skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The founder posted publicly about printing tether to pump Bitcoin I'm the earlier days of Tether (after previously being convicted of fraud) - and then tried to delete the posts - but couldn't because of Internet Archive...
>I never argued that they are on the same footing

Sure. Though, the footing is so unequal that it effectively prevents US companies from gaining a foothold. Maybe that is a little broad but it certainly leans towards the rule vs the exception.

>And the laws for them are no different than they are for Chinese companies.

Before or after they start operating? How difficult is that compared to entering the US or European market?

>Apple and Microsoft are doing absolutely fine in China. Apple's mobile market share there is bigger than it is in Europe. So yes, they already _are_ allowed to gain a comparable market share.

The Government of China is literally trying to stop Apple and Microsoft's dominance as we speak.

https://www.kylinos.cn/

>As for regular social media; LinkedIn is also doing just fine and always has.

LinkedIn is doing fine? They shut down LinkedIn literally last year man, lol.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/14/technology/linkedin-china...

They're making some BS "CCP compliant" version that _only_ allows you to do job searching but it is certainly not LinkedIn as we know it.

Sure. On paper, once you jump through the regulatory hoops you're allowed to exist there... but the difference between the environments (and the bias foreign companies endure) is such that I stand by my original comment.
I think she'll probably do 36 months or so. Not nothing but also not life-destroying.
I'm curious what software features were planned that depended on the high-power GPU, which I guess must have been scrapped.

Usually Apple does not ship a new hardware feature without some software feature that showcases it.

At one point Apple seemed all-in on using dot-matrix projections to scan 3D spaces. I wonder if this GPU would have enhanced that capability somehow. Or perhaps it was simply supposed to be the icebreaker for a future M3 chip of some kind.
Even stupider is their OS yearly release cycle. Apple OSes are feature-complete. They have been for quite some time. They do need iterative updates to add new APIs for new hardware, but that's really it.
OVH Support and useless firewall against other internal servers (2017)
Is it really a bad excuse, or is it a polite way to say "Why the hell do you need user-defined functions?". At least that's how I would say it myself.
The best feature of `Hash` maintaining insertion order is that `Set` does too, since a `Set` is a `Hash` with all-`true` values: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/3539da64fc42d6eb76f1d4c3cc...
> "would any user benefit from this"? [yes, no]

This doesn't work... Unnecessary user accounts, telemetry, inefficient electron app etc etc: It's possible to genuinely argue they all ultimately benefit the user (e.g market research, developer efficiency). Some people would use this to push their agenda. It's also not a good idea to reject ideas that do not directly benefit the user, because many of those are good.

What's missing is quantitative and qualitative assessment. Sticking to the decision tree format, that node needs to be a continuum. e.g "does-it-benefit-the-user" changes to "cost-to-user/benefit-to-user > x". You can also distinguish between quality of benefits and costs by weighting the inputs... and while we are at it "cost-to-bottom-line/benefit-to-user > x" would remove a lot of busy work.

But realistically this is reasoned about in non mathematical terms, effects are nuanced and the more you dig the more you find. The best approach is human and imperfect, but can at least be considerate of the user experience as a whole. This I believe is the heart of the problem: Decisions being made in the abstract when not appropriate, e.g a department only considering the direct effects to that department and ignoring effects to the ultimate purpose of the department->company->service/product. Perhaps it's just the result of over siloed workers without any empathy or concern beyond their short term personal benefit.
FTX US auditor Armanino defends work for failed crypto exchange
Good point. I totally appreciate it as excellent epic fantasy too.

BUT the whole "reality is distorted by desire" thing is dead seriously real, and it is a big deal (The Buddha himself ranted about it). And the ring IS a total solid desire macguffin. People go crazy over it. And Bilbo DID change his story. So... it makes an interesting line of thought, you gotta agree.

Also : You ever read Lord Dunsany, CS Lewis or Lovecraft? They were all sorta on the same page as Tolkien.
Anyway, MoltenVK is a thing.
You can connect a phone to a server using the built in Files App

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/connect-external-devi...

I haven’t tried this

https://helpdesk.macroplant.com/hc/en-us/articles/3600190272...
> No, in what are now surge pricing situations, you used to usually simply not be able to get a cab at all. A tiny fraction of the time you'd get lucky and get a cab, maybe after waiting on a street corner for an hour trying to hail one. But usually you just wouldn't get anything.

This does not line up with my experience at all. I see some of the worst surge pricing at non-peak times of day when it used to be easiest to get a taxi. This is most pronounced during the small hours where it's now nearly impossible to get a car.

Even during peak times you'd call the taxi company and they'd give you an estimate of how long you'd be waiting. Peak times are fairly stable and most people are sensible enough to phone ahead of time to reduce the wait.
I didn't use anything other than the basic webrtc examples from github and a rather basic exchange using a web socket (server was express). Obviously not completely P2P because you need to exchange capabilities somehow. Tbh it probably took me longer to get the domain and coturn set up than the webrtc.

I didn't look into how much bandwidth was being used. I was mainly using it for 1-4 person calls during lockdown. I wanted to write a video calling app that I could have full control of.
Gee I wonder if Arrow Capital thought it wise to stop hedging via shorting; did Alameda Research fall into the exact same trap?

The only sure bet is yes they did!
All those examples about hardware remind me of a few counterexamples.

Want to use a dashcam for your car and sync the data to your local computer? You need to create an account and connect an app, even though you just want to do local sync.

This seems to be a feature of the more expensive models only. All the cheap and generic ones just record to a memory card.

Want to get data from inside a device onto your computer? Nope, it’s not a mass storage device. You need to install another app, that will be used just for this one device, to sync things.

I think this started with Apple and the iPod. Meanwhile, all the other generic media players were indeed USB mass storage devices. I remember a friend choosing to get a cheaper lookalike clone of the iPod Shuffle specifically after reading that the real thing wouldn't just play files you copied to it, despite how it looked like a USB drive. As a bonus, the clone even had an FM radio.

Another counterexample is my experience with an unbranded drawing tablet ---that even came with driver source code on the CD: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29060411

It seems that whenever companies grow big enough or get some sort of grand "vision" to "disrupt" or something similar, they become user-hostile. Those which just focus on making product and don't try to make a name for themselves, and possibly are so small they barely have resources to even do so, are not. They won't have the resources to spend on setting up and maintaining services to keep users on a leash.

In the flow chart I would make the "Yes" of the "Would any user benefit from this?" question go to another question: "Are you sure users will benefit or are you just thinking that to justify it yourself?"
It depends...

Peleton (2022): CEO John Foley resigned so he could have more flexibility to sell stonk or increase the amount pledged.

Chesapeake Energy (2008): CEO Aubrey K. McClendon sold 94% of his stonk to meet a margin call. (about 6% of outstanding shares)

FedEx (2020): Oh boy. FedEx doesn't allow BoD/executives to pledge stock for margin loans. But they will make exceptions on a case-by-case basis. They only made on exception, (then) CEO Fred Smith.

How it started:

"In accordance with our policy, Mr. Smith has established his financial capacity to repay the loan without resorting to the pledged shares. In the unlikely event such a sale were necessary, based on the 30-day average trading volume for FedEx shares as of August 4, 2014, it would take two days for the pledged shares to be sold in the open market. Furthermore, Mr. Smith’s unpledged share ownership is very substantial and would likely be able to prevent any margin call."

How it's going:

"As a result of the stock price decline during fiscal 2020, Mr. Smith was granted approval to pledge additional shares in March 2020."
Yes, e.g. many IR systems use cosine similarity to compute query vector/term vector similarity, and simhashing approximates cosine similarity. OTOH, some IR systems instead use a set-theoretic measure, Jacquard similarity, which can be approximated by minhashing.
> building an audience

This is the most BS thing I've observed on twitter. It's for e-books and courses, not for usual target customers. "Build audience before selling" is also utter BS. To be fair, one type of this approach works, that is solving customers' problems for free (it may be counted as building audience in a broad sense), and sell them a package of full-blown solutions later. I mean, building friends on twitter is a good thing, but that's indirect benefit or benefit that doesn't affect the process of getting customers at all.
Nobody has time to slice the brezel and make it into a sandwich like this.

Just dunk it in the jar of nutella or whatever, trying to butter and then apply jam or nutella or whatever to something with a shape this complicated is a loser's game.
Fun fact, it's exactly the same as the m4a format, but with a different file extension. (Which macOS uses to add some UI sugar on top; but the data is the same.)
> Looks like I’ll be getting his books from Speechify from now on.

Some competition for Audible would be nice, but Speechify don't even have an Android or Web app. So on top of not owning the mp3 files they also lock you into the apple ecosystem.
M1Pro and M1Max are designed in Israel, so not certain if Apple has lost designers in Israel.

"...as well as the integrated circuits that were developed in Israel, and the jewel in the crown: the Israeli team played a central role in developing the premium version of the company's flagship M1 processor, including the M1Pro and M1Max chips designed to support premium Mac computers such as MacBook Pro and MacBook Studio. These chips were built here in Israel while working with other teams worldwide, including at the headquarters in Cupertino. The integration with the verification applications and processes was also carried out here."

https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-apple-to-open-jerusalem-d...
Bill Hwang has that number beat.
Can you give any reasons for being "more capable and easier to work with?" I don't see how it is easier for users since as far as I am aware pkg-config files are an after-thought in CMake and options are all over the place (no equivalent of b_lto, default_libary, b_sanitize, etc.) so you have to learn about each project's non-standard equivalent options.

What is hard about the following for users?

meson setup build <build options...>
ninja -C build
ninja -C build install
California population shrinks as people move out of state
When ChatGPT meets search
I basically hate math discussions on HN. Why? Because it seems like there's two (at least) "camps" in terms of how they interpret what "math" even means. And the various camps constantly talk around each other, with neither camp seeming to realize that they're arguing about completely different things. So they keep arguing, nobody gets anywhere, and the whole thing is largely a cluster-fuck.

So what do I mean by "camps"? Well, the most obvious dividing line is between people who see "math" as something that everybody does, and that includes everything from elementary school addition up to, well whatever, and has a primary goal of computing something. Then you get the camp who see "math" as the exclusive domain of mathematicians, look down on any maths class at a level lower than abstract algebra or real analysis, and consider the primary goal of math to be more math (eg, proving things that we didn't already consider proven). And the latter often tend to look down their noses at anybody who dares talk about "learning math" but without a goal of becoming a mathematician.

sigh

My position is that "math" includes both of those notions, and that in most conversational contexts you have to explicitly define which one you are talking about up front in order to have even a chance at a productive conversation.
Thank you so much for your response. Christianity is so often misrepresented in HN / Reddit that it’s ridiculous how often it’s forced into false dichotomies. Your references in the last paragraph were exactly in line of what I was going to link.

I think though also we should be careful to judge things as heretical. It’s always been a dangerous word, and it’s unlikely that any one person or group of people are capable of fully grasping a religion or even God himself.
Well, if you're going to roll the dice with an unregulated securities market because you want massive profits, it helps to have a sense of humour about it.
How can there be a wait time for an audiobook, a digital file that can be reproduced infinitely?
For now, youdotcom is my daily driver. Clean interface and no spam. Search results have gotten better over the last year. But I worry that eventually it’s gonna succumb to those sweet ad dollars like the rest. And this from FAQ does very little to allay the concern

> We are currently focused on building the best possible search experience. We will explore monetization ideas in the future, and we look forward to your feedback in that process.
The thing is the "yearly upgrade cycle" isn't something people need to follow.

People (usually from the Android camp) complain that Apple never innovates on brings anything new, which is kinda true if you only take the delta between the two latest devices.

But they fail to take into account the person going from a phone that gets dropped by the latest iOS release (5+ years old) to the latest and greatest. The leap in features is staggering.
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yeah, I went from a 12 to a 14, and honestly you could swap it back and I wouldn't even notice or care.

maybe this is what we should expect, though, as the tech matures -- like cars: there's a new model every year, but only significant upgrades every half decade or so.
I don't. Some things I remember, some I do not. I feel like that's the way it has to be for me.
I think you should give staring into the abyss another try on Christianity. Maybe though get it out of the dichotomy, and also expand your search beyond Evangelicals. I’ve found learning about Jewish history (Jonathan Sacks is a great author, Jewish Rabbi) or Biblical authorship has been really enlightening.
CMake is also a meta build system, so I don't understand your point. Meson targets many platforms, some better than others.

* Visual Studio Projects
* Ninja
* XCode
The excuse is still wrong, and indicates complete misunderstanding of what Turing-complete means.

I write plugins for a large, well known application.

Building the plugin is a complicated multi stage process with many dependencies.

I've spent a lot of time understanding the process (undocumented, only VS and Xcode project files are provided in the SDK).

I now have a single function call to create each plugin.
LastPass has been breached: What now?
I disagree. A consistent yearly upgrade cycle is actually a good thing. It allows staggered upgrades for people who do not want to upgrade yearly, but still create the necessary incentive for incremental improvement.

A new iPhone every 5 years for example, would be dumb. Ignore the hype and marketing and just pick the one you'd like if and when you upgrade.

A tangent:

Personally, I wish more things had yearly upgrades and the backwards/forward compatibility Apple devices generally have. It's a different model, but it would be nice if game consoles had improved iterations yearly. The once a half decade model creates too much of a boom/bust cycle imho. If the Switch had a new, better version every year that was both forward and backward compatible within a "software generation" a lot of games like Pokemon wouldn't look and perform absolutely terribly.
It means you can only sell the product on a case-by-case basis, and it does not scale.

Author: scalable. One book can be sold to 1 person or 1,000,000 with little extra work.

Barber: non-scalable. One haircut can be sold to 1 person, but not 2 people without doubling the amount of work.
http://web.archive.org/web/20221223201646/https://www.nytime...

https://archive.ph/IxyHr
Welcome to publicly traded companies and stock-based executive compensation.
I like to stay on older OSes because I agree they're feature complete and I don't want to lose battery life to the newest ML hotness I probably won't use and won't run efficiently on my old phone.

I've praised Apple for allowing me to do this by continuing to put out security updates for older phones, but the most recent set of pretty important security updates (15.7.2) have artificially been restricted to only devices that don't support 16. This is incredibly frustrating because all the work has been put into making my older device secure without having to update to the latest OS, Apple won't let me have the update and I have to go to 16 instead.
I am from the West! Markets certainly had a positive impact on the East but regulations also had a positive impact. You need both and constantly have to work on finding a good balance.
I throw it in Joplin or signal self chat or just something I can search. I then accept that I will most likely never look at that thing again. If I do need it, whatever i stored it in has search.
If Tether is solvent and above board then it's being run utterly incompetently. absolutely everything they do regarding their reserves makes them look shady as hell (the most likely situation where they are solvent is that they are solvent with dirty money, which would explain why they are so unwilling to demonstrate exactly where the money is and where it came from).
It's a bad idea to make any significant decision while drunk. If someone has suicidal ideation and does not want to act on those thoughts while inebriated, then they should choose to either not become inebriated, or not have firearms easily accessible. Both of those factors are within their control.
When you have judges and referees you need rules. How else would they make decisions?
So I've taken to saving many, many posts from HN with https://web.archive.org/save/ and this is the amusing result I got when trying to save this one: "This host has been already captured 100,091.0 times today. Please try again tomorrow. Please email us at "info@archive.org" if you would like to discuss this more." Haha.
Fair enough, I hear you.
I use Tabs Outliner (Chrome extension) as my short(er)-term memory, and Raindrop.io as my long-term memory. Occasionally, I'll create "awesome list" notes (using Apple Notes) on a theme.

> Like sometimes I'll see something and it will remind me of a post or project I saw months ago, but it's almost up to chance if I'm able to find it again or link the two concepts together.

I have this problem as well. It'd be neat if Raindrop.io would automagically surface "Things Like This I've Saved".
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34086462, which has the original source.

"Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The reason you need functions anywhere else. Encapsulate complicated build logic and reuse it.
As someone who usually builds things I disagree. I think autotools is easiest followed by Meson and with the most annoying build system being CMake. On the other hand when I have to write build scripts I think Meson is best followed by CMake and then autotools. I feel Meson is a good compromise between maintainer needs and end user (the guy who build the project) needs.
Mantle beat Metal to the press release stage, but Metal shipped before Mantle did.

Mantle morphed into Vulcan even later than that.
My conspiracy theory is that USDT is actually well backed, but the Tether people intentionally make it look shady so they can buy the dip and arbitrage against panic selling. Some volatility would actually increase their ability to profit.
Perhaps, but a new better one every two years might be pretty compelling.

They sorta do a tick-tock cycle now, generally, its form factors on the 'tick', and significant hardware refresh on the 'tock'
A new iPhone every five years means you’ll have a harder time getting one, like whenever a new video game console gets released.
She Worked for Twitter. Then She Tweeted at Elon Musk
"An open mind and a flexible approach are warranted"

Of course. You can't just blindly follow an ideology but you have to constantly think about the proper balance of all factors. Overregulation is not good and neither is underregulation.
Well sure, but somehow noone was bothered by the local three-letter agencies getting the data from the telcos (and google, facebook, etc.), until the chinese did the same with their app.
I am relatively sure we will end up adding a fat pointer next round.

So long, you can look at my experiments using a struct type here:
https://github.com/uecker/noplate/

The typedef thing will go away with C2X where you do this in place.
Because the time before their birth is not in the future?
Yes it is quite funny when people get surprised that a get rich scheme isn’t real.
My question was genuine. Thank you for the suggestion.
Well to be pedantic about it (going both ways), this method is far superior to focus stacking when you have a fairly linear transition in the field of focus. It is also really nice for shifts. Focus-stacking is a more general, in that you can place the focus wherever you choose and in any order. But for many landscape shots, these large-format movements produce an amazing depth of field that never falls in and out of focus, as is what you’ll get for focus stacking.

The catch is that it’s a technique that’s only usable for landscape photography. People already have an issue with rolling shutters anytime there’s a moving subject. For these movements, that much is a feature, not a bug.
Perfect, thanks!

That video is also at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WD3g8IwUew.
Ossinsights looks like a great way to survey the solutions available when you start poking into a new area.
+1 for "Deep C Secrets" - excellent book. I don't use C enough to judge if it has stood up to the test of time, but I loved reading it.