skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're serious: because third party apps can absolutely kill first party ones, and they do, all the time.

Netflix remains the dominant player over Apple TV+, for example.

Chrome remains more dominant than Safari.

Outside of Apples specific ecosystem: Do you know anyone who seriously uses Windows Media Player or built-in Calendar/Mail apps? (Outlook is not the built-in).

If your third party app is better and has better social capital: it can kill the first-party app.

I'm just forgetting which ones completely died because: they are history.
Atleast according to average daily watch time reported in 2019, Netflix was at 164 million hours and YouTube was at 1 billion. I doubt that ratio has changed much since then
Well, you can't change to concave down without eventually either hitting a maximum or another inflection point, right? Could be apt, given that most big tech companies are still growing in strength, for now. Just not as rapidly.
It would be if Google's app password hash database was leaked.
What an absurd complaint. "Expectant mothers" is much less direct and more euphemistic than "pregnant people".

That's not catering to edge cases; it's just clear, easy to understand communication.
First two sentences describe my current situation. How to improve it?
It still happens. Dev culture today is way more steeped in external status indicators than it used to be. It’s just naïveté and a need for some sort of hierarchy for engineering competence.

Actually assessing it is hard and costly, so it gets outsourced.

Everyone seems to conveniently ignore regression to the mean when it comes to the lionized companies because that would break their mental model, and potentially their end goal.
if not useful for employers you could find it useful for your own productivity ...maybe!
e.g. you could leverage the Clojure REPL to explore solutions and quickly build PoCs
1. Yes, but due of not fully understood behaviours some regions get temporaly colder.

2. Yes and yes. Humans invade regions with wild animals that have yet unknown diseases, the regional climate changes(regions where rainforest was burned of now are on the verge to drying out).

3. The land where the 9 billion people can eat and drink from the land they are living on gets smaller, so people fight over it or flee to escape this to regions where it is still relativly safe. That includes the region you are currently living at. I don't have much information about you to fully answer it, so you have to think what you do with the information.

4. Yes, if you look at ice that is thousands of years old, you can calculate the amount of co² in the air. And that has been emitted since roughly at the start of the industrilization of humanity. The mean temperature has been risen since then.

5. Co² emission is the biggest factor we can influence. Once its in the air it stays a long time.

6. In the long term: yes, in short term: no. This graphic shows it better: https://xkcd.com/1732/
Photomator and Pixelmator to be available on Apple Vision Pro from day one
It's hard to appreciate today but, early on for most people, the iPhone wasn't a "OMG, I have to get one of these right now" product. I had bought a Treo in late 2006 I think because I had a foot injury that meant I had to travel super-light. While I did get a 3GS a few years later, I don't recall any pressing urgency and there tons of stories related to carrier coverage etc.
You're failed ;P
Yep, seems like it's going to be a couple of 'all-in-one' products, only by subscription, with some add-ons available:

https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2024/01/embracing-change-wi...
> Google seems ok on privacy: in 2024, you don't see hackers exfiltrate Google data, employees abuse privileges, etc.

What you're describing is security, not privacy. Privacy is not determined by how far the data is shared. If Google respected privacy, they would not collect most of the information that they do in the first place.
Games for Novation Launchpad Mini grid controller
GUI components called spinners were called so because they originally resembled physical controls which had options printed on a barrel, which was then mounted below the dashboard surface with a slot to reveal the current selection, and had a ridged wheel exposed so you could spin it. Most GUIs now show you all options at once because they can and it’s better.
The hype for the iPhone was more the standard Apple hype cycle - I don’t thing many people really expected it to eat the world entire.
I don't get this one. It's way off center (more so than the drawing here), much more like a scabbard than a dong.
Nah I'm a end consumer in Europe.
Most of the bullshit companies write in their ToS isn't applicable at all here, because Lawmakers know that nobody reads them anyway
I doubt that even in the US they wouldn't sue if they weren't 100% of winning.
They wouldn't like to have a precedent that you can use it to train other models, where right now they can scare away most people from doing it
Things have changed a lot since Windows Phone. Electron has become huge for desktop applications, and many mobile apps are simply wrappers for a web app. The apps we’re talking about in this case aren’t very resource intensive, and both have very capable web experiences.
Do you know how much people pay for tutoring for their kids IRL? You might find a college student willing to charge $25 an hour or whatever, but if you take them to one of those corporate tutoring places you’re looking at $400/mo at minimum.

$50 is a bargain when you have nervous parents whose kids are struggling and Math is hurting their GPA.
Maybe, but several companies had attempted 'internet appliances' in the past and failed, Chromebooks were a risk.
The Cray 1 was way ahead of its time. It implemented SIMD vector instructions to speed up numerical computation, was liquid cooled, and ran at 80 MHz (in 1976). The chief architect, Seymour Cray, was kind of a genius, and is responsible for designing many other pioneering machines.

Also, fun fact, it didn't have a CPU. It used all discrete logic chips, and was wired by hand, with lots and lots of wire. IIRC Seymour Cray liked to hire women to do the wiring job, because they had an easier time fitting inside the computer core to wire it, and doing detailed work because they had smaller hands.
Parents are only raising children while the children are children. They continue to be parents when their children are adults.
Steam doesn’t exist without Valve’s catalog of games and especially Half-Life 2. Its continued success can’t be simple luck given how much competition they have, although at times it does seem like Microsoft, Google (Stadia), Epic, Ubisoft simply want Steam to win.
> DB schema migration script frameworks (at least in Python, Ruby & Java lands) do typically support both upgrade and downgrade directions.

They do, and in every shop I've ever been in these are considered a trap precisely because they don't consider data loss.

Always roll forward. If you have to change migration history, restore a backup and lament past you's hubris.
For those not getting the reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxh2X6NjuhY
I attempted with the Quest 2 and it was far from doing the job well. Resolution is too low, optics too poor, headset too heavy and uncomfortable, battery too small. I’ve heard Quest 3 is better, but I am still very skeptical that the Vision Pro could be an all day device and replacement for a multi monitor setup. Possibly in a few years there will be a dedicated device for just virtual monitors designed for all day working. Xreal’s product is close but still very early adopter.
Iceberg (https://iceberg.apache.org) is an open source alternative to Delta Lake that I cannot recommend enough.
It organizes your Parquet files (or other serialization formats) in a logical structure with snapshots to allow time travel and git-like semantics for data management and Write-Audit-Publish strategies.
My favorite use recently is the idempotent change data capture to ease replication in the event of failures. When your publishing job fails, you can simply replay the same diff between two snapshots and pick up where you left off.
It’s not the “growth at all costs” mindset at all.

It’s growth period.

It’s easy to have a “hire smart people to do whatever” culture when the money is coming in hand over fist. Your investors don’t care.

But when the goose that lays the golden egg dies, nobody is going to hand over money to get a 2% return. Might as well just buy treasuries with zero risk and a higher return.

You’re flipping the cause and effect. It’s not the demand for growth that changes a company, it’s the companies business changing such that the money doesnt come in via fire hose any more.

That demands culture change to show that you actually are doing something productive.
Show HN: Roundtable – Survey fraud and bot detection API
Hi HN, we're Mayank and Matt of Roundtable (https://www.roundtable.ai). We launched our Survey Simulator as part of YC S23 (see Launch HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36865625), and ultimately decided to pivot because we couldn't convince users to trust our results and our value proposition wasn't clear.

We conducted tons of user discovery interviews, and a lot of big players talked about the pain of manual QC and bot detection. We launched a survey fraud and bot detection API (Alias; docs.roundtable.ai) that determines whether a bot is answering your survey or not. Our API embeds Javascript into survey programs (Forsta, Qualtrics, jsPsych, etc.) to track user behavior and make a judgment on whether the data is from a high-quality participant.

You can use our demo, and try to break it, here: https://www.roundtable.ai/hn-demo. See if you can generate LLM-based text without any flags going off! Feedback welcome!
You're just too old to understand! :-)

“When I was a boy of 18, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 30, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in just twelve years.” *

There is real change, and having experienced its evolution first hand – the stumbling path, wrong turns, compromises and victories – does have value. Beyond merely acknowledging the distance between {start, end} states.

One of my regrets is I didn't query my grandparents more about their pre-WW2 and WW2 experience while they were still around. The way societies (and companies) breathe and evolve is hard to reconstruct from just books and official records & ex-post propaganda. Our lives are too short to internalize multi-decade patterns.

* Ages adjusted from 14 and 21 respectively, to account for maturity inflation since Mark Twain.
Just tie enough helium balloons to it. Problem solved!
It may be worth adding that many people here will put the top level link to their blog in their profile should anyone be interested in following it. That avoids the spammy submissions but allows people to follow someones writing.
The Cray-1 was ~160,000,000 FLOPS. The Apollo Guidance Computer was about 14,000 FLOPS, so about 11,500× slower.
Just because extinction of a species occurs because of a rare Black Swan event doesn't mean that it isn't evolution. (Large) dinosaurs were in fact an evolutionary dead end when it comes to the threat of large asteroids crashing into the planet.
Honestly `child-raisers` is such an old and bigoted term. We now use `human-larva-caretakers`.
That assumes they would run the business as is, indefinitely.

If they sell some parts, fire 75% of who is left, and squeeze the hell out of numerous large corporations who literally have no choice but to pay up... I think they will be fine. Leaving behind a scorched earth, and many lessons learned.

Many large operations simply can not move away from their current stack in less than three years. But they will need support and licenses if only due to regulations. It will be mad, there will be a lot of screaming, and ultimately we will just move on, to newer and better stacks.
Im excited by this - I’ve wanted a device where I can look at whatever I want to set my focus to for my entire life (last couple of decades anyway)

Now just how to figure out how to pay for it (and wait for the UK release)
You know one of the techniques to rip off consumers is to hide in their transaction log. Get them to sign up for a subscription and help them forget they’re paying, that way they’re less likely to cancel.

Apple handles this quite well, having all your subscriptions in one place easily canceled and non of this shenanigans about losing access if you cancel mid subscription.

Have you app store social justice warrior types thought of this and how to protect consumers against that type of scumbaggery? Or is it more likely you don’t care about the consumer at all and just want alternative app stores for your own desires?

If apple were abusing their position, you may have a point. But you’re preemptively regulating them when they’ve been nothing but pro consumer. It’s clear this has nothing to do with the consumer.
Maybe not for Google, but it's not part of the OAuth spec. It's perfectly valid for refresh tokens to expire.
The NSA doesn't want any of the hundreds of thousands of Twitter/Facebook/YouTube/Google workers to have that insight either. And when the sites they're visiting aren't encrypted they can't browse to it because of OPSEC? That would all be at risk of side channel analysis. They aren't going to leave it chance. Count on them covering their tracks.
Does anybody know what makes refresh key is more secure than login/password? I'm quite dumb and don't understand how OAuth make apps more secure.

Also maybe someone knows how to get read only token for IMAP access? Last time I've checked there were no any scopes. One literally could use same token to access and IMAP and SMTP. But IMAP/SMTP token split could really improve security.
Right. Or in other words: it was too early to say how big the iPhone was going to be, and everyone who said it was going to be a flop had such tunnel vision they were incapable of perceiving the first version is not the last version.
>That's the whole point, lots of people ARE parents but aren't child raisers.

My wife calls those people "sperm doners."
I ended up ripping the app ID out of Thunderbird and using that for my OAuth process to Gmail.
I made a few CSS-only single `div` loaders a while back, it was a fun challenge to make them interesting while only using a single div.

https://codepen.io/snowbillr/pen/QEagmW
Humans under effect of psychological duress.
You can subtly mention things to alter the dynamics of a conversation without it being blackmail ;). Or forcefully making demands and wanting proof that our data is safe.

To report it now, it's so many years back by now, not worth the trouble and proof is gone.

But they were so disrespectful to us regarding not wanting to refund a lot of lost orders while at the same time doubling prices, that I almost reported them out of spite.
You make some very good points. Just two critiques:

> Under the engineering first strategy, Google became the juggernaut it is today, with products like Gmail, Maps, Street View and of course Search.

Just by definition search predated any culture or strategy at Google since its launch came before any hiring or incorporation. Certainly it was refined and maintained well for years but I’d argue this is an exception to the culture as refining and maintaining things well are not regarded as Google’s strong suit. Search dominates revenue in a big way so they had to do that for search and made it happen.

And a second bit of pushback - Maps, Gmail and Street View were certainly best in category from a user standpoint but my impression is they are a rounding error when it comes to revenue (actual businesses success) compared with search. Maybe this has changed. But assuming it hasn’t, a common critique of engineering led orgs is that they tend to stop at technical sweetness and fail to fully follow through on delivering great businesses and all that entails (revenue, support, incremental evolution, maintenance). That shoe seems to fit.
This is the cheapest and most polished dev kit ever.

Compare it to the Playstation 1 dev kit. In 1994 dollars it cost $15,000 for a full devkit.

[1] https://www.retroreversing.com/official-playStation-devkit
That is a good point which is really hard to get a good feel for what this will be in that regards without actually trying it.

But I just don't think weight alone will be a concern given my experience with the Index.

My only problems with the index is the weight distribution while moving around (particularly while playing beat saber and crouching) but I likely wouldn't be doing that with the Vision Pro. And heat while being physically active but that was easily solvable by adding a fan to the front.

I already use this thing almost every day. But maybe that's because I am used too it so the jump to something like this is not really that crazy.
Zafru, the 'miracle fruit' that turns sour into sweet
All I’m asking for is a specific project that looks promising instead of a Wikipedia page that is mostly a list of available funding.
Good one. Yes, they gifted us with priesthoods. For that matter, banksters learned from Mesopotamians, so. But we’re discussing evil incorporated post enlightenment (where? lol) here.
Ad-1 Oblique Wing
They're more secure than "Welcome2024!", which is what you can expect most people to use. 16 letters is more than secure enough, you can't brute force that. They're guaranteed to be unique passwords that aren't used on other services, so credential stuffing is no longer a threat.

This is an inconsequential change to people who use password managers, but it'll help against credential stuffing attacks for the common user.
Reminds me of that meme that says

> Look What They Need to Mimic a Fraction of Our Power!

That tiny arduino has a 16Mhz chip, while the NES main CPU ran at 1.66 MHz. Just a funny fact :)
Comparing Delta Lake to Parquet is a bit nonsense isn't it? Like comparing Postgres to a zip file. After trying all of the major open table formats, Iceberg in the future in my opinion. Delta is great if you use Databricks but otherwise I don't see a compelling reason to use it over Iceberg.
Russian Kaliningrad disrupts GPS signals over several European countries
It will be interesting to see some side by side comparisons to the Quest Pro which has both the eye and and hand tracking as well.

I was disappointed there were no controllers, even as an accessory since it means that most of the VR gaming catalog will never be ported to this awesome Vision hardware.
> That means these two particular broods haven't seen each other in that long. It doesn't mean no broods have coincided in the last two centuries, though that makes for punchier stories.

Based on the table linked in this thread, it's rare enough to be interesting on its own. Geographical overlap of broods emerging doesn't appear to have happened since 1998 and then only in Oklahoma.

But yeah, it's weather.com, they've been clickbait since not long after clickbait began.
That’s a great point as well. People blame investors but at FAANGs the workforce itself are investors and very important ones since they’ll bail if the stock stops going up.
RetroUSB has adapters for those not looking for a project. I bought one of their NES adapters years ago.

https://www.retrousb.com/product_info.php?cPath=21&products_...
because apps do not get credentials, so the token can be easily revoked just for this app. thats why app passwords are still fine.
FDA approves AI-powered skin cancer-screening device
That was a turn off for me personally. While I think more expensive per user (but free for up to 150 emails per day without your own domain name), ProtonMail has "Proton Bridge" that works wonderfully for me on Windows 7/11. It gives you what the name suggest, its a bridge between your cloud encrypted emails and sets up local SMTP that you can connect any program to (I have Thunderbird and Outlook). Haven't had any issues at all.
> I don't see any good reason to stick to Chrome for these. I've been using them without issue via Firefox for years.

Yep, me too. A conscious decision on my part. I run Firefox Developer Edition, though (which is essentially Firefox Beta). It has a comfortable freshness somewhere between stable and nightly.
PORN will drive answers to all your technology market questions

What will the PORN industry decide?

Does this new platform drive new, exclusive revenue sources for immersive PORN?

If the answer is yes, then the technology and commercial infrastructure will follow. I suspect the answer sounds like an out-of-context Carl Sagan quote, "...Billions and Billions..."

Whoever drives that content through those goggles will be rich beyond measure... unfortunately.
You nailed it with "4 ugly colors"[0]

I remember the palette choices in CGA were downright bizarre; they'd be 4 colors that you couldn't possibly use to make anything look right. At the price of the card and the display, you're like "wait ... that's it?"

[0] Ignoring all of the interesting things coming out of the 8088 demo scene, nothing that I'm aware of from the 80s was capable of anything close to that.
You’re not wrong, since the 4.5x number comes from a comparison with the rPi 1.

The rPi 4 is over 10x faster than the 1.

The original article points out that the raspberry pi 400, with the benchmark targeting 64 bits, was about 80x Cray for the same benchmark which was 4.5x for the rPi 1.

Raspberry Pi 5 advertises a 2-3x performance gain over earlier versions, though this wasn’t benchmarked in these tests.
If you want, it's possible to wire it up too! I use the included USB-C cable to connect it directly to my MacBook. It's much more reliable that way, especially if you're on a flaky WiFi connection.
Well written and pretty much summarize what I think and tried to convey above.

I wish I was as good expressing myself like you are!
here's that page

https://www.ntpsec.org/FAQ.html
lol, glad it was inspiring. honestly it's wizardry when you really think about it.

there's two roads that diverge in this wood, though. you can look at the nonphysicality of it and call it nothingness and become somewhat of a materialist nihilist. Or you can decide to do what I did and come to the conclusion that the physical that we think is real is in fact the unreal or at least the "less real" (since I want to dodge the issue of dualism for now), and that thought is the only thing that actually exists or matters- which would make programming (and arguably things like music production, digital art, etc.) the "most real" of the jobs. I mean... all human valuation is fundamentally irrational (and yet quite real... why, for example, from a purely rational basis and without asking a human, is Taylor Swift making such a gigantic amount of money? Why can the game "The Finals" be free, but charge money for skins, and people will actually pay money for them?)
They’ll sell every single one they make for awhile. The question is the longevity - but if it works and they don’t drop support it’ll slowly catch on as they drop price.
You wouldn't be saying this if you had used the absolutely pathetic browser they shipped with Windows Phone. They even called it "Internet Explorer", that's how blind they were to brand damage done by IE6.

Mobile web apps were pretty janky until 2016 or so, and the last Windows Phone came out in 2014.
IBM Consulting orders immediate return to office
Yes, I would agree. I use an iPad Pro for 3D modeling as well as drawing and graphic design. For those applications (especially 3D modeling) the M1 and large screen make a massive difference.
Bottlenose dolphins can do this also. They definitely eat eels.
If you cover everywhere in license plate readers, the bad guys will just carry fake plates in their pockets...

It takes what - 30 seconds - to tape a new plate over the old one...
You missed the second part, which is that the use of the data is the crime, not the access to it.
Haier Threatens Legal Action Against Home Assistant Plugin Developer
> Some men can be pregnant

Only if you define man in a way such that any person can claim manhood.
Men can not be pregnant, that’s what makes them men