skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Epic charges $100 per game in their store, vs. Apple's $99/yr for access to the store, and the latest tools.

Plus having to buy development hardware from Apple, which is a pretty significant cost for small developers.

> but one of the benefits Apple gives customers is that you don't give your payment details to everyone, decreasing the odds it gets mishandled.

If they think that's worth an extra 15%, they can compete for it on a level playing field.

> Does that make Apple evil? Epic would have you think so. But Epic also just needed to layoff a bunch of people, despite Fortnite being a money printing machine, despite their Engine royalties, and despite their own store's fees. Sure, Apple has cash to spare, but should we really be legally forcing Apple to adopt a business model that is failing Epic itself?

What kind of backwards logic is this? If company A is swimming in cash, and company B is running out of money, it's far more likely that company A is ripping off its customers than company B. Yes, we should be forcing Apple to compete for customers like everyone else has to. Given real competition the market will converge on a fair rate where a hardworking publisher/store maintainer can make a decent but not excessive profit, and we might see some better stores out of it as well.
Deloreans looked super cool. Tesla had never made a cool looking vehicle, and the cyber truck is at the very bottom.
Projection of failed promises of other concept cars
Negative image prompt for Stable Diffusion
A lot of the Truck market is built on a particular masculine image that requires the vehicle to be big and imposing. While smaller trucks make far more practical sense, the audience in question is more interested in the appearance of doing the work than actually doing it.
By the time I got to Google in 2012, 20% seemed dead to me. If it had any meaning, it just meant "you can do some extra work on something management approves", not "I have a wild idea and want to go off and try it in my 20%" (as I naively understood it before coming there.)

It was already the case, at that point, that 20% really just meant doing more of what Google was already doing.

But maybe I just didn't know the right people or have the right connections or status.
I like both technologies as well! It feels like the sort of phase shift that happened when jquery got long in the tooth.
I believe they "started" with claiming that statements that the they were about to invade Ukraine were absurd lies, followed shortly later with claims they would control the entire country in three days along with some maps that included Moldova, followed shortly thereafter with lots of nuclear saber rattling when things started going south.

There have also been dozens of assassination attempts against Ukraine's civilian and military leadership, and against Russia's as well, some of which have been successful. The fact that most attempts don't work out doesn't mean it's not happening.
“…repeating velocity, agility and nimbleness on a rosary” - that was so good. You made my day sir!
EPUB is already XHTML and supporting files zipped (iirc the packaging) into one file. It's very widely supported. I wonder why they don't start with it or even mention it?

EPUB lacks annotation, which is not at all trivial; I don't know how well it handles precise layout and pagination, and long-term preservation (will I be able to read it in 20 or 50 or 100 years?). But, again, I wonder why they don't improve on EPUB or at least use it as a starting point, and not seem to reinvent the wheel? (Sometimes, there's a good reason.)
Computers can last a long long time. I built a pair of dev computers in 2012 for about $2500 each, using one of the fastest CPU’s on CPU Benchmark that was also quite cheap (about $350 per CPU). I still use one of them as my main dev computer. Nothing has ever broken inside it, not even a fan. The original SSD raid setup is still in place. It works as well as it ever did. I don’t notice any issues when all of the different IDE’s and tools I need are open.

11 years of daily driving.
How terribly sad and also very moving. Hope (is this Hope? it seems that way to me) is a powerful and beautiful virtue.
Late and rarely doing what was promised.

The Cybertruck, for example was supposed to have a range of nearly 1000 miles.
How so more than say a white 2pack?
Yeah but if they can't associate that activity with a record reliably then it's just noise.
[Original author here.] Exactly! That (DPMI) is the thing I originally wanted to talk about but I realized I had to clarify many more thoughts first! And I still have to do the research on DPMI to be able to talk about it :)
I got a hybrid Ff150 with built in 7500watt generator for exactly that purpose. It’s looks nice, runs awesome, and is the ideal truck. I wish Ford would put a bigger battery in it and prioritize it over the Lightning.
> Culture fit is important.

If it was not a fit, why did you apply to MIT? 99% of people who apply to MIT are people who are absolutely hungry to get into MIT. I never heard about anyone accepted at MIT and turning it down because they realized it was not a good cultural fit for them.

What exactly was the cultural issue that you didn't like? People being rich? The MIT crowd is not rich. If you travel the one mile or so from MIT to Harvard, you'll immediately see the contrast between MIT kids and Harvard kids. MIT is definitely a place for hard working people from all backgrounds, and if anything, the rich are underrepresented.
I’m no Tesla fan, but I think it looks bad ass. Especially the customized ones
Your last line hits hard. I know statistics and odds are still in my favor...but given a choice, I'd rather fly Airbus, or on an older plane created before 'supplier issues' were a thing.

Wall Street ruined Boeing. I never want to fly on a 787 or newer Boeing aircraft.
See my other comment - current Toyotas will let you disable the 4G modem with a series of button presses.
That’s what I was alluded to when I mentioned GitHub. I have that app, but I already foresee that workflow won’t work for me and my wife. So I didn’t do it that way.

But the way you say it seems to mean it no longer work?
Hey, current Googler here. I joined in 2017. For those who are looking from outside to those who reminisce past Google, I have an update for you: Google is still a f'ing amazing workplace. It's easily the best company I worked for in my 24 yrs of post-college career. Amazing colleagues. Incredible learning opportunity. Super fun projects. Really good pay. Your mileage may vary. This is my N=1 impression as an ML expert currently working on Ads. Best of luck!
I'd love an ev minivan. Looked at the pacifica phev but double the complexity, and few charging options convinced me to keep looking. The price of the ev transit vs the range seems pretty bad otherwise I'd be interested in it as well.
>What market forces affect Apple's pricing power on commissions?

Raising the rev share they take makes the developers less incintivized to develop for the platform. Lowering the rev share makes developers more incentivized to develop for the platform. Apple is competing against other app platforms over developers of which there is a limited amount of.

So for Apple to lower the amount they take there would need to be another platform that is stealing developers from Apple's ecosystem. If developers stop developing apps for Apple's devices then that makes them less desirable for users so they would be incintivized to let developers keep a bigger portion of the revenue.
Text not reflowing according to my screen/window size is most certainly a bug.

I’m trying to read documents on my screen 99% of the time, not print them, so I couldn’t care less about some hypothetical paper page size they’re tying me to.

Regarding videos: PDFs support these too, and more – including scripting and 3D models!
Yea, but nobody wants to piss off the US if they can avoid it. Sanctions remain effective against north korea, and it doesnt look like they will find any relief under such a chaotic regime. You might see the cracks in the foundation and say its finished, but there is a lot of bureaucratic momentum that can keep the empire going. This would be a smart strategy, playing into the general sense of global conflict and chaos, rolling the dice for a more favorable geopolitical standing.
As a parent who has lost a son - I feel this immensely. At least you can see his face. That’s more than I can say for mine. He’ll forever be 12 years old to me. What helped me was giving back. I’m sure the road ahead will be hard, but don’t give up.
I don't have to build an Unreal Engine game. You can use Godot or Bevy or Lumberyard or whatever. You can then distribute it over the web to customers.

I have to build an Apple App Store app. Apple controls access to over half of US customers. Not just gamers. All customers of all types.
The original genius in Chrome was not the renderer built out of webkit. It was:

1. The V8 JavaScript engine, which blew away everything else.
2. The sandboxed, multiprocess, threading model.

Those were the two things emphasized in the original Chrome "comic" at launch, if I recall:

https://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/
do you have more information about this?
Thanks for that, fixed the Phoenix Project link.
It seems like with LLMs this year it ought to be easy to look at the whole comment base and pull out the book titles without having to use a “book” keyword
The Ford Maverick is that truck..

Edit.. not an EV tho
They could have set up a rule (within the Outlook logic) to automatically delete any received (and possibly sent) emails, but they didn't.

This takes "don't call us, we'll call you" to the next level: running a vast chunk of your business from the noreply@ account!
Developer tools point to MathJax https://www.mathjax.org/. If you disable javascript you can see some LaTex.
> I can imagine not being a Consumer Reports, uh, consumer (their user-friendliness wasn’t the best last time I had a subscription)

Not to question your preference, but to understand: How can you imagine that? The UI isn't great, but it works: search, click, read. Where else will you find anything like it? Almost all other reviewers seem to be astroturf or bought off, and the more serious prominent ones are someone's opinion trying one, not empircal, objective research.
Maybe it’s because I come from the printing world of catalogs, magazines, and books printed on web offset printers but typeset implies a level of control and precision that I’ve never seen with HTML/CSS.
When I had to build a backend to generate print ready PDF files being printed on pre-printed invoice stock, it was ReportLab all the way. I needed pixel level accuracy and control.
I gather some folks didn't read the essay closely enough to comprehend what the author was getting at in mentioning Derek Zoolander and writing, "Most students aren’t stupid, but I think many haven’t been effectively challenged or trained."
they are private. thats the whole point. they dont have to tell anyone anything.
Looks like quarto. The LaTex you saw may have been MathJax.

$ curl -s https://manifestai.com/blogposts/faster-after-all/ | grep generator
<meta name="generator" content="quarto-1.3.450">
Maybe there is a market for people who get shot at or with those that are paranoid about that? I know the windows aren't bullet proof, but the panels stop smaller calibers. If it is performance enough, maybe they could be used by police? The default panels on their cars don't offer protection.
They really buried the lede on “Megajoule”.
I'm in a similar boat. You might be look at a ~2020 Mazda 3. This was after Mazda announced they were moving away from touchscreens [0] but before internet connected remote start came standard [1]. Cars produced since 2018 are required to have a backup camera and therefor will have a screen of some kind.

The AWD hatchback claims 24/32 MPG and these reviewers got 41 MPG from it [2]. Get the base model to avoid the Carplay / touchscreen.

[0] https://www.motoringresearch.com/car-news/mazda-getting-rid-...

[1] https://www.copilotsearch.com/posts/mazda-remote-start/

[2] https://www.caranddriver.com/mazda/mazda-3-2020
How do you speculate GOTO works if the tokenized program doesn’t have line numbers? Or if I write

5 REM MY COOL PROGRAM
10 PRINT “HELLO”
20 GOTO 10

Then later I write

10 PRINT “DIE BART DIE”

How does it know to replace the right line?
For actual babies it's the same thing but my daughter and I had a lot of fun with this when she was 2&3. She is 4 now and making pretty decent progress on snapcircuts and precoding. I give this book at least some credit for getting both her and I started. I think it's a fun book regardless.
ePub can do most of these things I believe; there are just not many “PDF-like” viewers for it, given that most existing ePubs are books.

Features I need are being able to quickly open multiple documents side-by-side; a feature I actively don’t want is maintaining some sort of “library” for me.
The Roadster 2.0 seems unlikely to ever ship at this point. And they took $50,000 deposits for it or something.

FSD is unlikely to ever ship as promised.
They want to keep all the complexity and bullshit that made PDF files a security nightmare plus add a bunch of new ones. They want iframes, video, audio, javascript, service workers, even WASM support!

Documents are best when they're just documents and can't instantly infect your device just by opening them. The odds of this format being any less toxic than PDF is zero. It'd be pretty nice if we could have a document format that printed well, but didn't also allow for RCE attacks, violate your privacy, or require a locked down environment and ad blockers just to view safely.
A nearly $2T dollar company and growing? A more successful company than nearly all others in the history of humanity? Yeah, must be terrible for them.
I think I heard he used LucidEmacs at around the time of Doom.
No that is absolutely not the definition. You win a war when you meet your political goals. The military didn’t lose, the grand strategy changed.

This isn’t sophistry, war is just extension of politics by other means. The vast majority of unfixable problems the US faced in Afghanistan were political, you can’t kill your way to a functional multiparty democracy.
Goldman Sachs asks in biotech research report: 'Is curing patients a sustainable business model?'

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/04/11/goldman-asks-is-curing-p...
"Groundbreaking study" of 59 children?
No, it was supposed to have a range of ~500 miles. Instead, the longer range version will have a (EPA) range of 440 miles. Admittedly many will still be disappointed by the difference, but not nearly as much as you're suggesting.
I think the question was about legality, not practicality.
They are not far off.

The Cortex X4 Running at 3.3.Ghz on a N4 gets GB6 ~2250. #681.8/Ghz

The Apple A17 Running at 3.8 Ghz on a N3 gets GB6 ~2950. #776.3/Ghz

On a clock per clock basis, A17 is only about 14% faster. Consider X4 had 15% IPC uplift and resulted in real world 11% performance improvement on GB6. And they are claiming X5 would have the largest YoY IPC uplift, which I think we could consider to be 15%+ or 20%, a Cortex X5 would have similar if not slightly better than A17 performance on a Clock to Clock basis.

And it would be good enough for Microsoft / ARM PC.
> If it’s too easy to make an in-app purchase, why don’t they make it harder to complete one by adding password requirement for payments through their App Store?

They do. Passwords are required for every purchase, they just give the user the option to either disable this or to use biometrics by default instead, which is considered a password analogue in the security chain of Apple.

But if you don’t have biometrics setup then you’re always asked for a password and if you do have it setup then after the first time asking for a password it’ll ask if you want to use biometrics instead going forward.

Even on a new device, if you’ve transferred your settings eland other stuff, it’ll still ask for your password the first time before honoring your transferred setting to use biometrics instead.

> Following this logic, letting people complete payments outside of Apples control should absolve Apple of the legal liabilities between payments made between the user and a third party.

It should absolve them of liabilities, but that doesn’t stop people from trying to sue Apple and being able to point to a warning will increase the changes of getting a summary dismissal.

> If this is not the case, can you sue Apple for unauthorized payments made over Safari?

You can sue Apple for any reason. I can sue you too tomorrow for whatever reason I think warrants a suit.

In fact, it is standing practice for trial lawyers (and they’re welcome to pitch in) to sue any party that remotely can be tied to a cause of action as a co-defendant, especially if they have deeper pockets than the party that would be the most logical primary defendant.

This increases the chances of a pay out and there’s a marginal effort and cost to lump them into the case while you’re at it.

So in an example related to the matter at hand it’s very likely that someone would sue the third party developer and Apple, regardless of their precautions.
Because the world’s most valuable and richest company (or second most valuable company, courtesy of MS) is great to have on the other side to take a shot at, if only because they might simply settle because the cost/benefit analysis on their side to litigate it might favor a quick settlement.
Exactly, and for someone like myself who hated academia, the internals of Google when I was there (2011-2021) were awful for the same reasons.

It's hard enough to be motivated to work on things in a Big Company. It's even harder when you have to consciously play a game to advertise and promote your success and work -- spending almost as much time doing that as actually doing work. ... and then have others come along and take credit for your work, etc.
Shame it doesn't have a bench seat up front. That's the retro-futurist vibe I was hoping for

Still a success in the history of automobile design. Lambo-level arrogance at 10x the scale

Practically speaking, if you need to haul sod or tow your boat to the lake an hour away, it's going to be very competitive on the used market once a million units are on the road
I second that. I think it is beautiful. It has lots of problems, but its looks have more than a niche appeal. They are very polarizing though.
OpenBSD runs fine on my X220i, and its Intel WiFi (iwn) is supported. But, the firmware has to be downloaded separately, so you either have to copy the firmware onto a USB drive and run fw_update after installation, or plug in Ethernet before installing, and it'll download the firmware automatically after the first boot.
> the audience in question is more interested in the appearance of doing the work than actually doing it.

They aren't trying to create the appearance of doing work. They're trying to create the appearance of (faux) survivalism.
I think it was described as a dud in the context of what was (over)promised - i.e. Claiming it would be the best thing ever, when it's just OK.
This needs to be said more often, and should be at the core of ethics courses:

“What is the point of accruing influence and money and prestige if you won’t use them to help people? Stop saying “this isn’t my job; there’s nothing I can do; I don’t want to know; it didn’t happen to me; it’s none of my business.” Mankind is your business. The common welfare is your business. The dealings of your trade are but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of your business.”
Those are questions for Amazon. I can give you all sorts of arbitrary criteria, but whatever they choose it would be ridiculous for Adidas to not be on the list.
They're still working on both, so your "unlikely" is pure speculation at best.
Im not sure I agree with the poster but the argument is something like, “hospitals who kill people receive less business under a free market. Under a regulated one there is less competition for people to choose from.”
My first personal desktop computer was old enough to start high school before I upgraded, though in its final years it was little more than a minecraft, youtube, and web browsing machine (a typical 14 year old). It was an old machine from our church in 2004, it had a Core2Quad and a 512MB Radeon graphics card, with 4GB of DDR2.
> I'd love an ev minivan.

VW's ID.Buzz is arriving this year. That's your one option.
As I said, the practical advice wasn't the point of the story itself.

Regarding the story, I don't know that I quite see it like you do: Michael confirms to Frances that he will cheat on her someday. Frances suspected that, and connects the oggling to it; it's not especially possessive to object.
I mean, wouldn't that judgment be very subjective? I can easily imagine many people thinking that it is the best truck out there.

I don't think it's reasonable to expect that everyone will agree.
I highly doubt a guy getting sued by his former company would be stupid enough to post publicly things that he cannot demonstrate to be true (the truth being an absolute defence to libel).
See a general practice doctor first, they will refer you to an audiologist if it's more complex than needing ears syringed (common!). If the audiologist thinks it's anything sinister or unexpected they will refer you to a specialist.

Any specialist treatment for age related hearing loss beyond a hearing aid will cost much more than a hearing aid from even the most money grabbing hearing aid sales person.

Ask your father what he wants, he probably wants to ignore it but get a hearing test anyway. They will immediately try to sell a hearing aid so be prepared to say you'll come back for that later.
> once a million units are on the road.

…at some point…maybe…
I love using old machines for productivity. I still write my blog posts in Markdown within vi running on a 1998 SPARCbook 3000ST (Solaris 2.5.1): https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/copyleft-is-dying/hipst...
> Bad entities can point out when other entities behave badly. You don't have to like either of them.

> See: bin Laden's letter to America doing rounds in the internet in 2023.

> False equivalency. Most people like living in America and tons of people want to move there, while only religious fanatics would be okay living in a country built and controlled by Al-qaeda

Without question, the comparison is equivalent. Portraying it as either-or is ignoring the root sentiment of "everyone has faults", regardless of who you think is superior in an example.
As a consumer of those problems, first of all, thank you! Even decades on from high school I occasionally enjoy working on them.

But agree that geometry was obviously going to be first. From what I’ve gathered here, it’s not “brute forcing” in terms of relying on algebraic geometry, vectors, or complex number solutions, but it is brute force in that it’s exhaustively looking for “interesting” constructions.

Geometry was always my worst subject, but even so I felt like if given the right construction the problem was much easier. Unfortunately I never developed the intuition to hit on those constructions quickly. It seems this AI doesn’t either, but it can churn through them much faster — There are only so many perpendiculars and parallels and bisectors you can construct which you can more or less mechanically evaluate (map out all angles and ratios, try power of a point, etc.)

While this is incredibly impressive, it seems like Deep Mind:Kasparov::AlphaGeo:Terry Tao in the “engine vs AI” sense.

I agree Algebra is likely next. Like geometry, more often than not you “just” need a clever substitution or 3, of which there are only so many options to choose from.

Some combinatorics problems I think would also be amenable to this search strategy (e.g., finding things to count 2 ways), but that seems like a bridge further away, and only gets you a subset of problems.

Number theory would be my guess for the final frontier before a perfect 42.