skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The two legal factors discussed during the first round of reporting were:

- The explicit carve-out of reverse engineering for the purpose of interoperability in the DMCA

- The European Digital Markets Act, which will require chat networks to provide interoperability

What's not clear to me is how relevant the DMCA is here, and/or if a ToS can supersede these laws.

> I can’t imagine any company being okay with another company reverse-engineering their product and then charging for it

There is a whole ecosystem of products built on this premise. Quicken, for example, relies on a library of reverse engineered banking interfaces to automate interaction and data aggregation of one's accounts.

Search and LLM products are also built on the consumption of other people's data and then charging for it.

I'm not arguing that Apple is ok with this, but that as a model, it's not uncommon.
I'll bite. Code is read more often than it is written. Readability leads to comprehension (or detracts from it). So forcing a programmer to lay out code in the designer's favorite format is a net negative for people who can read it easier laid out a different way. Thus, the number of IDE formatters and options we have in languages like JS.
I guess this is a positive development, relatively speaking. But it's important to understand that this does not mean that Catholic priests are now permitted to marry same-sex couples. They can merely "bless" the relationship in some general, non-sacramental way, and are not supposed to do so in any wedding-like ceremony.
The "paid" aspect is seemingly not the problem. Automattic does what Beeper does (without unauthorized access to Apple services) and charges $15/month. https://texts.com/subscription
Progress toward a GCC-based Rust compiler
The Self-Checkout Even the Haters Will Love
While the numbers might be a bit hit and miss, the comparison with individual creators is fascinating and definitely hits upon something that keeps me from subscribing to patreons/etc.

I don't have just one creator who I would consistently want to support the most, there are probably 10-20 who I would like to support, however I'm not going to pay 10x of them $5/h for content when YouTube is 1x $0.50/h (and has their content). To me, content creation is always going to need to be bundled at some level because I want diversity that no one creator is ever going to provide, and when bundling the price typically reduces because the bundling correctly recognises that consumption does not scale up.
musl's malloc is 0.6 kloc and right now it has terrible multicore scaling, and i'm wondering how simply that can be fixed

afaik neither c nor posix provides portable cas, so while that's probably the best performing solution, it's probably not suitable for musl

discussion in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38619599
Because blessing the love that they share requires both of them to be blessed together.
I have a related question : if we set up sensors a few light years away capturing every signal it is possible to capture by our tech (the full electromagnetic spectrum).

And then if we put all this data into an anomaly detection algorithm, will the Earth stand out? Based on the data that we capture, are we actually special?

The reason for anomaly detection (unsupervised) alg is that it doesn't have any of our subjective biases.

The answer can give evidence for whether seeing signs of interesting planets is actually sign of life or not.

Thoughts? I don't think Earth will stand out based on the information that will reach tens of light years away.
I mash zero or just say 'operator' and it works more often than I would think
I've heard similar things from missionaries who have lived in very remote cultures with witch doctors who will take someone who's extremely sick and feeble to being able to stand perfectly upright after a "faith healing."

If we want to fit it in our metaphysical paradigm, we can say it seems like the placebo effect could be much stronger when there's genuine belief in the process, and that psychosomatic issues can engender actualized physical symptoms when there's a meaningful expectation that an outcome is likely. But by looking at it systematically, maybe we're weakening these sort of effects?
A quick thought:

Since the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate, there are or will be regions of the universe that are receding from each other at the speed of light. Hence any traveler or signal traveling at the speed of light in a straight line would never be able to return to it's point of origin, even in a closed topology. So the universe is infinite even if there is no infinite distances* in the universe at any one point in time.

Unless of course if the Universe is finite and the acceleration stops before there is any part of the universe that is receding from any other point at the speed of light.

* Of course two regions of space receding from each other at the speed of light, are in a very real sense separated by an infinite distance.
But why do they have to participate in the profits? How musicians participate the profits of digital audio workstations that allow people to make music without real musicians? How did older artists profit from current artists that learned, and oftentimes virtually copied their style? The solution for artists is to embrace these tools to make even better art.
apropos.

Regarding the Pain of Others, by Susan Sonntag
I used to run a fairly good-sized light show, until it became too much work (job change, kids/family, etc.) xlights powered my shows and taught me a lot about the protocols and hardware and everything else that comes with it. It's amazingly good software with input from a lot of talented individuals.
The problem with that line of thinking is, that while your proposition ("[...] people would be attracted to [...] inexpensive cars [...]") is likely correct, that's not an offer that is possible to make. The luxurious cars you talk about have _half_ their value in their battery. Even if you strip out any profit, and get by with a quarter of the range of a Tesla, even then it won't be 10x cheaper.

And everything in that scenario is insane: The no profit part is obvious, but even the 4x less range is insane (as in it doesn't cover the daily commute safely anymore). Because 4x less range does not give you a 25% battery, because there is some overhead (mainly heating). On the other hand you have huge amounts of money sunk into the tooling around "classic" cars, that investment is being financed both over a lot of generations and an insane number of cars.

That being said: Cheaper EVs are coming. Both from a production point of view (battery costs decrease, more tooling and ultimately capacity is being build up), but also from an market point of view as the secondary market of EVs is just starting to come alive (it's only now that used and new EVs start to differ meaningfully in price) and also from a purely economic point of view in the sense that EVs are far cheaper to operate, so they don't _actually_ need to be price competitive at point of sale
> If something is an obvious winner

As much as founders think otherwise (they have to!), there is no such thing.
Elon is probably in the top three most hated people who are on a somewhat regular basis mentioned on HN.
> At the same time, however, Adobe maintains products with no clear competitors due to their quality. This is especially true for After Effects (for motion graphics in videos).

Really not sure if this is true. Probably due more to "network effects". It's hard to compete with Photoshop or Illustrator if everyone is familiar with their UIs and has all their files as PSDs or Illustrator files. Also anyone who would be reasonably close to creating a good competitor would be bought.
There are other countries beside the US and UK. Italian homes get 3kW in total, breaker trips at 3.3. You may request up to 6kW for additional fees.
> UK here. "no-one" uses iMessage.

I assume you put no-one in quotes because it's not true? Of course people in the UK use iMessage! From this source, it looks like about 1 in 3 internet users age 16-64 use it.

https://engage.sinch.com/blog/most-popular-messaging-apps-in...
Is it competition if the only way it can exist is if there are no other players, especially from far more technically competent countries like the US and China?
I've also had the experience of being hung up on by a robot as well for repeatedly asking for the operator. Because I'm definitely going to be in a better mood once I reach a human having been hung up on by a machine. Who thought that one up?!

On the other hand, maybe people on average are so grateful to reach a human that they're extra polite?
Too late and not enough. Such cheap gestures will do nothing to win back the goodwill of people cutting ties with the church and its religion. The tide will continue, rightfully and thankfully so, until only the genuinely braindead remain.
If you had lived under Stalin for 15 years and directly experienced 4 million of your countrymen being starved to death under his dictats, the concept of "good" side and "bad" side is messy. Especially when you don't have full access to information - no internet, no newspapers, no radio.

The Finns fought on the "bad" side as well, due to the Soviet Union having tried to invade them already two years previously. Ukraine had likewise tried to get independence in 1917 which led to a 4 year civil war which they unfortunately lost.
> Was it previously explicitly disallowed to bless gay couples but not drug addicts or cars?

The issue is the Catholic Church teaches that sexuality is only legitimate in a "lifelong partnership of the whole of life, of mutual and exclusive fidelity, established by mutual consent between one man and one woman, and ordered towards the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring."

You can see why blessing a "gay" couple, even without intent to approve of their situation, would appear to contradict the teaching, or at a minimum cause confusion.
The server is matrix, you can host your own opensource official beeper bridges on your own matrix server and use your own matrix application. The official beeper cloud applications only talk to their matrix server, but everything the bridges do are end to end encrypted to your device via matrix so as long as you trust they do not log your messages or you run your own bridges they can’t read any of your messages.
In what ways is it better? I've found Figma to be vastly superior, especially since they treat design like development, automating tedious processes like manually tweaking the layout and instead having a version of flexbox literally built into the design ("auto constraints"). They're bringing web dev and mobile dev ideas into design software.
It is highly ironic that these days the Catholic Church is among the most progressive branches of Christianity. The various reformation movements (looking at you Evangelicals) could learn a thing or two.
The budget to make a browser today (including a browser engine) is estimated to be around 400 million yearly (FF cost, estimates for Safari in the same range). They may be bloated, but even by being 10x more efficient it’s still 40 million a year of equivalent engineering work. How is servo intending to pull that work without the leverage of a big corp?
They don't have to : they have approved plans to restart decommisioned existing ones.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/germany-approves-bri...
It's not about braces, it's about the missing free statement.
Vacuum Beam Guide for Large-Scale Quantum Networks
agreed. I'm viewing this on mobile and the experience isn't "bad", I just like instant feedback.
To which the document issued today explicitly states, "in the fine print", that nobody must be under any misimpression that they are blessing the "love that they share."
I think you meant core 'tenet'.
> Tech companies aren't cash flow businesses

Most actually are. It's just that the big ones tend not to be, and there are lots of startups that want to look and act like the big ones.
I’d hope this somehow influences regulators too. 15+ months of uncertainty and it’s the tiny UK market that tanks things. The lack of regulatory certainty will push for more lobbying and influence peddling which I think is net worse for the global industry.
Noted! I sadly don't have much experience with the options for windows / linux flavours, but I'm sure something like NVDA [0] could be useful for you to test these things! The idea would be to learn the tool first, (feel at least capable to open the browser from your taskbar and jump around a few tabs for example. This is generally a 20min task.) then set up a few goals to do on your site. Finding a specific page, or making an account. Even with sight, and knowledge of your site, you'll very quickly hear the odd-ball places where the descriptions give duplicated info or even false info. Just don't touch the mouse! Experience the interface, as if this was your portal into the internet.

I think I'll get moving on that cheat sheet then! Thanks eh! :)

[0] https://www.nvaccess.org/download/
I think the person you’re replying to was referring to the post-smartphone startup era. All those hardware companies you mentioned are older than dirt. None of them qualify as “disruptive, VC-backed startups” like Figma, Uber, or Airbnb.
Even in areas where building is effectively unlimited, land is effectively free (or less than $5k/acre) a new house is still moderately expensive. There's a minimum price below which you cannot realistically go, because of flat-cost items, and minimum building requirements.

So you end up where a smallish house costs $200k to build/sell at a modest profit, and a nice large house costs not terribly much more but can be sold at a much higher profit margin.
Every self service soda machine has a drip tray connected to a drain. That’s where you’re supposed to pour the liquid (though clearly most people don’t know).
Worth noting that Swartz was never convicted, so the case doesn't really constitute a precedent, as tragic as the outcome was

RIP Aaron Swartz
"Attendees were so enthusiastic with the idea that many began throwing their phones into the air without bothering to download the app."
I suspect the stat gets blown out of proportion by people who leave the TV on as background noise. I'll never personally understand having a TV in the bedroom, but I know folks who can't fall asleep without it on.
Has performance in Sketch fallen in recent years? I know it's not as popular any more, but years ago when I used Sketch the performance was always top notch.
They also used public domain works like Snow White and Cinderella but now are working actively to stop other works from reaching public domain.
I had an old version of ventoy and it worked flawlessly for a long time. Recently it had some problems with booting an EndeavourOS iso, I updated it and that fixed the issue. Updating was just downloading fresh installer and clicking a button. For me it has always been solid, the UX of just copying over the iso and still being able to store random crap is perfect.
The PCGH article references the golem article which references the heise article.
> should have been ruled discriminatory

Discriminating is completely fine unless it's done based on protected classes (which, generally speaking, are things that aren't a result of simple choices). Choosing whether to use an iPhone falls on the "discriminating is totally fine" side of things, in my book.

I've never had an iPhone but the default messaging apps on my recent Android phones have told me whether or not the person I'm messaging has RCS or not. That lets me know whether I should expect them to see typing indicators and so forth. Is that also a bad thing? What if it used colors instead of a written label?
Apple to Halt Watch Sales as It Prepares to Comply with U.S. Import Ban
Who gets a better deal on compute costs, Figma or Adobe? If prices skyrocket, who is better prepared to pivot?
One word, greed.
How should higher education be financed?
Wow, this is a treasure trove. The thing that stands out to me is the idea that testing is the essential ingredient:

> The single most important factor leading to the high degree of reliability of the Apollo spacecraft was the tremendous depth and breadth of the test activity.

And the most valuable reason for testing:

> Most important of all, the tests gave us a tremendous amount of time and experience on the spacecraft and their systems.
Sturgeon's law (90% of everything is crap)
So if Automattic does it without violating Apple's ToS and doing it unauthorized, why exactly can't Beeper?
Or, if they trade safety for foreign rule, getting killed in the next Russian war of expansion where undoubtedly citizens from formerly Ukrainian territories would be the first sent into the "who needs tactics if you have numbers" assaults. They don't have a non-violent option, no matter the sacrifices they'd be willing to make.
I would not expect that level of self awareness from Tankies. Such people always existed, and always will. They claim living here is intolerable, and yet they never seem to go and live elsewhere.
I think it's more that Birdwatch/Community Notes, which gets a lot of feature-love from Valley types, is already being weaponized to the point of failure. In the absence of any other moderation, this is leading Twitter into a dark descent of increasingly moderationless content.

> How Twitter's Community Notes Accelerates Denialism About Hamas Atrocities Against Israelis

> The Community Notes feature was supposed to shut down conspiracy theories on X, formerly Twitter. Instead Elon Musk's preference for crowdsourced moderation is allowing malicious users to weaponize hatred, lies and disinformation about the October 7 Hamas attack

https://archive.is/j1Diy

Community Notes is just a subset of rank-based comment systems (e.g. Reddit and HN), and these are known to fail over time due to the commodification of votes. Even now you can go on certain forums and purchase a Community Note for a post for some hundreds of USD. It's not a substitute for moderation and everyone knows that if Hackernews defaulted to it instead of relying on dang that HN would fall apart.
I'm sad to hear this to be honest. Wasm3 is (was?) an awesome Wasm interpreter that was ahead of the rest in terms of performance (about 3-5x slower than native, and about 3x faster than the typical Wasm interpreters).

I hope Volodymyr the best as he tries he keep things afloat with the Russia invasion in Ukraine. Hope the war will be soon behind us.
So you're saying that chatbots are actually...cats?
Won't work:

> "Cheating" by throwing a phone from a tall building typically returns an error message.[3] The app's calculations keep track of how long the phone takes to rise and fall, and an error message is displayed if the distance fallen exceeds the length of the ascent.[2]
no paywall - https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/the-self-checkout-...
I might be wrong but I don't think servo is intending to be feature or standard complete ever. Most of the cost of firefox or safari likely comes from new features.

Also it is a web rendering engine, not a full fleshed browser.
> Most important of all, the tests gave us a tremendous amount of time and experience on the spacecraft.

Surely they mean man-hours and not aggregate time. Apollo 8 was only a year and a half after the Apollo 1 fire, and much of the spacecraft was redesigned afterward.
Apple to pull Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 this week due to ITC ban
Genuinely surprised at the prevalence of "Apple is right, Beeper is wrong" comments on Hacker News of all places. Beeper is filling a market need via a technologically creative solution. Since when is protectionism of large entrenched actors our cause?

I miss the days of GAIM/Pidgin/Trillium/Adium and hope Beeper prevails here.
Way better than inventing ad-hoc stores that support people's biases.
> Other players are basically a decade behind them

I disagree. NVDA aren't in the position they are because they had to work 10 years to get there. They're in that position because it took the market that long to develop, and they were there the whole time.

But the main factor is demand. You can't rush that, no matter how early you start. And second mover advantage is a real thing. CUDA is a double edged sword. Everyone has an incentive to break NVDA's dominance, and ultimately their moat will become commoditized especially has dominant architectures like Transformers drive the vast majority of demand. People will simply optimize for that.

Can AMD catch up to them quickly on the training / R&D side? Doubtful.

Can AMD catch up or even surpass them on the inference side? Absolutely.
I know retired people who sit and watch 10 hr a day of media.
The glaring issue I see is that if "integrated" mills start shutting down, where will the old steel scrap for the mini-mills eventually come from?

Someone somewhere has to be making new steel.
Is there programmable mqtt broker out there?

Something that lets you integrate authentication with your auth provider and has built in multi-tenancy?
probably petit copain -> pain, ouais?
Jan Marsalek's Deep Connections with Russian Intelligence Revealed
I'm not familiar enough with German to evaluate. But when I think of Spanish, you've got 6 conjugations for every tense, and a whole bunch of different tenses. That makes for many dozens of different inflections, just for verbs.

English, by contrast, only has 8 regular inflections, across all parts of speech: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflection#Examples_in_English

English does have a rich ecosystem of compound verbs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_verb), but if this is taken to be part of the complexity of English verbs, I don't know how this stacks up to other languages.
They built it for bit-coin mining, not some super long term plan for ML/AI.
> I dont get the appeal of centrism.

Some of us are concerned that a more polarized country will break itself apart, or crush itself, in a very violent way.

People like me believe that democracy is hard, and that dictatorship is the natural state of human affairs. And I feel that by taking up a banner against half of the country, we're moving more towards that latter eventuality.

And yes, the center does move around. But that's no reason not to aim for it.

That said, the reality is that centrists are very likely going to lose, or arguably have already lost. As a whole, Americans are incapable of understanding, empathizing with, or respecting "the others", a necessary ingredient in a functioning [edit: American] democracy, IMHO. After that, my money is that one of the sides will win and crush the other, and then everybody will lose except the rulers.

On the plus side, maybe after 100 or 200 more years of that we'll restart the experiment. :)
>Always blamming NVidia

As LLM, AI takes over the heated topic of discussions on HN, it is hard not to notice the tone on blaming Nvidia for everything. Both Hardware and Software.
"news" means something "new is happening", how do you know if it is a disinformation or right when it just came up?

Should we blindly trust and consume news from mass media propaganda machines like CNN, Fox news, BBC and etc?
You can support one for a few months, switch to another, etc.. Or just roll a dice and pick one of your favorites to support and leave it to others to support the others you like. Something is better than nothing if you want to keep independent creators around.
> Read on "The Twitter Files: The Censorship Industrial Complex".

lol
If the author is like me, I would not count the time I spend looking for something to watch on Netflix as watching Netflix.

I am gobsmacked that he finds 43 hours a month of content, month in and month out.

Full disclosure: former Netflix subscriber.
unfortunately the Google play store is not that much different.
Although the motives are clearly very different, but they tend to wave "security of users" quite a lot to justify removing basic functionality like apps accessing internal storage....