skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Major reason Apple is mad about this is because it threatens their strategy of taking over the ad market: https://www.fool.com/investing/2023/11/19/apple-secret-digit...

Apple’s only real beef with other companies is when they are making money on iPhones without giving Apple their cut.
What part of this bill justifies a comparison to sexual assault?
My snarky frontend response is "devs will do anything to avoid fixing their CSS," but truly the task is too herculean to bother with on any most timescales. (You think "Untangle and reduce CSS bundle by X% with 0% improvement to any real KPI" is a ticket that's ever going to get prioritized?)

As others have said, this might be an interesting way to start zapping bloated CSS assets on aging codebases.
Not really sure why anyone just LOVES Apple.
The Tlaxcalans made the mistake of engaging the conquistadors where their cavalry was most effective and allowed them to fortify themselves at Tzompachtepetl, at which point Spanish armor provided to be too effective for Tlaxcalan tactics (send wave after wave of troops instead of overwhelming them). Eventually they just kind of gave in and weren't really defeated in great number before allying against the Aztecs.

In their very first skirmish at the edge of Tlaxcalan territory where it was mountainous and undeveloped, a small scout troop took down two horses out of the sixteen that Cortex had with him. Spanish tactics and discipline were enough to overcome large numbers only when they controlled where the battles happened. If Montezuma had used guerilla tactics during the subsequent trip, it would have been far more effective (he had plenty of spies reporting on their movements so I don't think the logistics would have been that difficult). Cortes even lengthened the journey in part to minimize how much time they'd spend in terrain that favored those tactics.

Maybe "obsessed" is the wrong word but Montezuma was influenced by legends of Quetzalcoatl as a white-skinned, bearded man who opposed human sacrifices and was reluctant to just go out and slaughter the conquistadors. Their religion was definitely an influence in the whole affair beyond just the whole human sacrifice bit.
"Computer Science > Digital Libraries"

how does this even merit inclusion on arxiv? Does it even count as science? We're talking meta-computer-science. Meanwhile, It's hard enough for me to get the endorsement to publish my actual math paper on there, which has afik new results. The computer science section of arxiv feels like a giant citation ring of mediocre, math-light papers.
Fermyon is practicing it. Initial stages, awaiting finalization of the standards, but it works.
It really does, and their implementation is an actual racket.

The best example is that you cannot install Chrome through the app store on MacOS. In its place? A bunch of garbage apps that people install thinking they're Chrome. So much for quality control.

Millions of users have braved the risky, buggy and deadly internet to install Chrome as a result of this. Nobody cares.

Tell me, if millions of Mac users can download apps successfully, with little malware, why is it the phones need all the protection?

We all know the real answer involves 27-30%.
Small typo: "Receive Submissions" has a typo in "recieve".
Yes, but you choose to use Unreal because it's actually good. Meanwhile Apple gives you no choice.
Because it's really good, not because it's the only option.
If you must use an SD card then there are industrial-grade ones which use pSLC NAND and are meant to endure a ton of abuse, but they're very expensive compared to an equivalent amount of reliable eMMC/USB/NVMe storage. IME commodity SD cards are still a crapshoot.
It also assumes that the _US_ would allow a China-run port in Israel, which is so unlikely it might as well be impossible. Israel is a nuclear weapons state and such a close US ally that they basically have their own F-35 fighter jet variant.

This would NEVER happen.
Speed limits aren’t the problem because people ignore them and drive by feeling. The correct solution is not more enforcement but rather better design to reduce the speed that feels right. Narrower lanes, chicanes, barriers between pedestrians and vehicles, roundabouts instead of stop signs, the usual playbook that people ignore because it’s expensive.

More enforcement is what we tried with drugs, how’d that go?
How is their press release important? They did provide the means and tools EU forced them too. Users are not going to be reading this and deciding not install Firefox on iOS.
No, it isn't.

China officially recognizes the state of Palestine.

The Isreali supreme court itself has determined that Gaza is not Isreali territory.
> UNLIMITED POWER!

> The "killer feature" of PinePhone is that you can SSH into it as any other Linux machine

OP, you might be interested in Android I think. It runs a Linux kernel, you can enable root access, and then use something like Linux Deploy to install a distro of your choosing that runs as though it's a normal app. I've been using that since my first Android device and have been able to ssh into my phone "just like any Linux machine" this whole time.

Indeed, I find it a killer feature and don't understand not more people want to access their DCIM folder via sshfs (bookmark it in the file manager for easy access, never get your phone out of your pocket anymore to send a photo to PC) or make full-system backups via something like restic. I also use qalc as calculator on the command line whenever I need more than simple multiplication. Fully recommended.

(Do use ssh keys instead of a password to avoid needing to type some super strong password on the phone to connect to localhost, since phones get taken into all sorts of untrustworthy WiFi networks)
I got a model 3 RWD last quarter and it has a LFP battery. I think it's the only Tesla with LFP batteries
I have an iPhone 13 Mini, and it reminds me constantly that the logout link on HN is global, and I have many computers. Maybe too many.
No it didn't.

The bill is fine. Apple will lose. It just takes some time.
Bet your sweet bippy they won't hesitate a single second to elaborately point out any scam happening via apps in third party marketplaces.
How is that relevant?

The point of this entire exercise is to allow developers and consumers to leave the Apple app store if they like. A free choice. If people must stick with it because the alternative will lead to total financial ruin, then there is still no choice.
Read the whole article. Similar "coincidences" also exist for the other Windows games.

On the other hand: if you do consider these coincidences to be spurious, I won't urge you to change your opinion. Instead I give a famous quote from the movie Matrix:

"This is your last chance. After this there is no turning back. You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes… Remember, all I’m offering is the truth, nothing more…"

(quoted from https://www.matrixfans.net/movies/the-matrix/transcript/)
I still think the trackball should have taken off for FPS games.

Huge flicks and fine precision on the same device without a dpi switch...
> It's more like they aren't aware of the risks.

I doubt that. Decades of having to run malware (removal) software on Windows has pretty much guaranteed everyone knows what a virus is.
I’m tempted to switch from nano-Dijkstra to nano-Apple.
My regular IDE is IDEA with a bunch of language plugins, so I think I have a reasonable idea where you're coming from.

The idea is to have a tool that can be either a lightweight text editor when you want that or a full on IDE when you want that, and potentially use a remote (could just be another machine on your desk or could've a container on a server) machine for the heavy lifting parts.

I like the premise, but the public beta (or whatever they're calling it) is a little rough to use daily, for me.
Indeed, anyone who knows anything about China’s long-range logistics knows that direct military conflict would be suicidal for China.

Their only chance would be to make a bet that attacking them would be politically unacceptable.
Tangent question — isn’t Chinese iOS firmware different due to their regulations as well? It’s a similar situation, just different applications of laws.
I'm not sure why you think that hiring less intelligent people will make a manager look good? Quite the contrary; less intelligent people make more mistakes that make you look bad, and need more hand holding, which is just more work.

It's certainly true that hiring managers won't want someone massively overqualified for a role, as they will simply be bored and will likely not stay.

But never seen anyone filter out someone suitable for a role because they seem more intelligent than them though.
At this point, I consider it deterministic in terms of efficacy

So you can basically hand me any problem and I will implement this process, and I have a high success rate for delivering desired outcomes.

And again, this isn’t really like my process I invented. It boils down into a practical implementation of a Markoff process in planning as applied to any set of tasks such they could be discretely described as a state machine.

The key challenge IMO is in describing the state machine, and that is what takes a lot of elucidation.

In many cases we don’t have the ability to precisely describe a process as a state machine because we haven’t defined the boundaries of the system, and then measured it enough, in enough different dimensions, across enough time to be able to give that level of understanding to input an outputs.
As it is, I already run a Debian VM locally to seal off the "development" stuff from my primary desktop.

Is is kinda heavy? Yeah. The hard disk footprint is substantial. But it works fine for writing some Python, compiling a few dependencies and bringing up a browser to test stuff. Even on a six-year-old laptop, it runs OK.

If the client application needs 1990's capabilities, "chuck it in a VM" will work today, and it will only be limited by protocol support, I/O access, and OS integration. There are substantial accessibility problems presented by VMs - seemingly basic things like clipboard support are disagreeable and require a "smart emulator" inserting itself to provide that feature.

Perhaps the right direction to take is to develop MAME to contain every accessibility feature. It already emulates all the old hardware.
Just a caveat, this is 128k context length for ingestion, I believe the output is still constrained to just 4k tokens.
That's just objectively true.

https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/Building_a_Trusted_Ecosys...
And one would assume, those businesses don't care nor need to operate in the EU, either.
Bad UX, great idea. Cursing in other languages is my prime influence for learning them.
How so? I am oblivious to this aspect of the bill, it looks like a net benefit to users. How is this going to benefit adtech?
I wanted to joke that Apple should increase non-App Store fees to $1000 + 80% per app install to invest those fees into better malware protection, but I also don't want to give Apple any more ideas.
This is unlikely to happen for several reasons.

First, battery technology has changed to require only one rare ore: lithium. Older battery chemistries required nickel and cobalt, but the most popular chemistry in electric vehicles today is lithium iron phosphate.[1] It has lower energy density than nickel manganese cobalt (NMC) or nickel cobalt aluminum (NCA), but lasts longer and is safer.

Second, lithium is everywhere. The reason why most lithium comes from salt flats in Australia, Chile, and China is because that's the cheapest way to get it. But there are plenty of other salt flats around the world, and the oceans themselves contain over 100 billion tons of lithium (1,000x more than known land resources). If today's biggest producers form a cartel and try to control prices, other sources will become economically viable.

Third, lithium is a tiny fraction of the cost of an electric vehicle. LFP batteries have around 160 grams of lithium per kWh, so a typical car battery (60-90kWh) has 10-15kg of lithium. The spot price for lithium is $15/kg, so the materials cost per car is around $150-250. If lithium prices went up by a factor of 10, the cost of the car would only go up by 5%. In contrast, doubling the price of petroleum almost doubles the cost of driving.

Fourth, demand for lithium extraction will go down in the long run. This is because unlike petroleum, lithium stays in the car. Older EVs contain lots of lithium (and other raw materials) that can be recycled into new batteries. Old batteries are basically very high quality ore. Lithium recycling may sound unlikely to some, but we already have existence proofs of recycling happening with other cheaper elements. 80% of all copper ever mined is still in use. The number for aluminum is almost as high. Remember that the cost per kg of copper is half that of lithium, and aluminum is 1% the cost of lithium.

I'm really not worried about rare ores being the bottleneck for electric vehicle adoption. In 2022, world lithium production was around 130,000 metric tons. That's enough to produce 9 million cars. In that same year, 85 million motor vehicles were built. Assuming we wanted all vehicle production to be EVs, and assuming an average battery capacity of 90kWh, that would require 1,224,000 tons of lithium. If lithium production increases at the same rate it did from 2016-2022 (3.5x)[2], it will take another 12 years before there is enough capacity to make every vehicle electric. I doubt things will take off that quickly, but you never know. EV designs are simpler than combustion vehicles, and the raw materials costs are similar. As EV production volumes increase and manufacturers design for farther down-market, we should see prices continue to drop.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_iron_phosphate_battery

2. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/lithium-production?tab=ch...
>Zionists got permission to occupy the land from the British with The Balfour Declaration

This is not an accurate representation. Jewish people were given the legal ability to purchase land in Mandatory Palestine. The vast majority of Palestinian Arabs were tenant farmers or landless labourers. Jewish land purchases inevitably led to the displacement of these tenants, but this was the lawful outcome of a lawful land sale.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_land_purchase_in_Palest...

The issues surrounding occupation of land after the 1948 and 1967 wars are significantly more complex and arguably do involve violations of international law by Israel.
Apple is calling the EU's bluff here. It's an american company. The EU can't break it up. They could ban the import of Apple devices, but they don't have the nerve.
Do you have insight on the vulnerable networks? Like, which are "doing better than another" at managing weaponization?

I assume X is worse as it has gone through a dramatic restructuring this past year, losing employees and the overt mission of being responsible management of its content.

What are the other networks' performance in this regard?
I'm not sure what you mean. ChatGPT with GPT4 uses Bing to search the web.
Chat GPT4 does do internet searches now.
Yes, you can use the component model (and other tooling like WIT) without using WASI.

Yes, the component model is a standard developed under the umbrella of the W3C's WebAssembly Community Group.

That said, while it is relatively stable and hasn't changed much in the last year or so, the component model has not graduated through all the phases of the standardization process yet. It doesn't, for example, have a formal specification yet, although its canonical ABI does have a reference implementation in Python.

https://github.com/WebAssembly/component-model/
Not automated but machine-augmented: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35668525
At least some users will. Not the original but a regurgitated version on some news site. That's all they can do, so why wouldn't they.
> Reason being that we would've obviously heard a loud uproar if every Pixel phone was suddenly bricked.

Many people (most?) have more than one device... computer... etc.. either way, there are many other ways to contact someone.
Any decent digital one should be able to do that I imagine. I've got an entry-level Siglent[1], it can do 1 microHz and up. Or am I missing something?

[1]: https://www.siglenteu.com/waveform-generators/sdg1000x-serie...
> ignored ... and that led to a monster growing at their borders

Ignored? No, most of that administration actively encouraged and fostered Hamas for years and years. To their mind, it was better for their aims to build Hamas into a hardline organization, and more appealing than the alternative, which was a Palestine which was (slowly) becoming more open to compromise, more diplomatic (around the end of Arafat).

It pushed their nationalist agenda further to have a boogeyman in the form of Hamas, than to have to answer awkward questions like "Palestine is being very reasonable and open, so why isn't Israel?"
> The fact that tons and tons of what constitutes the backend of modern finance tech is the exact same shit that was originally built in the 70's is not something that I think can be overlooked so easily.

Which is the thing enabled by moving the responsibility somewhere else. Because then their customers don't care, and the industry doesn't lose business to an alternative by failing to improve security.

> Your social security number (if you're American) for example is basically a unified ID number that corresponds to everything from your medical records to your credit report to bank accounts to insurance, on and on, and accessing information with that number is nearly completely insecure.

Which is why it should never be used for authentication, and isn't for companies with reasonable security, and doesn't have to be. You authenticate the user with passwords, cryptography, one-time email tokens, etc., not unchangeable not-so-secret numbers shared across all institutions. But see above regarding what causes them to not care about security.

What we could have done, and maybe still should, is limit social security numbers to use as a tax ID and ban their use for any other purpose. Why does your healthcare provider need your social security number? They can issue their own patient ID if they need something like that, and then if that gets compromised it limits the scope of what it can be used for.

> But we have advanced so much since then and yet EFTs despite just being like... digital checks remain basically inaccessible to working class people, despite them being objectively useful and, again, literally just checks in a different form.

So this is also part of the scam.

Credit cards charge the merchant ~3%. That's way more than the cost of handling chargebacks, especially because they also put the cost of chargebacks on the merchant. But then the finance industry doesn't want to make EFT easier to use, because then merchants would want to use it instead of paying 3% to the credit card companies, who are really the same companies and therefore drag their heels in making EFT easy to use.

And the chargebacks are part of what enables this, because the customer might be willing to use a more secure payment system in order to save 3%, if they had any reason to care about security. The other part is credit card rewards programs, which make the user think they're getting rewards, when really they're paying twice that much or more to the credit card companies for the transaction.
Makes sense, particularly with the “fun” bit.

In the future, a ramdisk is a great way to make files from disk fast in a manner where the caller is naive to this. For instance you could create a ramdisk and then give that path to nginx for the caching config.
Diesel is more like 3.175 (25%) due to the inefficiencies of small heat engines. You're throwing away like 3/4 of the energy as waste heat. Electric motors are >95% efficient and lithium batteries are in the high-90s percent efficient.

Electricity is already low-entropy, whereas energy from burning petrol is high entropy and thus contains less useful work.
https://twitter.com/JeffDean/status/1750930658900517157

> Bard, powered by the Gemini Pro-scale model, debuts at the #2 position on the independent lmsys leaderboard.

According to Jeff Dean's tweet, it looks like they have a new "Gemini Pro-scale model" being rolled out, not sure what it means by "Pro-scale" though. Also not sure if everyone already got it...
You frame it as a negative thing, but FOSS is a positive for society. I contribute to FOSS in ways that directly benefit myself, and incidentally benefit others. Incidentally I benefit from others' contributions to FOSS, as a consumer, and also as a business.

It's a positive sum good for everyone, not some adversarial zero-sum game.

It's so good that we need to be doing a lot more of it, and (I think we'd all agree) figure out more ways to allocate capital to FOSS.
plenty of other tech in NYC too. ISPs, all sorts of F500 orgs (not just finance), etc.

The rents are no joke, but if I had to be out of a job and in tech, NYC or SF would be top picks (maybe Denver, Austin, DC, or RDU after that).
I don't think it was a blanket statement. He's claiming that the millions of people GP is talking about are doing low-skill work – suggesting that there might be tech workers, too, but that there are less than millions of them.
This site says nothing about what the actual rule is. Yes, we get it, you don't like the rule, but for heaven's sake tell us what it actually is that you don't like.
They haven't yet provided the tools they're being forced to. What they announced so far is a joke and clearly non-compliant with the DMA. Given it's still two months out until it comes into force, they're probably testing the water how much they can still get away with... after all it really sucks when someone takes away your ability to steal 30% from the whole market...
Its not a proposal, It was passed in 2022.

It is simply another example of California introducing back door welfare taxes that aren't included in the state budget.

Taxes aren't increased, but companies are mandated to charge different prices to customers.
Wait, did Android suddenly disappear?
@dang, can you please do something to stop propaganda accounts?
> It's a fun question to speculate about why that is.

For me, it's humility.

If from now on, I quit everything else I do and just focus on studying a competitive game, like chess. I'll treat it like a full-time job, spending 8 hours on it a day, for 3 years. That's about 8k hours.

What'll this land me on? Unless I'm covertly the best chess genius ever, the chances are: pretty good, but not great. I'll slay a local chess club, while having 0 winrate against pros.

That's why I'm hesitiate to invest actively.
> If the US stops all support immediately, this could be the end of Israel.

How would Israel disappear? Palestine is clearly no match for them - who else is expected to suddenly move in?

I certainly think we could stop funding their military while still pledging to support them if someone actually tries to invade.

Keep in mind, Israel has it's own defense budget - it's not like it's military just disappears when US funding dries up
Hello, do you have a link or name?
That is definitely Israel’s intention, but suppose China did go for it.

Does Israel have the stones for direct airstrike on Chinese fleet? It’s gonna get messy. It’s a big game of chicken, I am not sure who I would bet on.
I’ve never, in my life, heard someone say “let’s double-click on that idea”
Core Web Vitals affect application SEO
So, what other features do you wish to prevent and or remove from iOS/iPhones because you don't have a use for them even though they would not affect you one iota?
I'm pretty sure that would violate the clause that explicitly prevents them from working around the bill by making it absurdly inaccessible for the user.

After the USB C debacle, the EU has learned to include such a clause pretty well, I guess.