skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are absolutely getting followers from this. You're talking about them now, whereas hardly anyone was a week ago.
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Perhaps a better title for this article would be: "Business leaders are bringing a whole new vibe to the workplace: anxiety"

With the popularity of 'hot desking', overbearing micromanagement, unrealistic expectations, and continuous surveillance/activity monitoring.. who can blame people for being stressed / anxious at work?
How is it better than, e.g. Whatsapp ?
The absolutely drastic reduction of smoking says otherwise.
Counterpoint: AirPods can connect to any Bluetooth compatible device, yet the experience with an iPhone is still magical.
Not terribly in depth, but this is about the evidence I referenced: https://apnews.com/article/kyle-rittenhouse-technology-wisco...

IMHO any upscaling in court should be strictly squaring existing pixels, along with heavy caveats on how encoding works. A 16X zoom means one black pixel becomes sixteen pixels, and jurors have to know that the individual pixel may not have ever been an accurate representation of reality. Anything else, even nearest neighbor, is adding information.

Especially with recent smart phones that are using AI to perform “super zoom” techniques you could easily magic into existence something that never existed.
So is CNN, and every other outlet, unfortunately. But for stories like this with no political motivation, any outlet can be trusted just as much as any other, so it doesn't matter which is reporting it.
Diagnostic 'lab on a chip' can be 3D-printed in just 30 minutes
Those young people are probably doing themselves a favor by disassociating from peers who are shallow and prejudiced enough to exclude someone for, of all things, not using a specific (proprietary!) chat app.
Yes exactly - it’s the whole Apple experience. If iMessage started working on android it would remove one reason to get my kid an iPhone. I still have 20 more.
I suspect they are hoping for it and have a rich benefactor who's willing to see this fight to the very end, in hopes of setting a precedent.
Even though my mechanical watch wasn't as inaccurate as yours (mine was only a minute or two off a week), the act of regularly adjusting it to match the true time slowly changed my impression of it from a "serious timekeeping device", the image cultivated by marketing, into "this is a silly hobby for people who have too much time and money". Doubly so when you look how much it costs to repair a mechanical watch.

This single-use timekeeping device was literally the least accurate timekeeping device on my person, compared to my phone and computer.
I won't doubt the fact that you know that other cross-platform messaging apps exist.
I think Apple Watch with cell service is an excellent compromise. Gives my kid freedom to go around the neighborhood and visit her friends without having access to apps and all that smartphones bring.
Why is that insane to you? The same technology that will allow your wireless signal to travel through all the walls in your house will allow your wireless to travel through all the walls in your neighbor's house too. The only reason wifi is even usable in a city is because of the limits in place today.
Modeling the Impact of Geomagnetically Induced Currents on Railway Signaling
I always remember this from the example my professor gave -

'raise the control rods by 1 inch'

vs
'raise the control rods to a height of 4 inches'
Wow. I had looked at the Oura Ring before and thought it looked cool, but I missed that it basically requires a subscription, which is wild considering it seems like I get all of the same metrics from my Garmin watch with no subscription required.
How is this an actionable anti-trust issue?

iMessage doesn't even register as a messaging platform in the minds of most users globally.

In the US is it dwarfed by at least three other platforms.

Globally, do any of the other top ten (Apple is nowhere near the top ten) messaging apps allow third parties to spoof their service?

The purpose of anti-trust is to increase competition and prevent unlawful monopolies. Apple is a flea on the tail of an ox when it comes to messaging, as capable of influencing the market as I am.
I love the idea of AOT WASM compilers, but they will definitely be complicated by WASM GC. I wonder if compiling to another GC language, like Go, might help, or if they can just use a GC library like tgc or Oilpan.
SMS is spammy enough -- I don't want to see spam via iMessage. These third-party clients make spam much more viable.

I love open standards, open source, whatever, but I want some things in my life to just work well without caring about the details. My phone is one of those things.
> The awkwardness of JNI cuts in both directions.

On the consumer side FFM solves that; not awkward anymore! On the host side, well, even Go libraries (and I mention Go because I think Go is considered by some as being lower level than Java for reasons passing understanding) aren't easily shareable by other languages.

> It could be solved if there was a way to generate a shared library from Java code with an auto-generated reasonable-ish C API.

But why is that a problem worth spending our time on considering that C programmers probably won't appreciate hosting a JVM for that, and that Java is more popular than C as it is? No language is trying to control everything these days. The anomalous and short era of single language dominance is over, at least for a while. Java isn't the one dominant language, but neither is any other. Spending effort to go after a relatively small market share seems like a miscalculation. The market of popular open-source C libraries is both very important and minuscule. It would be like saying that iOS should focus its resources on going after the home-brew Raspberry Pi market.

> But as no such thing exists, everyone gathers around the C impl because that way you get the most stakeholders.

Why is that a problem, though? Libraries that are shared across languages and runtimes are very important, but their number is also very small. Big and foundational are two very different things in software, and we're in an era of specialisation, not consolidation. Don't confuse "a problem" with "a problem worth solving".
Deliberately hiding evidence should should equate to hefty prison time for a prosecutor.
Yes! We don't need any moderation or policy enforcement, viruses for everyone!
If there is no way to build industry except through fossil fuels, we are doomed already. Otherwise poor countries can take money from carbon credits and build clean industry to start with, which is easier than rebuilding all the existing industry. Plus residents get many other important benefits from preserved forests and cleaner environment.
A boss is nothing special it is just an entity, also after you beat up the boss you can have later enemies use components from the boss to reflect the players progress in killing enemies using similar mechanics as the boss, until you reach a final big boss.
Sports betting seems more social and seems more "skill based" in that you can follow a team and the news and try and make better bets vs a scratch ticket which doesn't care.
I'm trying to remember the last time when a manufacturer chose doing the right thing and following the letter and spirit of the law... over profit. That's my point... even making this stuff available will inevitably turn into abuse.
Also, possibly a hot take, but many have been on caffeine since early teens, I am convinced the average person’s anxiety is 30 or 40% higher when on several caffeinated beverages a day
No, it refers to functions f where forall x, f(f(x)) = f(x).

You can abuse notation slightly to see this as f^2(x) = f(x). (This kind of notation is actually used enough to be comfortable to most mathematicians.) From here it's not much of a stretch to eta-contract this to f^2 = f.

And so we've ended up back in the same place...
Of all the moats Apple has, iMessage's "blue bubble" is by far the most arbitrary.

100% I have been an iPhone user since 2009, but for me the most likely reason to go to the competition is not if it gets iMessage (I don't live in the US). The most likely reason is that Apple has become utterly boring when it comes to innovation. I recently purchased an iPhone 15, coming from the iPhone 13, I can honestly not say what has changed or improved besides the camera, the underused dynamic island, and USB-C [1]. And USB-C is nice, but pretty much a letdown because they capped it to USB 2 for market segmentation and it still has excruciatingly slow charging. At least on the Android side, for better or worse, interesting stuff is happening: from Fairphone's phone that is repairable with a single screwdriver, foldables (finally a phone that is small and big), Samsung S-Pen, to Nothing's slightly whimsical back LEDs. Also, pretty much every phone above 300 Euro has a good OLED screen with 120Hz, whereas I am still looking at 60Hz (because segmentation).

At any rate, Tim Cook will fight this nail and tooth. By now it's very clear that he has a blind spot where he thinks Apple is entitled to some things and is not sensitive to different viewpoints in other cultures/legislations. He thought Apple is entitled to a 30% cut. But he pushed it so far that the EU will regulate them. Now they have to offer side-loading and open the iPhone to alternative app stores. This will lead to segmentation of the platform, because some apps will only be available in app stores with better terms for the developer.

Ideally Apple would stop Beeper in its tracks by releasing an Android client themselves, because then they could dictate their own terms (orange bubbles, feature segmentation, etc.). Now they open up themselves to the risk that regulators in some regions will require opening up iMessage.

[1] Of course, the spec sheet contains more improvements, like a better SoC, but it is barely noticable.
Except it's not a tabletop game, it's a video game. For me, turn-based combat makes a video game less immersive.
Contemporaneous thread from the Cambridge edition of the seminar https://nitter.net/wtgowers/status/1636632071069106181#m

(They celebrated with a pint)
when did you have to do that?
> it seemed Apple was actually doing the a lot of the right things when it came to privacy and security

Isn't this one of them?

A security hole existed that permitted Beeper to pretend to be your Apple device. In this case, it was being used for non-nefarious purposes, but that doesn't mean everyone would. Apple's fixing that hole seems in-line with your desired "privacy and security".
yep. And GP themself is an example of why this works. Their practices sold an iphone and converted a fanatic Android user!
Grantmaker betting a TV show for teen girls can help narrow the STEM gender gap
Great! So, do you bring your whiteboard to lecture to turn in, or take a picture of it, or just schedule time with your professor to whiteboard in front of them?

All I'm arguing for here is that UML serves the same purpose as those online homework apps. Correctly formatting your calculus homework to be accepted by that interface is as unrelated to calculus as UML mastery is to effective software design, but it resolves some of the same logistical challenges, while introducing others.
Sorry, that was not intentional at all. I can't seem to edit the post now :(
https://github.com/iudicium/pryingdeep
Why do you think 1.2 GHz would be less congested?

Wi-Fi is congested because (1) lots of neighbors, especially in urban areas, and especially on lower bands where the signal penetrates walls better, and (2) unlicensed devices have to tolerate interference from other unlicensed devices, and (3) limited overall spectrum bandwidth, particularly as you go down the spectrum.

1.2 GHz would have all these same problems, but worse by being at a lower band.
There is an obvious technical difference between a protocol like iMessage and the software stack required to run apps. Beeper Mini has shown with tangible proof that an iMessage client on Android exists. Nobody to my knowledge has been able to emulate arbitrary iPhone apps on Android (if they have then let me know, that sounds like an incredible project and I would be fascinated to see how it works).
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FTP is the one that really annoys me. It was a minimal implementation which would let me download a few ad hoc files as required. Now I have to launch a separate program every time.

At least with RSS, I can manually parse the XML in a pinch.
Actually, after my third reading, I don't think it does infringe on their patent.

The last comment on the GP link (3958) states: "The STRAIGHT addressing is not a belt because it uses ordinal instruction addressing, while a belt uses ordinal drop. But the new Clockhands addressing is a belt, pure and simple."

But after re-reading the article again, it sounds like it genuinely is an extension of the STRAIGHT system to just add 4 groups of "ordinal instruction addressed" registers rather. It still definitely doesn't fulfil the criteria for "ordinal drop" as described in the comment (by the same author) that I quoted above.
1. How do you propose to prevent it?
2. Do you want to live in a free society, or do you want a lot of regulation over your behavior?

If you start letting moralizers regulate everyone's behavior "for their own good" where do you stop?
I see Gen Z is starting to receive the same treatment Millennials received from the media as they entered adult hood.

I remember when we were blamed for killing Applebees, LMFAO, good riddance.

Basically this is old people complaining about change. I get it, I am getting old and it sucks. But being the green horn sucks too!
>> it will be hard for apple to continue to claim they are pro-user when they appear to be this hostile toward android users.

They are pro user - for Apple ecosystem users that is. And I’m good with that.

Disclaimer: Yup I’m an Apple user. I pay good money to keep the riffraff out - or at least ID them by not being blue.
A great example of their power is the US Web Design System (USWDS)

https://designsystem.digital.gov
> I pay Apple to manage my mobile device experience

> I care about having a great experience using my own mobile device.

But you can still do that - I don't see how Beeper changes that? As a happy Apple user you don't need to use Beeper, though might still get benefit from it if your Android-using friends can now use the same messaging app you do.
>At that point, all Beeper becomes is a service to turn a green bubble blue.

This is a bigger deal than encryption itself to most people using Beeper. Beeper requires you to divulge your Apple ID password to Beeper anyways, so arguing for security is quite strange. People literally just want blue bubbles on their Android — that’s the main appeal.
Also wrote the previous one which ended with me serving five months in jail for retweeting the public defender's Tweet about it (not your fault):

https://chicagoreader.com/news-politics/false-alarms/

This might have been the Tweet I reposted:

https://twitter.com/CookCoDefender/status/153970586223037644...

https://nitter.net/CookCoDefender/status/1539705862230376448
When did Bepper accept their TOS?
> The way Apple tries to lock you in though while stifling competition is extremely disappointing. They’re on the wrong side of history.

Fascinating that you say this when you literally switched to iPhone yourself.
Or even Apple paying developers a cut of iPhone sales, since apps provide so much value to the hardware ecosystem.

And maybe a pony.
It sort of doesn't! It's just doing exactly the same thing it would do with any other identifier: it's printing its `repr`. Try `repr(exit)`!
I just wish Apple to get into another anti-trust case, ideally by the EU, over this.
better but... still sucks... cant wait til it works
As a daydreamer, I dream of transparent trees, but don’t really see how they wouldn’t just turn out cloudy and white instead of crystal clear.
Full of is misleading. If 1%-10% are innocent, 99-90% are still guilty. 21 of the 375 men that were innocent were on death row. https://innocenceproject.org/dna-exonerations-in-the-united-...

Are these cases a relic before dna evidence?
Remember that my larger point is that statistics can't be taught without teaching most of calculus, so just teach calculus first anyway. But, if we hypothetically tried to get away with the minimum...

> The usual definitions of e involve a limit.... I don't know of a definition of exp that doesn't involve a limit ...

Yes, I agree with you that if you want to define e as interesting itself, you need to use limits. Similarly, the way exp(x) was introduced to me in high school was as a function whose derivative was equal to itself (i.e. as an interesting function) - which also requires limits but I think my teacher/curriculum just handwaved away that part.

But in our hypothetical curriculum, I am indeed proposing that we just say that e = 2.718..., since we are not interested in e, but in its usage for defining continuous probability distributions. Then to compute something like e^2 you just plug it into the calculator (like you do sin/cos) and it will give the answer. But again, we will have to put in effort to argue that something like e^(5/4) or e^pi is a computable real number.

> You also need limits to be able to talk about the central limit theorem

Indeed, but I think rigorous usage of the central limit theorem is quite beyond high school mathematics.
I personally think that has more to do with state taxes raising prices and young people choosing vape over traditional tobacco.
Vaping, or e-cigs, is on a strong upward trend in the US. The statistics are alarming
Well if you carry it regularly, when you take it apart you will find there is lots of lint and other gunk on and around the detent ball, in and around the pivot and elsewhere. Upon cleaning and oiling it you will probably notice the action is a lot smoother. In rare cases if it gets really gunked up it can actually effect the locking mechanism of the knife presenting a potential safety hazard. Having your pocket knife close on you while breaking down a cardboard is no fun!

Kershaw leek is really a great knife.

Also keeping your pocket knife sharp is another example of it being directly maintainable and repairable. I often spend several hours a month sharpening my pocket knives though I probably have a few more than the average person.
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Why do you think an anti-monopoly case will ever come? Europe has dropped it, and US pretty much everyone in power (and all their families/friends) is an iphone user. They're probably completely unaware that there's a problem, and even if made aware they have positive vibes for Big Gray
Someone in a recent thread said that they performed an informal survey of their friends and family, and there was unanimous agreement that each person would be much less interested in dating someone with green bubble text messages, because this indicates that there's likely to be a poor culture fit between themselves and the other person.

To me, this provides an excellent argument for using Android devices if you are single and looking to start a long term relationship. Through one tiny choice, you get some of the most elitist, opinionated, and disagreeable people to voluntarily exclude themselves as potential dates, with no hard feelings on either side. It's a far better filter than most stuff you could put in a dating profile.
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Also Expensify's Bedrock, which powers their widely-circulated "Scaling SQLite to 4M QPS" article:

https://bedrockdb.com/

https://use.expensify.com/blog/scaling-sqlite-to-4m-qps-on-a...
> The average consumer gives no shits about product quality

It's exactly this sort of contemptuous attitude that "techies" have towards "average users" that enabled Apple to become the most valuable company in history.
You mean social media?

Curious why social media is to blame when adults exploiting and denigrating youth is timeless.

When society as a whole turns a blind eye to their future struggles; drill baby drill! What you want to afford a home and a fam? Lol no; hustle culture and technology to fetishize!

Did social media manipulate the economy to deflate GenZ and empower the dying?

Was social media responsible for 2008 crash, money printing?

Government full of entitled people who don’t like what the kids had to say about them, so they retaliated.

Is it tech or is it American Civic Life that’s garbage?
I trust Apple to make that determination, not someone reverse engineering Apple's APIs.
Still dead last on a number of benchmarks, including FIO random reads, Dbench, and Postgres. And by a lot.
Me too. But rather than the colour of the bubble, what leaves me flabbergasted is the fact that there is a country where people seem to associate a stigma to owning a phone of a brand perceived as being "less luxurious", and even take some pleasure in inflicting some annoyance on those in the outgroup. And all this because, hear, iMessage is the default app. Not because of some choice, or because alternatives aren't available. No, because default.
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>Is that really better than a regulated industry? Because that’s the alternative when you have prohibition.

It all comes down to access. The mobile aspect of things can fuel addictions to an extreme that otherwise would have been controllable. There's no reason you can't have casinos or gambling halls or whatever to fill that need. Prohibition obviously isn't the answer. But being able to pop open an app and lose your paycheck in a moment is ruinous to people, and there's an entire predatory industry out there designing these things to trick people like that.
Yes, used to be Saturday mornings.

No school on Wednesdays but school on Saturday mornings is definitely not the most convenient from the parents' POV.
If you haven't done a calculation incorporating an estimate of the heat content of the Earth's interior, then you cannot know whether humanity will be dead by then.
Is this another case where the architecture is trivial and obvious, but the data and compute requirements are obscene?
Overturned on appeal but MS was fined heavily over the years using the same justification. The one I remember off the top of my head was the WMP fine[0].

If you have an OS, everything within should be open for competition and courts have generally ruled as such for years.

[0]https://www.npr.org/2007/09/17/14465160/eu-court-defeats-mic...
Found another looking up L4S https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6WSMU71Ub8
I'd argue the drastic reduction of smoking is the result of a culture shift around the activity (better education) and governments banning it from public spaces, not lawyers suing Philip Morris.
I will say that to their market cap. Such an insane capitalization on digital sales can only be achieved by extinguishing the alternatives your platform can host. It's a regressive featureset that can (apparently) only be reversed through legislative demands a-la Digital Market Act.

Many, many companies have had huge market caps while funding anti-humanist or exploitative processes. Given Apple's scale you almost have to assume that they're abusing something lucrative.
It’s not enough to rent a 2 bedroom flat in paris but ok
fwiw, updating the existing app didn't work. I had to uninstall/reinstall. After authenticating with Apple vis Beeper Mini, my iPhone says a "Mac now has access to iMessage." (via https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/11/beeper-mini-is-back-in-ope...)
I would also add buy in from rank and file engineering team members. Also, not being sensitive to concerns of those teams. If you make life hard for folks implementing, they will find loopholes that will eventually crater your plan.
"exhausted Apple's budget for stopping them"

Is this "THX1138"? Is this the Manhattan Project?

It's Apple management asking a messaging lead to spend a few minutes figuring out how Beeper is masquerading and submitting a fix.