skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ward’s reaction to the scandal was all too familiar: first, attempting to downplay the concerns; then, publicly attacking the person reporting them; then, rushing out a “thought leadership” puff piece that raised more questions than it answered; before finally pulling a 180 and announcing that the company would exit the liquidity business entirely…without ever explaining what had actually gone wrong, or how Carta would change its operating procedures moving forward.

This was frighteningly familiar to read. I grew up the child of a gaslighting narcissist father and this is textbook:

1. Downplay or deny the concerns. Accuse the person pushing back of overreacting. Insist on speaking directly yo the accuser. Do not do this in writing. Deniability is paramount.

2. Attack the person. Shake their own faith in themselves if you can, but at least discredit them to anyone else who might find out about their complaint. Any perceived weakness is fair game.

3. Go on at length defending yourself, as publicly as possible. Ignore the fact that you make no sense. Sense-making is not your job. Volume is.

4. If you still have not won, overreact in the extreme. Misconstrue every conversation. Take full advantage of your earlier refusal to commit anything to writing. Use this to emphasize your original downplaying of the issue. Further discredit the person by making it seem as though this were not just the appropriate response to their complaint, but the only response possible.

5. Never, ever, under any circumstances, explain your overreaction.

I can smell this pattern from a mile away. It's incredibly hard not to become defensive against it and reply from your own agitation.

The only way to win is not to play. Do not engage the narcissist directly. There is no rationality there. You absolutely cannot win at their game. Under no circumstance should you agree to communicate in a way that is not recorded, but better yet, do not communicate at all.

Respond only to inquiries by sane people. Your refusal to engage the narcissist on their terms will make them hopping mad. Let them be mad. Sane people will see it. Even then, respond only in recorded ways.

No good comes from a leader like this.
Apple can’t legally stop you from doing whatever you want with your phone.

However I don’t see any reason Apple should be compelled to help you in using it with your own software.
People don’t give Eric enough credit as CEO
Of course, it's a yak shaving tool!
IMHO a lot of googlers (especially old timers) believe they were special, here is a news flash. You weren't, Google didn't come with a lot of products. And that's why where Google is right now.
because femcels in large don't exist. Being single doesn't make them a femcel.
It already did go wrong because it happened prior to AI.
I mean, obsidian has support for audio and video out of the box, you can paste a screenshot into the note, and this all gets synced or published like normal

I wrote some generator to scrape a mandarin learning site to download all the audio files, sentences, etc into a markdown table for obsidian. My biggest complaint is that the "master vocab sheet" I made with hundreds (thousands?) Of words+sentences lags like hell, especially on android.

I'm also a fan of the excalidraw plugin, but it could be a bit more user friendly

Tl;Dr those features exist but IDK if their UX suffices for you
"before fast charging" not "before charging".

Tow/push the cars to a place where Level 1 or Level 2 charging is available and they'll be fine to get going if someone has allowed the battery to be totally depleted in the cold.
Someone will start asking "What about a non-denominational AI partner?"

And that is a valid question.
If by political instability you mean voting for the part with a big C that will only worsen your position and increase hate and discord among Canadians, then please find your "political instability" elsewhere. Ditto if you think "protesting" means harassing and attacking your fellow Canadians.

If you think "political instability" means voting for people who will actually fight for the poor, like the NDP, well, that's not going to cause much instability I'm afraid. But it will help you.
We're going have to wait a bit longer for the long term effects of this book on babies, but I remain hopeful
> The “source code” for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it.

-- gplv3

These AI/ML models are interesting in that the weights are derived from something else (training set), but if you're modifying them you don't need that. Lots of "how to do fine-tuning" tutorials floating around, and they don't need access to the original training set.
Not questioning your statement, but I think the article was about something very different. Can't really put a finger on it, not the author did. I think it is very deep rabbit hole about humans as a whole.
I've done this like 3 times now. I'm guessing ublock origin only blocks that element on one site? The problem is that EVERY site, even the ones nobody would ever bother logging into, plasters LOGIN WITH GOOGLE!!!!!!!!1 on the screen when I'm trying to read some stupid blog post.
I was looking at video on training a custom voice with Piper, following a tutorial at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_we_jma220, and noticed how the datasets required metadata of the text for the source audio files. This training method by Collabora seems to automate that process and only requires an audio file for training.
Kind of - danger was bought by msft, then everyone left and joined Android/Google. I think their original plan more akin to those chinese all-in-one apps
I believe they exist. Peep /r/foreveralonewomen for a good example (that’s also public)
> More recently, Sony was caught deleting negative criticisms of the females Ghostbusters movie, except the ones that were blatantly sexist

Do you have a source for this? Who caught them and how were they caught?

I did see this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWROBiX1eSc) which only made the claim that it was being "widely reported" and then briefly showed a screenshot of this "article" at manlymovie.net (https://manlymovie.net/2016/03/sony-rigging-ghostbusters-com...) which has a scandalous headline but doesn't even make a claim that Sony was selectively keeping sexist comments up while removing all other criticism. The entire meat of the article looks to be a post from some internet rando called "MilesBennetDieSon" who just said they were removing negative reviews and "botting the comments section and replacing negative comments with good ones"

I don't doubt that Sony pushed the sexism angle to drum up controversy but what do we really have to show they were leaving up sexist comments while suppressing legitimate criticisms. Looking at the comments from around the time of release today, there are accusations that sony was removing negative comments, but there also appears to be many which are negative and also not sexist in nature.
The relevant quote is below. She's not explicitly granting them that permission, she's saying that it would already be within their rights to make that the rule for participating in the App Store:

> As discussed in the findings of facts, IAP is the method by which Apple collects its licensing fee from developers for the use of Apple’s intellectual property. Even in the absence of IAP, Apple could still charge a commission on developers. It would simply be more difficult for Apple to collect that commission.

> In such a hypothetical world, developers could potentially avoid the commission while benefitting from Apple's innovation and intellectual property free of charge. The Court presumes that in such circumstances that Apple may rely on imposing and utilizing a contractual right to audit developers annual accounting to ensure compliance with its commissions, among other methods. Of course, any alternatives to IAP (including the foregoing) would seemingly impose both increased monetary and time costs to both Apple and the developers.

https://casetext.com/case/epic-games-inc-v-apple-inc-2
Some places turn these things off. At target I never got "unexpected item in bagging area" or those weight check problems.
Strong disagree. For 90% of engineers (i.e. robots), it's a 100% worth it read
correct link -
https://gizmodo.com/the-self-checkout-nightmare-may-finally-...
Earlier today, this[1] was on the HN front page, a blog post on how Meta processes trillions of serverless functions. All that impressive tech exists for one single reason - massive surveillance at scale.

[1] https://read.engineerscodex.com/p/meta-xfaas-serverless-func...
I see it as closer to twilight or Taylor swift fandom than romance per se
Losing my son
They changed to the low fee in order to stop Unity, around 2015.
Also, he knows a lot of people. Not everyone who might be interested will feel like making direct contact.
Why did no one guess "yurt" (with smoke coming out the chimney)?

Pictures of yurts here, first one with a chimney: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yurt
It spent a lot of time in Ohio and only has about 100k miles. We had it up on a lift the other day and the mechanic was amazed at how good the undercarriage was. My son sprayed the bottom with WD-40 which will hopefully protect it from road salt.

We are plugged in a bit to networks that bring cars up from down south, there is a place in Binghamton that sells police cars (and other cars) from southern Pennsylvania which is already a much better environment.
>Laying off randomly and not low performers

Low performers? By what metric? And your metric sucks, that's because a single metric is meaningless, even 10 metrics are useless.

Did you do over 200 CLs a year? 10000 LoC? 10-20 design docs? 10 product launches? CL comments, reviews, bug fixed, filed?

Sure you can identify outliers, but the baseline is not exactly very telling.

In my other companies layoffs were always random.
Can anyone provide a single case of where a private equity majority owned business thrived, expanded, or at least maintained market share for at least three years? It seems private equity focuses on extracting every bit of value from a business, as quickly as possible, and then walking away via asset divestiture and bankruptcy.
For any type of software you wanted to sell to the retail chains, you had to find a software distribution company, since the chains would not deal directly with you.

So you were paying one cut to the software distributor, and another cut to the retail chain.

Then there were costs things like creating and shipping physical inventory, swapping out the unsold inventory in the stores when you did a major version update, shared advertising costs, etc.

You definitely were not getting to keep anywhere near 70% of the price consumers paid for your product.
Yes, the like lights and such but will have no idea what a logic gate is.
Thank you for simplifying the "repair" process to long press. That's amazingly helpful for me to think about ways to create a minimum viable product.
That doesn’t really make sense statistically speaking
The reason podcasts are so great as a medium is that they have not yet been “platformified” and many still just distribute with RSS.

Do not enshittify podcasts.
I was surprised how well it works in a lot of ways on my laptop (Thinkpad E585 with an aftermarket Intel wireless card). I will agree with the slowness, and I have managed to make it freeze once or twice, and fail to suspend properly quite a few times.

But in terms of "the Wi-fi actually worked without pulling teeth" it was streets ahead of both FreeBSD and Debian.
IF his hearing problem is simple volume loss, and do get a professional audiologist to evaluate his hearing, then AirPods can help at considerably less cost.

Here are some articles on the matter.

https://www.ncoa.org/adviser/hearing-aids/airpods-hearing-ai...

https://www.forbes.com/health/hearing-aids/airpods-hearing-a...

https://www.techradar.com/how-to/how-to-use-your-apple-airpo...

If the problem is diagnosed to be complex, follow the doctor's advice. I can't speculate on how to evaluate/compare different prescription options that may be offered.
Ask HN: What's the best car without undesirable features?
I've been increasingly dismayed by the direction automakers have been going with vehicle design. They keep packing anti-features into their lineups that are hard to avoid. Do you know of any modern cars that don't have the following features?

1. Internet connectivity. If the car is connected, it's tracking me.

2. Remote anti-theft. If someone else can disable my car, I don't own it.

3. Subscription features. I want to own my car.

4. Touchscreens. They are a safety hazard.

There are some features I do want as well:

A: All wheel or 4wd. It snows where I live.

B: >= 30mpg or 250mi range if EV.
It does seem like the "shrinking" is confusing there. Probably should have been "The Podcast Industry Is Smaller Than Producers Thought"

It is possible that overall podcast listening is still up yoy. It is also possible that even if the top podcasts decline (which the article sorta hints at?) that it may just be because the market is now saturated with thousands of competitors that each take a very small slice.
Mine can't even do 200.
I'm still optimistic, but I wouldn't be completely gobsmacked if I was wrong. I would have argued 20 years ago Valve would have done more to lock in their market (I was kind of right, but they are much more clever with it and it doesn't impact consumers). I also would have argued 20 years ago that Sony would topple Nintendo in the portable market.

>Here's an example showing how they're just like any other company:

They aren't really too special on the consumer facing front, I agree. But I still assert they've been pretty goo on the dev facing front. I've heard very little bad about them on the dev end.
Actually, studies show that the Flynn effect seems to have been reverting in the last decades.
It strikes me that the mechanics of podcasts are so consistent and simple that it would be straightforward for podcast apps to implement truly privacy-preserving analytics. As an example, Apple could make available to podcast publishers numbers like “how many people actually listened to this episode”, instead of the current status quo of “how many people downloaded it” using server logs, which is obviously inaccurate as this episode makes clear. There’s no need for Apple to disclose or even collect anything identifying to make these numbers available. It’s just a big distributed SUM() operation.

Of course, once that was available, advertisers would next want attribution for who had listened to which ad segments, etc. and it would all be downhill from there.
The bolt that wasn't put in the plane was made in Malaysia?

Will the shipping company next be blamed for not shipping it in time for the plane to be delivered?

Perhaps the shipping company can be Malaysian too. They lose planes. Or pick another developing country. Blame them. Must be their fault.

But it's not Boeing's fault. A faulty supplier. Not us. We'll change supplier. Not the management's fault. We'll keep going on.
While more avoidable accidents happen. The number's small. Like the movie where an acceptable number of car accidents, of people dead, mean is re call's not necessary.

Boeing have decided there's an acceptable number of people that can die before fundamental changes happen in management. And that change in management will only happen after those people, those avoidable deaths, will be dead.

Is your next flight a Boeing?
I wouldn't worry about that too much. Can be used to overcome limits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jolt_(film)

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Apps outside official app store may force you to enable permissions it does not really need, refusing to work without it.

Apps in official store should work with the permissions approved by the store. The “should” is enforced by the store.
>Customers do NOT buy code.

>Customers buy a life transformation.

Selling react like this to hapless people is gross. This is 100% a grift.
I do recall when capistrano became a thing (it was called switch tower but had to change for trademark reasons if I recall). Prior to that, most folks working with Rails in production were using ant. I wouldn't be surprised if there were other ways as well back then, given it was early days.
Well done Marc! You're an inspiration because your story is just been awesome to watch on twitter!
How much of this is good faith, how much public backlash, and how much just not pushing out revolutionary new hardware every year due to the long awaited death of Moore's law.
It's nice to see Blindsight by Peter Watts on the list. Superb "hard sci-fi" book that includes a bibliography of real world publications that justify/motivate the flights of imagination.

The story is told backwards in time, which may take some getting used to, but it's a great read.
Thanks the insights. Not to over do self promotion, but aside from learning, the main reason I made KlongPy was to allow for optionality with the ecosystem. Use Klong for array operations and other libraries for standard stuff.
Correct me if I’m wrong but limiting my charging to 80% (and minimum to say 20%) can increase the charge cycles of a battery by about 5x. This exists on laptops (Thinkpads and Franeworks at least), phones should also offer it.
I mean, given a roughly 1:1 gender ratio that would be difficult to be entirely true. And I suspect if you speak with many women, you'll get some pretty strong pushback on this. More systematically, surveys consistently show equal levels of dissatisfaction with their dating lives between men and women.

For both men and women, it's actually relatively easy to find a partner that you wouldn't consider dating; finding an optimal partner is hard.
Yes, that's what the judge warned in the ruling. Epic got what they asked for on this point because they were technically correct on the merits, but both the judge and the appeals court were skeptical that demanding it would do anyone any good:

> IAP is the method by which Apple collects its licensing fee from developers for the use of Apple’s intellectual property. Even in the absence of IAP, Apple could still charge a commission on developers. It would simply be more difficult for Apple to collect that commission.

> In such a hypothetical world, developers could potentially avoid the commission while benefitting from Apple's innovation and intellectual property free of charge. The Court presumes that in such circumstances that Apple may rely on imposing and utilizing a contractual right to audit developers annual accounting to ensure compliance with its commissions, among other methods. Of course, any alternatives to IAP (including the foregoing) would seemingly impose both increased monetary and time costs to both Apple and the developers.

https://casetext.com/case/epic-games-inc-v-apple-inc-2
Because developers go where the users are. That's all that matters.

Epic had to pay developers, a lot, to bootstrap the Epic store so that there were games there that mattered. And even now, with a decent selection, most PC gamers still use Steam. Because all their games are on Steam already. And every game they care about is on Steam.

So Steam can charge 30% and Epic can charge 12% and nothing really changes.
Probably has to do with market power. For my money, none of these companies should be allowed to own a game marketplace. The distribution channels should be stand alone from the hardware and software producers.
What do you think about Dell? PE bought Dell.
Artisse is an AI-powered app that effortlessly transforms ordinary selfies into hyper-realistic masterpieces, allowing users to explore their creativity like never before. Artisse redefines photography, making it accessible and inspiring for all.

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Can this be related to the known decrease in IQ levels in the last decades?
> I honestly have no idea what you're talking about.

Well yes, that much is painfully obvious. Have a good one!
Not really, I think it's more the fact that Facebook use has dropped significantly.

Nowhere near as many people are using Facebook and therefore people are more accommodating and understanding of not using it.
In many expensive cities the median compensation is well below the poverty line
https://gamemaker.io is excellent (or at least was 10 years ago). It's not open source, but it has a free version, and is more beginner friendly than something like Unity or Godot.
Non-monogamy is a thing, especially since most 'dating' is ambiguous/casual now. Multiple women can share the same 'boyfriend'. Twice as many young men are single compared to young women.

Many young women these days don't realize their 'boyfriend' just sees them as an friends with benefits and is seeing multiple women simultaneously.

--

"Most young men are single. Most young women are not."

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/3868557-most-yo...

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/02/08/for-valen...
> How did you expect Samsung could fund SW dev costs to support 7 years of updates on the margins of a $170 phone while still turning a profit?

Release the source code and accept patches. Nobody even cares if you provide further updates at all if you release enough code or documentation to begin with that third parties can feasibly get up to date versions of stock Android running on it.
I’m not attempting to look at it in any direction. I was simply stating that Apple had indeed made that exact argument.
Well, Steve Jobs did buy Pixar from Lucas.
The "Yakety Axe" suggestion at the end got a cackle out of me. Excellent collaboration and writeup.
I use trello for "personal todo list". Shared with my wife, it helps to keep track of "house projects" we have in the work.
They do - Apple calls that “optimized charging” on iOS and macOS:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/108055
With that in mind, I should be able to run any operating system on an iPhone I bought. Apple should not be required to actively support this, put in extra work to document things or whatnot, but they should not be allowed to actively make things harder.

I should be able to run any OS on my Samsung TV that I bought. Samsung should support it with an SDK. They should provide warranty and support for me if the OS I chose to install destroyed the screen.

Do you see how silly the above statement is?
Where it is now? 300B revenue with 11% growth and 96B in earnings with 120B in cash. They are fine.
Is the goal to learn to program, or just get his idea working?

If programming, I would nix the idea of a 3d game, and get him to do the concept as a 2d game of some kind, eg a platformer, or top-down, in Scratch.

Scratch is quite limited (IMHO wrongly, and in the wrong ways), and you need all kinds of hacks to get some things to work, but sometimes they make things quite easy, for example, you can make a 'scrolling platformer/tilemap' type game without having to code a tilemap, by setting a huge background image, and scrolling it around.

Moving to 3d, there's either a huge jump in conceptual complexity (3d math, etc), and/or a load of learning the tool - eg unity, godot, roblox, etc, a lot of the work is operating the 'studio' and 3d design parts; actual programming can sometimes be just a small part of the project.

On the programming track, as a next step from Scratch, I would (and have!) choose lua/love2d, or even fennel/love2d. Love2d is a simple library/framework, and Lua is much simpler than python, and you will (are forced to) learn the basics, for example there's no built-in object-orientation, you make it yourself, so you learn how such systems actually work.
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