skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given the number of times I've seen a reported, verified bug in OS X be "fixed" by hiding the bug from the public tracker and marking it "will not fix," I would have a hard time ever trusting a car made by Apple.

Apple also makes their products to be disposable, seemingly as part of the culture, while a well-made electric car can run to a million miles over 50+ years. That's a very different build philosophy.

The key to me is that Apple presents the image of perfect fit and finish--beyond that their products are not problematic in a lot of ways (ability to modify them, or expand them, or extend them in ways that Apple doesn't approve of...). Some of their tech is cool, don't get me wrong. But it's far from perfect.

I would imagine an Apple car that only supports Apple Maps, Apple Music/Podcasts, and Siri and will only connect to iOS devices...and that costs twice as much as the Tesla for the base model, and more if you want a reasonable range. Pandora? Spotify? Waze? Meh. Sorry. Oh, and don't forget monthly fees for navigation; probably more like the $36/month of the Audi EV than the free navigation for the Tesla.

I'm sure there's a market for it. There are a lot of people who love Apple and who have money.
I feel similarly about a lot of games and sports as they're played at the very highest levels.

Scrabble is a fun game to play with kids, or sometimes with adults, and having a bigger vocabulary is an advantage. But competitive Scrabble means memorizing the dictionary of allowable Scrabble words. It's just a different game. There was the story a while back about the Scrabble champion who doesn't speak French but memorized French Scrabble words and won the French-language Scrabble World Championships: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/07/21/424980378...

And that's fine - competition spurs invention to find any advantage possible. But to me it'd be more impressive to see someone play an obscure Scrabble world, and then when you ask what the word means, they're actually familiar with it, rather than "eh, it's in the word list".
If it was a result of sanctions then wouldn't Google Play also block them?
Drug cartels have submarines, Peter Madsen had a submarine. But if anyone is seriously working on overthrowing the Russian government, they would need to gain support from the military sooner or later.
If people get cold, and ursula doesn't want to negotiate, people will want to replace ursula... This makes it better for her (and many other eu governemnts) since negotiations wont bring back the gas.
I got tired of arguing about .cpp vs. .cc vs. .cxx vs. .C.

So I used the actual name of the language, and it worked fine. :)
Indeed RDS was never designed to be "re-sold", and assuming that a single PG instance will handle lots of different users is naive. Turns out if you're aiming to be an infra provider, building your own infra is the way to go. Who would have thought?

If I was launching a BaaS I wouldn't touch AWS. Grab a few Hetzner bare metal servers and setup your infra. You're leaving a massive profit margin to AWS when you don't have to.
Russia was at a crossroads, and now there is no return. The boats have been burned and they must march forward.
You see this is why all media around climate change has become apocalyptic. Anyone who doesn’t want to have the exact same doomer conversation is called a denier and shut down, meaning that there are increasingly less people to point out the hyperbole.

Not every damned post about climate change needs to be replied to with a condescending lecture.
US also has a precedent (from the other thread):

> We actually did do this 40 years ago. Reagan covertly blew up a Soviet gas pipeline supplying Europe in 1982, which was publicized in 2004 when the former Secretary of the Air Force boasted about it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2004/02/27/r... ("Reagan Approved Plan to Sabotage Soviets" (2004))

- "At the time, the United States was attempting to block Western Europe from importing Soviet natural gas. There were also signs that the Soviets were trying to steal a wide variety of Western technology. Then, a KGB insider revealed the specific shopping list and the CIA slipped the flawed software to the Soviets in a way they would not detect it."

- "In order to disrupt the Soviet gas supply, its hard currency earnings from the West, and the internal Russian economy, the pipeline software that was to run the pumps, turbines, and valves was programmed to go haywire, after a decent interval, to reset pump speeds and valve settings to produce pressures far beyond those acceptable to pipeline joints and welds," Reed writes."

Possibly the first software supply-chain attack in history? Before the term even existed.
Thanks for the explanation. If I'd had to guess just from the name, I'd have thought this was some networking protocol for VAX's or something, as sort of an analog to "AppleTalk" or whatever.
> I really love this philosophy, but I found out that you can't just say it once or else people are still a bit skittish sometimes (young engineers mostly).

It's also important to see established/senior/experienced people doing it before less-experienced people will be comfortable doing it. I'm the most experienced person on my team and I'm pretty sure I ask more questions and say "I don't know" more than anyone else.
Capitulation on “full self driving” is here. Most manufacturers will be lucky to get level 3 automation by the end of the decade
The enforced equality of outcome is extended into the extreme.

So is it of value when not in the extreme?
I posit that the reverse wouldn't exist meaningfully.

These become curated lists for liberal values because the umbrella of liberalism is, by definition, morally permissive compared to its labelled counterpart.

In the context of these lists, truly banned books are those that a supermajority implicitly decides to "ban" by... not buying them for the library to begin with.
This is great. They mentioned a few months ago their will to open-source it [1] and now it's finally a reality, so props to Kenton and the Workers team on achieving it!

I've dug a bit on the OSS repo [2], and here are some of the findings I got:

1. They are using a forked version of V8 with very small/clean set of changes (the diff with the changes is really minimal. Not sure if this makes sense, but it might be interesting to see if changes could be added upstream)
2. It's coded mainly in C++, with Bazel for the builds and a mix between CapNProto and Protocol Buffers for schema
3. They worked deeply the Developer Experience, so as developer you can start using `workerd` with pre-build binaries via NPM/NPX (`npx workerd`). Still a few rough edges around but things are looking promising [3].
4. I couldn't find the implementation anywhere of the KV store. Is it possible to use it? How it will work?

Open sourcing the engine, mixed with their recent announcement on a $1.25B investment fund for startups built on workers [4] I think will propel a lot the Wasm ecosystem... which I'm quite excited about!

[1] https://twitter.com/KentonVarda/status/1523666343412654081

[2] https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd

[3] https://www.npmjs.com/package/workerd

[4] https://blog.cloudflare.com/workers-launchpad/
ok but 'milliangstroms' immediately conveys a sense of relative error
Ukraine is still pumping Russian gas to Europe through their own pipeline and are being paid by Russia for it

They could sabotage their own if they really wanted to, or just switch it off.
This is almost ‘mainstream’ news at this point - it was discussed in a recent This American Life episode: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/770/my-lying-eyes
Is insentience a bit of parapraxis? I expect you meant to say at his insistence.
That's an unusual and interesting take. Can you give an example of how you'd make the system more equitable?
They do have relational DB connectors [1], which have been working great for us. But maintaining a centralised DB is still a bit of a pain and latency can be high, depending on where users are accessing them from. Having a managed, distributed SQL service will be easier to manage and will likely have much lower latency. Their SQLite DB, D1 [2] looks interesting. But would be awesome to have Postgres' more complete feature set as a managed, low-latency service

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/relational-database-connectors/
[2] https://blog.cloudflare.com/whats-new-with-d1/
Right you are, my mistake.
I don't want to sound like I have an axe to grind (but I do), but this is the kind of feature/wart that shows the age of the HTML/CSS/JS stack.

The whole thing is ripe for a redo. I know they get a lot of hate, but of all the big players in this space I think FB is the best equipped to do this in a way that doesn't ruin everything. I just wonder if they have an incentive (maybe trying to break the Google/MS hegemony on search?).
Celsius CEO resigns in the middle of bankruptcy proceedings
I don't even think about buying cars less than 10 years old or so. I have actually had better luck doing this than when I used to buy cars new or nearly-new. It weeds out the lemons and the owners who don't take care of their cars.

Let someone else take the depreciation and find out how they hold up in the long term. Does Apple have any history of supporting its hardware for that long?
Denial ain't just a river in Egypt. As hard as it may be to comprehend, there are still some people who think the various atrocities perpetrated by the USSR were justified by the greater good, or were merely western exaggerations.

I don't think they're intrinsically bad people for this, despite the monstrous nature of the USSR. A few of my friends believe as I say. In most regards they have a sensible attitude towards morality and ethics, but when it comes to the USSR specifically they have psychological blinders on. They're so infatuated with the idea of the USSR, that they can't accept the reality. And this isn't a phenomena that is special to the USSR of course, they are similar to many Americans I know who cannot accept criticisms of America in a similar way. Generally, people may become so infatuated with the idea or principle of a thing that they cannot accept reality when it contradicts their idea.
I'm so tired of this FUD cloudflare throws around. So far, I don't see a single cloudflare product that solves the purported problem without introducing three others that they conveniently don't talk about.

And when the inevitable curation / editorial / policing challenge of running half the internet does knock on their doorstep, they go "well we're not the ones who are supposed to be policing it, but what are you gonna do?!"
Using urban blue spaces to benefit health and wellbeing (2020) [pdf]
sorry - cloudflare is running this in production ? this is wasm ?

this basically becomes the first large scale deployment of wasm in the world right ?

can someone talk about the engineering choices here. why this ? why not rust/java/c++...any of that ? a people perspective.
conquest of bread is a fundamental anarcho-communist book and kind of addresses some of those themes you linked if you draw your own conclusions while reading it
So I've always wondered if Apple actually building a 'car' was ever really the goal. It seems like a skunkworks where they try crazy things and then incorporate into Carplay.
Future seems to be ever expanding Carplay support. I use it and probably would not buy another car that did not have it integrated. I imagine car manufacturers are somewhat tired of always building HUDs and in vehicle control systems. So gradually standardizing on a way to take all the displays/touchscreens in a vehicle and let them be run by Carplay seems like the future. Eventually, they can start handing more and more of the software side (not their specialty) off to people cellphones via some interface, particularly around media.
As the ubiquiti of the M1/M2 type chip is found in all of our pockets (embedded ML silicon), the car companies will no longer have to actually embed it in a vehicle as an add on. Plugging in your phone with an M1/M2 type chip will unlock Siri or similar AI functionality in the vehicle. Sure it will drive without it, just like it does now, but it wont be 'cool' and have all the assist, nav, and media functionality everyone wants.
The Cisco of Networking is Cisco.
Anything other than null and `\` are valid on linux iirc
That's the thing, there is high demand, and they have supply, they also can sell them contracts to build more infrastructure to increase the rate at wich supply is delivered

Quickening the cut from gazprom is in their plan, considering: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/gazprom-says-groups-...

We can all pretend and not see what's happening, but then you have this: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russias-gazprom-keep...

So the question is, why it is fine to let gas transit from Ukraine, is that to let them get their juicy royalties? so this sparks the question of corruption, who fuel and allow that corruption?

I do not pretend to know everything, but i read a lot and that's the best conclusion i can make, so far, there is clear evidence that the US doesn't want the EU to get their supply from elsewhere, Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict is yet another evidence, wich is where EU wanted to get some of their supply

Worse, US's gas production is illegal in the EU, they don't allow the production within their soil, so it's clear evidence that they were forced to buy US's supply

I can also predict the future, the US will build nuclear power plants int the EU, instead of EU getting them from France, all started when the US built them for ukraine back in the days, the motive was clear

Wich is why France sold their companies to the US, and had to loose some due to some shaddy stuff (Alstom), it's clear current French government works with US's interests in mind, same for Ursula von der Leyen and her team of european bureaucrats
Why would russia want that?

People in most of eu are getting angry at their governments and demand some sort of negotiations so the pipes get reopened before people start freezing to death in their homes.

With pipes destroyed, even if people get mad, most governments can now just say "there's nothing we can do".
> Apple seems to prioritize privacy more than the competition, while for Google collecting, and combing through to monetize, your personal data is a big part of their business model.

It's puzzling to me how this keeps getting repeated without any strong foundation. This story that others sell your data while Apple holds it secure is a narrative established by Apple that keeps coming up like a mantra.

The implication is that Google is gathering personal data to then then sell it to third parties.

But this is not their business model. They profile their customers via their behaviors and personal data, match them to a persona and then sell services to third parties to advertise to users fitting that persona.

I don't see how Apple is doing any less of customer profiling and persona generating than Google. They are both in the business of profiling their users and then monetizing them by offering services to internal/external customers who look for a certain audience.

The core of this is exactly the same between Apple and Google. Neither of them is selling the user-data directly, they both process it in order to package their users into a service they can sell to others.

The main thing that Apple does differently is, that they took stronger measures to ensure that the data THEY collect from their users can only be collected by THEM.

So Apple took action to protect their unique market position of selling ANY kind of goods to users of Apple products, and they claim that they are more honorable to hold and process all your data for financial gain just because (so far) they failed to compete in the advertising industry.
https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/Building_a_Trusted_Ecosys...

https://www.dw.com/en/apple-ceo-tim-cook-rejects-app-store-m...

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/app-sto...
Didn't I read that Meta also took down some US gov influence ops recently? I wonder whether they are generally tightening things up. Not sure if I saw a similar announcement
The competitive advantages of Apple are a strong brand, a huge stack of cash, world-class software and silicon engineers and second-to-none operations to build and sell millions of high-tech devices.

They can make a car if they want to make a car.
They could also make nice planes and boats...

The question is, how competitive can they be in this market?

I think they are too fat.
This is just managing down. You gotta communicate with your team about what's going on and why.

Being a good umbrella isn't about hiding the rain, it's about keeping it off of them. In fact, hiding the rain is a bad idea, because eventually, people think they don't need the umbrella.
Those school assignments would have been sorted out by using Windows in first place.

It is not like all those beautiful WASM implementations support the same set of features, from the paper standard,

https://webassembly.org/roadmap/
That sort of thinking is surely a great loss to scientific progress? You need a few goes by different labs to show failure, so you know that if you were going to try that technique you need to think again, surely?

Sometimes one should probably even do experiments that seem self-evidently futile.
> That would leave Europe's non-Russian suppliers of natural gas: Norway and the US.

The Baltic Sea is relatively shallow[1], so commercial ROVs can easily get down to the pipe[2].

If you hedged a massive bet that say Norway will continue to deliver gas to the EU and Russia will still be cut off, then I guess it's possible a non-state actor could pull it off.

Sounds more like something out of a movie than anything realistic, but yeah...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Sea#/media/File:Ostseet...

[2]: https://www.deeptrekker.com/products/underwater-rov (random example)
That's just not true, lobbying means in the clearer-cut cases simply talking to someone who's been trusted with power and the advocacy groups you'd like do it as much as any corporation or industry consortium.
Maybe it'll go the telco route and everyone has their little playground to rule over.
Is this built off of https://huggingface.co/Babelscape/rebel-large ? It's shared under cc-by-nc-sa-4.0 Doesn't nc stand for non-commercial? "Non commercial share alike - Redistribute, revise, remix using the same license as the original for non commercial use only". Looks like you're in violation of this license.
What about a country currently buying cheap Russian gas who wants to keep it that way.
I have the exact same experience. Both Maturin and PyO3 have been a game changer for the work that I have been doing lately. It works so seamlessly.
Stable Diffusion is now available directly in KerasCV
> these things are censored in google

[citation needed] This was widely reported at the time and can still be trivially found.
> I doubt there are any cases ... of data-sharing actually causing
stigma or economic penalties.

That's a strong claim.

It took me 10 second to find these 4 stories of leaks of up to 45
million records and many written accounts of distress, lost jobs and
broken relationships as consequences.

https://news.trendmicro.com/2021/07/28/biggest-health-sector...

https://www.cpomagazine.com/cyber-security/medical-data-leak...

https://securereading.com/medical-data-leak-database-of-huma...

https://americanretrieval.com/medical-records-breach/

But as my sibling poster says too, your unevidenced doubts are neither
here nor there, because it's the (equally unevidenced with respect to
specifics) doubts of ordinary people that matter.

And let's be honest, that mistrust is justified in a time where data
leaks and abuse is rampant.

Medical professionals and researchers may all be saints, but their
halos are only as bright as the company they keep... Google, Meta,
Microsoft, Amazon... and other big-tech cloud infrastructure on which
sensitive data systems are built.

Of course it's a tragedy. Somewhere in that data are cures and
remedies. But we can't have nice things if some are allowed to crap in
the punch-bowl and drive the guests out of the party.
Due to the typically discrete nature of the phenomnenon in question, chemistry and molecular-scale physics seems to the worst aspects of the reproducibility crisis in science more broadly. It’s just harder to hide either mistakes or deceptions. The experiments can typically be setup by another single lab hoping to build on the work, rather than requiring the collaboration of countless others.

It’s not a terrible outcome that a paper was published then retracted merely 2 years later as opposed to 1-2 decades later.
> Great for waking people up to a centralized authority that acts without warning.

Genuinely uncertain if this refers to Apple or the kremlin.
Dehumanizing terminology…

This is not the kind of discussion that I like to see here. Again, not cool.

People build proprietary closed source software using open source software. That’s not a new concept and completely ethical if one abides by the license and terms.

If you don’t like their product, don’t use it, or go make your own.
I didn't post any links and I seriously lost the thread of the conversation here. Why would you need to run a JS interpreter to be able to include JS in a website?... Confusing.
funny how all the whatsapp advisories since 2019 just move the same vulnerability around. Always an innocent stream processor missing a bounds check. Ooops.
Yep, many internal pressures in EU for talks with russia (due to energy prices), and people wanting their poltiicians replaced, because they're the only ones standing between the people and cheap gas. On the other hand, US now can sell overpriced gas to EU while still hurting russia... if the pipes reopen, russia gets money, eu gets gas, US loses overpriced exports.

So yeah... us and eu would be my first suspects
>I had a CTO like you once.

Then you didn't have a CTO like me. I'm still in regular contact with most of the people that used to work for me. One actually just texted me this morning to ask how I was doing. Even though our lives will almost certainly never intersect again.
Isn't that what AWS, Google, Azure, etc. have done forever? Cloudflare is easier to use, and IMO, just plain better.

It's actually kinda nice to have half the internet go down at once. People can just stop work, wait a few minutes, and it magically comes back up. Making downtime somebody else's problem is a huge advantage...
A suggestion for Apple.

1. Apple is worth $2.44 trillion USD; pay off the whole $240 billion USD debt owed by the Philippines.

2. Establish Apple HQ facilities in the Philippines and employ the vast majority of the country's talented software engineers there.

3. Take advantage of the cheap labour, low costs, and high standard of living to ride the wave of unending profit.

This is how you turn things around and switch the lightbulb.
Those things are _definitely_ sold to large corporate consumers. And in places like Texas (with a deregulated energy market), electricity is also often sold to individual home users.
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Yeah, people vent online quite a bit these days, but false pretenses?