skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the benefits of iOS locked down is that all of your app subscriptions are in one easy to find to place, no dark patterns, no tell us why you canceled questions, etc etc. If an app doesn’t let me subscribe through the App Store I just won’t do it regardless of how much I want to. And this is just one of the many benefits. There’s no reason to turn iOS into Android. Apple worries about their users, not everyone.
Because it is very likely to be the biggest expense you will have apart from rent/mortgage payments. In the UK it is easily 50% of the take home pay of one parent if they are on a "good" above average wage.

It will soak up the the full take home pay of one parent on an average wage or around that.

There are government funded childcare hours (that are increasing finally) which help, but it's still a tough choice unless both parents have earnings well above average.

Families get spread out because children are priced out of where their parents live, and can only afford a small home. So the grandparent support is often hard to make work too.

I find it curious that the type of people that moan about low birth rates and the loss of "family values" are also the ones voting for politicians that block house building and impose spending cuts on government services like childcare.

Not having children in the current political climate is a rational choice.
Cool, but what does this mean?
Though we don't consider it such, because we accept that police are needed to maintain some level of order and it's not good when people resist arrest, the violence was more or less in self-defense.

I think there's a huge difference between someone (especially someone with "severe autism") lashing out when getting more or less abducted and removed from a familiar environment by force (even if we'd prefer they stay calm) and someone attacking someone else out of the blue.

What do you want to bet they didn't follow best practices for arresting an autistic person?
Saying, "I'm sorry; I've made a mistake" is the killer disarming technique for even the most emotional conflict. Not sure if it's our pride or fear of liability but western culture is very hesitant to say "sorry" - other than the fake one "I'm sorry if anyone interpreted my actions|remarks|words as ..." - that doesn't count.
not exactly an unbiased or referenced report, either.
Ah, my apologies. I took your initial post to mean that even emacs doesn't get what you wanted. You mean largely that it is not the advertised path, even in emacs where it is technically possible. Makes sense.

The level of introspection you can do in emacs is something I wish all programs had. Being able to ask the program, "what were the last commands you saw?" and "what would you do if I did {something}" are huge.
I'm extremely familiar because I suffer from severe hayfever. When they made pseudoephedrine unavailable, it was immediately obvious that the replacement, phenylephrine, didn't work at all.

So I have a sore spot about this whole issue. I get made to suffer in order for lawmakers to have an empty gesture toward addressing the meth problem.
I'm absolutely positive a few million dollars could get you a system that can "read aloud" pdf math papers in no time. I guess people will wait for it to become cheaper though.
Hmmm ... accessibility is essential, but PDF is far better for static documents: There's no straightfoward, standard way to read an html document on another platform. Also, the html document may not be readable in 10+ years (unlike most PDFs), and updates are too fluid and hard to track.

I think the general problem is that the end-user doesn't control an html document, e.g., for annotation, as a local record, etc.
RCS is extensible and allows for capability discovery. Adding an E2EE extension doesn't really "deviate" from the spec but rather builds on top of it. Google's client can still communicate with other Universal Profile clients; the messages just aren't end-to-end encrypted.

And Google has said that they plan to switch to MLS [1]. Releasing their own E2EE spec more widely at this point would be pointless.

[1] https://security.googleblog.com/2023/07/an-important-step-to...
I disagree TBH, haha. Regardless of historical trends, I think, but mostly hope, that we’re heading toward equality. I don’t need a citation to see that we’ve still got work to do—I believe it!
>Nobody does in southern Europe, not even iOS users do, everybody just uses WhatsApp.

Er...not 'everybody'.
*currently in S-Eu, I've never had wa, getting along fine with signal. As are several other people...maybe slowly, but surely.
Can confirm nobody I've ever met has mentioned i-stuff.
APNs just travels over regular IP, no? It must on non-mobile devices which support it (Watch, iPad, TV, Mac, etc)

Are you confusing Apple Push Notification service (APNs) for mobile Access Point Name (APN)?
How can an individual without a laboratory be responsible for the contents of a pill they purchased?
Edit: Actually, FTA that's a different (17-year-old) boy.

Ok that's dramatically worse. Still not sure "indefinite detention" is the right call, but that's absolutely a more significant crime.
> “Scale often has surprising emergent properties”

Hard to read that without smiling.
Technically we don't... But at least everyone's had a nice vacation so we're ready to deal with it after we're back.
You may choose between Chrome, Chrome (Edge), Chrome (Brave), Chrome (Opera), Chrome (Vivaldi), Chrome (Chromium), Chrome (the others), Safari, and the remainder of which Firefox is probably the most known.
> you probably know that the "good" Sudafed is kept behind the counter, and you have to sign for it.

In my state, that's not how it works. You have to have a doctor's prescription to get it, which means you have to have a doctor -- and getting a doctor is incredibly difficult.
> this has rarely been an issue

I have seen many people running MySQL make that claim about lots of things... But what I have never seen is a MySQL database for business data without major issues.
We Blew Up the Engine in Our Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing During Initial Testing
Our parents' parents were primarily not paying for day-care. It still seems quite odd to their generation to have mom work to pay for someone else to watch the kids.

$2k/mo is a lot, but it can be avoided if one parent stays home. Helps with the illness-spreading and inconvenient pickup times, too. If you're in "flyover" country and there's only one day-care in the area, it's likely that's what a lot of the other households are doing.
Even outside of healthcare circles, most folks I know were aware from anecdotal experience that the OTC phenylephrine was practically useless, and that the psuedoephedrine behind the counter was the way to go if you had a cold. Night and day difference between the two.

The only problem is that the pharmacy always seems to be closed when you need it.
I've been is similar situation before. They wanted to release right on Christmas. But luckily enough, instead of releasing version full of bugs, managers come up with excuse: release postponed for one month due to some new vulnerability in third party library project used.

What a brilliant move! Christmas's was saved, everyone eligible received their bonuses.
My D-I-L is a nurse and will be working the coming weekend. That's her "price" for getting Thanksgiving (in the US) off. We'll schedule as much as possible around her work hours and make sure there's food left for her when she gets home.

Many thanks to all of the health care workers who take care of us over the holidays. (Along with all of the others, of course.)
The thing no one will investigate is the obvious test data the pharma companies produced to show that phenylephrine supposedly worked. Any data that showed it worked was obviously fraud and yet companies made billions over 20 years from it. This is the real crime and I doubt this fraud started and ended with phenylephrine. How many other drugs are useless sold to us because no one bothered to doublecheck the data?
I really dislike services that claim they'll be free forever. There is no infinite growth, so you'll never get a sustainable business with a service that's free forever.
> The BIOS UUID was, essentially, 1-2-3-4-5, if we omit all the zeros.

What a coincidence! That's the same combination I have on my luggage.
Now imagine you found leverage with your hack and you demanded $4M or else.
Many here say they prefer html documents. How do you annotate them? How do you make local copies? Also, how will you read them in the decades to come?

I love PDF.
I joined one of the Brains server and was curious what the experience was for 50~ players. The movement was a bit janky, as expected from websockets. I was also curious about the networking compression, because I'm doing something similar.

I'm not sure if just doing LZ-string compression is enough. 50 players use about 20KB/sec data. Comparing that to Warzone at 150 players uses only 48KB/sec data. Unless you have unlimited data, that could be costly in cloud bandwidth.

It was also curious that the compressed buffer of bytes look like this:
埒愑䣔橤㤰゙㟍稦獦ঙ惝䓇強栛䳌۬䌃̩佼

I wasn't sure if that is how LZ-string compression just ends up, but its a bit jarring.

In any case, there is lots of room for improvement on the networking side to reduce potential costs.

The whole project is very impressive, so great job!
I took it to mean, don't fight beurocratic battles that you won't win.

For example, fighting RTO at Amazon. Jassy has made it one of his top priorities, and no matter how much I disagree with it, I'm not going to shift the needle
Depends on your definition of large-scale, but I managed a 120K QPS MySQL 8.x cluster that heavily used FKs. After heavy optimization and parameter tuning, I was also able to halve the instance size while improving query performance.

I’m a big fan of FKs. They stop you from doing stupid shit, and if the time ever truly comes that you have to drop them, you can do so.
It looks like beeper published most of the code at this point. Would be funny if Samsung or Google built it into the native messaging app. They have the resources to continually torture apple. The problem is Samsung and Google have deep enough pockets to try to sue.
That's not an ad problem, that's a tracking problem. I think it's important not to conflate the two concepts. But other than that, yes, I agree.
The benefit is if you show people what war is actually like, people will be more averse to it
I don't know if this is the common perception and I'm definitely a bit biased, but it seems like a bad sign for Intel. Without a paradigm shift I don't foresee anything improving for them. Their sales team must be insane though. I feel a bit "good riddance" about it too and wish ARM or RISC would become the standard for gaming and productivity (read: rendering, compiling, not Microsoft Word) PCs.
That's super interesting. Any ideas on other trends that are occurring but that VCs won't touch? Genuinely curious now.
EVs can only be used as storage under very specific circumstances. It assumes people drive to the work in the morning have charging stations at work, and don't commute very far. In reality lots of people don't have charging stations at work, and charge their cars in the evening when solar isn't producing. Also, there's loads of people doing errands during the day, or utility vehicles transporting cargo. These are going to be used consistently through the day and charged at night. Electric semi trucks aren't going to be helpful for grid storage. And they burn a lot more energy than a passenger sedan. And lastly, few grid operators are going to accept that their grid storage may drive away on masse during the holidays.

> Suppose during a cloudy week you would have a 50GW shortfall from 6PM to 10PM and a 10GW shortfall from 12PM to 6PM, but a 20GW surplus from 8AM to 12PM

During a cloudy week, you're going to have a shortfall all the time. Solar drops to 10-25% effectiveness with cloud cover: https://www.solarreviews.com/blog/do-solar-panels-work-on-cl....

> The load during peak solar generation (~3PM) is >25GW, compared to ~20GW after midnight, and that's during the autumn rather than the summer.

But again, peak demand isn't at midnight it's at 8pm. You can't just hand-wave away the challenge of meeting peak demand when intermittent sources aren't producing.

> Air conditioning load aligns extremely well with solar generation.

And it aligns even worse during the Winter: solar is producing the least amount of energy, cloud cover is at its greatest extent. Most homes are heated by gas, and when that gets decarbonized it's going to put even more load during the worst time of the year for renewables.

Definitely, rooftop solar is a great addition and a good way to reduce load due to air conditioning. It comports with what I've been saying this whole thread: intermittent sources are good when used opportunistically to supplement a grid primarily powered by non-intermittent sources. The downsides of intermittency are too great to be used as a primary source of energy, though.
E-commerce. Code freeze two months before Christmas. A very chill time indeed.
This is closer to a subtweet than meaningful writing, but I bet it's cathartic.
The tech is fine, right? It's the long game you have to play with regulators and state and local officials to get right of way to build the tracks or tubes in the first place. Under current regulations, it would take a decade of intense focus and politickin' to probably achieve a minimal viable example.
Inertia: the energy required to change direction is proportional to the size of the organization.
It is amazing for accessibility users too, if you turn on VoiceOver, the Camera app and the Photos app tells you the description of what’s currently on display. And yes, it has been a feature for a while.
I love that we can so violently disagree and still approach this from a place of intellectual curiosity and civil discourse. I always appreciate your viewpoint and your perspective.
Passkeys are cool, but not widely deployed yet. Also, there's currently no way to express "give X identity Y access on Z server", unless X identity already has a passkey set up with the server. This is a non starter for decentralized networks with lots of federated and self-hosted servers. This use case is trivial with email.
I still don't get why Apple doesn't get hit with antitrust by not installing several messaging apps at start time, and the user gets to decide which one is the default, the same as Microsoft with browsers
I said will which means it's in the future.

The IRA EV grants can be found here: https://www.atlasevhub.com/materials/the-inflation-reduction... and if you think Tesla is not going to apply (amd receive) most of the $7 billion for infrastructure, I don't know what to tell you (I'm willing take the other side of your bet in this though). Earlier this year, most in the industry assumed CCS networks would get the money because the law was written with a requirement for interoperability (3 or more makes).

Time line of events:

2014: Tesla opens up its charger patents

[Crickets]

2022H2: IRA signed with billions available to fund interoperable charging networks (i.e. CCS at tine of signing)

2022 November: Tesla renames standard to NACS.

2023: Tesla signs agreements with other manufacturers to use it's network.

Do you suppose it was a coincidence that Tesla's standardization and agreements came within months of billions of federal money being put in the table? Billions that would have gone to an competing charging networks/competing standards?
Neither Claritin nor Zyrtec are options for me. They both make me very ill.
Is there anything you need multimethods for that can't be patched with visitors and other design patterns? They have always seemed to me like a neat feature that are devilishly tricky to implement and difficult to reason about for the average programmer.
Business Insider is well known for low quality posts. Just looking at the headline you know they chose to run a story without fact checking anything this guy said.
I guess I just don't understand why it makes Apple look bad here. My understanding is that Beeper reverse engineered their APIs and people expect Apple to just accept it? How is it much different from blocking a hacker who's poking around to find holes?
And to be clear, I use Android and I do think the whole iMessage situation is silly. I just don't get how anyone could see an unofficial iMessage client going any differently.
Yes, if you have downstream services that need to make use of your data, you would provide an API. That way you can manage the number of connections, how the queries are formed, any sort of encoding/decoding, authorization, caching, etc. Definitely not limited to read-only.
> HN as a community is made up of quite a few people who care about interoperability, the right to use our computers as we see fit, the joy of building solutions to solve problems that other people won’t solve, etc.

lol dude this wasn’t reverse engineering your lawn sprinklers to work with a raspberry pi. In effect this was always an abuse of services Apple funds and intends to be a value add for only their customers.

(Coming from someone who wishes Apple would just go ahead and release iMessage for android.)
Used to be, not anymore
Given multi-kilometer asteroids like mentioned above, I'm starting to think neither method (fragment/push) sounds viable. The amounts of energy required just seem off the scale? Maybe pushing (multiple?) smaller but still massive enough to have decent kinetic energy into its path would be more feasible. Sorta like pool balls bouncing off each other..I generally end up missing the pocket (earth) when that happens :-)
Yes, but he also figured out how to use ablation drive in his fusion bombs because otherwise a fission bomb doesn't squeeze nearly hard enough.

If you had to design a really big ablation drive to push a really big asteroid, who would you call? Prof. Ablation Drive? Or some other guy? (Yeah, he's not with us anymore, but you know what I mean.)
Who the hell are these nuclear fans you're definitely totally talking to who pretend nuclear power plants are cheap/free (and also, why are these figments of your imagination accorded representative status for the entire class of nuclear fans?)?
These aren't powered by explosives. The tech was not the problem.
How does are business culture accept people who squeeze profits out of vulnerable, trapped elderly people? Why aren't those people ostracized and defunded.

It doesn't have to be this way, and it wasn't always this way.
> If we banned tiktok (or any other social media company) someone will make another in its place.

That's the point, make another in its place, but make one that isn't affiliated with a hostile foreign government. There are enough resources in the USA to have a clone of it
Yeah right, MAD is a deterrent not a first strike weapon. Besides that, asteroids spend most of their time extremely far from Earth. If you launched some mega project to get out there and redirect one that wasn't already headed for us it would take you years of preparation and then years of execution time. Your enemy could easily see all of this activity and decide to just start a conventional war in the mean time to take you out and still have enough time to deflect your war asteroid. It's a dumb scifi plot device not a practical weapon.
When I did shift work I always volunteered for the holidays because I don't care about holidays.
Would not have paid for that, even if I had to live in the car on the dealers forecourt while spending every waking moment explaining to any customer who came by what happened.
Ugh, that's even worse. (Looks like that's Oregon and Mississippi, for anyone else curious.)

There's really no reason this shouldn't be OTC.
I’d wager a significant number of people posting here owe their careers to that commercialization - I hate listicles, too, but not so much that I would wish them away and gamble that I ended up with the same standard of living on an Internet reserved mostly for nerds (nerds said lovingly, of course)
I'm not sure I follow? How could they be much more efficient? They turn electricity into heat so pretty much 100% efficiency and a CPU turns electricity into heat and a small amount of computation occurs as a side effect. So all electricity into a computer becomes heat aside from a tiny fraction for the motion of fans etc which heaters also usually have.
The Mythical Man Month comes to mind as one example.

There are also lots of business plans that promise outrageous returns on investment... sometime down the line. But at the end of the day your business is never going to be more valuable than the amount of money your customers give you minus operating costs.
Yes, and the magazine company has a right to stop sending you more magazines if they don't like that
I mean... it's not like they solved it in any way shape or form. I only really see cops by the turnstiles which is entirely useless at doing anything about the mentally unstable.
Sure, you can't say with certainty that this preventes X crimes. But that doesn't mean you can't measure anything. Last year's numbers and the trajectory of the last few years gives you everything you need to make a judgement. This is talked about in the article.
>I work on asteroid detection for planetary defense professionally

Cool. I am a software engineer with nearly 40 years professional experience. I wondered if volunteering to work on an open source software related to planetary defense might be an interesting retirement project.
That is not a good look for Tesla. The cowboy in Elon Musk should take some cues from another cowboy, Les Schwab. Read his book for a primer in customer service. Pride in Performance: Keep It Going!

https://archive.org/details/lesschwabpridein0000schw
In nursing homes, VR is a hit. Is that a good thing?
Maybe the existential horror, disgust and impotent rage building in the zeitgeist of American youth will make music good again.
This was very cool until I realized that a significant fraction of the questions have incorrect answers. Two for two biology related questions were wrong.
$14k is cheap. I got lightly rear-ended in my model y and the repair bill was over $15k. And it was in the shop for over 2 months waiting for parts.

The ridiculous cost to repair and the waiting time (insurance covers a rental car for up to 1 month) are things no one talks about when it comes to Teslas.
Spark – Discover small YouTube channels making great content
I really want to like it, but it's pretty terrible at many things imho.

I've tried really hard to switch to Apple Maps but even after three months it simply can't seem to remember I basically drive to 5-6 addresses on a weekly basis. It's always to the parking lot near the office on Monday and Wednesday morning, daycare to pick up the youngest on the way back, swimming pool on Saturday, etc. etc. but navigating to those addresses is always a pain (even selecting it from recent addresses in CarPlay) and it did sent me to the same street as the daycare in a completely different town several times now.

While I value not giving more data to google, after three months I decided it simply wasn't worth it. I found the experience (especially the first time it sent me to a completely different town I never go to and I didn't catch it) pretty infuriating.
Tesla doesn't have dealers.
Asian countries are already struggling to keep up with energy demands of semiconductor factories.

And then there are the other environmental impacts - waste chemicals, waster water, and greenhouse emissions.
https://archive.ph/gpTuA
If you're talking pre-1890 or so, the people would still have had more cousins than the latest generations. The population was still going up at that time, just slowly.

When looking at countries like Japan you're talking about rapid depopulation after the older generations die. Even in the US population growth is mostly caused by migrants within 2 generations.
Hundreds of thousands are fighting in the trenches right now to protect their homes, to protect their families, to protect democracy while politicians went on holiday break without approval of military aid for allied army.