miles is zoned for a grocery store! We need to allow mixed use so that a lot of current errands that need a car could be easily performed on a bike.
I was a very vocal supporter of Android from about 2010 up until 2016. At a certain point, Google started chasing the iPhone with its Pixel line instead of trying to highlight the benefits that made Android unique. If I'm paying iPhone prices for hardware, then I might as well get an iPhone.
> The West, typically, eats a tiny, tiny fraction of the fat it used to. And also far less animal fat.

This is false, or at least not supported by any data I've seen.

Fat consumption increased 39% from 1909 to 2000 [0].

Meat consumption increased about 40% from 1909 to 2007 [1].

You are right that many of the fats have changed from animal fats to seed oil fats mostly from the 1970s onward.

[0] https://www.beatalewismd.com/blog/fat-fads-changes-in-fat-co...

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3045642/
Yes treasuries are liquid, but a 100 bps rise in yield in a 10y bond means the face value is 10% less. Duration risk is (bps yield increase * years) where 100 bps is 1%.

Duration risk matters a lot less with the shorter dates issues.
Always good to have a consultant around to explain the tough words ;)
Sorry, my comment probably came off way too snarky. Love Prosody and the work you do with Snikket.
> Do you get overlays, autoplaying videos and ads on websites or can you block them?

I use Brave Browser on an iPhone and don’t see any of this, including ads.
1 Gbps is slow. Even recent wifi can plausibly exceed 1 gpbs to a client. Pretty much any modern HDD (let alone ssd) can read or write faster. USB 3.1 is an order of magnitude faster and display port 2.0 tops out at about an order of magnitude faster than that. It doesn't really make sense to leave the main physical network interface so far in the dust, let alone claim it's overkill.
I sure hope this is just random noise and not a long term trend. I would NOT be happy about having to use Apple, or having any serious fragmentation of the mobile space.
>Should we give up functional but old paradigms simply for innovation's sake, even if we know they work?

Of course no! We should give up old paradigms that don't work.

>Eco should come up with a different way to express himself.

No, I am saying that Eco should come up with good, convincing and coherent arguments and we shouldn't judge him by the standards of 400BC.

>The second point seems to be an argument against any social science in general, rather than a critique or analysis of the essay. If every political science discussion had to start with a justification of why such phenomena are studied in the first place, we would get nowhere. Should we not study "democracies" or "states"? Is anything not tangible not worthy of study?

That's a weird way to understand what I've said. Do you think political theorists don't study and argue about what "democracy" or "state" means? That's a part of their job. They also study what "fascism" is. And that's what Umberto Eco tries to do in his essay. The problem is that the way he does it is rather unconvincing.

>This also ties in to my last point: it's very disingenuous to call fascism "not sensible" without any real argument for it. It's been a giant hurdle in the history of many nations, it makes sense to want to analyze it and understand it. If your argument is that it's not sensible as in fascism is a far too general concept for it to be an effective label, then I'd expect you to directly challenge the list proposed, as it seems to me Eco does manage to describe an acceptable way to do such labeling.

What exactly was a giant hurdle? You have a list of fourteen properties. Some movements in some countries shared those properties. Can we understand and analyze them by deferring to the study of nebulous ur-fascism that Umberto Eco proposes us to accept? Will it help us understand Nazism, Fascism, Stalinism, Baathism, Conservatism, Progressivism, modern US, modern Russia, modern China, modern Sweden, McDonalds, Amazon, Tesla, SF VC culture? Can it even help us determine which of those things are fascist and which are not? What is even the connection between ur-fascism that Umberto Eco invented and real fascist movements that you say are a giant hurdle?