skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I ask this every time it comes up, but what exactly does Apple have a monopoly in? They don’t control majority of anything in any category that they participate in. They are a major purchaser of high end fab processes, but that doesn’t allow them to control PC, phone, steaming, messaging, audio, home integration, or any other market.

They are one of the most vertically integrated large companies, but they are allowed to monopolize their own products. There is no iPhone market - that’s a product within a huge market of other mobile devices that anyone can join.
>The title of this article is essentially meaningless.

It's worse than that, it's creepy. What is a single-player offline game phoning home anyway? On every play? It's crazy how much software companies get away with these days.

The frog is well and truly boiled.
Are you really trying to make the argument that America is a more free country than New Zealand? My kids get to have kinder surprise eggs, so there's that at least.
As a software engineer, I think it has to be done. The heres my platform - I cant control who or how folks use it, and have no responsibility of that mentality creates harm… lots of it.
Anyone looked at WASM, especially its text code format?

I feel like it so badly wants to look something like forth but they couldn't make themselves do it. It would be so much more concise.
Most laws and regulations are violations of personal freedoms. You can't enact the law of not killing somebody else without violating the personal freedom to do so as a simple but clear example.

Anyways this article talks more about the details of events that happened surrounding the regulations.
The dental and vision “care” industry is rife with fraudsters to the extent that they are more akin to rackets.
The Candy You (Probably) Won’t Get to Try
I realise its not how current laws work, but I think the threshold for any large/mature market for anti-trust should be more like 33% than near 100%.

There's no need for companies supplying a product en masse to be anywhere near that large.
at least in Germany it's not legal to require use of personal devices such as phones for your job.
Probably just a swypo for “source”. o is close to p, u is close to i.
I count around 40.000 calories worth of food in the main photo

Anyway, cigarettes are not mentioned in the article, wondering why
Pretty fun, 130290 was my score
In addition to what lolinder writes Kagi already gives me what we have askes for from Google for a decade or two: a way for us to punish creative SEO artists by individually downranking or outright block them.

If they start popping up in Kagis result they will bother me at most two or three times before I hit the downrank or block button and they are gone.

Why Google hasn't managed to create something similar during the last two decades I leave as an exercise for the reader.
Well this demonstrates the cognitive dissonance of our modern political system. On the one hand we have to accept that motorcycles are both inherently very deadly and accept the legality of their use. Not only that but in most jurisdictions it's legal to ride without a helmet. On the other hand, seat belt fines are perfectly acceptable and only anarchist weirdos would be opposed to them. We also have to be mad at cops for stopping people and questioning them, event though that is the only way to enforce seat belt laws.
I don't see any problem with the tool itself; the problem is that it's being used incorrectly and with false assumptions.

A facial recognition match should just be the start of one possible line of inquiry, and nothing more.

I think the real issue is that the US justice system rewards and penalizes based on the number of convictions achieved. Low = bad, high = good. But high convictions does not equate to promoting justice or domestic tranquility.
BBC Womans' Hour: Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen (starts at 13:00)
Name… checks out?
Thanks, that's going on my reading list.

Question to the more educated among us: I read that Apple's UI was based on Display PostScript... how similar is it to original PostScript, and why was it abandoned?
I'm not nearly expert enough to judge, but to me it smells like heavy wizardry.
I think in general it's safe to take a cynical view on every vendors aptitude. Many, if not most, people are terrible at their jobs and it's your job to find the good ones and hold onto them
Ah, probably my mistake then. Wasn't even aware that Wizards of the Coast decided to make a brand new game with a name collision there.
It's because in many of these fields (medical, dentistry etc) professionals are making decisions based on intuition and what they learned in school (which may or may not considered accurate anymore).

They should be consulting a formal decision tree based on latest research, but many doctors consider that to be insulting, much like they pushed back on check lists when they first became a thing.
Remote Robotics Consulting – A Five-Year Retrospective
Ask HN: What are you using after Twitter?
If you are in a car without a seatbelt on, the other passengers are less likely to survive an impact even if they wear seatbelts.
Agreed, found myself looking for the "like" button, something I virtually never click/tap when it's the first thing in your face at the bottom of a social media post.
To misquote Bill Clinton, it depends on what the means of 'you' is.
Come on. Let’s rise above this rabble rousing. HN is better than this.

Let’s elevate the discussion beyond ad-hominems about this man. He is doing more for the long-term future of humanity than most of us, and our views on his personality really aren’t worth this constant examination.
GP was asking if it could cause an issue for the OP, not complaining about an annoyance. It's something that the OP may want to address.
If by "April 1st" you mean "August 4th", then absolutely. I mean if you say them both fast they kind of sound vaaaaaguely similar...
Managers represent the objective realities of deadlines and needing to writesoftware that will increase profits of the company. A worklife without managers would be much less stressful, because it would be a life in wonderland, with no responsibilities and no pressure of the real world.

I've personally seen teams like that, in a company where managers were very weak and their graps on the teams was almost non-existant at times. Predictably, the developers spent their couple years of freedom producing some sophisticated technical wankery with marginal utility for the company that was paying their salaries. IOW, your typical developers cannot be trusted to be left unmanaged.
Let’s be honest, the Canadian government is acting on behalf of the politically influential and well-connected media companies.

And Facebook is complying with the law by removing links. It’s just not the compliance the lobbyists were hoping for.
That must have been an entertaining few minutes when you first made that discovery
Trying to get the billboard to pay for the ad it's displaying. How was that ever going to work?
Not only that, but people driving faster because they feel confident in their seat belts hurt other people to a greater degree since they're increasing their own kinetic energy.

I think this is commonly called risk compensation, but I prefer the alternative name risk homeostasis [1].

On the flip side, when trucks hauling heavy, dangerous loads have a frontal collision, their loads go forward through the cab, killing the drivers instantly. Makes them think twice before speeding and tailgating.

In an AI future, maybe we'll have cars that purposefully hurt drivers when the AI determines they're driving recklessly. Don't like it? Turn on autopilot.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation
A possible explanation? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses
I’ve always found Overcast to be a great podcast app
Blatant tax shakedowns because the money exists are generally viewed poorly by the public, so most countries try to hide behind a Justice rationale.
After 25 years if finally figured out that if the company's processes and business goals fit into my mind and I can understand and support them, I find meaning in my job.

I failed doing this at companies that had too many layers, rules, people, roles and my work was an insignificant cog.

For me it meant leaving the, what I call 'enterprise' world behind. No longer 7 layers of middle management between me and the CEO.

I am no longer filling out templates and forms or chasing KPIs that someone made up. I improve the lives of our customers every single week/release.
OK, throwing my dental horror story on the pile. About 15 years ago I bit on something in a wrap, and it hurt like heck, and I went to the dentist, and he said I needed an implant. $3000 later, I had a cool fake tooth. Then a few years later, something similar happened but this time I decided to try another approach. I used my water pick and sonic toothbrush and just kept after it while taking naproxen to deal with it.

Guess what, the tooth healed up and stopped hurting and stopped wiggling in there. that was about 10 years ago, and it's been fine ever since. Now, I use the water pick 3 times a day and brush at least the same number of times or more. And I have not been back to the dentist since. I just keep everything nice and clean in there. I am not a doctor and blah blah warning. Just my personal experience.

Chiropractor == Dentist
(IMHO)
Nonsense, no one is being forced to buy a car, and you could remove the seatbelt if you wanted to remove it anyways.
Wow, very cool. Works best if you lock your phone to not rotate views as you rotate your phone.
What is the prison work program? Does the prison 'offer out' forced inmate labor? Does the prison hire electricians or used unlicensed forced labour from inmates? Would the prison be able affordable to run if it didn't use forced labor and therefore needs to stay full of free labour to be able to stay operating (ie if the population shrinks you don't have enough free labor to keep the place running 'profitably' and would need to put more funds into running it (you gotta grab a wide net to make sure you catch enough electricians, HVAC guys, pipefitters, etc)? Are the commissary items purchased from special, overpriced 'prison commissary' distribution systems with special ties or from normal vendors? Who runs the phone system, is it a profit center? Who runs the prison 'electronic communication' system and is it a profit center?
I saw a private dentist for the first time roughly a year ago. I was under the impression that I had 10+ fillings, and prior to lockdowns a dentist had told me I needed at least 2 more, which I assumed would still be the case.

He said he could see no indication of decay that would need treatment, and all the 'fillings' I had were more like sealants in the enamel, none of which reached the dentin, and any of them could have been avoided by a more wait and see approach.

I saw 5+ dentists on the public health system that all had the same cavalier approach, and it's hard to assume it wasn't to line their own pockets.
This is why I imagine sex robots will only be a good thing. The humanitarian promise of AGI is it serves human needs optimally and frees humans from the need to stoop to the lowest levels to serve them.
Since it seems like you are not aware, you should know that the functionality available for iMessage is different on other platforms.

That may be causing your confusing here. You weren't aware of the functionality difference that Apple prevents other platforms from using with their design choices.

I'd recommend that you research which functionality is prevented on other platforms, since you didn't seem to know about it.
Please try search.marginalia.nu or even Kagi.

I was about to give up but these to have given me hope that search isn't unsolvable.
> DnD has a lot of brand power and has been strongly in the zeitgeist for years.

I'd say you're understating this and it is actually strengthening a lot.

For example google trends shows "dnd" taking off:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%22dnd%2...

It is actively trendy right now.
Why? Safety isn't generally about achieving an absolute probability of death. Does it baffle you that human space flight exists in a country that requires wet floor signs?
Seconded. I even got called arrogant for very politely pointing out that this was wrong once, because the arguer had been in a computer science class, and so "knew what they were talking about".

Neurons are complex. It's arrogant to think we fully understand them.
There is a massive gap between "a lab which can do fusion once every six months" and "a power plant which can do fusion more than once per second".

And "net energy" is still a bit of an accounting hoax; it's only net energy if you only count some of the inputs.

If anything, this is an acknowledgement that they haven't made any useful breakthrough.
"right" and "wrong" are normative statements: quite literally they're statements about how things should be. IMO it's a reasonable read of your comment
Ask HN: Do you think that AI-singularity is the reverse of the big-bang?
since both of them we cannot predict (AI-after, big-bang-before), maybe it's the same point?

- The connection with complex analysis of holomorphic function with poles of infinity and 0 are also make me think that this is the case.

what's your take on that?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holomorphic_function
> grinding my teeth

For which magnesium (try different types of Mg-salts) helps many! (never heard that from a dentist, again, possssibllyy because the solution is not sold in their shop)
I never had too much trouble with this because money has high overhead. If you only have a small number of items that are scarce enough to be rival goods (planets, starships, artisinal labor, concert tickets, whatever) then you will probably barter for them, often in favors and debt.

Ian M. Banks does a good bit on this in one of the Culture books (Look to Windward, I think) where the Culture "reinvents money" in the form of IOUs over access to a particularly popular live event.

I did have a problem with the retconning where the Federation was never even partially capitalist at all, because The Original Series is full of allusions to the fact that it is: An immortal being (Flynt) who buys his planet outright, miners who make more profits once they start working with the Horta, etc., etc.
Pneuma Travel releases Worlds First Voice Digital Travel Assistant
Austin based Travel Startup - Pneuma Travel - announces the release the worlds first Digital Voice Travel Assistant; Sarah.

Sarah acts as a one-stop solution for finding the best deals on flight tickets, hotels, and ensuring seamless travel experiences.

Like a Siri/Alexa that can handle your entire travel, Sarah handles from flight bookings and hotel reservations to local city guidance, all with ease.
What All Rubyists Should Know About Threads by Jim Weirich [video]
Done it a million times? How often does this happen? AT&T was decades ago, though I suppose you are referring to less well known actions since then?
No
https://ohsonline.com/articles/2008/03/study-airbag-use-with...
You and others replying to GP keep suggesting google users who are the product not the actual customee would be restricted when in fact it would be the real customers: people wanting to place ads on google that would be restricted. The amount of clicks google can monetize would be restricted.
I'm not sure your post, while true, is responsive.

Rules are naturally infringements on individual liberty. The question is, which rules can one justify? Put differently, when can the state limit individual liberty? And that naturally raises the question: why is it appropriate in some cases, and not in others?

Your justification points to the consequences to the state in terms of economic cost and I suppose the psychological trauma suffered by emergency personnel.

Let's push your logic further. I understand you're posting from NZ, and I'm posting from America, but we face a drastic obesity crisis here. For the sake of argument, let's stipulate that the main cause of obesity is overeating, and if we restricted the number of calories available to people we'd see a drastic decrease in healthcare costs and so forth. Should the state be allowed to control the food you eat, the number of calories you consume, etc.? If not, why not? Could the state make obese citizens go exercise at state run gyms?

Or consider the effects of social media use on children. There is at this point pretty good evidence that social media use by teenagers, especially girls, leads to negative mental health outcomes (mood disorders like depression, etc.). Can the state limit the amount of time teenagers spend on tiktok or instagram?

My point is, individual choices always have effects on society, insofar as any individual person is a member of a society. The fact that individual choices have negative effects on society broadly cannot itself justify regulating those choices. The justification for state power must be found elsewhere, imo.
It's a sincere attempt to estimate the prior. Information on the US and guns is very heavily political. What american developers consider "obviously normal" about carrying guns to places developers go is probably as accurate an insight as one can find.

Probability of getting shot is related to how many guns are present. Prior to this thread I just assumed there were no guns in the office, because that's the European prior.

However I'm now thinking of the reaction to rust's no-guns-at-conferences stance where a non-zero number of people thought that was so contentious that they wouldn't go to a conference without their guns.

You say most active shootings happen at the workplace. If true, interesting in combination with the apparent frequency of school shootings.

I mentioned a specific city as I believe there's an association between Texas and revolvers which might skew the odds further.
I would assume that they don't mean "local group discussing national politics", but "local group discussing local politics". Think city councils and mayors.

At least where I'm at, local politics is the only sane politics left. It helps that in my city we don't have a party system at the local level, so candidates have to run on their own platform instead of on party affiliation.
I do think this is a (1997) rather than a (2022), judging by the line at the bottom where it says that’s when it was originally published. Also, language in the piece—selecting dentists at random from 28 cities’ Yellow Pages, the claim that “the average income for dentists in private practice for 1994, the last year for which figures are available, was $117,610”—seem to support the idea that these figures are from 26 years ago rather than last year.

And if those prices were in 1997 dollars, I can’t imagine they’d be anything but much higher in 2022.
Google is bigger than that:

IMO Chrome needs to be split out too as does Android.
The "insane reason" being that we live in a society.
I always truck drovers drove - on average - a lot better was because of the very direct impact losing their license would have on their livelihood. Even demerits could effect their work.
> I like to read the negative reviews on Steam to help talk myself out of purchases.

Hah, I do the same thing. On other sites too - the well-written negative reviews have a lot of value. Although, on some of the best games on steam, I've seen a few top negative reviews that say something like: "Why are you looking at the negative reviews? You know this game is great."

I think you're right though. Games have their place and are culturally important, but the trend has veered more toward optimizing for engagement (addiction) and dark patterns like overcharging for cosmetics and such.
My test for whether I should play a game is to check if has sexes or body types. Unfortunately I can't play this game.
I went to one dentist that said I had over 20 cavities. I didn't believe them and went to a second dentist that said I had none, but one spot was eroded and would soon become a cavity. I waited a full 10 years without doing anything and then went to a 3rd dentist, that said I have no cavities.

I'm convinced dentistry is a total scam. I'm the only person in my friends group that has never had a cavity or dental work, and I strongly suspect it's not because there's anything special about me, except that I don't go to dentists as often as most people do.
> I don't believe for a second that you can have proficency at all these skills. That's just not possible. You may have cobbled things using these techs or worked with people who knew these things well, but you can't possibly be an expert at all these things.

Thanks for your comment.

It's always interesting to me when "That's just not possible", or a similar comment, surfaces. Not much I can say other than, no, it's true. And, no, it isn't about cobbling things together and claiming the work of others.

There's nothing on that list that I could not do immediately or get back up to speed within, say, 30 days or less. For example, last time I used LISP or FORTH was probably in the mid 90's. When I did work with these languages, I built non-trivial applications and worked on them for years. Can I write a Forth application today? Well, no, not without getting back into it, which will take just a few weeks. It's like ridding a bike, you don't really forget.

> you can't possibly be an expert at all these things

Not what I am claiming at all. In fact, almost nobody is an expert at most of what they put on their resumes. I have a few areas of expertise that I would consider to be much deeper than the average engineer. And, in fact, those are the areas where I find consulting work most readily. If I had to describe myself in one sentence I would probably say something like: I can fully engineering just-about any product from scratch, no matter the technology or disciplines involved. Of course, there are boundaries, I am not about to claim I can design a nuclear reactor. We have to be reasonable. I've worked on everything from embedded to robotics, aircraft simulators and things that have gone into space. So, yeah, those skills are real and applied.

Like I said, I don't sit idle very well. Always learning.
I remember reading about the provider Griddy that did exactly that - gave customers the wholesale rate for power. Then the 2021 winter storms hit with the price peaking at the limit of $9 per kWh ...
See for example the failure of the Cape wind project, which was stuck in NIMBY hell for years because a few rich assholes were worried they would see the tips of the blades over the horizon
Campbell’s Cream of Chicken and Mushroom soup (that’s a type, although you can double the recipe with one can of Cream of Chicken and one of Cream of Mushroom)
Can of water
Add to saucepan
Stir and bring to a boil
Fill can with Minute Rice
Stir instant into soup, remove from heat, cover
Wait 8-10 minutes

This was a go-to college meal. It’s great on a cold day, very filling.

One day, I made mushroom risotto. I used the right kind of rice. I ladled the made-from-scratch stock over the rice one ladle at a time, stirring slowly. I added the mushrooms and kept stocking and stirring. Finished with some fresh Parmesan. Took about 40 minutes of near constant attention and it was absolutely delicious.

Pareto Analysis:

The Campbell’s soup and Minute Rice is about 80% the same with minimal effort.
I have a tooth with a root-canal treatment that I dont trust. But several dentists say all is fine.
I wonder if, by making that comment, you inadvertently flipped the theme of the comments section.
Ron gave this talk on the subject at Google back in 2012:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gZK0tW8EhQ
Sure, your weird struck-by-lightning-57-times strawman might cost more than your average suicide-by-mcdonalds person. But healthy people are more productive and are productive for longer and only a vanishingly small portion of them are ever going to get struck by lightning once, let alone 57 times.