skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a thing called credit

Sorry. But you speak from a position of privilege of which you are unaware, and you clearly have no idea about how this stuff sometimes works in the real world.

I apologize for being very rude. But you have never experienced this and you are wrong. I hope you never have this misfortune to learn this from personal experience.

I apologize for my impolite manner here.
Apple privately asked Amazon to block rival ads
It's possible to build an experimental Blink-based version of Chromium for iOS, but it seems to require an entitlement not available for free Apple Developer accounts [1]. Additionally, JIT and WASM are currently disabled, the current browser UI is very minimal, and various system integration features are incomplete according to the list of issues that are blocking [2]. 9to5Google demonstrated it earlier this year [3].

[1]: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/i...

[2]: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=141170...

[3]: https://9to5google.com/2023/03/03/first-look-google-chrome-b...
That sounds more like a "The Giver" style distopia
The issue with scalping is it generally doesn't harm the business. To them, a ticket is a ticket and "Oh shucks, sorry you didn't get the one you wanted". Similar to how hoarding goods during a crisis works.

So, to answer your question, companies could solve this problem by binding a reservation to an ID. However, there's very little incentive to do that. There's also a slight downside when people show up and say "Oh, forgot my ID". Now you have a fight at the entrance you don't want to deal with.
One person uses it, for a pre-determined amount of time dictated by security updates and software based gatekeeping, and then its time of usefulness has passed, and it can't be meaningfully put to any other use. In parallel, parts and service become scarce.

If you're advocating that the average user, or differently abled users get comfortable with the tweezers and pentalobe screws in order to extend the lives of their devices, I'm afraid you've lost the plot.
My Thinkpad T480 with high capacity battery gets about 10 hours of run time under Linux, running an editor, browser with a million tabs open, docker containers, and the occasional video playback. That’s enough for me, and I’m not convinced that a Mac would have meaningfully higher battery life with the same workload (especially running Docker, which is a hog on MacOS).
> (...) and we have a unified memory architecture.

If Apple laptops have to use their system memory for their graphics stuff, doesn't this mean that their 8GB of RAM leaves even less memory available for applications? I mean, even the cheapest graphics cards out there ship with a few GB of dedicated memory.
Wow, TIL. Do you know why that's the case?

It sucks being able to not resell a ticket when plans change, but I'd assume that these days, the convenience of being able to do that is more than offset by the amount lost to scalpers.
Much as it pains me to say, as a die hard Mac fan, Apple's success really largely rides on other products.

The iPod (which was not at all developer friendly) saved Apple commercially for several years. Yes, the Mac business had turned around a few years before, but e.g. the year before the iPod, Apple had the disastrous Power Mac G4 cube launch, which led to some unprofitable quarters. The iPod ensured that Apple's fortunes were no longer tied to new Macs (even though there were no G4 cube repeats).

And the big influx of developers came with iPhone. Not sure that Unix was that important a selling argument in that segment — it's certainly there behind the scenes, but does not play much of a role in developing.
re your username, The War and Peace films are probably the most accurate films based on novels I have ever seen. Everything was recreated down to the smallest detail, the smallest microexpression written by Tolstoy
In the smallest designs e.g. RV32E vs Cortex-M0, yes.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38225898

It's still very noticeable at Cortex M3/M4 level. Much less so in Linux applications processors.
But wikidata is trying
Yes, I wasn't referring specifically to japanese kitkats - I don't know what's in them, been a couple years. But the use of palm oil has become pretty pervasive and (maybe it's placebo effect) the flavour has declined.
Side loading is fine, but I am legitimately worried about being forced to get apps from outside of the App Store.

Forcing that all of the applications I use on my phone (and most of what I am subscribed too) has to go through Apple's systems is a win for me since I can very easily cancel subscriptions. Same for billing so I can minimize the places that have access to my credit card information.

But if more services force me to give them my credit card information or just use an outside App Store that doesn't enforce these things, a major reason I stick with iPhone will be lost (and it isn't like moving to Android will be a solution to this problem).

If I can still get every app and every subscription I want to use on my phone through the App Store than I have no issue with this. But as soon as a developer takes that option away from me because they want to use a dark pattern on canceling or do something shady with my credit card information this is no longer about the consumer.

And don't try to say that I am coming up with a theoretical problem to be mad about considering Epic games tried this exact thing on Android.
> If we ignore 'and requires iPhone for the other party to receive anything other than text' then yes.

They can also receive images! SMS does support sending those, after all.

> Just progressively degrade to personal insults, why are you even bothering?

Pointing out argumentative flaws isn't really a personal insult. I'm still talking to you because your communication style reminds me of my mother-in-law who recently passed away, so it's a whole nostalgia thing really. :D

> when it's okay for Apple to do something yet not okay for not-Apple to do the same.

Yeah, but it was a weird swerve into an unrelated issue, given that nobody in the thread had been engaging in that doublethink. I certainly wasn't -- my whole position here has been that so long as there's a fallback it's fine for both Apple and Google to be having this progressive-enhancement setup, after all.

> Yes, but if you don't use Signal for 'activist communities' then what? You don't do things? Or you just use iMessage for participating in those activities?

I'd imagine that if you're such a person you'd either stick to in-person communications, be suitably vague in less-secure communications, or use one of the various secure messaging services out there which don't require a phone number. Also, "Signal requiring a phone number means I'm identifiable on it, so I might as well use iMessage anyway since it's convenient and not any less secure overall" is a coherent stance for someone to take, depending on how they weight their risks.
I've argued extensively before that allowing sideloading and even third party app stores would not be nearly a threat to security and quality user experience as it's been hyped. Instead, I'll repeat a suggestion of a potential model of Apple getting behind sideloading itself, rather than being dragged screaming and kicking into openness:

> Really, Apple could have headed off regulators at the pass if they had embraced the semi-opening of their platform themselves. Allow third party app stores but on their own terms, providing SDKs and APIs for creating your own iOS App Store with security checks baked in and mandating privacy protections built in. Sort of like a software services equivalent to Apple Authorized Service Providers and Apple Authorized Resellers.

They would have then controlled this debate, and there would have been less room for the Epics of the world to complain about the platform being locked down. Not to mention users would benefit from greater choice. Imagine boutique third party app stores springing up devoted to specific interests and niches such as F-Droid, promising better curation or quality.

Companies who refuse to use the AppStoreKit that Apple so beneficently provided would then be seen as malefactors seeking to subject their users to lack of privacy and security, rather than Apple trying to uphold their 30% cut and restrictive behavior.

Instead, Apple tried to control everything and not only did they expose themselves to regulation like this, they deal with customers annoyed at scammy apps on their own App Store, and third party devs crying foul at inconsistent policing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33978588

Maybe this is sort of happening now, if Apple is providing an app distribution framework. They're embracing managed openness. Lifting some side gates in the walled garden.
Got bit by this(1) clown that decided to do a crazy long version number as a joke and release it in pypi. Broke a few local pypi caches. Breakdown in the github issue at (2). So ... pobody's nerfect.

1) https://pypi.org/project/uselesscapitalquiz/
2) https://github.com/pypa/bandersnatch//issues/1200#issuecomme...
> you seem awfully certain the briber is more ethically in the right here

No, I'm not. I don't advocate for bribery and the developer should be charged, although the prosecution's priority should always be on the person accepting the bribe, in my opinion. People are barking up the wrong tree because it's easier for some people to hate a rich guy than someone working for their preferred political party's government.

That being said, how many fewer housing units would exist in SF without this rich asshole bribing his way into making the new housing complexes? And where is the evidence that there was something wrong with the structural plans that was causing problems getting the permit? If you knew anything about SF, you would know that having a perfect plan does not get a building approved. The problem is with the approval process. By being a rich asshole and unethically aiming to help only himself, he objectively improved the city more than most, because the regulatory process he was circumventing is horribly flawed. Can you rectify that with your black and white worldview?

> would you feel the same if this was a meat packer or kindergarten or dairy or hospital who was bribing inspectors?

This isn't a story about a meat packing plant -- this is a story about a city with one of the worst housing shortages in the world, and the worst homelessness crisis in the country.

Some people have it so ingrained in their brains that evading regulation for personal benefit is bad that they fail to evaluate the possibility that the regulation is bad.

Both can be true! One can be more important! Which one is more important can depend on the specific circumstances!
> I tried replaying the original X-Com, but it had serious quality of life issues

There's Xenonauts, if you want X-Com, but modern.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/223830/Xenonauts/
Ian M. Banks novel Surface Detail (light spoiler follows) speculates on how resurrection might not be pleasant for everyone involved.

If we had the technology to resurrect people today, can you imagine how valuable it would be for military and intelligence-gathering purposes? Or skirting around labor laws? (see Lena by qntm). How technology is used is always determined by our political and economic regime.
That pun is horrendous beyond belief, I love it.
Normal desktop PCs are going to be neutered to subscription-based terminals that you can take home with you rather than go to a central location to access.
>> This is regardless of quality, bots are rarely as good as speaking with a real human being

I avoid calling organizations as I know I will be on hold forever, when I finally do get through to someone usually they provide another number to call and the process repeats. I just want the thing done, as fast as possible - I don't care if I talk to a real person or not. The reason chatbots haven't helped the process so far is they just add more time and annoyance to the process as step 0 is often to get the chatbot to spit out a phone number or (finally) connect you to an agent. This is because, naturally, pre OpenAI chatbots were terrible. If post OpenAI chatbots are awesome, I can't see why people would not use them.
Go after the people going out of their way to put an extra hundred bucks in Apple's pockets? I guess anything's possible...
Just search Japanese kitkat and you will find a bunch of online seller, and they are found on Amazon as well. I ordered from here:

https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/WpsnCaNDw...
Poetry is an all-in-one tool that does dependency management using `pyproject.toml` files and its own `poetry.lock` files, as well as package building, virtualenv management, and also has hooks for entrypoints and scripts.

It's rather a useful tool and I'm personally using it for dependency management and packing for all my projects moving forwards, though for venvs I'm using `pyenv` and the `pyenv-virtualenv` plugin.

Once you figure out your workflow it can be quite nice, but it's figuring it out that's a huge mess in Python at the minute. Hopefully PEP 582 (Python local packages directory) solves it a bit...
> Longtermism is the belief that we should discount short-term harms to real existing human beings—such as human-induced climate change—if it brings us closer to the goal of colonizing the universe, because the needs of trillions of future people who don't actually exist yet obviously outweigh the needs of today's global poor.

Whenever I see people talking about longtermism this way, I'm a bit confused. I've always thought of climate change being one of the things that longtermists care a lot about. I read 'What We Owe the Future' briefly, and could be misremembering, but I recall it being heavy on climate change being a major issue because of the long-lasting impact it could have. It feels like it became popular to shit on longtermism because some billionaires are into it, and the views of people who it resonates with are carelessly misconstrued.

If the label really is now just for a fuck-earth-colonize-space view, what is the acceptable term for the view that long-term impacts should be a primary concern when allocating resources towards solving problems?
> can Apple deny this to US users? For how long?

Yes. For as long as either...

- The US fails to pass DMA-equivalent antimonopoly law. We had the Open App Markets Act (OAMA) but it's basically dead thanks to lobbying

- The EU fails to impose DMA requirements outside of their jurisdiction

One thing to note is that the EU loves extraterritoriality. They call it the Brussels Effect - they write laws in such a way that it's cheaper to just comply worldwide than try and carve out the EU. For example, GDPR protects EU citizens, rather than people in the EU, so anyone with EU citizen data has to comply with GDPR even if they have no contact with the EU.

The US and EU are both sovereign nations, so there's all sorts of ways this could play out. The EU could amend the Digital Markets Act to require worldwide compliance, which would obligate Apple to offer sideloading to Americans. The options to combat this from the US side would be fairly limited and arguably too extreme to use. Most of Apple's lobbying has been to prevent the US from mandating sideloading, but they wouldn't be arguing for, say, a full-on ban of sideloading purely to distolerate our hypothetical EU worldwide DMA requirement.
This shows up the difference between a freight forwarder and a freight broker.[1]
A freight broker is just a matchmaker who takes a cut. A US freight forwarder is stuck with end to end responsibility for the shipment.

[1] https://www.penskelogistics.com/solutions/freight-brokerage/...
If US government worked for FAANG, you'd have a much more streamlined process...

But the fact is, that no one is happy with the immigration process. It's utterly inhumane and expensive.
Banning resales is illegal in some places!

But then again, e.g. in New York, it's apparently also illegal to resell a ticket for more than 10% above its face value, yet ticket scalping does not seem to be a solved problem...
Why would anyone give credit card numbers over the phone. That’s nuts.

Just require the same payment card is used for the food as to make the booking.
The PPC ISA is huge, with a vast number of instructions (hundreds), which implies a lot of energy-sucking decoder circuitry -- and data path too.

RISC-V allows tiny designs with just 37 instructions. ARMv6-M aka Thumb 1 (plus CSR instructions) is also fairly minimal, though not as much as RV32I.
yes but since that’s not going to happen due to the guilt based perpetuation of it, we can attack the intermediaries so that it is disincentivized first
This attack targets people's personal accounts. Many people have Office 365 because their work requires it, so they have to use the Outlook app for that. So if those people then choose to add their personal account to the same mail client, Microsoft can also snoop on the private correspondence of their captive corporate audience.
I work at a private university that has gone all-in with MS. We have OneDrive and I believe custom BGP routes straight to Azure with 200G pipes.

This product is complete garbage. I try to upload/share large files to individuals within the institution. It constantly fails when upload or downloading anything over 5GB. The pipe to my desk is 1000/1000. What is the issue? Is OneDrive literally only meant to be used for documents yet we're told by central IT to use it for research data?
> That's on odd admission from the scammer, when they could have said nothing,

Whenever I read stuff like this, I end up feeling like I'm not imaginative enough to scam people.

Also, this isn't the same thing, but ... years ago, when Craigslist was running strong, I responded to a CL post to purchase a used laptop. The CL post was really well done, quite detailed (I remember it had photos and talked about how it was in tip-top shape except for the screen having a dead pixel in the lower left).

But the price was juuuuust a little too good to be true. I eventually emailed the guy and said something like, "This feels like a scam."

To my surprise, he came clean and asked me not to report it to CL!!!

Humanity often confuses me.
What about advertising your product? I've heard that that is exceptionally difficult these days.
> it's a mostly pointless bureaucratic exercise in bogus paperwork where lawyers and the gov. make bank

I love how people always think that The Government™ does things to make money, rather some congressman from the Bible Belt just engaging in straight up xenophobia.
Yup. A bad comment can be worse for maintenance than bad code without any comments.
I would transform the most commonly occurring formats programmatically. The rest could probably be handled by GPT-3. Alternatively, divide the task between as many cloud VMs hosting something like LLaMa as it takes to fit your time constraints.
There are 500k homeless people in the US alone [0]. Let's compare that to Google's net income (money gained after all expenses including taxes, etc.) for a quarter (quarter is 3 months with $70m on a good quarter and $30m on a bad one [1]). If we were to give every cent of Google's earnings to each homeless person in the USA then each homeless person could get a $46 pay check ((net_income_per_quarter / homeless_population) / 3 [2]) per month from Google on a good quarter and a $20 paycheck per month on a bad quarter [3]. But, you have to ask yourself what this sort of wild and crazy idea would cost to Google's bottom line. I'm no expert on that, but I assume it would not be good. This is just some simple back of the napkin math, but it shows how simply infeasible solving homelessness or poverty is even for a company as big as Google. This is why I usually believe solving homelessness can not be achieved by money alone, and just the scale of the problem makes it so intractable.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_Sta...

[1]: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GOOGL/financials

[2]: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%2870000000+%2F+500000%...

[3]: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%2830000000+%2F+500000%...
Both Apple and Amazon are very important for national security. I wouldn't be surprised if there is more going on here then just preferential treatment.
OpenAI's RAG: A Step Forward or A Step Too Far?
I know the joke of this is that they could have in-housed this.

But why do government agencies not always have groups focused on financial efficiency? Is it corruption or stupidity?
Those who say it can't be done should not interrupt the people doing it, I suppose!
I have worked at other FAANGs where I see certain immigrant managers only seem to hire other immigrants from the same country...
Love the idea. I think it would be even better if you could interact with the posts/videos in the dashboard instead of being redirected
Yes, they are probably using: https://huggingface.co/blog/lcm_lora
The punishments for GDPR and DMA non-compliance are also related to worldwide turnover, rather than something local.
Yeah.... Except that this is not true. There's not enough talent in US, so we have to seek elsewhere.

American graduates have these starry eyes and want to work mostly in two types of companies FAANG or early stage startups... Who's going to go to work at pharma companies, banks, electric companies?
Hack at ICBC Targeted the Digital Underbelly of Financial Markets
Can you elaborate a bit on why you think the market for distinct character/personality models is massive right now?

I ask only because I've been asked by a fairly well-known GAI company to help them 'personality-ize' some of their models and I'm trying to understand who else is doing it, where, and why – namely because I'd like to keep doing it.
apolinario is a friend:)
I don’t even care for a LLM chatbot.

Something with multiple choice would do the trick.

But that system has to have some way to actually do something. Close / open / update a account or record or what have you.

If the bot is a glorify FAQ then I would rather use CTRL+F.

But if the bot, even super dumb, can ID me or see that I’m logged in then change my plan or whatever… I’m happy and that my favorite way.

Amazon does it for instance ( report a lost package and trigger a re-send )
Apple seems to have an unusually long-term orientation with respect to employees and to value tenure and retention in a way that the rest of Silicon Valley does not.
How is telephone calls a solution? Scalpers can easily outsource it to some call center abroad (which they already do for all other types of scams), while legitimate customers now have it much harder.
how long until he says that about hashicorp? is there any reason to believe they wouldn’t be just as mad?
> No such thing as wage depression or abuse at this point

You're saying that Apple can't find people from less-developed countries with these specific credentials and then offer them a starting salary that's $100k under what they would have needed to offer to someone from California?

> because they are for all legal purposes, an equal to any American once they have EB2.

Equal to an American in legal rights perhaps, but there is no right to competitive pay.
I think the joke is that he'd do pretty much anything if given a lot of money and infinite time.
> Kempton's team survived an earthquake, malaria and even a leech attached to an eyeball during their trip

Yeeeash...
This is all true, but if your target still requires twice as many bombs of whatever technology than your aircraft can hold you will need to send two planes.

I think we're talking past each other.
On point.

A few chatbot can actually do stuff and then it’s fine.