skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>you can only run Safari on iOS

Apple mandating WebKit is the only thing holding v8 back from a total monopoly, while WebKit itself has no chance of being a monopoly in the forseeable future, so I doubt there's a good anti-competitive case to be made for forcing Apple to stop doing this. It would only accelerate the monopolisation of the browser market if this happened. It would be good for consumers in the short term to allow v8 on iOS but I deeply distrust Google.

Breaking the App Store monopoly there is a much stronger case for. There is a security argument for the app store, which I would accept were it not for Apple adding 43% to the purchase price of most paid applications, which is much worse for the end user than the average piece of malware. Not to mention the expenses it imposes on developers, like requiring them to maintain a subscription and buy Apple hardware.
My issue with Nix is that you are forced to install packages in a global location. Why is it that every package manager assumes I’m an administrator on my machine? Even if I am, how does it make sense to take over a global directory as a single user?
I don't think that's actually going to happen -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33978081
The advertising ID gives users and Apple control over tracking when also coupled with AppStore policy that disallows improper use.

It’s impossible to prevent fingerprinting of users and devices via purely technical measures — taking away the advertising ID won’t help.
By this kind of logic there is so much bullshit wherever there is consumer choice, and all products should be legislated to be the same, Soviet style.
Interesting points. However, I think the reasons are much simpler: why wouldn't you want accelerated CSS in your browser, including cross-origin iframes?

Browsers have been making use of GPUs for a long time. It's faster than the CPU and saves battery
That's AMD's problem to solve, they made that choice.

NV doesn't have to worry about resource allocation, branding etc. AMD could copy that by spinning out it's GPU division. Note that 'graphic cards' is no longer a proper identifier either, they just happen to have display connectors on them (and not even all of them). They're more like co-processors that you may also use to generate graphics. But I'm not even sure if that's the bulk of the applications.
I'm guessing since many jobs don't let people use their intellectual capacity anyway (think service/retail/food), not much.
I don’t understand this point:

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For example, if Amazon discovers that a seller is offering lower-priced goods elsewhere, Amazon can bury discounting sellers so far down in Amazon’s search results that they become effectively invisible.
>>>

This means if Amazon sees a lower price elsewhere they effectively make the product unavailable on their site? Or is it more complicated than that.

On the face of it, while I am open to the stance this is monopolistic, I can naively understand why Amazon wouldn’t want to offer a product at a price that isn’t competitive.

I’m sure there’s more to it, can someone explain?
What's BATS?
> Imagine if we were all working 18 hour subsistence farming jobs now just to survive...

Then you definitely shouldn't look at actual reports of time spent, leisure time, etc, in those eras.

Because that's nothing at all what life was in the eras you're thinking of.

How much of our modern time - work hours - do we spend to maintain the cars we take to work, and the large houses we were convinced to buy "as an investment," etc? Or just our personal tech stacks that always somehow seem to need replacement?
I heard this sentiment from co-workers and friends who didnt grow up eating goat. I think it boils down to two different things:

1. "meat musk" (lack of a better word, lol): People dont realize how pungent beef can be, its just that most Americans are accustomed to it. You can really smell this with grass-fed beef. I think goat/lamb meat is "musky" for the same reasons, as they eat mainly from foraging/hay.

2. preparation/cooking: If you plan on cooking goat like a steak, its not a gonna taste good. Generally, most dishes require that the goat is simmered or slow-cooked to make the meat more tender. Spices also make a big difference here with the dish.
Nobody is forcing anyone to use third-party app stores. The EU is just forcing Apple not to engage in anti-competitive practices.

If you want the security of an all-Apple ecosystem, you will still be free to do so. If I want the freedom to install whatever I want to my iPhone, I will be free to do so.

Nobody is trying to take away your right to use your phone as you want, they are trying to grant you the right to use your phone as you want.
Ian Clarke Explains the Next Generation of Freenet [video]
Amazon gets to negotiate good shipping rates, and has larger economies of scale than a regular business can achieve.

In general, cost per unit is cheaper if you have more volume.
Why not buy an Android device then?

Once you remove these things that you want to remove, you wind up losing the very things that attract you to iPhone in the first place!
Meta is already in the regulators' sights. Data harvesting is not something the EU is blind to. Presumably there would be injunctions made against them from so easily pied pipering users into doing that. Not to mention, most users do not want to have to jump through more hoops just to have the same old FB/IG/WhatsApp experience. They'd balk.
While I agree that Firefox probably is nowhere close to Chrome in terms of market share, StatCounter isn't a great source of information here. StatCounter works through trackers, which are blocked by default on common Firefox installs.

Sites work well in practically every browser because we're not living in 2005 anymore. Some missing APIs are broken, but how often do you really need WebSerial on your phone.
luddites were not skeptical of technology, or even against it. They were against the way in which factory owners used technology to illegally displace them (as workers) and to falsely advertise the resulting textiles (selling low quality goods while claiming they were of higher quality) in order to undercut them and put them out of business.
I don't have any reason to believe that the Chrome team pushed for this use case specifically. In the past when I experimented with SVG filters their feature support was already very different across Trident Edge, Chrome, and Firefox, as was their implementation (hardware accelerated vs not). SVG filters are very powerful and also very slow, and not necessarily constant-time, so they're a good target if you're trying to execute a timing attack. (For whatever reason, my old JSIL project actually happened to use SVG filters to accelerate a specific use case...)

I think it would be fair to call it an oversight that Chromium allows cross-origin use of the features involved in this attack, but it doesn't really feel like a vulnerability in the traditional sense to me - everything is working as intended/specified AFAIK. It just happens to expose a timing attack. The reality is that tons of things are potential timing attacks and if every single feature that might get used for one was disabled in advance the web platform would be pretty useless.

There are various constraints you could apply to make attacks like this harder - i.e. limiting filter stacks to say 4 items, limiting use of filters cross-origin - but I find it understandable that such things didn't happen. This functionality is probably also quite old so it's possible nobody was taking timing attacks quite as seriously back then.
Not if you are a coyote. The other day I went out to my kids treehouse and found a fresh rabbit head with nothing else just lying on the bench at the top of the stairs. I have to assume a coyote decided that was the right place to eat a meal.
Excuse me but what's the point of this? First I thought that it's a phone and I was really into it, but then I realizes it's just a phone shaped e-reader so what gives? What's wrong with the traditional e-readers that have the aspect ratio of a ... book?

If I wanted to read books on a phone shaped e-reader I'd just use my phone without carrying an identically shaped device for the same purpose, and if I wanted a separate device just for reading e-books then I want that to have the aspect ration optimized for e-books, not to mention the lower price tag that regular e-readers come with not something expansive just to read books.

It just feels pointless on so many levels.
sounds like a good thing to me
The Stripe API docs are also slow on Firefox for me. Even with a good browser, sites shouldn't use that much JS
https://github.com/bats-core/bats-core
I have great news for you: The hyperbolic nonsense you just described will literally never happen.
Perhaps the dating scene has changed since I was last exposed to Tinder but “serious” is not the term I would use to describe an app primarily used for hookups.
Error correction, packet broadcasting per node, dynamic load rebalancing... the real world costs of any network increase proportional to the square of the nodes.
How did you go from upper middle class to just hanging in there, considering it sounds like you're close to retirement? Lose all your money in a startup? Health issues? In my mind, upper middle class has substantial real estate, a plump 401k, and plenty of savings.
When it's a company you like and don't feel like you've been hurt by, it's very easy to not even realize the bizarre rationalizations you're applying. Only in hindsight does it become obvious.
I like to read it as The Fine Article.
Most useful knowledge is hidden
yes, zuckerberg is literally holding a gun to you head, "INSTALL META OR ELSE!"
> Your argument implies your thoughts at time t are solely the result of your state at time t-1 and your environment.

The laws of physics also matter.

I think we're still on the same page here.

I'm trying to figure out if we disagree, and if so, where.
I sure hope you don't call those boxes full of electronics being discussed 'computers' since that's obviously a technically incorrect way to refer to them[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_(occupation)
> crank out even more hours of work to have an outlet for your creative/professional ideas... or don't, enjoy life, but fall behind and feel appropriately guilty for abandoning your creative impulses.

Hopefully following your creative impulses is enjoyable...? And doesn't feel like work...?
...and, he's out.
With apologies to your spouse, but if you wanted to find out why people enjoy any kind of food, Yorkshire cuisine is probably not your best option. For mutton (and lamb) I recommend trying out a Moroccan restaurant, or Lebanese maybe (and I don't mean a kebab shop!).
4. This post is getting some traction. Now is a perfect opportunity to tell people what it is! Maybe you'll get some interest or at least some useful feedback. Don't worry if it is still a bit rough around the edges.
There will be! After the law goes into effect it will be the iPhone.

Feel free to not install internet browsers that you don't like though.
It's mostly a matter of how much you can throw at it in terms of resources. If there was a five dollar charge for every Linux kernel running you could have all of those and you'd probably still have cash left over.
Yes, between the device with hardware accelerated rendering and the device without, the user is likely going to prefer the former because software implementations are much slower and much more power-hungry. Thankfully SVG/CSS filters aren't used a ton on the web but usage has probably crawled up over time - I know many websites now use CSS blur filters.
You just have to add RSS feed URL or you can even search and subscribe to podcasts inside the app.
And the new episodes will be fetched regularly to your phone. The media file won't be downloaded unless you enable that.

Sorry the unclear description. I'll fix it.
You are correct, they used it for production, building the scenes, getting camera data. I then assume they exported the scenes and camera data to whatever they used for the final render. So Unity was used for 70-80% of the work.

It is possible but I don't know. Just was trying to point out that it's more than just some demo that it was used for.
Then we can look forward to an exciting front in the arms race that is computer security. Surely Apple, for all of their engineering and design brilliance, are up to the challenge?
They started with a huge advantage and squandered it with a buggy cloud subscription model and an electron downgrade. Their fate is their own at this point.
I don't eat beef much anymore and lamb chops are my indulgence. I had no reason to go to Keens before but now I do! Thanks!
Recent research suggests that schizophrenia may also be immune-mediated or at least immune-system involved. See:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.8805...

I was at a psychiatric conference once where the presenter highlighted that the last condition that psychiatry actually "cured" was neurosyphilis, an infection-triggered version of schizophrenia, back in the 1940's.
I hate turkey so much that I banned it from our Thanksgiving. Yes I've had it deep fried, baked, smoked, you name it, still hate it.

We switched to duck instead a few years back and it's positively wonderful. Anyone who eats with us admits it's way better than turkey.

I have no idea why it's not more popular...
I have never heard of any federal court ruling the way you claim they will. There are MANY rights we have (to own property, to work, to access necessities to live, etc.) that are nonetheless taxed.
> In nations with extreme abundance, it should be trivial to solve problems of homelessness and hunger. We have the means, but capitalism says "no, people must not be allowed to survive without working for others".

There's unemployment benefit. In the UK, that's £85 a week. There's also council housing.
There is still a big difference from grass fed beef and bison and the leaner meats like elk and venison have a much different flavor and they seem more difficult for me to cook right. I love venison, for example, but I don't always nail it. And it usually helps to spice it or sauce it.
Probably consolidating their London office space. The main UK office is actually at Rathbone.
Here (from blogpost) are the numbers

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PBjw6aG3gPaoxd53vp7Z...
I see. We’re just waiting on a case to be brought before a True Scotsman.
Yeah, I didn't say they set out to screw them, just that it does happen.

I had a corporate job. People have trouble seeing big companies as having the same cash flow issues etc they have. They imagine they are sitting on a fortune, not that a lot of those assets are needed to just run the company.

I remember reading one story about a small company waiting to get paid by BigCo and BigCo ran into issues and then tried to stiff them on payments by saying something like "This is for the latest thing we ordered and we no longer owe you those old payments cuz (legal loophole)" and the small company updated its language to counter such claims and insist "Payment is for the oldest thing we did for you...etc"

They probably weren't trying to kill the small company. They were just trying to survive their own financial downturn.

It's why I used to think "I should collect such stories when I see them." Small businesses tend to be "The new kid" who learns this the hard way and may not survive the lesson. I would like this issue to get more publicity so small businesses get better at managing such things realistically.
I get the maths, and how it works for literal secretaries, where one presumably deals with a pre-determined pool of applicant candidates. How does one determine the size of one's pool of potential romantic partners, and when one has reached ~37% of that total?
> Was Microsoft preventing people from installing firefox on their PCs?

It wasn't FireFox, but Netscape definitely was actively worked against.

> Am I misremembering this era?

Apparently.

But here is a link to refresh your memory.

https://bootcamp.uxdesign.cc/the-netscape-microsoft-browser-...

To save you a click:

"The Shell Execute Bug

However, Microsoft’s most significant tactic was the infamous “shell execute bug.” This bug caused some users to fail when trying to install Netscape, but it was not present when installing Internet Explorer, giving Microsoft yet another advantage. While Microsoft claimed the bug was unintentional, many believed it was a deliberate attempt to prevent users from installing Netscape. The bug caused significant damage to Netscape’s market share and cemented Microsoft’s dominance in the browser market."
> If there is any indie games that you like and they were released less than 10 years ago please do a little research of how long they actually took to build.

I know a number of successful game developers that are counterexamples to your thesis.

> If you take any modern game engine there will be dedicated programmers working on audio, graphics, networking, physics, etc.

Right, but that's to make a full engine. I'm arguing that you shouldn't make an engine at all.

Yes, if you're aiming at high production values, then you're looking at millions of dollars of investment and a full team.

But if you're looking to produce an excellent and successful game, the equation can be entirely different. You don't need top-notch graphics, top-notch sounds, etc. You just need to make a great game, and a great game is defined by the gameplay, not by the window dressing.

If you're a one-man shop, it absolutely is major factor in terms of what sort of games you can produce. There's no question about it. But it doesn't mean you can't produce excellent and successful games.
Why is STAN viewed negatively in this light? I am curious why bayesian libraries are the black sheep.
Does "fornicating" sound more polite to you?
> causal processes are not the same as rational argument

Yes.

...I'm taking this step-by-step...

But causal processes can _generate_ rational argument. Agree or disagree?
The set is what has the dimension. And the set under discussion (the Cantor set) is the set remaining after repeating this process infinitely many times. That is to say, every time you repeat the process, the set gets smaller; so, if you take the intersection of all the finite stages, then you get what's left after repeating the process infinitely many times. That remaining set is the Cantor set being discussed.

> Would it be different if we removed 1/4 repeatedly?

That would result in what's known as a "fat Cantor set". If I'm not mistaken, it would have Hausdorff dimension 1, rather than than something intermediate like the usual Cantor set.

> Would it be different if the line was longer than 0 -> 1?

No, the length of the starting line segment is not material here.
Yes, but the argument is that drop-shippers aren’t really producing any value.

It’s not like they’re putting banners over their product pics saying “hey, you know you can buy this exact same product for like half the price on alibaba if you’re willing to wait a couple more weeks for it right?”.

I don’t like Amazon consolidating this much power either but if they can push you out of your business that easily you weren’t the critical component of it.
maybe a piece of feedback: your landing page is beautiful but I kinda spent a few minutes trying to find what your software actually looks like, and couldn't. Then I thought of checking the docs for the API description and it's restricted. =(
On this topic, does anyone know of a suitable time-series forecaster for multivariate analysis? Eg 8 independent/input variables, and one output variable? I've been using multiple linear regression (which works impressively!) but it doesn't take into account the time series, only the single prior day of inputs. Thanks :)
I heard the same thing and I really hope what they're doing is for the best. It would have fundamentally changed my path if I didn't get that core low level experience of building game engines.
They are, whether you choose to admit it or not.
The anti-competitive bit is they have all the sales information that would typically be a trade secret for a company.

Go ahead, call up your local 7-11 and ask them what their sales were for the quarter. They'll tell you to fuck off.
> You can't just go cook lamb any old way

lamb is very popular in Italy and there are no "no old ways" to cook it.

Not a fan of it, but it's probably one of the most untouched traditional food you can find here.
I don't think all the garbage in their training data would be worth that much :)
At the point where you're rasterizing, the distinction between same-origin and cross-origin is not necessarily present. It's possible this just works because it happened to work, and nobody ever went out of their way to implement it.

i.e. the display list for the page has some boxes for iframes, and those boxes are identical to the rasterizer regardless of what origin they're from, so it happily applies filters to all of the iframes.
For one thing, the privacy rules only cover sharing data with third parties. They don’t cover Amazon using its own data for product recommendations.

But also, Amazon doesn’t rely on product recommendations in the first place. When I want to purchase something, I usually go to amazon.com and type in exactly what I’m looking for. No need for Amazon to guess. Amazon does make recommendations, but at least in my case they represent a tiny fraction of purchases.

In that way I’m voluntarily contributing to Amazon’s monopoly. I feel bad about that. But I use Amazon anyway because there are no alternatives that offer even a remotely comparable buyer experience.
The rumors are that the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro will launch with a promise of 7 years of updates, including not only security fixes and bug fixes but also feature drops. We’ll see what’s announces next month, but Google might be about to jump ahead of even the iPhone on this point.

Disclosure: although I have worked for Google in the past, I haven’t worked for them in more than 8 years, never worked on Android or Pixel beyond internally testing pre-release Android OS versions, have never had anything to do with setting their lifecycle policies, have no inside information on these rumors, and am not speaking for Google here.
The EU did, by qualifying Apple as a services gatekeeper on iPhone:

1. An undertaking shall be designated as a gatekeeper if:

(a) it has a significant impact on the internal market;

(b) it provides a core platform service which is an important gateway for business users to reach end users; and

(c) it enjoys an entrenched and durable position, in its operations, or it is foreseeable that it will enjoy such a position in the near future.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A...
I take issue with point three. Assuming that democratization of private goods is a good thing, we’d want to deskill so to speak. We’d want to pursue automation. I doubt the majority of citizens would want know how to maintain the automation.
> By replacing labour with robots and not compensating them, you're sending a clear message that you don't respect people and the value that they bring.

The thing is we can't help but compare people on the value that they bring. We can't go on about human value being tied to our creativity, emotional sensitivity, or any skill because once AI can do that, that value goes out the window for humans. Humans have to be valuable for no other reason than the fact that they are human, even if they technically are a burden. This is the only mentality that will keep humans safe in the AI apocalypse.
Looking forward to that book! Will it be on https://leanpub.com/u/markwatson?