skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It has standardized on iMessage, but you can't do anything with it as a developer. It might as well not exist for you.

Hey now, there are dozens of developers making apps for iMessage. Dozens!!

All kidding aside, there is actually quite some stuff you can do with iMessage, but other than the occasional runaway hit like Game Pigeon, not many devs are interested in pouring resources into it.
> I suspect that subjecting people indoors to an amount of UV radiation comparable with a day outside might be OK

And I suspect this is very incorrect. UV is beneficial at low quantities, but has serious negative impacts on human health at high quantities.[1] Your mention of using it in common areas (where individuals would only be for a few minutes a day) seems much more reasonable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet#Human_health-relat...
Eh well, that’s an angle for standing I suppose, but it’s a bit hard to argue a harm against a service they don’t actually offer. It’s especially hard to argue it before a Judge that already ruled that even under California’s anti-steering law, Apple has a right to collect their commission (that 12 or 27% after the 3 percentage point discount payment processing discount). Apple’s argument would then also be easy: Epic can offer payment processing if they want, that’s between developers and Epic, but Apple is still going to collect their commission no matter what deal Epic does with iPhone developers.
In all seriousness - has anyone noticed a lack of performance on their phone recently?
That's kind of the idea behind deferred compensation, usually in the form of stock grants (or stock options). But people are often critical of that as well, because it prioritizes boosting the stock price above all else, and of course when all the deferred comp does eventually get paid out, people get quite upset hearing about a 9-digit payday, even if it was the sum of a decade's withheld earnings.
It's not ok to post cruel things to HN, and I've banned the account. (I wouldn't do this if the account had a normal posting history, but previous comments have also been unsubstantive.)

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Note this one:

"Be kind."

It's first on the list for a reason.
That’s an uncommon historical term for axe. A Google image search will show it doesn’t resemble the picture. There are more common characters with pinyin starting with y, like 月 for “moon”.
And toss in some filtration just in case.
lol, just moved to SF

this is the lore I needed
was Microsoft a monopoly in 1998?
I can't speak to food, but 50% markup is a good rule of thumb for manufactured goods in department stores. It's a big markup, but that markup pays for distribution to individual stores, storage costs, payment processing, and all the labor to stock and provide retail assistance. In addition, the stores also need to make a profit with whatever is left over.
The question with Apple is how much of that markup actually goes to labor and distribution and how much is just for profit.
Stadia was amazing.
Can this be run on Mac M1?
Most employees can screw around websurfing or shopping just as well at work as at home. They mostly do it because they are bored. Give them interesting, meaningful work and they will be productive.
It also makes it no better than what PDF has offered for 25+ years.
At least with Cassandra, there are cell-level timestamps which are very useful for doing data migrations while active writes are still incoming.

You can simply mirror the writes to both systems, and then migrate the old data underneath. As long as the data transfer preserves the cell level timestamps, the read path resolves any differences and compaction will eventually clean up any duplicates. (and sstable loads will have the timestamps)

Dynamodb does NOT have cell level timestamps, I believe they have row level timestamps. How it is doing globally replicated data and mutation merges: I have no idea. It seemed like a handwave when they were announcing it about two or three years ago.
It felt like a depression. But only of the core development. Organisation and ecosystem are evolving. The layoffs by Mozilla in 2020 might play a role here. On the other hand, when withoutboats started writing about async again recently, it felt like the sun rises again.
Those references should just be hyperlinks to an anchor. You could then use the browser to go backwards and forwards between the destination and the source.
"[N]o snooping by Apple..."

What does this mean, exactly. Is there some Apple competitor that does snooping. (There are certainly third parties doing some snooping on Apple users.)

Is Apple not planning to ramp up its advertising services business. According to its SEC filings it is dead set on advertising.

How does one prove that Apple does not use data from customers for its commercial gain. The company is ridiculously secretive and non-transparent.

Apple is acting as an intermediary to peoples' use of their computers, for communication or otherwise, storing vast amounts of personal data on Apple's computers instead of the owner's. It's no different than any other so-called "tech" company in that regard. The company _wants_ more customer data.

And the "no premature end of life" is untrue IME. Perhaps there is some creative definition of "premature" I am not aware of. The owner decides what is and is not premature. I have older Apple hardware that is crippled thanks to "updates".

Maybe the term "entitlement" is taken from Apple's announcement. That's the term Apple used to describe what developers might be eligible to receive from Apple.
That is devastating. Beyond words. As a parent had stop reading because I could imagine that happening to my son. Eventually I went back and continued.

I hope they eventually find some comfort and some peace…
Thanks for the feedback on the site!

This isn’t a marketing push so much as an observation. Some company will fill this niche at some point. There is no reason to disclose your SSN to a car dealership if you can share a shielded, verifiable record of your credit history to them.

You can look through my comment history — I am not here to sell a product.
Offline isn’t a priority at the moment but can be done in the future by packaging with Electron.

Typst is great but there are a few key differences:

- full CSS support, allowing for more customizability and familiar styling without a learning curve

- less tailored towards academic use-cases are more towards personal/business use-cases like resumes, invoices, reports. Also adding a template gallery in the near future.

- has a templating engine and API baked in

- can use JS packages and ecosystem (ex. icon sets, fonts, etc.)
Some do it to get a break. Doing 40 hours of straight “creative” work is impossible.
My issue with the book is that it asks because to pretend that they are nice.
The PDF spec supports annotations. Handwritten, text, images, etc.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240118033237/https://www.nytim...

https://archive.ph/izkhv
I have always liked the cantata, "Iphigenia in Brooklyn". Particularly Schickele's comment as he introduces the piece, "Exactly where he got his text we do not know; most Greek scholars that I've talked to seem unaware that Iphigenia ever was in Brooklyn." And later, "Now of course PDQ Bach was not the only composer to use double reeds, but as far as I know he is the only one ever to do so without the use of oboes and bassoons."
The term 'paint pot' is perhaps confusing, the drawing represents the end of a 'tube of paint' out of which yellow paint has been squeezed. The 'y' word is indeed 'yellow'.
Another way to look at it is that you could buy a new $170 phone every two years and it would still be cheaper than an S24.
https://archive.ph/1waXO
Special thanks to cannibalXxx for sharing this today!
I’m still on my 2012 W520 as daily driver. Runs Ubuntu 22.04. It’s a tank - it just won’t die. And if something does wear it, it’s easy to repair or replace.

I’m actually thinking of purchasing a X220 or X220T as a smaller, more portable model of the same era. To me, this era of thinkpad is the pinnacle of laptop design. Unsurpassed. Robust and practical.
I'd love to see the 222nm LEDs finding their way into sterilization products, but unfortunately that's still a long ways off. They're really only useful for sensing applications at this point (although that's still a very important use case).

More here: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4Zjm8ycWhg6PzFwnF/far-uvc-li...
And brands pay for shelf space.

Why would a brand pay extra to be on a shelf in a supermarket? Isn't the store already making a markup? Does the store have a monopoly on food sales?

Everyone carries on about "monopoly" and thinks Apple pricing will plummet.

OK, explain Valve and Steam. With many stores, shouldn't the price be a fraction?

Here's a comment from July '23:

It's outrageous that Valve takes a 30% cut from every game sale on Steam without providing much in return.

We don't get marketing, PR, or advertising unless our game is already popular. If you're an unknown developer, you'll never get discovered.
Support? Hardly. Their mandatory return policy, while beneficial for customers, can actually harm shorter games. Aside from facilitating product returns, they provide minimal assistance in other areas.

Valve doesn't offer funding or act as a traditional publisher, providing guidance or support during development. Steam is the sole platform for distribution, limiting our reach and revenue potential.

They offer no help with QA or testing. Even with their new alpha/beta system, the burden of reviewing any data falls on developers. Valve's main contribution is distribution, but the process is frustratingly outdated.

We need to demand better from Valve: more value for their cut or a reduction in percentage.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1408ng4/valves_30_...

Or, there's some value people aren't thinking about, and "the market [of developers] will bear it"...

“The value of a large network like Steam has many benefits that are contributed to and shared by all the participants. Finding the right balance to reflect those contributions is a tricky but important factor in a well-functioning network,” the company wrote in a statement on the Steam Community page. “It’s always been apparent that successful games and their large audiences have a material impact on those network effects so making sure Steam recognizes and continues to be an attractive platform for those games is an important goal for all participants in the network.”

https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/30/18120577/valve-steam-gam...
I can't get into the specifics, but settling out of court doesn't necessarily mean that the defendant pay anything. Consider that by both sides agreeing to drop the suit, alternative negotiations could be made.

I'll let you read between the lines. The plaintiff wants to sue a highly visible competitor over a patent. The competitor -- the defendant -- makes motions to begin the process of invalidating the plaintiff's patent based on very strong evidence. Suddenly, the case is settled out of court.
My parents are still using my old 2012 MacBook Pro. Installing an SSD and 16GB of memory a few years ago revitalised it. The last time I used it when visiting them I could see no reason to retire it, but I assume it might lose out on security updates soon.
I'm not sure how much non-technical books are discussed here, but it would be nice to be able to sort/filter by fiction, nonfiction, and/or genre.

I guess it might end up being quite similar to the NYT or other such lists, but it would be interesting if it were different.
Ah, slightly different use case then. I mainly use it to note down random ideas/do math in (where I'd like the benefits of handwriting without dealing with paper), so not doing much annotation and I don't use the convert to text feature so I didn't even notice that being removed.
caps is already remapped to ctrl
And why users love the subscription management in Apple app store.
One set of owners will see a hospital as a community good, there to provide quality health care first and return a reasonable long-term sustainable profit.

Another set of owners sees it as a short-term exercise in maximising profit at the expense of everything else.

Both may technically be "private equity". But when Private Equity is mentioned as a category, its typically the latter.

Of course comparing hospital results is hard, and no doubt you can cherry-pick metrics, and find anecdotes to support any position. So the story is whatever will get the most clicks.

But it's not hard to postulate, or support the idea, that when owners maximise for profit, health care comes second. That is the capitalism way.

Of course not all hospital owners are bad. A hospital may change hands multiple times via good owners. Sooner or later though an owner comes along with the goal of extracting the maximum value out of thd business, in the shortest possible time, regardless of the long-term consequences. Value likely accumulated over decades. At which point destruction is inevitable.
Probably designing ever more power SoCs, OS, accumulating wealthy users for app developers, etc.
I went to college with Lars. He's a brilliant, wonderful person. Allow me to be one more person who doesn't know what to say. I hope that's ok.
Ruy Texeira's The Emerging Democratic Majority in the early lights is the source of this. Was a very talked about book, The Atlantic did a big feature, there's a retrospective on it every few years.

There's also the original argument, and what I often refer to as "vulgar Emerging Democratic Majortarianism" which is how lefty people in real life will generally phrase it- basically a team sport "yay immigrants will vote for us"(Or "boo immigrants won't vote for us" for righties).

Interestingly, Ruy Texeira is fully off of the Emerging Democratic Majority train, and thinks the Democrats are driving off a cliff driving away working class voters now.
Apple has become the 1970s IBM.
I wonder if it would be possible to have a small, battery powered device that could gently blow sterile air back at you for a couple of hours. Or maybe something you could wear around your neck?
and yet, there are some obvious things on my scribe that they haven't done:

- no way to disable auto-rotate

- can only write on PDFs from send-to-kindle, but that's limited to I think 50MB so textbooks etc. are not an option

- only works with audible audiobooks, no normal m4b supported

i believe the web browser is also still crazy cut down. i like the device but they're evidently understaffed on software
>Give them interesting, meaningful work and they will be productive.

How much meaningful and interesting work do you think exists in this world?

Every time this topic gets brought up, someone will say "Just give people interesting work, pay them well, don't micromanage them!" as if these jobs grow on trees. And even if these jobs do exist, they're usually reserved for workers who are extremely motivated and capable - in other words, they earned those rights. (except the zero interest covid era).
Now if they only allowed you to unlock the bootloader. Samsung makes great hardware* but it's disappointing see locked down and bloated devices that only gets security updates for a few years IF you pay full price when they come out.

Long support periods are great, with that fixed it probably brings Samsung phones to Apple levels of quality, but I've enjoyed using my phone like a real computer instead of a locked down smart device that's disposable after a few (or 5-7) years.

Maybe I'm not the target audience of these manufacturers, but man has having a phone that let's me use it like a tiny ARM desktop (pixel) been really nice.

* At least they did, no experience with recent hardware. Last time I bought a Samsung device was a tablet in 2016. It's still a great device, but I don't use it a lot given it ran out of support ages ago despite still being a great priece of hardware.
I know it's old at this point and doesn't use the fancy new tech, but Mycroft's Mimic 3 is still pretty impressive and is small enough to fit comfortably and generate speech in real time on a raspberry pi [0]. Some of their voices are better than others, but the best of them are definitely equal to the examples of WhisperSpeech given here.

[0] https://mycroft.ai/mimic-3/
It's not worthwhile for Netflix. They already have people signing up through the website because that's the only way you can sign up now. So they're not giving a cut to Apple at all. If anyone looks up "why can't you sign up for Netflix on the iPhone", they'll find out about Apple's policies. If Netflix pulled their app, they'd be hurting users more than anything, and they'd look like the greedy company who tried to bully Apple. This issue already isn't one-sided; just look at the Reddit or MacRumors comments on any article about sideloading or alternative payment methods. There are a whole lot of Apple apologists who completely support what Apple is doing. So ultimately, the only way this will be fixed is if the government cracks down on them, and even then, it might need to be every individual government.
Beautiful hardware
It’s a good idea. You’ll want to support GitHub flavoured markdown as an input, if you don’t already. Be sure to allow an inline <style> so documents can still be customised using code.

I’d also like to have a mode — the default? — where all rendering was being done locally. There are documents I write that just can’t be stored on a third party computer.

Overleaf, to some extent, has shown the appeal for letting people focus on writing 100% of the time and running software 0% of the time. I’d prefer to use your tool though to write a quick letter to go in a parcel as a packing slip.

By the way: on mobile, your animated headline causes the page to jump up and down.
FWIW, it didn’t seem particularly advanced — an overlay to capture/transmit the PIN, and an overlay to capture/transmit the magstripe. (Always tap, folks!)
Can we fix the title of this to the actual title of the blog per HN guidelines? The article isn't just about or even focused on Iceberg.
break it to him that in life nothing is easy like he thinks it is

then do your best to help
but make it clear he choose i difficult path
You want to elaborate on what you feel boards do then? I feel they help set strategy and oversee management, but hopefully in a hands-off way where they let the CEO do their thing unless numbers aren't being met. It's a little awkward since Meta's structure prevents Zuck from being removed so the board isn't able to vote him out. So if they're merely acting as strategic advisors, and if Zuck is still gung-ho on metaverse, then yes absolutely I want John on the board.
Rollout of the X-59 Quesst Supersonic Plane – Official NASA Broadcast [video]
> he lost their trust

What does this mean? Yes, I understand the English, but I mean deeper: What are you trying to say? And, why does it matter?

Who cares about "losing the trust of the users". What matters is that 99% of "professional workers" don't have a choice what mail/chat/calendar/word processor they use. Their IT department decided for them. And, if they do have a choice, what do they use instead?

> Oh well. Sundar is why we can't have nice things.

Most of Google is now mature products. Run it like a business -- maximize profits. It seems logical to me.
I've found this type of thinking across the spectrum. All I can do is ignore it and realize a lot of people are simply "morally lucky" and didn't come to their conclusions via any principled reasoning...

It's easiest to spot when a new issue comes up that adds a cost to their self-professed values (eg, generative AI).
For sexting your mistress, obviously.
Once printed, hyperlinks stop working.

If we want a format that prints terribly, but is great onscreen, and contains links, we already have that in HTML. If we want permanence and exact printing, we already have that in PDF.
Has never been an issue in 4 years of ownership. We can leave at a moments notice any time and get across the country or adjoining countries if we want or need to.
The far UV spectrum being talked about here is not the same as conventional UVC germicidal lamps, nor the same as UVA/B from the sun. UV is only dangerous because at UVC wavelengths it penetrates cell nucleii and damages DNA.

The interesting thing about far UV though is that while it will still damage DNA, it can't penetrate regular cells - it's blocked by the cell membrane/proteins. But viral particles don't have a cell membrane or a nucleus, so they have no protection against it.

Basically, far UV can't damage cells, but can damage viruses.
Why is this downvoted? It seems relevant to the conversation.
Irresponsible headline. Nobody who has done an hour of research in the last decade expects that flavor of anonymity on the blockchain.
In addition to disks, IBM direct-access storage options available in the middle sixties included a variety of magnetic drum devices and the short-lived, tape-based Data Cell Drive[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_2321_Data_Cell
Uh...should this have hard crashed a linux laptop running recent kernel and chrome?

EDIT: Not going back there, someone please let me know which Web* technology this is based on so I can disable it, it's outside my risk profile.
In sum, we conclude that:

1. Google's unauthorized digitizing of copyright-protected works, creation of a search functionality, and display of snippets from those works are non-infringing fair uses. The purpose of the copying is highly transformative, the public display of text is limited, and the revelations do not provide a significant market substitute for the protected aspects of the originals. Google's commercial nature and profit motivation do not justify denial of fair use.

2. Google's provision of digitized copies to the libraries that supplied the books, on the understanding that the libraries will use the copies in a manner consistent with the copyright law, also does not constitute infringement.
Nor, on this record, is Google a contributory infringer.

Focus on the protected aspects of the originals. This would be their expressions. Unless an LLM is reproducing the exact expression and not merely the idea, then there is no market substitute. The market substitute for a Picasso painting is the facsimile of one of Picasso's actual paintings, not just some other cubist artwork.
Whisper solves it, that’s its purpose.
Howard Stern alone had 20
million listeners in 2006, which was more than 1 in 20 Americans. The biggest 4 US PM drive time talk programs anime are about 40 million, just going from Wikipedia.

Long form audio content isn’t a niche market all up. I do think it is a market that lends itself to a high degree of fragmentation because of low production and distribution cost, which makes it hard to monetize.
Gatun Lake
the interaction time between the UV and virus particles is too short to deactivate them.
layoffs are mostly done.

so the media is starting to lay the foundation for offshoring of jobs to remote, cheaper locations.
I'm baffled by this figure as well. I've had a couple of jobs at startups that used Carta to manage employee options and the only thing they seemed to do was to send out an email every quarter saying "congratulation you now have this many options vested." They also seemed to have a blog they referenced in some of the emails. So I found the following passage somewhat grandiose:

>"And Carta’s platform had such potential to do good: arming workers with the tools to navigate thorny and unfamiliar tax laws, guiding companies to ensure equal and equitable pay, helping families create and preserve generational wealth."

My impression was that they were kind of the ultimate SV ZIRP creation - a startup that managed other startups (probably) mostly worthless options.
And, there is no way that YouTube could survive on its own. The last mile bandwidth problem required a Google-sized company to help them solve it. This is usually overlooked.