skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“The Cut” is analogous to a cable package with 500 channels when all you want to do is watch 3 or 4 channels.

I’d like to see Apple unbundle their take such that the maximum cut is 30% for devs who use all of the iCloud, dev, payment, and store for their apps. It’s debatable, but I think this is reasonable for this type of dev.

The problem is when I have an existing SaaS business with all that infrastructure already built—I don’t need all of Apple’s infra, so why should I have to pay for it? I’d have no problem paying Apple a % for listing and distributing through their App Store and processing payments.

Unfortunately Apple is being very short sighted about this and consequently are being forced to unbundle by the EU and it’s likely other countries will follow. That puts us in a situation where regulators are making these decisions instead of Apple, which is why I think we’re going to be in for some very janky user experiences that Apple will try to pin on regulators.
You simply leave the cover on indefinitely.

Bonus: No more bedbugs can ever get in.
You're thinking of it from the 'should' (aka I wish) and employee perspective, not the competitive 'what do employers actually want' perspective.

If employers want their numbers to match some stat, then of course they're going to optimize for that. Which if your picture doesn't match, that's a problem. For you.

If employers have some pre-baked idea of what type of worker works for them, and getting things actually done matters to them (as compared to some diversity stat), then of course they're going to optimize for that. If your picture doesn't match, that's a problem. For you.

And maybe them if they can't actually find what they want because of their own pre-conceptions, but I guarantee they'll be the last ones they blame. It takes a very open minded individual to look past their own preconceptions. Sometimes too open minded. In times of stress, people default to what they are most comfortable with.

Now, if workers want that or not is up to them - most of the labor code is all about forcing employers to do things they don't want to do to protect themselves.

Most of contract and penal code is employers/owners trying to protect themselves from things they don't want others to do to them.
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What helped me when I started 4 years ago was taking some certification exams offered by AWS and Azure. They're a bit pricey in my opinion but I needed a structured curriculum to guide my learning.

Other than taking these exams, I just set up an AWS account and played around with the services, which is free if you stay within the usage limits of the free tier. I started with learning about the core services, how to provision infra using infrastructure-as-code, how the billing model works, etc.
You're correct that there are certain scenarios that won't be addressed by this. Would it be more fair to say to write that this will only postpone the issue?

To offer a counterexample, I've been using my machine for slightly over a year now, and the number of applications running in the menu bar have stabilized to 16 apps. So this undeniably resolves the issue on my machine and for my usage.

EDIT: I think this was a great point and I added a notice section to the blog post so that everyone using this hack will be well informed to make best decisions. Thanks for the feedback!
Top Notch is working well here with 14.3.1.

This app only makes the menu bar black though, so it's not really a fix for what the article complains about.
But reality seems to be more nuanced than that:

Matter devices can be "dumb". They're intended to be able to work without Internet. Matter uses IP, and Thread provides IPV6, but that doesn't mean that either thing needs to be able to talk to the WAN.

Wifi devices can also be "dumb". For example: I have ESPHome devices that Just Work and that don't have any outside connectivity.

I don't advise anyone who asks me about smart home stuff. I'll tell them some about what I'm doing in my own home, and answer any questions they have accurately, but their eyes glaze over when they hear phrases like Zigbee or MQTT, and they've completely stopped listening by the time something like Home Assistant comes 'round.

I don't know that Matter and/or Thread will make anything better or more secure by default. The Matter 1.0 spec is only a year and a half old and it isn't clear at all how implementation is going to wind up being shaped in the real world.

But they can improve things and I hope that they will.
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It really is crazy how imaginary internet money is valued at $50k
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Before moving into my house, I rented a 2 bedroom apartment in the same town for $700/month. Low interest rates during Covid meant I could get a 30-yr fixed mortgage at 2.25%, and the mortgage payments would end up being cheaper than my rent. Rural development grants introduced a few restrictions on what houses I could choose, but made it possible to buy a house in my 20s with no down payment at all. Seemed like a no-brainer!
Hi all,

I created QuickIndex — a tool that helps you automatically index your website in Google. Every day, it submits pages to Google for indexing, making it possible to be indexed in ~24 hours.

Hope you find it useful.
I see more symmetry in the relationship between Apple and developers. It's true the platform was created out of thin air, but without the apps in the app store, it's fair to say the iPhone would not have been nearly as successful. All the dedication and work that developers put into their platform has resulted in millions of applications available on their store - that's what gives it it's value. Obviously there's no "right" number, but I think 30% is way too steep.
Are these job losses directly attributable to AI, or companies simply reducing headcount from the Covid hiring spree?
Mottos like that live their own life. Take google’s “dont be evil” - people remember that, and see all the evil shit google does now, of course they are going to recall the motto and laugh at the irony. Whatever Sergey meant when he coined the phrase is irrelevant imo.
Todays linux OS's would have competed incredibly strongly against Vista and probably would have gone blow for blow against 7.

Proton, Wine, and all of the compatibility fixes and drive improvements that the community has made in the last 16 years has been amazing, and every day is another day where you can say that it has never been easier to switch away from Windows.

However, Microsoft has definitely been drinking the IBM koolaid a little to long and has lost the mandate of heaven. I think in the next 7-10 years we will reach a point where there is nothing Windows can do that linux cannot do better and easier without spying on you, and we may be 3-5 years from a "killer app" that is specifically built to be incompatible with Windows just as a big FU to them, possibly in the VR world, possibly in AR, and once that happens maybe, maybe, maybe it will finally actually be the year of the linux desktop.
Exactly! I would tell those people to use Linux, not sue Microsoft to change their operating system
It's backed by government force.
Maybe it just depends where you live or how you use internet/social media? For me it's actually much easier. As an introvert I don't really like approaching random people "on the street". So whenever I start a new hobby or interest I usually just find some local community via their website/forum/Facebook, participate online and then join them in person. This has worked amazingly for me over the last 25+ years.
There's a whole Wikipedia page for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet_catastrophe
I may have missed it in the article, but this post would mean absolutely nothing to me except for the fact that last week I got into stable diffusion so I'm crushing my 4090 with pytorch and deepspeed, etc and dealing with a lot of nvidia ctk/sdk stuff. Well, I'm actually trying to do this in windows w/ wsl2 and deepmind/torch/etc in containers and it's completely broken so not crushing currently.

I guess awhile ago it was found that Nvidia was bypassing the kernels GPL license driver check and I read that kernel 6.6 was going to lock that driver out if they didn't fix it, and from what I've read there was no reply or anything done by nvidia yet. Which I think I probably just can't find.

Am I wrong about that part?

We're on kernel 6.7.4 now and I'm still using the same drivers. Did it get pushed back, did nvidia fix it?

Also, while trying to find answers myself I came across this 21 year old post which is pretty funny and very apt for the topic https://linux-kernel.vger.kernel.narkive.com/eVHsVP1e/why-is...

I'm seeing conflicting info all over the place so I'm not really sure what the status of this GPL nvidia driver block thing is.
That's a different type of accelerationism.
How much dust would you need to shoot up to affect a statistically significant change in the amount of sunlight getting through?
Can we just stop with these absolute positions already?

You can justify horrible atrocities if you strongly believe in extreme outcomes.

Effective altruism, accelerationism, doomers... All of these mindsets are toxic for the same reason that extreme religious stances are toxic. Believing that the world is going to end or that it's going to reach salvation or whatever extreme outcome you feel like, and then using that to justify short-term atrocities is not the way.

Stop putting infinity in your forecasts. It breaks everything. We have been down this path before many times and it never ends well.
If racing frames didn't break from extended use, then they could be lighter. You want them to be just barely strong/stiff enough.
> There's a peculiar form of blindness that strikes the Urbanite, as if there are no other places to live.

And famously illustrated!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View_of_the_World_from_9th_Ave...
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what it can do for you lately:

let's say you work at uber. uber probably has a database with a bunch of rides data in it. it probably has a rides_fulfilled table, a users table, a drivers table, and a whole lot more tables but just imagine it was that simple for now.

let's say you are in charge of the Atlanta geo and you want to summarize the drivers / riders / financial performance of your city on Superbowl Sunday.

before chat ur data, you'd probably login to the corporate bi tool, change some filters on a dashboard, take some screenshots, go to the next dashboard, take some more screenshots, write an email talking about how much your team crushed it this year and how the game going to overtime helped spread out the demand for pickups over a wider time span (which gave your drivers more time to get on the road), attach the screenshots even though they might not be able to totally reinforce your storyline at all, and send it to your boss who's probably the GM of the Southeast region.

after chat ur data, you send a prompt to your AI Assistant to analyze the data for you compared to the last 3 Superbowl days and summarize it into highlights and lowlights, plus action items you want to implement for the next big event day.

the AI will run some queries on the rides_fulfilled table filtered to your geo, join it to the users and drivers tables to find interesting trends by those dimensions, identify the positive and negative trends, and make some charts that help to visualize those trends + summarize the storyline. while you watch the halftime show a few more times because Usher is your hometown favorite and you're nostalgic for the early 2000s.

you review the storyline + charts, maybe tweak it a little bit, and then send it
The vast majority of these decisions are against the patent owners, which I'm sure you are aware of. Also, I wasn't the one who characterized something as a patent that "should never have been granted."
Definitely concerning to see how many have given up on avoiding a virus whose reinfections continue to disable and kill daily.

Seems like boozing takes precedence over all else at this event.

Edit for the unaware:
https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/germany-entered-a-recession-l...
The author has only just read the wikipedia article on humans.
Ideal (in the sense of fully compensated) is worse, but ideal in the sense of at the right time, with smooth interior motion, is much better. A "perfect" tilting train shouldn't feel much different than superelevation to the same level, but it does.

One of the issues with the German tilting trains is that they try to compensate up to 8° without track knowledge (BR 612) thus the first carriage (the one after that less so) swinging abruptly to compensate when entering or exiting a curve. Not sure how the class 390s solve that problem.
As another poster mentioned (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39341176), there are a couple other boat launches about 20 minutes away, to the north and south of the project site.

In the environmental assessment (https://parkplanning.nps.gov/showFile.cfm?projectID=60589&MI...), Alternative 3 explored the possibility of adding another boat launch and parking area. This is discussed in detail from PDF pages 22-25.

A similar alternative, building a boat launch past the former dredging area, was also considered but dismissed because currents would likely submerge it within a few years. A few other sites were also looked at, but ultimately they went with not building any new ones.

The NPS's subsequent response to public comments (https://parkplanning.nps.gov/showFile.cfm?projectID=60589&MI...) discusses these further on PDF pages 19-20. My summary of the NPS's response is basically that anglers make up a little less than 1% of area visitation, and their main mandate is preservation of the natural resources.

> Regarding the ecological health of Lake Michigan, the mission of the NPS does include
preserving and enhancing ecological health and processes within the National Lakeshore.
However, maximizing angler opportunities in an effort to increase state licensing fees is not an efficient, or appropriate, way for the NPS to attempt to achieve this.

They were also asked why they didn't build more parking, grant the land back to the state, allow the state to take over dredging, etc.

It's worth a read if you're interested.

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I don't necessarily agree or disagree with the NPS's stances here, FWIW. Just wanted to show more of the NEPA process (the National Environmental Policy Act, which is what makes the NPS have to go through all these environmental reviews and public comments). These public comments are the official way for members of the public to respond and critique the federal government's (including the NPS's) planned management efforts.

Of course, sometimes that doesn't work out, and, uh, vigilante land managers volunteer their shovels...
Trying to cover every case explicitly and rigorously just results in the legal mess the US has where you need way more lawyers than other countries to get stuff done, and still results in more abuse from companies since there will always be abusable holes in laws but there wont typically be holes in the spirit of the law.

So the main end result with the US system is that companies employs armies of lawyers so that they can legally break the laws. The main ones who benefits from that are lawyers and the massive companies who can afford them.
law of unintended consequences

the moment you put an expiration date on patents due to lack of use, watch moneyed competitors sitting around waiting for your patent to expire instead of using yours to bring it to market
Yeah, you thought they were idiots and formed antibodies against their belief system. But there are sophisticated religious people. And IMO sophisticated religious people are much more likely to have pondered deeply the ineffability of existence and accepted that it is incomprehensible except by faith. Whereas atheists just want to point out that it can’t be turtles all the way down and then become suddenly disinterested in the question beyond that.
> These are apple's customers they have given you access to.

What would happen if this had been the standard applied to Windows?

> If the arguments were "these restrictions are so burdensome I can't be in the app store!", that's a different conversation. But they tend to be "I can access such an irresistible amount of customers via apple, I just wish I could take those benefits à la carte.

For some developers, they are. The ones that are complaining about it are the ones still trying to be in the app store despite the burden.
Also curious, why can't you just stick to android? why do you need iOS to also change to support your ideas on computing?
So it is only open in the sense of commercially (for profit) taking advantage of pre-existing open HDL written by third-parties.

Disgusting.
as an EU developer, I'll offer you two points to help you see why developers are not happy (euphemism).

- I was working on an app for both healthcare professionals (paying customers) and their patients (the app was free for them). At the same time we could not have sign up for the doctors - Apple would like 30% of the subscription fee for the honor of hosting the client and its updates on their servers, but also Apple insisted vehemently that everybody should be able to sign up for the service, even if we insisted that we needed to check on their credentials (i.e. if they had a degree in medicine). We had to explain this multiple times to app review people as they kept on coming back to the same points. On the patient side, we were able to add payments to the doctors as luckily an exception had just been granted for use cases like that - up until then, Apple would have required 30% of the doctor's payment as well. We were still VERY on our toes, because the whole process felt like Apple at any time could change the rules and put us in the situation of paying a lot of money, drastically change our business model, or just shut down/lose tons of customer. While this might be technically legal, is not exactly a great business partnership.

- These rules have giant exceptions for big companies who pay a lot less or are not subject to the same level of scrutiny as smaller app makers. This feels incredibly unfair.
For basically forever compilers and languages have been designed with a total ordering on operator precedences. The Yacc compiler generator tool maps operator precedence to integers, as do most handwritten compiler parsers.

A total ordering has a definite answer to the question "is x greater than, equal to, or less than y?" for all x and y. A partial ordering will answer "I don't know" for some x and y.

It's quite possible to implement operator precedence using a partial ordering. When the parser has to resolve precedence between two operators and their relationship is not defined, throw an "ambiguous precedence" error.

You can implement the partial ordering by putting all the operators into a DAG of sets of operators. If two operators are in the same set, they have equal precedence. If there is a path through the DAG from one operator to the other, that defines the precedence relation. Else there is no relation.

Say "*" is defined to have a higher precedence than "+", and they both have an undefined precedence relation with "&". Then "1 + 2 * 3" should compile into "1 + (2*3)", but "1 + 2 & 3" should throw an "ambiguous precedence" syntax error.
I very much agree, especially about the last part. These terms may seem like a “slap in the face”, but when you think a bit more about it: The EU themselves are 100% about “protecting consumers”. For example, the EU has made it illegal for my broker to let me buy US ETFs, because the prospectus is not available in Swedish(!). From that standpoint, how can you argue that it’s wrong for Apple to show a warning before letting a consumer send off their credit card details to a third party? And apparently that warning sign will cost most app developers more than the Apple tax (as they lose 50% of potential customers). Seems like a fair tax then.

But I think it’s also fair to note that there are app developers to whom these arguments do not apply. For example I was a Spotify customer long before I installed the Spotify app on my phone, and I don’t mind them having my credit card details.

EDIT: For clarity.
Should the LED indicate mute on or mic on? I could see it both ways, and so I would also have a hard time trusting this UI at first.
Population growth is effectively over.
One (of several) ways to think about this would be that money backed by the government treating it as the legal tender for settling any and all debts within that country. So the underlaying value is partially just trust in that governments ability to enforce laws related to the exchange of money and/or settling of debts between it's citizens/users of the money.

If a government issued money but never imposed/enforced penalties for failing to pay debts, that money would probably be pretty useless (less underlaying value), and some other form of money would emerge (probably one backed by actual value, like gold/scarce resources).
Do you have any references to the “HP style BASIC”?
> Presumption of validity

It's just an evidentiary presumption that is trivially rebutted with any evidence.
>There is no underlying value there

Plainly wrong on its face when they are immediately exchangeable for $50k USD, which no one in their right mind would argue "has no underlying value".

The rest of the argument can be dismissed as easily. That said, your argument sums to "it's not newsworthy because it's X and X is bad". Unfortunately for you, newsworthy news is more often than not bad thanks to human psychology.
If there's something to be embarrassed about that's coincidentally associated with code and climbing (like, idk, so few scruples that were willing to work against the interests of our users) maybe we should address that head on rather than being ashamed of enjoying both code and climbing.
> within the next ~50 years

Very optimistic. We haven't even been to the moon again in 50 years.

500 years, maybe.
> In the US, laws are taken as very literal, and any technicality that can be exploited usually will be. In Europe, they’re far more focused on the spirit of the law and don’t put up with games.

I was looking to confirm or deny that statement and came across a fun detour in the form of an article entitled "What's So Special About American Law?". It doesn't address the point about spirit vs. detail at all, but is an amusing and informative read.

> As I said, this fact seems to me a deep and fundamental point of
difference. The American legal system, to a greater extent than any other
Western legal system, encourages the direct injection of democratic values
into the legal process. Our legal system, like our society, places great
emphasis on the value of equality. We do not fully trust professional elites.

https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl...
Isn't is always safer to have variables scoped only to the relevant part of the code, that is supposed to make use of them? So basically it would result in almost the same number of parens.
Oh is that what "Distronic" does? I literally work there on a backend system that has that term for one of the features, and I've just never known. I always thought it sounded like something AV related (it sounded "disc" adjacent).
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The overwhelming majority of Americans are sick and tired of millionaires. I don't think it's a divisive topic in most circles.
HN is barely able to discuss cryptocurrency under the best of circumstances. When there's not even an actual interesting nugget of news it only devolves into the same generic low-level pro and contra arguments you can see in this thread, and have seen in 1000 other threads before it.
> immediately

I doubt that.

> $50k USD

Uh, minus a hefty exchange fee.