skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In general it’s bit of a give and take. Yes sure Apple prevents certain things that some consumers might want, but they also introduce and nudge (if not outright require) developers towards practices that are pro-consumer.

Family sharing and being able to share purchases with 6 family members is such a move. Another would be universal purchases that give you access to iPad/Mac/watch apps.

Easy refunds is also one that comes to mind or preventing developers from granular targeting of devices, motivating that developers put out apps that don’t just work on the latest iPhone with the big screen.

> Look at how they limit Steam Link and Netflix to prevent payment from customers. That doesn't help consumers in any way, but just Apple wanting more control and fees.
Then it forces consumers to use a browser to pay like Netflix or Spotify, that consumers have no way of knowing about because the app can't mention it.

Eh… there are customers that prevent to have all their payments through the App Store so they can manage subscriptions at one place and don’t have to deal with dark patterns.

Also keep in mind that Spotify and Netflix are free to offer IAP in addition to their payment via their website and direct customers to their website to sign up (Netflix does this), but neither Spotify nor Netflix want to offer the option of IAP. They prefer to lose out on new subscriptions directly via the app, in favor of nudging people to their website to sign up and pay via the website.

> Or have the entire app as a PWA like Xbox Cloud Streaming and Geforce Now because Apple don't care about the single App Store either, so I'm forced to find the "PWA app store".

Not sure if I follow. But both the concept of Xbox Cloud Streaming and GeForce Now is allowed as app, provided they submit app containers for individual games so they can review it on a per game basis.
But PWA support is also offered, Amazon Luna worked closely with Apple to get it working smoothly in Safari for example.

> So even without caring about developers, I think this monopoly needs to be regulated. The other way to regulate it would be to force Apple App Store to carry all these, and allow all these different payments. I think you'd agree with me that that'd be even worse.

Personally I don’t think regulation is necessary because Apple hasn’t abused its market position. Many of these restrictive rules were set at the introduction of the App Store when Apple was a nobody in the market and everyone was applauding how much better it was then what was known at the time.

Since then they haven’t tightened the reigns, instead they’ve introduced a lower commission rate for renewals after the first year and introduced a small business program with lower commissions.

It is because they didn’t abuse their newly gained market position to strangle developers that I think regulation isn’t necessary, it would be weird and unjust to start regulations just because they’ve grown despite the rules that are now considered a problem.
That's very odd to me. Where are you located? I'm in the United States and virtually all my newsletter/marketing emails have one-click unsubscribe these days. The only ones which don't are from foreign companies, e.g. I bought a day planner from Hobonichi and found they put their unsubscribe behind a login, to my irritation.
As is social media and always on mentality.
I couldn’t agree more. One step I’ve made towards this goal is to have my website content served directly from GitHub. The content is Markdown files that are fetched from the GitHub CDN and rendered to HTML on-the-fly using a Cloudflare Worker.

I’ve extracted out the GitHub fetching into a small npm package:
https://github.com/cool-calm/collected-press/tree/main/packa...

And here’s my home page using this approach. The code needs to be cleaned up and I’m still working out the best strategy for caching (Cloudflare KV has been disappointing), but I’m happy with this as a model.
https://github.com/RoyalIcing/RoyalIcing
I mean, meta-analyses continue to come out supporting it...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10393136/
Reminds me of this YouTube sketch: https://youtu.be/BKorP55Aqvg?si=NxCQht1PqO0hfPfH
As a Monty Python fan, I gotta love "CARP License"
> legalize non-car options

What do you mean by that? Which non-car options are outlawed?
It's almost as if crypto is just a get rich quick scheme and not any kind of meaningful investment.
Satya Nadella on the bigger vision behind Microsoft's new battery
This seems like it was already part of the plan, see lost ark + new world launches and ongoing prime support.
Testing Too Difficult? Automate Your Integration Tests
I'm sure there are a lot of people out there suffering from lack of resilience, especially those who's goals are focused on inherently hard things...

But there are so many graduates of the school of hard knocks giving straight up dangerous advice and people might want to be more careful.
With a rock? ;)
I think social media is definitely a part of that.
> this piece of theory

Key words right there. The relational model is a timeless mathematical model for data that gains both logical consistency and adaptability as a result. It has and will continue to stand the test of time.
This probably rings true for junior carpenters. As you progress in your career you are much more likely to land gigs based on your network. Carpenters work on projects together and want to keep working with other good carpenters. They don’t reach out to employers to apply for jobs — the employer reaches out to them!
> I remember when CD's came out and started to displace vinyl. We were told the high price of the CD would come down to the price of vinyl. Records were about $8 or so at the time, CD's double that. Yeah, no, that never happened.

What are you talking about? CDs today are about $16 on Amazon. If they were $16 back in the 1980s, that's pretty remarkable, because inflation should make them much, more more now. CDs really have come down in price.
Do you know any way to accomplish the same thing but keeping the history in plaintext? Would love to still be able to run SQL over it.
Probably a much simpler answer. The programmers who work on a washing machine are probably inexperienced low wage disempowered help. And there’s an innocent rx/tx loop for a home grown notification system and noone on the team knows better or knows how to use a packet sniffer or perf analyzer.

Never attribute to malfeasance what incompetence can explain.

Put a packet sniffer on it. Bet it doesn’t use https, that costs extra for microcontrollers. Dollars to doughnuts it’s a teenager on a road trip.

Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?
> Modern life on the other hand often starts the day with an utterly toxic commute.

Yet another reason to bicycle (and to have good bike infrastructure!)
> People are applying a heuristic and for many the outcome (correct in my opinion) is that Boeing should not be trusted.

That's how I see it. Boeing has already demonstrated a willingness to sacrifice safety and even human lives in exchange for greater profits and stock price increases. They then showed a willingness to lie and try to cover up their actions after it came to light that they caused the deaths of hundreds of passengers. They've also shown that they'll fight to avoid taking responsibility for the lives they took (https://www.businessinsider.com/boeing-737-max-crash-victims...)

Why should anyone trust them now?
I'm just curious, why would you want to run unsigned code on a Juniper device? What is the use case?
“Dictator” means you get to arbitrarily change the rules. In his case, to end his own term early.
Ibis use 'stress and wash' technique to eat poisonous cane toads
Ask HN: How to deal with morale after layoffs?
Pretty much the title. I joined a startup and recently and we had a round of layoffs. Now, people who I used to meet daily, during standups and lunch are not around anymore. We've been "promised" that there won't be layoffs for the rest of the year, but I'm not banking it.

I'm already an anxious person by nature, but this is making me pretty nervous and very distracted at work.

What do I do? I understand this is a tradeoff of being in a startup, but the anxiety definitely isn't helping.

Thanks HN.
> Corporate Radio™ as brought about by the Telecommunications Act of 1996

What happened with that? I'm not familiar with this.
PingFS, a file system using the ping protocol
It’s not just social media. Free roaming and spending time outside on their own or with peers went down dramatically for the last 30 years.
Embryo screening: It's OK to want healthy children even if the world falls apart
"It’s hard to imagine now just how much money the label industry made from reissuing its back catalog on $18.98 list price compact discs."

He forgot to mention they didn't even try to improve the quality of those reissues either. The labels put disclaimers on every one of those CD's that said all the original music was recorded on analog equipment so the "reproduction" may not be perfect.

I still vividly remember replacing my old U2 tapes (War, October, Boy) with their CD's and then being disgusted to find they sounded worse than my tapes did.
Couldn't download the official Windows 11 from the MS website, no matter which VPN or country or server I tried. They know them all by now. ALL. Ain't hard, of course, since all VPNs are mostly hosted at 4, 5, maybe 6 data-centers which belong to large companies. Which names are known to the ones who either deals with them or simply pays attention.
I still think (from limited testing with german->french and vice-versa) that DeepL gives better results than gpt4.
I understand that the request happens in the background by the MUA at the user's express consent, and the unsubscribe is not allowed to send back any ui/html/whatever to present to the user, but the RFC is missing any information about how a response ought to be handled, HTTP Status code wise? Retry if 400/500? Give user any affirmative or negative response that it succeeded or failed?
They used to be $20 at Borders in the early 00s, so they got more expensive in nominal terms for a while. I remember the early days of the iTunes store, buying whole albums for $10 felt like a great deal.
Agreed that this topic requires more investigation but convenient answers. Occam's razor still applies though.

There are cultures where

> control, structure, and surveillance

have not been neglected the way they have been neglected in the western culture. So it would be interesting to check if youth mental issues did rise in such cultures too.

Put bluntly: Do taliban kids have the same mental issues as kids which were risen in an environment without

> control, structure, and surveillance
OpenWRT is remarkable in how many architectures it supports, with both ARM and RISC-V available. This just happens to be one board and it uses ARM, but it could easily be moved to an official RISC-V one when available with enough support to meet their demand.

P.S. you don’t get to start calling things “legacy” just because you would prefer something else. ARM is clearly at a scale right now where that’s the sweet spot for cost/performance/availability right now.
Yeah, but that gets expensive real quick.

A rule of thumb is 10% cheese, 90% whey. So it takes a lot of milk to make say 1kg of cheese. And if you're waiting a year 1kg gets eaten pretty quickly.

The size of your fridge (and the cost of running it) dictates the size of your pipeline.

If an error is discovered, and that error was consistent through the pipeline, that's an expensive error. (Its all usually edible, but if you're trying to make say cheddar and it's not cheddar, then you have a lot of something else...)

At my local cheese shop there might be 10 varieties of cheddar. I can eat all of them but 1 or 2 are my personal favourites. Making something that matches one of those would take decades of experimenting.

Turns out, I like -eating- cheese, more than I like -making- it.
Was surprised to see this has existed for quite some time already. News to me.
Is git-ssh a typo? I can't find what you mean.
I'm old enough that I wasn't raised from birth with a digital dog collar.
"To begin with, the threat is empty: open source LLMs are already out in the wild, and a large number of people know how to build them."

Right, but if we make all training on copyrighted works illegal (right now, it arguably qualifies as "fair use"), we also would likely make open source LLMs illegal. Perhaps there could be a fair use exception for OSS LLMs?
March/April to October or November or so in my first run :-)
Nope. Appears to be IP matching.
We've got to make glucoboy '24 where levels are generated from your own CGM history... a flappy bird clone could work.
Having a point to miss would be great news for WebAssembly.
Thank you for your attention, I am very pleased to see this!

Additional links of DreamShell project:

Website: http://www.dc-swat.ru
Forum: http://www.dc-swat.ru/forum/
Discord: https://discord.gg/UrvKwwU
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/SWAT-DC/videos
I'll do a take home when you pay me my consulting rate to do it. Not interested in any company that isn't even going to take an hour of engineering time to give me a technical screen.
> if you cant fix them your going to be paying that tax everyday of your life.

You have calculated cost of learning? For me apart from very basic things like oil/water change, Learning anything else would have ROI over decades if not more.
Like all analogies, it's not perfect if you analyze it too literally. Hiring companies absolutely do ask about the "species of wood" though. I got some questions this week about how much I've worked with a specific product line of generic ARM CPUs, as if that matters.
Well that's interesting. I see 2 possible outcomes, which aren't mutually exclusive:

1. They ship an excellent device. I mean, if they ship what they're describing, I'd buy it.

2. The commercial side of things corrupts and ruins the FOSS+community side of the project (see: CyanogenMod).

Hope the first one happens and the second one doesn't.
Most of these tech platforms are stuck in 2017, despite being 2024.

Twitch and all of these other platforms have competitors eating their lunch, but they're paralyzed and unable to do anything about it because of they made a deal with the censorship devil. It's also been implemented for too long to reverse course and allow boobs, as they cannot risk upsetting their few remaining skittish advertisers.

Rather than weathering the storm with their endless supply of capital, most of the tech platforms caved to idealogical pressure and implemented algorithmic moderation systems and ideologically motivated content policies starting in 2017. The result has been alienating the undercurrent that really drives traffic to their platforms. It's ridiculous that most creators view getting banned as a rite of passage and indicator of future success on upcoming platforms like X, TikTok, and Rumble, but here we are.

I would feel bad, but these stagnant tech companies really have nobody to blame but themselves. They're ideologically captured to such a degree they don't see what's happening, and if you explain it, they'll deny it rather than entertain the idea.
Never heard of burrito before, but mozzarella is quick so easy to make, so this looks like a fun one to do.

I expect, like most quick cheeses, it's all about the texture, not the flavour?
one thing that's important to understand is that your experience is very different from someone that already has crypto, and earns crypto. for you, you have to go buy crypto first, and you won't do that. for someone that already has an inventory of crypto, its just get cash as needed.

for them its just crypto -> USD which is very fast. for me, in the US as a US citizen, that is 2 minutes up to $25,000. from a personal crypto wallet, to the exchange, to my bank or brokerage account. beyond $25,000 it is 15 minutes to 2 hours via domestic wire transfer.

so one likely unreported aspect of crypto is that it likely has reduced international wire transfers, and cross border transfers that are prone to error and erroneous reviews and holdups

for about a decade now I have paid people in other countries in crypto. and been paid in crypto from some revenue sources. and we both liquidated as domestic transfers in our local countries. specifically because we didn't want to bother with international bank issues and time delays.

even hedge fund and private equity fund administrators that are more competitive allow in-kind investment of new limited partners in crypto, for many years now

the other thing thats important to understand is that there is a growing group that doesn't want "money they can spend" because they are liquid. they can buy goods, services, invest, day trade, passive income all in crypto within the crypto ecosystem. and for other things they can get the cash when they need it, or simply use a debit card that is custodying their crypto and representing it as the local fiat currency

but truthfully, going from USD -> crypto is fast too. if you're a US citizen you just need to use wire transfers to the exchange. SEPA region can also do same day settlement.

your user story and assumptions are really antiquated and don't represent what's been happening for at least 10 years now. if it doesn't apply to you then thats fine and move on
>By Rock, it seems they mean guitars

Yeah, so? It's not rock if there's no guitars, just like you can't have classical music without an orchestra (with strings, etc.), you can't have big band without trumpets, etc.

>Tastes change. Rock became one of many genres. Case closed.

Strangely, though, rock remains highly popular in other places like Japan and Europe. It's only America where people are all listening to hip-hop all the time.
Relevant recent HN post: "Blot turns a folder into a website"[1]

I haven't used it, but seems in line with these goals.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38809145
I think that arc largely peaked in the 1980s and 1990s with stranger danger and the satanic panic nonsense. Helicopter parents and people calling social services on unattended kids was already a meme by the 90s.
Unity is doing 25% layoff. Some other company laid off all 200 employees.

What’s going on suddenly? Did the holiday earnings sucked for tech? Is it new tax laws?
Tesla (and now Cruise) have given AVs a bad name, while Waymo has just quietly sat in the background actually doing things properly.

I've ridden in both a Cruise and a Waymo AV, and it's like night and day, IMO.
How are they counting the 5,000/day? Per sender email? IP?
Nice, that’s a great answer. I agree that service to people and animals who are truly in need is a great calling. I wish I realized it a lot earlier in my life.
TBH, the Photos app on Macs is just as bad at this. Especially if you have a LARGE album.

I'll give you exactly the use case, and exactly why that is:

I decided I didn't want to pay for the family 1tb icloud plan anymore because 90% of it was being used up by my brother taking silly pictures and videos all the time. So I had him get an external SSD and set him up with the Photos app to download to it.

~900gb of images and videos. It took OVER. A. MONTH. to download. The whole time the photos app was being very cagey about when it would bother to download. To an M1 iMac. With an 500mbit fiber connection and connected via ethernet.

I think they do that on purpose to discourage people from quitting icloud. They want to keep you dependent on their cloud storage and they REALLY don't want you taking your files back.

I fucking hate icloud. I hate the way apple uses dark patterns and is so naggy about having an icloud membership when using an iPhone. I hate their crappy cloud syncing software too.

I ended up back on icloud later because, well, reasons... but I moved my own photo/video syncing over to onedrive. Now let's not get ahead of ourselves - one drive is a piece of crap too. But at least it's consistent on all platforms. And it's cheap as fuck.
Yes. In fact, I am continually confused by how as soon as developers see the word "error" they forget how to write software. They can be perfectly competent developers when handling any other type, but as soon as "error" shows up on the screen all bets are off. It is bizarre.

Developers as a rule also seem to act strange if you suggest that they made an error. Perhaps the word "error" is triggering in some deep-seated emotional way? I wonder if, in software, we called errors "pineapples" instead if it would avoid triggering such emotions, allowing one to reason about errors in the same rational way they do all other values?
Good lord, where are interviews like that? Is it a FAANG thing?
> a legacy (ARM) SoC.

That is not what that word means. There will be more new ARM CPUs shipped next year than RISC-V CPUs. It is actively developed and improved. And this trend of people calling existing ISAs "legacy" when they're not is really annoying.
Very off-topic, but there's something very odd on that page. There's these meta tags:

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Looks like a link to a really sleazy ad, but the name of the product is put into metadata seemingly to improve its SEO.
You would still need a couple backups, standard plug in heaters and some kind of wood stove or furnace.
I agree that a certain barrier to entry is a good thing because it means you have to be invested in it. However, setting up your own server and managing a DNS is a far cry from Geocities. Creating a resilient indie web is different from making an interesting indie web
Show HN: I made a tool to find your Ethical Framework with 16 trolley problems
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/UserProv...
Few deny that a drinking age is necessary. We also need a smart phone age. It's quite obvious that many teens are addicted to their phones and the mostly useless content they consume there.
Used it and can't actually recommend it. RLS policies slows down even simplest queries 1000x times sometimes, and postgres' current EXPLAIN ANALYZE isn't helping much. Testing app on it is still a pain. Default migration engine is oneway. Backed in database backups are close to useless. I mean, I managed to solve a lot of those issues for myself, but it still felt like I'm reinventing bicycles instead of doing actual work, and I still had a subpar experience.
Just arrived in the mail today, in fact. I'm turning into a bit of a fan of his stuff:

https://bookshop.org/search?keywords=michael+w.+lucas
Yeah, most functions seem similar. But I'm talking about a blogging system rather than a link aggregator.