skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many different Android devices does a serious developer need to buy to ensure their app works well across the spectrum from the top end Android phones to the sub $100 Blu R1 phones?

How many different versions of the operating system do they need to support because of how soon Android phones are abandoned by the manufacturers?

But this still doesn’t answer the question, if PWAs are so great on Android, then why are the same companies who are making iOS apps making Android apps instead of just telling Android users to use the web version?
With that kind of budget, you can get an iPhone SE 2020: https://www.backmarket.com/en-us/p/iphone-se-2020-64-gb-blac... . If you can spare an extra $50, I'd go for the current model: https://www.backmarket.com/en-us/p/iphone-se-2022-64-gb-star... ($202)

That's basically what I did: https://announce.asheesh.org/2022/09/i-switched-to-iphone-fo...
Ask Data Scientists: Which song on an albums is usually voted the best? 1st, etc
The first song on the album, the second, etc?
Thanks Gorkem! As founder of Wope, I hope this conversation grows and highlights how people won’t put up with toxic behavior. It's especially upsetting to see a famous designer and developer disrespected like this, even more so than in the case with Wope
If Jordan took back the west bank and Egypt took Gaza back then this also wouldn't last for 50 years. This is a unique situation where the party the land was occupied from doesn't want it back and the party that occupied it doesn't want it and the people living on this occupied land also don't really want it (or at least not willing to make peace in exchange for getting it). Because it's so hard to solve we've been stuck for 50 years. Still the legal status of this territory is the same as occupied Japan or Germany. It's a "temporary state", just a very long one.

In terms of "colonialism" I don't think it quite fits the strict definition of the word. Again it's a bit of a unique situation. If we compare to Europe many of the borders were drawn as a result of war, and this would be no different. The difference is that in Europe the population might have been expelled (e.g. like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_Germans_from_Czec... ) and the area annexed. Another interesting history to look at is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_border_change...
>especially considering the context of the rest of their post where they talked about exploiting loopholes and the letter of the law to abuse the system.

I didn't read the original post that way. If the poster stayed within the rules and—more importantly—immigration officials agreed with his interpretation of the rules, who am I to gainsay their decisions? To put another way, this is why my response was to hn_throwaway_99's comment, not to the original post itself.

>Have a talk with any DACA recipient and you will quickly learn how broken the system can be. Or someone seeking refugee status around the time the annual ceiling is being reached.

Again, you are coming at this from the perspective that something like DACA must exist, and therefore ought to be improved/eased/etc. The a priori argument that a country must accept refugees, and the only answer to the question of "How many?" is "As many as possible". This is the same entitled line of thinking as hn_throwaway_99's declaration that a complex system with many moving parts that operate over a long period of time must therefore be "broken", with the implication that the "fix" must be to make it as close to a one-button process as possible.
Feynman's Reversed Sprinkler Puzzle Solved
You mention cost, and then proceed to describe efficiency. They are different things.

They can spend billions giving away compute (cost) and be extremely efficient (high utilization) in doing so.
"Too bad Germany didn't get invaded by the French until Napoleon."

Read up on the Holy Roman Empire. Germany, France etc are quite complicated concepts.
Chemistry-ignoramous question:

Is there a burn-temperature above which everything dangerous is basically rendered inert?

I.e., you make stuff so hot that whatever survives is perma-bonded to oxygen, carbon, chlorine, fluorine, etc., and has almost zero chance of reacting with living creatures?

(Ignoring radioactive stuff, I mean.)
Yum indeed! I also make sure to ask for an extra helping of the (dry) peanut chutney. That and the green chillies are must-haves with a vada pav for me :)
Carbohydrate-Insulin Hypothesis: Why It's Wrong
Thank you for the feedback! That's good to know
That's made almost impossible by the bigger players in the SoC world like Qualcomm and Samsung. They created a multi level oligopoly which can only be challenged with nation state support (like Mediatek and Huawei did).

The problem is the drivers and documentation for those chips are very limited and short-lived. One simply doesn't get it without signing an NDA and buying some high thousands.

Without documentation it gets harder to optimally program them. On top of that add the know-how. Due to both NDAs and pure difficulty of working with low power systems, it is really hard to hire engineers who are both very knowledgeable and not bound by NDAs and willing to work on community projects that doesn't pay the significant wages that the consumer tech giants do.

Desktop Linux can get away with it if the desktop computer consumes slightly more power or laptop battery life is 2 hours shorter. People accept it. For phones any extra operations cause significant power usage. Everything in the stack needs to be optimized for it and regular Linux desktop stuff often isn't. Android has much tighter controls but it is 5-10x harder to program in the lower levels which again limits the supply of the engineers.

This is just getting a simple SoC and running Linux on top. Add similar complexities for every single peripheral.
Was CEO from 2007 through 2016, grew to ~15 employees by 2012. Then did Google for 7 years. My biggest Q coming in was "man, how do they handle the hard problems in management, like communication?"

Answer isn't anything helpful. They just don't. How does conflict actually go down internally? If you're lower on the totem pole, bad. It's verboten to say anything within 100 yards of even "without direction" Same sort of omerta as why it's a bad idea to tell your mother-in-law their Thanksgiving menu is horrifically bad. Your manager's manager picked your manager, your manager hired your coworkers.

This also would be a horrible, horrible quality to have as a startup founder. It's a fundamental blindness and lack of accountability.

I learned to do exactly what you did: reframe, recognize limits, bite my tongue, adjust my commitments.

There's also a point at which you can decide to "just go for it", i.e. if I want a certain project to do well and the leader involved seems like they're on a different planet, I just go do the work for it. This inevitably had ~0 professional payoff and short-term psych costs, but so does throwing in the towel, and it's okay to carefully weigh it sometimes and come out as "I'd rather see this get done / move on from this relationship if they can't handle me tactfully having a real talk about this"
Didn't you hear? The reds are at our door and want to destroy capitalism!
> away from the distro, which should never really have been packaging applications to begin with.

I disagree here: the whole point of a "software distribution" is to "distribute" software. And it does so by packaging it. There is a ton of benefit in having distro/package maintainers, and we tend to forget it.
I don’t really know tbh. I don’t think their current position is because of penny pinching. They invented the transformer and slept on it while OAI ate their lunch.
"None the wiser" is indeed an appropriate username! Please, tell us, by your snark I can assume you're most displeased with this collection of adjectives. But which ones in particular and why?

Do hippies frighten you because they represent a more egalitarian and prosperous ideology than your narrow minded brain can conceive of?

Do communists make you quake in your boots because you don't believe you could get on in a society where you might not be able to solve all of your problems with money? indeed, imagine if you might have to rely upon people liking you; I also fear for your ability to get on.

Is it the "drug fueled" portion, because you perhaps feel some right to tell other consenting adults (whom probably know much better about their bodies and their own lives than you do about yours) what to do on their spare time?

Or are you waking up to the fact that we, as a society, are becoming more secular[0], and thus you see the advance of atheism as an attack against the institution of your personal sky daddy?

And these are all reasonable things to think of you, since you only wave vaguely at a collection of adjectives while expressing some nebulous form of disdain. Perhaps either clarify the nature of your disagreement, or continue to persist in the shadow of intellectual doubt and fear you appear to be laboring under... which is a disease very common to people who appear to believe as you do.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20240123000719/https://www.nytim...
I guess this was a mercy killing.

1995 - 1996

Bob
Killed by Microsoft 28 years ago, Bob was a Microsoft project intended to provide a personalized alternative interface for the Windows operating system. It was 10 months old.
I think providing more choice will help Apple stay competitive though. If that happens, then users will find Apple's native browser/apps to be faster. A win for customers overall and insurance for Apple to not drop the ball!

As far as tracking/privacy, I suspect Apple's next move would be to provide greater restriction of your device information and browsing information secure (another win for customers that isn't really granularly provided today).
Notably missing in the article was the mention of the floppy/IDE interface QIC tape drives, which were usually somewhere between $100-200 for the drive, with tapes usually just a few dollars each. By '97, I think I had been using a QIC 3080 drive for a couple of years, which was 1.6GB. This was a natural progression from the QIC-80s I had been using in ~1991 to swap warez because it was a lot easier to give people a tape than the dozen+ floppy most applications were being distributed on at that time.

So, I do vaguely remember seeing VHS-based backup systems, but the price/capacity wasn't something that, at least in the US, was competitive against existing consumer tape systems. I do remember though having a couple big DAT drives at work, which were the data grade versions of VHS, but the drives were a lot more expensive.
May has soundness issues around TLS. You can cause undefined behavior in safe code. They do not plan on changing that (and I'm not sure it's even possible) but there's no way that it will become super popular due to this issue.

(and yes, as my sibling commentor mentions, Rust tried this before. Doesn't mean nobody can do it, but I suspect that it is not possible.)
"Sit this one out. It's not a discussion for you" seems clearly a personal attack and the sort of thing we ban commenters for if they do it repeatedly.
"dont let gazans interact with Israelis" is exactly the definition of apartheid though, unless you're advocating recognising Palestine, and giving them autonomy wrt water, electricity and so on. However the comment "ensuring no Gazans ever escape again." Is rather telling, it implies a recognition that Gaza is effectively a prison - dehumanisation like that fosters this sort of conflict, so really this sort of attitude is far less helpful than say learning from lessons in Japan and Germany post WW2, South Africa post-apartheid and so on.
Pretty much everyone on the planet disagrees with you. That isn't an exaggeration.
They are also not on expensive smart projectors. They are on some projectors but it's unclear on which ones. There are very few projectors with Netflix and it's not clear what the certification requirements are. Even the most expensive XGIMI does not have Netflix, yet a simple cheap BenQ does (and presumably because it just embeds an HDMI stick).
10/2*15 = $75

And presumably you only have to replace them if you replace your phone? It's not like the change came in and you had to rush down the shops straight away for new cables.
The psychobabel on the front page makes me wary of touching it.
Podcast is definitely one. But I’m not sure how one could get the real salient points out of some of the philosophy podcast I listen to without listening carefully the first time and writing them down.. Another would be for example when I ask Chatgpt how to do something in nvim.
I'm not personally bothered by the criticism of 'this style of design' or copywriting; rather, I find it troubling that such a reaction is given to a project that many people have worked on for weeks. Moreover, despite the fact that the design was made almost 2 years ago, we were very upset that it was described as if it was a mere imitation of a style that has become popular. Otherwise, of course, we can respect everyone's opinion on any subject.
I dared to drink that swill Coca-Cola, and then Roko's Basilisk condemned me to an eternity of unceasing torment. Don't make my mistake!
If you have an interest in English and the evolution of the language you must check out the YouTuber Simon Roper.

There's no finer student of the subject than him and I appreciate that he starts every video with "I am not [a] formally qualified linguist," yet he has a deeper understanding than most.

Some of my favorite videos:

- Celtic Influence on English [0]

- Progressing Some Words from Proto-Germanic to English [1]

- A London Accent from the 14th to the 21st Centuries [2]

- A Northern US Accent from the 18th to the 21st Centuries [3]

- Old English and Middle English; why are they so different? [4]

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[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcCx43I2Vio

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F72jkM9An5Y

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lXv3Tt4x20

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXaXnQv6knQ

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWI_dFxbzyg
Are there Jews in Germany today because of diplomacy? Or because those who tried annihilating and enslaving most German Jews were removed from power by force?
Apple is just as guilty of this. They regularly push users into Apple Maps for any address or location bit, can't even change the default app to which it would open. In fact, if I highlight and copy the address and then go into Google Maps, I get asked to grant permission to copy and paste every time...
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After Germany surrendered unconditionally and was amicably reconstructed.
A lot of people don't really "watch TV" as much as "let the TV on so they can hear people talking in the room". It's maddening to me, but I know quite a few people who do that. From that perspective, you don't want The Witcher or Game of Thrones, because they're loud and scary and complex to follow.
Yes, but we are talking about the situation 1000 years ago, when languages weren't standardized and, as a result, much more fuzzy. Today you can say where, say, German ends and Dutch begins; but it used to be a continuum. Same with French.

Even Medieval Latin spoken by the learned people was a bit different from Classical Latin of Cicero, and that was a language which was taken care of by educated, literate people. Vernaculars of the day ... well, tended to be different from region to region, because there was no one with enough influence and authority to codify them.

Looking at that situation, I am fine with classifying 11-th century Norman as "basically French". Mutual intelligibility was certainly fairly high. William the Conqueror would need no interpreter when talking to some Parisian merchant. There were some Norse leftovers present, but such was the situation everywhere.
There are no 100% effective solutions here. Ive spent a considerable amount of time in Israeli and realize living under the iron dome isnt ideal, but it is the best Israel can do. Long term occupation would lead to more Israeli deaths than a return to the pre october 7th status quo. The only other solution for israel is a legitimate genocide of all Palestinians, and I just dont see that happening in the next century.
> Basically you're arguing as per above in this thread

No I'm not. I asked how you define poverty
Well nothing prevents you from dynamically linking only glibc and statically linking everything else, without Docker at all.

The fact that people distribute their app with a full rootfs in a Docker containers says more about the fact that they don't know how to link stuff properly, IMHO.
You haven't actually read up on this. They're still using Apple infrastructure, because Apple is still providing some security guarantees and the ability to revoke malware.

This isn't totally free ride on Apple hardware. You can complain about that if you like, but unless the EU objects, Apple is still going to attempt to protect users who buy Apple products.
There are a variety of examples but the most recent ones relate to high profile pipeline protests. These protests have by and large been about and on land that was illegally annexed. These lands are by and large guaranteed by treaties that have since been illegally broken. Militarized forces from private security forces to federal agencies have been involved in the suppression.

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

Less recent examples include the violence surrounding the AIM movement in the early 60s and 70s. Protesters have been unjustly imprisoned for decades. There was violence from federal agencies on multiple occasions throughout the time period when AIM was most unified and active.

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

Shockingly to many people forced sterilization continued well into the 70s as well, which fits the definition of attempted genocide.

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

There are more examples but these are the most documented and high profile.

It is a social war more than a material one. Residential school policy is an example of this. You may have heard the phrase "kill the indian, save the man". This is a policy of longterm cultural genocide and erasure.

Edit: I also forgot to mention another example which is the passive acceptance of the very high rates of missing and murdered indigenous women. The lack of investigation from federal authorities who are supposed to have jurisdiction over these things implies tacit acceptance of the systematic murder of vulnerable indigenous people.

https://mmiwusa.org/
Crypto tried the academia angle, every shitcoin had a whitepaper similar to llm ones.
If we're going back, you should also remember the attacks Israel has made against Palestine since 1948.
My first thought as well. Had to turn off reader more to appreciate it, but man, what a great find.
Correct. There is no ordering guarantee across topics, and no ordering guarantee across different QoS levels on the same topic.

It would not be possible to shard topics across multiple nodes if there was an ordering requirement per client.
Weirdly enough I came across a blog post last week that talked about exactly this. https://j.phd/nix-needs-a-native-build-system/

Nix can be used as a build system in the same way that bazel can. It already has all of the tooling - a fundamental representation of a hermetic DAG, caching, access to any tool you need, and a vast selection of libraries.

The only catch is that no one has used it to write a build system for it in public yet. I’ve seen it done in a couple of companies, though, as using Nix to only partially manage builds can be awkward due to caching loss (if your unit of source is the entire source tree, a tiny change is an entirely new source).
Yeah the biggest issue I've had with Teams is that I don't like the icon on the 'new' app. I guess we have enough glitches with starting screen shares (it's not frequent or a cause of extended disruptions, but it shouldn't ever happen either).
I'm pretty sure you can access and use Vivaldi in every European country regardless of how wealthy it is.
My point was specific to Palestinian Authority controlled areas of the west bank.

My second point (maybe not so obvious) was about human rights situations in the Arab world and under Palestinian rule. e.g. the Jews living in Morocco can't elect their government because Morocco is a dictatorship ("Monarchy"), ruled by a king.

I.e. there's no Jews living under Arab rule while meeting those two conditions. Being able to live in a democratic, free, country with human rights, and under Arab or Palestinian rule. I was well aware there is some (tiny) Jewish population in some Arab countries.
So are there 6 million Stateside Puerto Ricans living in one of the 50 United States who have equal rights to other US citizens. Puerto Rico is still a colony of the United States. Mind you that the Puerto Ricans living on the island of Puerto Rico have infinitely more rights then Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank or occupied East Jerusalem.
> Hundreds of thousands of civilians have been killed in Ukraine.

Can you link some credible references for this?

The OHCHR, as of October 2023, listed 10,000 killed and 18,000 wounded.

https://reliefweb.int/report/ukraine/ukraine-civilian-casual...

For that estimate to be off by AT LEAST an order of magnitude as you are claiming requires quite a bit of evidence.
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You like vehicles no? Well being an employee in a huge company is the equivalent of being a cog in a giant vehicle. You are not deciding which way you are going nor the speed, hell you don't even know the speed and the direction, you just feel the force rotating in one way or the other upon you (the cog) .

But of course, it can be worthy for the salary which enables you to do some real fun driving, riding, skippering, piloting on some real bad ass vehicles during the weekend. Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday the cog becomes the captain
I like the idea, but seeing how many new accounts added fake comments makes me a bit suspicious :)
This is the fundamental problem with laws.
Ask HN: Person to person phone authentication system?
I'm looking for a system similar to one that banks use internally for person-to-person phone verification. If a personal banker at a branch calls HQ or another branch, they both pull up a webpage, they both have some set of numbers they exchange and it provides another level of verification they work for the bank.

I have to implement some type of system like this, I don't know what it's even called, I don't know if someone sells this solution, but most importantly: Does anyone know of any OSS solutions to this?

Thanks!! :)
> I hope everything will be with USB-C, all home appliances as well.

I'm not sure I want a kettle pulling 2400w over a usb cable
We could have said this about Germany and Japan after WWII.

Every human no matter their race and religion cares about having food, water, safety, opportunity, live in a law abiding society where their rights are respected and they get “some” choice to vote for their future.
Citizen journalist can't sue over arrest, divided US appeals court rules
> Problem is no one will take refugees from Gaza even temporarily.

Problem is history shows "temporary" displacement tend to become permanent displacement (AKA Ethnic cleansing) under the current settler-apartheid regime ruling Israel, so other countries understandably refrain to abet ethnic cleansing.
> The streaming giant added 13.1 million subscribers over the last three months, beating its own forecast of 9 million, and nearly 30 million new subscribers flocked to the platform in 2023

It’s like the author isn’t aware that over the last year Netflix got super aggressive on cracking down on shared accounts … and giving promos for shared account people to get a discounted new account.
Asking feature parity with 20yo feature phones is the bare minimum.