skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
iPad lacks a “killer app”

It does have a killer app: The form factor.

Lots of devices do lots of things that the iPad does. But they all have screens that are too small, or keyboards, or other things that make them too thick.

ipadOS apps aren't as powerful as computer programs, but they're good enough. And when combined with the iPad's form factor and simplicity, there's a reason that — according to Wikipedia — Apple's sold a half-billion of them.
They did do this, kinda. They called it Sassy Justice. It’s on YouTube.
Welding smells a lot less than someone smoking a cigarette, so I doubt people would complain about that.

However, the noise of someone preparing stuff to weld with an angle grinder would definitely be annoying.
> Never understood the quest for immortality.

Self-preservation, this is hardwired into us. You may rationalize, refer to a higher power, philosophize, etc... to make you accept the inevitable, sometimes successfully, but that's not what your body is telling you.
New IRS Rules Could Affect Venmo, Zelle and CashApp Users
Not to my knowledge, I only got introduced to flash ~2007, I've mostly been going by stuff I can recall and hunting for them on wayback machine.
That’s terrible. My wife banks there and has done so before we got married. It’s a spot of contention for us since she wants us to merge accounts and I don’t want to for obvious reasons.
> and the wind was carrying nearly 24/7 smoke downwind into my friend's house

At that point, he'd probably get a C&D order filed against him for emissions and a decent fine on top as well.

That's why I love the German system: people are protected from the influence of bad actors, not the other way around.
> Anyone that has worked in any highly regulated industry knows that its almost impossible to comply with every rule.

true

otoh there is something like "compliance with the spirit of the regulation" that is morally acceptable but will be exploited unless fiercely and proactively defended.
I love to read HN because it reminds me that Carlin's law of averages [1] applies equally to the tech sector as everywhere else.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/43852-think-of-how-stupid-t...
I can find someone making that case with a quick Google: https://www.april15th.com/irs-problems/why-irs-audits-more-s...

> The IRS brings in more dollars per hour auditing small mom and pop businesses, than they do auditing medium and large companies.

> Why is that the case? Because the larger companies keep impeccable records and have tax experts to defend them; Enrolled Agents, CPAs, or tax attorneys that usually know more about the Tax Code than the IRS auditor-employee.

I've found it in my conversations with people justifying the recent increases in IRS agents and the new $600 reporting requirement.
Having used an iPad for my last couple years in high school, the machines were a total joke. Totally useless for english and history classes, and barely usable for math and science courses. When people weren't using them for classwork, they became instant distractions. The administration tried implementing MDM but ended up finding that the only solution was taking away the iPads during instructional time. Not to mention, ushering in iPads actually forced our computer science classes to shut down, since students no longer had machines with Python interpreters on them.

The iPad is insanely powerful and without serious competition, but completely useless in a classroom setting. Most people would prefer the laptops we had, teachers and students alike.
Ian Leslie on Conflicted [audio]
Yes but are dispersing power. It’s the same (endless) story as the vinyl VS digital… you can “feel” better the vinyl but the digital is technically better.
Sorry, what happened to `vi`?
That's the discipline of data-driven business. If 20 people use your app and despise it and are depressed by it, that's better than 19 people using it and loving it. No sentimentality allowed.
You might enjoy Please Don't Touch Anything [0], a VR puzzle game about operating a cryptic control panel like this.

[0] https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/2706567592751319/
Wait so this is a real....phone? Using old-school twisted pair phone lines? If it has a monthly cost that scales with use it must, but it seems like making this IP would be more practical, if a little less fun?
That’s the most bizarre math I’ve ever seen. Once you’ve designed something once it’s a lot faster to design over and over.
Ask HN: Anyone up to help profile and improve latency of a Java database system?
Over the course of the last at least half a year I've improved the latency of my evolutionary append-only DBS project[1] maintained in my spare time.

That said I'd like others to take a look as well[2].

Maybe anyone with more experience would like to have a look, too and help to improve latency further.

That's something I'm missing the most with my OSS over the last 10 years. Having discussions with others about ideas, concepts and some more help (despite one or two years in the past maybe).

Kind regards

Johannes

[1] https://github.com/sirixdb/sirix

[2] https://github.com/sirixdb/sirix/issues/558
I'm with you on the "dumping oil and antifreeze down the sewer" part. And if they are cycling the cars onto street parking, that's not their property, and I can see disallowing that. But the rest? I don't understand the motivation behind them. How is having non-working vehicles on your own property a "nuisance" to others? How is having car tires touching grass instead of concrete a nuisance? None of these things make sense.

If the goal is to prevent people from running professional repair shops in residential areas, we have business permitting and laws just for that. Enforce them instead, don't penalize homeowners who want to work on a few cars as a hobby.
Unfortunately systemd & glibc (or even macOS) are usually the more pragmatic choice. I'd love to have the freedom to ignore them, but even outside of work, there is software (like games) that I want to run that doesn't play nice with anything more sane.
It's not my burden of proof. If you think something like compiling kotlin instead of running a JVM is akin to compiling with go tooling, then at this point anything that somehow compiles to native (and beyond) is in the "go niche".
Worse Was Lost at Mohacs
But how large is this gap? I.e. 10%, 50%, 100% or 1000%. Size of this gap affects trade offs of using WASM vs native code a lot.
Most of the code needs to be re-written because of GTK advancements?

Without knowing the codebase myself, I'd expect GTK advancements would be an expected thing and keeping up with them would be more routine maintenance work that a complete re-write. Technical debt that piled up?
systemd-coredump is on my arch and i dont remember setting it up, anyway its rather cool, it even collects core dumps from podman
If they do security updates for obsolete versions of software this means a huge amount of resources testing and developing patches against it that could be spent improving current software.
Thankfully for a good chunk of number crunching that works fine. But the other side of the coin is notably AI workloads. There's no OpenCL or Vulkan standard for exposing matrix units, only vendor specific ones.

For OpenCL: cl_qcom_ml_ops (Qualcomm) notably,
for Vulkan: VK_NV_cooperative_matrix (NVIDIA)
You created your account with mastodon.social. My mastodon account is with techhub.social. So your eggs are in that basket, but my eggs are in a different basket and others' eggs are in yet more baskets. You can argue that all of your own eggs are in one basket, but not everybody's eggs are in that one basket.

Some narcissistic infantile billionaire could buy out mastodon.social and burn it to the ground, but the rest of the Mastodon network moves on. You'd have to relocate, which is a pain, but you're not relocating at the same time the rest of the world is relocating. Decentralization is resilient, not bulletproof.
I am on a community committee for a safe injection site.

They have shown us a graph showing more people are using the site.

I have asked for the same chart to include a metric showing that more people are using the site and there are less overdoses or medical interventions or another metric showing more people using the site results in some sort of quantifiable metric of community benefit.

The public health authority who provides the graphs is unable or unwilling to provide the information and charts I want.

I thus worry that data is selectively used to prove a predetermined narrative.
These work horribly in England. At my local M&S (a middle to upper market grocery store) the self checkout fails at some point about 60% of the time requiring an overburdened overseer watching 25+ terminals to come over and swipe their card without even really looking what's wrong. Most of the time it seems to be poorly calibrated weight sensors or too tight a margin where product variability is not accounted for properly. Probably some stupid outsourced IT team setting a single weight for each sku and not understanding that an apple could be a few hundred grams different.
I'm so tempted to use GuixSD over NixOS. Honestly, Guix seems much more well-designed, non-myopic. It even has great documentation! The only two drawbacks are lack of packages (compared to Nix) and an arguably impractical puritanism about unfree software.
This brings so many memories. One could use decompilers to see how other games were made. It was fantastic for learning.

I am surprised Adobe did not manage to get Flash / Adobe Animate adapted to html5/js without people jumping ship.
Exactly! I stopped reading when I reached that paragraph. I cannot take anyone pedestalizing journalists and leftists in general as "the ones with the highest morals" seriously, despite all what was going on with Twitter. After all it's not like it cannot be disproven quite easily.

- Opaque moderation (at least more opaque than the current one)

- Banning and shadowbanning users despite admitting the administration admitting they didn't violate company's ToS

- Soft banning users regularly so they could build a case to outright ban them once and for all

- Collusion with some three-letters agencies (see Twitter Files) to censor speech, bury newsworthy stories, etc

- Journalists were treated as a separate class above regular users.
Steampipe Enables KPIs as Code
Given the success of the helicopter drone (Ingenuity) on Mars, I wonder if that's an option for cleaning solar panels - i.e. put a simple rotating brush/fan system on the drone, keep it in a port on the main lander, and every once in a while, launch it and have it land on the solar panels, where it does a roomba routine.

Since drones already expand the abilities of a lander, i.e. exploring the immediate area and collecting samples, this wouldn't be much of an added cost.
Meet does both of those things.
Stop focusing on the negative and commit, I will. ;)
Competition is great until your competitors use their power to prevent third-parties from distributing software freely. Then it becomes a monopoly, by modern standards.
What Improves Developer Productivity at Google?
What one shade-tree mechanic releases or dumps pales in comparison to what is causally released by all the cars, trucks, and 18-wheelers on the road daily.

It's similar to blaming single use straws for the plastic problem.
Every time I hear someone say “something someone else does on their property it lowers my property value”… I respond with “with investment comes risk. either your house is your house or its an investment. But that does not make ALL houses investments. If the risk is too much, pop smoke before the value is too low.”

I’m told I just “don’t get it.”

No. I don’t get it. That’s the problem. :p
You’re being absurd.
> It's true that history shows examples of communities managing their common resources over generations. This need not be the default; when it isn't you get the tragedy of the commons

It looks like you're agreeing that counterexamples to "tradgedy of the commons" being a default state exist in history yet your conclusion is "tragedy of the commons is the default if a better option isn't employed".

Why can't it be true(based off your same evidence) that tragedy of the commons is an unnatural state, and respect for common resources is the default?
> Even though I have a Mac, when a prospective job applicant sends a resume in Pages, it’s a disqualifier, because they don’t understand that Windows users can’t read that.

Hiring is hard enough. You want to know something you can't possibly know, so you have to use very imperfect, approximate signals. I don't know why you'd want to kneecap yourself on purpose like this. You might as well just roll dice and hire when 7 comes up.
I recently moved into a non-HOA neighborhood in Southeast Portland. We have several lots that have broken down equipment, vehicles, etc... It's pretty unsightly to the extent that my guy can't even use his driveway. None of what I've mentioned is my business. Where it becomes the cities business is if it becomes an environmental hazard or a hazard to the neighbors (eg: fire hazard). Not liking the way your neighbors house is arranged is simply not good enough reason to bring in the powers of a higher authority.

If laws like this were really trying to go after environmental impacts then the city could mandate that cars get put over an fluid reservoir. You can buy them super cheap at most stores and we used them in the military because of similar concerns with JP-8 and oil.
You may be underestimating the amount of music that was around: people had pianos, people had guitars and banjos, there were amateur bands and choral societies, many went to churches with fair to better choirs, etc.
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/695/
Marginally related (software?) rant: every time I want to learn how something specific works or I want to do something oddly specific I keep running in the same phenomenon. Google mostly returns vague abstract fluff and Stack Overflow tells me it really, really shouldn't be done because [reason]. It's like most of human written content caps out at about the level of description ChatGPT could deliver. Like there's a "knowledge event horizon".

After that it always ends in hard to parse research papers, specifications, jumping around the source code of multiple libraries, debugging or reverse engineering. If I get lucky I might land on a 15 year old blog post that no man has seen since inception and it describes exactly what I wanted to know.

And that's just software. Humans know exactly what parts went into it and how it works. Why must wisdom always be squeezed out of a rock? Why is only the fluff copied thousands of times making research harder each day? Why are there never indicators which way to dig for more details?

T__T
Yeah, my personal rule was that fruit and veg were free.
You can get a second gen SE for like £160 on eBay.
Atomic habits. Some ideas of implementation
They are being ridiculed because their performance has been ridiculous?

Once you set aside the magic thinking idea that laughing will make Russia fight better you can see the funny side of the "Russia 'bout to find out why the US can't afford universal healthcare" memes.
Yeah sick burn! (not sarcastic!)

I'm put in the mind of the other thread today about wrongly judging something as over-complex.

What you can do on your property definitely affects nearby properties and it seems to me that we need a fairly subtle, localized, maybe complex way to deal with this. Different rules in the city/country, different rules for the industrial park/a neighborhood. I usually lean pretty "do what you want on your property" - in my town there's a lot of "we must preserve the character of our town [and prevent apartments or anywhere poor folk could possibly afford to live]" folks who seem to always be white and living in the expensive part of town.

I don't think any simple "TOTAL FREEDOM" or "NO MESSY CARS" rule is every going to be very just or effective.
Sure, after you name an example of a programming language where neither you nor someone else has to compile the dependencies for a given program.
There should be jobs closer to homes in general. Building massive sprawl with no transportation isn't ideal either.
I agree with you, and I think the other replies are missing your point. With all the techno-marvels around us, it's a shame that lightweight, reliable robotics that can do something as superficially simple as brush some panels don't exist. Just goes to show how hard the field is, I guess.
I think the largest fine here, the $3.75 billion fine for the American Home Products diet drug in 2002 (https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/violation-tracker...), is mis-attributed to Pfizer. American Home Products became Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, who were acquired by Pfizer in 2009, 7 years after this fine.

Pfizer weren’t involved with them in 2002, so I don’t see how this five can be reasonably attributed to Pfizer.
Who is proposing the forceful removal of cars? It's about having options.
I don’t know about the rest of you but I’m pretty sure rockets are a couple of magnitudes faster then blue whales. Q.E.D. #
Let’s talk about our favorite terminal tool
In the 1st edit, the author hits on something really crucial - the business has needs beyond just "the software works".

He lists some frontend considerations; a backend developer might have a list like: comprehensive observability, automated builds and deployments, infrastructure defined as code, developer function-as-a-service platforms, batch processing infrastructure, horizontal scalability, database recovery time/point objectives, compliance, and SLAs.

The truth is that these ARE requirements once a project gets to a certain scale, yet they have little to do with your core application domain. To a certain extent, it is inherently complicated.

But if you look at the "modern" cloud approach to these problems, it's full of additional complexity from the solutions themselves: k8s, ec2 spot market, vpcs, prometheus/grafana/jaeger, ELK, multiple environments, airflow, a database+replica+connectionpool for every microservice, terraform, jenkins, istio, lambda ... oy. It literally takes a team of people to manage the scaffolding to support the actual apps. Is that really the best we can do? I think there's room to radically simplify this scaffolding, while still meeting all of the advanced business requirements. In that sense, today's approach is over-complicated.
Calling some groups by a color is OK. Calling other groups by their color, not OK. Capitalization of the color should be used when referring to one group. But for a different group, capitalization is not to be made.

There is no logically consistency.

I was raised with the philosophy that calling a person Black was offensive and that I should always use the term African-American. I always respected this. But apparently this changed in the matter of two years. So not only are we faced with a logical inconsistency, but we are also on a language treadmill. It's creating landmines everywhere in general discourse.
I started skimming and skipping because that's the only thing I was really interested in.
> garbage dump

We already have laws re environment.

What really seems to happen with these discussions is dog whistles for “i don’t want them poors next door.”
Flash was shuttered due to being a constant, huge security risk. So no modern browsers support it and there aren't any plugins for it other than Ruffle.
I can't think of a response to this that wouldn't be breaking the rules so I'll just say no thank you.
That's a pretty low bar, though. There are many different levels of struggling but I don't think it is productive to deny challenges of someone just because they are better off than some others.
Thanks! It's actually great to hear you describe it as concise, I was worried it was a bit waffly to be honest.
That's what I'm told, but not by the IRS. It is a fairy tale, though. Small businesses cheat on their taxes in incredibly stupid and simple ways. e.g. running personal expenses through the business is absolutely rampant. I even know a guy who got a tax deduction buying a $60K engagement ring this way. This stuff is extremely easy to catch in an audit, and requires very little resources from the IRS. These business owners will always settle quickly and never fight, because they are guilty as hell and it's easy to prove.

At big corps, on the other hand, this type of activity is heavily policed and almost impossible. The idea that large corporations are rampant tax cheats is completely false. The reason that they would never dare is because the IRS has a whistleblower program where you get to keep a percentage of the proceeds, which at a big corp will be multiple millions of dollars. So any intentional tax cheating will be reported and caught immediately by employees who stand to gain more than their salary for their whole career.

The worst that a big corp will ever do is dip a toe into the legal gray areas of tax law. And in that case the IRS will be hesitant to go after them because it takes a ton of resources, and they stand a very high chance of losing. Not because the big corp has too many lawyers, but because the opposition has a legit case, unlike the small business owner who bought his engagement ring on the company card. The idea that anyone has too many lawyers for the government to handle is ridiculous anyway.

So it makes complete sense for the IRS to target small businesses and regular people and not big corps. But people don't like this because it goes against the "big corp bad, small business good" religious belief.
Who decided to anthropomorphize the rover like that? It’s creepy and honestly scientifically dishonest, like the rover has intelligence and is writing the posts. Something for children, but children hate being fooled like that and being talked down to. It’s something I might expect from the current version of NASA though.
> Thenceforth Zelensky seems to have understood that Ukraine was to fight

You've given no evidence or argument to back up this implied conspiratorial causality. The simplest explanation is that Johnson told Zelensky that if Ukraine wanted to fight, they would have the support of the UK and the greater West.

Also, how hard is it to imagine that a country that had been subjugated by Russia up until a single generation ago, knows the horrors of such and will do everything possible to avoid ending up there again? The further east you go into previously Soviet countries, the more support there is for Ukraine. If this really were a "both sides" issue, you'd expect the exact opposite.
i agree with that! i solved it the way you're supposed to deal with new technology, i think: i lurked for awhile. read accounts from other mastodon users, to get a feel for things.
Several times, not just once.

iPhone 3G was made unusable by iOS 4.
Simple: built-in expectations.

A residential zone comes with the expectation for everyone buying a property inside the zone that traffic will be the people living there and occasional visitors, that noise and emissions will be kept to the usual amount caused by people living and the likes and that car repairs are limited to stuff like changing your tires.

If you're running a commercial shop fixing up cars, you are violating the expectations of a property in a residential zone: your property attracts more vehicle traffic, possibly even from heavy tow trucks, your property emits noise from all the tools or from vehicles running without (or with defective) mufflers, your property emits smells of fuel, chemicals or burning stuff.

If you're just fixing up your own car, you cause way less of these emissions, and way less annoyance for your neighbors.

In short: your neighbors signed up for peace and quiet guaranteed by the residential zoning, and you are violating that agreement.
Link to Stackoverflow podcast. Transcript:

https://the-stack-overflow-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/t...
I just save all my used oil and every several years, call up the same person I found with an oil burner setup for a 6-pack.

Used oil has value!

I do the same with my apple tree trimmings.