skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Isn't Spotify one of the "special" companies that Apple bent to and gave an exception just for them?

Nope. Under the old rules any company with a free app used to access subscription content didn't have to pay anything unless they took payments through their app.

Netflix would be another example.

> pointing users to subscriptions and payments outside of the app is explicitly not allowed

It's definitely allowed now, since that's the only point on which Epic won their case vs. Apple.
They have so much plastic waste that they use it to build new islands in Japan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yumenoshima
The smell is apparent when one doffs their suit after a spacewalk.
ESPN monopoly power: "You'll take 720p broadcasts and like it."
The selfie taking draws a parallel between rats in a Skinner box and humans in social media. The point is to make people wonder whether social media companies view their users the same way Skinner viewed his rats in a box: dumb, and able to be manipulated with meager and cheap rewards.

It is not a functional piece of the "experiment", but I don't think it was ever meant to be functional or a real experiment. The artist says the rats don't recognize themselves, so I would assume they predicted the selfies would do nothing.

The selfie taking is the only interesting part of the piece, imo. Without that, it's just replicating an 80 year old experiment that has already been replicated to death.
"Break" and "continue" have been (accurately) described as "structured goto". They are, at heart, goto. But they are constrained to operate in ways the make sense within the structured programming approach.
what makes you think they didn't?
I'm not sure if it's due to having come across this quote long ago, but this idea is ingrained in my bones.

Except I think people have often overly focused on "lines of code" as the unit for this metric, leading many to overrate terse code, even when it is very dense.

But I'm not sure what wording would capture this idea succinctly enough to include it in a pithy quote.
Show HN: AI-powered Git commit workflow
A simple CLI tool that automatically commits to the current branch with an AI-generated commit message.
One of my favorite quotes from Dijkstra is his not so subtle dig on the arrogance of MIT professors on refusing to adopt his solutions to their problems in OS design. Given the time of the remarks, they're most probably the original designers of the ill fated Multics OS.

"You can hardly blame M.I.T. for not taking notice of an obscure computer scientist in a small town in the the Netherlands."
Does this mean web Bluetooth is coming to iOS?
Frequencies beyond the Nyquist limit alias back to resolved modes. So a combination of the camera plus a human eye to check that the flashing is “fast” (i.e. above the Nyquist limit) should be enough to verify the frequency.
> Power Macintosh G3 All-In-One

Everyone knows that as the Molar Mac. They look like a tooth and were used primarily in Education. They were a decent if not hideous machine.

I learned HTML and JavaScript on one in 1998-1999. We had the option to spend study hall in the computer lab and I took it every time. I would spend an hour every day working on my Geocities site. Those were the days.

I would frankly just love to find one in decent condition to have for the memories, the transparent top grille seems to always be busted up.
Light Therapy ( Low Level Laser Therapy (LLLT) and others) for brain-related disorders has been here for decades. I speny a lot of time looking at the research on it and have a mixed opinion on it. But many desperate families believe in the magic of it.
I think it's established that photos taken by animals are not copyrightable works, so you can do anything you want with them, at least in the USA.
Oasis – a small, statically-linked Linux system
Social groups are becoming increasingly fragmented and driven apart by social media. It’s well known that people from different political tribes receive irreconcilably different visions of the world. Why wouldn’t the same fracture happen across gender as well?
I have a circle of password managers all storing each other's master password
yeah that happened here too. Was it an LG?
How does it compare to the energy ratio of US fracking? It’s a similar process of using heated water (though not steam so maybe a greater volume of water) to break the oil from shale.

It uses a ton of water. I think more than oil sands so, if the oil sands displace some fracking it is a global net positive to have that substation.

About a decade ago I realized we are going to extract all the oil, no matter what. All we can do is try to slow the rate to give nature time to heal and maybe develop counter measures to pollution.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/09/25/climate/frack...
I might at some point build machine with a high-end GPU for AI stuff but so far I don't do that and I do not game at all (except on my vintage arcade cab once every blue moon) so I love CPUs with an iGPU.

> These days these cards are mostly extinct

Precisely. It's really hard to find a GPU that is passively cooled and typically GPUs have fans that are ultra-noisy when under load.

I had an AMD 3700X CPU (no iGPU on that one) and I really didn't like it.

So one year ago I built myself a little rig: AMD 7700X CPU, Be Quiet! tower, Noctua fan, 32 GB of DDR5 and that series of CPU does have an iGPU. I put it in eco mode (I think at peak it'll draw 95W instead of 105W: no discernible difference which I tested with, for example, compiling the Linux kernel or compiling Emacs) in the UEFI/BIOS and when I use it it's often running in powersaving mode (for example when I switch to a browser, the CPU automatically goes to powersaving mode but if I switch to Emacs or an IDE, it goes to performance mode).

The thing is exceptionally quiet. When it's compiling on all cores I can slightly hear the CPU's fan (a Noctua one) ramping up and that's how I like it: it's very muffled, very subtle, but I can hear it. When I do something else than compiling, it's inaudible.

If you want a really quiet desktop and don't game, a CPU with an iGPU is the way to go IMO.
It is very easy (and amusing) to prove this wrong by playing a video of birds / fish / other wild animals and let your cat watch :)
The GOTO-paper is widely misunderstood though. It is making a case for blocks and scopes and functions as structures which makes it easier to analyze and reason about the execution of complex programs. The case against unconstrained GOTO follows naturally from this since you can't have those structures in combination with unconstrained GOTO.
It's an artistic remix of the classic Skinner Box experiment.
The creator is an artist, not a scientist, and his point is being artistically rather than scientifically.

As a sidenote: Social media has been described as a skinner box a million times before, but expressing it literally like this is, IMO, clever, interesting, and also cute. The idea using scientific experiments as metaphor to make art is cool, and I hope people start to do more things like this.
FBReader uses CSS from the document by default; you can turn it off in, IIRC, four stages.

KOreader gives you more control but in a less friendly manner: in addition to choosing specific CSS from several supplied files, you can write your own.

(Also wins for KOreader: excellent OPDS support, and easy self-hosted sync server.)
Yes! It's an LG Ultra HD running at 2560x1440 @ 60Hz
The whole oil scene in California is bad...Between the number of unplugged wells (just look at photos of South Belridge field to get an idea of the potential of what is out there) and the amount of water used in California for oil production (it is a bit different than every other basin in the U.S. due to the oil gravity - the vast majority need steam flooding, so 3-5 barrels of fresh water/bbl oil produced), the state, the one oil producer that you would think wants to be environmentally friendly, is probably the worst of the top producing states.
Why compare these particular countries? And why is x axis on different scale for each country?
This is so true. Electron is bloated and it's only used because it's easier. Same with React Native. We have got to stop putting DX over UX.

"WhatsApp Helper, WhatsApp Helper, WhatsApp Helper (GPU), WhatsApp Helper (Renderer) and WhatsApp Helper (Renderer). A Mac app shouldn't need any of these. They’re probably communicating with each other using sockets or ports, or maybe shared files. This really isn’t how you’re supposed to build a Mac app. This shouldn’t become normalized."
This really isn't that surprising - as has been discussed many times here - young men in particular are being badly affected by modern cultural mores especially in the relationship games dominated by digital services.

Add into that the hyper-masculine voices that often correctly identify these issues while prescribing sometime toxic solutions in a public space that otherwise denies their suffering it's inevitable that ideological divides will develop.

The problems will continue as mainstream media grudgingly notes the consequences while sticking it's head in the sand as to the causes as it has done for years.
It's well known there are only two political ideologies and those are uniform internationaly.
When you come across a strange Macintosh, make sure it's not a creation of NanoRaptor, like this Apple 2e with Laserdisc drive: https://bitbang.social/@NanoRaptor/111173459132307169
Subscriptions bring in a tiny fraction of the money that advertisers pay, and these days most journalists will happily lie for free if it supports their preferred political agenda. The only way a news organization can be impartial or unbiased is if they do not take any money from advertisers of any type, do not receive freebies or donations of any type (including press badges), and all the members of the organization actually believe that they should leave their own personal political opinions at home. On top of all of that, they actually have to be capable of investigating things, which is not a given. A pretty rare combination these days.
People rushing to slap “AI” on their products don’t really know what they need? Yea that’s absolutely what’s happening now
> It feels like a bit of doomed a project simply bc browsers don't open EPubs.

I guess that's why the article is actually an epub opened with a WASM epub viewer :)
> 45% of people online have working IPv6 today

This is more helpful than most of the widely broadcast IPv6 adoption figures.

Percent of end-user connections with IPv6 is the figure we need most.
There are quite many virtual table top. Or VTT softwares around. Some more official, some less official. So really there is plenty of choice. Still it takes a bit of managing as fully automating everything is quite complex.
Aren't you then just attacking a programming style that nobody actually uses or advocates?

One of the most influential books about OOP - "Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software" - talks about composition, separating interface from implementation etc - not about hierarchies ( other than to prefer composition ).
>That Christians worship an unreasonable, malicious or mad, god with unreasonable standards.

See now after a few rounds we see your real thoughts come out. I'm old enough to have had this thought and many more about God/Religion and why humans need it in their lives.

I don't have the time to go into it but perhaps as you get older and dig into this more it will start to make sense.
Sorry, but this is not true. Every significant publisher produces EPUB these days. Most reading apps support EPUB (including apps from Apple and Google), Readium and EDRLab offer open-source SDKs that ease the development of mobile, desktop and Web reading software with strong EPUB 3 support, including MathML. Readium LCP is a DRM for EPUB, especially for public libraries that need an e-lending end date. More, EPUB is much more accessible than PDF for blind people and other people with disabilities. PDF has no interest for ebooks (but for short documents, yes).
Surprisingly (or unsurprisingly?) it's not the first time that question has come up.

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

Note that this also may have implications for AI-generated work.

Here's how, ignoring the many legal theories, it's handled in practice in the US right now:

> On 21 August 2014 the United States Copyright Office published an opinion [..] to clarify that "only works created by a human can be copyrighted under United States law, which excludes photographs and artwork created by animals or by machines without human intervention".

However note that whether it's "copyright free" will depend on the jurisdiction and also that the article is talking about a french artist. While copyright law is very same-ish across the globe (and countries recognize each other's copyright), it often varies in the fine details.
Be good at software. Be better at everything else.
It's VR-only but VTOL VR is incredible and I think matches what you're talking about here? I haven't played those older ones you mentioned though
I think about the playground at my childhood elementary school. Swings, jungle gyms, overhead ladders, teeter-totters, all the usual stuff -- in an area paved with either asphalt or crushed stone. Beyond that was a grassy field where you could just run, wander around, play ball, etc. There were a few trees around the perimeter that got a lot of climbing.

Yes you could fall and get hurt. You learned to not do that.
Could you just buy a cheap signal generator and hook it up to some LEDs and headphones to make a hardware version of this?
Reminds of audio visual hallucination experiment someone shared here where you put on a headphone which plays white noise, and screen similarly flashes different colors but after a while the noise starts to sound like voices and color flashes change into shapes for you.
I'm hoping that Intel's integration of HBM on CPUs trickles down into something that doesn't cost $10k. It puts CPU memory bandwidth in the same ballpark as GPUs. And honestly at 16-32GB, it's enough for some whole systems, without needing DDR5 DIMMs.
This is neat, but using an off the shelf power bank and keeping it plugged in is going to destroy the battery in a year or two. Those Li-ion pouch cells deteriorate rapidly at 100% charge, especially in a warm environment.

It's better to use a DIY DC UPS with some LiFePo4 cells, that only charges them to 80% or so. And you won't have any issues with power reset.

There's also much more of a fire risk when using Li-ion cells compared to LiFePo4.
what monopoly?

https://www.counterpointresearch.com/insights/global-smartph...
Who are you talking about? I explicitly said that I can understand the interest in both types of ecosystems and even that one person may like different scenarios for different devices.
> If you want a really quiet desktop and don't game, a CPU with an iGPU is the way to go IMO.

Or a modern CPU and a really old PCIe GPU.
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This is just wrong. Historically application platforms charged for developer tools and support. You had to buy new tools regularly to access new OS features and you had to pay for documentation or human support. The commission model just flipped the fee structure, which is arguably better for everyone because the upfront costs were a barrier to entry and disincentivized free apps.
I don’t think it matters. While it would have been interesting if the rats got pleasure looking at themselves, ultimately this is an art project about human society that is meant for human consumption. The fact that we read about it means it was somewhat successful. The issue of whether the rats got a dopamine kick from just pressing the button is irrelevant.
I understand a lot of your points, but in general, I have found there's a big spectrum between rules heavy and rules light and a lot of players do not want to be on the "light" side of things for any of these few reasons.

- They don't know what they can do

- They feel doing something cool but cringey (trying to dodge bullets like Neo) is more acceptable when there's explicit rules letting them do that. Otherwise they're embarrassed to do it.

- Rules actually make creative actions feel more creative.

- The decisions of the DM can feel arbitrary and, at times, ill-informed by their world views.

I think what makes TTRPGs work for a lot of people is finding a good balance between feeling restricted and feeling free. Otherwise we're kids on a playground, making up imaginary shields to block each others lasers. And I never liked that game.
It does make me start to think that there is perhaps a large contingent of people who go around their daily lives just skimming and reacting to headlines. How does that affect their interpretation of the world around them, I wonder? How does it affect their voting?
No speculation on causation? Or is that in follow-on tweets that I can't access?
While individual-level attribution is becoming more complex, we can still achieve B2B digital marketing success.
depending on your age that may have been true, I think old crt tvs refresh rate made it so that dogs would not be able to perceive the actual image.
In D&D parlance, "1st edition" means AD&D1, original D&D is "0e", and the original stuff is considered Chainmail.
There is, obviously, a lot of stuff tied up in this data; but, when you look at the current gender data on higher-ed students and graduates, and the historical trend of higher education attendance and graduation with liberal ideological affiliation, then this isn't super surprising.

(One could also argue that critiques of neo-liberalism (an amorphous term to be sure) have also gone "mainstream." Yet while in higher-ed those critiques are often synonymous with a left-leaning worldview, we're seeing a critique from the "other side," the non-higher educated demographic.)
Yes you could. But the only thing I saw online that’s ready to buy like this was over $100!
Every program should be as simple as possible, but no simpler.
His article in today's FT may be a better link. I'm a big fan of JBM.

https://www.ft.com/content/29fd9b5c-2f35-41bf-9d4c-994db4e12...

I thought the UK graph was incredible. How did such a left-leaning country end up with such an opposite government for 14 years? The answer is the voting system, first past the post. Boris Johnson won total control of the UK with 43% of the vote.
Same with an LG running at 2560x1080

Now what is causing it?
Whether it's RAF or CSS, this would only reliably work on a 120hz display (or anything else higher than 80hz and divisible by 40.)
> Q: Does Daft Social support RSS?

> A: Yes, just add an username to https://daftsocial.com/rss?feed= to get the RSS feed.

This could really benefit from auto-discovery. Asking users to find the FAQ then construct a URL is not a very effective measure.

The auto-discovery TL;DR is if you put a link tag like the following onto a user's pages then you can subscribe to the feed just by putting any of their articles into your feed reader. This may also help SEO as Google and other search engines will discover and watch the feed.

<link rel=alternate title="{username}" type=application/atom+xml href="/rss/?feed={username}">

I wrote a bit more detail about auto-discovery here: https://kevincox.ca/2022/05/06/rss-feed-best-practices/#disc...
Thanks for sharing these. Is the 4x4 matrix a shared secret you get at registration?

I've definitely seen photo array as an additional factor in a 3 factor setup, never as the second factor.
As tech lead on my team, I ask them to make it to standup and I'll forgive any other absence. It's 15 minutes, we time box it so we just hang up on second 900 if we even make it that long.

My team won't update ticket comments, they wont read emails, they won't read Teams channel questions directed at them. I try to keep these things at a minimum so that I can't be accused of making a point about over-stimulation - I get it.

But if they start to skip standup, the one time each day I can ask them where the hell one of my things I need is, then I have no reliable connection to them at all. And I'm not a boss so all I can do is beg.
It's not just you. It's not even just tech. The economists are wrong. By all indications the economy is strong, profits are up, overall employment numbers are the lowest they've been in a while. But here in the US, companies regardless of their bottom line, are laying off huge chunks of their employees. Some to correct overhiring in previous years, some to show Wall Street they've met their numbers, and some are still hedging against a downturn that was projected but did not come. Rates are not coming down, so companies are not borrowing cash to cover growing head count, and the ones who are hiring are drawing out the process. Our org for example, only added 4 new developers across our entire global footprint in 2023. We needed a lot more, especially backend devs, but were not allowed to add headcount. Every quarter we are being asked to do more with less.
They pay for updates indefinitely? That's not very sustainable for the business is it? To justify continued investment in backwards compatibility and security patches, a business needs an ongoing source of revenue.
I'm not sure what just happened but this webpage literally damaged my monitor.

There is now some flickering over the whole screen (it's not my mind, I filmed and checked my mind with another screen)
Isn't a program really a scientific experiment? About as pure as you can get. It's not formalized as such but that's trivial.
What’s your AWS bill like ?
I've actually seen one of the effects of this among my single friends who have observed that conservatives now put "non-political" on their dating profiles because if they put conservative they get no matches. But since that's obvious now non-political is "okay, so conservative." The best part about this is that one of my single friends is conservative herself and won't even match with conservative men.

I think it's great honestly. Women might not hold a lot of political power directly but mate selection is a powerful motivator for change.
I mean neural net-based. FSR uses traditional algorithms. It's a lot worse than DLSS, although how much worse varies from game to game.
> Seems like an ideal use case for a modern chat-based search of the rule books.

With that we're 1/3 of the way to a ChatGPT DM, aren't we?
I see a couple of roadblocks for this. One is that is suggestion of a restrictive subset of HTML for coding seems like a potential accessibility problem, which is to say, you'd have to make your documents less semantically rich. For instance, he seems to be suggesting using. It's already hard enough to get epubs to work right when reading systems lag behind what browsers can support, saying 'let's have less' is not going to make things easier if you have complex content. The problem is not that there is too much html or css, the problem is that reading systems don't support them properly.

Also, most dedicated reading systems (Kindle, Kobo, etc) don't allow javascript, which means your components will not work. That might of course change, but I wouldn't hold my breath for it.
I think my point was that individual performance does not matter. It doesn't matter if someone is competent or a grifter. It doesn't matter if someone achieves undeserved success. The academia is not here to produce short-term value. You don't need measurements that supposedly correlate with it. Measurements encourage gaming them, and gameable systems attract more grifters.

What matters is a culture of honesty. If a part of the academia has it, it probably produces long-term value. Unfortunately a culture is a nebulous idea. You can't measure it, and you can't really evaluate it from the outside. You may see it after the fact, if some people produced good science, because they lived in a culture that encouraged it.

Professional reputation is a signal for insiders. It can be used as a proxy for determining if someone is worth working with and if they are a good cultural fit. It's less useful for administrators, but they are not the ones doing science.