skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course, we do not hear from the approved apps, so it is hard to tell which part of the review is random and which is deterministic.
Neither is hydroelectric dam.
So Apple Watch and AirPods is almost as big a business as the Mac. Wow, I didn’t realize that.

Quite a vindication of Tim Cook’s decade at the helm.
Harry Truman said in 1945 about the atomic bomb, "We thank God that it has come to us, instead of to our enemies". I feel the same way about Apple and FAANG and Silicon Valley as a whole (and Wall Street, and Hollywood, and SpaceX/Tesla, and the Ivy League), that they are in the United States.

That doesn't mean I approve of everything they do. That doesn't mean I can't or won't decry their putting thumbs on scales toward a certain type of bien-pensant ideology. That does mean that, overall, I am very, very glad that they are American instead of Russian, Chinese, or even British, French, or German.
If one must throw soup, Perhaps instead of throwing soup at works of art... Throw soup on oil conglomerate executives, to start.
Switched from proton to fastmail in 2019, mostly because I wanted to use apple mail. The encryption and swiss hosting of proton is definitely a plus, but when most of the email I send goes to gmail, that doesn’t really matter.
Meta Will Continue Burning Billions of Dollars Until Something Happens
Time to make some money by shorting Meta?
These vandals should be blinded in one eye for destroying cultural heritage works that belong to all of humanity. It's in the same league as the Taliban who blew up carved stone Buddhas that were hundreds of years old.

Calling them 'activists' is a poor excuse for their actions. Let the punishments fit the crime. Deface something irreplaceable permanently, let them also be defaced permanently.
I'm wondering if the & sign is causing the issue. Perhaps the AI reviewers can't parse it well?
Going off on a tangent, but the scale of production is very hard to grasp. I'm probably not the first person to observe this, but I once did some napkin math about steel production, and what I realized kind of blew me away. About 1.9 billion tonnes in 2020. Like with billions of dollars, I have no intuition for such numbers. Context is needed.

Global steel production just before WW I was about 70 million tonnes. So production has increased about thirty-fold in one century. That wasn't so shocking to me, at first. But 1910 was not the beginning of the industrial era; things had been under way for more than a century then. Railroads. Ocean liners. Factories. Knives and rivets for fabric owned by hundreds of millions of people. Dozens of skyscrapers in New York by then; the Brooklyn Bridge hung on thousands of tonnes of cable. All made out of steel.

Then it struck me. A few million tonnes a year in 1850. 70 million tonnes in 1910. All of it adds up to less than 1900 million tonnes. Every single tonne of steel manufactured by humans from prehistory until about a century ago -- the entire output of the industrial revolution -- amounts to less than one year at current production.
In theory, yes. In practice, what legal resources does the average person have to bring a case? How do their political connections compare? Oh, they died, no one saw, here’s a voucher. Have you looked at the odds of a cop getting charged with manslaughter lately?

And that’s just some positive action. Good luck proving there was malintent behind a helicam strategically losing focus, youre proving a negative.
Well how else are they going to keep growing if they don't extract ever increasing rents? Realistically they've [1]plateau'd in market penetration for mobile phones, so their push into advertising, jacking up costs for established services is really MBA 101.

[1] https://www.businessofapps.com/data/apple-statistics/
>There was 10x more functionality in Winamp or Windows Media Player than we get in Spotify or Apple Music today.

Except for the extremely useful functionality of putting a large percentage of the world's music at your fingertips ready for instant listening. Spotify also makes curated playlists ("This Is _[Artist Name]__" playlists), artist pages that show their most popular tracks and discographies, offers professionally mixed playlists, social sharing of playlists, sharing of songs, and works on mobile, desktop, web, and tablets.

It also lets you have a library made up of both local files and Spotify licensed files on the network. It has selective download of songs you want to listen to offline (even licensed songs). It has both regular playlists and ad hoc queues. You can make playlists public, share with certain friends, share with all friends, make them collaboratively editable or not.

It's actually kind of a staggering achievement.

I get that the player could be better, and maybe Winamp had some features it should steal, but let's appreciate that it has solved many, many problems that no one was addressing 20 years ago. (And I must say, I can't conceive how Winamp could have had 10x the functionality as Spotify or Apple Music - this seems quite an overstatement, as someone who used it c2000 and uses Spotify now. Maybe you meant it had more of the functionality that you care about (presuming you only care about listening to files you own and have downloaded).)
Ting Fire/Whisker Labs Consumer Power Quality Index
There are other companies including Walmart or Amazon having larger revenue. But what truly exceptional is Apple's net income. Trailing 1 year is almost 100B !! Only Saudi Armaco can touch that
Especially when trying a new service, I rather pay slightly higher fee than risk dealing with scummy cancellation process. But I may switch payment method if I decide to keep the service longterm.
The Apple results are already live: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33363621
Do you think their attempts to make a living would be less stressful if they started releasing only on f-droid?
I dislike Plex's deceitful in-app advertising, but when I tried to set up Jellyfin there were some issues.

That was about a year ago, probably worth the revisit.
Those ships most likely sold their load of gas before they even set sail.
For anyone interested in the great pyramid, here is a book recommendation (free), IMHO it surpasses even the gold standard "Maragioglio and Rinaldi" (M&R).
Unfortunately on that horrible academia.edu site:

https://www.academia.edu/72468121/The_Great_Pyramid_Part_1_A...

https://www.academia.edu/75544329/The_Great_Pyramid_Part_2_A...
It's not even an elegant solution.

Having one port profile front for multiple technologies (USB, USB-PD, DisplayPort, Thunderbolt), and multiple versions of those technologies, with the cables being random able/unable to support any particular matrix of them, has been a usability nightmare.

Also on a purely functional level the actually-a-male design of the Lightning plug has made it—in my opinion—a far superior physical plug than the looks-male-but-is-female-in-disguise design of the USB-C plug.
It would not leave everyone starving because salaries go up too, 10% inflation does exist. Argentina deals with 100% yearly inflation and has not blown up yet.
You might benefit from a (small) shift in mindset: what's bad about "bot traffic"[1] and if it is bad, is it bad enough to justify sacrificing user experience? People can get caught up in protecting against something hypothetical at the expense of something real. Especially early on in the life of a website/app/service, every interaction is very valuable and you want to make it as easy as possible to maximise the value you can get from the interaction. You can even go as far as to trade off your time for ease of use, e.g: remove any barrier to submitting a rate, but manually review new rates yourself before publishing. The likelihood and cost of someone submitting a bunch of bad rates is probably less than the cost of losing a contribution from someone who cannot be bothered to create yet another account.

[1] I'd go as far as to say I don't think "bots" are a thing worth worrying about at all early on because "bots" are a reaction to an opportunity to extract value from a service. For example, if a million people use your website, then spammers have an incentive... if nobody uses your website (or very few people) then there's no incentive. Spam is a problem you can deal with in future, if it ever happens, it's not something to worry about today, as long as you design your system such that if spam does happen, it's a headache for you, not users (i.e: a moderation queue). If you make the user experience bad to prevent hypothetical spam, well, the bots have ruined your website without even knowing it exists!
It's inappropriate to perform such a protest in a way that can put people at risk. The possibility that protesting in a public city square holds up traffic such that people could die in traffic is a few notches below blockading an expressway right next to a hospital. I find your comparison bunk and offensive.
Paris

Steady growth since 1998 https://parispropertygroup.com/blog/2017/how-paris-real-esta...
Pumped hydro needs to be truely massive scale, both in the amount of water (read: lots of depth AND surface area), and the height differential between the two reservoirs. To make it cost feasible we really need very favourable natural geography. Building such structures ourselves would be astronomically expensive.
Sure, but Apple books revenue gross and a lot of it is from components they buy from other people in other countries, which would be excluded from a GDP calculation.

An extreme similar example of this is Mckesson [0], which does $260bn of revenue a year (mostly buying pills from pharma companies and re-selling them to pharmacies) but only $11bn of gross profit, since they spend $250bn/year just buying those pills.

[0]https://www.mckesson.com/About-McKesson/Newsroom/Press-Relea...
Maybe in some ways. Back then devs seemed to care more about supporting IE a lot more than they do Safari now.
The "rules applied evenly to everyone" means everyone but them loses 30% of all sales revenue.
'var' has nothing on a proper type inference system.
> Poor people care less for the environment than wealthier people, as a general rule.

If you're going to make up a rule then you need to actually substantiate your rule. Because considering I came from a family of fishermen (per your fish population quote) that was also in deep poverty I can tell you we specifically cared quite a bit about the environment; because ensuring that fish stocks didn't deplete is kind of a big deal for business.
By “est”, you mean estimates made by people who have nothing to do with the company, not by Apple themselves.
Plex pass makes it worth it for me with the native app on my LG CX OLED - if JellyFin could crack that I'd look to switch in a heartbeat.
This really isn't a brexit story
>I never wanted kids – number six is due in a few months

You say that, but you didn't get a vasectomy after the first?

I was under the impression most doctors won't do them til you're at least 30 -- I had been planning to get one then take the Moscow to Bejing train but of course COVID had to go and fuck up my travel plans.

(Being an American, I've never had more than two weeks of... how you say... "holiday", but it's been hilarious as someone who was pretty sure at 19 I didn't want kids seeing how some people can't seem to grok there's a difference between being childfree as in "I don't want to have kids, and I don't want to tolerate yours if they misbehave in public" versus... being evil.)
As far as I know none of the activists doing this have damaged any art. It was all protected by glass.
Spotify is saying the cut should be 0% for Apple?
Many, if not most, bad people were known for the strength of their convictions.
Really nice release, can't wait to start using on the job :)
A comic from xkcd visualizes this fact: https://xkcd.com/1338/
Obsidian– a markdown file with the date in ISO 8601 format.

First are notes I take before the standup, then general notes of what I did that day.
Amazon Shares Plunge on Forecast for Sluggish Holiday Sales
Earth is going to be destroyed by climate change anyway, nothing we can effectively do other than drastically limit the number of people born in the world, but the only way to do that would be unconsiable.

But we don't have to destroy the art, in addition to the effects of climate change.
You have any prepper ideas about surviving an apocalypse and living off the land, forget about meat. It'll be crickets or some such. All the wild meat in the world will be gone in like 4 days due to massive over-hunting.
Don’t forget Tim Cook also brought you crummy gambling ads next to gambling addiction recovery apps on your $1500 phone.
How do you deal with stuff that should be on the list, when you are not at the desk? I was using a notebook too, but I got frustrated, because my notebook was not with me all the time. My phone is…
Ask HN: In a structural small/zero growth rate world, in what would you invest?
Totally agree on pumped power storage capacity being needed. But those are massive infrastructure projects. Erecting a damn, to store the potential energy is bound to meet resistance.

Alternative solution: Build Lots of pressure-piston, that are stable standing on its own. Basically, a pillar of ice, coated in insulation, standing upon a small lake that provides water at pressure. If additional energy is needed after the extraction, heat is added to the system and the lake replenishes, while the piston shrinks.
If energy needs to be stored, additional water is pumped on top and frozen.

If additional heat reservoirs are nearby or something in need of coolant is nearby, additional heatpump like bonuses should be findable.

Similar concepts have been explored:
https://energypost.eu/gravity-batteries-any-nation-can-do-it... but they need massive construction efforts.

Instead of having the building up storage provide its own structure, with little more then a concrete base and some grain silo walls. https://i.imgur.com/iCg9LzY.png

The piston sealing the under pressure water, could be archieved via "onion" layers, steps leading down, taking up a part of the pressure, until it drops to "holding back by atmosphere" on the outmost layer.
This is also part of a new Security Research page https://security.apple.com
Apple is unbeatable, what numbers jeez. And to think, Apple’s main competitor being practically forced into giving them money is what saved them.

The government should take something from this and not allow for too much consolidation. I’m sure apple giving a few billion to a few hundred small companies could yield some results.

I’m very curious what would happen to Google and Meta if Apple announced they’re going to seriously pivot into ads with a revenue target of 100B per quarter.
Yes especially if you can make an inner (embedded) function just for that, that won't spill over the global function namespace. Ada's good in that aspect.
I agree that would be bad, but fundamentally as humans what we do is take things that are unsafe and make them safe. Hurtling through the air at 1000kph in a metal tube is inherently unsafe. Thanks to engineering, it's literally safer than the drive to the airport - let alone the walk.

If a coal tailings pond unloaded into the Thames you'd have a bad time. If a dam unloaded on Quebec City you'd have a bad time. If the strategic petroleum reserve exploded you'd have a bad time. You'd have unlivable areas, you'd have cancers, the whole deal. That's not a reason not to do something that science tells us we've made safer than - and lower carbon than - any other form of power.

[edit] I could just as easily say: "well what if a plane falls out of the sky for no reason over the parliament buildings" and that would be bad, but I have no idea why it would - similarly I have no idea why the spicy rocks going to town on each other in the reaction chamber of a nuclear reactor would get out. But in both cases empirical evidence, testing and refinement have led us to eliminate the reasons that's ever happened before from operating designs and to add a ton of safety mechanisms to mitigate the risk of unforeseen consequences.
Holy moly, the Mac keeps growing like crazy. It’s amusing how Apple wanted the iPad to disrupt the Mac but the advent of M-Series chips on the Mac has really nipped that ambition in the bud.
You don't think we primitives would notice something like that happening in- system?
> The only thing they are keeping in public conciousness

Do you have a source for this claim? I see plenty of people, in this post even, who approve of these methods.
Sorry for late reply. There's clicks in the Newgrounds game too.
New release of MyBee: 13.1.2.

In short: 'FreeBSD' + 'CBSD' + 'API' = MyBee, the fastest and easiest way to get a FreeBSD jail or cloud VMs.
Don't write getters and setters.
A Bug in Apple macOS Ventura Breaks Third-Party Security Tools
There is an old Chinese phrase "Kàn dào zǔguó zhème liúmáng, wǒ jiù fàngxīnle" that if you research would help you understand why China doesn't have any qualms about manipulating foreigners.
> You're confusing government with citizens. The letter of the law changed but the culture lagged behind.

I don't they are. The law that abolished slavery changed, but racial segregation was - by definition - inequality. That it was postfixed "but equal" really underscored how hard they tried to dress it up.

It was confirmed - by governments - in a number of cases, Plessy v. Ferguson being the canonical one.
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Yea Rav4 Hybrid 2021. afaik it doesn't work on the Prime, although you can check the car chart on the comma.ai site to be sure. I like playing with the forks every now and then too.
Got themselves to blame.

They gave up on prime deliveries arriving in two days sometime last year and they raised the price of Prime. Maybe they think I'm going to stay subscribed to Prime out of inertia and keep buying stuff from AMZN out of inertia but it isn't so.

I'm not going to accept any excuse about why AMZN can't do 2 day delivery anymore because every other online retailer (Walmart, Target, BestBuy, Adorama, Office Depot) sees fast shipping as a way to impress me. Even Ebay orders from Japan get to me faster than AMZN orders.

It adds insult to injury that, at about this time, AMZN announced they'd have same day and 1-day delivery to a few anointed urban areas. Like where my congressman lives in Washington, DC and where people who work in the media in New York and Los Angeles live.

They'll be writing about this one in business school case studies for a long time.
Agreed - police should be compelled to ensure the same level of diligence with their body cams as I'm sure they do to ensuring their sidearm is loaded at the start of the shift.
>"After a few minutes they realize that the glass in front of the painting is not that expensive and all is well. Or is it? That's when they have time to think about destruction and maybe what these people just said about climate change."

I don't think this is true, for most people. People do not generally stop and think in a deep and reflective way after getting angry about something. What these activists did was not inspiring and it did not look like justice. They aren't Rosa Parks 2.0, they're people throwing liquid at valuable inanimate objects which people find beautiful while gluing themselves to surfaces at a museum. There is no powerful symbolism of defiance here, this is not speaking truth to power. They just look like childish weirdos. Childish weirdos do not make me self-reflect and question if I'm actually the one doing something wrong.
I wasn't aware that any major government had unquestionable proof that any particular group was responsible for NordStream 2 explosion. If the US had a video of a Russian sub doing it, you can bet we'd be showing it to the world.
Same thing in San Diego. I feel like the popular weather services can't make accurate predictions or even tell what is happening most of the time. My iPhone will tell me it's raining when it's sunny outside.
Putting my vote in for this feature as well... Also, why not compile VNC into WASM and get full remote desktop experience for graphical apps. It seems that hard work has already been done!
It's like everything, it's a complicated problem that internet warriors like to over-simplify and reduce to a single boogieman (ie, rich people).

You see this in every major social issue, for example in housing 'affordability' everyone tries to blame foreign Chinese buyers, even when (depending on the area) they might only be 10% of all house buyers. Part of the problem, yes, but rarely even close to the bulk of it.

Most importantly it distracts away from all the other more natural causes of the problem that are harder to confront (like well-intentioned run-of-the-mill climate activists making dumb decisions all on their own).
I know they excluded birds, rodents, bats etc. But it's still pretty staggering, all the wild mammals which used to dominate the planet, gone.
Change is subjective (see the other comments about how terrible it is) - but personally I found that ReVision basically turns Deus Ex into “How I remember Deus Ex” - eg. when I first played DX I thought that the levels were huge because there were often two or sometimes three different routes through them; but then by today’s standards that’s practically a corridor; ReVision made the levels feel huge again.

As to the graphics, I remember DX looking fairly "90’s”, and the mods make it… still definitely 90’s, but a bit less painful :)
We bet big on deno with Windmill (OSS platform to turn scripts into internal UI and workflows) [1][2] and are extremely pleased. The language design choices and the performances/caching strategies are a perfect match for building a distributed workflow runtime at scale. However, the compatibility with npm was the most requested feature. Before the compatibility mode with npm was released, we were about to build a completely separate mode of execution based on node. This solves it very elegantly.

Also super excited about the lsp improvements. I believe we are the only project to have a webeditor that features lsp integration with deno in the web (to test, go on [3], New Script -> Next, it works really well). It's very pleasant to work with and make the webeditor experience match closely a local dev setup. We are super excited about the improvements and I am about to try tonight if we can have the inline hints work with monaco. As we are fully open-source, one can see how we are able to pull it off [4][5].

[1]: https://windmill.dev

[2]: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill

[3]: https://app.windmill.dev

[4]: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill/blob/main/frontend...

[5]: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill/blob/main/lsp/pyls...
I can't be the only one who is extremely tired of these semi-frequent utterly nihilistic "I'm sad to be part of the human species, we're killing the planet" posts and comments, especially when the posts themselves are possibly misleading (whales aren't included? come on). I don't know about you but I'm quite happy to be alive and reasonably healthy, and I hope to have many children, I hope mankind doesn't go extinct anytime soon, and I'm not going to eat any bugs or fake meat or any of that.

nihilistic platitudes like "how is there still an ecosystem?" are completely baffling to me—I don't understand what would make someone think that way. what could have caused this level of innate shame felt on behalf of one's species?

the only thing I can think of is that people overestimate the power of mankind and underestimate the power of nature possibly due to living in dense urban environments surrounded by nothing but artificial creations of man all day every day, and this skews their perspective.
I’ve had zero of those bugs, but you’re right it needs specialised software: that’s why I stick to the built in stuff. Works great for me.