skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, again, that's not really the point that I was making. I'm talking about the foundational emotional need of connection, not everyone connects well in that manner, the quality of the response to the question doesn't always have a huge bearing on that.

Like, sure, sometimes it is good bonding, and sometimes it's not, it's very much context dependent.

If having the emotional security of not being in the hotseat answering questions from family members is necessary for an amount of emotional security on the OP's part, then I would consider that to be a good strategy. It might not be what you would do in that scenario, which is okay, as you and OP are different and might have different methods of addressing and meeting your respective emotional needs.
Breaking ESP32-V3/C3/C6 with Side Channel Attack
> This is why she (and millions like her) chose an iPhone. Are you seriously saying that Apple providing that as an option is anti-consumer?

There has to be a way for the physical owner to have full control over the device. It's not even a matter of inmediate benefit, but rather good consumer/human rights policy.

Much like the right to privacy, data control and GDPR, it didn't matter that many services relied on tracking-based ad revenue to survive, the user's right to privacy superseded that, and so the law was passed.

This is somewhat the same principle. The general "digital right" to control, or to at least have the same degree of control as the manufacturer (for cases where not even they can control it fully after it comes out of the factory), is becoming an increasingly important thing with every passing day. It's no longer only about taste, but about public policy.
And that time was 2009? Who with any morals would have worked at Google at any time since then?
If you worked at Google for any number of years, is there any reason to have tenuous savings?

Heck in any major city in the US, your average CRUD enterprise dev is probably making twice as much as the local median household income and should have savings
One crash on U.S. soil and Boeing will never be the same again.
Epic filled in August/September 2020. They changed the rate in November. The trial started 6 months later.

I don’t think it’s because of epic.
Paywalled so if the article already mentions this I wouldn't know, but just going off "scroll" the title, I wonder if this would pair well with Dasher as an input method to replace typing with a keyboard.
As a parent of a toddler, I can assure you anything with lights and buttons is for babies -- but perhaps for a different reason than you're imagining.
In Australia, it would be Wittenoom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittenoom,_Western_Australia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYAWxJ8a7RA
My bet is he's a trust fund kid larping.
Fora can be lost too. Such as the literal Spanish clone for Slashdot, Barrapunto. It was a hub of geeks/nerds/researches/science guys and who knows what.
In Australia, stores must show the final price including taxes. Vendors are not allowed to advertise one price and then charge another, higher one, at the checkout.

If Apple allowed this, then the inevitable result will be for every subscription purchase in-app to have the following blurb:

“Go to our web store for 30% off!”

What they most definitely, for sure, absolutely will not include is the rest of what that should say, which is: “Outside of the oversight of Apple, where we will be free to trick you, scam you, sell your info, and make it nigh impossible to unsubscribe.”

Speaking of which, that reminds me: I have to call my bank to reverse charges on what I thought of was a one time payment to a website that magically auto renews itself quarterly (not monthly, that I would notice more easily!). Oh, and that quarterly cadence means that Mastercard disputes won’t go through either because it’s too far in the past. Awesome.

I can’t wait for this to be the new normal for iPhone apps.
Don’t discount people’s capacity for self deception. We all want to be the hero of our own story.

In any event we are judged by the totality of our actions, not a subset of our beliefs. Hitler was a vegetarian who wanted to ban smoking.
The Self-Checkout Nightmare May Be Ending
Exactly, if your kid has an account, and she identified her mom, facebook will think her mom is your wife if at the same address. Those connections start to add up, add in they copied linkedin, your phone address books, email accounts, etc.
Gaza is not occupied by Israeli military.
After Israel withdrew from Gaza and ended its physical presence in Gaza, some still consider Israel as occupying Gaza due to control of airspace, etc. Some consider, that does it make it a settled fact. THere is disagreement on this from legal point of view its not a settled legal question.

Leaving the legal definition of occupation, here is the simple dictionary definition of occupation from wikipedia

Military occupation, also known as belligerent occupation or simply occupation, is the temporary military control by a ruling power over a territory that is outside of that power's sovereign territory.[1][2][3][4]

Israel did not have military control over Gaza, it is absurd to allege simultaneously that Israel had military control over Gaza and also allowed Hamas to build 500 miles of tunnels and attack itself on October 7th from the territory it militarily controled.

So no, by any sane definition of occupation, such as Wikipedia, Israel was not occupying Gaza before October 8th

These greenhouses you are referring to were run by Israeli settlers in Gaza. They were dismantled when the settlements were dismantled. Not by Israel, by Palestinians themselves
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna9331863

"You are arguing in alternative history, any argument rooted in alternative history is pure speculation."

Sorry, that is a weird analysis. By your logic we can't anticipate or logically analyze anything at all, it would all be speculation

The point of Israeli withdrawal was that if the occupation ends, maybe there is more chance for peace, that was the point of it and the opposite happened.
> but it's probably got a better chance of success than trying to fix the climate while we still fight wars between nations.

No, it won't. It will literally have less chance of success, because you're combining the low probability of the necessary long term political will and all of the financial and technological difficulties with the actual fleeting possibility of interplanetary travel and then the nigh nonexistent possibility of long-term colonization. All while we still fight wars between nations.

Just as the time to fix the climate was thirty years ago, the time to start our path towards becoming an interplanetary society was fifty or sixty years ago.

I like sci-fi as much as the next nerd but the cold, hard reality is we're stuck here with the consequences of our actions. Aliens aren't going to save us, God isn't going to save us, Elon Musk isn't going to save us. The climate collapse is unavoidable and inevitable, and no solution is going to stop it, but at least we can mitigate the damage (as futile as that might be) and plan for our survival, instead of wasting time imagining the next ten thousand years in a pressurized tube on Mars.
Let China have the Moon. USSR was first in space, USA was first on the Moon, and China can be second on the Moon.

China should be the first to Mars! That'd be quite a thing.
I was genuinely hoping that this would extend back to at least the 10 series. I'm still daily driving my S10+ that I got when it first came out with no major issues other than the eventual lack of updates. Battery life is still great, very minimal wear and tear. Only real complaint I have at this point is that, post TMobile-Sprint merger, signal strength is rather odd at work now.
Poor abused broker argument is invalid while Apple prevents side loading.

Yes consoles prevent side loading too, and it's exactly as wrong there too, though, I would also say there is an argument that a phone is in a different class of necessity than a game console, and could easily be argued to require different rules and consumer/society protections. A phone not only is a central and practically required part of general life today, companies like Apple and Google go further and perform many many actions to insinuate and embed and integrate and entangle their phone and their attached ecosystem into as many aspects of the users life as possible. They are not neutral, and the resulting user entrapment is not of their users own choice and creation, even though there are no guns to any heads. Apple and Google are absolutely equivalent to Phillip Morris when it comes to the users voluntarily consuming a product that is bad for them.

Point of all that is, phones are not game consoles, and not only would that be true naturally just because of how one is a necessary tool for conducting life, while the other is not, the valid culpability of the phone maker is even more compounded when you factor their own actions to amplify the users dependence on them. They actively seek it and do many different things to get it and strengthen it, from advertising to policy to tech functionality. You can't do that, and still be innocent of responsibility for it's effects.

The only valid thing I see is the argument that if Epic agree to the same deal from MS and Sony, meaning all the same significant factors not just the cost, then it will require some non-trivial argument to claim that Apple has harmed them.
Just finished The Three-Body Problem trilogy. What a saga. I finished the last book a month or two back and I still find myself randomly thinking about various ideas that I picked up in those books. If you're "serious" about sci-fi, I would say that you really do have to read those books as part of your "curriculum".
>your argument seems to be that Apple should be obliged to host, distribute, and market apps (including the burden of moderation and malware prevention) for free.

OR, you know, let me use an alternate store that has the policies I approve of.
Here's the actual piece over at The Markup which is very useful: https://themarkup.org/privacy/2024/01/17/each-facebook-user-...

Not suprised that their tracking pixel on websites and apps are the primary reason for this. They're not the only ones of course.
turn the wheel all the way to the left, press gas hard
Chrome/Chromium was developed for quite a while using Webkit. Chromium was created in 2008 and only after Google had already captured a third of the browser market share (according to Statista) did they fork it (April 2013).

The fact that basically all of the big companies (Microsoft, Google, Apple) use Webkit or Chromium shows that it's very difficult to build and maintain one successfully IMO. I think that Mozilla are essentially the only ones developing something that's somewhat competitive, not to mention that most smaller companies (e.g. Opera, Brave, Vivaldi, Island etc.) all use Chromium.

I'm not saying that it's easy to succeed with a product even after you've bought it, or started it from a fork (see less successful Chromium/Webkit forks). I'm just saying that it was not something built from the ground-up in Google. For example, v8 was and really changed a lot of things in the JavaScript world including Node, Deno etc.
Reverse Canary Mission and OpenAI [video]
Tal Broda and ChatGPT support the occupation. Just ask it.

Broda has already been added to the Reverse Canary Mission here:

https://www.reversecanarymission.org/
They are the terms the developers on the platform agreed to.
I'm not talking about taste, I'm talking about needs. A huge portion of the population wants to outsource their electronic security to someone else. They want a closed, but secure, ecosystem.

You're arguing that they don't know what's good for them, but I'm not seeing how that's a more pro-consumer stance than Apple's willingness to provide what customers want.
Since 7 years I hear that Samsung apps are "quite nice theses days".

I never found it to be true.

I owned a Samsung S7, it was atrocious, people said it was great, the bloatware was painful, the gesture to open the apps drawer was conflicted with the gesture to open Samsung pay (which didn't worked with my bank), you can't disable Samsung pay, if you switch the launcher, it's still there. Searching the settings took literally 10 seconds. It's default behavior is to stay on while charging, the whole screen have the lock screen burned in now.

My mom own a Samsung 10e, people also said "Samsung software isn't ad now", they rewrote their own clock app. It doesn't support having multiple timers?!? Worse, asking Google assistant to add a timer, reset the previous one. This is due to Samsung bloatware, the stock android clock doesn't have this issue.
I dont think the courts are bothered at all. Apple is complying with the ruling, and exercising the rights the court agreed it has.
>neither have any interest in starting or perpetuating the war

I don't think this is strictly true. Cutting Russia of from unimpeded Black Sea access and draining their resources in a (for America, cheap) proxy war are both in Western interests.
This company is reasonably well run. After going back to AWS, they doubled their revenue and things are going well. They are not incompetent. They did earnestly try to cut their costs and just didn’t see the iceberg.
Boeing's monopoly on airplanes was enough to shut down bombardier based in a different country
this can't be stable forever. Eventually people will move to some new form factor of computing and it's unlikely it will be Apple
It is a great book! Toroughly enjoyed. Thanks!
In six decades of using metric for carpentry, plumbing, geophysics, global resources transit modelling, instrumentation, etc. it's never been a problem.

The advantage of metric is coherence and orthogonal dimensionality.

As a rough guide, if you're working in a wood | metal shop then just use millimeters (mm) for everthing and a third of a metre is 333 mm and a bit - how much you want to fuss on that depends on the required precision but honestly ... one third isn't the problem you're making it out to be.
With an imperative style, you need to learn a programming language before you can start making applications. With HTML, you can start making applications immediately by just writing HTML, and then you can learn the programming language (javascript) later. It's a barrier to entry for non-engineers
Would the iPhone be as successful if it wasn't reasonable?
Even if you don't have a account, they still provide a "shadow profile" on you and it has been proven and admitted. https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/11/17225482/facebook-shadow-...
Google does this. Epic does this. Nintendo does this. Sony does this. Microsoft does this.

Uber does this. Amazon does this. Deliveroo does this. Airbnb does this.

Walmart does this. Target does this. Every frikkin company charges a margin.
> What's next - pay 30% Apple tax for purchases made through Safari?

Yes. It's only fair that Apple should get 30% of your income, because an Apple computer obviously made it possible for you to earn your income.
This isn't assigning blame but:

James McNerny - CEO of Boeing from 2005-2015:

- As Boeing's first CEO without a background in aviation, he made the decision to upgrade the 737 series to 737 MAX instead of developing a new model

- Compensation in 2007: $12,904,478

- Compensation in 2009: $13,705,435

- Compensation in 2014: $29,000,000

Dennis Muilenburg - CEO of Boeing from 2015-2019:

- Compensation in 2018: $23,400,000

- Compensation for being fired in 2020: $62,000,000

- Average employee salary in 2018 was $126,991. This might be very skewed by executive salaries but the CEO made ~184x more than the average employee.

Something is wrong here.
Even with case (3) there are many companies that would love to be the store / portal that you discover and new purchase apps through (with all the security and testing Apple requires) for less then a 30% cut. But Apple won't let them. It's clearly a price set without competition.

Keep in mind Apple sells advertising in the App Store. They make $ beyond just the 30%.

Disclosure: I am APPL shareholder and sometimes app developer.
> bust the network by making it too risky to sell hard drugs

This strategy has been thoroughly explored. It’s usually referred to as “the war on drugs”. It hasn’t worked out well.
That's not what the courts have been saying lately. iOS app distribution and Android app distribution have both been called relevant markets in recent trails.
Holy crap!

> Apple is charging a commission on digital purchases initiated within seven days from link out, as described below. This will not capture all transactions that Apple has facilitated through the App Store, but is a reasonable means to account for the substantial value Apple provides developers, including in facilitating linked transactions.

> Apple’s commission will be 27% on proceeds you earn from sales (“transactions“) to the user for digital goods or services on your website after a link out (i.e., they tap “Continue” on the system disclosure sheet), provided that the sale was initiated within seven days and the digital goods or services can be used in an app.

So tl;dr: of that page is that Apple is saying "if you wanna link to your website, it can't be prominent (only a single text link with our language in our chosen placement) and we still get our commission."
I think this is a bit of a shallow read on what anger is – one can rightfully feel angry at an injustice and use that motivation to effect positive change.

I also prefer—on a personal level—to set anger aside. But anger is probably one of the strongest forces driving individuals to "make the world better".
How to win friends... Is an awful book and I'm tired of seeing it.
My favorite were his (or fitz's) videos of the building they moved into; it was an old storage facility and they had to defrost something like 30 years of ice and remove 50 years of walls.

He basically built svnhub before github existed, but leadership saw little to no value in owning a code site. He knew how to build products for professional hackers who wanted to build interesting things. And he helped fund a generation of gsoc hackers improving open source codes.
> Steam does not do this.

If I download a free-to-play game from steam and then make an in-app purchase (DLC, loot box, etc) - does Steam not take a cut of that in-app purchase? Serious question, as I haven't used Steam in a while.
The cost of distributing an app is not tied to its price, it probably mostly depends on things like size and so should be a reasonable prize.
That's an inherent limitation of modern lithium batteries with a smartphone's constraints of density, size, packaging, charge current, and a bunch of other requirements. Replacing a battery every 18-24 months costs ~$75 (or 1 hour and $35 if you're comfortable with DIY), which is a reasonable maintenance cost considering smartphones cost $300-$1300. Many car owners don't sell/scrap their car until repairs exceed the value of the car, we should apply the same philosophy to smartphones.
More accurately, this could be titled "most frequently mentioned books in replies to 'Ask HN' posts that have 'book' in their title".

(Like "Ask HN: Math books that made you significantly better at math?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34439828 and "Ask HN: What are the most eye-opening textbooks you have ever read?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35929112 and "Ask HN: Sci-Fi Book Recommendations" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35052757)

As such, the selection process here will be biased towards the kinds of 'Ask HN' posts that can get voted highly (to be visible, to attract many comments), and within those, these are the most frequently mentioned books.

(Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it's always a good idea to pay attention to the selection criteria, as selection effects are everywhere. For example, it would also make sense to exclude such threads, to get a more representative idea of what books HN comments tend to talk about in natural contexts.)
Last year my son needed a car to get to work and we were shocked at the price of recent used cars. We found a Buick fanatic an hour away and got ourselves a 1996 Park Avenue which at the beginning of the OBD II era so it a modern car in terms of maintenance and having features like airbags, antilock brakes and traction control. We’ve had to make some repairs on it since but it was a great deal.

For me it was a real adventure because I’d never owned an American car.

Right now I am thinking about another automotive adventure which is that you can get a Nissan Leaf with a degraded battery for not much more than the tax credit you can get for buying a used EV. It would still have enough range to drive to work, pick up groceries and that sort of thing if we install a charger at home.
"Large retailers like The Home Depot, Walmart, or Amazon showed up, too"

Call me naive, but I'm surprised to see these sell my data, I'll have to read agreements for accounts on those websites...
Let me guess: you don't have a kid that goes to a school that only posts crucial news and updates to their Facebook page and you don't have a friend group that uses a WhatsApp group to plan events. Try explaining to the average human that you have a moral objection which means you can't install the same app everyone else has, and that everyone else needs to do a lot of work to accommodate you. One of my friend groups calls me a tech vegan, and not in a good way.
It isn't even a fraction of the total, its a flood. LA churns homelessness like nowhere else in the world. Skid row fills up with one group of people in the fall, and a completely new group next fall.

> Just below you is a comment that's doubting the idea that a homeless person wouldn't move to somewhere cheaper immediately, whereas you seem to be asserting that homeless people will just move to a very high cost area.

When you are released from a Texas prison and no one is picking you up, the state of Texas hands you an open bus ticket, with the implicit knowledge that you are going west. You aren't moving to a cheaper place, you are losing your housing (Texas correctional housing) and you need to survive somewhere. It isn't like they have much other choice! It isn't about money, they could move to cheaper Houston, but they can't afford housing there either and the weather and services suck, so its off to LA.

> Talking about the point in time counts as if they explain the magnitude of the problem is wrong, as you point out. It's a stock versus flow problem.

Again, I don't think you get the problem, but it is multi-faceted, you have kids sleeping in cars for a couple of weeks because they got into a fight with their parents, technically homeless that year, but not part of the chronic homeless problem yet (and hopefully never). I guess I'm just referring to chronic homeless cases, not the more economic homelessness that is often just temporary (they have roots and such to help out, and don't have a huge drug addiction that keeps them from functioning in society).
The math books that made the list are ones that always rate highly on these lists, but I think they are uniformly bad choices for people with a more passive or recreational interest in math. A lot of textbook publishers have series for undergraduates which are a better choice. For example, here’s Springer’s: https://www.springer.com/series/3423. For someone who has a college level education in science or engineering, but not a math degree, I think they would have more fun looking through a series and picking a title that seems cool and interesting to them. I honestly just have to wonder how many programmers have unread copies of Principles of Mathematical Analysis sitting on their shelves unread.
Do they keep a shadow profile on you if you violate their TOS?

I'd assume not but that'd be a fun way to get off the proverbial list if possible
ridiculous hyperbole
In the early days of Swift, binary size bloat due to huge symbol tables was a serious problem. We had some real binaries where the symbol table was more than half of the entire file.