skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s funny. I keep getting back to reading pieces like this.[1] Then we talk about how this is terrible. And it is. But apparently we’re all powerless to stop it. Because we’re gonna be complaining about the same thing next year. Why? Because it’s something that people do “freely”. (Like smoking cigarettes (except where are the nicotine patches?).) Do something about it? Well why don’t you take a three month leave from your job and do a digital detox? Anyone can do that. But wait, that’s too drastic. Just a weekend-long meditation retreat. But then you’re back to the scroll grind.

Is there an opt-out button? Not symmetrically. You have all the options in the world if you want to scroll. But if you don’t want to scroll? Maybe Scrollers Anonymous? Become a semi-monk?

Because we don’t really take this seriously as a community. We’re all individuals who are supposed to get our shit together. And learn that individually. Well, we can learn things from each others’ tiktoks and blog posts about getting over digital addiction or whatever it is that is our malaise. But that’s as far as that goes.

But I’ll be here next year. Just scrolling. Falling for the same things again and again.

[1] Not that I read this one.
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The double champagne glass reminds me a little of the double-spouted Native American wedding vase, and I could see it having a place in wedding ceremonies where the couple takes their first toast together or something.

https://blog.kachinahouse.com/the-meaning-behind-the-native-...
I guess my main motivation is building weath in the long term, but thanks for the advice!
Mixture of debating armchair experts.
Wine code I've actually looked at. I was curious how they implemented some of it.

I suppose a driver makes sense, but I'm curious how many recent programs actually use things like PulseEvent given the warnings Microsoft has put on it. People seem to have moved to the pthread-like APIs in recent code I've seen.
Maybe it's possible to have a server somewhere without having to trust your provider? Use this in tandem with chassis intrusion detection, epoxy, and probably other things I'm not aware of.
I'm not so sure about that because it gives them more ways to bother you about stuff.
Alternative ways to download apps has nothing to do with user protection.

All Apple is doing is protecting their pockets.
He'll still need you or your parents to get to his money.
Who's the "you" in "you can trust"? If it's the DRM assholes looking for remote attestation and other ways to take ownership away from device owners, then that's an amazing outcome in my mind.

If you're implying that device owners can no longer trust their own devices, that's a weak argument that 50+ years of PC (emphasis on the "personal") industry can help invalidate.
This is great! I would love to extend it to hide sponsored results, ads, and call-to-action popups.
First time I used a 12-bit ADC (standalone) was after I'd been out of school for about a year. I learned a lot about grounding as a result of that. The second iteration of the board was at least usable at 12 bits. The first barely managed 10 :-)
I don't know, seems to me like the EU is providing plenty of value to me.

In fact, the EU is making changes that will in fact make it easier for competitors to arise, so I really don't know what you're on about.
The biggest data protection fight you've never heard of
Haha, the nuclear option. I love it!
Man, you are right. I went through the thread and tried to challenge things. We really do live in wild times haha.
I've played with a few medical LLMs and their depth of knowledge and holistic interactions (knowledge bredth) is absolutely incredible. My gut instinct is that this will help fill in the massive shortage of GP physicians (other examples: NPs, PAs), and perhaps heavily assist/replace pharmacologists.

From a mental health perspective, I know people are still hesitant to share some parts of themselves with robots, but for basic investigation of possible treatments I think intro psychology could help human-licensed mental health workers deal with the more fringe aspects of human interaction.

I took the last version of the MCAT which wasn't computer-scored, and did so specifically because I found it strange that a computer would analyze my written essay. The human readers came to a strange conclusion, scoring as my highest sub-score.
been acquitted...judge said he sent the message on a private basis, not a threat
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the noncompliance needs to be fixed before the deadline
Mars' famous dust storms aren't so good at causing damage, because the air's really, really thin, so they can't pick up heavy particles even with high wind speeds. A serious problem if you need to keep grit out of fine machinery or electronics, not so much if you're worried about erosion (I mean, yeah, eventually it'd be a problem, but it's slow-motion compared to the erosion of something exposed to sand storms on Earth)

I guess it could eventually get buried, but I'd expect that to also be a slow process on most parts of the planet, for similar reasons. The only forces seriously driving weathering on the planet are radiation and wind—the radiation's pretty bad but not a problem for metal + some rocks that were already on the surface, at least over a span of a couple decades, and the wind just can't deliver much force because the atmosphere's so very thin (that's also why it's fairly difficult to fly on Mars).
"Hotel" by Boichi:

https://imgur.com/a/DdLCU
How erosive is the vacuum of space meant to be?
https://www.equifax.com/newsroom/all-news/-/story/first-chan...

>Effective July 1, 2022, all medical collection debt that has been paid by the consumer in full will no longer be included on U.S. consumer credit reports.

Where exactly are your "relatives in the loan industry" getting the data if not from the credit reporting agencies?
What makes a computer general purpose?

Is an XBox 360 a general purpose computer?
Programming light propagation creates highly efficient neural networks
This is what it comes down to, at the root.

Apple made a decision early on to "give away" the ability to write and distribute (the $100 fee is nothing) apps for their store, and only take payment from payment received. So you have tons of free apps that just exist on Apple's code and infrastructure, with no cost to the companies.
> more fair to everyone and everything involved

I hope so. But I suspect a racial bias of some kind will be uncovered.
Even with controls on the device companies act in bad faith and take liberties with your privacy - I was going to the beach yesterday and my friend shared his location through messenger, to view it I had to share my precise location too - why? You can deny the permission all you want but that won’t stop them blocking features unless you tick the box, even if it is unrelated or not needed for the functionality.
C-c ~ isn't defined in any of my emacsen ... do you happen to know the command name it binds to?

edit never mind ... it's bound when invoked from a .lisp source file ... very cool! I think I will use this a lot! Thank you for sharing it ...
That's because Epic maliciously violated the terms of service.

In fact they did so deliberately to help them in their court cases.
The fines should cover all the profits. I.e. seize the ill-gotten gains.
I don't use it or think it.
Consider the context. There are alternatives (Android, and everyone else in the mobile space that tried and didn't make it), and as orasis pointed out, the users there aren't that keen on making purchases.
I'm curious if anyone knows how the new threadpool primitives introduced in Vista fair in Wine/proton? Do games simply not use any of these APIs? (That's surprisingly, the threadpool stuff is easily one of the best pieces with no comprehensive counterpart on other platforms.)
Some non-orthodox chess variants have a piece which combines Queen+Knight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_(chess)

very old variants often had such compound pieces like for example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Acedrex
Log-structured merge tree in a week
https://archive.ph/Bhfwe
If you want to support artists you'd be way better of just making a direct donation.
I actually do know some Apple engineers, and I've spoken with them about Safari extensions in the App Store. However, Apple is a massive bureaucratic organization, with engineering almost entirely siloed from the App Store.
> however if someone wants to rewrite OpenSSL in Rust

You mean rustls?
I look forward to have emulators and ads free video players without having to go through cumbersome workarounds to install the apps.
Taylor Swift is 'furious' about explicit AI pictures
You're looking at it just like how Microsoft did, either way 2000 people lost their jobs. And I'm down voted for some reason.
> As soon as someone discovers the non-App store version of Facebook is somehow worse then there will be a thousand Facebook posts and articles telling you not to install it that way.

The problem is, Facebook could easily take the iOS App Store option away and make the alt-store option mandatory. And they have the power to do so and get away with it. People are too entrenched in their ecosystem, and there's no viable path off of it. User protests like this on social media rarely end in favor of the users.

I'm one of the people that quit Facebook entirely, and it does actually hurt me IRL. Too many friends and family members coordinate events and share news exclusively through Facebook.
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Note that the full requirement is:

> Use memory-safe programming languages, or features that improve memory safety within other languages, within the Alternative Web Browser Engine at a minimum for all code that processes web content

Emphasis added.
Is there (in 2024) a better alternative to Wordpress, to the average Wordpress user?

I’ve always been outside of that world and I can’t understand why it’s so much used.
With the rovers its pretty much a given that they'll out last the initially stated 90 day mission. They're much more expensive and carefully crafted for the task.

Ingenuity is special because it's commercial off-the-shelf parts put together on a low-ish budget. It (as well as various other aspects of Perseverance) has shown that Mars can be tolerable for off the shelf hardware, rather than needing bespoke million dollar projects for everything.
You do know this doesn't happen on Android, right? There is the option to do it but in practice it barely happens.
Our implementation of the Merkle DAG data structure is optimized for tabular data since Dolt is a SQL database, but a lot of it generalizes to other kinds of data. For example, we put a lot of work into making sure that chunk sizes had a predictable distribution, since very large chunks kill query performance:

https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2022-06-27-prolly-chunker/

We also have a lot of work to do with preserving structural sharing across schema changes, which we're not great at yet.

https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2024-01-19-structural-sharing-w...
You can do this in Safari too, it's a system setting called Lockdown Mode. In desktop Chrome it's a command line flag, and in Firefox it's in the settings page: https://web.archive.org/web/20230628134258/https://lemmy.eus...
From the docs on zed.dev:

"copilot": {
"disabled_globs": [
".env"
]
}

I imagine * would work there too.

I don't see a way to disable all the collaboration features, but it does look pretty difficult to do it by mistake. You have to add collaborators explicitly.
If only this company selling 1000€ phones were allowed to make money off those phones somehow.
1. Is the UK considered part of the EU?
2. Can I sideload my own apps or do I still need a developer license?
If you're ever going to get the point where you recognize tactics (or anything, for that matter) on the board, how the pieces move must already be internalized and not require any thought. People even especially practice visualizing knight journeys between arbitrary squares to make this more automatic.

If you ask an experienced player to use a weird piece set, you will only be introducing error and cognitive overhead. If you ask someone naive to the game to use the piece set, do they internalize how the pieces move more quickly and get over the impedance when they start to use a normal set?

Going at a tangent to your idea, maybe it is possible to construct a set that aids the performance of a naive player, but which degrades the performance of a more experienced opponent. Could that handicap be as great as a club player offering pawn odds against a naive opponent?
Rover time and mission resources are definitely limited and a concern, but apparently the location of the copter is also really inconvenient to access. Its sitting down in a valley middle of big sand ripple field. So its not clear if the rover could reach there even if they wanted to.

That being said, not all hope is lost. While closeups are unlikely, the rover is driving in that general direction so there is (very slight) possibility to catch the copter in some lucky drive-by pic from a distance.
By worldwide standards you need to be rich. Even a cheap second hand iPhone is a months wages in some countries.
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I look forward to having Cydia as an AppStore on my phone again
Seems like it didn’t quite catch on.
Yes absolutely. Even if you have already been exposed, the vaccine has been shown to prevent manifestations and/or recurrence of HPV-induced pathologies. It's not necessarily in standard of care, but the literature is pretty overwhelming here.
PGVector supports up to 16k dimensions although I imagine performance will be atrocious.
You can determine if they're sloppy and just want the project rushed out the door. Kludgy code is actually fun to read.
I would think you could automatically load the first match's "hide" URL until no more matches appear in the page, but it might trip some kind of rate limiter.
Huh. Yeah, I thought there would be more substance. But this seems completely meaningless. Or perhaps even like it supports the ancient origin story.
Protect the company from losing $10bn per year, more like it.
I never done sth like this but you can lock the clocks of each of the samplers I guess. Simplest solution might be using a single source clock and distributing it to each board with equal length of cables. You can calibrate the lenght of the cable precisely if you have access to a pulse generator and a scope. Though, alternative would be shifting the sample times in post-processing the data by searching for a high correlation. I believe both are used in practice.
Someone can run a botfarm that will download your APP 1M times and you need to pay 45k? Sounds unappealing to me.
Fasting is great! After 48 hours, you can feel how "inflammation" goes away.

The problem is that it is difficult to make money out of it, so it doesn't get the attention it deserves.
I think you're missing the point. Electrically, you can't "spam" anything on a tapped cable. It will just go down at the physical layer when you try to transmit unless you cut it and insert yourself between its endpoints (as a switch, essentially).
Nope, many companies exist where there isn't any public good. This statement is based on fantasy.
F-Droid or just give me a repository. Something of the sort pkgsrc to let me install the tools I want to have on my phone.
This is what people struggle so hard to get. You wouldn't say 15% was "worth it" if you could get the exact same quality for 3%.
> Apple doesn't develop those SDKs and tools in order to make money selling them to developers; Apple develops that stuff in order to sell iPhones.

Nobody buys an iPhone because of the SDK.

Nobody… except perhaps developers.

Apple makes those things so that developers make more apps for their phones, which they want to support in order that people continue to buy new phones.

> Apple charges 30% simply because they can, and nobody has stopped them.

Yes.

And unless the government says "the thing we don't like is specifically the price", what you're going to get from demanding side-loading and other app stores is going to look like the same price charged in a more complex way that's distributed differently over all the developers.

This also means that it's likely some app providers will suddenly discover their costs go up.

As a consumer, I'm fine with however this shakes out: I spend almost nothing on apps anyway, and the selection is too large for me to care about the size and diversity within the marketplace.

As an iOS app developer, I have no idea how any of these options may or may not affect the demand for my skills on the job market, but I still don't care much because GenAI is a much bigger change than all of these options combined.

As an investor, I've been expecting Apple to hit the upper limit for corporation size before monopoly lawsuits 2 trillion dollars of market cap ago, which is one reason why I bought S&P 500 instead of APPL (the other being I'd like my income and my investments to avoid too many correlated failures).
It's their job to set the proper price to cover the recurring cost, like all other companies.
That book sounds really interesting, thanks for the reference!
And after an anti-trust ruling to fix things, it will be normal again right?

Just like how MS is no longer the vast majority of PC sold since the anti trust trial.

Right? Right?
Honestly seems like a good solution. Users will most likely prefer the walled garden experience but if some don’t they can just buy the other iPhone.
But, by giving the choice of when, many will choose never.
Yeah that's basically what I was going to respond with. AI makes the cost of believable bullshit near 0 for the user.
Mostly yes.
App installs through alternative stores can not use the ‘1 million install credit’ that comes with the apple developer program.
As in, you pay from the first install. (Except as ngo)
The code quality of GSAP is pretty terrible too. The codebase is prehistoric in terms of best practices, it doesn’t tree-shake well, their package exports are mis-configured, their type definitions are bad or missing, their api’s are wildly bloated making it easy to get lost or write inefficient code, licenses are convoluted, and the performance isn’t great compared to just using CSS, SMIL, or the Web Animation API.

I’ve built some cool stuff with it, but GSAP is hardly superior. Just use the platform, or use a modern alternative to GSAP like https://motion.dev
It's definitely relevant in family homes where parents/siblings/guests share bathroom use.

When one child gets sick in our house, we take some efforts to keep them somewhat isolated, and these measures have been usually successful.

The bathroom is the weak link in their routine as they continue to share it with siblings. This report reinforces us asking them to spray disinfectant.

Before we enacted some of these policies in our home, one kid getting a bug from school meant the entire family would get it. Now that's much less common.
They could do that now on Android but they don't because the Play store is biggest distribution channel.

I feel like the argument falls a bit flat when sideloading exists on Android, Android has 70% of the global market share, and none of these supposed evils have happened.
Yes, if the developers want to use Apple's App Store, they should pay for it, that is not the problem. The problem is that developers are forced to use Apple's App Store instead of another distribution platform. But now Apple is saying "Its okay if you want to use another distribution platform, but you still need to pay us". Why is that okay? (And no, an iPhone itself is not Apple's platform, once the user buys the phone, its their platform).
nope but my sentences need an anti-fragment narrative
Well, I think there are a few people who invested in GME to stick it to the man, or in Musk's companies for some other reason.
Yeah seems weird but I guess the hypervisor part isn’t so odd since Citrix does it for their netscalers. Although even load balancing is probably less critical than routing traffic. I am surprised either works well under virtualization.
Everywhere I've been in the US the grid was a sign of the old part of town. Newer parts don't have a grid. Newer streets are very crooked, dead end, otherwise do no go through - to keep cars away. There is a nearby highways system, but even that doesn't look much like a grid
Lions making fewer zebra kills due to 'chain reaction' involving invasive ants
I scooped up a bunch of non-smart HP printers from car boot sales over the years in preparation for this nonsense.
> How is this an article?

Because average IQ of authors has done the same thing since 1939.
The concern from the IP attorneys I was following on Bluesky was that the fact that the WSFS cannot require that the Worldcon follow its rules, puts the trademark at some level of risk. That is, if WSFS and the MPC cannot effectively police the trademark there is a risk that they could lose the trademark.

Which is why is position on the MPC is relevant, in this context. The lack of _ability_ to enforce the WSFS constitution, _threatens the validity_ of the trademark.

But, that's a good correction, that it's not a formal position of the WSFS as a body.
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Someone was saying that updates count as installs.
https://archive.ph/2024.01.24-202624/https://www.newyorker.c...
> And I've quite been happy to see Apple stand up against such government control

Where, exactly?

Apple complies readily with thousands of warrantless surveillance requests[0] from around the world, every year. They've been a cardholding PRISM program member for over a decade, and just a few months ago admit that push notifications are also government-monitored[1].

Outside of eagerly marketed examples like San Bernadino, Apple appears utterly compliant with government control.

[0] https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2023/12/06/apple-governments-surve...
Agreed. Ironically I’d say the use of manipulative language like that is much more of a moral problem that society is contending with.
Indeed, you're right. Must-staple and short-lived certificates have the same problem with clock skew.
Looks like a fantastic alternative. The waveform in the audio is cool.
It's odd how murky this is, considering that it was adjudicated in court. The BBC says[0]:

>A court in Madrid heard it was assumed the message triggered alarm bells after being picked up via Gatwick's Wi-Fi network.

But that seems implausible, given that Snapchat messages are encrypted (if not end-to-end, then at least client-to-server, which should be sufficient to prevent interception via a Wi-Fi network). And why would the court hear what is "assumed"? Shouldn't the investigator(s) who testified know how the messages came into their possession?

Then The Daily Mail says[1]:

>As [sic] spokesman for Gatwick Airport denied any suggestion their network could be compromised.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68056421

[1] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13000923/snooped-ai...
This is the first time that the tools that make it feasible to impose surveillance at this scale.

The same tools, maybe not as intrusive, could be used to hold these people accountable?

(putting on my conspiracy hat) Hmm, maybe because this has become possible, the media is so flooded with noise. Any signal is drowned out.