skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"you agree to pay Apple a 27% commission on any purchases made when users click those links, for up to 7 days after the link is clicked."

So if the publisher says, "Click here for a renewal reminder and a 10% discount" and then sends a renewal E-mail on the 8th day, they're in the clear.
I'm also thinking of looking into plumbing and carpentry specifically.

AI looks to be entirely hype, but the enormous amount of electricity and person-power that tech industries pour into making the world worse is soul-destroying. Carpenters and plumbers are almost by definition providing a useful service. They make something.

Also, less time staring at a screen is a huge improvement.
Fred Brooks passed away last year.. so I would imagine that the Mythical Man month spiked because of it.
Missing from all the attack-dog defenses is:

what did Oxman ever do to help fire Claudine Gay?

If the answer is "Nothing, but..." then you are just going after her because you hate Ackman. That's all.

Anything else you say about "accountable" is just window-dressing for a revenge hit. If you don't like Ackman, be adult enough to stick to attacking him.
Because iOS apps talk to the Notarisation Service on launch.

So they know total app installs as well as the installs purchased from the App Store.
That's a reach, but if the primary purpose of monopolies in your view is to fund the military, then there's no issue with taxing them more or even nationalising them, is there?
> they care about and want to bond with you

You haven't met my family. They just want gossip.
That's the wikipedia definition, other sources tend to lean into application of science, for example Merriam-Webster:

a
: the practical application of knowledge especially in a particular area : ENGINEERING sense 2
medical technology
b
: a capability given by the practical application of knowledge
a car's fuel-saving technology
2
: a manner of accomplishing a task especially using technical processes, methods, or knowledge
new technologies for information storage
3
: the specialized aspects of a particular field of endeavor

If its as vague as "applied concepts for practical goals", Catholicism is also technology.
Aliens maybe. Humans have understood, and enforced, "property rights" for quite a while now. Unused buildings are not just automatically ideal for homeless shelters, and even if it were for some reason a perfectly usable vacant apartment complex, there is still the issue of wear and tear/maintenance costs.

If it was as easy as just building some apartments and walking away from responsibility after that, this would be a much easier thing to solve.
> This is what you get, ladies and gentlemen, without unions and labour right.

Are you speaking of the EU? The US has at-will employment and most software developers are not unionized.
I don’t expect this to be received well, but it seems ‘ol Ayn Rand may have been on to something after all, huh?
I use a wheelchair and have partially disabled hands and arms from a spinal cord injury (quadriplegia/hemiplegia,whatever).

I saw this and got super excited to try to use it as a means to signal software to help me actuate the intensity of my TIG torch welder, especially after the video on their site showing such esoteric uses as a couple using it to control their sex vibrator and other kind of 'weird' lifestyle uses.

I emailed them to be a part of the beta, they said essentially "Eh, no, that reason isn't that great -- but we'll put you on the wait list for 1000 bucks for commercial units."

Eh, no. So I bought a cheap sip/puff switch for use with a power wheelchair, use it as a binary switch along with an arduino, and the welder itself is set to pulse/ramp itself to take care of the gradual application.

It works, but I sure wish I could have had the more finite control -- but i'll wait until someone doesn't gouge me for the work. I'm not into the whole medical premium thing.

If anyone else is in that situation I suggest they look at low voltage membrane switches with an isolated carrier or any of the various sip/puff devices out there that have dwindled in cost due to volume and time. No, that doesn't offer the same capability -- but maybe you don't need it to.
What if developers in other countries make more by putting obvious back doors in and selling to their respective government ?

Maybe applications that take personal and sensitive data should require a clearance. Companies that perform pen tests should also require clearances.
Using vision API for web scraping/parsing
Social construct has zero to do with current fashion. Marriage is a social construct and it's pretty solidly entrenched.
Comprehensive argument for why this is a red herring:

https://reasonandliberty.com/articles/newtons_bucket
I do not believe any of these social constructs are real. Map vs territory.

The map: debt.

The territory: guys who come to your house and kick you out for not paying your debt.
Brute searching all possible mathematical constructs, theorems, etc. to see which one fits the problem would probably take you practiacally an infinite amount of time.

This works tbh, how I see it, very closely to how a human does - via "instinct" it gathers relevant knowledge based on the problem and then "brute searches" some combinations to see which one holds. But this "intuition" is the crucial part where brute search completely fails and you need very aggressive compression of the knowledge space.
I too, for a related but slightly different reason. Human interactions at work, even within the limited social confines of the relationship between a service professional and a customer, is really important to society. Even if new technology creates an equal number of jobs in the Amazon 'Mechanical Turk' style as the traditional roles lost, it's not healthy for anyone to repeatedly do the same task alone at a desk for 40 hours a week. I suppose you could some up my belief as: +1 to secretaries, -1 to typing pools.

There's a huge wealth of folk songs from around the world that were sung at work, serving both to coordinate the workers' movements and to strengthen the social bonds among them. See for instance the Scottish 'waulking song'. Singing/whistling at work is pretty rare now anyway, but the complete lack of any constructive social interaction in some recently-invented jobs is a new low.
Capitalism itself is a gradient though, from e.g. Nordic models (strong worker rights and social distribution of profits) to Singapore (free markets in many areas, with government involvement via ownership stake).
Right, only a shared belief in its value and provenance makes it money.
I love how all these attacks are presented as if no one is actually doing them -- like it's God himself visiting vengeance on him. Some impersonal force, in other words.

Try being grown-up enough (or maybe "big enough") to stick with the people who've actually offended you.
That's like saying that people should feel thankful for paying their taxes because that's what paves their roads and builds their schools. Yes, ads bring in money, and maybe they do enable Search - but it's at most a necessary evil, not something to celebrate.
It's not true anymore and started going away during Larry Page's tenure.

~ ex-Googler : 2011 to 2018
Those charts show pass@k metric (expectation at least k generated samples are correct out of n) on OpenAI and Octopack problem evals for code.

WaveCoder: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.14187 (section 3.2)

Octopack: https://github.com/bigcode-project/octopack
It's a huge loss for facebook. She is one of the more stable people in the room.
The idea that "Apple" has "a sense of entitlement" is click-baiting anthropomorphizing from someone monetizing eyeballs. It's not even supported in his text.

So much on this topic lacks real grounding.

1. Apple's take is legal. Even Sweeney admits his objection is only on bad faith grounds; there's no failure to comply.

2. Gruber and others want Apple to be nicer. But doing more than the law requires just invites more lawsuits.

3. People objecting to 30% fail to mention the small-business program, where if you have revenues below $1M, Apple's take is 15%. So these businesses are significant, and many, many years of expectations are baked into their business models. Discounts for nothing would just be a giveaway.

Regular people are entitled to have their devices from Apple just work: no viruses, no adversarial software, no snooping by Apple or others, no creeping data overages, effective and automated (security) updates, and no premature end-of-life. The cost of even a little bit of that would be the biggest tax on productivity and enjoyment.
I still get most of those. It's just the sponsored segments usually. The information is crowd sources and it has controls to let you define sponsored elements and submit them if it doesn't have info on your video.
I'm surprised by the praise here. I got a few books with similar titles from the library like physics for babies, rocket science for babies, etc and I thought they were all pretty lame. This one does look neat and I see the author is different. I'll have to check it out.
There are clearly unwritten rules around this issue. For example San Diego has homeless encampments everywhere and Coronado has none. And while being an island doesn’t hurt, Coronado also vigorously enforces its vagrancy laws, mainly by dumping them back in San Diego. Half the island being federal property probably has something to do with it maybe?

Incidentally Coronado is one of the safest, cleanest, most beautiful, and expensive communities in the USA.
I am sorry this is a total fabrication - we know the sales of iPhones entirely cover all expenses associated with hardware manufacturing and R&D.

Their margins on laptops are thinner but the AppStore is not as relevant there.

The situation is the other way round - it’s the App Store that makes the iPhone useful. Windows Phone (the remake one) had good hardware, it literally was killed by lack of apps. I had one, I miss it.
…fits his brain perfectly.

This is super accurate, and interesting in the context of the repo. It’s clearly not the most accessible language or style - I wonder if someone who has hyper optimized for themselves in the way Arthur has can write an effective teaching language. It requires a theory of mind for minds that are probably quite different in the general case.
William Gibson's novel the Peripheral (2014) and Agency (2020) have characters who control implanted smartphones (like a HUD on your eyes and audio channel built into you ears) that are controlled by using the tip of you tongue on the roof of your mouth. It's possible he was inspired by the video or some other source but yeah it's clear the idea has been around for a while.
I haven’t checked the proof yet, but could it be possible that it’s using directed angles? Threw me off initially when I first learned it as well, but it can be handy for different configurations.
How is AI/ML not involving SWE?
My apartment building has only steps leading up to the lobby door, which causes problems for deliveries and movers. I've thought of citing handicapped access as the justification for getting the property owner to put in a ramp.
"But from that very starting point, it's clear that there will always be better ways to generate electricity than fusion: solar and wind combined with batteries."

I am 100% for renewable energies and would not wait for fusion - but I am very hesistant to use the word always here. If there is a breakthrough in handling the plasma - and recent developements indicate that this might be possible - it could make fusion very cheap. So when you have a cheap, compact and reliable energy source - most people would favor it over something unstable that takes a lot of space.
it would only not change the world if it's not actually human level.

Adding 1 trillion more human minds to the cloud would obviously change everything
It wasn't much later. The Fed started raising interest rates in March of 2022, and inflation peaked 3 months after that. The ability of firms to "price gouge" is evidence of monetary inflation, so I'm not sure why you'd be so opposed to interest rate hikes.
Until they flood it/burn it down/convert it into a meth lab.

People's problem isn't with the homeless in general, it's with the mentally ill and/or drug addicted ones that shit on public transit/street corners and accost strangers and turn public parks into open air heroin dens. Free housing won't help this sort of homeless.
> Developers are in arms because they don't believe Apple deserves any money for distributing their app on their App Store.

Rephrased - Developers are up in arms because the cost of distribution on iOS is artificially high. It's artificially high because the cost is not subject to market forces. It's not subject to market forces because Apple has a vertical monopoly on hardware and software distribution. Vertical integration is illegal.
I agree that smart phones should be general purpose computers, but that's why I use Android. iPhones are explicitly designed to not be general purpose computers, and that's part of the appeal for a lot of people.
This is the problem with metaphor; eventually their legs run out.

The more correct metaphor is: Walmart sells you a coloring book. In the back of that coloring book there's a mail-in coupon: send it in, $5 for a second coloring book. Walmart now not only expects to make a cut on that initial coloring book sale; they expect to make a cut on that mail-in sale.

One might say: Wait a second, if I'm going to buy that second coloring book, its probably because the first one was so good. If I'm going to buy a book from Kindle, its probably because that book was surfaced to me in the Kindle app. Walmart and Apple didn't exactly have a large hand in making that second sale happen; my product clearly had a much larger hand in it. Apple would, of course, disagree; because they have a god complex.
And yet somehow the idea that a third installment of the half life series is even possible is a distant fantasy.
I thought that the teledildonics industry would have figured this out first.

Glad to see that it can help disabled folks though.
The correct term is “googled on Bing”
> I can't stand how everyone keeps brushing over the fact that it's completely legal to clear an encampment if there's somewhere for them to go.

There's a whole world outside any given city. We shouldn't brush over this fact either.

If cities face restrictions on public space they'll just continue to turn their public spaces over to private entities who don't have to follow such rules which is its own kind of dystopia and not one that would be any more friendly to the struggling poor.
> As an iPhone user, I'm happy to pay a 30% tax to avoid the relentless scamming, outright malware, and impossible-to-cancel subscriptions in every other software market out there that isn't similarly controlled. I'm happy to pay this in the same way I'm happy to pay my taxes so that I can live in a civilized society.

In that case, Apple should allow in-app purchases to be priced 30% higher, rather than mandating equivalent pricing to other platforms across the board.
We need publicly funded SROs, group housing and mental health facilities, with trained medical and security staff as needed. It won't be pretty and it will cost a literal fortune, but we've been living with the alternative for decades now and it's not pretty or cheap either.

And the most-impacted cities can't be expected to pay for all of this. A solution of this scale can only come from the federal level.
It's just a matter of sizing the scale of the problem to the correct budget so it can actually be solved. City of LA has 45,000 homeless people in it. Recent audits put the cost at half a million per unit, all services roped in with that number I believe, for a new shelter bed and staff. That's almost 23 billion dollars provided you have the land for this UCLA sized project cleared already, a whole lot more if you don't. City of LA's entire budget is 13 billion dollars; all it can do is fight the tide with a leaky bucket essentially.

Federal government budget, on the other hand, is 6.1 trillion dollars, and they own the world money printer too, along with a huge amount of acreage all over the american west. The homeless crisis could be solved with a pen stroke from DC today.
Anybody who has bought children’s toys on Amazon before would immediately think, “oh, it’s because it’s a knockoff made in China, this is not worth further investigation”. And they would be right.
> Please understand: Google is not a person.

Literally true. On the other hand, the founders still have complete voting control of the company, so really the buck stops with them.
My expectation would have been a fork, or a repo thats started with the full commit history.
Ask HN: 9-yo son wants to build a game, I'm lost. What can I do?
Background :

My son hasn’t really showed any interest in computers until now. He’s been spending a lot of time over the last couple of weeks designing some sort of a game (on paper) and now he wants me to help him build it, whatever it is. I don’t want to let him down but I also know how much work that goes into a game (he specifically wants it to be 3D).

I’m a decent developer, although I’ve not done game development professionally I did tons of demos on the 90’s so I feel I know the basics of 3D math but I’m pretty sure he will lose interest if I try to teach him x86 assembler :)

Joke aside, what can I do? This sounds like a great project for us to explore together and hopefully he can grow interest in software design and development.

Are there development kits I can start with (unity?)

How do I keep the project “contained” so he feels that he accomplished something but still feels we developed something close to his vision?

Thank you HN.
I guess if larping online is a metaphysical battle :)
I'm not at all in favor of tearing it down. Just looking at embedded conventions as embedded conventions.
"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."
> This cannot be repeated enough. It’s harmful to almost everyone to allow sideloading on iPhone. Power without the knowledge to use it responsibly results in actual real world harm. This may sound paternalistic but it’s what it is. I’m all in for a developer mode with a knowledge/competency check, choke full of warnings, make the user wait x days before it is enabled, whatever. But don’t allow it, not in a way a scammer could tell my grandma “oh yes we need to use that feature behind the warning to refund the funds to your bank account, now please tap accept…”

Most people don't want to live in a lowest common denominator world dumbed down to the point where even the stupidest/most gullible person one could ever imagine can't possibly screw up.
How does this help the homeless person? I have a homeless neighbor I help out a bit, but there's only so much I can do, I don't have many resources of my own. He's 70-something, has cataracts and glaucoma, can barely walk, and has his stuff split between a car and a tent. The county helps him out with some things but it's band-aid levels of assistance when he should be in an assisted living facility. I'm not sure how much more deserving he has to be to get some meaningful help.

The idea that making it harder to be homeless will somehow cause people to pull themselves up by their bootstraps assumes that they can afford boots and have sufficient strength to pull on them, so to speak. A lot of homeless people are at rock bottom and need something more comprehensive than a cot and a hot dinner.
It isn't "turnabout", it's "infantile striking out at everybody within sight."

As for the "pro Palestinian protestors", they signed their names, did they not? Did they expect all would be forgiven when they try to get jobs?
> As an end user I really don’t want to buy from anywhere other than the App Store

"As an end user I really don't want to use any browser other than Internet Explorer"

You are entitled to that opinion, but having alternatives does not stop you from enjoying that. The existence of sketchy porn sites and alternatives App Stores in no way prevents you from boycotting everything besides the single platform you support.
Same here. Both copies I ordered were not working on arrival. I tried to switch the batteries but they were really stuck in there (can’t easily remove them without bending/breaking), eventually got them out and replaced them but one of the copies still didn't work. Reached out to the creator but he just said try swapping the batteries. I still think the idea of the book is great, just wish the execution and support were better.
My experience with RTO at Google is that the long-term Googlers are the ones who really love the old office experience and bemoan the loss of it since the pandemic, whereas it's the newer people that complain about having to come in and try to get away with doing it as little as possible.

He didn't mention coming to the office as a complaint of his so I don't think it is one.
But how does it know I bought 13 tokens for $20, or 100 tokens for $149 (best value!)? If the account balance is on the application server side.
Similar (per Week + All Time) :

https://hacker-recommended-books.vercel.app/

https://hackernewsbooks.com/
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you say acquisitions, others might say stolen.
I would argue that, once the app is installed, the lead for the purchase is being generated by the app, not by Apple or the App Store, and therefore Apple should not be taking a commision for the lead. They could still charge a transaction fee if using Apple Pay. And if users were able to purchase things through the App Store (Apps or Items in the App), then I would consider those to be leads generated by Apple, and applicable to their commission terms.

It's crazy to think that anything you do inside your app between you and your customer is subject to Apple forcefully inserting themselves into the relationship, and then demanding payment.

Apple's marketplace is inside the App Store, not inside the apps that are developed independent of them. You could argue that the apps are not developed independently, as they could (not by choice) use Apple's APIs, but I feel that that is what the $99/yr developer fee entitles the developer to use.

To the general problem; I really hope Apple stops being anti-consumer and anti-developer using these landlord tactics. The (second?) richest company in the world does not need to take these extra commissions. Without these developers, there would be no App Store, and it's in Apple's best interest for them to thrive. Apple is making the calculated decision of how much they can take off the top while still having developers make good products for their platform. Yes, their investors will not be happy that a source of income is being lost, but it's up to Apple to convince them that the good will from consumers and developers will provide more value through other means than that loss of income.
I want every professor everywhere who has plagiarized at their level to have their plagiarism exposed.

Personally I liked Neri- she has done some incredible work. So I think you actually have completely the wrong impression of what my intent is.