skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe the environment is actually their primary goal. Your cynical take necessarily invents a hidden motive, uncharitable to attribute to Apple.
I love KDE Plasma, the desktop edition, and also many of the apps that KDE creates. There is simply no better desktop in existance today even when looking at closed/proprietary alternatives. And I sure hope I could some day use Plasma mobile edition on a full proper GNU/Linux powered smartphone. Great work KDE developers and a big huge thank you for all you offer us.
Well, not right now as the police just arrested them.
So what would you have Apple do instead when a device is attached to an account? Allow Apple a backdoor inside every device they sell to remove MDM and/or Find My?
LLM's are Autocomplete all the things
I think an adherence to purity makes a lot of sense for the FSF, but they could still keep it while compromising a bit on the very edges of it without changing anything fundamental.

Eg, they refuse to use Youtube. Using it would involve a tiny bit of nose holding on their part, but they could still use it to spread their message.
The threshold where kids “need glasses” isn’t the same threshold where people would be unable to survive in the wild without them.

Also, species level survival is based around fairly large families you see before birth control. Not everyone needs to make it.
For most British people of my age learning up to 20^2 would be 2.8x larger as we had to learn times table to 12.

https://blog.jgc.org/2010/06/duodecimal.html
> Building apps for iOS requires support for native Sign in with Apple

This part isn't 100% true. It is only a requirement if you have some other form of social login (such as "Login with Facebook") and your app isn't specifically made for using data from that platform (such as a Facebook page managemenet app) [0].

You don't need Sign in with Apple if you only use your own account system.

[0]https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#sig...
How is that different if you replace "engineering" with anything else? _x_ management is _x_ plus leadership for all _x_.
A useful source was literally cited in the comment I replied to. Look at rankings of cities by crime. You will find SF and NYC close to the bottom of the pack on murders, but toward the top on property crimes and low-level violent crimes.

As to the ignoring crimes, here you go: https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/06/us/alvin-bragg-manhattan-dist...
You are dishonest here. It‘s without a question that we would need far less coal if we still had our remaining 6 nuclear power plants running. We could be pretty much out of coal by now if we would have phased out of coal before nuclear.
I am more of an open-source than free-software advocate.

I think this post explains it well and it was also my reaction to DeVault's post. I have no opinion on whether the FSF is dying but what I did not understand about DeVault's post is what they can do about it. The only reason for FSF to exist is to protect the rights of the users of software, often at the expense of the developers. That is why copyleft exists, why the FSF exists. They cannot "change" and embrace open source and still have any purpose.

You could argue that they could be friendlier to OSS but if they are, how does that help the free software movement?

For the free software movement to be successful the open source movement has to be less successful. More developers need to embrace copyleft licenses over MIT, BSD, Apache.

As a developer, my interest in open source has always been in engaging with other developers. I prefer that model, even if a company wants to go make money off my code. I had option to choose a different license, or not contribute to an existing project. I did so for the collaboration and opportunity to work with other developers to solve the same problem I needed to solve. Copyleft licensed software, more often than not, has other goals.
https://archive.is/iOhwW
Name a brand thats better in providing software updates and security patches for their fleet of phones.

Repairability is a fair complaint - but the initial lifespan of $android is max 2 years. I consider it broken once it does not receive security updates. So $android phone is “broken” after 2 years.
Sure, Linux and BSD tools are used by people all of the time here, in the same way that like, a meat eater eats broccoli, but that doesn't make them vegetarian.

It just doesn't stop where it would need to for people to be aligned with the FSF. People here, in the majority, whack on "ALLOW_UNFREE_PACKAGES" and just get on with it. Or install unfree OSes, or use unfree hardware.

It's just not a focus at all.
Yes, violence against homeless people is not only an under-reported phenomenon, its link to inciting further violence and crime is also under-reported. Thank you for highlighting it, if a little indirectly.
This website is a treasure trove of emacs config goodness. Bookmarked to come back to to explore switching from vim once again.
> Is it meant to just mean "made available"

Yes it's literally that. Like it or not, "democratize" is what we are using now as a convenient single word to mean "make available."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28451379

You can also search "democratized and made available" and see so many examples where it's used this way.
You just extrapolated that narrative up in your head. The OP said nothing that remotely hinted at that.
I have a family member who is a police officer (investigator) in another country. I was telling them about this killing and how crazy things seemed in San Francisco during my last visit.

His first and only response was "well, how do you know that's even related? Most people get killed by somebody they know." and I was like "well, yeah, but San Francisco is bad right now" and the conversation moved on.
"Overall crime" and "violent crime" are not the same thing. No one is arguing against there being a lot of property crime.
The two things stopping me from getting a Macbook are the metal chassis (it's uncomfortable) and lack of a good data recovery story.
Yes but in this case you'd be sharing a meal with people who share your experience. They will understand your struggles since they are also struggling.
At the end what matters the most is who is operating the project and which laws they have to follow.

One point to keep in mind is that almost all open-source projects don't really have transparent builds, and the transparent builds are rarely built really transparent (using public compilers, etc), but more behind the curtains.

Plus, even an open-source app that would have perfectly transparent builds (which is not the case from what I've seen), the app publisher can find way to push targeted updates (via app stores), feature flags, betas or settings to very specific users, etc if compelled to do so.

And there is always a potential excuse that store builds don't match open-source code, because the stores are re-signing the apps (and changing the checksums).

So it's more about who you decide to trust, unless you build the client yourself, which is an extreme outlier.

Most Signal users I know (even very sensitive users), they have iOS, they don't build the code themselves, they don't review the code, etc.

They just press Install (and I understand them, I would do the same).
completely false. i know someone whose house is in a foot of water and is suffering immensely. not even close to "oh no big deal the water will be gone soon, lets go to the movies"
Giving a task to a team of programmers is similarly no-deterministic by nature. Otherwise we'd not see so many posts about budgets, planning, meetings, sprints and security bugs :)
If you're dead how are you posting?
A full list of projects that are being spun out as framework-agnostic:

- taffy: flexbox+css grid https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy

- blitz: html/css renderer
https://github.com/DioxusLabs/blitz

- sledgehammer: faster than websys bindings https://github.com/demonthos/sledgehammer/

- native-core: salsa but for UI trees https://github.com/DioxusLabs/dioxus/tree/master/packages/na...

- tui: native-core+terminal rendering

We want to make sure every part of the stack is available for anyone.
To add, put it this way, it's not pedantry: I really do not need my mother in law thinking that she is interacting with an entity when it turns up in some interface she uses. And she does, or is about 1mm from doing so.

That's the harm. "quacks like a duck" is not good enough to just let people operate as though it's a duck, and they are, and it's not ok and it's not harmless and it's not their own fault, it's yours and mine.
People want a lot of things. I doubt that Apple would have lost significant market share for not providing wireless charging.
True, but Germany is shutting down coal too. There is just a bit of delay, for multiple reasons, but mostly because of war and politics.
I’m not so sure this is the case. Older humans have societal roles that free time and resources for younger humans to breed more and work more so the group has more resources. The invention of grandparents was a big thing for our ancestors.
To be more accurate, evolution optimizes populations, not species.

Anyway - there are dangers we've evolved resistance to. We have powerful immune systems that fights off tons of diseases. But they fail against some diseases, and medicine helps us there (sometimes). Some of these diseases are extremely widespread and threaten populations.

Am I misunderstanding your comment?
Or, conversely, having to plan long-term because you'll be around for it. Imagine no statute of limitations on chucking barrels of toxic waste down a well.

Humans do okay with certain rates of change, but right now, the more nightmarish business is a problem for your great grandkids.
I love Stallman's views on free and open source software, but the FSF needs to get him an assistant or handler or something.
Tesla Optimus, OpenAI, and Embodiment
It has been suggested that Tesla could build hundreds of Optimus robots, set them loose in a mall, and let them learn things like avoiding each other, climbing steps, folding clothes, and working in groups.

A large number of similar robots would enable Tesla to gather data, similar to what they are doing with cars.

Combining Optimus with ChatGPT would give the GPT an embodiment. The conjecture is that embodiment is necessary for an AI to have agency.

The problem may be more subtle than it looks. OpenAI had a presentation showing the difficulty of moving from a simulation to an actual mechanical implementation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRsxoVB8Yng&list=PLOXw6I10VTv9DFXRidukLC2hgAAkmexWx&index=4&t=3442s
IMO "technological protection measures" should be legally significant in that they should prevent the ability to claim copyright. One should either get a government-granted limited monopoly on reproduction in exchange for it entering the public domain after that period, xor law of the information jungle when you attempt to keep society from using the work for all time - not the intersection of both.

Alternatively copyright could just require the original creative work being put in escrow, so that it's available after the limited monopoly period.
https://archive.ph/34URh
Not quite the same, but hostels give me a similar vibe. Sometimes I'll book a private room in a hostel even though it's more expensive than an entire Airbnb apartment. Makes it much easier to have things to do.
Here is one example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqk4XKsf8oM
It does only work for a subset of org-mode functionality, but for TODOs and similar I find Orgzly on Android works great. I sync between my laptop and phone via Syncthing.
Oxford is such a cool city, I lived there as a kid.
Research findings are not "intellectualization." Intellectualization is what those who don't actually research a subject do. However, I don't think anyone claims that there is are no innate biological effects on behaviour. It's just that its scope is hard to determine, and extrapolation one species to another has proven to be an unreliable means of making such determinations.
That's the point though: we have much better infant mortality rate now, and the kids who grow up don't need to worry about their eyesight etc., ergo we're doing better than evolution alone.
Maybe I should have clarified, that quote came from the bio which you get if you click on the author's name -- not from the body of the article. It does appear in a little "show more" box (at the end of the article) but the juicy conflict of interest bits are obscured by the "show more" link. That's not clear disclosure by journalistic standards.

Journalists put relevant conflict-of-interest disclosures right at the beginning of the article, with emphasis added. This guy is doing the opposite: using the Forbes site to make it look like he's a journalist employed by them, when in fact he's a consultant/investor with the very industry he's writing apologist articles for. Sure, he's not lying... he put it in the bio field. But it's still misrepresentation.
This made my heart sink
I was talking about crime in generally, not violent crime specifically.
The Internet Offered Us Freedom, We Chose Corporate Rule
Where I live is getting it's environmental act together. Whales have returned to New York Harbor. They're routinely found as far north as Cold Spring.

Dolphins, too. Fishing boats now run whale watching tours.

You can swim in the East River.

The Baiji is something I'd like to save, but have no control over, and those who _do_ have control over the situation dislike me.
Legion: An AWS Credential Harvester and SMTP Hijacker
I am not sure what you mean by "remote compilation".

I know there was Shen Professional that required a monthly subscription and it was on the server, however, Shen is available in different PL ports for free and local use. It is like a Haskelly Lisp. Very well thought out too with a great book that covers a lot of ground including PL history and logic.

I used to use Gambit Scheme, and although I have two linux machines, I work on Windows for my paying jobs. Gerbil doesn't seem to talk about a Windows install. I shy away from WSL, Cygwin, and MSYS2 in general.

I am learning Zig, and I have thought about porting Shen to Zig. The CL port of Shen is the main port (SBCL).
Is HN in the twitterverse? Because I sat back and watched people do the same thing here.
That's a fair point -- for whatever reason, I could never get into auto-hide for the menu bar (tho I do use it for the dock). I think maybe because I tend to trigger showing it accidentally too much (vs the dock on bottom where it's not an issue because usually there isn't other actionable stuff down there)?

But definitely, if you like menu-bar autohide where you're coming from makes sense.
So if 50 percent of the town I live in watches Fox News, and I don't -- I'm living in a bubble?
The cost is also never just the scaling of servers. Scaling introduces are different class of bugs / issues:

- database connection limits

- caches

- state changes

- handling graceful shutdown

- speed of provisioning new instances

... the list goes on ...
just to be fair "mentally ill" and "in tech" don't have to be mutually exclusive.
So are all the right wingers gonna apologize for pinning this on street crime?
In the Steve Jobs Lost Interview, he was extremely proud of having made Apple the number one company in printers in terms of profit when he was kicked out. He remembered all the business deals he made with Adobe and others to start Apple’s laser printers. You can tell he was sour they pissed away that advantage.
> People don't feel safe walking around and you can't just dismiss that. It's their "lived experience".

When I first visited Shanghai I was surprised how safe it felt.

Walking around at 3 AM and I didn't feel nervous at all.
OP isn't citing murder rates, they're citing "violent crime (total)" as mentioned in the linked article.
Then please explain a bit more than just throwing around some words.
Plausible deniability ~= source of reasonable doubt in a jury case, which criminal cases fundamentally are.

The bar to convict is "beyond a reasonable doubt". It's not as far a stretch of a colloquialidm as you think, though I'd second your caution around ever relying upon it as a legal strategy, as you have no guarantees that your jury will see plausible the same you do.
I completely agree that it's the ecosystem that gives the Pi its value. No argument from me there. I've shipped Pi's on commercial projects and recommended them for others (and been outvoted: old habits die hard!). I just don't want anyone thinking that they're any better, electrically, than the many other options out there.
How does it influence the comparison?

EDIT:

There is no mention of UCR as data source, where did you get it from?

https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/about-the-data/crime-rates
Would that be a problem? I mean, you want them to socialize, and they'll do for a while, even if not for "the right reasons".

If some of them do so more because the free coffee is that valuable to them, what's the downside with letting them have the free coffee you wanted to give away anyhow? Imho that would be a good opportunity to get them more support, not a problem with that approach.
They are part of the government and they are firmly anti nuclear and use their power. But sure, the base support for nuclear is low people who vote for them. Which is why even the CDU adopted it. Also I don't see, where I was bashing anything.
Foundational Models Are Not Enough
It’s hilarious when one is deep in an HN thread and the original point is completely missing.
That's a bit overengineered, come on, really it just needs docker compose.
It’s because they give clearances out like candy. One article mentioned 1.25 million of them to defense tangential people
Gig Workers Are Being Stabbed, Stoned, and Abused in India
Massive "citation needed" on this. The German Energiwende is a total catastrophe, the story about lack of water for plants is a tall tale. Here's a start: https://jancovici.com/en/energy-transition/societal-choices/...
GPT4 is also much more expensive to use, even at the probably-running-at-a-loss pricing. Accuracy per dollar and/or joule doesn't seem to be increasing too much.
The Innocence Project is one of my favorite donations. The fact that there isn't a publicly funded parallel effort is mind boggling. We spend so much effort convicting people and so little exonerating the innocent.

https://innocenceproject.org/
>one would rather have them do team activities like sport or boy/girl/mixed scout

Plenty of developed countries where mixed team activities are the norm and the fertility rates aren't looking that much better once you filter first/second generation immigrants (including, many are already bordering on Japan's levels).

Having them do sports together until the age of 18 isn't going to solve the increasing cost of milestones, consumerism, increasing standards pushed by multimedia, crushing work cultures, pushing the norm to 30+, and more. Several of the aforementioned countries don't have half of these and still sit at 1.6 or less, while continuing to drop.
My thought here is that the same people complaining about wireless charging efficiency would be the ones complaining if Apple didn't offer it.

Can't win.

They offer a more efficient version of a feature everyone wants. Complain that everyone else is doing it worse.
I'm of the opinion that people who are known for x, e.g., their opinions on FOSS, should stay in their lane and only really discuss topics they have a good grasp of, otherwise they're soon going to be lambasted for any momentary lapse of judgement or lack of knowledge.

That isn't to say that I'm saying Stallman should shut the fuck up about anything that isn't software, but I am saying that it's a problem that would have been easily avoided with common sense applied.

If you are in the public eye, and your career depends on your reputation and public image, it would be beneficial to have a third-party coach you through basics of interacting with press, thinking many times before speaking etc.

Nobody asked him for these opinions. He's the last person I'd want an opinion on these topics from, and all I want to hear about from Stallman is FOSS, maybe culture. Nothing else, that's not what he's known for.
> How do you think they should have done it instead?

Launched it as a start-up with unfair access to Google's resources. There was no way for it to work under Google's aegis.
"Help!" he shouted, according to a local report. "Someone stabbed me." [1]

He was in the car with suspect yet he says "someone stabbed me" ??

https://www.foxnews.com/us/cash-app-founder-bob-lee-died-ple...

edit: it still doesn't make sense to me. If someone I know stabs me and I assume I have few minutes to live and call 911, I would say "help, Joe Doe stabbed me". I wouldn't say "someone", because that implies a stranger.
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> every website gets to read only its own cookies

My understanding is, it's a simplified explanation for a somewhat more complex policy.

The obvious thing - every site gets its own cookies - has always been the case: Those are first-party cookies.

The question is what happens when one site embeds content from a different site. Traditionally, there was no special behaviour for that case: If site A embeds an iframe from site B, the top-level document gets to see the cookies for A while the embedded document gets to see the cookies for site B. B's cookies here are 3rd-party cookies.

The problem is that the two documents can communicate, so if site B is embedded into many other sites, B and the other sites can cooperate to track the user across them using B's cookies as a sort of shared identifier. (Or more commonly, B will do the tracking and pay/otherwise incentivise the other sites to embed itself and pass the necessary information to the embedded document)

To avoid this, TCP introduces another level of partitioning: Cookies are not just partitioned by which site has access to it but also by the top-level site.

So site B now doesn't get a single cookie jar as before, it will get several jars "B, embedded by A", "B embedded by C", "B top-level" etc with separate sets of cookies. Hence it becomes impossible to pass a common identifier from one top-level site to another one and (this particular way of) cross-site tracking won't work anymore.
Nah, there's something to this: "move fast and break things" sure. Like, the tech bubble hasn't been kind to everyone. There is a sort of "bubble up and push everyone else" type of unrestrained competitiveness--sort of like (in analogy or simile, not hi-fi) the "sociopathic corporate culture" of the 80s that Bret Easton Ellis tries to skewer in American Psycho.

Capitalism and corporatism has always been violent, in many senses of the word (not just American, consider the various colonial "East India" companies). So while that's not new, there's something to the idea that particularly effusive emanations of corporate splendor or their nexes are coupled to physical violence, destruction and moral collapsism pragmas.
Are you sure your phone is still waterproof?
Good luck with that: https://groups.google.com/a/mysociety.org/g/mysociety-commun...
I would expect they do not, unfortunately. They could likely request a transfer to a different position but that would be up to their chain of command to act on. AFAIK, there is no pipeline to handle "Hey boss I've become disillusioned and I want out"
there is also the narrative that these tests are designed by secret groups (ran by whom you ask?) to have such stack ranking to keep white people down and not realizing their true potential. i don't know how anyone sees racial IQ discussion and not realize it is always going to devolve into nazis.