skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is important to note acts of EU parliament are just one stage of EU lawmaking and the fact "an act has passed" doesn't make it a law. Once such act has been passed there are many steps EU as well as member states have to take to make it law.

So, this article is very useful, but it really is just an analysis of compliance with _proposed_ law.

For it to become real law EU council has to agree unanimously (made up of prime ministers of all member states). Then each one of 27 countries has to implement the law following it's democratic process (national parliament, president, it has to pass any constitutional challenges if any are made etc). Only then it becomes law.

It is a long tedious process and certain things are apriori excluded from EU's jurisdiction altogether such as state level energy generation, anything that affects security situation and many others. So for decades now EU commission and the Court of justice of EU have been working very hard on "scope creep" of existing laws. It's a bonanza of opportunity for most powerful EU states to squeeze the smaller ones, for powerful external groups to influence whatever they want and so on. Seriously, after the horrible fiasco of Brexit (for EU, as I'm considering it from that perspective), loosing one of the most developed and competitive countries on Earth the EU should really have had a proper reform. There are many reasons why EU couldn't retain UK as a member. Arrogance of the commission, is but one of them. Now from the perspective of many years it is very clear booting UK out (and making it think it was it's own idea) was Franco-German (Russian sponsored) plan from the start.
I think many people didn't see or care about those original polls. All the subs I'm in that re-polled their users after the initial 2 day shutdown are now open as a result. The two that have stayed shut have not re-polled (and one didn't poll in the first place, the mods just unilaterally shut it).
The connection is about the different incentives between a tech company and its users — and the way a company will try to exert control against the users’ interests.
"they need electricians and plumbers too. According to you they all are proven cheaters"

Humanity acted like its stupid and a conspiracy to ask if this man is anything else than a plumber. I mean if you see someone exiting a brothel and the first thing you think is that he is an electrician, there is some problem with logical thinking there. It's not that there is 0% chance. It's not not the default. Our default was that he is a plumber which should have been immensely less probable.
> But Christian took this very personally, and he decided to take his toys and go home.

I mean wouldn't you? He's built an app that brings him a decent income, he can work on it full time, he based his career on that application. What reaction would you expect out of f.e. youtubers when youtube made it suddenly unable for them to sustain themselves? I mean basing your life/income/business on another business is never a good idea, but this is how a big chunk of the world works. I think he has all the rights to be angry about it.
He started out repairing Apple computers and complaining about it on YouTube and discovered a lucrative market of long form Apple hate videos. He makes one type of video, it's him sitting in his chair wearing a microphone talking about how whatever Apple recently did is terrible.
And here we go again, Mozilla pissing its users, just few weeks ago after they pushed their VPN ads into Firefox.
It also forecloses an entire set of DNS related cloud products that could exist in the future like Cloudflare style DNS proxies, AWS like aliases and DNS load balancing.

I guess those products could work just using hosted zones etc but the DevEx is much worse.
> They’ll sell Google Fi to T-mobile and abandon Google voice?

Why not?
Illusions celebrate exploiting human senses
Me too.

My friends find it weird when I buy a used car and I've already budgeted for the repairs, they find it a downer.

I'm happy because then when it happens I've already mentally spent the money!

The same is true of the time investment.
Google is more permissive in their app store (e.g. with tracking users or accepting out of band payments), Google developer accounts are a one time payment, etc., etc. Overall there's less incentive to push a separate app store on Android than there is on iOS.
To be honest, if I was interested in stories I would read a book, not play a HnS.
Absolutely agree with this. Everything that is wrong with modern tech business models has to do with VCs and chasing funding or valuation.
I actually used a sequence diagram today. I put it together for a meeting, to provide some visual guidance while descussing the architecture of a component, and the expected inputs and outputs of it. Helpful for aligning expectations and to spark more dialog.

I also use hierarchy diagrams, but a lot less often. Those are used for documenting the architecure of classes that can be annoying to navigate their code through.
This is giving me flashbacks to when Digg.com committed a similar suicide, which was a major part of Reddit's growth back in the day.
It seems that very important use case for the author is developing/programming and compiling software on the phone.

I work as a software developer for living, and ignoring the part that there are other things other than actual programming that can be done on any phone, I never had the urge to program on a phone. None of my friends or colleagues wishes to do that either.

I prefer a monitor, but laptop would do. But using smartphones for 15 years, I never complained that I cannot program on them.
Why wouldn't you?

It's the same situation as all the bitcoin miners from years ago. They mined on the GPU, so the CPU didn't matter as much as how many PCIe slots the motherboard had. The CPU is purely there to drive the operating system and enable the network to communicate with the GPU.

If you aren't using the CPU for anything other than the PCIe slot to enable a Nvidia card for ML, then a very cheap potato makes a lot of sense.
Yesterday I was reading some Frege[1] text, "Der Gedanke. Eine logische Untersuchung", or more accurately a French translation by Claude Imbert.

In this essay, he makes some interesting remarks on how propositions uttered are only the tip of the iceberg of the meaning intended.

What you say is of course true, in the same extent that you already have an idea about what someone is most likely going to say even before they open their mouth. It doesn’t invalidate that in German you might put a twist in the very end of your sentence, something that will be harder in a language structured differently, to the point that most attempt to do so will feel convoluted enough that you will probably spot it far before the end of the sentence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlob_Frege
Sure, "I value my time" is technically selfish but it's not quite as "bad" selfish as you're implying.
Rules written by reddit are interpreted and enforced in whichever way is most convenient to reddit. You can't rules-lawyer your way to a positive resolution in such a scenario, they have all the power.

"Stop quoting laws, we carry swords!" - Pompey
It's easy to correctly say that they're not using 2000 employees to keep the site running.

I'm sure they've thought of keeping costs low, and I'm sure they could lower costs by a lot and know it. They choose not to.

They're not forced into their current path.

But it makes sense when you look at that VC money. Just being profitable would be a failure. Chase billions of revenue or die trying.

Or to put it a different way, if reddit spent $100M a year on employees and offices and $100M a year on servers, they would have amazing profit margins already.
How is "you're using it wrong" anything other than negative and unconstructive? You reap what you sow.
> CTO I've worked with said that developers are like "machines working in a factory" that they shouldn't think above their level and should just do the same thing over and over.

This shows how important it is to learn about a company, it's culture, philosophy, and values before joining. I can see how some people operate like this, and I don't want to work with them.

For anyone reading this who thinks all companies are like the one that parent described, I want to share that it is not true. There are plenty of companies who based their collaboration with their workers on other mental models than cogs-in-the-machine.
Also an HTMX fan and hadn't heard of unpoly. Looks interesting (and site design is great). Thanks for the highlighting.
This isn’t the moderators going rogue or being power hungry. The members of the community asked the moderators to extend the blackout. 48 hours is nothing. Easy for Reddit to ride it out.
8000 votes out of 7.5 million members. I'm on r/nba every day and didn't see the poll.

People will say statistically 8000 votes is sufficient for an accurate sample, but only if the voting isn't brigaded.

All comments on other basketball subs at the moment are overwhelmingly in favour of re-opening the sub.
Before he was a right to repair activist, he was a complaining-about-Apple-making-life-difficult-for-independent-repairmen Youtuber, and before that, he was a showing people how he repairs computers Youtuber. He didn't just appear overnight to be an influencer.
Steam Deck is an amazing demonstration on how both can be done at once in a single device.
Back in the day if I wanted a non-stock ringtone, you would have to purchase it through Verizon, it would’ve likely cost $3-5. iTunes was comparatively a lot cheaper, and also basically allowed any arbitrary mp3 to be used as a ringtone.

Verizon also used to run their own app stores full of games and low quality music; the fact that it was free or $.99 on Apple’s stores was generally a net price decrease.
> This is a false choice - there's no reason the iPhone can't be both a walled garden-type device and support alternative OSes/software, just like a computer.

I actually just had this discussion yesterday at length, en-mass, most day-to-day regular users will not focus on their apps, or even care to check the update status of the OS, in the regard iOS offers more 'out of the box' security and thus overall is a better option.

If you allow any other OS for example, you can't manage the security of that device anymore. So no it's not a false choice. It's just a choice.
In the U.S., it is at least possible to avoid such double taxation (but only in some situations -- i.e. you were itemizing anyway instead of taking the standard deduction, and you live in a state with no income tax). https://ttlc.intuit.com/turbotax-support/en-us/help-article/...
That's strange, my latest Google Pixel has enough computing power that I could easily do my frontend development on it if I connected screen and keyboard and if the OS supported it.

I wouldn't be keen on writing the code on touchscreen, but I would love to have one small device that I can "dock" when I need to switch to poweruser mode.
Here's how I'd 'negotiate' the question. If they want to be able to do business in the US, they could just agree. Else they could choose not to do business in the US.

That seems fair enough, seems to work elsewhere in the world.
This has nothing to do with UML. Ad-hoc diagrams or plain text descriptions become outdated at the same speed, which depends only on the level of detail that you put in documentation and not on the format if it. If you cannot keep up with the changes in the code, you are choosing the wrong level of detail, that’s it.
That would be a dangerous game to play with Disney or Paramount/CBS. I'd sooner assume that /r/starwars and /r/startrek serve at the pleasure of their respective IP holders, and I don't believe Reddit has pockets deep enough to challenge either of them.

I mean, Star Trek fans are used to seeing every interesting creative fan project shut down by a C&D letter - and as for Star Wars, everyone knows you don't go up against the House of the Mouse.
The SEO arms race has left Google and the web drowning in garbage text
That's not revenge served cold, that's a firm that embraced everyday racism, sexism and whatever kind of discrimination there is for 15 years. But now that some coworkers went on their own they want to kill the competition.

> “We are ashamed of the words we wrote, and we are deeply sorry.”

Yeah well, now that everything's public and actively destroying your career, you have a change of heart? And I should trust you? For what I care, they can all go to hell.
Pardon? What do you mean no other school does that? USA Today ranks CMU as tied with MIT, Standford, and Berkeley. https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/computer-scien...

Coming in next are Cornell, Georgia Tech, Princeton, and the University of Illinois, also tied.

These are all excellent programs consistently producing tremendously good engineers.

Other schools are tops for other areas. Oregon State has a much better forestry program than CMU, for example.
Wasn’t developed in-house.

Open sourced 3 years ago. https://openbrush.app
No, it’s the business model of YC and “New Silicon Valley.” The original companies that caused people to start calling this entire region Silicon Valley were making—and, in a few cases, are still making—real things intended to make their users’ lives better.

It was the dot-com bubble and its couple of resurgences that really fucked things up here and made everything off-kilter. The finance bros were drawn like vultures to “easy profit,” and brought with them attitudes like treating Google’s chef getting rich too as a “problem” to be “solved” rather than the system working as designed.
> in the real world there really are terrible people out there. And real businesses need real processes for dealing with real abuse.

100%. Absolutely.

> Everyone here is just assuming that the facts are as this article claims.

I don’t. In fact I am tending toward thinking that there is more to the story. That is why i was entertaining the possibility that maybe the driver received real abuse, did not report it immediately and by the time they reported it they misremembered which of their many addresses from that day it was.

That would be very human, for a report to fail that way.

But I also don’t believe that made up story! It is just one of the many things which might have happened. What i do know is that I am unlikely to hurl abuse at a delivery driver. So I am not personally worried about being banned from their business for good cause. That leaves us with weird edge cases where some misunderstanding or an abusive neighboor gets me banned. And I have no control over those factors as opposed to my own behaviour which I can control.

For that to worry me I don’t need to believe the details of the story, just that amazon has a delivery driver safety system (which is great). They can completely ban you (as opposed to for example marking your address not-safe-for-delivery, which still leaves many alternative options) And in case of a dispute I have no way to prove I am innocent (because I don’t, and can’t record approaches to my place)
And insights into API fees to get some of that sweet large language model funding?
A great read!

Might be worth pointing out: leptos, a Rust WASM UI library, uses the "store an index (or ID) into some central data structure" idea extensively.

Sycamore, another Rust WASM UI library, has been using arena allocation, but will also be transitioning into the leptos approach in coming versions.

(I believe) this is partly because the borrow checker's enforcement of a tree-like data structures / ownership doesn't always work well with the JS event loop.
Fair enough. If you're only playing local files that were obtained from a trustworthy source then you wouldn't be affected.

With a complete RCE like that though, I would definitely not advise playing music downloaded from peer-to-peer networks. While I'm not familiar with the exact requirements to exploit the vulnerability, I would err on the side of caution and assume that music files can be crafted that contain malicious metadata which can achieve similar results without actually being connected to the streaming service.
MD5 (Algorithm) in SQL
I've come to terms with this.

Even though it still feels weird I can see why they did it: since the game is not linear at all (I think you can even do the first 3 acts in any order) compared to other Diablo games (didn't play 3) they kinda need to do this so you don't breeze through zones. It also helps when playing with under/over leveled friends since they just use the same system to prevent you from rushing them.

Personally I prefer linear narrative and gameplay for Diablo (it's like making linear games is a sin nowadays) but it's probably a wise choice given other design choices? Or at least understandable. It allows them to send you back and forth across regions and still present a challenge.

Anyways: I'm liking D4 (I'm surprised to say this of a Blizzard game in 2023) so not the worst design ever.
There is no false choice here. Only a choice.

Apple creates and sells a catalog of products. They choose to tightly couple their hardware to specific operating systems and software.

Lots of others have tried to copy Apple's hardware approach, but leave their hardware uncoupled. Some have done a great job, and in some generations surpassed the quality of the macbooks etc.

Similarly, some of Samsung, OnePlus, and others' phones are great bits of hardware and are open. Some have better cameras, better overall specs.

There's plenty of choice, and no reason for Apple to have to open up and support the complexity cost of any operating system on their platform, just because some of us passionate tech folks want Apple's specific design language in our pocket but running idk Arch.
The Royal parks in London generally close at night. Interestingly some of the parks ar "commons" as in common land and so can't be closed!
“If you don't want them to know something, put it in a book, they'll never read it” Idea as an old as the world itself :)
Aomngst all the dicsussion of reddit's flawed business model, I haven't seen much conjecture into how they _should have done it_. Clearly they need to make money at some point -- I'm curious if they ever had a route to do this that wouldn't alienate their userbase?
I would really like to see sales tax replaced by a tax on the resources used for the product. It would be more complicated, but also a lot more just.
Unofficial Subreddit Migration List (Lemmy, Kbin)
Say you have a half-sized team in order for the remaining people to get twice as much time. People working on the project will, on average, be more familiar with the problem. That's not a frequent answer, since most companies are more time-sensitive than budget-sensitive. But that's a good illustration of how budget and timeline are separate things.

That being said, my initial message wasn't about that, but about the idea that plenty of organizational methods abandon tight deadlines in favor of early feedback.

That usually works better when power is decentralized, since the higher you report to, the less people have time to actually look at what you produce (and therefore, the more they rely on low-involvement management methods such as setting deadlines). On the other hand, the more decision power is decentralized to the people actually using the software, the more early feedback will make setting deadlines redundant.
I took him more seriously when he was in a shop showing us things and explaining things and really exposing things.

Lately he's just a person on a recliner whining about the world. This doesn't discredit his ideas, mind you, I actually agree with a lot. But there's no more special sauce...anyone could make ranting videos from their recliner. I find the whole format incredibly bizarre and unprofessional...
Yes there are headsets that place it at infinity
Could you sideload on those either?

(I only ever used flip phones before the iPhone. Those were filled with VZW stores for ringtones and $5+ versions of Tetris.)
I do think this will be a useful metric, and it seems obvious that the hyperscalers will have a feature helping you keep track of energy use and emissions of the resources you rented. But why demand this on the level of an individual model/product? For these foundation models, I think it's reasonable to assume they will all be trained on hyperscaler-provided gpu-clusters, so there'll likely be an off-the-shelf funcitonality by AWS/Azure/GCP to report this number, but the draft of the EU AI Act also demands tracking energy use for other 'high-risk' AI systems which companies may plausibly train and/or deploy on-prem. Good luck tracking the per-token energy use of your model that's running on some on-prem server on last-gen GPUs.
I mean I agree but they're just following whatever everyone else is doing, unfortunately.
You can. A USB-C to HDMI cable with any Bluetooth Keyboard and Mouse. And install `termux` from the official app store. Vim/Emacs and every imaginable build chain work fine. You can even setup a vscode server to open in the browser if that way inclined.
Except they aren't locking it down like that, they just aren't doing it for free any more.

You can still have a 3rd party app, and it can still use the API. You just pay for it.

Right to repair is because you cannot buy a 3rd party screen, and you cannot use it. You have to have Apple/John Deere/etc do it.
The problem with that plan is that a huge amount of the value of Reddit was that it was well-indexed by search engines so that when you went searching for something, the conversations from Reddit would pop up, which were generally quite high-quality as far as forum-type content goes.

If you move everything to Lemmy, that won't happen much and as a result fewer people will join the community that don't already know about it somehow.
As soon as he found that this behavior was condoned by management there, he should have started looking for a new job. Obviously, he's not a "cultural fit" for that company.

There are a lot of really crappy companies out there with toxic cultures; don't stick around in one if you don't have to.
On a service like Reddit a user can simply visit or join subreddits they are interested in, and ignore subreddits they are not interested, or which they find offensive.

The way the Fediverse works, as it is explained to newcomers, is that you can follow any topic on any server regardless of which server you are one. The expectation is that the graph is complete. When the graph is not complete, suddenly you can't follow your favorite topic because some users talking about a different topic did something that the admin on the other server isn't happy with. The whole server gets disconnected. Whichever server you choose to join, you always have the risk of getting defederated for things you have nothing to do with. Yes, you can change to a different server, but changing servers is not nearly as frictionless as it's sometimes made out to be.

In Usenet, to name another decentralized service, this is completely different. Servers can decide to carry or not carry a newsgroup, but they don't cut off a complete server for what happens in one of the newsgroups. (That's not to say that Usenet doesn't have problems of its own.)
Absolutely. I am sure their goal is to be another IBM. The less they have to spend on stuff such as R&D the better.
you are confusing an assertion on the status quo with a prediction about the future.

I also have a prediction somewhere else in the thread tho, so I can still be wrong :)
Youre absolutely correct. Thats why I didnt mention install counts. Apple doesnt publish those numbers, and I didnt want to make any assumptions about them.

But I am comfortable assuming that those reviews come from users that did install and use both apps. The opinions seems to be very positive for both.

I do find it interesting that Apollo had such a steep popularity increase in the last couple of weeks[1].

[1] https://www.similarweb.com/app/app-store/979274575/statistic...
I saw the writing on the wall 5 years ago and switched to ProtonMail with a custom domain bc that lock-in is a real pain.