skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the cycle of life in the pursuit of ever increasing profit. As companies age and need to squeeze more blood from a stone, they resort to increasingly drastic measures.
I'm a little confused by the "Apple's doing bad here" sentiment. The easier to implement, and definitely more effective solution would have been to just disable the Everyone feature completely. Just remove it from the menu. This would have been something like

action.isEnabled = self.isInChina

Instead, they went through the effort to actually make it still there, but time bombed. They had to add a timeout function, and record the time it was enabled, etc. And at the end of the day, the activist/protestor at a street gathering now has the inconvenience of re-enabling "everyone" 6 times an hour.

For me, this basically feels like lip service to the Chinese government, but otherwise a finger. Maybe I'm beeing too myopic.
Can you expand on what you mean by this? Outside of video games I feel that any operating system can do 99% of tasks I need it to.
People need to understand that the amount of money invested in a company does not mean anything. It is most definitely not a validation of the company in any sense.
pepperjoe
Yeah, no. Highly processed foods is a no go for me.
Perhaps I'm an outlier, but having to sit around making small talk and sharing personal life experiences with a like-minded cohort is literally a nightmare scenario for me. On the other hand, I love working with people on collaborative effort-intensive projects, working toward shared goals and so on (but I don't have much interest in getting involved in their personal or family lives afterwards). Also, I may be unusual in that I don't suffer from loneliness, there's always something interesting to get involved in or work on. Is this a very uncommon type, I wonder?

Additionally, financial restrictions on activities are a reality for many people these days, ruling out a large number of extracurricular activities that would be fun and interesting to share with others. When one's economic future is on the line, things like friendships become luxuries that might have to fall by the wayside, as people have to move in search of employment, and budgets get tighter. People in a college environment are often not under such immediate pressures.
What honestly bothers me more is how "Yes/No" dialogs are increasingly being replaced by "Yes/Later", even in paid products/services. Seems like companies are done with even pretending to take "No" for an answer when they want to push something on you.
The free money train is over, so companies are trying to actually make a profit. Part of that is that they can't provide a free, non-monetized service for a decade+ before making people pay for it.
Strawman.

A large chunk of Apple's revenue comes from China. The majority of assembly occurs in China.

Google does a rounding error of business in China - assembly for Nest devices.
I have not experienced this in my 10 years on the subway.
- Scraping is a major issue.

- Browser privacy / VPNs lead to an arms race where account. age/reputation become critical signal.

- Apple/Google play store apps provide device integrity check which improves confidence in account reputation / Ad targeting.

- Everyone already has a Google/Apple account and are unlikely to convert if they wont just signup via SSO which takes couple of clicks.
> sitting in the same awful office, fixing bugs till midnight, eating crappy pizza and putting your blood and sweat into something that's meaningful to you.

Sure, I've done that. And yes it creates a connection of sorts, I got to know my co-workers pretty well at least in that context. It's a social situation. Demented and sad, but social.

But did it ever lead to meeting up to do anything outside of work? Not once. Did I keep up with any of those people after job changes? Not even for a day.
Fyre Festival
Yup - the suicide nets story is pure disinformation. Yes they had nets, but the suicide rate at the factory before the nets were installed was lower than of students at US colleges.
Seems like someone's CI is going mad.

Just found out that Theo already saw this on Nov 22: https://twitter.com/t3dotgg/status/1594949616600256512

Would be interesting to hear from NPM about this.
How about faulting him for his pro-China tweets -- praising China for having zero domestic COVID cases; calling on Taipei to hand over some control of Taiwan to China. Meanwhile, seeking favorable treatment from China's government.

I disagree with your premise (as does Musk who is faulting Apple for NOT advertising on Twitter; or anybody who has ever been faulted for not, say, doing the dishes or any other common thing), but even by your standard there's a real problem here.
> Project you can create your own completely Google-free Android distribution that you can install on quite a lot of devices

This is like saying you can eat for free for the rest of your life by just starting a farm. Sure, it's possible but it's out of the reach of most the population.
It could be done dynamically by the scheduler: whenever a thread tries to use AVX-512 on the efficiency core, move it to the power core and keep it there for a certain amount of time. If I am not mistaken, the CPU also exposes instruction counters, which would allow the OS to determine whether a thread has tried using AVX during its last time slice.

In our modern multithreading world, many applications already have separate idle and worker threads. I would not be surprised if such an approach could be implemented with negligible performance drawbacks.
What makes you think a human optimized process specifically designed to be simpler/faster/tastier than slaughter won't be? The whole reason it's getting research and work done on it is for the reasons you claim are important, so how are you reaching the conclusion that it's somehow worse?
>You can argue they were doing it purposely for planned obsolescence, but evidence isn't really there to support it.

This is not a court of law and I am quite comfortable believing this was planned obsolescence for the simple that behaving in this way was advantageous to their profits. Otherwise it would not have taken lies (they initially denied the existence of the throttling!), outrage and lawsuits to do the right thing.

The alternative explanation is mass ignorance and/or incompetence on a level that would be hard to accept coming from Apple. Am I expected to seriously believe that nobody at Apple tested this throttle down behavior and saw (and likely measured) the impact on day-to-day performance?
You know what actually makes sense? Creating a setting that the user can change as they see fit.
Easy, a project I've had on the backburner for quite a while with a friend: GivePool

It's a service to allow users to setup a monthly donation amount and spread it across non-profits they pick. They can change the distribution month-to-month or even give their whole monthly amount to 1 non-profit for a month (like in the case of a disaster). It's a single place to manage your giving. We'd set it up as a B-Corp or a non-profit, complete transparency, bringing in just enough money to keep the lights on and add new features as needed. Provide a portal for non-profits to post into the user's "feed" of updates and maybe even create or use an existing system to rate non-profits (like how much goes to admin vs to people directly). We'd effectively "onboard" every non-profit in the US and mail them a check monthly with instructions on how they can setup ACH and interact with their "givers" on our website if they want to, if not that's fine.

One big issue non-profits have is recurring revenue, a lot of their funding comes in fits and spurts as events happen (that they put on or events that happen in the world that drive people to give) and so setting up a recurring amount they can plan for would let them do more and/or work smarter. For myself I want this service because I hate having to manage giving through a bunch of crappy websites, I'd like it to be centralized. If at all possible we'd pay for the website/developers with small monthly fees from the users though we had an idea to have non-profits (or large donors) pay for user's memberships for the first year or so. For the non-profit they would make up that money and some (as long as membership < 12*monthly donation, again we'd make that fee as small as possible) and big donors would do it just out of the "goodness of their hearts" the same way "matching" and the like work today.

It's difficult because no VC or similar is going to be interested as the goal isn't to make a bunch of money or "corner the market", just to make giving easier. Also I'm not too sure I'm interested in VC money for a number of reasons. It'd have to be funded by someone who just wanted to product to exist for the good it would do, not for some future payday. Bootstrapping is potentially an option but I believe we would need money transmitter licenses for this to be legal (I'd love to be wrong) and last I checked that was a couple hundred thousand to get started and then a sizeable amount (maybe up to $100K) a year to keep your compliance (the US fintech scene is a mess).

One day.
Today I'm launching—Scaling Knowledge: https://scalingknowledge.substack.com/

A new blog/podcast about epistemology, AI, startups, and progress.

Inaugural pieces include:
- Human Progress via Intellectual Progress (https://scalingknowledge.substack.com/p/human-progress-via-i...)
- Knowledge: Burden or Boost? (https://scalingknowledge.substack.com/p/knowledge-burden-or-...)
- Criticism and The Ascent of Man (https://scalingknowledge.substack.com/p/criticism)

Would love to hear your feedback and criticism!

~~~~~~

Articles I plan to write:

Optimistic Hard Sci-Fi

Recursive & Social Curiosity

Scaling Laws & Knowledge Infrastructure

Decision-making via hard-to-vary explanations

and much more...

Also tweeted about this here: https://twitter.com/MoritzW42/status/1597327210309885962/
Presumably that car goes to someone else who will use it rather than being scrapped (a la Cash-for-Clunkers), right?

I've argued* that, because we drive our second car so little per year, that it makes more sense for us to buy an inexpensive, relatively gas-guzzling used car rather than a more economical hybrid. Reasoning being that someone is going to drive the gas guzzler and someone is going to drive that hybrid and better the hybrid go to someone driving a typical amount and we drive the worse one only 2-3K miles/year.

* - so far unsuccessfully, but the crazy used car market has made that moot for now.
It is just too new. Remember unprivileged ISA was 20191213 and privileged ISA was 20211203.

This is mere months ago.

We get some micro-controller families early, and the companies behind them do commit to some level of long term part availability.

Recent code density work (Zc etc) enables higher code density than Thumb2, finally making RISC-V the most dense in 32bit too. Furthermore, there's standardization going on for simpler and more complex interrupt controllers, for ISA profiles, and for platforms (e.g. profiles on hardware that's expected to be there), which will make long term part availability less important, by maximizing re-usability across hardware.

These early hiccups shouldn't discourage anyone with an ISA this new; Effort is being put into the right places.
The internet is slowly being monopolized or corporatized.

Why? Capitalism. Money to be made capturing a particular market. Quarterly goals at each company to increase X by Y%, so how do we do that...
So what do you do in practice? Just use a d8 and reduce mod 4?
> it will break on you

Not necessarily, if the illegal-instruction interrupt maps it onto an emulation routine — or transfers the thread back to a performance core.
Do you personally know anyone who has been using the same iPhone for 8 years? I find that claim dubious.
The problem is expecting companies to "do the right thing" and not "make money".

If there was ever a time companies were good stewards to the world - that time ended before I was born.

Yes, Apple is not doing the right thing.

Show me any fortune 100 company in the world that would do the right thing...

What's frustrating - I think - in this case, is the amount of Apple fanboys who insist that Apple is literally the incarnation of God as a company, existing solely to bring about harmony and make the world better through the iPhone, not to take your money and put it in their shareholders' pockets.
what the product you typed that with built by a different contract manufacturer than whatever Apple uses?

(I don't know the set of all such)
A New History of Arabia, Written in Stone (2018)
Ok, so people jump directly to the conclusion that this was introduced because the CCP asked for it. Yet, if that was the case why limit it only? Why not ask for a complete stop? Is there a case where a protestor benefits from AirDrop but only if it’s more than 10 minutes?
"like not allowing ANY browser besides Safari" are you saying this is potentially an issue? Because I have Chrome and Firefox installed on my iPhone and MacBook Air. I also have DuckDuckGo's browser on my iPhone.
What do you mean by highly processed in this context?
Apple is about money, nothing else. Look at their quarterly reports, they are not a byproduct of a higher ethics or anything
There's plenty of Apple criticism on this site. So much so that I find it rather rote and boring to be honest - there's usually very little new or interesting brought up in these conversations, just the same criticism up over and over again.

HN is heavily moderated to promote what it sees as "high quality discussions", and Apple flamewars tend to be pretty low quality, so they're deranked.
My $350 Samsung A71 is two years old and feels brand new.

My sister's SG9+ is 4 years old and the screen is broken in two different places, but is only asking for a battery replacement.

Iphones did provide security updates for longer, which is easier when you have few models and a huge userbase.
I have some of them. They are expensive new, but well calibrated, with decent components.

The local API is easy to interface to telegraf, so its trivial to dump to your graphing system of choice.
Yeah, totally agree. That's why it's kind of weird/concerning that they conform to the much more lenient standard.
> Obtrusive messaging / sign up modals / exit intent modals work. I hate them.

In case anyone hasn't seen it, here's a godsend to get rid of that crap: https://github.com/t-mart/kill-sticky Works on mobile, too.
True, it is a case of severe bad luck. But these are even worse than normal bugs: Some minor change in an unrelated part of the code triggers a cascade of different inlining decisions, and now a comparison is silently returning wrong answers in a very specific edge case.

Another variant is having x as an int. It is supposed to truncate the int on assignement, but instead it simply dumps the high bits in the alignement.

As the saying goes: Working code > crashing code > silent corruption.
It's 100% true, beyond a shadow of a doubt. Not only did it go to court, Apple admitted doing it and paid over $100M in damages.

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/18/936268845/apple-agrees-to-pay...
I'm an educator and one thing that's actually been happening is some of our older kids will see school buses out on the road and will just try to airdrop obscene content to kids ON the bus. We had literally talked about hoping there could be some default "off" behavior for airdrop, so this actually will (at least for me) be a welcome change in behavior!
secure boot with keys outside your control, mandatory TPM chips, remote attestation, etc
> And I think that designing such that it can be used only by those who already know how to use it is a failure.

Why? Cars aren't a failure because they need to be learnt, neither is reading, 10-finger typing, math, ...

We teach these things because they make other tasks more efficient. Similarly, interfaces are converging to a somewhat complex, but actually quite consistent, set of conventions that allows you to accomplish an infinite set of tasks.

You might argue that we could achieve the same thing with less complex conventions, but I disagree. According to the article, subjects struggled with nested folders, yet now, hierarchies are a hugely important concept.
The frustrating thing is not knowing when to use UIKit in advance, until it's too late.

But yes with experience you can learn and get a sixth sense of when UIKit will be needed.
Try the web browser add-on, "Bypass Paywalls Clean". It transparently bypasses over 300 news media paywalls including WSJ.
Agree. And you could argue that Founder(s), owners of the company AND product vision, should keep that role as long as possible. I see too many Founders relinquishing this role too early. One argument being: I need time to raise and recruit. True, but these having taken such massive proportions lately, Product has been delegated 'under' the Founders = 2nd priority by definition. Hence so many companies with millions in bank, over bloated teams, but not even clear PMF, let alone economic models. Economics should remain a core part of Product.

Another explanation is: we have seen a much bigger proportion of Founders with little experience in 'cross-functional work', 'integrative management' and 'user-led holistic thinking' experience. All critical to PMing.
Big fund raises allowed to compensate for that, by recruiting PMs.

Again, lots of startups, at the right stage, need PMs. I am just seeing too many startups over staffed in PMs and Founders too far from this.
Believe it when you see it, not when you hear it.
Not even kidding, I'd probably watch some live-streaming of that kind of thing.
You're cherry picking.

Look at Joseph McCarthy and see a counter-example. He used the exact same logic: to prevent a Soviet-style totalitarian government in the US, we had to be intolerant of everyone left of mainstream Democrats.

It destroyed many peoples' lives, most of who were not at all sympathetic to Soviet-style communism.

Similar to your example, we could also argue that McCarthy was indeed effective at preventing Soviet-style communism in America (since the US still has free speech and there has not been another holocaust). But in both cases we don't have convincing evidence that suppressing speech was actually helpful.
Yes, healthcare demand is inelastic. Dental care is actually not inelastic. A huge percentage pass it up.

A huge fraction of medical care is just as elective as dental.
Who died to make you king?
I think this is it. None of this stuff mattered when all of these companies were cool with losing unlimited money.

Now they are facing existential risk and they don't really have a choice, if pissing users off is the way they can punt on revenue then they are going to do it.

Ultimately I think it signals that a lot of these companies (not ones that have been bought by FAANG) are functionally insolvent and are in a slow death spiral.

I bet many of them will start looking to illegally broker user data as that reality gets closer.
iOS 16 came out months ago.
>>There is nothing terrible about Apple making devices my 80+ year old mother can safely and easily use.

I just don't understand this argument. Never did and I don't think I ever will. If apple allowed you to install custom apps, it would change NOTHING for your 80+ year old mother. Literally nothing. Her device would still be just as safe and secure as ever before.
FYI, I think that you missed that this idea that "a tolerant society does not tolerate intolerance" is better known as "Karl Popper's paradox of tolerance" You can find it under that name, numerous articles, from Wikipedia on down (1). Since 1945. it's widely known and accepted. It's not an actual contradiction, most "paradoxes" only appear that way on a superficial inspection.

it would be like saying, as the sibling comment did "a peaceful person would never punch someone in the nose" ... except that a society that aims for peace, and is beset with violent people, is going to have to quell that violence. This might involve reserving the right to punch the punchers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
The Army tried to develop a missile guided by pigeons
Your Friends Have More Friends Than You

https://scribe.citizen4.eu/your-friends-have-more-friends-th...

Math makes this part of the human condition. I honestly think that the solution for the shy (like you and I) is to value the relationships that these extroverts offer. At least a couple of the extroverts will think you're wonderful, and the other people that they will accidentally bring into your life through their gregariousness will cover the range from extreme introvert to extreme extrovert and everything in between. You will be meeting those introverts through a person who they trust, which is your best opportunity for successfully connecting with other shy people.

The only caveats are that you can't focus on one extrovert; get to know more than one, they're happy to talk. Focusing your explorations on one extrovert puts too much burden on the extrovert, and they want to share their time with a lot of people. The second caveat is to not let the extrovert take advantage of you, because a lot of extroverts are con-men/sales-types.

edit: 97% of the good friends I have had in my adult life were the result of a single extrovert talking to me out of the blue in my high school cafeteria. Through her, I met my first real girlfriend, and met two of the members of the band I'd end up singing in and touring with in my 20s. Still friends 30 years later, so I guess she liked me.
You can read it for yourself.
Wales medicine is wonderful and can make you feel like you're visiting Tolkien's Middle Earth, because of the appreciation of folk remedies, herbal treatments, fungi supplements, and more. Healers can recommend tonics, tinctures, barefoot walking in the woods, cold river plunges, and hot water bottles.

It turns out that many of the Wales natural approaches do align with westernized medical research, and often are available at a fraction of the price of westernized treatment.
Update:

https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/mauna-loa/volcano-updates

> 2022-11-28 17:20:25 UTC

> The eruption of Mauna Loa has migrated from the summit to the Northeast Rift Zone where fissures are feeding several lava flows.
One more aspect: when you have a complex database schema, GraphQL can give you a nice API for free (see Hasura). The other option is to spend resources on a separate "backend-for-frontend" API.

I would not consider tightly coupled frontend and backend as an API at all, because there you don't have an interface for programming applications (more than one).
I hear that dentistry in Mexico is often better for complex procedures at 1/4th the cost. Dentists in the US want to be paid like doctors.
Thanks for the TL;DR.
Fonts and colors, matching the original OS.

On Windows 11, the System Classic skin is a very light gray and uses Segoe UI. 95/98 uses a darker gray and Microsoft Sans Serif. 2000 uses a slightly lighter gray and Tahoma. ME uses the 2000 gray and Tahoma.

On Windows XP, the 95/98 theme was "Windows Classic", and the 2000 theme was "Windows Standard".

Or if you want a visual comparison of the original UIs, https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/running#win95
> prove me wrong, by pointing to any opinion of Court, written by Justice Scalia, that you think is correct, but most Democrat voters would prefer to have been decided differently.

You're asking for a contradiction. If he had written any decisions correctly, no one would disagree with him. Scalia consistently wrote horrible decisions, but one stands out that is correct, Crawford v. Washington, 2004.

Prove me wrong and relent on moving goal posts.
Your comment relied on the premise that the lockdowns are equivalent. If they are not, why on earth would you expect the same reaction to protests about them??!
Another reply said it was coming because of spam. Can this be verified. I’m suspicious of triggered woke/knee jer reaction twitter posts as any source of reliable info.