skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's true that developers do nothing for Apple. If there were no third party apps for iPhone, Apple would sell many fewer phones. I suppose many could theoretically move to the web, but then the point still stands that third party apps are still making the iPhone much more worthwhile to own.

With proper competition, OS makers work hard to attract developers - think of Ballmer's "developers developers developers" clip from back in the day - as they recognise that developers add value to their platforms and help sway consumers. The trouble these days is there is no meaningful competition. No matter what Apple's rules are, developers are obliged to provide something for iPhone, and Apple can rest assured there is negligible chance of a third mobile platform gaining traction.

Apple know this and through their strict policies have imposed a cruel reversal of the situation: they claim they are doing developers a favour by deigning to allow them to access all of Apple's iPhone customers, and tax all their revenue for the service they ostensibly provide, even though developers do a lot to make iPhones worth having. It's an abuse of their market position and there's not much anyone can do about it - except as the blog says, publish to the web instead. It's not perfect but it's the only meaningful alternative to regulation, which Apple are obviously going to use every trick in the book to wriggle out of, because why willingly shut off billions of revenue from taxing app developers? Hopefully the web can gain traction as a way to avoid abusive app publishing rules.
> Start-up times and memory consumption are objectively bad.

Hah, interesting. On desktop (Apple M2) it pretty much feels instant to me. When targeting embedded, sure there is a delay.

Regarding memory consumption, can't really tell. It never was at the point where we had to intervene AND we target embedded devices with some apps.

What's your benchmark?
Does this tool actually generate vectors? Or is it really just an AI image generator with an image to SVG converter added on.

Based on the complexity of the logos it generates, I suspect it might be the latter.
This doesn’t sound correct, why can’t it be solved with sufficiently advanced technology i.e. software and devices?

We already have facial verification systems in hundreds of millions of devices that are genuinely very difficult to spoof.
I use them exactly once more - cat litter waste
Imagine simping for more surveillance.
Probably the most hype video I have seen of what actual productivity on the device may look like. It is a combo of post professional and personal possibilities in your home.
A lot of this seems alien to me but I've also suffered from lifelong anger issues (perhaps also due to some corporal punishment I experienced) so it probably tracks... so I'm going to try these. I am especially sensitive to being struck physically. When my 2.6 year old son hits me, for example (the other night he literally tried to grab my eyeball out, out of the blue, fingernails and all), I must immediately walk away and let his mother know, otherwise I am in danger of reacting badly.
That's not "stupid requirements" the just the scope for backend engineer job nowadays.

Also, you might get the job if you don't match the requirements 100%. There are so many permutations of backend technologies nowadays that pretty much no one has familiarity with exactly the one they're looking for, so they have to compromise.
It will eventually come when machine eyes are better than human eyes. Replace the eyeballs with a processing unit connected to optics, use the body's energy through a connection to the eye stalk.

Marketing: Your vision will be much better, but the downside is that you're going to need to eat two pints of ice cream every day. Or if you want to lose weight, just eat one pint of ice cream every day.
You should try to write an app for a GNU/Linux phone, to see how being free from a duopoly helps in real life. For that, you simply use all desktop tools (and the app will also run on desktop).
"There is no way that a reasonably organized company can leak 40 MM USD. "

Oh, please, HP lost some 40 million in inventory while contracted to Solectron Global for repairs, because their inventory systems are utter garbage compared to Dell or Toshiba.
Inter Is the New Helvetica
The comparisons with Russia and Ukraine feel really weird; wasn’t Armenia the country occupying Azerbaijani territory for about 30 years? Do we now expect Ukraine to not cut off Russia’s access to resources?
A fully documented RISC-V based manycore system (plus standardized extensions for graphics and DSP, probably leveraging "V" compute support) that's roughly as compact and powerful as the Mac Studio is today, but selling for a fraction of the price. That's actually not that far-off as a goal, the issue is that the software ecosystem today is very different from what it was like back then. The Amiga had no equivalent to today's AAA games or apps, pretty much everything was "indie" by current standards. So DevX and openness were key considerations that would actually make a difference to the commercial success of a platform. RISC-V today is popular with academics but has yet to see any kind of real adoption.
macOS Sonoma 14.4 removes critical functions from the fileproviderctl command
> Cars in general are just getting bigger and more expensive to repair while our insurance liabilities are not being scaled for that

This is a good thing. Let the victims get stiffed to force them into smaller and more fuel-efficient cars.
To the degree that you can describe a company in general as such, Apple is one of the most arrogant companies I've ever had to deal with, sometimes as a customer, more often as a developer and very much so when I was involved with a partner in one of their many supply chains.

I think this is true at the same time that it's also true that they currently create some of the highest quality, almost perfectly fully integrated computing products in the world.

I have a real love/hate relationship with this company. I'm deep in their ecosystem, I don't really want to have to leave it, but I still see the arrogance bleed through and it pisses me off every time I notice it.

What this article describes - a seemingly widely perceived arrogance and disdain towards developers - isn't purely developer focused in my view - though I think they get the brunt of it. I think this is symptomatic of a wider issue. A cultural thing which is as deeply embedded in Apple as is their high attention to detail, technical excellence and sense of design.

I wonder if it came from Jobs himself - who, a bit like Musk, was by many accounts a bit of an asshole to those around him, but was also an extremely talented visionary, with that rare ability to pull together talented multi-disciplinary teams to help synthesise beautifully designed and - often - thoughtful products. (The current trend is against also thinking about Musk like this but I do think he and Jobs have a lot in common).

The high quality output of the company is either in spite of or dependent upon the slightly morally compromised and contradictory means of producing that output. I'm not sure which.

I often feel like I'm in a bit of an abusive relationship with Apple. I can't quite put my finger on it. They make wonderful things, which I often really really love using, but then in another moment they seem to manage to gaslight me in some way - making me feel utterly stupid for continuing to give them my money. Sometimes I think their products are literally unmatched and I focus on the fact that their attention to quality and innovation pulls the whole industry forwards, other times I just think I'm in their predatory ecosystem simply because they're the best of a bad bunch.

I think the thing the most annoys me with Apple is the disparity between the "perfect" public image they try extremely hard to portray - more than any other tech company - and the very obvious contradictory behaviour that can often be revealed just by scratching the surface.

//rant
As an Apple user, the experience is generally fine, especially when compared to Microsoft.

Most of the complaints about Apple seem to have come from devs. And in contrast, Microsoft [in]famously loves developers (Balmer on stage...)
That's not how the Earned Income Tax Credit works....
You put this better than I could have. Extended support can in fact be malicious. Appreciate your contribution.
Which already exists. Sent from my Librem 5.
Entrepreneurship is for people who perceive and experience stress and chaos in a very particular way.
Fusion rockets would be able to get over 1% c. I think the theoretical maximum for fusion is around 10%.
This is a good example of creating policies to change stats that are measured. Or something teachers call “teaching to the test”.
Amazon can say well, our diversity based hiring practices have increased our hiring of minorities by 150% last quarter! Last quarter we hired more people under DEI policies than ever! We are so progressive ra ra ra !

So if the metric is hiring, not retention, not long term employment then they just let those people go next quarter.. and maybe re hire the following quarter to shift those stats again!

Unpopular opinion, hiring people by DEI initiatives is wrong.
Looks like they've got ADHD and ODD like the rest of us. https://www.jaacap.org/article/S0890-8567(22)00189-7/fulltex...
What would you like to discuss about it?
> If your memory dump creates a different distribution on the space of possible keys

Is it possible to determine that this has happened though? If you're trying to recover an image and a bunch of bits are flipped, the result might be somewhat corrupted but a coherent image will still be visible. You know that the data was corrupted and where the damage is. Ciphers have avalanche effects, a single bit flip produces completely unusable output which by design reveals no information.
A key correction of mine:

> For teams skilled in C# and XAML, Avalonia is likely the better fit.

Support for F# is not great, the last time I looked.
Early computer word sizes varied widely: https://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/BRL61table03.html (A Third Survey of Domestic
Electronic Digital Computing Systems, 1961)
OS/8 was a single user OS (like RT11), so it often was used as a personal computer. It inspired CP/M.

6-bit chars were popular on this machine since you could fit two in one word, and uppercase only a thing. Strings in BASIC used 6-bit chars, but you could PRINT all ASCII (especially control characters) with a special PNT() function (only usable as a PRINT argument). If you look at the available OS/8 images, you'll find "business BASIC"- at least one change compared to regular OS/8 basic was support for 8-bit strings.

Floppies used 8-bit bytes. You wasted 4-bits out of every two for image files.
That's generally how it works in the US as well.
FICA cap is per employer, not total. Is that what you're referring to?
It's also a recipe for a bad work environment. It's good to have passion and accountability in doing good work. It becomes a problem when you identify with your creations, then anything said about it can only be taken personally without an ability to detach from it and speak/think objectively.
> Now older and wiser, candidly a lot of folks would be well served by default blue links, og html submit buttons and tables for layouts. A fair bit of modern UI is complete trash: it's the product of a designer and a product person putting the next bullet point on their resume.

If I were emperor of the world I’d make every consumer program pass a battery of tests that included demonstrating sufficient usability for a panel of users from a nursing home, a panel of users with sub-90 IQ who were in a stressful environment and trying to complete other tasks at the same time, blind users, deaf users, et c.

I expect the outcome would be a hell of a lot less twee “on brand” UI elements and a lot more leaning on proven design systems and frameworks, including fucking crucially for appearance. And also a lot less popping shit up on the screen without user interaction (omg those damn “look what’s new!” sorts of pop ups or focused tabs—congrats, some of your users are now totally lost)
I think the dunk is funny, and at the same time recognize that glibc is invaluable. At least here the attackers had to do some memory tricks - in other (apparently safer) languages they just get arbitrary code execution directly implemented in the logger!
New Fastest Benchy 3D Print [video]
in financial services everything you can possibly doing for your regular job has an approval chain (often consisting of at least 3 people)

install notepad++ from pre-packaged store? approval needed

change to mailing list you own? approval needed

1 line config change to production alerting system? 8 approvals needed

I can easily imagine people just clicking Approve sometimes without reading
early 90s Windows?
Ask HN: How would you implement a programming language with native data access?
I have never spent much time reading or learning the Wolfram stack - mainly because I have not really ran into it much on the internet, it does not to me seem overly popular.

However there is one concept within it that seems quite neat, and that is that the language or platform has native data access, for example `WordFrequencyData`[1].

The naive approach is just to connect this up to a DB of data, but I am interested if there are any other such open source example or some other neat abstractions when it comes to programming abstractions being connected directly to data.

[1]: https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/WordFrequencyData.html
70%? really?

I never even had that during the alpha days of Avalonia.
Give it a shot again.
Those are almost certainly fake capacities.
It certainly gives you more ammunition as a teen to distrust and venture the things your parents also taught you or implied were dangerous. It also teaches your children to believe foolish and questionable speech+conduct on the part of authority figures which has creates many other problems.

Why is it necessary? Why do you need to lie to your children? Teaching them that lying is "fun" is absurd, so many problems are rooted in tradition and "because I said so" or belief in mythical good and bad guys and boogiemen.
For a month or two I decided to start using the mouse with my left hand just for fun, to see how ambidextrous I could be.

The "wrong"-pointed cursor annoyed me so much I had to find a utility to flip it. (On a Mac, which doesn't support custom cursors like Windows has since forever.) It seriously drove me nuts otherwise.

So it's really interesting to hear that if it was always that way for you, it doesn't bother you!
I'd assume it was a deliberate choice because I'd think it'd be easier to implement a graphic with straight lines than with lines just off enough to be noticeable.
If they could fire every single worker without repercussion they'd do it today. They can't ...yet. The pay is good, but make no mistake - they would prefer you not be there at all. You shouldn't be under the assumption your employment will last long. You might get lucky in that regard and it might last but that's probably not going to happen.

Knowing that would you still sign up? If the answer is "yes", then cool, if the answer is "no", then what are your options?

The entire pip model is a lie, they would never hold themselves accountable, and don't.
PWAs, especially those built with an offline-first approach, are so much closer to the native experience than those from half a decade ago. However what concerns me is Google's and Apple's incentives to help them get better to a point where they can rival native apps which could hit their bottom line.
Skia can use the GPU.

What alternative do you propose? What other library is cross-platform, has a nice API, performant, supports text well enough, and can do both CPU and GPU rendering?
Thank you! :) What has really made me happy recently is realizing the web now has at-par capabilities, and I can make all sorts of cool AV stuff that works straight out in the browser. It's heady really, the possibilities, I'm excited to learn more and make more of these.
In terms of cleaning up roadside litter in my area, I would anecdotally agree. But echoing the other comments, the alternative reusable bags I get mostly just wind up being shoved in the closet or thrown away when the handles inevitably rip on the 3rd use. At least the old style bags were waterproof enough double as handy trash can liners.
We are using Avalonia for embedded devices.
Yeah...in the same way a self driving Tesla driving toward a cliff edge is better than a determined human. It's more likely to mess up and avert disaster, but it's pointing in the same direction.
> Many states (like PA) have abandoned licence tags to save a few pennies.

Or dropped the requirement for front plates. The best part about front plates is that they can drop off and remain at the scene of the accident (or embed themselves in the bumper) during a hit-and-run.
Reminds me of anti smoking ads. Every time I see one of those I feel the urge to go to the corner store to buy a pack. Something about those preachy ads annoys the living hell out of me.

Edit: should preface I’m a former smoker and I loved smoking. Problem is, smoking didn’t love me and I had to quit if I wanted to continue with my gym hobby xD
How can we know? There were many developers used to Amiga hardware. With an easy to way port games to an x86, who knows what could have happened?
You can see how "starting to view" and "actual construction dollars" are different claims, right?
In hindsight, you are correct; I'm biased in support of this developer. Cube 2: Sauerbraten is my favorite open source game/engine ever, the developer has a history of longstanding love and commitment to his products, and I'm excited to see what comes of this.
I love my family and I love programming but I'm only showing up to daily standup because they pay me to.
I’m sure more funding will solve the issue
Aka Dijkstra's baby. Those were the predecessor of our modern CPUs in many ways, so many concepts were pioneered on those. There is even a direct line between that machine via THE and Multics to Unix.
How is their update path not considered a backdoor? They can sign and serve you any update that they want.
> Though intended to be reused many times, the report says 90% of the new reusable bags are used a mere two or three times. So they are piling up in landfills and homes.

I could see people forgetting these bags at home for a while as they adjust to their new normal, but the idea that they’re going to be buying these new bags ever other trip to the store because they’re piling up in a room at home for years is hard for me to believe.

Given that the conclusion of that article depends on people never getting good at reusing those bags and instead throwing them away or letting them accumulate forever at home, I have a hard time taking it seriously.
As someone about to release a product in this space, could you give some personal insights into the marketing aspects/targeting/audience?
> How's Avalonia's mobile support now?

A promising future but not production-ready afaik
"I tried developing on <platform>, actively avoided using their tools and tech, and the experience sucked because nothing I tried was supported."
Apple Ramped Up Autonomous Vehicle Testing Last Year, Filings Show
Yeah, on Linux even when there are dbus ports (systems and Gnome have plenty) they're relatively poorly known and/or not much less of a pain to use than a "proper" API.

If you need a schema or binding, it's not good enough. If you have to hunt for docs, it's not good enough.
Why couldn't you just literally (in a controlled setting) introduce them directly to the danger by mediating and showing them thru direct experience? Take your kid to work and let them see what they're up against
> What did the Canadian government do?

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

> In June 2015, the TRC released an executive summary of its findings along with 94 "calls to action" regarding reconciliation between Canadians and Indigenous Peoples. The commission officially concluded in December 2015 with the publication of a multi-volume final report that concluded the school system amounted to cultural genocide. The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, which opened at the University of Manitoba in November 2015, is an archival repository home to the research, documents, and testimony collected during the course of the TRC's operation.

https://www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca/eng/1450124405592/1529106060...

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It is a LONG, deep, and dark rabbit hole to dig through those documents that takes you through places such as undocumented graveyards behind schools. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/stó-lō-natio...

Specifically regarding the Inuit resettlement - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Arctic_relocation
Betrayal of the Inuit
The absurdly paternal whites believed it would be so much better for the Inuit if they returned to their traditional ways, without any thought at all for the survival-imperative generational knowledge of the land the Inuit would lose by relocation.
> Apple users are conditioned to pay for things.

Not that I entirely disagree, but that doesn't seem to be consistent with the complaint from app developers that they are unable or barely able to cover their development cost from app store sales.
Europe really use brick construction. Germany and France don’t have alot of earthquakes. They also don’t have many trees.
In Workbench 2.0+ it was slanted 45° with the two sides at 30° and 60°, it was red with a hint of 3D (light at the top-right, dark bottom-left) and was beautiful! It stood out on whatever background.
Personally anime uses around 30TB for me. For the best quality (mostly 1080p + bluray) of everything released in the last year (~250 shows / movies), but also including older releases for the same franchise (eg past seasons / related spin offs).

For western media it'll really depend on how much quality you're willing to forgo (4k? hdr? blu-ray rips?) but 20GB for a 1080p season pack (~10 eps) and 5GB for a movie is pretty normal. And a cursory glance at certain sites suggests 250 seasons and 850 movies were released in 2023, so ~15TB seems like a good estimate for a years worth. Releases for asian stuff should be pretty similar in size, except less hdr / bluray options.

Storage wise I just have a raid 1 (zfs) setup with a bunch of 14tb drives (at 8~10usd per TB [1]). I did need to buy a hba doodad to convert a pcie slot to more sata slots though.

[1] https://diskprices.com/
> In reality, my wife can hardly see my eyes on mine, so I don't know what function they're supposed to serve to the customer.

Can you see each other’s eyes when you are each wearing them? Or does it AR wipe out the device and replace your heads with Animojis?
I too had my bad interaction with my insurance company. Out of blue they start rejecting my doctor's prescription for a very common (and cheap) medication. It took me more than 1 month with my awesome primary care doctor's persistent to figure out that the 1000mg version of my medication is the reason it got rejected. My doctor has to prescribe the 500mg version and I simply take two pills.

But no communication from the insurance company told me that.
I'm not sure how to make sense of this.

Does this mean that economics are just vibes? I mean, sure, economics has at least a little psychology in it, faith in money demonstrates that. But we all firmly believe things like "kitchen table issues" and "hits in the pocketbook" and "it's the economy, stupid". If nothing matters, why bother talking about it?
I only know of 1 forced relocation the Quebec -> High Circle relocation after WW2. I don't believe that's what they are referring too. Unless they mean the standard first nation reservation rules. Which are not applicable for Inuit from what I understand.
The sheer fact that this is still a top comment illustrates the overarching issue with the community and complete lack of understanding how OSS ecosystems work (or the amount of "people" who would like to see .NET fail).