skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a very compelling case against Apple, and this is a perfect example of lies, damn lies, and statistics.

Spotify's pie is: $7,631
Apple's pie is: $10,711

Spotify's pie is 28% smaller than Apple's which is suspiciously close to the app store fee.

The way this information is displayed feels very dishonest to me. The display implies Apple is better for artists, but the reality this displays when analyzed for more than how it is presented is that apple is using anti-competitive practices to unfairly offer artists a better deal.

Both pies being displayed the same size, despite that one is physically larger, hides relevant information.

I think owning the app store and having an app that competes with other apps on it is a clear and odious conflict of interest. If that were the main argument against apple, I would be a strong supporter of Apple targeted regulation. Apple's cut is fine, being able to take that cut directly from your competition offering you a clear and unfair competitive advantage is not.
I remember high school, coach organized a wrestling match played out over a week. You had 32 matches. The winners competed in 16 matches. The winners of that competed in 8 matches. Then 4 matches, then 2 matches then the final match.

When you've built an economic system that distributes wealth that way you can't cast moral aspersions on the losers. Because that's what it does, creates losers by design.
When I learned graph theory, the prevailing understanding was that graphs are mathematical abstractions of networks. Most people have an intuitive understanding that there is some underlying principle of connectivity which make "computer networks" and "social networks" similar to each other in some way.

So, focus on networks. If you're a graph theorist and need to talk to lay people, say that you research the underlying mathematics which combine computer networks and social networks into a single topic. You can then follow up by saying, "mathematicians also call this a graph, which has a specific formal definition, but for this conversation, let's just keep calling it a network, and we'll imagine every network can be represented as a bunch of dots connected by lines."

Most lay people are more interested in applications than formal definitions and theorems, so give them some interesting but intuitive problems which are investigated in network theory, like travelling salesman or "chinese postman."
It's basically the question of how an equal friendship is affected by an unequal business relationship.

In my case, the commercial values and industry culture eventually eclipsed the social friendship and made it untenable, but that process took about a decade to eventuate.

The imbalance was a big part of it. Not directly! The friend treated me well, but the other employees not so much. The resulting long term issues drove a wedge, and my friend had no choice but to side with his life's career.
+1. I checked Citus, hydra, etc, and nothing comes close, all has its restrictions or gotchas.

I also really want to have a LSM based storage engine, but noone implemented it yet.
Yugabyte built a postgres compatible database, but it has some management-related stuff not opensource... Cockroach similarly...
I just give my friends some shares[1] either directly or into an SPV and move on

I’m usually able to do everything so I don’t need to make nominal roles, or their actual help, sometimes they are faces on a site or running a support channel just to add a human element and look like traction

[1] I usually don’t dilute any ownership of the company, I dole out shares of a revenue stream, or the product which can be convertible to cash. very clean, very lucrative. not on me if that revenue stream dries up or they dont sell the product, they were cut in.
If the reason for DRYing up code is simply because it looks the same as some other code, that’s a bad reason.
It is not “up for debate” that various gasses cause a rise in temperature.

You are pretending that our scientific knowledge is at 1600 levels to come to your insane conclusions.

You claim that I’m not open for debate, but it’s actually just that there is no debate here. You’re a just printing demonstrable lies on to the internet, for what?
I don't know, but even if I did you're making a weak argument. You're comparing temporary pain relief for lost and destroyed lives.
If you want to try getting back to the root-roots, you could try following Ben Eater's youtube series and build an 8-bit breadboard computer, and write some software for that; I find hardware fascinating.

Alternatively, find a cause/issue you feel strongly about and see if you can apply your skillset to make real change, where you can feel good about what & why you are coding. Or another way to put it, let programming be secondary to a more important goal; your desire to accomplish that goal will drive your need to improve as a programmer.
road networks, streets and intersections, streets have distances and speed limits, so they can be used for describing the values on edges concept too.

One way roads also exist, like in graphs.
It's not surprising. The average demographic of this site is a laptop-class worker whose work and passion is only made possible by a nearly incomprehensible foundation of thousands of years of infrastructure to build off of, who lives very comfortably, fancying themselves humanity's pioneers and dreaming of a singularity within their lifetimes. They've been told it's inexorable, so they think they're entitled to it. Snatching not only that dream away but their entire set of assumptions about how this civilization can't possibly collapse (even though many have in the past) because we're more enlightened or something? Literally can't compute, won't compute.
should Apple be forced to produce batteries for 2001 clamshell ibooks?
> Fake Celebrity porn has been a thing for the longest time.

Then where was the flood of photoshops making headline news?

> What has changed since then?

Would the recent flooding of social media have been possible in the past?
It seems pretty easy to figure out why taking the equivalent of a hundred million wallets creates more misery than taking one of them right.
To be fair, that's a pretty pathological image to try to OCR. :)

It's wrinkled and not flat so lines aren't straight, it's got big dark shadows going across text, and very low resolution for the letterforms. Even I have an awfully hard time reading parts of it.

OCR is generally designed for flat documents in relatively even lighting with a decent resolution. Different OCR software may do better or worse the further you get away from those ideal conditions, but using an image like yours to compare OCR software is like trying to compare a Porsche and a Ferrari by how well they drive through a muddy jungle.
Depending on the battery there are cheap AliExpress boards - or diy - to make tiny UPSes for a raspberry pi or other usb-powered device. I don't know for that specific battery; I have some that take 18650s, though.

One 18650 can get you several hours of runtime for a pi zero. The battery can cost more than the zero. The cheaper one cell UPS boards are about $2 (plus shipping).

An advantage of single cell UPSes is that you don't have to worry about balancing, which is a bit of a pain with scavenged cells.
Spotify on Android too: when saving a song, you have to select one or more playlists using round checkboxes. Why?
I have a few friends who have cashed out through various acquisitions. In every case it made them a "thousandaire". But they were ICs/engineers, not founding management.
I am not making those claims. I'm making the claim that blanket policy is not a good solution EVER because it ignores the nuance of reality. And as I'm not able to reply, you can say that saying so is incredibly unpopular. Why? Because of marketing and hype meant to ensure that people who don't want to destroy a forest in the name of solar will not be heard while corporate interests profit in the name of green energy that's anything but green.

Regardless I fault the downvoting and the yelling over rational thought, just as we can see in this thread. You guys pedaling the idea that any opposition to solar is evil are the evil. You guys are the reason our environment is being destroyed because you imagine that what works in your neighborhood is best for everyone and you vote that way without imagining what a blanket policy on electric vehicles means for places still on coal.

Anyway, sure 80% of the POPULATION is on nuclear. But MOST traffic is goods delivery not your driving around a nuclear powered super metropolitan. Those goods travel through the middle of the country where there is no nuclear and won't be for a very very long time. You can read for yourself about why nuclear is essentially at a halt in the US. It's mostly to do with the high cost of meeting safety guidelines that didn't exist when existing plants were built.

Ignoring the supply chain doesn't make you green. You get to live comfortably near nuclear and make decisions for everyone else. But you're making awful ones that ruin our natural resources, destroy our land, and show blatant disregard for how things work outside of your bubble.

You may not see it, but I see every day how "green" energy is destroying the environment right outside my door. We simply need more care, discussion, and nuance in energy policy. Screaming down every discussion and drowning it with irrelevant research isn't going to help the environment. It's going to destroy it.
To clarify:

Mind you, lots of things get kicked about and implemented before actual papers appear on them for the first time in public.

I was thinking of many examples I know where a technique is developed and used in industry (mineral exploration | remote imaging | secret spook stuff) and much later (five years or more) gets a first mention in acedemia .. where they may or may not get a robust working version happening .. just a rickety proof of concept.
Cities and roads can be thought of as a graph. So, think of a graph as a map with just cities and roads. Explain that in the context of a graph, a city can be thought of as a node and a road as an edge.
Carvana is an auto loan originator that used cars to originate loans. Can’t sell securitized auto loans without the cars.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/18/carvana-adopts-poison-pill-a...
While I do not necessarily disagree with the author, I really dislike the term magic. It's not magic, it's added abstraction layers. Usually you can peel those back and look underneath. We've been adding abstraction layers since the beginning of computing. It's not magic though, it's neither sorcery nor trickery. You may decide it's not something you want or need, but don't then dress it up in this way to appeal to a certain audience who dislike all "magic", it is unhelpful to the argument.
With photolithography, what most chips are made with, the resist is developed by exposing it to UV light. A mask is used so that the desired parts of the resist are left behind, and the rest is washed away. Contact photolithography places the mask directly against the silicon wafer because it helps the optics during exposure, but the mask doesn't directly remove the resist.

In nanoimprint lithograhy, a stamp is pressed into the resist on wafer and leaves the desired pattern behind.

The difference is that the resist is removed mechanically instead of chemically.
I joined a friends startup because I was eager to jump into the startup scene and his business idea was pretty good and doing fairly well.

After about a year I started getting increasingly inappropriate texts from him, and it seemed like he was trying to cheat on his wife. Needless to say, I left, and now that friendship is over.
A basic c maj chord is c4 f4 g4. Inversions move bottom notes to the top, like f4 g4 c5, or g4 c5 f5. They significantly change the flavor of the chord.
Everywhere you look people are complaining about _software complexity_. Why do things take so long to implement? Why are they so hard to change?

There is obviously a large problem with the way we do software engineering, and we are still figuring it out.

The longer you spend in software, you realize that the "accepted way to do things" changes all the time.

You just have to look at the things you couldn't imagine not using, and then ask "why" do we do things this way.

This will take you on a journey through computer history, and you will get a ton of "ahh that's why!" moments like you do when you they reveal the twist in a film or tv series - which gives you that dopamine hit to provide the re-kindling that you are looking for.

It will help you understand why things are the way they are from first principles which will help you "talk circles" around other people, and also see where the complexity creeps in.

You will realize that a lot of software people are just good at knowing how to use certain libraries, frameworks and technologies in a kind of cargo-cult way, which prevents them seeing more simple solutions.
If all copilot did for me was autocomplete my exception handling routines, log messages, and class definition getters and setters, I would still pay for it.

I think that's where it's competency really sits. It provides some interesting suggestions otherwise, but mostly it's these slam dunks that make me very happy with it.
So, if I understand what you are trying to say, it's a proportional tax.

It is not progressive unless for some reason you view the "cliff" this way, though it is not a true cliff in the traditional tax sense, since exceeding does not remove the benefit of the 1m/year download credit.

My argument that it is regressive is not based on it being "bad for the small guy", rather I was just pointing out that, as a regressive fee when looking at revenue/download, it will be very bad for small business.
My wife and daughter wake up around 7 or 730, I usually get back from the park (that has a public pool) around 645
There’s no need to fluff anything up, focus on what makes you great—your technical skills and achievements.

I am not sure anyone is rejecting you based on awkwardness or autism masking. My advice is not to worry about this or think about it. Thinking about things you can’t control or have difficulty controlling will make you anxious.

A hiring manager or peer interviewer will try to discern two main things (speaking as both a candidate and someone who has interviewed others to be hired):

1) is this person technically capable of performing the work?

2) how will this person be as a co-worker or employee?

For (1), just focus on being able to tell the highlights of your technical accomplishments. What you did, why it was important to the org or project, what you learned etc.

For (2), have stories of being a good person to work with. For example, someone gave me a critique and this is how I handled it. Or when we had a really challenging situation, this is what I did. No one is looking for a hero (being a hero isn’t desirable in all situations or roles). But people want to know that the person they’re hiring is someone who will listen to them, provide knowledgeable suggestions, and be flexible to pivoting when the situation needs it. Most of all, they’re looking for someone who can help get things done.

What levels are you aiming for? I am guessing junior or mid?
I host so many services, but I gave up totally on exposing them to the internet. Modern VPNs are just too good. It lets me sleep at night. Some of my stuff is, for example, photo hosting and backup. Just nope all the way.
How does an application-specific configuration in firefox do anything about other devices on your network?
NH has a sales tax on a few specific items. https://www.tax-rates.org/new_hampshire/sales-tax

I don't think it is legal in NH for localities to levy a sales tax, though.
My bad. It's still a very interesting read!
What makes you competent to decide what someone else charges for their work? Unless it is your work, you get no say in how much it costs.
Tangoing with a Martin Gardner Word Game
I just have a bit of an axe to grind when it comes to Benihana :)

Yeah, given your account and what people have said so far, clearly their marketing has been quite effective on me at least! Even Chase I've had great help from while traveling (letting them handle rebooking rental cars/hotels, etc).
Property taxes in NH are high... but not that much higher than many of their neighbors that also have all the other taxes, too.
> a majority doubt the official narrative these days (that LHO acted alone), but it was much lower in the past

Ah okay, didn't realize a majority of people still doubt the official narrative. Thanks for the link.

But yeah, it was previously at 11% believed official narrative and has now risen to 30% it seems.
I turn them in to my local battery recycler for further processing.
The HPV vaccine also prevents throat cancer in boys.
I’m not following your logic. How does the malicious-but-unprivileged user have write access to anywhere in the sysadmin’s PATH?
Tools for Jupyter in (and Near) Production
> When a law doesn't work, you don't go around breaking it, you work with the system we have to change it. Similarly, when people aren't listening to your message, you work within the system to get it heard.

These don't seem comparable. Breaking the law shouldn't be your first option, but it absolutely sometimes becomes a necessary option. Conversely, I agree that essentially yelling louder at people doesn't make them "hear" your message any better, therefore I don't think the two things make a good comparison with each other.
am i the only one who's confused and kind of sick of these updates? blabla signs of life on mars for decades but zero actual evidence

don't mean to be uncharitable, i'm as excited as anyone at the prospect, but the whole thing is getting old

either come up with something or keep quiet lol
> when can I publish my porn app

Apple’s new rules now allow an avenue for porn apps, and those rules are actually great for paid apps. Hopefully you’re not talking about free porn? You want to women to take their clothes off and you won't even pay them for it?

> the right to use alternative browsers

You have the right to use whatever browser you want, just buy a device which supports that browser. Meanwhile, you're being embarrassingly short-sighted. Browser diversity is infinitely more important than browser choice. Apple is the only significant entity forcing browser diversity upon the web ecosystem.

> If you think that having to pay a fee to exercise your lawful rights

You do that every time you consume the goods and services provided by corporations. You have a lawful right to watch Netflix, but that right doesn't absolve you from paying for your subscription. You have no lawful right to decide how Apple monetises their intellectual property. And the EU has no right to give Apple's intellectual property away.

If you demand that governments force Apple to rearrange their deal, don't complain when they rearrange it.

> The law also considers fair use

Just using someone else's intellectual property because you think you're entitled to isn't fair use. This is the third reply in a row where you've repeatedly demonstrated a gross misunderstanding of law.

> EU courts have ruled that "functional" parts of computer programs aren't protected at all

Wow, there you go again. No they didn't. That ruling did not walk back copyright in any way. The ruling upheld the self-evident truth that functionality isn't protected by copyright. The example they cite is code which parses a specific file format. You can't declare the idea of a specific file format structure as intellectual property, and you can't stop someone from writing their own code to parse it. But that doesn't give them a right to use your code without permission.
And yet the law will be written that refers to obscene materials, and then later someone will find a graphic criticism of someone else's religion or favourite politician to be obscene. It will happen, because it always happens. It doesn't (only) matter what the intent of the law is, any more than it matters what the intent of strcpy is. It (also) matters what purposes the law can be twisted to.
When everything is empire: Pratinav Anil reviews Sathnam Sangera's /Empireland/
it's the convenience. If they had the executive function to get them online, they would save money and get a reusable device instead.
> Godwin's Law never accounted for the fact that we would need to deal with actual Nazis ever again.

Not really, that's your personal awareness of white supremacists and "Nazi" adjacent groups coming into play. They haven't really been hiding at all, membership has maintained hundreds to thousands for decades in the officially recognized organizations. Godwin was also not ignorant of these groups.

There is simply no need to be hyperbolic about things.

> Even Godwin, himself, acknowledges that if the comparison fits, it's perfectly fine.

OK.
Unless you are a male sex worker or in some kind of niche hookup community, it's a scam. Even on a dating site, it's probably a scam unless you are exceptionally attractive.
Thanks for the recommendation!

Feel free to get in touch via https://t.me/salus_security
It depends of you're using a model distilled for fast inference like LCM, LCM-LoRA or turbo.
Yes but checks are signed for -32,768
There was that ISS experiment during multiple spacewalks that discovered marine microorganisms on the outer surface of the space station that got there somehow, many of them surviving the conditions. It's hard to explain by the contamination alone because some species were endemic to the places well outside the trajectory of the launchers.

The authors suggest/speculate about the existence of some ionospheric updraft or electromagnetic phenomenon capable of elevating them to the upper thermosphere where ISS is located. If that's true, panspermia hypothesis suddenly becomes much less far-fetched, and also the "reverse panspermia" you're talking about.

https://www.hindawi.com/journals/tswj/2018/7360147/ - one of the papers related to the experiment

https://nplus1.ru/material/2020/02/21/iss-test-experiment - a pop-sci article and an interview with a PI of that experiment (in Russian, use a translator)
I think it's a crazy competitive business. The new car dealer is always getting cars off lease, there's the Buick enthusiast who always has a few, the guy who brings up old police cars from Southern PA, etc. If you are spending all your money on expensive TV ads and silly vending machines you can't win.
I highly suggest you look at Expo and EAS, it is dead easy. I have no affiliation, just a previous free->paid->free user.

Depending on what type of features/entitlement your app needs, it might be worth virtualizing it, buying a cheap/used Mac, or renting a Mac in the cloud for *testing*, but you don't need one to write, test, or submit it to the App Store.

You don't technically need an iPhone either, you can assign others to test in TestFlight.

Unfortunately you will need the $100USD/year membership vs Google's one-time $25, but ya gotta pay to play!
The Defenses of Lepidopterans
Linux arm native please, it will make my frontend testing a lot easier.
See https://www.artforum.com/events/mark-lombardi-2-195790/
Wow. This is a very cool idea. I occasionally get discouraged that I don’t know what trees are around me - because it reflects a disconnect from nature. This may be a great trick!
It might be informative talking to your black sisters.
The PS3 also uses FreeBSD as the basis for it's OS. They don't want to use Linux for the main OS because of the license.
> I was uninformed on how stock grants worked

Any chance you could elaborate on this? What about stock grants were you unaware of (or misunderstood) until it was too late? What should people reading this watch out for?