skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I specifically wrote 'when it would be equally convenient and affordable to buy something good'. I've spent a lot of life in poverty; if anything, it made me more rigorous about not eating trash. I took some cooking/nutrition classes in high school, but I'm not expert on it by any means; I have just never liked processed/sugary foods other than in small quantities or rare occasions like a party.

I'm expressing skepticism about the assumption that food deserts are such a big problem because I've always looked for and found ways to get decent food. The specific example I had in mind with my original comment was from a place I used to live where I would see a guy who bought microwave lunch and a giant cup of soda at a 7-11 every day, even though there was a small grocery store with some fresh produce, a good selection of packaged foods, and large hand-made tasty sandwiches at the same price as the guy's 7-11 lunch literally across the street on the opposite corner.
> The weight thing is often enabled because of theft.

I guess the scales might also be there to help confused customers. A little bit. But I believe it was really about theft.

The scales also made the experience terrible. The last Walmart in the area with scales got rid of them. Their SCO is much improved. I can't speak to Walmart's bottom line but I do appreciate being treated better.

FWIW, this whole region has tons of poor areas and massive homeless communities.
> the red to green wavelengths are dispersed with the same tendencies as glass, but the green to blue wavelengths are dispersed more than glass.
Because compilers can and have implemented sqrt in terms of rsqrt which is .. fun to work with. This also on SSE.
I wasn't aware that Canon used flourite elements. You learn something new every day. Nice. Their telephoto lenses also use holographic elements, and I attended a talk (1990 ish) where one of their lens designers spoke about a clever scheme using diffraction order pairs (n and n + 1) to compensate each other. This allowed them to use diffractive dispersion in addition to glass (and now I know flourite) for color correction without introducing stray light (ghosts) due to unwanted diffraction orders, which are nearly impossible to get rid of. These lenses are works of art.
Sure but I feel like you are taking game theory and applying it to real life. See for example https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/best/by-usage/gaming they do a lot of actual reviews with tests and all their links are affiliated. If as a Google user I want a review of Gaming Monitor, having this as the first link would likely be an acceptable-to-good scenario.
That’s been one of their arguments against it. You’re right. And honestly they’re not wrong.

It wouldn’t surprise me if using a non-Apple payment system quickly became a very good way to figure out if you were about to get scammed by a random third party.

If it’s a company that I already know and trust, I might be willing (though Apple payments will still be more convenient).

Rando company? No way. Honestly this whole thing is probably going to prove their point. Even if they don’t exactly deserve the win.
> * Missing database indexes. A lot has been written about this, and it can cause a slowdown of N or N^2 times in some cases. Adding an index in the right place can change a linear scan into a much faster B-tree search.

I can give a personal piece of anecdata on this.

I was using a static application security testing tool on a huge repo (over 2M lines of code). It reported a couple thousand issues, nearly all of which were issues on code style rather than actual security issues.

Generating a report would take literally 2 DAYS and would grind the database server so hard that any other use of the SAST suite had a noticeable impact. I decided to run a profiler and see what queries were hitting it so hard. Turns out there was a SELECT that was being used a lot, but the columns being searched weren't indexed. I don't remember the exact query, but I'm guessing it was searching all the code in the repo that was stored in the database repeatedly.

I manually ran a CREATE INDEX. It took about a day for it to complete, and it added a couple gigabytes to the database. But now, those reports went from 2 days to about 20 minutes.

> If you’re writing Java code that has to make calls ten levels deep to get anything done, those levels of indirection aren’t free.

I'm of the opinion that any time you're performing type introspection, reflection, and ".invoke()", it's a code smell, but I suppose middleware in Java is impossible without them due to its draconian type system.
Completely misses the point, it displays the same convenient abstraction as OP.

Commentator - great moral justification.

Service member - 20 yrs of deployments in a failed war congress couldn’t be bothered to vote on authorizing, per their constitutional mandate, since the first year of it.

Thanks for standing for the flag at football games though.
If you mean submission to HN then yes because I would have submitted it.
If you mean ended up on HN as in front page of HN, then definitely no.
People are focusing on the 27% cut, but a page worth of restrictions on how you’re allowed to link to your own website is just complete bullshit.

> In accordance with the entitlement agreement, the link may inform users about where and how to purchase those in-app purchase items, and the fact that such items may be available for a comparatively lower price

The fact that you must apply for permission to tell your users that you even have off-app purchase items is bullshit.

Apple’s welcome to make the rules of their own platform (within reason), but it’s garbage that developers aren’t even able to say the rules exist. If Apple believes they’re so right and just, why must they leave users uninformed?

What’s the good faith argument for any of this? I want to see Craig Federighi on stage at WWDC announcing and this revolutionary new "link" API, demoing how great the scary warning screens are.
> right to audit companies' accounts for compliance

I’m not sure why the audit requirement is getting called out. That seems pretty standard for this type of revenue sharing agreement to me.
iOS 17 FaceTime Easter Eggs
It also depends on the type of store. Grocery stores seem to experience more loss with the machines than big box stores, even though those often include a grocery section.
> "Fire!"

> "I'm unable to help, as I am only a language model and don't have the ability to process and understand that."
Wouldn't some level of per-account rate-limiting make sense? Say, 1000 searches per hour? It's commendable and impressive that Kagi has apparently been able to get this far and perform this consistently without any account-level automated rate-limiting but the only alternative is an inevitable cat-and-mouse and whack-a-mole of cutting off paying customers who knowingly or not violate the ToS. Returning 429 with actionable messages makes it clear to users what they should expect.

You obviously want the block-interval to be long enough to not cause too much additional churn on the database.

Applying restrictions on IP-level when you can avoid it is just a world of frustration for everyone involved.
Do you have a source of this data? Is Tesla releasing all their interventions. Cruise interventions are all submitted to the state of California as part of their self driving certification.
> go stand in line with everybody else if self-checkout bothers you so much

The last time I bought something I got through the human-staffed checkout much faster than anyone got through the machine-staffed checkout. I'm starting to see cult mentality that the self-checkout must necessarily be faster or more desirable, and that's causing people to put up with longer waits for them.

Also when Visa went down in the UK, the grocery store I was shopping at only had self-checkout machines. None of which worked because of the Visa outage, and the machines didn't accept cash. So there's a problem when the mentality of "the self-checkout is clearly better" gets too ingrained in the minds of pointy-haired bosses.
Vim has pretty good support of the lsps and tree sitters that code does (at least for the languages I’ve used), I actually have a mirrored configuration between the two to simplify when I want to jump from one to the other. :)
"Tools for special military operations". Nobody declares war anymore.
Hurting one of its biggest companies for something that turns out to not be in the interest of the voting public after all would be kind of a big deal!

Even an ineffective regulation that neither hurts nor harms consumers but ends up hurting Apple would probably be seen very negatively.

> Is basically impossible to get things past anyway recently, even far more important things than this.

Very true, and another point in favor of inertia. The only thing that could possibly break that is seeing a similar regulation be a slam dunk in a comparable market, but even then it's a big if, I agree.
I said approach, not vanity. Having 200,000+ safety drivers across the U.S. and classifying it as level 2 is Tesla's approach.

Waymo's approach is a Level 4 system from the start, but in a very limited operating environments, and slowly expanding.
They used to have a $5/mo option with N searches, and then charge some cents per search after that. For a lot of people, the net amount would still be under $10/mo.
Unless you can find proof of collusion I’m not sure it matters.

Making matters worse the Google Play Store is completely optional you’ve been able to side load for years. To the degree Google prevented that they just got kicked in the teeth for it.

So you’re going to have to argue that the combination of the Apple App Store, plus Google, plus Samsung, plus everything else all work together to screw over users.

Good luck.
Apple can't control browser content, only capabilities, so you could always make purchases via Safari, Chrome, etc.
It gets hacky when you want to read out CVs, since the DCC protocol is one way only. You need a good current sensor since most decoders encode the values into the current flow using the motor. It's a cute hack and somehow akin to morseing out with power LEDs.
>nor been at risk of being drafted to fight overseas?

I doubt there will ever be another draft in the US. As technology becomes more important the priority will be keeping the industrial base running for military R&D and weapon manufacturing, not on having millions of barely trained kids most of which you can't properly equip.
Find me one person who you think he has good understanding of statistics and I will find you 10 that they think he is a complete idiot.

Our community is great at insulting each other :)

Btw for the first example, it is a deterministic one. You can count molecule by molecule and save the casino owner.
I've maintained my own hosted wiki since 2004, and yeah I'm glad I didn't completely outsource information management. It's definitely getting hard to find certain things I know I've seen.

Now I just need some kind of open source search engine to run on it ... (a bunch of text files that render to HTML, and ideally following the links 1 or 2 levels deep)

~20 years ago Google desktop search was a fantastic piece of software ... very fast and accurate on your local files. I don't think something like that exists now, and maybe never existed for Linux

Search engines are extremely modular and Unix-y. You have a bunch of indexed corpora and you intermingle them at ranking time, with respect to a query. But unfortunately there is no real incentive to provide something that has measurably good results and is also open to your own data and modifications

The incentive is to make a walled garden out of it
Wall Street CEO on Tether Controversy: 'They Have the Money'
well Google NEWS certainly seems to be absolutely OWNED by spammers of late.

eg just yesterday - a search for the NYSE listed company "betmgm" on google news [US] yielded 100 spam results [affiliate offers + bonus codes for BETMGM sportsbook]- and not one real non-commercial, non-spam news post concerning the company.

[data: https://gamblingindustrynews.com/news/affiliates/google-news... ]
I hadn't seen the cyboard - Thanks!
Speech-to-Text Benchmark
I'm going to ignore your attempt at ad-hominem because you're far off mark. Anyways: (1) there will be violence and people will suffer from someone else's power (2) you're better off wishing for that power to be as nice as it can be (3) the US has been about as nice as one could wish for, based on historical precedent and what contenders are demonstrating they would do.

Of course the US has done plenty of bad stuff to plenty of people. But you're delusional if you think some alternative power would have been gentler.

I too wish for a world power that never resolves to violence and never does any mistake. I too think that life is valuable everywhere, and that none should be sacrificed. But the real world doesn't yet offer us these circumstances.
I'm using the 5-bit quant with llama.cpp and it's excellent on my M2 96GB MacBook! Running this model + Mixtral will be fun.
Yeah, I think the only way it is going to happen at this point is that if it proves successful in the EU then it’s quite possible we could get a law here in the US that basically says “we want that too or else“.

I just don’t see us leading (or going in parallel) due to lack of interest/will.
I prefer to follow the advice that help for friends is either pro bono or at full market rate [0]. A person helping out for free can justify ending the service without threatening the relationship.

[0] https://neladunato.com/blog/real-friends-pay-full-price/
Twitter do over.
I can tell you're not in Ukraine or Israel right now. Would you like to know how?
I used to have a FD 500mm f/4.5 which is nice but not as well corrected as modern glass. I got it for $750 which, too, is a bargain.

> as long as you don't mind manual focus

Given that the primary use case of large aperture telephoto lenses is sports and wildlife, fast autofocus is a killer feature. Moreover, modern computer optimization has managed to vastly lighten the weight and improve the weight distribution of the lens, not to mention impeccable image quality, which is why for many the $6000 is more than justified.
> The problem is humanitarian crises don't pay.

That’s only a problem if profit/exploitation is more important than humanity.

IMHO, space based technology needs to be public owned (not corporate) and not allowed to profit, with its goals and designs fit to benefit humanity before profit.
I'm sorry, what does the CyberTruck have to do with the conversation, or their fairly obvious progression in actuation, or progression in making a nice humanoid platform for machine learning use, or Da Vinci?
This feels like a straw that breaks the camel's back kind of moment. Apple has gotten away with a tremendous amount (being an astonishingly greedy company. All companies are de facto greedy, but Apple is just next level in its egregious entitlement), but there is simply zero way this stands.

And FWIW, I'm an Apple fan and find Tim S a completely unsympathetic character. But seeing the hilariously absurd lengths that people will go to justify Apple's outrageous greed grows old.
Ask HN: Looking for a Budget Colo Provider
I'm in san jose, ca but could be anywhere in usa for cheap. budget is $100 for 2U
737 Max 9s are currently grounded due to a single incident; should the FAA have waited for a second door to blow off?

Reading that myself, it sounds like a gotcha question, but under this entirely arbitrary 2-but-not-1 threshold, the answer seems like it should obviously be yes.

The rational framework the author is advocating for is all about probabilities and percentages, so it seems like a weird exception to carve out that there’s some hard line between 1 and 2 event occurrences. I doubt he would hold fast to it if pressed, which is fine.
You make good points about the routine shifts in influence and interest over the generations. Running with the "RC airplane" example, it's probably true that the traditional internal combustion hobby isn't picking up tons of new youth. But look at how well drones still sell for Christmas these days.
Well, the quote you mentioned said nothing about sexism or racism, you added that. So I think you should wonder why the references in that paragraph made you bring a whole gamut of "political" considerations you then deemed irrelevant in one swoop.

The only one they said is "sexualities", and here again I would challenge your re-framing. "Embracing all sexualities" doesn't just mean "not being homophobic". Not actively discriminating against differences between people is the first step. The next step is being welcoming of differences.

Now, is Soundcloud doing that? I'm not sure. I don't know, I'm not a soundcloud user, nor am I queer. But there are absolutely spaces and websites that attract queer creators/users, and ones that don't. There are some that are neutral bland neutered corporate spaces. And some that are unapologetically vibrant and attract a greater percentage of people from - well "all genres, sexualities, religions, and definitions of music and art".

Perhaps Wired hasn't proven to you that Soundcloud isn't one of those sites, but it doesn't sound like you want them to.
Then why is an organisation based on opposition to that industrial lager, and improvement of beer quality more generally, probably the most major/successful/historically important single-issue consumer organisation, to the point that most other ones have modelled themselves on it?
It'll probably need to be another lawsuit since it's in the developer agreement. Via user lolinder ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39020745 ):

> Apple is already pretty clear in its developer agreement [0] that the 30% commission is for "its services as Your agent and/or commissionaire" (Schedule 2 3.4), not for its services as a payment processor. They are contractually allowed to take the 30% fee out of payments collected, but merely using a different payment processor doesn't remove the obligation to pay them for their other "services as Your agent and/or commissionaire".

0: https://developer.apple.com/support/terms/apple-developer-pr...

In addition, from the original ruling:

> Yvonne-Gonzalez was skeptical of the 30% fee during the trial, and in the ruling she was suspicious about Apple's justification of the commission, writing that "the 30% is not tied to anything in particular and can be changed," but did not order Apple to do so.
They're classifying it as level 2 because that's all the system is capable of. You can choose to call it an approach, but it's really an indicator of capability.
It’s not really about deciding if one trusts the government or not. That’s an oversimplification of one’s civic responsibility to study the issues and make informed decisions. The main harm astroturfing does is convert everything into black and white oversimplifications. It turns people into unthinkers. They pick a side and then act like it’s some sort of battle against the other side.
They were offered a $7k one-time provision to offset relocation costs, the $70k figure was just a hyperbolic quip by the commenter you replied to. The average cost of housing is certainly lower, but despite the lack of an income tax, the average state and local tax burden for median incomes in Texas is significantly higher (12.73%) than in California (8.97%) [1].

The only people for whom Texas is a better deal for taxation are in the highest income brackets, higher even than tech workers at Apple. This is the case even though access to healthcare, higher education, and public services tends to be worse. This is why eliminating income taxes in favor of consumption and property taxes is widely considered to be regressive and disproportionately targeted at lower and middle class households. The higher median tax rate then seems to simply be a redistribution mechanism to funnel additional wealth to the wealthy on the backs of working Texans.

[1] https://wallethub.com/edu/best-worst-states-to-be-a-taxpayer...
Ask HN: GitHub User Permissions on Mobile?
Although Github seems to be neglecting their mobile app, user permissions should be quite essential to be managed on the mobile devices.

Every time a new person joins an organization, is it really needed to navigate to the desktop website to add it there?

Are there any better solutions out there? I find it frustrating to be required in using the desktop app for these basic operations.

Thank you
I think the real problem is unlimited access to accounting books for any business that has an iOS app. This will affect free apps too, since they now have the potential to offer purchases outside the app store. (Obviously, strategic partners and FAANG are exempt.)
I'm demanding that existing laws be enforced. Adtech has created a system that systemically enables normal fraud in the context of links. This is not a unique concept, nor does not require any new regulations or laws to address.

Big Tech is deflecting blame by pretending that these problems (that they also made) cannot be solved. Government agencies believe these claims, which results in situations like the FBI asking you to install an adblocker.
>I don't think anyone would deny that Apple has a formal monopoly

If Apple has monopoly here then Best Buy has a monopoly too. Everything you buy in Best Buy is priced according to Best Buy. You can't walk into a Best Buy and say "Oh, I already paid for it on Sony's website, so I'm just here to pick up the TV".
The two poles of tension around your currency reverberate around the world. Sure, have a "strong" currency. Your exports are now often wildly expensive. But people love playing games in your currency, hedging in your currency, transacting in your currency. They just don't always like buying things at unit prices in your currency.

Rubles were for a long time, worth a lot more than the pound. Didn't mean people wanted to trade in roubles, and a lot of Russian trade was barter to avoid the currency shennanigans. I mean back to Tsarist days, a rouble was worth a LOT of gold.

So have a weaker currency. You can export shitloads of goods and services but you have to cover the pain of dealing with forex, on the other hand your factories and mines are busy. You can't buy as much crap overseas, but if you are the factory for the world, it's not such a bum deal. Anyway your diaspora loves aunty and will send baby formula home in bulk for you, and dropship in reverse all those cool western toys.

Xi needs to decide what he really wants. Because what his people want is consumer goods, a good house, some certainty in the future around their declining years and a lack of political tension.

PS, wars are sometimes counterfactual to currency strength. If you're willing to peg your currency you can have a strong currency and bomb the living bejesus out of neighbours. And, you can still make those bombs if you have a weak currency. So this doesn't have to affect your military posture.

"it depends"

[not an economist. please, roll in here and correct me]
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong on this. Consider the following scenario:

Developer puts out ads on Facebook (or some other way of getting traffic). Traffic flows to the developer's checkout page, where they buy access to in app content on an external website. Then they are linked to the app store where they can download the app and access the content.

Apple is paid no commission on this transaction. They only require commissions paid when the customer is sent to the website FROM the app store and checks out within 7 days.

If this is in fact true, then payment / support service recommendations would be great to hear right now!!
Is anyone being held accountable for this?
Don't understand what you're saying. I don't do football games and don't stand for flags, but I served abroad in an ultimately pointless multi-decade war. I'm not American.

I still think the world is incredibly lucky that the US has been the dominant power for the last 80y.