skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was Anker or Bose — just now I searched “Bose noise-cancelling headphones,” and on the results screen there’s first a carousel of a bunch of JBL headphones, followed by two results that are some brands called Raycon and Tozo.

If I squint I can sort of understand sponsored products on actual product-detail pages or on the homepage, but in search on a shopping site it feels really user-hostile — you’re searching because you’re looking for something specific, not browsing.
From Vexing Uncertainty to Intellectual Humility
You can with some luck ask ChatGPT to translate between them, and also even between Norwegian spoken dialects. It's not perfect, but when I tested it a while back it even did reasonably well at emulating/translating to sociolects like the left wing/radical 1970s urban one mentioned in the article.

But the difference in common use has steadily diminished. When I grew up in the 1970s and 1980s many of the most conservative forms of Bokmål were already falling out of favour, and my teachers were constantly pushing for us to use the forms matching our dialects, which for most people (I grew up near Oslo) meant a greater overlap with Nynorsk even then.

So while "Samnorsk" isn't being talked about much any more, in practice the gap is steadily diminishing.

What I think is quite remarkable is that this gradual merging has seen Bokmål, partially due to politics, change at least as much as Nynorsk. (For two languages so close together, language has been extremely political in Norway, though "peak language politics" was probably reached in the 1970s.)

Many "Danishisms" like "reverse numerals" ("fem og tredve" - "five and thirty" - instead of "trettifem" - "thirty five") that were widespread still in my childhood are now firmly old-fashioned, for example.
I'm already comfortable not owning Ubisoft games. Sounds like Ubisoft will need to get comfortable with a lot of people not owning their games.
I think apple still gets to collect its 30% in this situation. The ruling was that apps can direct to other payment options but apple can still collect the 30% fee. Only way around the fee I see is to have just a general subscription service and tell users to sign up on the website, giving plausible deniability about where the signup came from.
I'm kinda confused so I asked bing

>The difference between self employed and employed is that123:

> Self-employed workers work for themselves as sole proprietors or independent contractors, while employees work for an organization under a contract of service.

> Self-employed workers have more control over their work, but also more risks and responsibilities, while employees have more stability and benefits, but also more restrictions and obligations.

> Self-employed workers pay their own taxes and expenses, while employees have their taxes withheld and their benefits provided by their employer.

Apple also withholds VAT for the "employee".

Don't get me wrong, legally they are not employees. The interesting thing is how much it is like employment. You work for a single company, you have to do as told, they can fire you at any moment. When that happens you wont be able to sell to your customers because they are not your customers.
> If the US had lower military spending, other countries wouldn't feel the need to be aggressive.

Russia and China and North Korea would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

I think it's fair to say there are two types of countries: those with territorial ambitions and those without.

Military power in the hands of the former is terrifying.
China's population records second straight annual decline
When developing there's tension between multiple things, and the first that's let go is performance because velocity is pushed too hard, particularly by management since their goals are rarely performance (unless the project is truly performance-critical (still second to correctness unless it's NoSQL stuff).

Even if people say they value performance it's always below velocity since they assume that it can be simply fixed later, and only if it's a big issue. To make things worse, hardware keeps getting better anyway, even if it's at a slower pace.
> What's so bad about speaking Russian?

Forcing Russian language and culture upon conquered nations was and remains one of the main methods of extermination of conquered peoples. There's even a word for it, Russification.

Your question is the same as asking what was so bad about "speaking English" in the context of American native population and European settlers. Most of modern-day Russia is a land conquered from natives the same way European settlers conquered the Americas and wiped out native population using a wide range of tools from direct massacres to forced cultural assimilation.

The question is culturally as insensitive and uneducated as asking a black person in the Americas what's so bad about working on a plantation, or why they're not happy with sitting at the back of the bus - does it rock too much there or what's the problem?
Rats are like that though, they will eat each other over plentiful food sometimes as well.
The French government just rammed through raising the retirement age from 62 to 64. Macron cited the long term demographic and knock on economic risks of not doing it.

In an economically declining country that prioritizes social spending on pensions to the point of crowding out investment in the future, the young might just emigrate.
I believe there is also a nutrient capture/retention/release benefit from using biochar… it can keep beneficial compounds from washing away too quickly for a plant to make the most of it.

The biochar can be inert, while still providing a benefit.
> They're largely (leaving out goblins like Ben Gvir) convinced they have no intention of displacing all the Palestinians, let alone killing them all.

Some IDF soldiers made TikToks addressing Netanyahu, starting their intent to complete "Occupation, Expulsion, Settlement". There are dozens of them bragging about how many houses they are blowing up, while they do it with wired explosives. Right now, the last "functioning" hospital in Gaza is under attack, while Israeli youth make fun of "killing Palestines" (most of them can't even pronounce "Palestinian" apparently) in live video chats. Some dude on Israeli TV saying "I'll be honest, I don't care about the war crimes, I just want to see buildings destroyed, mooooore buildings" etc. and everyone laughs.

[edit: And the line that "there are no innocent people in Gaza" is still being repeated by all sorts of people, including military. Here's for example Lt. Col. Oren Schindler in a radio interview: "We need need to make sure that wherever the IDF meets Gaza, there is devastation. Nothing less, nothing more. Where Battalion 74 was - it happened. I can garuantee you that devastation, nothing less, in every place we were, there was only sand left, and houses on the ground. Because in every home, unfortunately I learned that in Gaza there is no innocence."

One might say this proves they don't want to kill innocent people, but Hamas forces them to, etc. but given the context and the actions, I'll just note that this is true about any atrocity. Look any of them up, from the most obvious to the most obscure ones, and you'll find someone painting the it as either a.) doing good or b.) doing bad because bad people forced them to or c.) doing bad for good reasons or a good goal that sanctifies the bad deeds. I doubt "genocide lawyers" would weigh such lip service much, if at all.]

Yes, there were also thousands of people in Israel chanting "Bibi, Bibi, you can't hide, you're committing genocide". But they sure are in the extreme minority.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/13/it-is-a-time-o...

> “Most Israelis don’t know much about Palestinians. They think they are terrorists, all of them, or vague images with no names, no faces, no family, no homes, no hopes,” Baruchin said. “What I am trying to do in my posts is present Palestinians as human beings.”

> Ten days after that Facebook message, he was fired from his teaching job in Petach Tikvah municipality. Less than a month later he was in a high-security jail, detained to give police more time to investigate critical views he had never tried to hide.
[dupe]

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39019876
> 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,

To this day it remains absolutely unbelievable to me that anyone would ever agree to this. I always have and always will tell Apple to shove their app store up their ass. Plenty of other ways to make a living in software.
> I think Apple's main mistake here was deciding that having a single set of rules and fee-schedules/commission/etc for everyone

On the other hand, non-equal fees ironically seem to be exactly what's made US courts decide in favor of Apple but against Google in two superficially quite similar cases regarding app store fees:

https://www.theverge.com/23994174/epic-google-trial-jury-ver...

I think the main mistake isn't the fixed percentage fee, but rather holding on to the golden goose that is an app store monopoly for too long.

Google has been providing sideloading since day one for example, and except for a few high-profile exceptions, people do genuinely seem to prefer the platform's native app store.

Apple always aims for total control and authority over everything: Their supply chain, the apps running on their systems, the devices allowed to interface with them – and while that obsession with keeping it as *their own platform
arguably is part of what makes their devices attractive, I think it won't keep working forever in this case.
Well, OP would get a good story and life experience, too.
Heh I suspected there could be no way this could not have been a dupe! :)
> Does the argument require us to believe the fee would still be 30% if iPhone had practically zero users? Or is that legally irrelevant assuming that they aren't found a monopoly?

While not zero users, the default fee has been set at 30% since the beginning of the App Store, long before Apple had the level of market dominance it has today.

This argues in favor of it being acceptable: developers were willing to accept that fee without monopoly pressure being applied, since nobody has successfully argued that Apple held a monopoly in 2008.
Apple does provide a lot of value with the App Store. But when I compare it to my business (saas), adding stripe + aws is about 12% of sales. I feel for my App Store brethren. It would be hard to accept 30%
Israel is just another country in the middle-east seeking to exploit cheap indian labour: Indian workers heading to Israel not eligible for protections under government’s ‘e-migrate’ portal; must pay for their own travel, accommodation, insurance; Ministries pass the buck on workers’ safety in conflict zone - Source: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/no-protections-for-mi... .

That Israel wants to hire labourers from a distant country than hire Palestinians, to further impoverish them, is controversial in India:

- Export of Indian workers to Israel has no legality, say major trade unions - https://theleaflet.in/export-of-indian-workers-to-israel-has...

- No ‘export of workers’ to Israel, say trade unions in India - https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/international/indian-tra...

- Jobs in Israel: Labour Activists, Trade Unions Raise Concerns Over No Protections for Indian Workers - https://thewire.in/government/jobs-in-israel-labour-activist...
No, it would only be if you made the purchase via clicking on a specific link from within the iOS app, which Apple allows via a certain API, called an "External Purchase Link".

So Apple's method of complying is:

- yes you can link to an external price, but you need to use our API (External Purchase Link) to do it, per our terms

- any purchases made via an External Purchase Link require Apple be paid the usual cut, per our terms

Seems to fairly clearly violate the spirit of the last ruling, but not the letter of it. I dislike Apple's behavior here, but it's actually kinda genius from a "malicious compliance" perspective. Doing the above is going to be more annoying and you will still owe them a cut, so everyone will just keep doing IAP via Apple if their implementation is allowed to stand.
I wasn't aware the spec allowed for nullptr to not be 0, that's fascinating! In that case you could probably use 0xFFFFFFFF as long as you limit the size of the WASM heap to below 4GB, then. You'd risk having addresses wrap-around though.
It's maybe also that US population tends to underestimate how other people are smart (US-centrism really does exist).

Chinese people are very smart, and there is technically more of them, so I am not surprised that they are releasing amazing open models.

China has no problems to push their own models for free, and this is a real strategic advantage.

These models are aligned with Chinese values, but well, American models are aligned with American beliefs and values as well, right ?
You know Flint isn’t the only place in the US with lead pipes and the US isn’t the only industrialized county with lead pipes…

Moreover well water in some places is good in others not; even before industrialization.
Of course they don’t “want” pain, death and suffering, because nobody will admit that to himself.

Sometimes the ends just justify the means. Like how it’s fine to kill 100k people in some desert on the other side of the world to potentially prevent a few deaths on your side.
I think your bit at the end is the most important.

ANY communication is better than no communication "everything is fine, it must be you" is the worst feeling in these cases. Especially if your business is reliant on said service and you can't figure out why you are borked (eg the github ones).
Everyone is jumping to conclusions. The DoD is huge and does a lot of boring things. There is a very good chance this won’t be useful for anything physical weapon related, especially when you consider their offerings.
Analysing the Twitter User Exodus to Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads
The EU and European countries in general have in total provided more aid to Ukraine than the US, it's just divided across multiple countries, not that it's a competition. I'm not sure a military budget 200 billion vs 600 billion is going to make such huge a difference if the goal of your military is actually defence instead of force projection, it's not like they're giving Ukraine the fancy pants expensive stuff and both the US and Europe probably both ran out of (or significantly depleted at least) their stocks of regular old dumb artillery ammunition, rocket launchers, etc, and that stuff is what's used and actually useful.
I was referring to video games consoles as well as android. They’re estimated to take around 30%.

There’s no world in which Nintendo and apple are colluding to set rates.
The constitution is clear that copyright is not "just;" it is a concession for the sole purpose of promoting "the Progress of Science and useful Arts," whose "unnatural restriction of natural rights must be carefully balanced."

The fact that "research, technological advancement, and construction would proceed much more quickly" without copyright is exactly why abolishing copyright is the just and correct thing to do.
I don't think the Vision Pro streams anything over Wi-Fi though, it's all processed onboard. I remember that the demo showed it connecting to a MacBook for sharing the display but that's probably over Bluetooth.
All you can argue for is that Apple is the most popular iOS vendor by a large margin and hence a monopoly in the iOS market.

You still can't say Apple is a monopoly by being the second most popular in the smartphone OS market...
Start investing in stocks early. The initial years of my career, most of my investment went into real estate, which have provided nowhere near the kind of returns that I've got from stocks in the last decade or so.
>They CHOOSE to do this. If there were a free and open market for app stores, competitors would pop up, who would similarly host, distribute, market, and "review" apps. And they would do it for a whole lot less than 30% and 99USD/year.

Would they? There are plenty of storefronts that sell games on Windows, yet Steam is the dominant one and charges, you guessed it, $100 and 30% of gross revenue. Epic charges 12 percent and loses money on every transaction. It might actually cost somewhere between 12 and 30 percent to make it a profitable and sustainable venture.
You'd need them to be in geosynchronous orbits unless you plan on powering the planet instead of the United States. And orbits that always face the sun are polar orbits, so you'd need a polar geosynchronous orbit. This would likely mean that the distance from the ground stations is way too large for meaningful power transfer. It would also require the whole installation to be somewhat movable. to correct its orbit as it slips over time because the installation is so large that different parts of it will be in slightly different orbits!
Principles always follow business interests.
Have you tried contacting Kagi support to help debug the issue?
I would have avoided the hype train and intellectual amazement for computers.

Treating startup ideas as an over-achieving school project, wasted a lot of time.

Getting a clear handle on what kinds of problems I can make computers solve and what is unrealistic theory, would have saved a lot of time and angst.

Because my ideas for programs, are orthogonal to the direction of the computing industry.

Therefore it would have been better if I went into finance.
Dang I'm pretty disappointed by this comment and the fact that you flagged the parent comment. I agree "Thanks Apple!" doesn't add anything to the comment, but the rest of the comment (while touching on a divisive issue) is an important consideration for female tech workers (and male tech workers with wives/daughters/etc).
Losing the right to bodily autonomy is just as important to consider as potential tradeoffs regarding taxes. Yes, abortion restrictions are a contentious issue, but thats because they have material impacts on women's lives. I understand you dont want a flamewar but it seems wrong to dismiss comments raising legitimate concerns rather than inappropriate or flame-prone comments made in response.
So much for the "advantage" of using cloud service...

This example is another argument to demand that all parts of the website to be hosted by the website, not everywhere in the cloud.
I don't think you understand the extent of the variety of differences in spoken Norwegian. This is geographic in nature as most of the west coast is rock walls of varying height perpendicular to their emergence from the sea. This has led to isolated communities that continue to be isolated in various regards even to this day.

Of the very little Norwegian that I speak, I do so in the Vestlandet dialect, meaning I would pronounce "I am going to church" (Nynorsk: "Eg skal i kyrkja", bokmal: "Jeg skal i kirken") as "eg", "skaw" "e" "kerken", whereas in Oslo they would say "yai" "skaw" "e" "shirken". And this doesn't cover Bergensk, whatever is going on in Stavanger, Haugesund, et al!

FWIW, my mother is from Austevoll, my American sister married someone from Austevoll and moved to Bergen and technically Norwegian was my first language, at least before the age of three.

I can barely understand anyone from Eastern Norway! It sounds like sing-songy Swedish to me. I can follow most of a conversation in the Vestlandet dialect. A few ($15 at the grocers) beers in and I'll even try to speak it myself!
That doesn’t seem relevant to the question of whether Apple’s fees are in line with fees on other platforms such as on video game consoles.

Plausibly iTunes 30% was chosen because it met the same goal: high enough to earn a good amount, low enough music companies found it compelling.
What's the benefit of a military ai that's more aligned to the military's goals?

If you're against ai military, wouldn't you want the alignment to be poor?
A "bad faith" claim essentially admits Apple is in fact in compliance.

It's the weakest objection you can have, and typically would only be sufficient to get relief in very, very specific circumstances where the unfairness could be proven (as intended). But this case involves broad policies for millions of developers, and it's perfectly compliant with permitting other payment processors.

So: there's almost no chance it would be "shot down" on those grounds.
He's not saying anything new or surprising here. It's not like you own your Steam games.
What's wrong with a country having its population getting lower in an overpopulated continent? South Korea is a highly educated and developed country and most families are very well happy with a single child.

With the advancement of technology, robotics, AI and so on I don't see how manpower is going to be absolutely necessary in the future either.

If the problem is retirement and how to finance it, don't worry, alternative ways exist to fix that, fearmongering isn't necessary.

No, you are not a "racial supremacist" if your goal is to keep social peace and prevent the society you live in to crumble with millions of individuals who don't share the same values as you. Death to the merchants.
It's a loss of even more human interaction. And there are a lot more useless office jobs.
Musk on space solar (2m42s): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeUcc8sDAi0
Interns for the Crimson Permanent Assurance...

If you know you know, if you dont: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSO9OFJNMBA
It's the same reason as why it's so slow: the shadow DOM. The shadow DOM consumes 80% of that disk space. 49% is dedicated to box-shadow alone.
Not open source but Sleep as Android is a great app that integrates with many different devices to track your sleep. They also have their own devices that can help improve tracking.
Price fixing doesn’t require active coordination. It can be tacit/implicit.
I think the Pentagon cooperation with Boeing is the real cause of Boeing's rot, so this is a partnership that is bad for openAI's engineering and science over a longer term.

The incentives switch from making good and useful stuff to getting more military contracts
I wanted to understand why the sun positions in the morning and evening did not agree with my mental model of sun position.

Specifically I live south of the tropic of Capricorn, and yet the sun rises and sets South of my position.

Turns out that although the sun is always north of me -at midday- , because of the angle of inclination of the earth, for gold the year it rises and sets south of me.

This means that my solar panels should lie flat, not point north, during the summer half of the year. I adjusted them, and am seeing improved generation during the morning and evening.
Unless you make over $1M/year, the commission for small business is 15%.
I avoid self checkout if possible. If I’m paying for the groceries, why should I also do the work of scanning and bagging everything? I’ll let someone else handle it for me.

And don’t try to pass it off as a “convenience” for the customer. It was never about that. I would call it “automating” a job away but that would be too generous. No, it’s just asking the customer to do a job for free and selling it as more convenient. No thanks.