skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The next page, https://www.nationhoodlab.org/an-authoritarian-threat/, would have been a better HN post. This $N nations stuff has appeared here many times before
Yeah, Microsoft is always a pain in the ass when you're self-hosting email, that's why I just don't bother.
Apple makes a ton of money from the App Store, of course they were always going to fight this to the end in court.

I think the most generous interpretation of this lawsuit is that it's a publicity stunt from Epic, not for consumers, but to pressure legislators.
Vape pens are fairly predictable, you can have a known potency dose in the cartridge and each puff will be a predictable potency.

Anyways, vapes are great for nicotine and DMT but I'm not a fan of how most cannabis vape pens get easily gummed up. So I'd rather stick to dab rigs and bongs.

The problem with edibles is that the digestive system's metabolism produces way more psychedelic cannabinoids. It's a different experience, one that can be more anxiety inducing in lower doses.
No NT4 is of the same lineage as 2000. I was referring to the other lineage of Windows with ME being the last one. The unification that XP provided was good for stability, but the eventual result is this whole Windows 11 ordeal.
Why is supercharging limited?
Might be worth asking if they’ve gotten rid of any, or some such jobs.

You don’t have to get rid of all jobs in a field for it to have major impacts.
Here's an older article: https://lwn.net/Articles/805235/

I believe it has accelerated since then and there are now multiple manufacturers making virtio devices.
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> There are many interesting take aways from that, but the one you quoted, and added your own emphasis to, is that solar has a 25% capacity factor.

Yes, I did. So?

> Why did you find this interesting if you are aware that the sun doesn't shine constantly all day and night?

Whatever you're trying to ascribe to me exists only in your imagination.

Let me quote my comment again:

" And I'd love to see all the calculations [for the cost] that include the need to overbuild, the need for storage etc."

Yes. You linked the study. It does quote the need to overbuild solar by a factor of 3.4. What's the cost?
My understanding is that Apple can still contractually require developers to hand over the 30% even if developers use a third party service. The judge's ruling was pretty narrow; it essentially allows nothing more than a link to an alternative payment platform. I haven't seen any in-depth analysis of the case to suggest that this is any kind of 'loophole' that could be used to avoid paying apple.
> I don't know of any good way to enforce this kind of legislation, even if I totally support it.

What the EU does with GDPR is put a huge fine on actors caught ignoring GDPR deletion requests. It's up to €20m or 4% of the companies global turnover, whichever hurts the most.
An idea:

If piper is clearer for you, it can "compile" down into make, and then let gmake do the heavy lift, at least for some of the early prototyping.
"Hey Siri, timer five minutes"

"Okay, now playing '5 Minutes (B-B-B Bombing Mix)' by Bonzo Goes to Washington"
> which would enable Epic to distribute Fortnite to iOS users via a client side web-app

I'm sure Epic would be super excited to implement all of Unreal Engine in WebGPU.
‘Crypto is dead in America,’ says Bitcoin bull Chamath Palihapitiya
Being "naturally formed" isn't a requirement to be a river. Being gravity fed and naturally flowing is. A canal doesn't have significant flow.
> in the past it was the poor people whose jobs disappeared. Now it's the middle class and potentially upper middle class.

This is not true in the US. In the past, it was lower and middle class jobs that disappeared. Now the threat is to lower, middle, and upper-class jobs.
I've been curious about BlueSky too, popping a lot on Twitter lately, but it's hard to secure an invite
> They may look natural and untamed, but both new and established perennial meadows need specifically timed maintenance to create a balanced mix of grasses and wildflower species.

You claim you don't have to do anything. The article immediately says you do. It takes work for it to not be awful. I have friends in the UK with a large property and part of it is a meadow and it still takes taking care of.
USBvalve – expose USB activity on the fly
I think your "effectively controlled" is mostly meaningless.

There's orders of magnitude of difference between "started off as scattered and big companies now do a majority of the maintenance" vs actually CENTRALIZED, like Twitter.

My website and my email, from my domain, both exist generally as equals without any meaningfully strong influence from google or whatnot, e.g. censoring my website would be a practically completely different thing from the ridiculous mess that Twitter is becoming (if it isn't already.)
> That's a bit of a re-write of history. Mac OS tried to throw away all backwards compatibly on day one but major software vendors told them to pound sand so they had to spend another year building out Carbon.

Yes, and other than that the only non-workaroundable - but reasonable - break has been the removal of 32-bit x86 support. The PPC->Intel and Intel->ARM transitions had fully fledged and (at least in the latter case, didn't have a Mac at PPC time) high performant and fully functional runtime emulation/translation to ease it.

> Microsoft had a fully functional build of Windows 7 for ARM a long time ago.

That depends on your definition of "fully functional". Apple invests insane amounts of effort to tape out good hardware that isn't riddled with weird bugs and edge cases. They don't even publish much documentation, and yet not even a dozen people (iirc, please correct me if wrong) managed to reverse engineer enough to get support merged to Linux mainline.

In contrast, the utter bullshit that the rest of the ARM world dares call a CPU is so riddled with bugs that it's a nightmare even for the vendors to keep their custom kernel patches / BSPs up to date, and completely forget about ever upstreaming it to the Linux kernel. And now imagine someone has to write Windows drivers for all that buggy crap.

The completely sorry state of how the entire "embedded" world works is holding everyone back so immensely that it takes companies the size of Apple and Amazon to show that the problem isn't ARM itself - and unfortunately, Apple doesn't sell to anyone else and Amazon only makes server CPUs, which means there is zero market pressure, neither for a re-imagine of x86/64 without legacy crap in the instruction set and die, nor for anyone with an ARM license to tape out a SoC at above "barely works, fix the rest in software" quality and decent open source Linux and Windows drivers, nor is there much pressure on AMD/Intel to improve because as long as there is no quality competition from ARM they don't have to fear anyone else eating their lunch.

Sorry for the rant, this topic has annoyed me ever since I tried putting an at-the-time modern kernel to an at-the-time-current Mediatek based phone and miserably and utterly failed a decade-ish ago. And nowhere I have looked at in the embedded space since then has shown me any sign of improvement. To the contrary, even projects as popular as Raspberry Pi couldn't arse Broadcom enough to check if the PCIe implementation passed standards validation, they only cared if the USB (and iirc, wifi too) chipset worked. J F C
> They can make a version of iOS that bypasses encryption and restrict it to only run on devices identified by a warrant.

Of course. Apple could absolutely do this and undermine any trust people have in them in seconds if they want to.

Didn't they pass a law in Australia requiring corporations to do exactly what you describe? I remember reading news here about several corporations just moving off of Australia as a result of the inherent untrustworthiness of any system where the government can compel any party you're doing business with to ship you malware.
Brave initially aspired to do this.

They wanted to use attestations on a blockchain to show a chain of consent and revoked consent from a user.

But that only works if data brokers are tied to that data source. (and the friction of using that data source being way lower)
I think the fallacy is thinking here is that the number of workers will go to zero.

In reality, the productivity improvements will reduce overall costs, and either the field gets easier to break into, reducing wages, or incumbents are able to squeeze out other workers and keep more profits for themselves.

There's billions in tech investments flowing into medicine, construction, and hospitality from people hoping to make worker more efficient and aiming to capture a fraction of the wages from those efficiency gains.

There's a very real possibility that jobs get replaced by things like, The Home Depot App, which can diagnose an issue, find order the necessary parts from the store, and walk people through all the steps to fix the problem. Again, it doesn't have to completely eliminate jobs, shift how money flows around the market.

IMHO, the revolution won't be televised. It will be like self-service machines at the grocery, restaurants, hotels, etc. We just slowly get used to using kiosks and apps to do more and more things for ourselves.
amin vadhat wrote a little paper while in grad school about sniffing the workload while you were building it by hand and pooping out a makefile based on what you had done. seems like if you ran a makefile, recorded what the compiler looked at, you'd be in good shape wrt dependencies without having to parse the course or use other tools
Or directly from the Ninth Circuit:

https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2023/04/24/2...
I pay them for the TOTP authentication alone, so that I don't have to never ever use google authenticator ever again, but it also feels good to be able to support such an awesome project, even if it's only a little.
If anyone is looking for good alternatives on Android - Aegis and Authenticator Pro are both good opensource apps, available on F-Droid/Play and also allow easy backup to a cloud (or storage) of choice.
‘Cheap thrills’: Low-cost leisure leads to less work, more play
What if I drop my phone into the lake and need a new phone?
Most likely 27% like in the Netherlands: https://9to5mac.com/2022/02/04/apple-will-charge-27-commissi...
There's a new nip to cover the metadata for images and media including being able to use torrents for file hosting.

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/94.md
> The thing is, the internet is already a cesspool of meaningless, misleading and outright malicious information.

Let me just throw this trash overboard. What's the harm? It's not going to make the pacific garbage patch any bigger!
> You open your safe and you use one of the recovery codes that you wrote down when you setup 2FA.

HN rarely does humor, but when it does, it really cuts deep.

Can you really expect a typical person - including the tech-savvy ones - to keep a hastily written piece of paper for a decade or more, without losing it? My code card is clocking on a decade, I needed it only once (so far), and it's only pure luck that, in all those years, I haven't accidentally destroyed it or thrown it away.

Also: it only recently became apparent just how bad it is to lose access to your Google account. Most tech-savvy people I know don't even realize how many things in their lives are gated by that little login form. Non-tech-savvy folks? Maybe they'll figure it out in a decade, after enough people became thrust into poverty for the lack of Google 2FA recovery codes - enough many that it's as boring news story as car accidents.
> The App Store continues to promote competition, drive innovation, and expand opportunity, and we’re proud of its profound contributions to both users and developers around the world.

How can the app store promote competition when it is a monopoly on iOS? (I suppose they could be talking between different apps, but that isn't what this case was about)

UPDATE: The comments seem to imply I am giving my opinion on this case. I am not. I am commenting on the PR-speak given here. The app store does not, IMO, "promote" competition...it may arguably not hinder it, but given what the case is about, it is, I think, more competitive if others could use different methods of selling apps on iOS. That doesn't mean it is better, right, more fair, or anything else... just more "competitive" IMO. In short, I'm commenting on the wording in their press release only.
https://archive.is/tOyng
When you put it like that, it sounds almost tempting.
We sometimes talk about "super-human" and "sub-human", but let's invert that and consider the idea of humans rated as "sub-computer" or "super-computer" instead.

Right now most of us are "sub-computer" when it comes to doing math or remembering millions or billions of bits of data, but still "super-computer" when it comes to "physical goods and services like homes, cars, restaurant meals, and haircuts".

As computers (and robots) improve exponentially most of those areas where humans are commonly "super-computer" will contract, maybe all of them. Robots already build cars and cook hamburgers. If homes were built by robots we could make so many so cheaply that homelessness would disappear (except for a few people who like to be nomads.) As for haircuts, there are some hair artists for whom hair care and styling is an art. Other than that it's typically a marginal job that one does when you can't get a better job. I don't mean to disrespect haircutters! That's not where I'm coming from.

Any job that can be done by machine should be done by machine. Humans should not have to "earn" a living in a world that contains transistors, magnets (for motors), and the Turing machine. We are done. We win. Now it's time to relax and lick our wounds and heal each other and ourselves.

"Let the robots do the work and we'll take their pay."

AI should cause mass unemployment and that should be a good thing!
This is at least the billionth time it’s been pointed out, but the GDPR is not responsible for those annoying pop-ups. The GDPR is erroneously blamed for them, when in reality, the pop-ups are a deliberate choice made by site operators. Feel free to brush up on the GDPR, the EPD, and how they work together: https://gdpr.eu/cookies/
Have camera sensors advanced so you can control exposure time, white-balance? I seem to remember Intel dragging their feet on professional parameters for sensors, arguing that they're only used for selfies and not e.g. sports photography.
> First, no data collection is "anonymous"

Because no network connection is anonymous but as long as you aren't handling PII, GDPR has nothing to say about it.

I could sell an app in the EU that just pinged my server once a day. As long as I wasn't keeping a record of who pinged what when, there is no PII.

Otherwise everything is PII and you would need consent before every TCP handshake.
Both theory and practice IMHO can be learned by motivated person in a year, but to get even a journeyman license one needs to work 4 years (may vary by state) as an apprentice being paid pennies and not necessary receiving all necessary knowledge.
In fairness to the GP Americans from the US are nominally assholes with their "we're the best" attitude. Although these days I think you would find more and more "we suck" attitudes especially with the hollowing out of the institutions and our inability to do anything about health care or gun related deaths. Historically this sort of animus is directed towards the leading economy (which may be China one of these days). In the past the English, the Dutch, and the French have dealt with this sort of thing.

By and large though for PicassoCTs, the framing of my comment was to poke fun at the editorial decision to call it the longest man made river, I did not, and do not, under appreciate the positive aspects of the project and the industrial and political will Egypt had to muster to create it. You need look no further than high speed rail, which the Egyptians are well on their way to building a network to connect the northern part of the country to the south, and California, a state with an economy literally 10x the size of Egypt's has been unable to pull off.

So no, I harbor no misconceptions about the US being "exceptional", you can rest assured of that.
They'll still get their commission even with sideloading.
And they'll get paid half as much.
I'm not sure that's sound. You can't just redirect an aligned new to the unaligned operator new as you may get unaligned result. It _sounds_ like what is happening is

a = ::operator new(some size, some alignment)
...
::operator delete(a);

where delete is dropping the align_val_t parameter that would guarantee it hits the same allocator family. There are a variety of ways this can happen, and let's just take it as given that it is.

The problem is that if operator new(size_t, align_val_t) is called then the struct has an alignment annotation. That can lead to codegen that reasonably assumes alignment, even without any source level decisions that depend on alignment. The result of having some equivalent of (either at runtime or link time)

void * operator new(size_t sz, align_val_t a) {
if (operator new(size_t) has been overridden) return ::operator new(sz);
...
}

could be an "aligned" allocation returning an unaligned value, causing crashes later on.
Very true, however as others have pointed out it all comes down to levels of security.

There are many non important accounts where I have 2FA, and both the password and the TOTP is in 1p. This should suffice for any brute force password attacks. However there are some accounts (like google) which one can consider more important for which I keep the TOTP on a separate app like Authy.

More recently I've been switching to yubikeys where possible.
> So, option A is you go to college, immediately get a job with zero hurdles up front, sit behind a desk from 9-5, and collect a solid paycheck.

Ask the cohort of 2008-2011 how well that worked out for them.

And in case it isn't obvious for someone - that's been the largest labor participation rate drop in modern history. On top of that, many people with college degrees from that period never actually landed a well-paying job and are still stuck in service and low-wage manual labor jobs.

I bet many of them would have loved to have a trade job instead.

Meanwhile, HVAC guys near me charge $700 to run a thermostat wire 5 feet.

I mean maybe it sucks to work trades in a low COL area, but the tradesmen where I live make bank and have no trouble charging $80+/hr
Because an AI hustlebro on Twitter told them ChatGPT will solve everything.
Here's a good write-up comparing SSB and Nostr.

https://mattlorentz.com/weblog/2023/01/18/nostr-v-ssb.html
If you weren't making a claim then what were you saying in the first place?
I discussed this in the final section: "The level of employment across the economy is ultimately driven by macroeconomic factors: If consumers spend more money, then businesses will respond by hiring more workers. The last three years have illustrated how powerful this can be: In the wake of the pandemic, Congress and the Fed worked a little too hard to boost the economy, producing a super-tight labor market and rising inflation. If AI starts replacing workers in the coming years, that will put downward pressure on wages and prices while growing the economic pie. That will give the Fed more leeway to cut interest rates and give Congress more room to raise spending or cut taxes. As long as Congress and the Fed are doing their jobs, there’s no reason for the total number of jobs, economy-wide, to decrease."
Pumice Raft
While the teacher in the story obviously bungled it, I disagree with your interpretation of the lesson. The point is not to "teach people about multiplication or fractions or whatever". The point is to teach them to recognize dimensional parameters in a natural scenario. This can be counter-intuitive; we have a bias towards linear relationships. Somebody twice as tall is twice as heavy, thinks the child.

Tricks ("surprises" is a less negative descriptor) are important because they wake your brain up. Most people don't like learning arbitrary things for their own sake, but they don't like being fooled either.

Describe the base rate fallacy to a room of college students and it might stick for the rest of the semester, but give them this problem[0] and tell them how many licensed doctors it tricked (after you let them answer incorrectly, of course) and they might remember it for a while longer.

0. http://pi.math.cornell.edu/~mec/2008-2009/TianyiZheng/Bayes....
It's because the IP is on DigitalOcean - a hotbed for spam and malware.
I wouldn't bother self hosting e-mail any more because you'll come across most providers just not accepting your messages. Sucks, but is what it is.
Richie Havens
You can get a linkedin-ready picture of your self without having to give a presentation... just hop on stage before/after a talk , pose, and have someone take a picture. No one will be the wiser
Managing any workers is a skill that many managers have never had, especially in companies where the only way to progress (in terms of salary and status) is to become a team manager.
Everybody talks about the 30% cut... however, I'm almost afraid to say "be careful what you wish for." A device that allows sideloading to avoid a 30% cut, is also a device that allows piracy. (I'm still in favor of sideloading, but I'm very pessimistic about developers recovering that 30% as increased profit.)
> "did you know you need to overbuild?" is well up there with "did you know the sun doesnt shine at night?"

Of course it isn't. Almost none of the renewal proponents take those costs into account.

> A solar farm with a nameplate capacity of 1 GW is about 5% of the cost of a 1GW nuclear plant. The need for overbuilding pushes the price up to roughly 20% of the cost.

Are you sure you added all the requirements to the picture?

E.g. Two weeks ago there was a quiet night in Germany. Solar was at 0%. Wind was at 5%. You'd need to overbuild wind 400% just to compensate for some of the power needed then.

> Adding all the necessary storage to provide peaking can push it all the way up to ~80% of the cost of a nuclear power station.

Ah yes. The magical non-existent storage.

> Storage is kind of a moot point anyway these days. Most grids don't even have enough nameplate capacity to supply 100% of demand for even 1 day a year.

Funny how storage is moot, so Germany is burning coal during the night to compensate for solar, and for wind on quite nights, because they shut down their nuclear power plants.
This is exactly with happened in Netherlands with the dating apps [1].

Apple was forced to allow third party payment systems. And they did.

But they were still allowed to keep their commission and in fact no regulator or court anywhere has said otherwise.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/support/storekit-external-entitl...
I'll take the way under on that bet. Despite "software eating the world" there are currently protests in France about raising the retirement age. And we don't have enough workers in many industries (unemployment is at 3.5% in US). We're also facing a demographic cliff as baby boomers retire, so any automation we can get is desirable, in my opinion. But as the article mentions, robotics are far, far from replacing service industry jobs.