skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now that the Supreme Court has put this issue to rest by refusing to weigh in, will the appellate court now take that until the district court to figure out those kind of details?

Or will everything stand as it is at the moment with figuring out specific details that Apple must abide by that haven’t already been listed up to future lawsuits to determine?
Weapons of Math Destruction?
It is. I'm not an App store developer for a reason. There is no way that you can get me to carry water for Apple or Google by putting them in between the users of my work and me. Ditto Microsoft.

And I'm perfectly ok with App store developers doing what they are doing and making lots of money. But there is a price tag and they either must be ok with that or like me they'd opt-out.

So I've been 'striking' for as long as I've had App ideas and things that I could have fielded as an App but ended up just putting on the web. I don't need to convince anybody.
This makes sense. Despite being neither generic or a tangent, this factually correct statement about an issue that people consider when moving between states in the US is just too spicy of a meatball and therefore should not be discussed in this thread about people moving to this specific state.

Edit: Obviously, taxes apply everywhere on earth and therefore are also a generic topic, so the even-handed approach of shutting down tax chat and healthcare chat is appreciated.
Philip K Dick when he writes about paying the door to open is getting pretty close.
What happened to your friendship?
I'm a huge fan of the Nix shebang, and we now have a variant of it for the new CLI. Feedback on it would be appreciated.
"If this is actually an emergency, the only feasible option at the moment is nuclear power. If anybody is talking about anything other than nuclear power, I question their motivations."

Seems close enough
> What do you think is more likely? People wouldn’t buy iPhones or people would find an alternative to Instagram?

It is an interesting question that I would love an answer beyond a hunch.

I would think a larger percentage would stay on iPhone and look for an insta alternative, compared to the percentage who might move on to a different phone for insta.

But what would those numbers look like? Any case studies or similar changes? Maybe in game consoles?
baller move for stripe would be to discount the 30%, get all IAP traffic, and then stop paying
I spent most of my career working with rsqrt haha. And had my fair share of non-754 architectures too!

Every 754 architecture (including SSE) I've worked on has an accurate sqrt().

I'm assuming you're talking about with "fast math" enabled? In which case all bets are off anyway!
So anytime I am browsing around Google Maps, I find bogus businesses and fake locations. It is not uncommon for cottage industries to register themselves at the address of a USPS station, for example. Or something like a hairdresser to use her home address. Sometimes, web-only businesses will just register the center of an intersection somewhere seemingly random, hoping nobody will notice, I suppose.

Google is totally responsive to reports about this fakery and they usually publish my suggestions within 0-24 hours. Since Maps is already crowdsourced, they like to get this information from real users and refine what they've got, because it typically just operates on a heapin' helpin' of trusting strangers.
I don’t think he was ever deluding himself. This was always the end goal. The fact that people fell for the lies, well, everyone in Silicon Valley eventually learns not to trust anybody whose title is CEO. The lesson is usually painful. But memorable.
See https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#downvo...
The site explains the three parts of PID's very well.

On one hand I like PID controllers. It's a reusable concept which you can apply to a loot of stuff. On the other hand, in my experience it can be very tricky and cumbersome to tweak them.

In the given example, a PID makes perfect sense. There's a single, static target location you need to approach. Adjust velocity with a PID and you're done.

But what if the target location is not static? Imagine that the character needs to move to your mouse pointer? Do PID's still hold up? How do you handle the I and D term then?

It gets even trickier if you move to 3D. You maybe say, hmm, let's use a rigidbody this time instead of a kinematic body for the player character and use PID's to adjust forces to steer velocity and rotation.

But I never found a good way to do that, because in those other cases the error depends on the goal you need to reach, and if the goal constantly changes, I and D are kinda useless...
Show HN: Custom GPT for Creating Forms, Checklists and Workflows
You can downvote comments after accruing a certain amount of karma (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html)
The last line in the comment was a little petty but I don’t think I’d describe it as a Molotov cocktail. It sucks that we’ve ended up in this situation but Texas is an objectively more risky place to live if you are in the 50% of the population that has a uterus.
This is a reminder that "we want to support bursts" is much more common thing than "we want a higher ratelimit". Often multiple levels of bursts are reasonable (e.g. support 10 requests per minute, but only 100 requests per day; support 10 requests per user, but only 100 requests across all users).

There are several ways to track history with just a couple variables (or, if you do have the history, but only accessing a couple of variables); the key observation is that you usually don't have to be exact, only put a bound on it.

For history approximations in general, one thing I'm generally fond of is using an exponential moving average (often with λ=1/8 so it can be done with shifts `ema -= ema>>3; ema += datum>>3` and it's obvious overflow can't happen). You do have to be careful that you aren't getting hyperbolic behavior though; I'm not sure I would use this for a rate limiter in particular.
Speedup Megatron-LM from 10% to 30% with Zero Bubble Pipeline Parallelism
Why do you think these books are interesting?
This seems like a decent thread to ask: how do you all throttle UDP traffic? We are doing some WebRTC work and would like to easily do this, but it seems like the only effective way to do it is with a dedicated hardware device or through your router. I was disappointed to find out that most network limiters only throttle TCP traffic.
>There's literally no choice but to sign the things - regardless of terms - if you want your users to have software that runs.

This gets to be a real nightmare in large organizations with multiple Apple Dev Portal admins, some of which may not even be authorized to sign legal documents on behalf of the company.
Music searching was work but music recommendation was second to only older YouTube.

Both of those platforms steered users in such a nuanced and strange way which platforms like Spotify and Apple Music couldn’t capture.
The most famous Epic game is (or was until this legal battle) played on iOS more than on any other platform, that's in Epic's own complaint. So who built iOS? Why so many people use it? How come they are willing to pay for games instead of pirating them?

Looks like whoever developed iOS and all the hardware it runs on and the ecosystem that makes it appealing for rich users is actually providing Epic a ton of value and profit, but Epic doesn't want to pay for it. I wonder who's greedy here

(Also it's insane how we just accept that Epic with its massive profits and margins is the one who wants to get a discount from Apple, if anything they should be charged double what small business single person devs pay.)
Once side loading finalizes (couple of years?) the predatory 27-30% fee will come down really fast. F Apple for this monopoly bs. From the anti-repair shenanigans to their locked down ecosystem. It’s all designed to pump as much money from the consumer AND developers inside the wall.
>"It sounds like how American conservatives discuss cities they've never been to."

I live in Toronto since 92 and I can compare back then and now so don't assume things.
> I went through some comments, and they give the worst advices. Those are not advices, those just lost opportunities. Or simply regrets. L

OP wasn’t asking for “advice”, but for things you would do if you could start over, so why the were you expecting? It’s also pretty rich deriding comments that actually answer the post while dumping a fucking essay of your life story which doesn’t even respond to the stated question.
Not what I heard (the truck sucks):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6WDq0V5oBg
Ask HN: Are Custom GPTs Replacing Plugins?
I've already started a conversation on the Open AI Developer Forum (https://community.openai.com/t/are-custom-gpts-replacing-plugins/590048), but I was wondering if anyone here might have wondered the same. Also, a lot of people who were never getting their invite to develop & publish a plugin haven't really realized they can just do the same plus more with Custom GPTs now.
> The appellate court then affirmed the same and even clarified more clearly that it’s completely fine because it primarily is the mechanic Apple gets payment for the use of their IP and, secondly, their services that encompass more than just payment processing.

This completely ignores Apple's market power though. Because what stops Apple from making this 40% or 50%? 30% is a fair price? Look what they did to Spotify with Apple Music. They absolutely abused their ownership of the platform to stifle a competitor.

Also, things change when you effectively become a utility. Apple shouldn't be able to hide behind their "aww shucks, we need the 30% to keep the lights on" routine.
> some years ago

sweet summer child... Russia is fighting an expansionary offensive war and is full throttle instigating division in the entire Western mediascape.

Here's a small taste from a few months ago: https://www.npr.org/2023/08/29/1196117574/meta-says-chinese-...
FTA:

"“I’m in the news business because I believe … we have an absolute responsibility to serve the public interest,” Smith told the Sun in an interview. “I think the paper can be hugely profitable and successful and serve a greater public interest over time.”

For some reason, I doubt his altruism and commitment to the truth.
Evan You, creator of Vue and Vite.

Really interesting guy. Good podcast here: https://corecursive.com/vue-with-evan-you/ and very, very much worth a listen.

His background isn't even software engineering but he has come to spearhead (at least?) two very major projects that have shaped modern web development: Vue and Vite. Both Vue and Vite are notably "simple" and fast relative to their contemporaries.

Vue really stands out as one of the few, pure community driven front-end frameworks that has achieved major uptake (both React and Angular came from the commercial space).
Oaths and old documents mean almost nothing compared against human tribal instincts.

Asshole isn't some objective designation. A huge portion of military members support the current strong man vying for power. Always have, always will.
3M is spinning off their healthcare BU, selling off stake in Combi, etc.
> I think you mean car traffic

No; I mean that a car protects reliably in case of an accident. When on a bike, roller or on foot you are MUCH more likely to bleed or break bones. Bike-on-bike crashes can be fatal, even if there were zero cars or trucks around.

Living within 2 miles of work for the majority sounds just improbable to me without falling back on short-term renting (maybe even then). Outside urban centers- impossible.
And very much still alive: https://github.com/ianatha/bababasic/ and https://atha.io/blog/introducing-bababasic
If you don't like making $6.71, the alternative is to make $0 by not selling it on the Apple app store.
A friend has reminded me that with Linux, it can be as basic as piping tar between the two machines using nc. (There's probably a friendly frontend to this somewhere that will allow the machines to mount each other's filesystems with fuse, though...)
I’m not sure the percentage matters.

Obviously if they tried to charge 85% no one would actually be a developer and the App Store would crater. So they have a very strong incentive not to.

But from a legal point of view is there a reason why one number would be legal but another wouldn’t?

The only thing I can think of is a contract being determined to be unconscionable. Until they hit whatever threshold that is it seems like it’s completely up to them to set the terms at whatever they think enough developers will accept.
Outside of facebook... who would be collecting that data in a systematic manner?
wild guess here, but it's probably helping with drainage? much like you'd use perlite, moss, coir, etc. improving nutrient availability not by decomposition, but by facilitating movement of the nutrients
Certain games are better as a subscription, those that are multiplayer with game connection features. Others shouldn't be, like single player story lines.

I don't play anything enough to subscribe. Not going to happen.
> "which is already low", "such a small benefit"

This is subjective. In my opinion, even 10%~ is massive. Performance matters and this would be a step backwards.
Danny Dunn was great. Also, The Magical Flight to the Mushroom Planet and its first sequel. Read those to tatters. And the "Alvin" books (Alvin's Secret Code, The Marvelous Inventions of Alvin Fernald).

Then I discovered Robert Heinlein's juveniles...

Our little town's library had a checked-out-book limit of six, I think. One time I just couldn't decide, and went to the counter with a stack of ten books, prepared to make a case. Instead, the librarian just smiled and stamped them all. I think I made her day.
The Lazy Tyranny of the Wait Calculation
> Really some kind of oldschool advice from a granddad. So much wrong with this.
>
> Let's start with the simple one, we don't know that the OP is a guy interested in women.

Hey genius, it's advice to myself if I could hypothetically start over.

Are we reading the same thread? "What would you do if you could start over?"
If all you have is a hammer then everything looks like a nail.

If you spend billions on your military, you're gonna be looking for ways to solve problems with it.
They sell you ad space on full Disney movies (re)uploaded by random people who are not affiliated with Disney though: https://www.google.com/search?q=finding+nemo+full+movie

I can also get Disney coloring book pages directly from Google's cache on Google images: https://www.google.com/search?q=disney+princess+coloring+boo...

Authors Guild, Inc. v. Google, Inc. determined that Google's wholesale scanning and uploading of books is allowed under the first sale doctrine because the University of Michigan library they borrowed the books to scan from paid for them (or a donor paid for them, at some point). Here's a book of bedtime stories available in its entirety: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Picnics_in_the_Wood_and...
BBC BASIC raytracer in 432 characters
There are also 1 GiB pages in long mode, but support depends on the processor and CPUID's output. Almost all modern x86 processors in the last several years should have it, I think.
That’s just the commission on the sale itself. It doesn’t count FBA or advertising fees which in practical terms are often necessary. After all is said and done, Amazon is usually taking much more than 9%.
This is feeling somewhat inevitable.

There are a nonzero number of highly-intelligent individuals capable of developing weapons tech AND AI/ML who are also 100% Dead Certain nothing could go wrong because they're super clever and would never fuck up and create skynet.

... I don't think it'll be a skynet situation, though. Less global domination and more "Someone activated the autonomous systems and [lost control, had control subverted, entered the wrong command, deployed ansible wrong, uploaded CCID ssh key to github], and now we have lingering munitions and angry turrets everywhere". What we have brewing is what happens when you upgrade "Minefield" on the tech tree too far.
Order of magnitude in casual conversation typically means 10x. I don't think 2x vs 10x qualifies as pedantic.
It's rampant. Locksmiths, appliance repairs, flowers, you name it. Unfortunately, I have not had similar luck in reporting obviously fake businesses.

https://youtu.be/bvlzZnhZhrc
The talk was:

>"The CIA probably realizes it doesn't need to fund rebel groups [1] or use local journalists/clergy [2] to instigate a regime change these days"

To me it sounds like instigating regime changes all over the places. The US is famous for doing so and then leaving behind multiple victims.
Relevant: “Antique BeOS Content by Scot Hacker (1996–2001)” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32708579 https://birdhouse.org/beos/byte/
Women and healthcare are welcome to be discussed abstractly in their own silos, but mixing “women” up with the idea of “tech workers” in the context of moving to Texas is going to piss off a group of people that are less of a hassle to dang if he deferentially capitulates to their preferences in advance.
> No, we just have a different perspective. USA is the bully, not the rest of the world.

There is no question that the US has acted like a bully in Southern America, but you ignore that other countries have acted the same way in other parts of the world[1], and with far more disastrous results[2].

If you want to dig into records, then the ground under my feet has seen a Russian invasion roughly every 50 years for as long as written records go, that is, every generation has had to resist a Russian attack and suffer the consequences. The war in Ukraine is like a replay of so many wars before, from its artificial justifications to the incredible violence against victims.

When kids study history in school, one of the sources they have to analyze and put into context is a letter from a Russian nobleman to the czar after another successful conquest. In the letter, he boasts that when he was travelling from one city to another on the way back to Russia, he didn't see a single living person left. They had successfully burned everything down and killed everyone.

Centuries have passed, but nothing has changed. Russians use the same tactic in Ukraine, massive artillery walls slowly crawling forward, reducing entire cities to total rubble as if they had been hit with a nuclear bomb[3].

Pax Americana is currently the only thing preventing me and hundreds of millions of other Europeans from sharing the same fate. Russians do not dare to invade as long as they don't know if Americans would press the nuclear button or not. My freedom to live in peace and unharmed, speak my language and practice my culture, directly depends on the missile silos tucked away somewhere between the cornfields of Iowa. How about that for a perspective?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Russia

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circassian_genocide

[3] https://www.rferl.org/a/maryinka-aerial-shattered-landscape/...
The difference is not between digital media and hard copies, but rather having the full ownership of the software so you can have a backup install and play at any point in the future (backwards compatibility aside). This also has to do with modding, which is a big part of many games and it's how lots of genres have been created from Battle Royale to MOBA (i.e. DOTA).

Games as a service can work with some genres but overall it's just large AAA companies running out of creative resources.
That means they either know how to identify an experienced developer, or they don’t but think they do.
Was walking around Silver Lake last year and thought to myself, where did all the hipsters go? Used to be hipster central.
I don't understand this at all. How is this an improvement? This is effectively an in-app purchase just done through the browser instead. There seems to be no difference.
Omicron should've been called SARS-CoV-3 and the disease - COVID-22! Pirola, accordingly, SARS-CoV-4 and COVID-23!
As an end user this isn’t great. One of the great things about Apple subscriptions is how easy it is to see them all in one place and to cancel them.
But imagine buying your food directly from a farm and having to pay a 27% cut to the grocery store anyway.
Read the ruling and arguments on both sides here:

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66962142/united-states-...
I know a few vendors who sell on Amazon. With advertising, they end up paying close to 60% of the selling price to Amazon.
Their bread and butter is advertising, not search
> Apple argued from the very beginning that the 30% was its fee for running the App Store, marketing the apps, and storing and delivering the app bundles.

The cost of operating an App Store and providing distribution is relatively negligible. Several Linux distros have app stores, and package management and distribution systems that are as good or superior than Apple’s.

The annual fee that Apple charges developers alone should more than cover the cost of App Store. It is not something that costs tens of billions of dollars.
Did they? All the subs I used to frequent are ghost houses now. They bit off their nose to spite their face.
I mean, for some value of "caused", yes...

I would say the cause is India's clown-show of a judicial blocking process, and the illegal streaming sites were just the trigger.
Exactly! People hide high prices, not those at par with market!
I've been experimenting with code-llama extensively on my laptop, and from my experience, it seems that these models are still in their early stages. I primarily utilize them through a Web UI, where they can successfully refactor code given an existing snippet. However, it's worth noting that they cannot currently analyze entire codebases or packages, refining them based on the most suitable solutions using the most appropriate algorithms. While these models offer assistance to some extent, there is room for improvement in their ability to handle more complex and comprehensive coding scenarios.
Great, OpenAI now part of the USA war machine. Great for humanity as a whole I’d say!!!
Yep, this is the naive rhetoric the GP was talking about. It’s totally okay for Houthis to lob missiles at American boats with American citizens on it and doing anything but letting them do so is “imperialism.”
It should be noted the ‘left’ also wants to use this in order to drive their own worldviews. They are both sides of the same coin after all.
I believe my comment provides a good answer to a question. I pointed a several period of the times where I was thinking that I should had mad a different turn. Only left I believe the important stuff.
I'd rather ignore it since tourist visas are short. The alternative is to add rules to stress some people out, and have others willingly ignore them as it gets you into the idiotic space of having a rule that's not really enforced or worse, not even enforceable in a reasonable way.
Chances are there might not be many viable insurance companies in that scenario.
Don’t know. His orb/ubs thing is so naive. It looks like he truly believes in SV’s ability to “make the world a better place”.
Not if you don't talk to them about it. I don't have an Apple device; are developers talking to their users about this?