skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great writeup.

Enjoyed even the transparency on pricing thinking, but one price that doesn't seem to have been experimented with is allowing a one time purchase that is not an in-app purchase.

In-app purchases make your app unavailable to company employees where the company manages the Apple device using MDM and purchases software using e.g. Apple Business Manager or the older volume purchasing. The $99 option should also exist as a standalone retail version so a company can buy the app for employees.

For small app makers: you might be surprised that a company-managed Mac with a company managed AppleID cannot use in-app purchases. Apple has no way for a company to do IAP for an employee, and in fact the employee cannot do it themselves either. For such users, you must either (a) allow retail app purchase, or (b) have an out-of-band subscription purchase and management, like Microsoft M365 or Adobe Creative Suite.

Whether you do it out of band or as a one time retail purchase, if you do track logins, you should support the simple "Login with" or "Continue with" buttons for Microsoft to hit the 85% of small businesses with identities on that platform, but also Apple and Google. These buttons are easier to add than devs might think. You don't need "SSO" to let most companies log in with company IDs.
As someone that had a job that took me away from my daughter too much, “The Quest” does me in. Also the infertility episode hit me like a truck that I didn’t see coming because we also dealt with that for years.
100%. Said as an Aussie who has been living in the states for a decade
Very similar situation here (except both my husband's father and mother live with us). Yes, there's occasional friction, but we make it work. My father-in-law makes dinner, gets the kid on and off the bus, runs the errands, etc. At this point, doing the nuclear family thing seems quite intimidating.
I stopped at 1144 and 114. This could really use more of a difficulty ramp. After level 20 or so I really didn't notice it getting any harder and it sort of got boring. There was _one_ level fairly early on where it dumped a ton of letters on me all at once for some reason and I actually started to fall behind, but then it never happened again
I've rented cars on and off for ~15 years, my experience: there are certainly regional differences but renting has certainly got shittier and shitter over the years, perhaps skewed by my experience in Europe:

- Car class inflation (cheaper models, models being bumped up a category i.e. "Luxury" not actually being Luxury)

- Instead of raising prices sufficiently, they use 'damage' as a revenue stream more and more

- Reticence to give you a printed paper contracts, making it harder to inspect them.

- Far less thorough damage recording. It's like they just delete existing damage in the records at the beginning of the rental. I always get a blank damage sheet when I rent.

- Higher and higher mileage vehicles

- Bigger and bigger deposits and damage excess ("co-pay")

- Dynamic Currency Conversion scam

- Fuel recharge scam

This isn't just a post-pandemic cost-recovery thing. Renting was getting shittier in the years prior
I know how to get to the price; it's just an incredible pain in the ass.
InVision is shutting down this year
That would take 20x more work just to do a few OSs if were even possible, which it isn't.
Yes.

And it's explicitly not allowed to publish in the app store for such a small audience.
DEI? I’d rather we focus more on merit.
Twitter – Google Search Honesty
Neat! I'm serving around 120m requests per month for https://extensionpay.com from a 2GB VPS running a single-threaded nodejs process and SQLite as the db. Most of the requests are cached, but still, it's amazing how far you can get with cheap hardware.
The monitors is actually broken for me. Windows disconnects my monitor even for something as small as alt-tabbing from a fullscreen game and refuses to reconnect it till I unplug the monitor and plug it back in.
Yeah, you really need to combine SwiftUI with a dedicated architecture like PointFree's Swift Composable Architecture. It solves your state and navigation problems while adding dependency and testing solutions as well.

Apple's stubborn and bizarrely proud insistence on not providing the full solution here is very annoying.
I got quite excited once because I thought I recognised Mt Beerburrum in the background of one of the Bluey episodes. I hadn't visited that area in decades.
It's done — https://github.com/astoilkov/main-thread-scheduling/commit/0.... Thanks.

A little thing but a great improvement. I'm now wondering why I did that.
You’re criticizing the “foreign policy” of a company that decided not to directly participate in a foreign war, quite possibly at the request of the US government or under threat of having those satellites shot down which would be a catastrophe for space travel.

If the US wanted to contract spacex for Ukrainian military comms, they would have.

There are plenty of reasons to criticize musk, but not participating directly in a war isn’t one of them
I genuinely don't understand how analyses like this one are taken at face value but then media turns around and argues that IQ is primarily a result of environmental, not genetic factors. If it's environmental, then shouldn't going to university substantially increase these students' IQs? In general, going to university means you're exiting whatever culture/family system you grew up in. And, the whole point is to educate you.

Point being, why doesn't research like this immediately get canceled for being anti-whomever?
Does anyone remember Ericsson A1018 external keyboard attachments?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNdreBTNybM
Most of them are strictly tropical. Only white sapotes and black sapotes (really a persimmon, but with bland so-so flavor) can grow on temperate areas.

There are a lot of awesome tropical fruits that nobody knows out of its distribution area (Some of us would culture it furiously otherwise, LOL)
> It's the first time I've really ever seen such a vegetatively sparse landscape that was so inaccessible simply due to the terrain.

I haven't been to Iceland, but I got similar vibes the first time I hiked through the Kilauea East Rift zone (vegetatively sparse, nearly impassable), where it's perhaps even more stark since lush tropical forest is just a few miles away.
There are simulation games that have extremely complicated and extensive UIs for taking various actions and analyzing in-game data. One good thing that some of them do is give tooltips and explanations when you hover over the button/graph/table/section/panel you're working with. Done smartly, I think this can be a great approach for managing very complicated systems.
There is tons of plastic in a food factory. For example, lots of liquids flow through plastic tubing which is proven to leach phthalates. This is not going to happen with a whole potato you cook yourself using metal cookware and utensils.
Attending university is unbelievably useful, but it's not really because of the subjects that you take. I can't remember half the things I learned in class, but my persisting friend groups and life opportunities can all be traced back to my time in university. (Which isn't to say that the subjects were useless; they provided a solid foundation in math and computer science. But to say they prepared me to become a professional programmer would be a baldfaced lie (conveniently, a lie that my first employer seemed to believe without me needing to tell it)).
> Although, licorice roots are okay to chew on... I guess.

Licorice can be toxic: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8962506/
For me, this is especially true for learning Colemak
When did this happen in CPAN?
AFAIK, Alma has committed to continued full RHEL binary compatibility.
Author here. Tell me about it! I'm documenting things for a living. There aren't enough hours in the day to write everything down.

However, I wrote this post while thinking about easy fixes that are really hard to discover, such as this one yesterday: https://nicolasbouliane.com/blog/playwright-timeouts
Especially as what you've documented becomes obsolete over time.
Controlling for attrition, do IQ scores improve after 4 years of undergraduate education?
Yeah. I'm not saying that I use it. But I still have a VM with some old software and when I use it, I am reminded of the saying "what Intel giveth, Windows takes away"
Well-known fact: Software architecture often follows team structure, or vice versa.

Why? It happens because we organize both our software and our teams based on the amount of coordination needed to succeed.

Corollary: if the rates of change in your domains are accelerating and you start to accrue tech debt and cannot keep up, look for missing abstractions and the need to refactor both/either your software and/or your orgs. This tend to happen in glue roles (e.g. SRE, security), that sit at the crossroads of multiple efforts. Platform engineering is sometimes the solution for the org problems, but it requires all software components to present the same interface.
Not iCloud but Google makes it easy to drill down into how your storage quota is being used - https://one.google.com/storage
Technically you dont need it to develop and app for yourself. Practically the cert expires every 7 days without a dev license so its very annoying without one, vs being able to distribute to people you care about on test flight
I confess I assumed this would be something that was already known. Neat to see it is a new discovery. The story makes it more of a validation than a surprising discovery, but still good work.
Wormhole isn't FOSS.
> "recklessly dumping substances into the ecosystem" has been Generally Accepted As Safe for literally thousands of years.

For hundreds of thousands, substances that have negative effects (eg human corpses) were disposed of far from populations, precisely because humans learned that consequences quickly. Humans have been cognizant of causation, when they could detect it, for longer than thousands of years. Yes the black plague took awhile to figure out. As we saw with cigarettes, society is always trending to keeping the status quo. Often, to society's own detriment over the short term, along the span of human existence.

> We have 8 billion of us out there, demanding zero impact just isn't going to happen.

That's not relevant.
> Swift is for the new rubes, bootcamp graduates and so on.

That was a bit rude and unnecessary.
Ask HN: What technologies are you using for new projects?
As the title states, what technologies are you using for new projects? Either for work or hobby!
Pat Patterson: Hat tip! Thank you for the excellent follow-up. In short, your prices of 10 USD / TB are a steal according to your data. Keep up the great work. I'm not yet a customer, but I will be very soon.
What are super hot french fries rolling in plastic? You mean like ready meals that you heat up in plastic containers?
A university education being considered a badge of honor and a sign of intelligence is pretty common everyone in the world.
I describe it to the youth like this: Getting a degree might not be the fastest way to riches for the exceptionally entrepreneurial/resourceful (who are few,) but it's still by far the most reliable way to reach financially comfort or affluence in the US if you weren't born into it (or if you're entrepreneurial it amplifies what you can do.)

I did a few years of college and got an associate's before dropping out, didn't finish my degree until quite a few years later. I've been fortunate and have privilege, but I most likely would have done better financially if I'd finished a STEM degree from a state school earlier.
> Furthermore, there was probably more of a reflexive printing things out at that point which took a long time to break.

Absolutely. Back in that era printing things was just "what you did" if you wanted some combination of permanent / portable / offline accessible. FSM only knows how many trees I am responsible for killing back in the day, printing stuff that I would never bother printing now. But over time we got more comfortable with not needing everything on paper, and so now...

> It still boggles my mind a bit when people say they don’t have a printer at home

... I am one of those people. I don't own a printer and rarely print anything. On the infrequent occasions when I do want paper copy of something, I just send it to a nearby Fedex Store or UPS Store and have it printed there.
primatejs and surrealdb
I imagine because the web chat was asynchronous. They didn't necessarily have to drop everything at that moment to answer the call.
I’ve been trying to find out what the maker of Bluey, Joe Brunn, is up to now.

Is there a new show coming?

And does anyone know where I can buy an uncensored DVD or downloads collection?
Rich Dad Poor Dad is a lying, POS, grifter. https://johntreed.com/blogs/john-t-reed-s-real-estate-invest...
I think Minecraft is a poor example to point to for this. Minecraft is a sandbox game, and doesn't have a story. While you can certainly decide your sandbox game is 'done', it doesn't have a endpoint that a story-driven game has.

Minecraft also 'incredibly' has first-party support for downloading and playing any previous version of the game. There's and incredibly vibrant community playing the game on years old versions of the game (mainly for modding).
I should really look and see if I have anything interesting on my floppies that never made it to my hard disks. Unfortunately I think I have very little left from BBS forums. I definitely lost some things in hard disk crashes over the years with incomplete backups.
Bluntly, no one gives a flying fig about moral philosophy or upholding what internet denizens think is "proactively upholding the common good" for much, much less money than what Google pays, even when said denizens happen to be right. Almost no one walks away from Omelas.

Once you reach FAANG levels of compensation, lulling oneself into complacency by internalizing marketing like "don't be evil" or "our products are loved by billions of customers" becomes even easier.
> I live in a pretty liberal European city, yet I haven't met any non-binary person.

Being nonbinary is kinda unusual, but it's also probably something that's super easy to be closeted about, if you don't know how people will react.

I mean in the 1980s I thought all 900 kids in my high school were straight, and that being gay was super uncommon.
I'm starting a new project using Ruby on Rails, mostly because it has been a while since I looked at it and my initial experiments with it have worked nicely.
Congrats to the authors for re-discovering the definition of IQ.

An IQ of 100 is computed as the average of a given population.
I used to have a copy of this book. I hope I still do. Thanks for posting.

Amazing how these cultures developed such intricate and beautiful ornament systems — which is functionally a design system — and the best we get now is all white and plywood.

I know, I know.
I think he does and did practice the things from the book. I don't know about anything later than the book, though.
I built Infinite Zork with a twist
Hey HN!

So.. I built Infinite Zork with a twist.

The current thing I'm no-lifing is Saga - an AI text RPG.
It's like an AI RP playground where you can either have a conversation with ai characters or write your own fiction, in an editor assisted by ai.

Last week, I wanted to play some BG3 but suddenly felt it would be a waste of time because I could have been writing code.
So I sat down, opened my editor and thought "if Saga is an AI text RPG, it should pay homage to the one and only".

And wrote D̶e̶f̶i̶n̶i̶t̶e̶ ̶D̶o̶r̶k̶ a flavour of Infinite Zork, with a twist.
Please be warned that it's not for the faint of heart, NSFW, filled with humour and sarcasm, and you've lost before you even started.

It's powered by Mixtral MoE 8x7b Instruct.

Start on your own or use help command.
It turned out to be a fun RP environment and you never know where you'll end up.

All feedback is welcome!

You can try it here:
https://preview.sagarpg.io/zork
I dont think this dispels any myths and the study is scant on details. I wager that IQ results will be significantly influenced by faculty (major/specialization). Today there is a much greater range of university majors. And of course also the university you attend. Today there are too many "universities", some worse than trade schools.
Our primary difference: a 10-year lifecycle, with a focus on stability.

I'd say that your use case for CentOS might have been vendor compliance, but our user base doesn't agree that's the only use case.

I'd recommend listening to this podcast with Neal Gompa about Red Hat vs IBM at this point:

https://hackaday.com/2023/12/27/floss-weekly-episode-763-fed...
This is a good point. For my use cases, I get a bulk rate, and dump everything into digital storage and a processing workflow. Once digital, it's a future problem, but at least it'll be preserved on disk and tape somewhere. Apple didn't have machine vision in photos when I started doing this, for example, so I lean heavily on Moore's Law (very broadly speaking about tech acceleration) that future tech will solve (facial recognition, OCR, machine vision metadata generation, generative AI) so save, digitize, preserve now when it is cheap to do so. Once gone, it is lost to the sands of time.
You are missing couple of points : awareness of such tool, downloading of huge archives, and strong collection interest in people. I know people who.str happy to play Mario look-alike.js game instead of figuring out retroarch.

Last point : flash games peaked when rest of the world didn't have very fast interest. Only 0.1% had it or interested in it
Best Mac for Large Language Models
So this is not about railway trains?
Open-Source v0.dev Alternative for Vue
Were they launched tangentially to the surface at a speed much lower than orbital speed?
I firmly believe the only way to stop our culture from obsessing over the wrong things (politics, climate emergency, vaccines) is to give it something even worse to focus on - enter the War on Plastic! I genuinely hope this catches on and people start putting anti-plastic flags on their lawns.
It's The Walurus. It's basically a Canadian knockoff of The Atlantic or The New Yorker.

They all tend to subsist off long form articles heavy on pathos and ethos and less on logos. It helps drive engagement statistics that way

They all basically follow the narrative writing format used in Expos 10 and 20
As a fellow blogger, I heartily agree.

Unfortunately, I am not as competent and blaze fewer trails.
While this is true regarding disclosures, my post was mostly about Elon Musk saying stupid things on his personal account. These have a far higher legal impact on his businesses and himself that would be for a lower ranked employee.
My one year old and two year old both love and understand bluey. They gave Grandma looks of derision when she tried to show them Cocomelon
I feel like there is a computing renaissance, so many new and creative projects, I am not sure if its because of pcbway or because of riscv, cheap parts, accessible knowledge, kicad and opensource tooling, but it makes me super excited.

People are having fun with computers.
Depending on one private company for space travel is bad too. It's important the US always have space launch capability for national security reasons.

Even if it's really inefficient and bad.
I'm in a similar position. Can you not use UIKit in Swift or do you have to use SwiftUI?
> Some say that there's no longer (or lesser) need to document because we have LLMs.

What will you train the LLM on? It has to get the information from somewhere. This is a point I'm supposed to make next month in a panel about using AI to help immigrants. An LLM won't make phone calls.
One of the biggest issue is that they pulled the rug on the support window. The last release started out with 10 years of support, but they walked back on that when they announced the end of regular CentOS and reduced it by more than half.
Use the internet archive to look at computer ads from the 80s-90s.

Early laser printers were very expensive for the printer but the toner was relatively cheap, and a ream of paper wasn't that expensive, either.
I believe a similar research study was done on HN where they asked HN people what their IQ was and actually measured it.

I vaguely recall the average guessed IQ was 120 or 130 while the actual IQ was around 100 which is similar to this study. In a nutshell the conclusion was that people on HN like to think they're smarter than average and like to up vote articles on IQ when in reality HNers are just average.

I can't find the study anymore. But I remember seeing it somewhere.
That's a LOT of RAM for an 8bit, and to think it has no video display.

This is not the 8bit world so many cut their teeth on, it's Kim-1 or Altair era but with more memory than anyone knew what to do with.
The opaqueness is malicious. Apple offers a free iCloud account but no method of cleaning up space. Normal usage of a phone with all optional features disabled will eventually fill up the free tier space.

The user’s options are quit the ecosystem or pay up.
Apple’s lock-in monopoly means they get to shove their customers into another monthly fee.

This is a classic example of the harm done to consumers by allowing anticompetitive practices. (The consumer has no choice but to pay)

When the US government gets off their butts and investigates Apple for antitrust, this will be one of the key findings. The fine should be some multiple of the amount of money they have illegally extracted from their customers.
> Which assertion was wrong?

Your original assertion that Apple wasn't rewriting anything.
And anybody who's been to the Funker lately can tell you that they're the new insurgents as well. It's astonishing how overnight the terrain of war changed completely when the first drone guided projectile was launched in personal combat.

I'd be curious to know what percentage of a certain brand of drones is dedicated to this purpose, and what those supply lines look like, because most of the videos I see have only but a small handful of models in use.
i would expect that more people are retiring than are first time entering tho, right? Given demographics?
Leave out the "cr" and I agree
I think it's common for someone who prefers X to believe that another who hasn't chosen X has made an uninformed choice, or not done their due diligence (and of course the person believing this, considers themselves informed, etc). This belief is 1 step away from believing that everyone who didn't choose X is wrong. It's actually pretty likely they did sufficient due diligence, and picked the better option for them.

Personally, I believe if they found something that works, more power to them. In all likelihood, the "no-build" option is likely more time and more work than using frameworks, for the sort of non-basic web apps someone might choose them for.

Doing a comprehensive due diligence of all the possible ways to build something is, imo, the sort of analysis paralysis that stops hackers from just going out and building. Yes, you could become an expert in the full stack, such that you could build an app omitting any or all of them. Or you can build a thing. You're going to throw the first one away anyways.
Adobe Photoshop 1.0 (MacWorld review, 1990)
It's also way harder in the US to go back to school as a working professional. Most people can succeed in university, but the window to do it with the least struggle closes after you're adulting hard, have a family, etc.
All canned drinks are lined with plastics. I think all canned things, period, at this point.