skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see how it was a stupid question, it was made to make zuckerberg admit that facebook is just an advertising company with a social media side project
Show HN: I make a video to show how to automate the data reports
Hi, HN. In this video, I use ILLA Flow to schedule a PostgreSQL data query to trigger every day at 8 AM, then pass the latest data to the AI Agent. The AI Agent generates data reports, analysis suggestions, and more based on the latest data, and automatically sends them to Slack.

Looking forward to your review and feedback. If you are interested in learning how to build other automation tasks, please feel free to feedback.
No will will hold the richest accountable including trillion dollar corporations. The government simply cannot prosecute what it depends on to exist.
"Will you ban Finsta?" was not an example of such a question. It was a profoundly stupid question from someone who had the resources to educate themselves before asking it.
> The sale has been in the works for more than a decade. Congress first mandated it through the Helium Stewardship Act of 2013.

What did the Helium Stewardship Act of 2013 try to solve?
Third choice: Try get more multiples of that revenue.

You kind of have the logic in your own post, $100 > $15.
That great. But if Apple wants access to the EU then it has to follow the law.

Otherwise, it is within its full freedom to shut down their company in the EU.

They aren't "force" to operate in the EU after all. They could just shut down the company.

> If you want a store in a mall

If Apple wants to operate in the EU then they will have to follow the law.

> It should be a conversation more about reasonableness than entitlement.

Or, instead of that, the conversation could be able what a population can democratically decide what they want for their own country.
It's usually not just for "attention" or trolling purposes either;

Changing the narrative has an intent: the new narrative fits a particular purpose; whether it's to disenfranchise the system, or to encourage people to bring change.

I've seen numerous times that subways in NYC are dangerous, and I've seen videos (YT, liveleak, tiktok, etc) that show something like that, but the moment you try to bring in some form of "well no ackshully statistically it's safe" then people will invent fables to amplify the message: it doesn't matter what the statistics are, people feel unsafe.

(Note, before I get downvoted: I'm not an American, i don't contribute nor can i do anything, just giving my observation / what I think it might be; I can't even locate NY on a map.)
Even on Azure, GNU/Linux runs on top of Windows based hypervisor (Cloud Host[0]), and WSL is a VM anyway.

Thus from Microsoft's point of view all is well.

[0] - https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-os-platform-b...
Think about the number of flops needed for each comparison in brute force search.

You'll realize that it scales well beyond 1k.
Headphones blasting no music, with earplugs in.

I tried (and was successful) for years with gun mufflers with earplugs, but I got into a company where some salespeople couldn't get the message, so the switch to headphones over earplugs.

It's the next best thing to a strong ADD med :)

Also, considering your seemingly constant barrage, the pomodoro method (easily googled)
It means the big cap tech companies break the law with impunity now.

They launder the commons through some remarkably banal linear algebra and assert copyright on the resulting entropy coding.

They smash and partially re-hire and then smash staffing, washing out a bunch of ESOP in the process, timed to the week in many instances, not 15 years after the last time they got popped in Federal court for flagrant wage fixing.

They violate Sherman with App Store tariffs at payday loan vig, get popped for that, and fail to perform.

They pay OSHA penalties calibrated to a different monetary regime and just ignore it being illegal.

Do I really need to keep going? It’s a long list.
As the 31 January deadline for self-assessment tax returns approaches, taxpayers are receiving a stern warning to settle any outstanding amounts promptly and to avoid any late tax penalties.
Yes. You can buy thunderbolt 3 cables (usb-c 40gb/s) for 60-65€ that are 2m long.

I like apple but this is ridiculous
I guess so. Most of the languages compilers use SIMD under the hood -ie implicitly. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1516622/what-does-vector...
Extremely strong disagree with this[1], and the obvious question that arises is what would you do if a side is in stalemate and there isn't a stalemate rule? Would the other side win? Would the stalemated side pass? Neither seems at all satisfactory.

The non-castling variant was invented by Vladimir Kramnik[2] explored by Deep Mind not on a whim but specifically as part of Vlad's exploration of whether this chess variant would help to revitalise the game given how computer evaluation has affected theory.[3] There were also a couple of no-castling tournaments played, but like chess960[4], opinions were very much divided about whether or not it was actually any kind of improvement.

[1] Even though I pretty much always fall into stalemate traps in blitz.

[2] Former world champion and lately old guy shouting at clouds about cheating

[3] https://www.chess.com/article/view/no-castling-chess-kramnik...

[4] https://lichess.org/variant/chess960
In case anyone was wondering, the reason this was mandated in 2013 was because the government was causing private reserves to go out of business by flooding the market with cheap helium. It was believed that a private owner wouldn't do that by keeping the price high (and the law mandated a higher price until the reserve was sold).
As you have played it, does it have player owned places/shrines which can be built via some drag drop interface? I couldn't find any more info on it except what's there on the About page.
I think for me the surprising thing is that it’s not like a drug in that there isn’t negative withdrawal.

Spend a day hiking or with friends at a party or traveling and I don’t get social media withdrawal and in fact I feel better.

That’s a lot different than cigarettes or heroine. Which is good because it means there is hope to break the habit.
Surely this (unlike many other environmental and social issues) is effectively solved by price?

If helium balloons cost $100 each vastly fewer of them would be sold. If they cost $100 but you could get $90 back by bringing them back to the store for the helium to be recycled, much less helium would be consumed.

If there is a limited supply of helium for essential medical use, the price should rise until either demand is affected or less of it gets discarded by hydrocarbon extractors. If this doesn't happen we are probably ok.
does this play well with omz?
It's the classic "I have nothing to hide" argument. Which immediately breaks down when you realize that, with enough information about someone, you can implicate them in something illegal. A case can be built against them, a narrative spun, and an innocent person spending their lives locked up. This happens constantly in the US judicial system, though I believe it is often unintentional, just human bias doing it's thing.
LOL whoever wrote that CoC has a worse case of snowflakism than the local college reading club and a Trump rally combined, yet has the audacity to tell others to go see a therapist? That's bold.
Site is down.

Comparable statement from Scotland.[1]

Kids need riskier play, so that the military can get more recruits. Only about 23% of American kids qualify for the US military.[2] With a war with either Russia or China coming up, we'll need more fresh meat for the grinder.

[1] https://www.playscotland.org/resources/print/Risky-Play-Leaf...

[2] https://docs.house.gov/meetings/PW/PW07/20230511/115823/HHRG...
A quick google search seemed to indicate it was a general e-commerce related law, which is why I brought it up, but happy to take your word over mine.
Just PCA the thing on a couple billion embeddings, store those coefficients (only ~3000 floats) and in the API, report the n components with the highest variance/eigenvalue?
> they reach 1 million installs, then they do have to pay €500k

The first million is free. If they reach 1,000,001 installs, they owe Apple €0.50.
> melting the plastic not with heat but with specific solvents

Thank you, this is the core insight I was missing!
>And how the saliva freezes, heh, look at the icicle in my picture

it's probably condensate from the humidity of breath, no?
I think it could even be done by voting.
Not voting for problems, but voting for the best solutions and explanations in the comments.

Handpicking best problem and writing detailed explanations could be quite hard for one person, but if a lot of people find someones explanation useful and insightful, and vote for it, then one person could handpick from roster of problems with good explanations.

That would also help platform by engaging visitors to not only learn math, but to teach the parts they know well to others.
(I also found out that explaining math to others really helps you to understand it better, so win|win)
Tech is like the oil industry. When new source/technology for extracting value has been discovered there is a huge boom, lavish salaries and benefits.

And then source get depleted/technology becomes commodity, people lose their jobs and everything gets outsourced in search of efficiency.

Fellow coders learn from the oil workers. Don't treat your today's salary as your normal salary. Keep a huge cushion for re-training during long periods of no opportunity.
Having your test database mirror production as closely as possible is also an important habit, however I’m biased since that’s part of the offering that I’m building.
Are there any decent alternatives to iOS that won't force me into the cold embrace of Google or some huge Chinese corporation?
> Where did I go wrong?

When you compile OpenFlappyBird for iOS, your binary includes statically linked Apple intellectual property. Just as open source developers are entitled to use copyright law to enforce GPL rules[0], Apple is entitled to set license terms for use of this intellectual property.

While many operating system developers have historically chosen to license this intellectual property at no cost, many others have not. And regardless, norms aren't laws. Apple isn't required to give away their stuff for free.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#LinkingWithGPL
Things that we currently undervalue:
- Helium
- Brazil nuts
- Peat moss
"Are there any decent alternatives to the alternatives?"
Don't have exact figures but it's a lot less than zero.
Very likely correct (depending on raw score variance). Due to renormalization, the average IQ of the population stays at 100, even though the average raw score on IQ tests is much higher now than it was then. Allowing more people into college is guaranteed to decrease average IQ score of college students because the overall population's average IQ is still 100, but comparisons of average IQ scores of college students across different years is invalid.
The thing I wish the most with epub or technically the epub readers is the ability to scribble and hand write notes in them using a stylus and for them to keep them while reading again. I do that with PDFs on my iPad, but have a lot of tech books for which I took manual notes nowhere to be found again - even if I did, they are not inline with what I was reading and thinking.
I think you might find that newsprint was absolutely no different until recent times.
FWIW I really struggled to understand what you’re saying, but the gist is that society can’t regulate cash cows?
Lol no worries hero :) I am unfamiliar in the sense that I cant be bothered to actually try it. However everything I said applies to what is being described herein

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/debugger/debu...

There is no feature here that is not available for debugging Common Lisp in Emacs, which has much more powerful debugging tools, and with less overhead

https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/debugging.html
> does something that Apple disapproves of, they can revoke its notarization and banish its developer from their walled garden.

And the moment that that do that, they can rack up millions or billions of dollars of fines from the EU.
>However, usually you use it to boot a local second-stage bootloader like grub (hence the name "shim")

Would Windows Boot Manager not serve that purpose also? I have WBM chainloading into GRUB on one of my older BIOS machines, but I never got around to doing that on a UEFI machine so I'm not aware of any showstoppers.
Hydrogen is a good lifting gas. The balloon only needs enough H to lift it. The rest of the balloon could be filled with nitrogen or CO2. The H concentration may be low enough to not burn.
The point is that Apple can't say "this fee is required to distribute out precious IP, and this is a fair price for our IP, look how happy people are to use it", while also saying "oh, and if you don't use our IP, you aren't allowed to publish an app at all". And no, this doesn't entitle others to steal the IP in question. The problem is the second part, not the first.
Induce Lucid Dreaming
A lot of industry standard design patterns are a consequence of that additction-optimization UX work. So you're probably applying this whether you wish or not. On the surface it makes the app/game engaging--but why? What's the state of mind of the person using the app?

I've recently started developing a game for fun and found my self having to put a lot of effort into figuring out whether "is this _actually_ fun and fulfilling?" or "does it only make me compulsively feel like I have to continue, waiting for the fun that's around the corner (but never shows up)?"
I'd like to read the original analysis. My concern isn't about cannon fodder provision but about all round health. Kids growing up with exercise and a penchant for adventure are IMO better placed to succeed in life (long term health benefits, bravery etc.) but not so if they break their legs all the time falling off of things. It's not obvious to me how to balance these things.

The links you provide, as far as I can skim, don't weigh in on the tradeoff.
IPv6 is getting fairly widely deployed on mobile networks. A server-less push mechanism could be designed using it.

If either Google or apple adopted this mechanism for push, mobile networks would adopt ipv6
> To a significant extent, testing is about sheer volume of tests

Well, quantity != quality

Just because you have 1E10 test cases does not mean you have a large coverage…

One cleverly constructed testcase might return more insights regarding the product than 100 testcases made just to increase the number of test cases.

Goodhart's law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure" comes to mind…
Thanks for that. I can't read the article, probably because I block WASM (and Javascript) for security. None of my ebook readers have Internet access (for security and for privacy), so none of those internet-only epub files would work for me.

This might be "legal", since XHTML was intended for the web, but I assume Google's using it to collect more user interaction data that they can sell to data brokers.

FWIW, PDF is simply Postscript that's been compressed. As far as I can tell, almost all documents these days are created with Microsoft Word, TeX, or Postscript. I'm lumping things like PageMaker and LaTeX in with the base they were derived from.
The word "straw" do not appear in this article. The consumer plastic that is in the ocean is largely put there by large cities in Asia as the article points out. My plastic straws are going in to a landfill, not in to the ocean.
Archive is still up: https://web.archive.org/web/20240126065238/https://cps.ca/en...
As the author says in the post, it's all a volume game!
Tell me. Had russia treated its neighbors well, not genocided them for centuries on end, enslaved and taken liberties from them. Would they then maybe feel different about russia?

Ukraine, Poland, Finland, Baltics, all the Stans. Everyone has been been attacked by russia over the centuries. Centuries before putin was born.

The biggest problem of course is that russia is STILL doing that. Attacked Georgia, attacked Ukraine, is threatening to attack Baltics again.

There is no sign that russia can be trusted to treat it's neighbors well or be a responsible member of a world where human rights are being valued.

This is completely on russia itself, trying to play the victim is not going to work as everyone has tried to accomodate russia. Germans thought that wandel-durch-handel tried to make russia to understand that trade is more profitable than war, but this was proven to be hopelessly naive.
I don’t doubt it’s true and I kinda remember some of these - but a list of “crimes large corps have been convicted of” would make a great reference
That’s literally because Apple won’t let apps compete. If someone posts an app before you that is to similar to what you post, they will tell you no.
There was a big discussion of this topic on chess stackexchange[1]. It used to be just universally believed to be true but some modern analysts challenge the idea.

[1] https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/27815/why-does-a-k...
Commendable effort of trying to get rid of the ancient paper-based legacy in the digital world that is PDF

Though I'm curious whether the clunky old-but-still-living HTML (especially in its ugly XML variety) + CSS are the right foundations for the portable format of the future? Since the author has also developed the whole new document language would be nice to read a more in-depth overview on that subject. Or why limit to the ugly duckling of JS in the future when WASM exists?

> content by pages. Instead, we should mandate a consistent numbering scheme for block elements within a document, and have people cite using that scheme.

that's indeed the proper and more precise approach, though we could still have those "fixed layout epub" pages as a backup coordinate system
You're right, but I think age has something to do with it.

When I was young I couldn't stand to be bored. And any second not doing something I was bored. As I got older, I realized I can just stare at the wall for an hour thinking about something and never really feel bored.

The wife and I got out of it by doing just as you said, going out everyday walking around for hours.

Didn't work on the kid. That was broken with brute force internet control, that she continues to try to find ways around.
Can’t speak for other Fanboys™ but I have to help my in-laws with their Pixels weekly, which also happens to coincide with the one time a week I want to blow my brains out.

Luckily I’m extremely close to having them inducted into the fruit cult just by having them play around on my dev iPhone when I’m not working.
So fingers crossed it happens before get pushed over the edge.

As an aside: what kind of OS allows apps to create read-only contacts in the Contacts app, ffs…
Yes, China did it with Alibaba. They wrote off 1T or more in notional value.
Basically that, yes. Thanks for refactoring my question.
Even if it is pseudo-science (I seriously cannot make the demarcation), it sounds cool! But as it stands, we now must also return seriously to the concepts of neuro-security and neuro-privacy (for lack of better terms).

Ref.:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38238813
Virtual Box, is good for those that don't want to pay for stuff on local computers.

It doesn't do the performance of VMWare, nor can be used as cloud hypervisor.
I’m glad to see you here James, I was just about to make a comment linking to you’re site ;-)

/A happy exploratory tester
They aren't allowed to collect the data directly...so they have the other UKUSA/5eyes do it for them with what used to be call ECHELON. There are supposed to be restrictions on that but it is hard to tell from the outside.
Not sure how you got from my separation of unit from developer program Point A to your BYOOS Point Z. The developer program ≠ the operating system.

The phone at least in the case of iPhones is the hardware unit plus the software (the operating system, the secure boot environment, the baseband firmware, and the apps bundled with the phone).
Because of ticket FOO-123.
At present yes but there were some rumours that Apple was going to apply strict
geofencing to the new changes, over and above what they currently do, for example using GPS to ensure you are in the EU.
Lets see if Spring also gets the chop.
The Puzzle of Non-Proliferation
I think their root problem is insufficient kids, period. Then a certain percentage breaking their legs is tolerable, on a society level.
Are people still struggling with ad blockers on iOS in 2024?

Just get the Wipr Safari extension, haven’t seen an ad since I got it the year extensions were introduced.
Apart from what the other poster said, Apple also had meetings with EU regulators. Who are not judges so cannot definitely say whether something is legal, but they are the other side in any case that goes to court.

As well, I don't think we can say Apple thinks they're complying with the law. That would be protected under attorney client privilege. They only weigh up the risks of penalties.
Just guessing:

Based on the examples in the videos (linked elsethread), "parametrisism" looks more like NURBS for A/E/C, like if one designed buildings using Rhino3D.

Versus "parametric designs", as I had (also?) initially assumed, which generalizes a class of objects by introducing parameters. For example, a "bolt" metadesign that can generate a specific bolt derived from the given parameters. An analogy might be "templates for 3D objects".
> You aren’t the only party in the transaction.

I am. And even if I’m not, I don’t give a rats ass.

If entity providing the application wants money, it can talk to me.
There is nothing inherently bad about some corporations or individuals ceteris paribus generating windfall profits. Ceteris paribus is doing a lot of lifting there, because nepotism, graft, cartel collusion, bribery and generally capture are trivially the dominant terms.

The fungibility of windfall profits into induced market failure to generate more windfall profits has historically only ended one way.
The people that live near the rivers. Instead of landfills, dumps, or incineration, they just discard it directly in to the rivers or on to the street where it is washed in to rivers.
In 2021 and 2022 companies hired developers in masses.
Low interest rates and a boom mentality lead to an extraordinary number of projects being started even if not profitable.

In hindsight it was very similar to the dotcom boom.

Now as interest rates raise, all those funny projects get canceled therefor people getting laid off.

As a freelancer I have trouble now closing any contract.

However I also realized that it’s not every sector that is doomed. Only web seems dead right now.
I changed my business model aiming for embedded and industry software, especially C++.
Apparently there is an HN rule stating that we should never ask a commenter whether or not they have read the article posted. I respect that rule, it's there for a reason to prevent snark and all sorts of flamebait that can turn a forum toxic. However, for the sake of encouraging thoughtful and constructive discussion I am going to politely point out that the answer to that question was to be found in both the original article posted and the BBC story subsequently linked in the parent comment.