skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, this article is lacking, but leadership deserves to be shammed in this industry! Most firms are managed with fluffy nonsense about OKRs and story point velocities that have nothing to do with the cost of the daily activities of the labor force.

Most champion EBITDA as an internal metric!

That the cost of over-hiring, layers of middle management, and weeks packed with borderline pointless meetings were not factored in to the financial projections that led investors astray is painfully obvious when looking out the rearview mirror. Financial accounting is about where you have been. Managerial accounting is about where you are headed.
This is so unbelievably weird to me. Apple is a multi-trillion(!) dollar corporation whose sole purpose is to generate profit and increase it YoY. Yet people are acting like scary government bureaucrats are trying to persecute their best friend. Some of the comments on places like the macrumors forums feel like people trying to defend a cult.
It's also stochastically increases privacy and security. Restricts any adversary from obtaining your data outside of certain windows. Which can be important in dynamic environments where allies can become adversaries (be that prior employees, foreign governments, or whatever). This seems to have a huge advantage considering it means any adversary must make more noise and use longer term action to cause damage (i.e. hard to "smash and grab").

This is why when I saw the Signal Forum discussions on deleting chats that I was really surprised that that community was extremely against it (strongly in favor of immutable texts). All arguments against privacy were dismissed with claims that one can screenshot and arguments for immutable texts were bad analogies to mail and assertions about "my device, my data." The Signal Forums are a weird place and I think Signal's reliance on them contributes to their slow progress, adoption, and why they get weirdly sidetracked about things no one cares about.
he is just trying to be inflammatory because he didn't get what he wanted. with unity, you had no alternative. CTF only applies if you want to not use Apple's own AppStore.
I meant the PC hardware market, edited it.
IME, having worked at big tech on moonshots, outsiders wildly underestimate how many people it takes to build a new platform. There is just so much work needed. I could be wrong on the AVP, Apple might make it work, but my prior is what it is.
You just photograph the notepad and release it as an artifact alongside the paper, if you don't feel like typing it up.
Not so bad, SD cards can be robust. It depends on the file-system and
how much work the controller does to catch errors, mark bad cells,
etc.

I have a few portable handy recorders, a Zoom, a Tascam and a Sound
Devices, and all of them handle the same SD cards for years, rarely
complaining about format errors or losing files.
Researchers engineer bacteria that eat plastic, make multipurpose spider silk
Not sure why Apple has problem with this. One can install anything on macOS.
A Brief History of NTP Time: Confessions of an Internet Timekeeper
When I got my second Mac I ordered a fancy Apple mouse because it sounded cool. The first thing I installed was a game, to try out the graphics, which used right-click to aim and then while holding that left click to fire.

Except the top of this mouse was one piece of metal that rocked left and right for left or right click. It was impossible to do both at the same time.

-> Bin

I’ve been on Macs for 16 years now and every single Apple mouse I’ve ever used was utter crap.
Care to attack the claims made within the document or provide a link to the objective truth?
What's the correct status page to check?

I would have assumed this: https://status.office365.com/ but it shows nothing useful.

https://portal.office.com/servicestatus At least this one shows there's an issue.
Israel has nuclear weapons. By the logic of even developing them, there's no reason not to deploy them if it faces conquest. Any existential crisis facing Israel will not come from outside.
Perhaps, but in many cases, that's become more and more of a detail that abstracted away. I feel like the breadth of knowledge, for better or worse, to implement an application today is so much greater that depth isn't as easily obtained. There's no shortage of 30-year pros flabbergasted by the amount of Javascript tooling being used, while the bootcamp grad can easily keep all that in their head but perhaps struggles with knowledge of DNS.
> programs on computers save things in locations that you need to navigate to when trying to find it again

It bears keeping in mind that the traditional folders and documents desktop model is in no way fundamental or universal; its just one mode of computing that was popular in the turn of the century and steeply waning these days.

And its not just phones where the change is happening. Cloud services and other saas have had at least as much if not more influence here. And of course in enterprises people have been using all sorts of weird internal software, erps and crms etc, that might also not been very document oriented. And its not just modern time thing too, for more historical viewpoint you could look at mainframes (IBM big iron etc) which had all sorts of data store models, both from system and end-user viewpoints.
Do you think it often happens that when:

1) a large sovereign entity (or a collection thereof, as the case may be),

2) which, incidentally, also happens to be one of the largest economies in the world,

3) with legislative and executive power over actors wishing to make money within its jurisdiction,

4) drafts legislation intended to control said actors and

5) announces it is going to exercise aforementioned executive power,

6) to use the legislation for its intended purpose against a non-complying actor,

that entity is bluffing?

(Apple already folded, by the way. They're simply sore losers.)
Any accusation of genocide will be for the relevant courts to decide. False pretexts (excuses) can be identified as such. The present court order is a shot across the bow. The court is explicitly saying that the intent of genocide appears plausible at this time, and explains the reasons for that assessment. Meaning that Israel will have to show with their actions if they want to turn it implausible.
https://archive.is/xfIda

subtitle: New data shows fully remote employees are more likely to be let go than their peers. They’re also more likely to quit.
I agree about mouse vs. touchpad and touchscreen.

Nevertheless, there are alternatives to a mouse. A trackball can have very similar precise control while being more comfortable (for a productivity program; less suitable for a FPS, because the fingers are slower than the hand).

A stylus on a graphic tablet used in mouse mode (i.e. relative mode) offers even faster and more precise control than any mouse.
Heh...rebuilding gcc on slackware to enable shared libs was an adventure - but that wasn't till the late 90s(??). I think I spent like a week bootstrapping the new gcc, rebuilding glibc and rebuilding all the stuff I used.
Mh... I agree with the title, not much with the content...

Back then as a student I was using laptops as desktop replacer, as many others, but when I seriously star using computers I realize that I need a desktop, with a decent keyboard and a thumb trackball. All wired. I realize how stupid big laptops are, since they should exists just for portability needs and on-the-go limited usages. NOT used docked, NOT used directly as a desktop replacer. The mouse here is somewhat substituted by touch screens for those who work on small laptops typically NOT on the go, but mouse means in many case just "consumption" not production.

Plan 9 have tried to be mouse centric, but ultimately fail because while some geek find the wow effect in drawing rectangles on a screen and filling them with live text it's just wasted time compared to free tiling modes like Emacs offer. Mouse is useful, yes, but definitively not the thing users forgot about computers.

Users forgot the CLASSIC desktop model, where they own the data and the system to manipulate data, bendable at their own will with few line of user-programming live code. Users have even forgot what's a file https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-direc... and as they are mostly unable to handle their own paper files they are equally unable to handle their digital files. They have lost the paper knowledge, but never acquired the computer knowledge. The mouse here count next to nothing.

Most people nowadays works like dumb terminals operators of the past with the important difference that the mainframe is not their own, but a distant systems owned by third parties "the cloud". Most people nowadays can't produce anything, only consume, choose stuff pushed in front of them by some ML system...
I read a book in the 1980s about how you could fit S-curves to predict everything.

When I've actually tried it with tools like

https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.o...

it's frequently been terribly, terribly wrong.
It's not self-evident that "the cultural memory of being targeted by the Holocaust [should] stop an ethno-state from setting up an apartheid regime". In Liberia, where the freed American slaves were sent to, they essentially enslaved the native population.
> When you occupy someone's land, there can never be peace until they get their land back or are fully exterminated or controlled militarily.

I can certainly think of some other ethnicity in that region who had their land occupied and was cleansed from the region. They even somehow managed to survive an attempt to fully exterminate them! Surely there will be peace once they get all of their land back :)
It's not philosophizing, it's ecology.[1]

Regarding stars and solar systems, over the lifespan of the universe those things are just blips.[2] In 110 trillion years the Milky Way will be down to about a hundred stars. That's a small fraction of the 10^10^120 years estimated to be the lifespan of the universe. So those aren't constants.

The only constant is decay (and C I guess). So I don't see what was too simple about what I said, or even how it was much different from what you said. There's no equilibrium to return to, and any environmental actions to try to restore that will have a problem.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4188511/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future
I don't think that's a crucial enough difference to be in favour of destroying an entire country and deporting or killing the people in it. You can totally be in favour of freedom for Palestine, for a one or two state solution, in all kinds of configurations, without supporting the "kill or deport the Jews" argument.

It's really not very nuanced at all - if you want to kill or deport all the Jews, even when formulated in fluffy terms like "give those poor Palestinians their homeland back", you're not really trying to make the world a better place are you? You'd be just like those far right Israelis who seem to want to kill or deport all the Palestinians. It's the exact same vibe, just aimed in the other direction. They're both the baddies. Don't be like them.
So should we expect Epic to give ME, the user a choice of how I want to install Fortnite?

Because they clearly are not. So why do developers get the choice but not the consumer?

Sounds to me the power is still in the wrong hands and consumers loose.
> there can never be peace until they get their land back or are fully exterminated or controlled militarily

That's very much not true.

Compromises are possible and are often the only way. Do I need to start listing examples?
Unfortunately immigration law is full of quack attorneys who abuse immigrants.

If you feel you were unfairly treated or scammed, you should report your lawyer to their local Bar organization.

Most will take it very seriously - especially in immigration, a repeat offender will often lose their license.
These are fun little essays.

The example that I think most native English speakers learn at some point is the reason for the distinction in food words: we eat pork (porc) and beef (boef) but they are the flesh of the pig/swine (Schwein) or cow (Kuh). This reflects the elite's use of French (thus using French words for food on the table) while the English servants used their Germanic vocabulary for the animals they worked with.

In both French and German the same word is used for the animal in the field and on the plate.

And then there are innumerable hybrids (anglicized french words). With regards to food and husbandry, one my of favorites is "beeves" ("cattle" -- "beefs"): while I have never heard the word spoken aloud I have seen it in novels even as late as the early 60s.
They could absolutely do more. They could actually vet all applications and exclude knock offs. They could ask for sources of applications they distribute to see if they're legit or not. They could partner with 3rd party known reliable sources.

The EU isn't making it less secure, because WebKit isn't the only secure rendering engine in the world, far from it.
Good luck on your path
I read all of that language in their blog post, though. Apple's been giving EU the middle finger for years as far as I can tell. If this was something about how Apple's proposed changes don't meet the requirements it would be more interesting but it's really just someone writing that they don't like the tone of Apple's post.
Do you want to be able install only App Store approved apps on macOS too?
It's not elitism, it's conservatism. The people who will signup are the same ones who upvote every "Trump got slammed by XX" threads on reddit. Once they know that another and a more genuine reddit exists, they'll starting shovel that stuff here too.
It's math about physics (actually mechanical/aerospace engineering), not a guess.
Security. Applets exposed massive API surface while wasm exposes almost nothing.

Also applets were too slow to start with Sun's implementation of the day while wasm works reasonably well in all browsers from day one. That matters a lot for adoption.

JVM improved but applets missed their chance. You only get one.
I can’t speak for this article, but they’ve got a page dedicated to the rules for non-system webkit browser engines
Mileage varies a LOT. I don't always love the Hugo (or Nebula) winner, because I think people who only read SF tend to value SF concepts over prose and narrative and that's sometimes reflected in the winners, but holy hell I loved both Broken Earth and Inheritance. The Great Cities twofer is mighty fine, too.

Not for nothing, but Jemisin is also a MacArthur fellow.
Full torque at zero RPM makes motor racing much more exciting - especially compared to the low end karts with puny 2-stroke engines that took forever to accelerate my heavy ass !
Sure lets go back to 1980's UNIX, it was such a great experience.
You see more features as better, I see them as unnecessary bloat. HTMX targets users that want easy and minimalist ajax.
Do they try to use appropriate pronunciation?
My Fujifilm X-Pro3 currently has a 1960s-era reflector lens mounted on it. I normally use a 56mm f/1.4 or 23mm f/1.2, but I still have a large collection of vintage Nikon lenses that see lots of use, though I've not owned a Nikon camera in a decade.
I think the context of iOS is safely implied here. To say you have the option of going Android is as relevant as giving the option of doing a mobile app; Sure it is an option but out of the context of the discussion.
The moderation issue here is not those two comments but the repeated pattern in each case.

Past experience has unfortunately made it clear that moderation needs to be relatively active on topics that are as divisive as this one. I wish it weren't so.
So nothing out of the ordinary, then.
Is Cloud the New Mainframe?
Flight will never be powered by electricity, so you can stop checking.

Fuel cells could well enable 30X better power densities. That would count to me as flight powered by electricity. There's also beamed power. Perhaps this wouldn't be practical, but it's a thought experiment that shows there's nothing impossible from first principles for electrical powered flight.
> sometimes given as a reason NOT to keep engineering notebooks etc.

Don't we see this in practice? I mean I'm not talking about engineering logs or documenting code (we all know that doesn't happen, but it is due to laziness), but how there are some people who have strong preferences to conversations happening via phone conversations or in person. Since those prevent official records and there are stronger protections around those media.
So the EU is the only place where the law has a chance to be respected ?
What a nasty piece of scare tactics.

I am a big Apple user, in many senses really a fan. But these scare tactics are just off. First of all, the safety promises of the Apple store are way worse than Apple makes them. There is tons of dubious apps around which rob users quickly, just barely within the guide lines. Often enough, bad apps slip through the nets. On the other side, many absolutely legit apps get blocked due to bad review or overzealous restrictions.

Would it be a bad idea to install apps randomly from everywhere? Sure! Would it be a security risk to install well known open source software from a reputably curated alternate store? Most likely not! Also, the system should have more robust implementation which would prevent malicious apps of doing damage until the user explicitly grants entitlements.

And I would be much less interested in installing apps from different sources, if the content of the app store were just guided by safety concerns. But a ton of stuff is blocked just becaue Apple wants to block it. That is, where the demand for alternatives comes in. And lets not even talk about adult content. It would be great for the safety of the users, if Apple would allow such content within the protections of the App Store. But no, even though you have solid age information about your users, it is banned and people are driven to sources outside of the App Store safety and outside of secure payments.
Thanks, I guess Hackernews generally is my 'safe haven' from politics. Really not intending to bite or insult, just a lot happier reading about Dijkstra being a pedantic nano-Dijkstrahole or someone dumping a GBA rom through audio. The stuff from OP I read everywhere else. My heart cries for the for the world and HN generally is one of my tissues. Much love anyways.
Israel can face defeat without everybody dying (which is what would happen if they tried to use nuclear weapons). The US has enough control over Israel to make sure that never happens. We are a far greater military power than Israel.
> If I understood it right, it still won’t allow non-webkit browsers with their own browser engines.

No, Apple is going to allow 3rd party browser engines but initially it will be the same apps everyone has access to. Browser makers that want to use their own engine have to apply and be granted permission.
> They probably just saw the title of the article and assumed that it was talking about allowing alternate browser engines on iOS.

there was an article posted yesterday that claimed that they would be forced to do just that.
> SA does not really present itself as an earnest or true actor in the sphere oh human rights.

Well, who does?

Among the major players in world politics I can't see any country with a clean reputation on human rights.

Disclaimer: I am Brazilian, a country with an horrible record of police brutality, of farmers killing indigenous people and environmental activists and an hypocritical ambivalence towards Putin's crimes. And that goes to the previous right-wing and current left-wing governments.
It isn't war. War is when two nation states fight.

This is shooting fish in a barrel with a full on propaganda campaign attached.
Is this something documented? I haven't heard of this and I've been following the space for a while.
Thank you for the feedback!

I'm still fairly new to PHP, coming from the .NET/TypeScript world. Unfortunately, it wasn't ChatGPT generated and I'm well aware there's still a lot to learn. I'm always looking for ways to improve, so if you'd like to create a few issues, I'd be more than happy to address them and get the chance to dig deeper into PHP.
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/africa/south-africa-will-win-order-...
AI Survey Exaggerates Apocalyptic Risks
And when lots of people choose Chrome and Google is the default is that a win?

I’d argue a massive step forward and back. People should be able to choose. I want to choose a different search engine than Google or the others, and I want Firefox too here in the US. Chrome as the dominant browser comes with its own issues.
> Will new browser engines eventually make it to iOS for EU users?

Yes, but Apple _just_ announced yesterday the criteria and plans for that. I doubt any browser makers (except maybe Chrome?) have their browser ready to go and it uses new APIs so they would still have some work to do.
Functional differences described here:

https://wiki.musl-libc.org/functional-differences-from-glibc...
Yeah sure, we'll believe the only party which benefits financially from the statu quo to say that.
The article in this context of additional browser engines being allowed.

I do however recognize web developers looking forward to just saying “you must use chrome”, just as they spent decades saying you have to use IE.
That was described as a way for a police officer to investigate your phone use after a traffic stop or in an accident investigation.
Yup! ...and noodling around with their `wordpad.exe`, you could pretty easily imagine `My Network => My Workgroup => ...etc...` to samba-share in your local filesystem (provided by the bochs86vm "container") ....... or since it's turtles all the way down, just map your local computer drive as `D:\...` and let the VM "think" it has access to all your files on the vm-local disk.
All wars end when one side gives up.

Attacks and land theft on West Bank Palestinians are at a record high too. This will only end with the creation of a viable Palestinian state.

"This is war, there will be loss of life" is such a callous way to dismiss the disproportionality of this conflict.
I feel like it's not just Dijkstra but the abrasive arrogance computer science inherited from mathematics culture has been a huge negative. It's why the workplaces are toxic and why women have abandoned the field. It's worse where computer science culture and marketing culture intersect.

But Dijkstra is the poster child for that sort of thing.
> over several days, to run a work load an order of magnitude smaller

Here I sit, running a query on a fancy cloud-based tool we pay nontrivial amounts of money for, which takes ~15 minutes.

If I download the data set to a Linux box I can do the query in 3 seconds with grep and awk.

Oh but that is not The Way. So here I sit waiting ~15 minutes every time I need to fine tune and test the query.

Also, of course the query now is written in the vendor's homegrown weird query language which is lacking a lot of functionality, so whenever I need to do some different transformation or pull apart data a bit differently, I get to file a feature request and wait a few month for it to be implemented. On the linux box I could just change my awk parameters a little bit (or throw perl in the pipeline for heavier lifting) and be done in a minute. But hey at least I can put the ticket in blocked state for a few months while waiting for the vendor.

Why are we doing this?
Thanks for pointing that out. Definitely some leftover copy/pasta from another learning library I was writing for PHP. Updated!
> SA does not really present itself as an earnest or true actor in the sphere oh human rights.

If Putin is arrested in a foreign country, you'll have the largest nuclear weapons arsenal in the world staring down at the very existence of that nation. No country would do this, however earnest they may be about human rights. Neither will it be fair to expect anyone to do this.
I think you've elegantly summed up the entire history of human thought.