skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We had the same issue when Blackberry ruled the roost at school and the go to question was what is your BBM PIN.

Eventually we gave up and bought two Curve's.

Never discount peer pressure.
TL;DR Author threw away watch because they keep forgetting to charge it and managing charging cable was difficult.

There must be reasonably easy solutions to both of these problems.
Teen girls and clique's - tell me about it as a parent of two daughters.
You were right to. From reading this thread I've realized I've not read enough to comment and what I could tell you you already know.

Decriminalization was a nice dream to solve a lot of misery.
Not sure that's reasonable. A quick search suggests current US market share is 58% iOS to 41% Android. If we assume HN readers are a representative sample of US mobile phone owners, then sure, you'd easily be right.

But of course there are plenty of HN users from outside the US. Another quick search suggests Android is around 66% in Europe, and iOS is only at 33%. Asia is ever more tilted toward Android, at 79% to 20%.

Even then, that assumes HN users' mobile OS preference mirrors that of the country/continent they are from, which feels a little unlikely to me; my gut feeling is that HN users to prefer Android at a greater rate (even if by not that much) than the rest of the people where they live.

But let's go back to assuming that HN's readership mirrors the mobile OS market share from country/continent they're from. It's not hard to drop that US 58% iOS number below 50% by subtracting US users from the total and adding users from literally anywhere else, where iOS usage is much lower.

Regardless, though, I think even if somehow the iOS numbers are still higher than the Android numbers, I think it's probably not that case that obviously everyone who uses an iPhone would side with Apple in this matter. Many/most would, but still likely not enough for it to be accurate to say that more than 50% of HN are a bunch of Apple apologists who will side with them in a legal matter and against Google in the exact same legal matter.
It's like a beaver Lothlorien.
ipso facto, if the monopolist doesn't even let a market exist then by definition they're not abusing it.
This is all true, but this just means that any security focused OS for the next 40 years should consider Rust
I worked as a programmer in Spain (my homeland) between 2008 and 2014. My yearly salary was 16k euros, putting me in the bottom 25% of earners, or just about the poverty line. Considering the american market, people have a hard time believing I used to live paycheck to paycheck working as a programmer. Anything tech related used to be a "nerd" job and I got paid less than my friends working as mechanics or policemen. In fact I didn't learn programmers were supposed to get paid big bucks until embarrassingly late.

Luckily in the last few years this has changed, in part thanks to Covid and remote work. At least now software engineers can get paid a decent income, which makes working in tech in the EU more bearable.
Plenty of people on the streets want all kinds of help. They don't want shit programs with a million hoops and strings attached, nor do they want gross dilapidated shelters also with hoops and strings plus predators prowling around looking to steal their shit (or worse) while they sleep.

Also, while the whole rock bottom trope probably holds some truth for many people, when you make every story all about it you kind of lose the plot. If you try hard enough, you can look at just about anyone's life who has recovered from addiction and create a narrative based on an upward trend after the "worst" moment or period of their addiction. If they had two periods that were basically exactly as bad, you dig around until you find some trivial reason to label the second period as worse, and thus the "real bottom." If someone had their worst period of addiction many years before they actually got to a place where they could maintain sobriety long term it was just a long journey for them. Etc.
Suppose your hoop probabilities are 25% and that you have two hoops so that the probability of jumping through both is

25% * 25% = 6.25%.

You can reduce the size of one of the hoops in half, changing the probability to

25% * 25%/2 = 3.125%

You can also add a third hoop, in which case the probability is

25% * 25% * 25% = 1.5625%

1.5625% < 3.125%, so adding a third hoop is better than shrinking one of the two existing hoops. Of course, this argument makes important assumptions about the hoop probabilities.
The idea is cool, but I have some suggestions.

1. Use links, when there’s a list, I open links in new tabs that I want to check. This is some kind of JS-only app that doesn’t have links, only JS behavior. Please don’t break the browser for no good reason, this makes it really hard to actually use the site.

2. Get a better source for the book data:

> What is this book about?

> Read the award-winning, critically acclaimed, multi-million-copy-selling science-fiction phenomenon - soon to be a Netflix Original Series from the creators of Game of Thrones.

> 15+ pages of new, original content, including a glossary of terms, in-universe writings, and more!

> A USA Today Best-Selling Novel!

> "Unlike anything I've ever read. " --V.E. Schwab

> "Lesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space!" --Charles Stross

> "Brilliantly original, messy and weird straight through." --NPR

Almost everything I checked had a bunch of absolutely useless marketing blurbs at the top, maybe one or two paragraphs of explaining what the book is about at the end, but not even always that. I don’t know how accessible it is, but goodreads tends to have descriptions without those blurbs.
There are a million reasons a plan like could fail that have nothing to do with with it being a good or bad plan, though. And there are a lot of people invested in making sure a plan like this fails, so that the people who supported it in the first place come to the same conclusion as you.
I hate the messaging of “for the actual taxpayers” phrase even if I agree mostly with the sentiment.

There is more to life than paying taxes, and people contribute to society in many ways that aren’t financial. I think “productive members” has the same phrasing problems. We need to make life better for members of society that contribute and benefit from it, for people that want to be a part of society, regardless of their ability to contribute back.
he's got millions of subscribers on youtube!
Network connection because the user expects it, is fine. If a browser is privacy-protecting it may even proactively block connections related to ads/trackers.

However if a browser claims to be privacy respecting than it has to be zero telemetry by default, otherwise it isn't. If you do not care about it being privacy-respecting, than sure, why not relay information to browser vendor and/or 3rd parties on startup.
Sure GDPR sucked for adtech, I was working for an EU adtech company when it came through, it took a year or two to ween the BAs and bidders off their addiction to the previously finely detailed user tracking.

But GDPR encapsulates rights consumers deserve.
Cairo wouldn’t comment on the complaints about her management style. Responding on her behalf, Parks and Recreation spokesperson Cherelle Jackson said the bureau wouldn’t comment on “rumors about a member of our team.” “Unfortunately, too many women in male-dominated industries like forestry face this behavior,” Jackson wrote in an email to OPB. “As a Bureau, we will uphold our values for equality and respect for women in the workplace. If you have evidence that is not based on hearsay, please feel free to share, and we may respond accordingly.”

That was really depressing to read. She nuked the program because of her ego and then let her black spokesperson blame it on race and gender instead of her own lies and deliberate mismanagement.
> I'm not sure you can derive any useful conclusions from this post.

Sometimes a conclusion isn't necessary. Just having that information written down and spelled out is useful in terms of informing people. There are a lot of things we take for granted, and some heinous things that are happening that shouldn't be but are allowed to happen because the consequences don't feel real or tangible enough.
Giving preferential treatment to one customer at the expense of other customers is not anticompetitive behavior as defined by any law I'm aware of.

The law doesn't say you have to give everybody the same deal just because it's "unfair" to others.

The monopoly/antitrust/etc. laws are about misusing a position of power for your own benefit at the expense of competitors. Apple doesn't have to be "fair" to Netflix vs Max vs Disney Plus.
Despite these factors, the US has actually less social mobility than many European nations e.g.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/01/these-are-the-10-coun...

When wealth is inceasingly locked up in dynastic families, they will try and control the legislature and economic system to maintain their privilege and stifle innovation from upstarts. This is the problem Europe traditionally has struggled with, and it is saddening to the the US fall into this trap.

So while Europe has a lot to learn, the US is not exactly trending in the right direction. Perhaps this is why much of the current generation of VC is hype-driven, pump-and-dump schemes and attempts to create monopolies rather than genuine, long-term innovation.
You may be missing some context; there was a similar court case between Apple and Epic, and Apple won. While opinions on HN were mixed, I seem to recall more people coming out praising Apple and demonizing Epic.

Apple is very much considered here.
Last part of the article. It states that they are viewed and shared as normal 2D videos on iphone, but when you connect a Vision Pro to your iCloud account, it can view your spatial videos in 3D.
“What if it learned from its training data that people usually slow down in December and put bigger projects off until the new year, and that’s why it’s been more lazy lately?"
No, you’re right. Empathy doesn’t work with certain drug use (opiates, meth, crack etc.). They need to be forcibly put in rehab that is akin to jail until they’re clean for a while. It still shouldn’t be a felony on your record though because that effectively ends any chance of rebuilding your life if you do recover.
I was wondering about the use of the lidar sensor. Notably they do not say they are using it, but maybe they just wanted to keep it simple? Idk seems weird not to use lidar but also seems weird not to mention it if they are using it.
“They did everything except what would work! Let’s all give up and go back to things that definitely don’t work. It’s the only option.”
I use Fastmail, but nearly everyone I send/receive email to/from has an @gmail.com address.

Google still has the content of all of my email. Well, I guess except for the transactional stuff that comes from automated sources.
What OSS - why do we have homebrew - Apple stuff is years behind current ever since GPL V3 murked the waters.
So I'm in the middle on this. And of course my opinion is colored by my person experience.

I learned to code at 12, and went to university at 19. I went in thinking "I know how to program" (and I did), but after the first few months (where they taught programming) I found so much more to learn.

I could point to specific modules (databases, algorithms, and some others) that I've used all career, but the real value came from elsewhere.

The depth of understanding in all the modules meant I felt equipped to do anything. I went to my first job and promptly used a language I'd never seen before. I wrote a function, used in production, on my first day. I soaked up the Language Reference manual in a couple weeks.

Basically uni taught me that new stuff can be learned -really quickly-. That when given a task in something new, I can approach it with confidence. Learning (especially today, with Internet resources) is very accessible.

The other thing I discovered at uni were smart people. Smarter than me. I found a group who wanted to suck the marrow dry. We pushed each other, sharing new accomplishments - competing if you like to push the boundaries. Most of our code was not "handed in" - it was tangential to the course work. It forced me to "be better".

It also showed me that helping others is it's own reward. Part of my job is training (and writing), and being good at that was a big part of my early career.

So, in my context, my bachelors degree has been my foundation. Everything that came after was built on it. But I didn't stay past my first degree - I couldn't wait to get into the world and apply it. I've never regretted that, but I've no idea how that path-not-taken may have panned out.

College is like most things, you get out what you put in. They don't "give" you anything, but they offer you the chance to "take" as much as you can.

As an aside, I wrote my first commercial program in 2nd year. It was a simple program for printing medical genetic diagrams on laser printers (this is pre Windows.) It was commissioned by our genetics department. He suggested I sell it to others. Again, this is pre-internet so I went to the med school library, found a research directory, and wrote a letter to everyone in the genetics section. Sold a handful (at $250 a pop) to universities all around the world. Now THAT was a serious rush!

Above all, the lesson I learned was that adding value is valuable. My career is built on adding value to others - which, it turns out, generated a decent living. Find the value you can add, and people are happy to pay.
Google created the opportunity for "markets" of android alternative app stores and alternative in-app payments, but then leveraged their control of other areas (such as OEM distribution of android and play services, revenue sharing, marketing) to squash competition in these areas.

Apple on the other hand has tried very hard to make sure such perceptions of markets do not exist; for instance, the requirements they gave to Microsoft for shipping a game subscription service on iOS is that the games themselves had to be in Apple's App Store, pass App Store review, and take payments for DLC or currency via in-app purchase.

This is also IMO why Apple will never actually lock down macOS so that things are only available in the Mac App Store. Whether or not it is a good idea, they can't defend it legally.
Murphy's book is about probabilistic/Bayesian machine learning whereas this, according to the preface is 'almost entirely non-Bayesian'. Murphy's book is also a lot more general, this one is about the deep learning subset of ML.
If you have a VR headset, you can try these videos out.

I followed [1] on a Pico 4 headset (video is about Quest 3) and it was pretty fun. The aspect ratio was a bit wonky.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH96y2QjCGw
I work with a big supplier for the conveyors and stuff that moves the vehicle bodies through the plant. The talk you mentioned really impacts them. They are thinking a lot about the new functionalities they need to develop in their products in order to fulfill the Tesla requirements. Not only does Tesla want to change the car body structure itself, they also want to reduce the cycle time per manufacturing step significantly. This causes the conveyor suppliers to develop completely new concepts for moving the car bodies through the factory.
I think WASM has a problem which isn't really noticed/worked on yet (at least, that's my perspective)

The WASM GC will be good, not because it's a GC, but because it would allow languages compiled to WASM to interoperate with e.g. the DOM using the same memory manager so you're not e.g. manually managing the memory of DOM objects while JS may hold references to them according to the terms of the GC.

But this also means the DOM API will be tied to the GC, right? I don't know this for fact, but logically that seems correct. So languages that do NOT have good use of the GC are going to be at a disadvantage when it comes to interacting with the DOM, presumably.

Meanwhile, the runtimes of languages like Go and modern Java (after Java gets goroutine-like behavior from project loom) rely on small ~8kb stacks and the ability to swap the stack to a new goroutine using setjmp/longjmp - but WASM isn't a traditional register machine like x86 ASM, instead it's more of a stack machine.. with no setjmp/longjmp.

So not only do languages like Go and Java need to 'decouple' their runtimes for goroutine-like behavior from their GC and make use of the WASM GC instead (which is not tailored to the usage patterns of such languages), but they also need to emulate their own register machine 'on top of' the WASM stack machine so that their goroutine-like behavior works in WASM. Back in 2017 my coworker did this for Go, and so far as I know the implementation has not moved on from that approach since because there is no alternative.

So for Go and Java, you'd be working with a GC that isn't designed for the language and presumably that has performance implications.. and you'd be working with an emulated register machine on top of a sandboxed stack machine (WASM)... that all starts to seem quite a bit far from 'low level like native code' that WASM aims to promise.

I hope I'm wrong, but I fear Go/Java do not have a bright, performant, future when it comes to WASM.

Zig, C++, Rust - all probably have a bright future here. But the challenges for higher level languages are stark

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32078190
www.mealme.ai has real-time retailer data. They scrape retailer websites I believe.
That breaks on edge cases.

For example it won't work recursively when a fetched fragment has fragments of its own.

Or when the js snippet loads before some fragment element is loaded (say, from a DOM update).

The nice thing about custom elements is that you get to treat them exactly like normal elements.
Mistral AI, the parisian rival of OpenAI, just closed a $415 million funding round at a $2B valuation, after releasing an open source MoE (Mixture of Experts) model that beats GPT-3.5 and other SOTA 70B models like Llama-70B on most benchmarks. This is an impressive achievement for a 8 months old startup. I have to admit that I was a bit skeptical about Mistral when they first raised hundreds of millions in VC funding without any product. But now I am impressed. That’s why I decided to take a closer look at their strategy.
James O'Keefe, eh?

https://apnews.com/article/james-okeefe-project-veritas-west...

https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/12/11/citing-strong-evidenc...
Solution is easy. If you’re visibly publicly intoxicated with hard drugs, you go to a special rehab that’s essentially prison without the violent criminals. If you’re already a violent criminal, you get put into a segregated area. You then get forcibly treated. If youv’e stayed clean for a set number of months, you get to leave. None of this shows up on any permanent/criminal record.
Ooh, is it the Bill of Rights!?
3D movies have existed for decades, without adjustable viewing angles.
Even if the parent “forces a passcode”, they can’t remotely listen in on conversations and see exactly what their child is doing at any given minute.

> Presumably, an attacker will not have access to the device and not be freely given the password or access with the ability to install an app.

Are you really unaware of what a jealous partner can do?

> A lot of the permissions individually make sense

In what world does a permission to “remotely monitor your screen and intercept your voice and hide that the app is installed make sense”?

> A lot of the permissions individually make sense and this software could just be composed by a significant number of them. I'm not sure exactly how the software you are referring to works and its scope, so I'll take a narrow example.

Maybe it’s a bad idea to allow a third party app to have access to your SMS messages especially seeing they are often used for 2FA?

> In the case of screen capture, that's a perfectly normal use case to stream your screen. Android does warn you when this is occuring.

And yet there are plenty of apps for Android that can do this surreptitiously…

You realize you aren’t making a great case for Android here don’t you?
I have tried to resize letters in FontForge and realized that the letters looked too small when I got rid of the overshoot.

Sorry for the late response. I didn't see your reply.
It still shows a broken character for Japanese in Safari on iOS. Edit: fixed on reload.
> While this is true, there were a lot of programs that existed before M110

You make a good point. When we look at a program that hasn’t been implemented we must judge all other unrelated programs that were implemented to some degree or another at the same time.

People might want to “see how it works out after implementation” while ignoring the necessity of “going back to the status quo that led to coming up the ideas on the first place”
How do you explain Russia's success in tech?
Prohibition also failed horribly. We need a middle ground.

What about drug use as a privilege? If you’re living on the street, your litter is all over the street, and you never pay taxes, then you lose your privilege.
Get yourself one of these and go for the gold:

https://www.inkstation.com.au/3d-printing/pens
No, that's not like that at all. Can we stop making really poor car analogies that don't actually represent the issue at hand?

Regardless, at this point you're arguing against the court here. Google lost; they have a monopoly on Android app distribution. Maybe that'll get overturned on appeal, but I hope not.
Yes, absolutely, there are no other parts of the world notoriously known for their hierarchies and formalities being very important; France has got the title, for sure.
The device looks pretty cool, but omg the marketing copy is super cringe!
Considering Apple has its own streaming service, this may in fact be the opposite of monopolistic.
> what is honestly better than contextualizing today's news with (history * yesterday's news)?

A tough question. The issue, I think, is that we cannot reliably reflect/contextualize about today's news/events until it becomes history, i.e. reliability (for a lack of a better term) comes only with distance to past. But now we are already on a dangerous ground because, you know, '84.
What about this landmark case:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Alcoa
Rather than arguing about what is and isn't a zip code, here's an actual answer: no, at least on Firefox Android (and I assume generally on Android devices), if you have "inputmode=numeric", then the only keyboard available to the user is the phonepad-style number keyboard, and they cannot switch to another keyboard.

This honestly surprised me, my expectation was that it would select a keyboard by default, but you'd still be able to switch to other keyboards manually. So I guess if your zip/postcode/PLZ/etc field needs to accept international values, don't use inputmode=numeric (or similar) on it.
> I would not have been surprised if the answer was also 5%

Given the sensitivity of the market with any company perceived to be lagging behind AI developments, I wouldn't be surprised that their stock price would drop by a couple % if the demo underwhelmed.

So the whole thing is basically a ethical question of "how far can we go with polishing our demo until it becomes an unacceptable fake?" In an ideal world you'd never want to be caught in such a dilemma.
Why would it be hard for an american investor with "free money" to invest it in European startups, if there were no other reasons for them to be a worse investment?
I think many of the listed factor are, in fact, advantages.

For example, the cultural differences - the author forgets that most europeans speak two or more foreign languages. Thanks to the EU frame legislation offering products and services across borders is not only feasible, but quite painless compared to the challenges you'd face trying to setup shop in just any foreign nation.

When it comes to labor laws and privacy, they're practically invisible as long as you Do The Right Thing.