skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a) Apple will still require the developer to be registered with their Developer Program in order to get the certificate to allow apps to be installed. They can simply ask for the cost of the app to be self-reported.

b) With existing telemetry they know which apps are being installed and run and can simply bill the developer directly.

c) In the case of a developer using a third party store, Apple can have an API which stores can use to report this information so they can manage the developer relationship themselves.

d) All of the above will simply shift revenue collection to a compliance activity. If you don't provide accurate details your certificate is revoked and you're banned from the store.
By using some ML model to spit out text for you, will you learn how to write well? How to write a good essay? None of that. During the act of writing those, the student is supposed to put in effort and thing of well worded phrases, using the parts of their brain, which are responsible for language processing. Without actual practice, the exam will come and the student will fail. They wont have a bullshit generator at hand, that generates speech, which sufficient sounds meaningful, when they are in an actual discussion "over the table". Even if they did, who would listen, if all they do is get out their phone and read some generated bullshit from it, that does not follow along with what was previously said?

Being able to have a good discussion is a life-long valuable skill. Not practicing it will cost sooner or later.
The causal relationship between testosterone and violence in humans is weak and disputed.

Should be as much of a reason to doubt it and brand such statements as bigotry as “blacks are more violent”, no?
I really enjoyed playing Day of Defeat back in the day, but now days there is a great WW2 hardcore FPS out there called "Hell Let Loose" that is very immersive both extremely frustrating and rewarding at the same time. RTS like meta game, with FPS infantry squad mechanics, huge emphasis on communication and team play, decent graphics, lots of attention to little details.

It's not without its warts and faults, but after not having played any serious WW2 shooters since Day of Defeat, I now have around 400 hours into this game, and am still having a ton of fun.
I’m guessing that a certain percentage of new hires over the past boom years aren’t working out. It’s easier to identify them and do a massive layoff than have to justify each case individually. The fact that everyone else is also laying people off gives them the cover to avoid the huge morale hit than comes with a layoff announcement.
Somewhat similar to this story: https://www.iheart.com/content/2022-11-18-texas-mom-wrongful...
Maybe it's something that made sense at some point in the past and now it's too difficult to change because it will mess up historical analysis/trends? Not to mention motives will immediately be questioned by anyone who tries to fix it and who really wants to die on that hill in the current political climate?

South Asian vs East asian is another group that often gets lumped together in demographic statistics as 'Asian'. Despite significant differences in geography/race/culture/etc.

Regardless, I'd also be curious to hear the real rational for the Latino one
There's a symbiotic relationship that exists with podcasting that doesn't necessary exist for other media. Podcasters want to reach the largest possible audience because they are paid relative to viewership. Hosting their own content has an expense and doesn't provide them with very effective discoverability. Podcast platforms make their money from having a large collection of podcasts and, for spotify/itunes, podcasts don't generally have royalty fees associated with playback.

This isn't really possible with things like movies.
SuperApp: The Solution or Problem for Problems?
Such a tag would only be used to filter AI content, so no one who uses AI would use it.
I was in a small village pub in England one Boxing Day.

A man at the table next to ours handed a £10 note to his sons, who were about 8-10 years old. They went to the bar and asked for two Fantas or something like that. The bartender said "I can't serve you, you need to be 16".

Silence fell. It was a small room, and we'd all heard the boys ask.

The old man at the end of the bar said, "You'll serve the boys, John, or else you won't be seeing me in here again."

The boys got their Fantas.

(Checking the law now, the boys were clearly accompanied, and I see no reason the bartender shouldn't have served them. I think it may have been forbidden before 2003, when the rules distinguished between children "at the bar" or not, rather than the current rules which distinguish between accompanied and unaccompanied children. But even then, the bartender would have been applying a 'rough city bar' approach to a posh village pub.)
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AFAIK, they sold some Chinese-commercial papers mostly from real-estate sector during that little time window.
It's a good insight that the "Fake News" problem is about a broken receiver, not a pernicious transmitter.
> What would happen if I get this Ubuntu Pro Plus Super crap, and download source, diff it, and submit the diff?

If it’s GPL or BSD then you’re certainly welcome to submit the patches if Ubuntu haven’t. I don’t know why you’re casting aspersions without actually checking what they’re doing.
British Airways Bans Social Media Posting While ‘Flying the Aircraft’
The Russian Onyx missiles also have an interesting-looking initial phase of the launch [1]

[1] https://youtu.be/2-22myhg_nE?t=9
Steve Bannon was convicted of fraud with border wall fundraising.

I think that's the more relevant part, and we can leave it at that.
I am still bummed out that Alien Software didn't manage to finish Neophyte, it had so much promise.
If civilization collapses there will be lots of terrible stories like this over the next 500 years or so as enterprising folks raid old sites and find amazing "treasure".
The Lights Wink Out in Asia
There is nothing new in the news.
Suspected Chinese spy balloon found over northern U.S.
The control key was designed with the intent of subtracting 0x60 (or 0x40 if you assume the base state is caps) from a character code to send a control code. It's not some coincidence that "ctrl-c" sends an interrupt on the console, if you take a look at any ascii table[1] you can see it was designed that way.

Repurposing that key to instead perform unrelated arbitrary commands is the insane move, and it only seems normal because you grew up using Windows and never thought to question it.

Apple's mappings make much more sense, especially with both OSs having a Meta key.

[1] https://www.asciitable.com/
This is really dope. Thank you for sharing! :D
It's entirely possible that they had an anti-discrimination lawsuit filed against them and this is one of the things they agreed to do as part of a settlement.
>Why would you think that?

The purpose of police training is to indoctrinate recruits into police culture.

https://twitter.com/KatieSponsler/status/1619341593827487744

> I don't think it's controversial to say the responding officers just didn't know what they were supposed to be doing in that situation, did the wrong thing

I think if you polled 100 police officers, you'd find that that is a very controversial issue, and that many of them support Chauvin's actions. They even had an officer testify that his actions were justified at his trial.
This is Wrong. This is about the old v1.1 API not the new v2 API https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/getting-st...
On a FIRST robot, we needed something similar. There's "full reverse", "full forward" and "I need fine control", and the original mapping of joystick to wheel motors was linear. It didn't work well for "fine control". We ended up with motor = joystick³ (or some other odd, greater than 1 power; it might have been ⁵). Then you fix, via coefficients, the endpoints of the equation such that the lowest joystick value hits the full-reverse motor setting, and vice versa for forward. The exponent dampens the curve near zero, so there's more "joystick space" spent on the very slow speeds for the fine control, but the operator can still ask for max speed if they want it.

(With joysticks, you also have to deadzone the middle, as "operator has centered the joystick" will sometimes report joystick values of 1 or -1, instead of 0. Or buy a better joystick.)

I'm not 100% sure I'd apply this to a shower: max hot on my shower is hot, I don't usually ever want it. And I wouldn't want to scald someone.

For a long while, our shower was not the typical tiny goldilocks zone surrounded by ice and lava: … it never really got above "lukewarm", even at max. We had the shower valve replaced and it works better now. (And, apparently, as I learned, there's a mixing valve at the hot water heater: i.e., the hot to the shower is not direct from the water heater, like I had imagined. We raised the temp there, slightly.)
I haven't tried but it must be doable at low-res low-framerate conditions, where CPUs still have plenty of time left between the frames and frames aren't big (so maybe it can even fully decode those JPEGs, not just extract the DC coefficients for a quick-and-dirty hacks).

It's just the advertising page that sounds kinda unbelievable: low power, night vision, image analysis on the device, perfect for wildlife monitoring, can detect pests on crops (implying high resolution unless we're talking about deer and rabbits lol), etc etc.
Just add a gear affixed to the handle, and then a second gear mated with that, and find the gearing ratio that allows the granular/sensitive inputs you want.
I don't have anything against Apple pundits - I enjoy Marco's posts and will often go to his Twitter to see his views on an Apple announcement. But Gruber is beyond just a pundit.
Well in perl there’s a concept of sigils.

my @num = (1, 2, 3);

my $num = 25;

say $num[1];

So that last line prints 2, which is obvious by looking at it, but can be difficult in more complex code when you’re overloading names by the way the variable is accessed.

Everything in perl is a rabbit hole of details, as an aside.

Anyhow, I just appreciate that the symbols always mean the same thing. Takes a load off of my brain. Like a single character type annotation, kinda.
Presumably prison/jail population statistics - there are certainly more males imprisoned for violent crimes than women, it's like a 10:1 ratio.

Of course, the likes of Brock Turner and Prince Andrew demonstrate that some demographic groups are relatively less punished or relatively more able to avoid punishment, so the prison population surely doesn't directly measure inherent tendencies.
And before that US GDP was down for two quarters in a row meeting the basic requirements of a recession even outside of rising inflation last year.

Companies also do not wait for an institution or someone else to tell them it is officially too late to prepare for one.

They prepare in advance rather than wait for years afterwards.
That seems not great.
Are you sure you’ve got the cause and effect there?

So let’s say hypothetically Apple did implement RCS support in iMessage thus introducing a fourth messaging protocol into the mix (SMS, MMS, iMessage) and we just ignore that it’s more “standard” than standard and is probably only properly implemented by exactly Google anyway, and we disregard the dozens of cross platform alternatives to RCS, SMS and iMessage: why wouldn’t Apple just make the bubbles for RCS yellow or orange or red or something? The actual visual style is a holdover from iChat which you could visually theme (and those were options) and bringing blue bubbles in was intended to visually distinguish which protocol you were sending a message down the virtual wire on so you knew not to try and use iMessage features with someone that could only receive SMS and MMS messages.

Is the concern the color of the bubbles, or is the concern the lack of RCS?
My annecdata (I unfortunately have more Apple devices than I care to count):

- I keep my iPhones for 3+ generations (that number is increasing)

- Love my Apple Watch (+ AirPods + rescue dog => 1 hour daily walks)

- iPad does nothing for me -> gave to kids

- Macbook Air M1 is awesome, but will upgrade if rumored 15" M2 version arrives

- iMac 5K is wonderful; nothing tempts me away from that yet
I'm not privy to how they calculated the numbers but typically title changes are accounted for.
Yeah, even though revenue increased a modest amount, the drop in income / profit should have investors worried.
I wish I could say the same. The ones I've been harassed by I usually respond telling them to give me their salary information and I'll get back to them. They don't like that and usually don't return.
Well my point is only that a person reading my comments comes to see their "intuitive nationalism" as an explicit feature of their thinking, rather than a natural fact of the world.

My analysis doesnt need to be 100% to show that even the very idea of "invasion" in the modern sense is full of contingencies we don't acknowledge.

What a weird thing, no, in the history of the world that the US invades iraq and wishes for it to govern "itself".

Once you remove the "Nation" from your thinking, various issues become clearer, esp. why so many "countries" appear unstable. Ie., politically they are countries, but havent yet "progressed" to "default nationalism".

Once a region adopts nationalism, it seems there's no going back; and people of that Nation are fundamentally radicalised by that notion. There are "borders", "immigration" and indeed -- how strangely -- "illegal" immigration; there are armies, and you should join one if you're "invaded".

These ideas appear in our thinking as transparent, obvious, facts of the world; and if we feel they are violated, then we feel outraged -- and would act very severely to get redress. This is radicalism, and a certain "liberal nationalism" has deeply radicalised the west.

I think, foremost, we want Ukraine to fight Russia because we believe Ukraine to be a Nation. I think something many of its own people did not think 20 years ago, and now, many die because they believe it.
> There are no existential risks from Oil.

You uh, sure about that one?
> On September 16, Alves succeeded in puncturing the capsule's aperture window with a screwdriver, allowing him to see a deep blue light coming from the tiny opening he had created. He inserted the screwdriver and successfully scooped out some of the glowing substance. Thinking it was perhaps a type of gunpowder, he tried to light it, but the powder would not ignite.

Kiss Me Deadly (1955) Last scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOtApnSjX1Y
Go look at the extent of anti-BDS legislation and how appeals courts have upheld it in spite of 40 year old precedents to the contrary then talk about “free speech”.
The amount of water wasted waiting for the water to warm up must be astronomical. In my place it can take three or four minutes of the water running to get warm - if not longer - and I don't think that's atypical.

Multiply this by 7 days a week by everyone who showers in California alone and it seems like an issue that should get some serious attention.
NSF Grant: Language Technologies Against the Language of Social Discrimination
I'm quite the opposite. This style of writing is quite refreshing. It's playful, has enough technical details and is easy to read.
Not seeing how this would be anti-competitive.

* Third party stores and payment methods are allowed.

* Developers free to choose which one they want.

* Apple charges 15-30% to developers as a license cost.
I'm doubtful of this. Apple has more than enough cash to keep the ball rolling on R&D to weather this recession we keep hearing is "about to hit us" and the R&D cycle takes years anyway.

Current/future state of the economy aside, I think the whole tech industry is hitting this point where nobody really knows what to else to add to phones. It's really just refinement on the tech at this point. Wanna know what they'll do for iPhone in the next 5 years? Better camera, usb-c, add touch ID again, screen will go further to the edges, better screen, change in form factor (maybe thinner again), maybe maybe some folding option in in 5 years if that ends up being a large enough market, and lots of software tweaks.

We've run out obvious improvements that would make the average joe go out and upgrade their iphone/macbook. M1 was great, but now that I have it do I really need M2? Not for my needs. Maybe widespread VR/AR will be that next thing, but man Apple's gotta do that right from the get-go or they'll leave a bad taste in people's mouths.
I Forgive You, Mom
Yes, that one leapt out at me in the comparison between 'Democrat voter' and 'Republican voter'. The term 'Democrat' is almost always used as a slur, while 'Republican' is just the mainstream term.
Will AAPL play the layoff card?
In every company I worked at, Salesforce and HubSpot has been a struggle. The sync breaks, the Salesforce logs are hard to decipher. We had a full-time person dedicated to reconciling the billing with the CRM, and even sometimes manually syncing them yeesh. Im sure they’d be thankful for any tools that could help - happy to connect you if you’d like. Info in my profile

Out of curiosity, how do you guys detect sync issues? Will you handle the reverse-ETL side as well?
> He believes that even the most open digital formats will become obscure and forgotten eventually and no one will really be able to playback lots of music that was only recorded that way.

Oh please. Just use raw PCM audio. No one will ever lose track of how to play that.

A 10.5 inch reel of 2 inch tape can be digitized just fine to 16 bit samples, 44/48kHz, 24 channels, most of an hour. That's about 7 gigabytes. So you could back up a huge number of digitized tapes to a dozen different locations quite easily. You could put a thousand of them on a pocket SSD.
> It's hard to have a counterculture when the dominant tools are all owned by huge corporations and governments.

Yes, that is one of the problems (it is not only things that can be problems, though).

> Well, it seems that hacker culture and open source software would be the antidote to all these.

I think it will not cure everything, but I think that it will help. However, in addition to the software being FOSS, it also needs to be good. (Fortunately, FOSS can help a bit since it makes it possible to make improvements, but that doesn't automatically make it good.)
Why is this? I can respond to SMS and MMS via the Messages all in MacOS.
"The first casualty when war comes is truth."

I was too young to follow the Iraq invasion as it happened, only look back on it sometimes as a clear example. Now with the Ukraine war, while I understand it's a different situation from Iraq, I don't expect our news to faithfully report any facts that could possibly be used to support the Russian narrative. Among the first mainstream reports here were straight martyr propaganda about the Snake Island guards, repeating unconfirmed reports of their deaths later found incorrect. And anyone pushing the Russian side isn't more trustworthy. I give the overall US-Ukraine side in this conflict the benefit of the doubt only because I knew enough about Putin's antics before the war started, otherwise I'd honestly be lost.
Not a harmless technique. Similar to the assholes we all know who say "Can't you take a joke?" after saying some really mean shit and then laughing at the victim.
No worries, it took about 10 seconds to copy paste that
Boomers already retired a while back, with even fewer exceptions after covid.
Natural, since this agile crap is a whip for the code monkey slaves. Enjoy the absurdity.
You probably meant to say Singapore.
None of that will work because the liability/ideological pressure doesn't care about truth. It cares about subjective acceptable speech.

Simple example: men are far more often the victim of violence compared to women. So the age old idea that women should be afraid to go out at night may be true, it is even more true for men.

By your logic, this would afford more hate towards women, and less hate against men.

This truth nor the outcome isn't acceptable as it doesn't fit the narrative. It would be rejected, diluted, there's a 100 tactics to undermine truth if you approach it in bad faith.

Further, your approach of differentiation is inherently racist, sexist, etc or can be perceived as such. Giving special protections to identities also tends to humiliate them as you signal that they are "less". Inferior. Can't make it on their own.

Or, the exact opposite: it can be weaponized. Collecting the labels like pokemons.
Fair enough! Apologies! It’s been a common topic on HN for the past year or maybe even more at this point, so I assumed prior knowledge.

Cheers!
Well, I for one hope I don't have to work with people, who only ever spent the minimal effort even including cheating on assignments, because their shortcomings will be what I have to deal with, because they cannot stem (or lift, ha!) their weight. But in reality it is highly unlikely, that one will never have to work with such people. I guess more realistically I should hope for not encountering too many of them.
It's interesting how many people comment on nix without seeming to know anything about it. Why?

Nix doesn't replace cargo. It would use cargo under the hood. If Cargo supports Windows builds, those builds will work with nix. However, nix (probably) doesn't give you anything additional in this case.
Order Temporarily Adding More Conditions to SBF Release Pending Hearing Feb 7 [pdf]
Curious about the technology behind that. How are you guys handling the customization side of thing ? Every company uses it in a slightly different way, with custom models and UI.
Extremely rudimentary :) back then, SURF and SIFT were just starting to get big (they are both obsolete now in favor of more robust machine learning techniques) and I wasn't even doing that.
Linear scanner based DIY camera
One claim I've seen is that men commit more violent crime because it's more common for a man to be physically stronger than another person, while the rates of non-physial violence are much closer across gender boundaries.
FBI Seeks Information on Ion Hack That Disrupted Derivatives
Cheers. Now I have to think of a way to model that kind of thing shooting out of a Stormsurge:

https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/KV128_Stormsurge?file=K...
The ranking arms race isn't against competitors, it's against SEOs.
How Are the Frogs?
That is only the game-logic (which has been 'open' since 1999) and not the engine. That is under a proprietary license and as per terms of the license incompatible with the code that the projects here are using (which are GPL, as they take code from the open-source Quake engines and community projects that have been created over the past 2 decades).

However the projects in question are outside of US jurisdiction for that to matter. They are in violation of id software's and Valve's copyright though.

You can find the original HL SDK license here https://pastebin.com/pAVKk1NL
The copy on GitHub has just a find-replace of the Source Engine license, which is not compatible as well. Seems like Human Error either way.