skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The long-term answer for this will involve better OS sandboxes

Well, this is exactly it. iOS should have redundant security policies that don't take fallible App Store reviews for granted anyways. Apple didn't really account for this, presumably to hedge the validity of a single App Store. Now they're acting like the victim when they gave up proactive solutions to chase more money. I can't empathize with that logic, even if they drag users into the regulatory bear trap with them.

Apple has every opportunity to make things right. Sideloading works fine on Android (or, Mac); getting it "right" is eminently an implementation problem. It would be incredibly sad for Apple to fight down this legislation through bad faith compliance and self-sabotage. Not unexpected or poor entertainment, but very sad and unnecessary.
Typst is pretty close to markdown for simple things, and scales nicely to hard things. So you don't really need to worry about the markdown-pandoc shuffle anymore.
Maybe sometime in the future NASA will deploy a service or repair pit stop station for all their crafts on Mars. Imagine that, if a craft is damaged another automaton is deployed to retrieve the damaged craft where it is transported to the pit stop to be fixed or for routine maintenance. This will improve service life and only the service station would need manual intervention ie. Restocking for parts.

So you would have a service station and a manufacturing station, that's nuclear powered and retrofitted with a 3D printer that can produce custom crafts on Mars.

I often ponder about what will the result be of having a human colony on Mars or the Moon? Think about the ethical implications, what about if someone commits a murder? Or breaks a law ( will there even be laws? Who creates the law? Who will deliver judgement? Will there be a jury? ) it just breaks my mind.
Kind of an extreme view you're giving on this social media site...
Every time this gets brought up it gets called a moral panic. I'm now convinced "moral panic" is a thought terminating cliche in this case. These systems are basically algorithmically addicting, like gambling. We don't let kids gamble - so let's read the studies, see the outcomes, come up with solutions and boundaries, and legislate accordingly.
"TV will rot your brain"
In that case, you should follow my advice and do exactly the thing you dismissed in your question: buy and hold for years. Don't be flipping stocks every few months, trying to time the market, and guess where the tech trends are going (even if you are in that industry -- you don't have as much time to follow what's going on as analysts who do it as their full time job). It's well established that broad market indices outperform these other strategies for passive investors.

If you want to diversify, diversify into fixed-income investments or dividend funds. Things like S&P and Nasdaq are generally biased towards high-growth sectors like tech.
What's a ballpark-estimate volume/weight that might get vented?
I'm around the same age and I've been struggling with constant fatigue for years. It's very hard to be taken seriously. I am absolutely not an expert, but perhaps you have some kind of circulation issue? I hope you can find answers.
That's cool, I'd love to see it become ubiquitous.

It's actually a really fun problem so long as you're burning up tokens on someone else's api key
I would first check the software license and if i have the "right to repair" on this beauty.
if people are venting it away, it's because the people who would like to purchase it are not willing to pay the price.

So the problem is that the uses of helium might not be commensurate with the cost of producing (or rather extracting) it.

So therefore, the fix is to have the uses of helium pay more for it. Unfortunately, the payer of the uses of helium, such as for medical treatment recipients, do not want to pay more. As for balloons, the grade of purity is not sufficient for use in medicine, and thus is not realistically a problem (or the cost of refining it to higher purity is also costly).
If one cannot afford housing, nothing else matters. If you cannot buy or rent anything, even Switzerland will be shit. If you have your own housing, even Ukraine will be good.
Social media is 21st century cigarettes. Some people stumbled upon something that turned out to be addictive, and after they realized it was they put all their effort into optimizing it to be even more addictive with little or no regard for the detrimental effects it had on their users. I don't know which is more toxic, the product or the people who make it.
I mean the concept of generating a private / public key pair and sharing a public key is pretty sound.

If your browser is compromised or can't be trusted then you have bigger problems.

But if we assume this site can be trusted not to send secrets online (which is easy to verify) and they are not rolling their own crypto primitives in javascript, then the idea is pretty sound imo.

Personally I would use gpg or openssl for this, but it's not that easy for non-technical users.
With a long term view we would be stockpiling way more, requiring more efforts to recover used helium, and capturing more instead of venting in natural gas wells rich in helium. All of those things cost more though and aren’t being done because helium is cheap.
Anyone hook this up with a GAN yet to keep it peaceful yet make it visual?

Plus translations.
unexpectedly interesting article about building's architecuter, not x86 vs arm.

on topic: i think it's a hard thing to reconcile and/or combine and/or make a "building with identity" while being able to accommodate >1000 people in a building. Poundbury seems to be a good example, though in singapore, economically speaking, it's better to have an apartment than to have a house on a ground.
Pandas docs > Comparison with spreadsheets: https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/getting_started/comparison/co...

Pandas docs > I/O > Excel files: https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/user_guide/io.html#excel-file...

nteract/papermill: https://github.com/nteract/papermill :

> papermill is a tool for parameterizing, executing, and analyzing Jupyter Notebooks. [...]

> This opens up new opportunities for how notebooks can be used. For example:

> - Perhaps you have a financial report that you wish to run with different values on the first or last day of a month or at the beginning or end of the year, using parameters makes this task easier.

"The World Excel Championship is being broadcast on ESPN" (2022) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32420925 :

> Computational notebook speedrun ideas:
This is a misrepresentation or misunderstanding of the matter at hand. Mainly floated around by Sweeny as he practices his best Pikachu face.

> So apple responded by allowing developers to apply to place exactly one text-only (non-hyperlink), static, reference to an outside payment source on one page in an app

They allow an actual button that links directly to a website[0].
I mean the article by Apple that describes the terms and options literally is titled “Distributing apps in the U.S. that provide an external purchase link” and there a plenty of examples provided.

> and further added a new term that developers must also pay Apple 27% of all revenue from these off-site purchases.

Both the district court[1] as well as the appellate court that later affirmed the ruling[2] spelled out in clear plain language that developers would still owe Apple the commission, that Apple would be able to audit developers and that it’s all legal because its payment for the use of Apple’s IP.
Only difference is that the courts assumed Apple would simply charge 30% instead of the discounted 27%.

Some examples:

> In essence, Apple uses the DPLA to license its IP to developers in exchange for a $99 fee and an ongoing 30% commission on developers' iOS revenue.

> As the district court noted, in a world where Apple maintains its distribution restriction but payment processing is opened up, Apple would still be contractually entitled to its 30% commission on in-app purchasers. Apart from any argument by Epic, the district court "presume[d]" that Apple could "utilize[e] a contractual right to audit developers ... to ensure compliance with its commissions."

> Because the court upheld the app-distribution restriction, Apple would still be entitled to its 30% commission on in-app purchases within apps downloaded from the App Store. On its own initiative, the district court floated the idea of Apple permitting multiple in-app payment processors while reserving a right to audit developers to ensure compliance with the 30% commission.

> Suffice it to say, IAP is not merely a payment processing system, as Epic Games suggests, but a comprehensive system to collect commission and manage in-app payments.

> First, and most significant, as discussed in the findings of facts, IAP is the method by which Apple collects its licensing fee from developers for the use of Apple's intellectual property. Even in the absence of IAP, Apple could still charge a commission on developers. It would simply be more difficult for Apple to collect that commission.

0: https://developer.apple.com/support/storekit-external-entitl...

1: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.36...

2: https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2023/04/24/2...
I saw some games already got late update for iOS and I'll expect it'll only getting worse
Not saying it’s the case here but a lot of times congress asks these questions as leading questions or to give viewers the full context of follow up questions (or more likely for easy clips).

A hypothetical back and forward might be something like:

“How does Facebook make money?”

“By selling ads.”

“Does Facebook ever target those ads to kids?”

“Yes”

“So is it in facebook’s financial interest for kids to spend as much time as possible on the platform?”
> This genuinely almost reads like a parody. My BS-o-meter is through the roof!

Can you explain why? Nothing really jumps out at me as being total nonsense. A lot of things are handwavey, but for obvious reasons such as not revealing the money printer.

The man is not hiding who he is either, so it could be a troll post, but from looking at other things, doesn't seem likely.

Math generally looks good, and is similar to things I learned decades ago in chaos theory and stochastic processes, especially the comment/proof towards the middle. I have never been a professional trader, but I am familiar with a lot of the jargon, generally translates well to crypto.
How’s that compare to android though? For the most part apple’s walled garden IS safer and more privacy preserving than android.
I do.

I'd like to have some usefull information about my session but also prefer when my input begins from the first column.
In my comment I quoted a few sentences from scrapscript.org, and called it "a dumpster fire of hype or really good satire", which is why it was flagged I guess.
To my recollection, plastic straws aren't anywhere near as prevalent or damaging in oceans as discarded fishing nets. That's the usual comparison here IIRC.

But it seems to me it's a case of "we can do both", and in this case conservation of helium might not be a bad idea in addition to changing mining practices to capture it.
Yup, Jessica Lessin left the WSJ to star The Information.
> I’m an absolute record store whore.

I can't deny that.

> Because buying the actual music is the important bit I believe.

Congratulations on abstractly purchasing music without caring how much of it actually ends up in an artist's pocket and feeling proud of it! Vinyl is 15-20% for the artist on a good day, and usually worse after vendor markups. MP3s on most platforms are at least a 15+2.5% haircut for the artist.

> That’s why artists have to tour so much — to make that living you spoke about. Because no one buys anything these days.

> But the magic is in the fact that’s it’s not. There’s magic in the sacrifice.

Saying that you didn't care about workers getting paid was weird, but equating "making music" inherently with a vow of poverty is kind of beyond the pale. You're a (presumably) well-compensated person working on something far less useful to society than music, "the cloud." Plenty of countries have programs to compensate their artists fairly (like countries that force a percentage of radio play to be in their native language, or by local artists), and these countries don't have "less magic" because of it.

I don't even blame pirates, but this weird middle ground of being willing to spend money but not caring if a good deal of it goes to corporate middlemen so you can have the abstract, hipster, "At least I buy things!" experience is so bizarre.
American airline companies should just buy Airbus planes until Boeing gets its act together.
Bringing Back Horizontal Rules in HTML Select Elements
And now thanks to Apple's malicious compliance is going to be even worse for everyone
I remember some nasa administrator laughing about that at a conference. "So at the end of the movie the atmosphere is so thin that he can fly through it at thousands of miles per hour without harm, but at the beginning a sandstorm at hundreds of miles per hour destroys the ship? Also the spacesuits ... no."
Michael Levin is seeking answers to seemingly basic biology questions. I’m a layperson but how come mainstream biologists didn’t pursue this line of thinking as far as he has?
I call bull*hit. Faking popularity to generate interest. Old tricks.
> If the application can’t saturate the CPU, there’s a fundamental problem. It’s a shame because it makes adding more servers less efficient. Money is being wasted on hosting costs, and this should be a priority to address.

Talking about efficiency being a priority, but using RoR. I guess that is one way of saturating the CPU.
So where is the problem? The rate of the mining? The efficiency? I would assume that helium baloons wouldn't be the culprit in a shortage because they'll be the first to go in a shortage. I assumed it was because the money made from helium baloons is responsible for higher rates of helium mining.

I'm genuinely not going to know what you think the actual problem is if you don't tell me. I promise I tried looking it up before responding.

Edit: I hadn't thought about purity requirements. Helium baloons do require significantly lower purity than medical uses. So how that lower grade stuff is treated as a whole is the part to consider, rather than helium baloon revenue.
Nothing is preventing you from using the same app store in the future
I've never found the main issue to be knowing which repositories have out of date/insecure dependencies, but rather actioning those notifications.
At a previous job, the main repository consistently had 100+ dependabot security notifications; it would essentially be a full time job to sift through alerts for all repositories and apply necessary updates.
Tried it, didn't like the feel of it.

Text adventures are wildly different from one to another and personal taste. This one didn't grab me.
The overwhelming majority of terrestrial plastic that makes it into the oceans originates from 10 rivers, all of them located in Asia and Africa. Plastic straws in the US generally get safely disposed of in landfills and never reach the ocean or other waterways.
You are right, and I don't think the DMA applies only to Apple. If PS does not allow anything from other sources, then Sony will have to change too.
The Unreal example is wrong though, there are other engines to choose from.
The problem is helium cannot be contained, and it goes up until it leaves the Earth. It never binds to any element that could "anchor" it to our planet.

Compare with liquid nitrogen: you can liquify air, use the nitrogen that sooner or later will go back to the atmosphere, but it rarely leaves the planet. So you have a cycle.
Bulletproof! What could possibly go wrong with this concept?
Not OP, but it took me a year of actively reading my machine data and changing settings to figure it out. Have you tried OSCAR?
> It works for products, but it doesn't work well for libraries, frameworks, dev tools, and the like.

That is why we need to create an open-source ecosystem where projects that get paid redistribute to their dependencies.
I have in mind 2 OSS ecosystems: open-source-economy.com and tea.xyz

This blog article, for example, explains how a bounty system could be beneficial for the whole ecosystem: https://www.open-source-economy.com/blog/make-open-source-fi...

I would be very curious to hear what you are thinking about those two projects. Spoiler: they are both in the early stage - and both use blockchain.

> More on this in a future post.
Happy to read more about your vision!
Mark on your calendar "heads down" time for 2-hours sprints. People might respect it but you may also have to disconnect.
Layoffs in Tech
What are the exact reasons for the massive layoffs we see in Tech and will they continue in 2024.
I remember seeing it often in my grandma’s kitchen as a kid.
> all the virus really did was collect some device info (less information than most ad networks)

Nah, that would mean that what really protects iOS users from malwares is just a good sandboxing mechanism and not the "human" control of the App Store. That would also mean that bypassing the App Store shouldn’t be a real security issue.
You may want to set NO_COLOR: https://no-color.org/. A couple of big discussions about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30483417, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36098488
I had experience with AsciiDoc and personally not a fan. IMO it has weird features like totally illegible compact table syntax (seriously, that stuff is worse than XML) and the spec looks abandoned. But I keep seeing it being used, I guess it appeals to people who want something more flexible than Markdown (and who like Ruby, or they would go with RST)
Peripheral nervous system has significant plasticity and its reflex archs can produce complex and purposeful behavior without the brain. E.g. cats can walk with their brain removed and famously decapitated chicken do all sorts of stuff.

Octopi don't even have a centralized brain.
Ads, the answer is always because we made the colossal error to build our information network around the ability to make money simply by drawing attention not specificity or accuracy.
While it's good to assume that everyone is bribeable at some price, in the EU there is no clear legal way to do so. In particular, campaign contributions are highly limited in all EU countries (typically around a thousand euro per person I believe), and typically only open to individuals, not corporations or other legal entities.
> It's true that running code in the document has some downsides, but the vast majority of people does it all the time in their browsers.

This probably has to do something with them having nothing to do, as the big companies managed to convince the frontend dev community that the single best thing to generate layout is on the client machine on the fly. Of course they did it so the users will have a hard time selectively blocking the layout scripts from the ad/spyware most contemporary (web)software development is about.

This led us to the point where saving (or God forbid printing!) an article needs a lot of effort in many cases.

My observation is: when I need to go to work on the field, I need printed documents. Printed documents don't need firmware updates, their batteries don't run out, and no, I don't need interactivity in documents.

Self contained HTML is a good - and necessary - step, but interactivity and executable code is not something we usually need in documents, I only saw somewhat legit need for it on corporate abomination of documents (and some teaching materials possibly).
I've been thinking for decades now that creating my own stockpile of helium would be one of those crazy stories that would end up being insanely profitable. Akin to Elon making reusable rockets.

I read about counter arguments saying that helium is easy enough to source that it is really just an issue of the price/extraction ratio. Because of that, making your own stock pile company doesn't make sense.

Then, I read articles like this, that make me think it has nothing to do with the price/extraction ratio and everything to do with government control of production.

Obviously, I'm never going to do it, but it is a fun thought exercise anyway. I will add though, I've been seeing these helium stories cycle a bit more recently. I wonder what phase we are in.
> Democratic process does not exist when everyone is free to start a project. Users also often do not know what they want either until it's shown to them.

Apparently do not have the same definition of "democracy". The definition that I use is more or less the Swiss system. At the top, a group of people that takes decisions that they think it is the best - and the people that have the power to override the decision if they organize a vote or propose a new law.

> What you seem to be suggesting is to replace open source model with grant academia model if I'm being generous
Nope... Read what open-source-economy.com or tea.xyz - that is the future of OSS IMO.
The author discusses fixed layout epubs. Effectively, the epub can give a default pagination, line-breaks, font, font size, page size, and positioning for images etc., making it render identically on everything (one might optionally omit pagination if opening in a browser but keep everything else). This can be done already in epub3. But that's not ideal, because then it doesn't look good anymore on a phone, etc. Depending on the reader though, you could override the default, but then you have to hope that your reader does a good job of making a nice document. An alternative is for the epub to specify multiple renderings, for various common screen types.

I don't think this is unreasonable as a solution. By all means let's try to get a smart reader, but letting people create defaults for their documents that can be overridden if desired by the user is a good middle ground.
I like some colour but some tools take it way too far. As for emoji, the appropriate amount of them in a CLI tool is zero.
We're expensive!

Don't lose hope; I've done this fulltime for 35 years and tech always comes back
Can someone with serious regard for quality of discussion on HN please explain why is this comment being downvoted?
Disclaimer: I work at Databricks ... so hopefully my subsequent opinion Is worth even more.

PRQL and DuckDB are amazing. I've been building a Power BI clone - think low code ETL, semantic layer, dashboards + chatbot - on top of Databricks SQL with PRQL as transformation engine and DuckDB as caching / aggregation layer. (Also huge shoutout to Toby and sqlglot.)

So easy to generate things programmatically, PRQL is the perfect map to low code GUIs, Arrow in and out, easy to scale ...

Big fan. Every analytics engineer should try them.
So Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo too? So much for "ridiculous by all industry standards" when there is an entire software industry where this is commonplace.
Tell the FTC: It's Time to Act on the Right to Repair
One solution is to embed alternatives within PDF itself. LibreOffice can embed inside a PDF the original editabble source in ODF format. You could also embed ePub. That would mean you would have a single file that could be processed in many useful ways.
https://ourworldindata.org/ocean-plastics

Suggests otherwise and is a fascinating read
The key difference of course is the App Store can take direct action against that app in such a scenario.
I’d rather people that ask questions and are not afraid to ask even if silly over people “who know everything” to govern.
So is there just the one feed? I mean how do you browse what’s posted? You need to know exactly which account you want to follow?
I think that’s one big difference between American and European life.

Americans have more money, but Europeans have more time and stability.

In my opinion though, if you’re affluent enough to go on 25k vacations, why are they not affluent enough to take several months off at a time to actually enjoy a proper time off?
If your application can’t saturate the CPU, Rails probably isn’t your bottleneck.