skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But then there's no worth in that research (apart from trying to find a way to more reliable theories). Bad research should be ignored, not taken as "evidence based".
> I think every game I bought in the last few years was a result of me seeing a stream of someone having fun playing it. I know others who do the same.

Considering the stable sales of Nintendo products, this still seems to work despite Nintendo policing content for many years now.

So despite smaller blips like this one, one might argue that they're actually quite good in curating the content they want to use for marketing...
Yeah, this is mostly correct. Source: worked there for 9 years.
Could you make examples? Do you think European bankers work less hard than their american counterparts? Or who does that?

European software engineers? Or is it European lawyers that do less? Or accountants?

It seems to me like you're overgeneralizing.

While I don't doubt that US can have a more competitive nature compared to many countries (in Europe we care much less about status or what other people think about our car and how big is our house, we aren't that insecure) I still think that the scenario you present is just an average where there's more incentives for great performers and low performers to perform better, but the median isn't different at all.
At what point does an investment with Apple actually become just as safe if not safer than the FDIC? Neither is realistically going to fail, but with the debt ceiling once again rearing it’s head, I have more trust in the leadership of Apple not doing something stupid than I do in the US government not doing something stupid. Governmental incompetency and dysfunction seems like a bigger risk than insolvency of Apple.
One connection might be session musicians from Motown playing on house tracks. I believe Mad Mike Banks was a keyboard player and the whole Underground Resistance ethos came from his disillusionment with the music industry.
That time my daughter proudly announced “look Daddy, I can read this book with my eyes closed”
Google needs platforms.
platforms only need to browse web.
platforms wear the pants.
Repository Rules Public Beta
If it's well run it usually takes less than 10 minutes per pizza team.
> Google constant failure astonish me. How a company with so much money, so many wonderful engineers can't produce a source of income other than the search engine?

I have a slightly different answer than most of the other replies, which is that Google just got too big. I worked there for 10 years (left a year ago for a smaller company) and the amount of inefficiency and waste due to having too many layers of middle management with no real visibility into what was going on was just astounding. Over that decade they paid me millions of dollars in total, while canceling whatever I was working on almost exactly every 18 months like clockwork. Typically due to management issues or corporate politics rather than for any real technical or business reason.
Interesting point. I also hope that Apple will allow sideloads into these permission-less sandboxes.

Imagine two classes of sandbox: offline with loads of permissions, online with no permissions. Offline apps will obviously have to be paid for upfront. Online apps will have a subscription model.
This is a chance, stay with me here, that humans and LLMs learn differently.
Doujintsi mangas have been since forever.
> I'm the opposite, as looking at android, where do we see this?

Where do we see Android devices with apps like Facebook preinstalled, unremovable and granted root permissions? All over the ecosystem.
Please read the article or at least look at the image of their setup;
they only switch on the inverter occasionally to power their main computer and monitors
Fleeting thought: is there any significant company that grew to a big (yet effective) size that's also a great example of NIH'ing their ERP?

(edit: I mean, good homegrown ERP tooling, not excel sheets connected to a database)
Original Wilhelm Scream studio recording found
What I, and probably many of us want, is a way to keep just enough cash in a checking account at a too big to fail bank while the rest is earning yield at Betterment, Wealthfront, other 4% or more APR locations, automatically topping off the checking account as needed.
English is an alphabetic language not a phonetic one.

In a phonetic language, you can pronounce a word just based on its written representation.

Just compare current and paste tense of read. It is spelled the same but pronounced differently.

You can argue it is an phonetically inconsistent language. However, you will find most of inconsistencies occur in the most frequently used words, making it hard for a beginner.
My kids love that book, and my oldest had me read it to his preschool class earlier this year.

Here is a much more creative reading by Ludacris [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFtHeo7oMSU
This seems very Stockholmy. $BIGCORP is interpreting law beyond what is actually says and is using the automated systems of $MONOPOLYCORP to make life harder for this one person for doing things well within their rights because he decided to ask for clarification and to talk.

Maybe we should just lie back and think of the mushroom kingdom?
You can imagine each language as a painters’ pallete.

Each letter combination is a colour. You only have access to some colours, but not all.

Some colours (letter combinations) look good together, and others don’t. When they don’t, you try to see the “colour” as another one until it makes sense (looking for context). Kind of like “what colour is dress”.

To speak to your British English example, you also know that some places (i.e. regional dialects) don’t use a standard colour and only use one they “whipped up” at home.

If you have access to multiple palletes (i.e you are multilingual), you realize some colours might be similar but not always the same. If there are similar colours, they each have a different “shade”. Paint consistency might also vary.

This is also how you can learn to talk in accents. Instead of using native sounds to pronounce a word in one language, you “dip” into a “sound palette” of another language to try to get as close as you can to the original word.
Full-time software developer with a traditional employer (not a startup).

I don't work nights and weekends. I would have no problem with the occasional extra labor in special circumstances, but if it was a regular thing I would just find another job.

If I worked all weekend, would the CEO be grateful? Would he come over and mow my lawn while I was working? What if I volunteered my labor around his house for the weekend? Would he be grateful enough to properly staff the engineering department of his company?

Working nights and weekends deprives your peers of the opportunity for a job. Every hour you work is one less hour ownership has to pay for. You are suppressing your wage and the wages of your peers.
> "structural adjustments" that serve to prevent any own industrial development and thereby the chance to gain value-added wealth

Concrete example of this interference: the US blocked Brazil's attempts to cooperate with other nations (Ukraine, no less) in a bid to develop its own aerospace industry and rocket technology. Apparently having missiles is an FVEY privilege.

https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09STATE3691_a.html
Exactly. Transparency protects integrity.
On U-Boot / “Skunkworks” projects
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He comes off to me as someone in a funk, or stupor, or depression. Like he's out of touch, out of grasp with realities, and I think changes and things at google have probably hurt their culture quite a bit over the years. The best engineers in the world will churn out shit, if they aren't inspired to at least do exciting things sometimes, and I think Google's lost that thing that made them excite developers.
What do you think an American tourist overseas wants when they ask for [football scores]?

Do you think an ergonomics engineer logged in from the office and a musician in their studio might want different things when they search for [keyboard reviews]?

How about a 16-year-old male native Texan versus a 62-year-old female immigrant with a degree in fine arts who search for [nearby movies]?
That's why I prefaced the statements with “most decent countries”, etc. The U.S. health care system doesn't qualify as decent for the richest country on earth in the XXI century, unfortunatly.
> Apple is venturing into advertising

It's not the advertising part that is problematic. It's the part where you relentlessly spy on everyone to make selling ads more profitable.
Google should respond by charging Samsung a healthy licensing fee to use Google services and receive security and OS updates. They should also re-evaluate their Android licensing model and make it free for non commercial applications only.
Apple finally launches high-yield Apple Savings account – AppleInsider
I don't identify as handicapped, but I have RSI issues in my wrists and need a special keyboard to type. When it occasionally breaks and needs repair, I am devastated. When occasionally someone gets the idea to make a joke about it (like once someone joked about pouring wine on it) - I am not at all amused. My keyboard does feel a sort of limb.
Interest rates still need to go higher if garbage like this is getting funded.
Only Apple sells iPhones, so I wouldn’t worry about preinstalled 3rd party apps with root permissions like we see on Android phones.
> where did I go wrong

Credit unions are typically more competitive than big banks in general. If you truly want to make the most out of every penny then you should be unbundling your bank services (checking at CU A, savings at CU B, credit at X, etc.). This is especially easy with credit unions because they are typically part of a cooperative that streamlines inter-bank transfers (it usually takes < 24hr to transfer between my savings and checking).

There can be higher yield options for long-term savings (depending on market conditions at the time). The classical wisdom is to keep your money in CDs[1], but you're locking in an interest rate for <duration>, so if interest rates go up you could lose out.

If you're saving for more than a couple (1-3) of years you really should be looking at handing over some of your money to someone who profits when you profit (money market or brokerage). Remember that even at the current ~5% of CDs, the banks have ensured that they will be making a profit even during moderate market turmoil.

It's also not a bad idea to invest in something that is guaranteed to maintain value (such a gold or platinum), to hedge against recessions.

[1]: https://www.bankrate.com/banking/cds/cd-rates/
Like the music industry? Like cell phones? Both of these were awful pools to wade into when Apple got involved.
That's how you find any reciprocal function's derivative. If g = f^{-1}, then g'(y) = 1/f'(g(y)).
Good article, but some points I disagree with.

> but if you go anywhere except to the manufacturer when you update a motherboard, you deserve to be busted down to abacus operator.

Well, good luck finding drivers and firmware. Realtek used to be real bad, Compal used to pull their archives for "discontinued models" the day the devices were EOL. Microsoft thankfully forced OEMs selling Windows PCs/laptops to provide Windows Update integration for drivers because the situation got out of hand, but for accessories it's still the Wild West and it's very difficult to find archives for stuff that's been discontinued or where the vendor went through half a dozen worth of mergers.

Not to mention SEO scammers hijacking "<manufacturer> drivers" search terms to a degree that they get the first Google listing and then use dark patterns to get people to download malware. We can't expect users to be able to detect SEO spam, not in times where criminals clone entire newspaper or bank sites to pull off extremely convincing scams.

> Companies like using firmware to lock down their devices to business models – even when, as Sonos discovered, those models can provoke customer rebellion.

For some things, particularly anything involving RF communications, there are legal requirements to not let people access chips in a way that allows them to manipulate the signal, e.g. by using them as SDRs, using frequency bands not allowed, or using too much power for the amplifiers.

In other cases, they're forced to do so because they wouldn't get content... Netflix and other streaming apps are really bad here, it's a constant hassle to get it running on rooted Android devices.

And apps like in banking enforce un-modified firmware to limit legal exposure when people get hacked. It doesn't make sense because the risk model is just the same as online banking on a PC, but here we are... (conveniently ignoring the bullshit South Korean banks pull based on long-outdated laws).
I agree narrative (and contextual) elements are critical to aesthetic enjoyment. It can be nigh-impossible to effectively judge a work of art purely on technical merit, as people desire and expect it has 'something to say' - a pragmatic purpose.

However, many of our narrative characters already are at least part-fiction. I mostly agree with you, but I also suspect that generated art could be attached to narrative characters in a shared fictional cultural anthology to achieve the same end. For example, if someone created a FakeDrake character, and wrote stories about them, and a following around FakeDrake popped up, that character would serve a narrative function and the work of that character could be perfectly authentic. One might expect that the work being secretly produced by a human instead of machine would be viewed as a form of inauthenticity.
Yeah, today it doesn’t matter at all. The others I referenced in my post were other people in college, e.g. while I was applying to internships, not anyone today. Though I do still include it on my resume, I had kind of assumed that people will think it was very low if you omit it.
I understand most of the concerns by hardware manufacturers for not publishing their firmware source code, however if they did that after the product is declared obsolete, or at least if they would unlock bootloaders and publish enough documentation so that new firmware could be developed, that would give the community a way to recycle old hardware without them surrendering most of their precious IP.
The same thing that happened before: you either chose to install it and side-load it or you don't. Side-loading is something that only a very marginal minority of people do. I don't understand the fearmongering.

Anyway when you sideload an app on an Android phone, the APK is scanned to check if it's secure to install.

Permission wise, nothing changes.

Policy wise, it means no Apple tax and maybe some publisher will be able to cut prices, to the users' benefit.
Same boat. He is in SPS now, but as a kindergartener. We will kick the can down the road and do something if he gets bogged down in a watered down curriculum. I get the equalization goal, but when kids in China are starting calculus, not algebra, in 9th grade, we can't just ignore that.
> they are just as if not more "privacy hostile" as Facebook/Google/etc

You're going to have to back that up. Apple is degrading their privacy value prop for sure, but show me their Cambridge Analytica or their "Incognito mode" that still ties web activity back to user identity.

> How is this good for privacy?

That's a straw man. It is possible to believe that 1) Apple is curbing the worst excesses of abusers like Facebook, AND ALSO 2) Apple is making some mistakes that weaken their own privacy story.

> Apple was pulling a monopolistic move and kneecapping their competition for profits sake.

This is a recurring theme on HN and I find it so strange. Are we really supposed to form opinions on what we imagine faceless committees motives are, rather than the actual corporate actions?

I honestly don't care why Facebook does the things they do. My opinion would not change if it turned out it was from the most noble and altruistic motives. Just like I'll judge Apple for what they do. I don't think it's fruitful to argue about whether individual people are a "good person" or "bad person", and it's even less meaningful for giant multinationals.
An unattractive decision is still a decision you can make.

If you believe so strongly that you shouldn't sideload applications, you absolutely have the choice to not do it. It may not be a choice that you like, but it is a choice available to you. Which I think is what's so wonderful about this whole situation. It's opening up options that were previously unavailable.

Besides, this kind of Sophie's Choice has been around forever. Your friends all use Facebook Messenger but you're morally against Meta. Do you compromise your principles so you can see gifs your friends post or do you stand your ground and potentially miss out?

It's just a variation on another theme that's been around for ages. Only this time it actually adds exciting possibilities rather than a binary 'use' or 'don't use' choice.
For the money part, https://www.businessofapps.com/data/app-revenues/

iOS is 15% of the mobile device market but generates 67% of the app revenue.
I heard of this story years ago, and was very dismayed. (There is no date on this website is this something new?)

however the last 2 years I've experienced kids being taught to read in US public school kindergarten and the curriculum was nothing like was described in this series. They were taught phonics and memorized common non-phonetic words the same way I was taught 30 years ago.
The difference between the Play store and the Apple App store is that the Play store doesn't even pretend to protect against apps that do underhanded, unexpected, and intrusive things. There are numerous stories of iOS apps being pulled out of the store for using private APIs to bypass this or that protection.
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The only commercial comparable I'm aware of is https://www.notch.one/
Great, can’t wait to see what apps my parents get tricked into installing.
Eh. Yes and no.

Homebrew may be a wonderful product, but that doesn't make the creator a wonderful engineer. Useful things can be poorly created. And this is not to shit on either Homebrew or Max Howell. I personally do not know if Howell is a wonderful engineer or not. He's obviously competent enough to ship working software. That's not nothing.

And everyone has an idea on how to improve everything. Sometimes we're right, sometimes we're wrong. And even when we're right, it doesn't make us right all the time. You can't really select for "the ability to create things that people want to use". No one's track record is flawless. It's very nearly a crapshoot.

Basically, you're putting Howell on a pedestal, in much the same manner you're accusing others of doing so with Google employees.

I think traveler01 does have a valid question. Essentially, with all of their engineers, why is Google so limited? And I don't think it's a matter of not being able to ship stuff that people use. Google Drive, GMail, etc. They just don't seem to be able to monetize beyond ads. Maybe their fault isn't in pure engineering.

And to be fair to the hiring process at Google at the time he interviewed, Google was an "all yes" kind of place. If anyone had any sort of hesitation, that could cause a candidate to be rejected. Their philosophy was that it was better to reject a good candidate than hire a bad one. So all he had to do was have one off hour, and that could have killed his entire interview. I personally don't think being rejected by Google's hiring committee is a mark against anyone. To get even that far requires a certain level of skill and/or talent.
what makes america great, is the current system or ie rule of law and institutions. those yeah are being destroyed bit by bit. by oligarchs and nefarious individuals. but in terms of laws / institutions that are not easily influenced by current politics - america is still ahead.

mexico etc the courts etc are easily corrupted. hence they can never be #1.

same for every other poor country.

the other country that I can think of with almost comparable laws to the states is the uk i.e favourable to enterprise -- but they're not doing enough to encourage labor participation
Browsers could do two little things.

Firstly, when mousing over a link which will open in a new tab, show a different pointer. I get a hand with the index finger extended when hovering over a normal link; it could be that but with a diagonal arrow, like the common "open in new window" badge, for a link which opens in a new tab.

Secondly, in the context menu for a link which will open in a new tab, replace the "open link in new tab" option with "open link in this tab".

As long as links are real links, and not JavaScript devilry, this would 85% fix it for me.
Sorry, if it's available in the play store, why do I have to sideload it for Android?
iOS users spend more than Android users, and are even becoming the majority in the US. Here's some citation: https://nix-united.com/blog/are-android-vs-ios-users-really-...
> know at least one person who got a seemingly random C&D for an unpublished romhack

The list is good advice for staying off any company's IP protection radar, but "random" takedowns are often tip-offs from an aggrieved community member, competitor, or bitter ex.
Can you explain this? Super Mario Maker 1 levels are still up and playable.
If you don't want to sideload, then don't. If companies don't want to be on the platform app store anymore, it's not the end of the world. I ran a windows phone for several years; if there's no app for something, there's usually a website, and Safari is loads more usable than mobile IE or mobile Edge; so you're fine for the most part.

Yeah, you might lose out on playing FPS games on your phone, but is that really a loss?
>> We were told it was better to let the teachers teach otherwise kids learn bad habits or don’t engage.

That sounds like very dubious advice to me, even if given with best intentions.

Surely if parents read books to their kids, with their kids, then it is a natural step for the kids to start learning the words and word sounds by reading too?
You're asking for two things that seem largely incompatible. How do you expect to do SSR in a Go-gin or Django app? Svelte components get compiled to JavaScript and SvelteKit is written in JavaScript. Doing SSR in those frameworks would necessitate calling JavaScript from Go or Python and introduce far more complexity if you could get it to work at all. The simplest options are either to run a Node server or turn off SSR, which you can do with 1-line in SvelteKit.
Sure, but scaling the evil is itself a problem. And electronic computers are much less expensive than human computers.
Recapping a wild few months for LLMs
They would have full-rank because all the embedding space is used. There are no unused large pockets.
You just said there would be "five different App Stores", yet this hasn't happened on Android.

Amazon has an app store for Android, but its apps are all on the Google Play Store. It's really there to serve Amazon's Fire platform where Amazon doesn't licence Google Play.

Samsung has an app store for Android, but again, all of its apps it makes available to other non-Samsung device users are on Google Play.

Additional app stores on Android have so far been complementary to Google Play, which remains the place where the overwhelming majority of apps are obtained.
> as well as sweeping out crappy "customizations."

huh? Samsung OneUI features have been making their way into mainstream AOSP...particularly the tablet-focused stuff

there is no way Google will ever try to "strong arm" Samsung...Samsung is the Android market, the Pixel line is a rounding error and in no way a competitive threat