skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
About time. Apple has been getting a free pass on the exact same things that Microsoft was slapped down for. Notably: unchangeable default apps (browser, email, text messaging in particular).

I don't believe that they necessarily are violating antitrust by choosing to make imessage or apple watch ios only, but it would be obviously better for consumers in my opinion if they were more open.

One aspect which keeps annoying me is how hostile Apple is to developers that want to use anything other than Apple hardware to publish on the app store. The requirement to use xcode, and the fact that xcode only runs on Mac means they are leveraging their control of ios app stores to force hardware sales. I was particularly annoyed to find that even if I have a compiled .ipa file, the app store requires xcode to even upload it. It's a file upload! This has been working cross platform since before the advent of the web.
Heh, we need an external device, maybe something like a USB LED screen that shows CPU/disk/io usage outside of the regular desktop, much like we see on some fancy CPU coolers these days. At least for me I don't tend to keep things like usage utilities on screen and pinned to the top as they'll block the other things I'm doing on even multiple monitors.

If someone was clever about it, you could probably even feed data back to the external display via SSH from remote boxes.
Canonical wants this because it grants them power/influence over the FOSS ecosystem.
The country isn't what's dirty, it's what they have been doing at the behest of the united states all around the world that's "too dirty for the CIA," in the sense that tasks are offloaded to their intelligence services as a way of distancing the CIA from those tasks. That is why Israel and the US are such strong allies despite there not really having been much of a war.

The people who say Israel is getting anything "for free" are ignorant of the heavy ethical price Israel pays through its singular intelligence services for its unique relationship.
When you take the perspective of those to the East of the Nazi regime, every victory, every person alive today and every inch of border is because some humans 80 years ago willed it into existence at the cost of their life. It’s why Ukraine perseveres today, and why Poland is considered a bulwark of NATO.
It's also possible (likely?) that it's similar to the "US only country to vote against making food a human right" thing, where it's actually a bit more complicated than a single headline summary would suggest.

At a start - what's the entire text of the resolution?
Nothing quite like taking your hands off the controller to waive at your kinect in an fps game. MS hardware engineers really are interesting to say the least.
Microsoft got in trouble for tying its monopoly in operating systems to OEMs preinstalling Internet Explorer. Essentially, they told OEMs that they would not sell them Windows unless they agreed to help Microsoft kill Netscape. That's a very different kind of antitrust complaint than what the article describes, which is Apple building seamless connections between its hardware and services while offering second-tier connections for competitors.

Also, Microsoft won that case on appeal and then settled with a much friendlier administration.

Of course, this is all being filtered to us from rumors told to journalists who are not subject matter experts. We can better assess any similarities when the actual complaint is filed.
so you're saying, everyone complaining here about "remembering to check the condition every 5 minutes" needs to complain about THIS ALREADY HAPPENING ON FLYING PLANES??
Thank you kindly.

I've dumped (wasted? invested?) many 100s of hours into the research of old quake bots, contacting the authors, trying out mods, parsing readmes, writing essays about them, etc. It's a type of hyperaddictive nostalgic madness that strikes me from time to time :)

Yep, the reaper blew everyone's socks off. I wrote up a history of him here that might interest you:
https://github.com/Jason2Brownlee/QuakeBotArchive/blob/main/...
Yeah, I think a problem continues to be that there are a bunch of interesting threads in cognitive science research that have seemed sort of decent as explanations of how animal cognition is working, and maybe directionally reasonable (but incomplete) in suggesting how one might implement it in the abstract, but that doesn't suffice to actually build a mind. If there are a bunch of good hypotheses, you need actual results to show that yours is special. I haven't read this thoroughly, but the author cites and reuses a lot of stuff from the 1970s and 1980s ... but so far as I can tell doesn't really answer why these models didn't pan out to actually build something decades ago.

Today, I think active inference and free energy principle (from Friston) are perhaps having a bit more impact (at least showing up in some RL innovations), but are still a long way off from creating something that thinks like we do.
To be fair, customers are part of the hype feedback loop. I have seen actual conversations with non-tech workers that boil down to "when we ask these people what they want AI to do, they say they don't know, but boy do they get excited every time we mention adding AI"
Any chance these are astroturfed? The logic being that pro-cleanup folks are helping to push the overall impression of total bankruptcy to induce demand for their position?

To be clear: no judgment on my part. Berkeley/sf resident for 12 years and I say bring in the bulldozers.
I had visions of factorio from the title. But, this looks like it might be useful in my workday rather than hobby time
I also think so, in the context of "at minimum".
No need to get to Japans level.

Just matching the Netherlands in punctuality and connections would be more than enough (using the word 'just' here does not do their rail network the justice it deserves).
Names like Chomsky, Assange, Snowden pop first to my mind. Or someone like Navalny in Russia or Mandela in South Africa. Scientists like Dyson or Bohr could go under that rubric as well. And of course, many artists are bona fide cognitive dissidents. The list goes on...
Just for an example: on the recent 1billion rows challenge, the top java contender takes only 2x as much time as a SIMD-optimized C one.
> “People who use drugs are not morally corrupt.”

Using drugs in itself isn't what makes them morally corrupt. Using drugs to the point you can't take care of yourself and need others to do it is. This manifests itself in many ways: emergency service costs, depriving others of public spaces because you have to live in them, litter and human waste on the streets, danger from discarded needles (requiring cleanup), impact to businesses, etc.
There was a great Android alarm app years ago that you'd run in some kind of super admin mode, and you couldn't exit out of it no matter what. Restarting the phone just made it autoload instantly again and stop you from taking focus away from it.

It had modes where you could either shake the phone xx amount of times, or solve math problems, or even take a picture of a barcode (I set mine to my shampoo bottle).

It all worked great until once a 4am alarm got set as 4pm, and I lost access to my phone at 4pm (since I didn't have access to the shampoo bottle). I was offroading on a motorcycle in the middle of the forest, and my phone with offline maps was my navigation. Almost turned into a crazy Darwin awards story in a way.
>Germany and while you're in Germany they blame delays from Poland.

Both can be true at the same time.

Developing enough capacity to avoid non-blocking train systems and bunching is a difficult issue.
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As a Belgian I am very envious of Japanese rail. While it does have its own problems (overcrowding during rush hour in the major metropolises), I really miss various Quality of Life conveniences like being able to pay the difference if you need to go to a further station than you originally planned.
Manuel you're extremely oddly passionate about this, you speak extremely aggressively, nothing is ever good enough for you to take a step back and ask something more interesting than "Name names or it's lies!" and you lie about silly things like multiple Google employees telling you it's false and that I'm anonymous. I don't trust you enough to name names just to win a pissing match. Rationally, It's much more likely that you're a Google lawyer or Googler eager to report possible NDA violations than some guy who just needs names to believe. (Which doesn't make any sense anyway)
There’s a mention of Safari’s popularity thanks to the iPhone but otherwise the article seem to miss that most of the smartphone and tablet boom happened during the period since. I think that’s a major point to Firefox’s demise, making the 2% of the whole market possibly represent quite a bit more of the desktop market.

It also mentions the revenue to point out how dependent the foundation is on Google, but fails to mention that the market share of 34% in 2010 generated $123M and the market share of 2.2% in 2022 generated $593M.

None of this will prevent an eventual demise of Mozilla and Firefox/Gecko (one possible future is what happened to Opera and Firefox adopting either Blink or WebKit – I’d personally consider that completing the slide into irrelevance), but I don’t think Firefox is as close to its last gasp as the article suggests.
I expect that there will be some sort of code reviews by software experts in the future during a large scale tax audit. Because there is a distinction between regular software maintenance (including diagnosing and debugging) and an actual upgrade or enhancement. So it's not like you just capitalize 100% of the salary, unless it is clearly a support role. But even for testing and quality control, they make a distinction between before and after putting the software into service.
Displayed range. If a software update changed what is displayed to be more accurate, that is equally as deceitful.
I mean, "north" in the context of software that's taking you places is rather redundant. Does it really matter if your next left is taking you north, south, east or west?

That being said, at least in Apple Maps, when you stop using the turn-by-turn and the map zooms out, it does auto-orient to North being "up." I'm not sure if Google Maps does the same but I see no reason it wouldn't.
The Supercharger network is cool. But I can go 300ish miles in my class B RV before refueling as opposed to 120ish miles in my Mach E. It's 10 minutes to refuel my RV vs 45 minutes to 2 hours depending on the state of the charger (ElectrifyAmerica) or how long I have to wait. That was how I made the decision to wait for 400 mile range (likely a Silverado F-150 EV and yes I haul stuff, I build things, and my RV makes for a crap pickup truck but I get by) before returning to long range travel with an EV.

A friend circumnavigated the United States in a 300 mile Range Tesla so I don't doubt what's possible here.
Producing "cnc-milled parts, like window trims or the like"
> It's the only thing they have that offers a prayer of beating Google at something.

Azure's market share would indicate you are wrong about this.
> If you run a service with more than, say, 5% of a market, and that market has a network lock-in effect, you should eventually be considered a public service and have to interoperate.

I think this would create a whole new generation of tech startups in a stalled/captured industry.
As a developer, I really liked the packaging experience of snapcraft. Flutter apps are really easy to make a snap for. Great news that it's going to be easier across the ecosystem.
> with links to the source code, pointing at the exact point where the action happens

I like to do these kinds of links in a way that marks both the reference and the referent, rather than the more typical unidirectional html style. It means less busywork to update as code moves around, and it increases discoverability. It also makes it easy to do things with tooling like surface relevant references/referents during code review.
Lacks expressivity is likely what parent meant.
It sounds reasonable, but if they diversified quality, it would mean making precision glass and then also somewhat less precise glass. They will not start mass producing large panes of low margin glass. It's not what they're good at and it's not a lucrative market. Like Intel isn't going to start making jellybean parts.

They could license their name to some existing glass company, but they still wouldn't really be the ones producing it, and I think Zeiss has avoided diluting their brand name like this so far.
Read the comment I'm replying to.
In the "swiss cheese model" of accident causation this design is more hole than cheese.
based on the article, it doesn't sound like this has anything specifically to do with temperature - the issue is more about whether there is moisture in the air.

If it were just a temperature thing, you'd think it could be automated, but I don't think that's really the main thing they're dealing with here.

In theory this means switching the system off when you exit the clouds.

This is usually pretty noticeable, but maybe less so at night, since you might be breaking out into a pocket or a clear layer between other layers, without visibly seeing much of anything outside.

I would hesitate to comment on the feasibility of this beyond what the interviewed persons have said, precisely because they're not clarifying (to the readers in any case) what the actual thresholds here are. And the interviewees don't seem convinced that this is a reasonable/safe requirement.
Might be referring to top "business plan innovations".
If the sawmill doesn't have the means to fulfill these custom made parts at small/no batch sizes, a single person startup might fill the gap, and get their business just by asking nicely at the sawmill that's just not set up to help these people, but might be the first point of contact?

I have to admit I'm also unsure what GP means. :D
The downside is you have the swipe down, tap, then scan, not just glance.

Maybe phones could have a dedicated "Turn on and scan" button that doesn't require unlocking for certain things, so it could be frictionless in the way that saying "hey Google" is.

The other issue is that it's cloud dependent, or else only works when you're on the same wifi. There is sadly no special instand connect wifi P2P URLs I know of, unfortunately, much as I'd love to see that happen.
They are pretty close to updating at least one of microarchitecture or fab process every year. What they aren't doing is updating every part across the product line. It takes 4-5 distinct dies to cover the range of laptop and desktop products, and doing four new dies every year is challenging. Getting one or two new dies out as the new flagships and reusing older dies for mid range and low-end is a lot easier.
> The Israeli lobby is the most powerful

This is simply not true. If you look at spending since 2016, Israel is 10th, but didn't even break top 10 in 2023:

1. Liberia $183,313,959

2. Saudi Arabia $47,703,350

3. Japan $35,712,625

4. China $35,659,291

5. Hong Kong $30,717,811

6. Bahamas $26,763,000

7. Marshall Islands $26,579,703

8. United Arab Emirates $25,903,225

9. South Korea $24,050,739

10. Qatar $16,063,590

https://www.opensecrets.org/fara?cycle=2023
It's a calculated risk. You can make unique experiences with private stuff.

Apple ships betas, so there is plenty of time to see if stuff breaks with the latest OS.
There are some giant flat fees that ICANN charges to be a registrar:

> What you will pay to ICANN:

> US$3,500 application fee, which is non-refundable regardless of whether the application is approved, denied, or withdrawn. Following an initial review of completed application materials, ICANN will contact applicant with instructions on how to submit payment.

> US$4,000 yearly accreditation fee due upon approval and each year thereafter.

https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/financials-55-2012-02-...

They also require you to prove that you can immediately obtain up to $70,000 under extreme circumstances, although exceptions are sometimes granted if you're a special case or particularly well-off.
Secure Embeddings in Postgres Without the OpenAI Risk
Might be only my limited understanding but isn't that trying to recreate cooperative multitasking?

That was tried, and often failed, for many years in the OS space.
I like multiload-ng for this: https://udda.github.io/multiload-ng/
How the iPad Is Like Roadwork
Wow, 13gb! If you have a backup of your hoard (midden?) on a dusty old HDD, maybe you have copies of some lost bot files buried in there:
https://github.com/Jason2Brownlee/QuakeBotArchive/blob/main/...
I'm using the power monitoring feature on a "heavy duty" z-wave power switch (zooz zen-15) to track the power usage. When it jumps over a threshold for at least a couple seconds, I assume the appliance is on, and then when it drops to zero for at least a couple seconds, I assume it's "done".

Same goes for the kitty litter box, although that's just a standard z-wave power switch, not a "heavy-duty" one. That one gets some false positives, so our counter gets a bit higher than the real one, but the discrepancy isn't a huge deal. Looking forward to debugging this one eventually.
German trains wishing to enter Switzerland need to wait at the border so the DB’s, err, _erratic_ scheduling doesn’t perturb the much more rigorous Swiss system.

My experience of German trains is one train arriving on time, to find my connection is delayed, but actually leaving earlier because the same train 1h before was 54 minutes late and I could get that instead.
How about "it's an acceptable mitigation, but we want Boeing to suffer so we'll delay their new planes while letting the existing ones fly?" That seems to be the tact the FAA is taking and I think it's reasonable to take actions that deliberately punish Boeing and Boeing alone.

That being said, I'm also on the "this mitigation is ridiculous" camp. They can't even have a humidity sensor that turns the de-icer on and off?
1986 solution vs cyberpunk solution

how did we even get here?
Scorpion Protocol/File-Format
This is another (currently incomplete) protocol and file format, like Gemini but different in many ways, in case you have many criticisms of Gemini protocol then maybe you are interested, I don't know. (I have my own criticism of Gemini protocol too; I do not agree with all of the ones that other people wrote but some of them I do agree but not necessarily with their proposed alternatives.) But, you can read this one and criticize this one also please. (Perhaps, including, the code review in case of security issues or other issues too)

(This is a mirror on GitHub of the Fossil repository, which you may also access if you prefer)
Your description of Flatpak is technically more apt for AppImage than Flatpack.

What you said is not wrong, however, it misses the bigger picture because like Snap, Flatpak also includes a package repository and distribution mechanism, whereas AppImage only solves the problem of running a dynamically linked binary on an unsupported distribution (the problem you described)
When in France, I could reschedule my rail ticket to a different time by using ticket machine and paying some extra cash. You don't have to be in Japan for QoL.
It contains factual claims which you can dispute.

"I am personally not convinced and dislike your tone" doesn't add anything to the conversation.
I doubt Zeiss makes their own glass. Most optics companies outsource that to one of the big glass fabs: Schott, Ohara, CDGM.
Even supposing you're right purely for the sake of argument, do you really think Hamas' plan for Palestine is any better? Given their Oct 2023 atrocities, they're no different than ISIS at this point.
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I don't get Ubuntu, or the comments sometimes.

> Some people do, as Snap supports some functionality that the Flatpak alternative does not (in particular, server applications).

That's called Docker and Kubernetes. I have no idea who, out there, would be stupid enough to trust a production server deployment on Snap. The very idea is horrifying. If something goes wrong, at all, you're probably SOL unless you pay Canonical a pretty penny for your as-good-as-proprietary setup.

In which case, if the server market has a far-and-away better solution, what markets are left for Snap? Desktop and IoT. In that case, make Snap exclusively IoT and concede desktop to Flatpak and we all go home happy.
The principle problem with legacy media is widespread adoption of smartphones changed the advertising business to be unfavorable to investigative journalism. Running investigative stories takes a lot of time and is prohibitively expensive when the advertising business shifts to favor quantity over quality.

Right or wrong, the legacy media has not be able to adapt to social media. They've also largely given up doing the kind of investigative work that makes them competitive for the same brands advertising on Instagram, X, and TikTok.

CNN+ didn't even last 30 days before they gave up.

Fox News was actually holding Tucker Carlson's viewership back significantly.

You haven't made any attempt to address the point being made, yet continue to propagate a crock of shit that reminds me of what George Orwell once wrote:

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
Spirit is a blessing to the quake archive community. We'd be lost without him (and the people he inspires).
Also to further your point: consider blood diamonds, mining of toxic substances, lead batteries, plastic in the oceans, etc.
You've touched upon an important aspect of career growth that resonates with many people here, including myself. I went through a similar situation, where I had to decide between continuing with Java, which I knew like the back of my hand, and diving into Python for an exciting data science role.

Here's what I've learned from that experience: Languages are just tools in our ever-expanding toolkit. It's the fundamental concepts and problem-solving skills that truly define us as developers and engineers. Go is a fantastic language with a lot of merits, but don't let your comfort with it limit your career trajectory. AI/ML is a burgeoning field, and the demand for skilled professionals there is only going to grow.

Think of it this way: mastering a new language like Python opens up a whole new world of opportunities. It enables you to not only contribute to AI/ML projects but also brings a new perspective to the strongly typed languages you love. Imagine bringing the agility of Python to the performance and reliability of Go in your future projects! Moreover, Python isn’t just for AI/ML; it’s also a gateway to backend development, automation, web development, and so much more.

The learning curve might seem steep at first, but given your experience with a strongly typed language, you'll bring a unique set of skills to Python programming. Good practices like type hinting in Python can benefit greatly from your background.

In making your decision, consider the long-term benefits of versatility against the comfort of familiarity. Embrace learning as a continuous journey and weigh the growth potential in AI/ML against your current trajectory. After all, languages will evolve and change, but the problems we solve and the impact we make will outlast any single technology.
"please close the browser you're using to avoid interruptions"

hey Snap, this pop-up is an interruption
It's definitely an episode that stands out, that's true. My daughter wants to watch it every day.
They don't have to. They're the best in the world, and they know it. They price accordingly.