skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, this shows fear and a sense of insecurity within Apple. They've built their walled garden and are doing whatever they can to protect it. They've probably even convinced users that it's in their interest. Yet, they know there is an inevitability that polished web apps will exist (and that time will come fairly soon, imo), and will match and replace their native counterparts. They also know, it's the correct and overwhelmingly more efficient way to deliver 99% of apps. Yet they want to stifle that future, all in the name of money.

Create all the titanium cased phones you like - eventually, the masses will be smart enough to prioritise openness and forward-thinking over almost anything else. If you start to hold people back with your decisions, questions will start to arise about your priorities and eventually your products. And people are fickle enough, that they won't be your fanboys/girls forever.
Have you ever been in a situation where you slipped out of this routine and had to correct ?

ps: nice tips, thanks
"Oh no, would someone think of the poor shareholders"

They're parasites and freeloaders, contributing absolutely nothing, and consistently siphoning off value. Americans love to harp on socialism / communism and look down on "useless eaters", but there is no class more useless, more entitled, and more toxic than The Shareholder.
I couldn’t stand the constant glare when looking at code. Everything just felt hazy combined with the awful pass through was a downgrade. Was more productive at first since I could block the world out. Didn’t last.
AIExplained on youtube has guessed that Gemini 1.5 pro is taking Mistral’s accurate long content retrieval and Google just scaled it as much as they could. The Gemini 1.5 pro paper has a citation back to the last mistral paper in 2024.
> A good manager requires a very different skill set to an engineer. The primary skill is to have extremely low neuroticism. The ability to make good decisions and present a calm and rational exterior under prolonged stress.

This is one of the best summaries I have seen. It is also why it feels so similar to parenting: a good manager needs the ability to be the grown-up. This usually involves unfun things like calling out the elephant in the room, letting people air grievances about your decisions in a group, and staying engaged with people even when they're disengaging and pushing you away.

To me, management always felt like it was something that required all my spoons, and it wanted more, no matter how much I gave. I feel this more a lack of fit than something intrinsic to management, though. FWIW I have moderate neuroticism (according to rando Internet surveys). I suspect I'm not good at simply letting things be good enough, and the broadened responsibilities of management present an emotional scaling issue.
This is true, but it's naive to believe that the App Store wasn't planned long before those 18 months and was written in just a couple of month before its release.
Poland falls into the "developing country" category over the time period.

It started out with salaries much lower than in Western Europe and has been catching up since.
> Shallowly, first, the authority is not absolute and cannot be. There will always be opportunities for a bully to bully; trying to forbid this only makes it more appealing. A sufficiently interested bully won't let themself be avoided, and they find the appearance of vulnerability interesting because they're out for a good time and not a fight.

As someone bullied in high school, I would counter this by saying "how about we start by punishing adults that openly participate in the bullying?". Surely that isn't so much to ask? Because this was a definite problem. Sudden unexplainable extremely pedantic test corrections, teachers shouting at you when you get bullied. Teachers treating the bullied kid as a problem instead of the bullying, and, although that was often so badly done it almost helped, teachers attempting to bully you directly.

I learned to do tests absolutely correctly, leave absolutely no opportunity for the teacher to deduct points. A SINGLE spelling error in a verb in a history test? -20%. Use of "advanced" mathematics in a physics exam? -50% (I used a derivative because of a book on physics I got from the library, and the physics teacher (of 10th grade, in US terms) did not understand derivatives, or what they have to do with physics. After all, due to state legislation, we have a physics teacher that had a "license" (master's degree) in history ... and a history teacher that had a license in physics. Technically they could switch, but their tenure would reset to zero if they did, with consequences for pay and apparently if the school had to shrink they'd get fired sooner. Both chose against doing this). Asking physics questions in history class definitely led to bullying.

But can we start by actually punishing abuse of adult authority for bullying, and give some opportunity for kids to prove such bullying.
It sounds great but I beg to differ.

If I had to pick one rule that is great to always follow, is when you get hit with a bug, write tests that catch it and then write code to fix the test.

Aside from preventing said bugs from resurfacing, it forces coverage of code that is likely complex enough to be buggy.
I doubt it because, as I said, Word did not even render the document the same on two different installations back in the day. Contrary to LaTeX, there is really no way to know what "opens on your computer exactly as expected" even means. We do not know what the original author intended it to look like, because we do not know how the document looked like to them.

As long as there is no retroactive interpretation, like it happened with RGB, for example, the "doubt it" will stand.
I'm looking to hire an accountant to help with my small business taxes and financial planning. A friend recommended an accountant named 5RA who apparently has an office somewhere in Shoreditch.

Does anyone know where I can find 5 Rivers' accounting office? What is the exact address and location? Ideally it would be convenient to get to from Old Street station.

If you've worked with this accounting firm before, I'd also appreciate any feedback on what he's like to work with. Is he responsive and easy to communicate with? Does he have experience dealing with small business taxes and finances? How are his rates?

Any advice on locating and working with this Shoreditch accountant would be greatly appreciated! I'm hoping to get my taxes and accounting needs sorted out ASAP to help my business run more smoothly this year.

Please let me know if you have any insights. Thanks in advance for your help!
> "must not decrease the overall percentage of tested code"

This rule has been a problem for me when deleting code. On my precious check we had an automated checker that wouldn't let us merge (easily) if we broke this rule. We had mediocre coverage. Some parts of the code had lots of tests, some parts were totally uncovered. Many times I had to delete code in the tested parts, and the checker would complain that total coverage went down because I deleted a tested line without adding more tested lines.

But I agree it's a good rule in general, which is why we kept it despite the occasional hiccup.
Thanks for saving my time. Topic hidden.
And this is why I assume living in nature first environments is so good for your sanity.. chances of this kind of emotional pain is drastically lower.
There are no longer just two 5k 27" displays. Per a thread on macrumors[1], the display panels that make up these displays are now available from the factories, so some chinese manufacturers have begun making monitors at much lower prices ($400, if you can get an RV100).

[1]: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/the-complete-list-of-27...
Well the kicker is that Medicare never paid the list price anyways. There are a ton of mandatory discounts the government gets.

With Part B, Medicare pays average selling price, which is the average price private insurers pays. Then add on top 340B discounts which many hospitals get, which knocks another 23.1% off plus penalties for price increases above inflation (Google "340B penny pricing", many hospitals only pay $0.01 per unit of drug).

With Part D, the government doesn't pay for drug anyways. Private insurers do the negotiating on behalf of he government.

Then look can look up VA pricing (24% off at a minimum). Medicaid gets "best price" which is the lowest price the drug sells for anywhere.

So the government has "negotiated" (by fiat) plenty of discounts. But saying "Medicare doesn't negotiate drug prices" makes plenty of political hay, and while technically true, doesn't really explain the prices the government gets.
Very similar: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20387498 (The Riemann Hypothesis Says 5040 is the Last)

The million dollar prize rules are surprisingly strict. They expect a "natural" proof, in that writing a one-page paper "my computer found counterexample 2^1729-1" may not get you the full prize, maybe instead a tiny acknowledgement prize, and they will wait for a proof of a generalization of the problem. https://www.claymath.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/millenni...
> I think many mix bad websites with "PWA is a bad technology".

Exactly. I put together a demo a few years ago that employed somewhat novel interaction design to showcase some machine learning tech. A number of people were gobsmacked by it and asked endless questions about what framework it was built with. I didn't use a framework. I dug into the deep recesses of CSS to make it do what I wanted. Really, you can accomplish almost anything with HTML/CSS/JS/SVG (though I'll admit it might be painful).
I looked up viewership numbers for relevant streaming platforms:

AppleTV: 30M (2022; probably closer to 45M now)

Paramount+: 65M

Prime Video: 145M (US)

Netflix: 245M (Worldwide 2022)

They're putting the daily show on paramount+, so they're reaching less than 25% of streaming households.

From a viewer perspective, it's basically $6 / month just for this one show (and you have to sit through ads don't even get to watch broadcast CBS on it). You have to get a $12 / month bundle to skip the ads. I can't see sitting through ads or paying that much just for one program.

(Star Trek is great, but holy crap, there's nothing else decent on that service, and, other than the Lower Decks, the new stuff is really, really rough -- this is coming from someone that watched everything up to and including Enterprise.)
Standard Portable Intermediate Representation
> It merely provides more freedom to users.

Users already have freedom and apple has a minority market share in europe already.

> If this truly forces unprofitable behavior, we should expect Apple to pull out out Europe. But I would bet my life that doesn't happen.

Less profit does not mean no profit. You essentially expect companies who can't compete because of rules made to prevent them from competing to pull out? Instead of users not buying their product forcing them out? I hope america never catches that nanny state disease. The one good european phone maker nokia lost because users stopped liking it. Now all Europe does is try to profit by unfair laws. Don't europeans who like apple products deserve to use them as apple designed? It is absolutley deranged to think that forcing design choices on a company gives users choices. As if their wallet isn't good enough to vote with or there aren't alternatives.
If PWAs are so bad, why is Apple utterly terrified at the idea of letting them compete with native apps? I avoid native apps at every turn. If an app is only available natively, I look for a competitor who offers a web version. Finding native apps is a mess compared to finding a website; it's truly impressive how app stores still manage to have worse search results than Google despite Google's quality plummeting. Installing native apps is a hassle. Managing permissions is a hassle. Dealing with their internal ads is a hassle.
Germany had many big external investment + government subvention projects involving factories, data centers etc. announced in the recent years. None of them materialized and they got canceled because of the German balanced budget amendment [0].

[0]: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schuldenbremse_(Deutschland)
Shortcat: Manipulate macOS masterfully, minus the mouse
No, it's other way around. Russian (Russish) language was based on Russian Church-Slavonic language, which is based on Old South-Slavonic language. Ru with many words borrowed from Ukrainian (Russian) language.

For example, Ukraine holds word record by number of folk songs, while I was able to found none of folk songs in Russian (Russish) language after years of searching. Folk songs exists in Russia Federation, but they are not in Russian (Russish) language. Cuban Cossack Choir - folk songs are in Ukrainian language, Ural Cossack Choir - Ukrainian, for example.
Seems like a good time to stop posting original content on Reddit for free.
If you want to build a decent team, you really have to relax your grip on the tech part.

You don't fix every problem yourself, but have someone who can fix it available. Otherwise, people don't grow, and you can't take a vacation. You totally need a general (middle / senior level) understanding of technology, but having a separate person with strong technical chops is key.

> In which company does this happen, I wonder!

As a staff engineer on a design system for a top 50 website, roughly half my job was detailing a tech roadmap and identifying what can break across the codebase, something you can do perfectly well on grass.
What is a "reasonable" profit? 10%? 50%? 100%?

What is a "reasonable" profit in an industry where it costs hundreds of millions to develop a product and 95% of the products fail?
Yeah, who needs more editors after ed already solved this problem? Good thing problems usually get solved once and then you can never improve on top of that, then I'd have to switch editor like once every decade or something.
it's clear that the thought is naive, but that doesn't explain why it was come to
There’s huge incentives to pad R&D spending numbers, so it’s important to consider the underlying reality here.

“In many cases, the estimated cost of capital can be substantial, representing almost half of total development costs in some recent estimates.” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8855407/

Cost of capital makes sense in terms of ROI calculations, but it’s not going to show up as a line item on annual budgets. Similarly R&D at drug companies isn’t all drug development R&D.
TIL! One would think if any distribution had it by default, it would have been Raspbian.
Even more so then. Simplify, simplify, simplify!
Blatantly false.

I've been in Europe two decades and aside from health insurance being key to more than a few countries, private health insurance is relatively common in tandem with public health services.
Which was about same time or just after adobe, the author of flash recommended everybody to stop using it.
> If you don't have anything urgent, you can go lay on the grass for half a day, thinking about the future of your project or something

Is this something common? I'm working as IC at FAANG for 6+ years in different teams, but I've never really experienced something like this. I've always been working on stuff that should have been finished yesterday.
Death is commonplace everywhere. Everybody dies.
I left the company last April, but was there 5 years. It is definitely one of the busiest days on the calendar, along with New Year's Day, in the UK anyway.
Yeah, no, humans can't hold complicated documentation in their heads. The whole experience of being human is finding a way to get by with a simple model which fits in your head but isn't wrong enough to cause trouble, and that's exactly what Hyrum is reflecting.

What you're getting at is the C++ "Just don't make any mistakes" approach to software engineering, which is a disaster that has cost our civilisation a great deal.
TBF the research in this field is bound to be on cases that can't be extrapolated.

In contrast to more lab ready fundamental experiments on cell behaviors for instance, diet or metabolism need humans each living their own life and have too many uncontrolable factors to come out with a study that can withstand scrutiny.
One might argue that the free market is consumer-driven voting.
> HN will hate this, and I say this as a confirmed bachelor myself, but I wonder if parents make better managers because they are less likely to lose perspective and become stressed over things that don't matter in the grand scheme of things?

Maybe! I've had good managers who were and weren't parents. I'm a parent, but don't enjoy managing.

> Weirdly I seem to do my best managing when I've become emotionally checked out.

A perspective approximating objectivity is exactly what techniques like CBT try to teach you: seeing things as they really are, without your emotions coloring it.

> I wish I could just float around the organisation fixing problems, streamlining processes and re-jigging work systems

That exists. See the solver staff engineer archetype. I suspect it exists more at larger orgs who can support the role effectively, though. But, I think that is me as well. I enjoy being dropped on stalled projects/difficult technical tasks, unblocking it, and moving to the next thing.
I think maybe you’re overestimating the idle power consumption of modernish x86 (especially the last 5-6 gens of intel)? I’ve a i5 9600T system that’s drawing less than a Pi at idle. And cost me the same to buy.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/1LHvT2fRp7I6Hf18L...
Thank you, that helped me wrap my head around the concept!
My background is the opposite; I'm a mediocre software engineer but have quite good people skills. I'm experienced enough to know what takes time and which parts of the system are more critical than others. I have a few senior engineers whom I really listen to carefully and to whom I give a lot of trust and empowerment. I don't make design decisions, they do and I give input. I take responsibility when we fail (and learn from it) and give the team credit when we succeed. In my humble opinion, being a manager is more about people than anything else.
Just out of curiosity, did anybody chase down the paper referenced in the post?

Here it is: https://www.emis.de/journals/EM/expmath/volumes/12/12.4/Guil...

The author of the paper actually notes that a slightly different series is suspected to converge to $32/\pi^3$. The good news is that that series is an alternating series, so it's guaranteed to converge to something. But, it converges so slowly that, although the second partial sum differs from $32/pi^3$ by about 0.0004328909249, the 5000th partial sum differs by about 0.0004330860787. Those two numbers only start to differ at the 6th digit beyond the decimal point.
You wanna hear retarded? I worked at an org that used Snyk/Sonar, and would block PRs on failing quality gate score. The problem was that you couldn't see why you failed quality gate score in jenkins/github, only people with Sonar accounts could , so you had to find someone with a sonar account and get them to take a screenshot of the error before you could fix it.
The "It's better now" comments are always of the same form, and never any examples of some great discussion. That's lazy, even for a bot.
I just wish they weren't the _only_ company making decent hardware. They've made the only laptop trackpads worth a damn since at least 2009, if not earlier, and PC OEMs seemingly have ZERO desire to catch up. They'd prefer to invest in gimmicks like touchscreens.
> probably because they only tested the app on a PC

If they made an app only for PC, why would they test it on Xbox??

If they wanted their app to run on Xbox, why would they not make an Xbox version, and test it there??

RC's scenario is taking an app made for only Windows PC and running it on Xbox. I wonder if he has found even one example which permits this in the licence.
If you can't make a native app that doesn't weigh 100MBs, then you may need to question your work.
Penny drops. Yes this jives much better with the observed data -- that Rpi break SD cards orders of magnitude more than anything else that uses SD cards no matter how crappy said cards are.

Problem could have been solved by adding a decent sized capacitor on the 5v supply rail.
Shame these threads keep getting removed from HN. This is one of the most important conversations we are having this year.

Flamewars be damned, the conversation needs to take place.

Apples pivot kill PWAs shows their true intention. Web apps are ready to disrupt their monopoly and industry wide 30% tax.
When turning the steering wheel to the left causes the car to veer right, will the official response be "you're holding it wrong"?
Sometimes it's much clearer the number itself, specially when it's a mathematical formula. For instance, is

const MILLIS_PER_SECOND = 1000;

...

...

...

...

...

const durationMs = MILLIS_PER_SECOND * duration

really clearer than

const durationMs = 1000 * duration

?
Your creativity is against the rules. You must submit with original title if it fits the character length.
Naturally on the Internet there is an infinite variety. But using that Whole Foods site to filter the list to what's physically available at stores in my area, it reduces down to a list that's more or less Heinz and Heinz-like.
I think transcendental phenomenology combined with modal logic is what gets into this, a Q&A session with ChatGPT could probably answer a lot of your questions.
I think we can tell that the App Store wasn't planned that early because if it was the earlier Apple apps would have been using the APIs that needed to be implemented and documented for the first App Store, and they didn't.

Apple today is very different from the Apple that launched the iPhone and the original App Store - they started off thinking all apps could be PWAs, but the Web Platform wasn't mature enough at the time and they pivoted to native, that's the actual truth.

Now they're addicted to in-app-purchase money from casino games and don't want that money moving out of their 30% taxable grasp. It's a sad story, truly.
Fantastic interview where you really get into the mind and mindset of the developers for how they approach development from many different angles. Highly recommended.

I only have one disagreement with them. . .

> the perfect name for a text editor in Zig is already taken: Zed

No, it’s “Zag”. ;)
I only wish they’d realized it was time to start over before unleashing the cancer that is Electron upon the world.
Quote from the article:

"Converting this document from its original format was a bit of a victory for open source software. And a lesson in how hard document preservation is."

So, opening this document was hard and that it finally worked was not because of Microsoft's alleged famous backwards compatibility- which is a myth in my book.
If you can afford the iPhone, how does it compare feature-wise?
this analogy illustrates the opposite of what I think you intend it to. if we could artificially iterate the sun rising infinite times, somewhere very high up, maybe after 10^10, it eventually would no longer rise
Hi, rg doesn't play nice with eza --hyperlink

do you have an alternative, it repeats inline the result found and loses the hyperlink ability, any ideas?
Hey developers, please take care of your health. That's all. Have a good day! :)
They were in high schools handing out free CDs for the America's Army computer game twenty years ago.
The biggest one is that Apple allows local storage to last longer than 7 days for webpages installed as apps on the home screen, but deletes local storage for ordinary websites 7 days after they are last opened.
Mac-only apps come with additional security benefits on Windows and Linux too: there's no safer software than the software you cannot run.