skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Build it simple"

I once heard a story from a NASA employee. She said that regular ballpoint pens don't work in space due to the zero gravity. So she said NASA got some engineers to develop some sort of fancy ballpoint pen that would move the ink even in zero gravity.

She said the Soviets just used pencils.
Being an outsider he approached it in a psychologically correct way. To harken to mythology, it is the court jester who tells the king what no one else will say.

Not to say Devin is a clown - far from it! Much respect for him.
I don't think Apple cares about the resource usage here. (Note that's not their argument, they argue that Beeper clients will bypass content protections.) The servers running iMessage, heck even the team supporting it, are probably a drop in the bucket for them.

Apple's goal is for iMessage to remain an exclusive feature of their hardware. That exclusivity is what Beeper -- or an Apple-vended Android client, or RCS interoperability, or federation generally -- threatens.

And -- it's exactly the proposition of, "to use our popular offering in market X, you must also purchase our offering in market Y" which is anticompetitive.
745,000 people in the UK in 2022,

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67506641
There's a different zoomable high-resolution scan available here: http://www.highres.factum-arte.org/Fra_Mauro_Map/shared/view...

Having not seen this map in person, it's not clear to me which of these two has the more accurate white balance.
Avg wage is higher than most countries on the planet. High cost of living in tier 1 (international) cities. Not all parts of America are expensive, just the parts most people prefer to live in.
ISTR a slashdot era story about that. Someone found a computer company order form that accepted modified prices; sent them a note about it, and got blown off, rudely.

So they ordered the entire shop for $0.01 per item or something.

Then they posted the story. I think partially hoping the publicity would keep them from being prosecutable; they stated they had no desire to defraud but wanted to help and couldn't see another way.

I have a dimmer memory of there being a similar problem with a popular PHP "shopping cart" script that was widely deployed. The thread that popped it said "try this on your site" and the replies were 95% "oh shit" and 5% "you bastards ruined my trick!"
Seems like regulators didn’t reject it, but tarpitted it?

And with market conditions having changed so much in 15 months, this could just as easily be buyer/sellers remorse before the deal actually closes. For a 15+ month closing, it wouldn’t be the first time!

Actually completing mergers/buyouts takes years anyway.
This will be interesting. I wonder what will happen to Dr Larrin Thomas (https://knifesteelnerds.com/about-me/) he's been able to bring some new knife steels to market while working for US Steel by day. Wonder if Nippon allows side gigs.
The article covers it. If the 2013 Mickey is similar enough to Steamboat Willie to consider it the same character, then the 2013 version is a derivative work and does nothing to change Steamboat Willie entering the public domain. If it's substantially different enough to constitute a new character then it does nothing to change Steamboat Willie entering public domain. So either way it does not change what's happening in the new year, but Disney lawyers could argue that the new character is substantially different, so if you want to avoid getting sued base any of your works on the original Steamboat Willie and avoid any characteristics that make the 2013 version different.
Not unions solely, but as other commenters have pointed out, the cost of labor more generally is what did it.

And the comparative cost of labor in e.g. China vs. US is driven by the balance of trade. Expensive labor is the price the US pays to run a trade deficit
They didn’t inform the Union about it nor get its approval. I highly doubt the government will allow this deal to go through.
Netflix plans and their prices in the US: https://help.netflix.com/en/node/24926
What evidence do you have of 'new technology becomes democratized quicker'? People mostly just use technology, but doesn't necessarily correspond to democratization (although the thought leaders would have you think otherwise).
It is not a simple yes/no response from the regulators. First, they will request additional information. That will take some time to prepare. Then they would offer some changes to the proposal. I.e. we cannot approve this deal until some additional requirements are met. Then parties involved evaluate these requirements and counter. At some point business will decide that there are too many constraints and abandon the deal.
It's a simple but powerful idea: since any new tech comes with good and bad but overall there is more good than bad - we are better off accelerating adoption to outrun doomers who'd rather have the whole humankind stagnate than risk the potential bad.
AMD's products have generally failed to catch traction because their implementations are halfassed and buggy and incomplete (despite promising more features, these are often paper features or resume-driven development from now-departed developers). all of the same "developer B" stuff from openGL really applies to openCL as well.

http://richg42.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-truth-on-opengl-driv...

that's the reason blender kicked their openCL implemention to the curb after years of futzing with it. it wasn't portable because AMD's openCL was so broken they had to have their own special codepath anyway, and it didn't perform well and wasn't worth the effort.

AMD has left a trail of abandoned code and disappointed developers in their wake. These two repos are the same thing for AMD's ecosystem and NVIDIA's ecosystem, how do you think the support story compares?

https://github.com/HSA-Libraries/Bolt

https://github.com/NVIDIA/thrust

in the last few years they have (once again) dumped everything and started over, ROCm supported essentially no consumer cards and rotated support rapidly even in the CDNA world. It offers no binary compatibility support story, it has to be compiled for specific chips within a generation, not even just "RDNA3" but "Navi 31 specifically". Etc etc. And nobody with consumer cards could access it until like, six months ago, and that still is only on windows, consumer cards are not even supported on linux (!).

That's fine for non-commercial and HPC, but it makes it difficult to imagine ever shipping commercial products to end-users on it. I guess you... ship as source, and your users have to figure out ROCm and compile it in-situ? Or ship a binary for every single GPU to ever release (including NVIDIA, Intel, ....)

https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2023/06/07/a-div...

This is on top of the actual problems that still remain, as geohot found out. Installing ROCm is a several-hour process that will involve debugging the platform just to get it to install, and then you will probably find that the actual code demos segfault when you run them.

AMD's development processes are not really open, and actual development is silo'd inside the company with quarterly code dumps outside. The current code is not guaranteed to run on the actual driver itself, they do not test it even in the supported configurations, because all the development is happening on internal builds etc, not release code.

oh and AMD themselves isn't using the open driver of course... they only test and validate on AMDGPU-PRO.

it hasn't got traction because it's a low-quality product and nobody can even access it and run it anyway, let alone ship commercial products on it. and now everyone regrets it because it's turned into a money fountain.
New Google OAuth Vulnerability
Inform your local elected official and ask them to contact the FTC.
There seems to be some misconceptions here. This wasn’t arbitrary. Most acquisitions are not blocked. The US government can block a lot of things for companies, but is generally speaking pro-business. That said there’s a longish history of regulating monopolies, in order to benefit consumers and the economy, so no evidence of a new trend wrt Europe based on this case. (Consider whether that history may be part of why the US had a lead in tech entrepreneurship in the first place.)
Text to Vector appears to be a beta feature in Illustrator currently: https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/text-to-vector-gra...
The Catholic Church was historically more progressive than the protestant reformers (with some very notable exceptions). Some of Martin Luther's tracts, for instance, would be considered too conspiratorial, insane and pornographic for even Alex Jones.

This is not to say that the Catholic Church of that time would be viewed as progressive today, but rather that much of the rejection of the Catholic Church was borne of the notion that the Catholic Church was too secular and not fundamental enough.
Maybe I'm not trying to read books in the target market that my local library is trying to serve with what it has available on Libby, but I probably have a 5% success rate with books I'm trying to read actually being available on Libby.

(Setting aside the very hostile payment structure that Libby imposes on libraries, which makes it look far less attractive as a tax-payer now that I know how it works)
Some of your points reiterate a framing I often hear from the establishment, which misleads people from understanding the more accurate causes.

Lockdown policies had much to do with supply chain disruption. Many businesses were willing to stay open but were forced to shut down, which obviously drove prices up due to lack of supply. The lockdowns were an unprecedented level of authoritarianism over what was a bad flu, very creepy and weirdly timed since it was a re-election year, but I digress.

Real wages haven't really increased given the level of inflation and economic distortions. If anything, real wages for average workers were steadily increasing during the Trump administration. According to the Fed analysis using CPI adjusted dollars, so take that with a grain of salt, we can see median weekly real earnings had previously peaked at 345 in Q1 of 2009, remained low during most of the Obama administration, finally returning to 345 in Q4 2015. This level steadily increased until Q1 of 2020 when it was 367. After some major distortions from stimulus checks, unemployment payouts, it spiked to 393 in Q2 of 2020, but is now back down to 365, slightly below where we were before the lockdowns. Except now there's less labor force participation, more homelessness, more crime, etc.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q

Gas had been increasing since Biden took office, so it's not accurate to entirely blame it on the Russia-Ukraine war. As we all know gas was very cheap in the US during the Trump administration, at $2.63 per gallon in January of 2020, 2.42 in Jan of 2021 before Biden formally took office, then had increased 3.413 in Jan of 2022 right before the war started.

https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=e...

Much of the cause for high energy prices are due to green energy policies which subsidize inefficient sources like solar and wind, while penalizing reliable sources like natural gas and nuclear. I know that in California electricity prices have increased significantly, where the Electric Utility Retail Price was already high at 0.164 in January of 2020, and is now at 0.270. This is deceptively low, as I have to pay a connection base rate and peak usage pricing, so it's actually closer to 0.75 / kwH in the evening.

https://ycharts.com/indicators/california_electric_utility_r....
"Average real-terms pay in Britain fell at among the fastest rates for more than two decades at the end of 2022, as public sector pay deals continue to fall behind the private sector during the cost of living crisis.

The Office for National Statistics said wages in real terms declined by 2.6% in the three months to November, among the largest falls in growth since comparable records began in 2001."

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jan/17/real-terms-...
That might also have been Brave. Tom Scott was targeted by their crap[0] and I recall them fucking about with unsolicited donations for the archive.is operator as well.

It seems their business model has changed nowadays (unless they've lapsed again, which Brave has done a few times I think?) but that's definitely been the Brave model in the past.

[0]: https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2019/01/13/brave-web-br...
I've literally put websites on black (just before a big event of theirs) for non-paying customers. I've publicly 'shamed' non-paying customers on LinkedIn (mentioning their HQ and CEO). I've threatened clients of clients with mentioning their data leaks (GDPR) to get their bills payed. I've jumped over a fence and loudly knocking on someone's door to get my money (not going to do that again). Et cetera.

I consider myself a hard worker and an honest individual who communicates clearly and first reminds people and organizations patiently of their unpaid bills, but don't sh*t on my food and livelihood.
Do you ever have time to relax or do something fun, or are you simply stressed all the time?
Doesn't matter, plenty of legal precedent for Apple to fall back on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_v._Zehmer

Very cut and dry CFAA case, I'm guessing Beeper saw how well it went for Epic Games when they leveraged the useful idiots to sway public opinion, so they are doing the same for a quick buck and hoping it gets political enough to avoid getting fined.
Oh come on. Android users can “communicate” just fine over MMS/SMS with iPhone users. Images work. Text works.

Beeper exists solely to make Android users feel better about the color of their bubble and their social standing thereof.
Jeffrey Epstein Kept Abusing Women – His VIP Circle Helped Make It Possible
Or just open Mastodon instance for EU governments and citizens, and forget about that X thing ever existed.
And pencils are famously dangerous in space. Graphite is a conductor. You don't want conductive dust floating around a pressurized chamber filled with electronics, oxygen and people.

There are lots of little health details about zero gravity, things that literally never come up on earth. Dust is a big one. Dust doesn't settle to the ground in space. You end up inhaling it. Graphite (also glass) is not the sort of things you want to inhale.
I would argue that the regulators made their point pretty clear early on when the DOJ opened a lawsuit against Adobe. The people most responsible for keeping this in limbo were Adobe’s lawyers.
Similarly T-Mobile doesn't give a shit if I send my friends and family text messages full of lies
Michael Bishop, Genre-Busting Writer Known for Science Fiction, Dies at 78
Heroyam Slava.

Agree awful!
> What does make the houses suited for heat pumps is the fact that Nordic houses are designed to keep the weather out. So when you heat/cool the inside, the house doesn't leak it all outside.

Alright, my bad. Consider "designed" replaced by "suitable".

Houses of a certain era in large parts of Germany (those with only a few days of moderate sub-zero temperatures) tend to have been built with a bit of air leakage capacity to avoid mold. Yes, that's wasteful, but since fossils were (and are) subsidized like crazy, you just heat a bit more and be over with it.

That strategy doesn't work as well when you have less heat to work with.

There are still people who argue that it's unhealthy to live in a properly insulated house ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I doubt you have a lot of that nonsense in areas that deal with freezing temperatures for months at a time.
Rust already uses C++ in LLVM so nothing changes there.

This must be the umpteenth rant on C++ I've seen from you. This does not contribute anything. Please stop.
From what I’ve read and heard, this was actually a major success for George Romero.
Night of the Living Dead had made its money back (and more) by the time anyone noticed it was public domain. Once people realized, NotLD got a level of publicity that it would have never gotten if it were copyrighted, which ended up being way more beneficial to Romero. Any theater could show it whenever they didn’t know what else to play and so the movies lifespan extendedly dramatically. Because of all the publicity, NotLD travelled across seas to Europe, and the Europeans reevaluated it as valuable social commentary on race relations in America. If you listen to interviews with Romero on the subject, he was convinced that the public domain is what actually launched his career.
(Replying a bit late)

It's not about memory safety, exactly. It's hard to convey the difference in how I experienced coding in Rust vs in C++/JS/Python/etc.

The big thing is that the absence of shared mutability means you can be very confident that when you "have" a reference to a thing, you "own" it, and it's not going to change value under you. When a bug came up in a C++ codebase I often felt like it could come from anywhere. In Rust the suspect list was much shorter, which made for a more tranquil debug experience.

(I'm told this is also the experience of people writing Haskell, but I've never managed to read any Haskell code, so Rust it is for me.)
https://archive.ph/gRxH9
Fantastic tool.

Having a single thumb drive with multiple ISOs on it means you don't have to keep juggling thumb drives ("now where did I put my Debian 12 XFCE installer") or overwriting them over and over ("oh no, this has the 64-bit ISO, but now I need the 32-bit installer").
Renting shelter is an important piece of flexibility for many people. I was in no position to buy an entire shelter nor tie myself down long-term right after college (and in fact, moved 6 times in the first 8 years, all but one of those being based entirely on my evolving preferences [one was my landlord selling and moving away]).

If you agree that renting shelter is important to many people for valid reasons, someone or something has to be able to own that property that you call "additional" and others call "the place I live".
When you lend money from a bank, you will not spend it on fancy restaurant visits. Because you know you will have to pay it back.

When you own a house and there is a cafe in that house which pays rent even though it is closed, because it gets the money from some governmental covid assistance program, then you do not have to pay the money back and can spend it consumer goods and drive prices up.
Long-running mission-critical stuff has been written in Erlang and running on BEAM since decades now.
"The UK population at mid-year 2021 was estimated to be 67.0 million, an increase of 3.7 million (5.9%) on the population in mid-2011."

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populati...
They’re worth what precisely what someone is willing to pay them. Their expertise is probably more valuable for Apple than Masimo. It would make sense for them to be able to work at Apple then.
It probably is in a bond or treasury note. The "within 3 days" probably covers the selling of the bond/treasury, waiting for the funds to clear, and then sending it over to Figma's account.
One could say much the same comparing photography to painting. Photography allows people to communicate in ways that previously they didn't have the skill to with paint. AI is just a tool, the art will be in learning how to best use it.
Another reason not to use TT
Gott & al. have a decent basic concept, but a highly questionable implementation of the idea. (At least, in the paper of theirs I looked at from a few years ago; this might be a slightly different one.)

They optimize for least squares distance errors for all pairs of distances across the map, but they consider points which are at opposite sides of a map across a discontinuity (but nearby on the globe) to have extremely high error, and therefore their optimization routine radically tugs those points towards each-other. The result is really scrunched up edges.

They'd get dramatically better results by either (a) ignoring very distant points altogether, (b) figuring out how to measure distance across a discontinuity, or (c) comparing distances on the map to distances on the globe if you go the "long way" around, i.e. following a similar path to the one implied to be shortest by the map.
Virtually every product is made by killing animals. I'd say vegetarians/vegans only really care about products that ~require~ the killing of an animal, and care very little about the products that only kill animals incidentally.
banks move so much more daily
> How is iMessage a monopoly? I would like open communications standards as much as the next guy, but next to iMessage there are WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, WeChat, Facebook Messenger etc. etc.

Because it's the replacement for SMS for Apple phones and doesn't require an account in the same way those other services do. It just uses the Apple account iPhone owners already need to have.
The article highlights Beeper's founder/CEO testified to the Senate about the concern before hand. Not sure if they've said anything since but I'm also not sure they really need to, they've already complained they'd get locked out and now they have. Really it's probably a better image for them to not be the ones to mention it again at this point.
Oh. I think this headline from the article sums it up nicely:

> What on earth is wrong with people?
A virtual debit card should prevent collections from getting involved though, since there's literally no debt.
Adobe discontinued their product. What do you mean?
> Russian elites absolutely value power over Western way of life

some elites maybe, but their kids will only be after a couple of generations. It's one thing if you yourself cannot spend time in London but if your kids and relatives also cannot leave and buy a new iphone suddenly you have people to answer to.
> People were also more likely to litter if they were in an area that already had trash on the ground. A person at a highway rest stop cluttered with cigarette butts and food wrappers was more apt to litter than someone at a manicured park.

I wonder if this controls for the other confounding factors that will affect rates?
Facebook has become a cesspool of clickbaits. Less that 1/3 of my feed is people I know (most of which quitted posting anything years ago) or groups I subscribed to - the rest is literally spam, as in meat that's been ground finely and repackaged in a thousands ways. The result is a general sense of nausea.
T-Mobile gets a flat fee regardless whether it's a lie or not.

Facebook gets more money the more eyeballs their algorithms decide to show the lie to.
I live in Canada, and the folks I know who live in France (direct blood relatives) have mentioned that Quebec French sounds like a weird mix of Russian and Valley Girl, with a few weird terms mixed in.

The English equivalent would be something like a deep Northern England accent which sounds goofy to my N. American ears.
Correct, but for the Tauri/Servo combination, you need Servo which is unlikely to be already available. Stripped release builds of servo are currently 106M which is quite large. Hopefully some size reduction will be achieved.
The URL https://www.bl.uk/ is working fine, but the site is busted.
Vans owner shares tumble as it says cyberattack could hamper holiday fulfillment
It might be.

https://youtu.be/Sp6K3qpVFO0?t=95

But at the very least, it seems like it's easier to work with in Photoshop.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-06/apple-ime...

> EU tentatively finds it doesn’t warrant being covered by DMA
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!” - Upton Sinclair
Well, I am not an expert but something that can perform the same simple operations massivly parallel. Meaning, you want to avoid branching for example and there are lots of footguns, otherwise everything will be slow, or not working. And debugging is a pain.
The worlds leading microbiologists and virologists with billions of dollars of dedicated equipment and tests vs the massively biased opinion of @tjpnz because being wrong destroys your position

You’re wrong.