skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If your only choice is to shop at Walmart, this sounds like a reasonable definition of a market.
> The DMA requires free interoperability, and Apple has imposed a very anti-competitive fee.

From comments I read, quite a few people want it to require free interoperability, but I don’t see how it does. I even think it sort-of explicitly allows gatekeepers to keep charging for access. The pre-amble, point 62 starts with

“For software application stores, online search engines and online social networking services listed in the designation decision, gatekeepers should publish and apply general conditions of access that should be fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory.”

so that point is about application stores. Its second paragraph starts (emphasis added)

“PRICING or other general access conditions should be considered unfair if they lead to an imbalance of rights and obligations imposed on business users or confer an advantage on the gatekeeper which is disproportionate to the service provided by the gatekeeper to business users or lead to a disadvantage for business users in providing the same or similar services as the gatekeeper.”

To me, that points to them at least considering that.

Can you point me to where https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2022/1925/oj “requires free interoperability”?

If you think article 6.7 says that, I disagree. IMO, it only talks about access to SDKs, specs of device ports, ability to make the same system calls as the applications of the gatekeeper can make, etc.

Here’s article 6.7:

“The gatekeeper shall allow providers of services and providers of hardware, free of charge, effective interoperability with, and access for the purposes of interoperability to, the same hardware and software features accessed or controlled via the operating system or virtual assistant listed in the designation decision pursuant to Article 3(9) as are available to services or hardware provided by the gatekeeper. Furthermore, the gatekeeper shall allow business users and alternative providers of services provided together with, or in support of, core platform services, free of charge, effective interoperability with, and access for the purposes of interoperability to, the same operating system, hardware or software features, regardless of whether those features are part of the operating system, as are available to, or used by, that gatekeeper when providing such services.”
Or a 3 step process: PLA mold -> silicone mold -> aluminum object.
Biometric tech like facial recognition is becoming more common at airports
SPAD: Spatially Aware Multiview Diffusers
https://archive.is/eZvd0
https://archive.ph/dKvFs
As long as it is now deprecated then it's no longer ironic.
It's the original TH.

Epidemics is a pretty bad gameplay system. Especially considering patients going between buildings automatically fails it; which makes it almost completely broken. On some maps buying some particular buildings is a complete foot-gun due to this.
Berkeley is 10 sq miles. That does not really say much to me. Yes it’s great but it’s also tiny. Yes, the Bay Area is composed of multiple counties and municipalities but I think it’s a better comparison when talking about transit.
The world is already benefiting from Karpathy becoming unemployed.

Now if only other OpenAI researchers would follow in his footsteps.
I don't see anything in YC's call saying they would only fund defensive capabilities (which is itself somewhat of a misnomer since it doesn't take much engineering to turn "defensive" tech into offensive weapons of war). YC looks like it is open to funding all forms of warfare.
it would be nice to strongly suggest a cross browser idea in the manifest "standard" that is an unstable draft but anyways... that is complicated because it is actually now a browser decision

my idea would be long pressing the domain (2 sec) and then standalone mode and "app" icon... like the icon appears and you drop it on your home screen (on desktop other stuff like a prompt do you want a launcher icon, a desktop icon or just integration into apps)

it is extremely universal and easy to remember, practically you grab the web domain and pack it into an icon and drop it onto your home screen or game folder on the home screen etc...

a clear, instinctive user choice... you learn it on one domain and apply it by all other

actually, you do not even need a manifest file if you have some favicon and short app name in the html...

it is just a user choice to switch to standalone mode from tab mode, aka use it as an app

it would also clear up these unnecessary buzzwords and non-standard failing wording like "progressive" "PWA" or "install"...

I understand what people meant with these words back then but it just confuses even tech people... nowadays standalone mode ("install") is orthogonal to whether the website is capable, good, progressive or whatever...

like the .fun domain is a nice game that your child tried and enjoyed, it is hopefully well written so you want to use it in standalone instead of tab mode... you do it without fear of installing anything (nothing is installed) and if everything ok you use it launching it directly from the home screen without browser UI... seemless, that is the actual idea, no need for confusing and contraproductive wording
Milei was a long shot candidate and he was elected on the back of this one issue. Dollarizing the economy and the radical measures Milei ran on in that election have a very real risk of collapsing Argentina. But, the general feeling here from the people I know, so anecdotal of course, is that they would rather risk economic collapse than guarantee it.

Also you act as if America is some bastion of fiscal responsibility. Its position as the worlds largest economy guarantees that it can borrow at the best rates. The dollar being the worlds reserve currency ensures that it can’t devalue too quickly as there is built in massive demand just for normal trade.

So, it has large advantages that Argentina can only dream of. The hill Argentina needs to climb is far steeper than what the US has to contend with.
There are no other terms friend, that is the only thing that matters. Who decides what is "extreme"? This is a very tedious tactic to force values unto others and ruin any possibility of intelligent conversation. Just making a salad of it all.

What people (especially the "extreme far lefties" overrunning this website and mindlessly downvoting everyone and thing they are instructed to dislike) fail to understand that filtering information about far away places through the media divorces you almost completely from reality.

A lot of his antics are political theatre. To parse out what he means you'd actually have to be a local and know a lot of history. There is simply no avoiding the fact that previous Argentine governments have robbed the population blind. I'm talking scandal after scandal of the duffel bags filled with cash verity. It is almost beyond the comprehension of a westerner from a developed country. Look into Peronism (!= socialism) sometimes.

Quoting him out of context makes for great clickbait and strips it of all meaning. Normal people over there are concerned with literally not starving at the moment, these social issues that are oh-so-important to you don't really rank.

But hey, if someone has no clue why they might want to attempt dollarization of course they'd prefer to focus on and project their pet domestic issue.

It is also super obvious that this thread would not be flagged and erased from the front page if the news was negative. Which is doubly pathetic because he truly is not what the downvoters imagine him to be.

Good guy or bad not for me to say, but simply does not fit the regular boxes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong
> The EU can create new rules out of thin air with arbitrary timelines to implement.

Yes, it's called the legislative arm of government and it's usually where new laws are passed. I'm sure it must seem like a novel concept to some people, but once you live here you get used to it!
How is this statement's sentiment any different than the grand parent comment?
According to Charles Stross's explanation of how Worldcons work, you don't really need to fake votes - you can just buy them at $50/pop:

> My understanding is that a bunch of Chinese fans who ran a successful regional convention in Chengdu (population 21 million; slightly more than the New York metropolitan area, about 30% more than London and suburbs) heard about the worldcon and thought "wouldn't it be great if we could call ourselves the world science fiction convention?"

> They put together a bid, then got a bunch of their regulars to cough up $50 each to buy a supporting membership in the 2021 worldcon and vote in site selection. It doesn't take that many people to "buy" a worldcon—I seem to recall it's on the order of 500-700 votes—so they bought themselves the right to run the worldcon in 2023. And that's when the fun and games started.

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2024/01/worldco...

No scam involved at all, to be honest - just regular voting-with-money.
YC doesn't need to be funding the weapons industry; they're already filthy rich. This shows their greed outweighs any moral quandries around building machines of death.
It just means that when someone else comes forward to complain about the same thing in another industry, they can fine them again for basically the same thing.
The people who know how to do that are in California not Texas.
It's poorly explained in the game, but you can increase the amount of machine health by researching "Improvements". One also has to keep track of the machine strength which is only visible in the bottom right corner when hovering over the machine. It will deteriorate over time, and at some points the machines will have to be replaced.
Someone had done this at a previous company I worked at. You’d subscribe to a mailing list and get a daily/weekly summary of joiners, leavers and title changes. Pretty useful.

When management eventually found out they were seemingly supportive, but in the next layoff they made sure to reach out to the owner to make him “pause” the tool just before the layoffs started.

When the mailing list was unpaused again the laid-off folks weren’t mentioned, as if they’d never existed in the first place. Felt very 1984-esque.
But it’s not your only choice to shop in the App Store. Having an iPhone does not prevent my from buying an app from the Play Store on my Android phone, from buying a game from PSN on my PS5 or from buying a book from Amazon on my Kindle.
Seconded. I find it absolutely amazing that people try to paint the EU in a bad light for obliging web sites to let their users know they're being tracked. I'm grateful that I'm protected by institutions that work for the people, not for the corporations.
> most of the investors are retired or retiring soon

Where are you getting this? Baby Boomers are smoothly transitioning their share of stock ownership to younger generations [1].

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/dfa/distr...
Arguably the US censors were late to the party. Years ago Facebook execs proudly boasted to have been part of popular uprisings that toppled regimes around the world (eg. https://www.reuters.com/article/idUS1650658071/ ) .

It was only in recent years they realized it could happen locally too. It coincided roughly with COVID, but I guess before that they didn't realize how much social media shaped the political landscape (of every country that allowed them). Personally it feels like the social media censors started getting serious at that point.
I would argue that for 90% of people on earth this does not make a difference. For me any big movie star is exactly the same as some virtual entity, never seen one, never been close to any places where I could meet one.

There is difference where I could make effort to fly to places where they give autographs and meet with fans but I also don't care enough. I imagine people that do care about that either live close by where they can have easy access or are weirdos.
> These trends have all come off the boil significantly in the last 10 years I think at great detriment to society at large.

It’s really the past 7 years, during which we assumed the Espionage Act would not be weaponized:

> “All through the [Barack] Obama years, those assumptions held good. It took [Donald] Trump – immoral and indecent – to overturn them. It’s just shameful that [Joe] Biden’s people are using Trump as their guide.”
> I think this will backfire on them.

How?

In the Apple consumer's eye, Apple can do no wrong.

The Apple consumer will always blame any problem on some other company or government.
But the most powerful general purpose computers we have are all wide open for development. A lot of us here write software on our laptops and desktops all day and can download and install whatever we want.
Dismissive and reductionist advice that was obsolete years ago. Equal amounts true and useless. If it were that simple, we would just stop eating until we were thin, but since we would first get sick and then die before meeting our targets there must be more to it. Unless the entropy of a decaying corpose satisfies your fitness goals?

The human body has a number of separate energy systems, both creation of and consumption of fat only happens in certain circumstances. If those circumstances aren't met, you don't burn fat at a rate that is sufficient for progress in a timeframe that satisfies most people's goals. This is just physiology, stuff we do understand not fitness psuedoscience.

If you don't treat the problem like a human problem, instead of a physics problem, you will have an inefficient weightloss program that makes the human sad and then they quit.
Completely agree with this. We lose some of this nuance when we follow Apple’s line of reasoning that it’s a binary choice: safety OR openness.
Hmm ... if a problem is hard enough maybe just don't try to solve it?

Treat the meeting time as a string, rather than a time, since it is ambiguous anyway what the organizer meant, and let the user figure out what the string means.
I'm with you it seems a little silly but looking into the question:

NASA https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/meteors-meteorites/ gives the figure 44,000 kg of material falls to the Earth each day and that "Almost all" is vaporized in the atmosphere. A satellite can range from micro (~100 kg) to intermediate (~3000 kg) to extra heavy (>7000 kg). For reference Starlink started ~250 kg and the v2 are ~1250 kg. On average there should be ~10 deorbits per day at the current point, so safe to say at least an additional 25% over normal already.

The confusion that's left is how much of the material that naturally falls to the earth each day is also consider "polluting" and whether tons of such material is noteworthy pollution to be concerned about in spaceflight (for comparison global CO2 emissions are ~36,820,000,000,000 kg per year and a liter different in rocket fuel usage probably a lot larger pollution difference).
Also on sale on GoG.
That seems wrong. Every mainstream American news publication is doing anti China propaganda. Major politicians are using China as something scary they can protect you from to win elections. Even on HN, you get one or two anti china posts everyday.
This logic doesn't track for me.

I proposed the case where I believe the current Wikipedia entry to be true.

Wouldn't the person who believes the contrary case be the best person to update the wiki?
It's the largest unified market in the world?
No more free ride. Returning stuff you buy online is about to get expensive
It sounds like that sequence is being k-merized. In the case of byte-pair that should be a look-ahead of 1 and then a shift up of 1. Maybe I am missing something.
Klaas Landsman is referenced several times.

You can download his book:

"Foundations of Quantum Theory"

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-51777-3
I agree the format is interesting. What are some other examples of short stories about technology, recent or less so?
That refutation was written two years before Bloomberg's story, and it's in fact referencing a different Bloomberg story.

On top of that, being in the security industry, the very vocal parts were very adamant that something like this could never happen, while also starting to fubd better supply chain verification. The less vocal parts noticed that the refutations boiled down to "why wouldn't people break their NDAs to show us hardware that probably got the NSA involved" and "the NSA wouldn't lie to us".
I dont think so. America is clearly the big bully in the school yard.
> modern republican party does not support anti-trust enforcement, or indeed, most executive enforcement of anti-corporate regulations

The MAGA GOP is unsettled on antitrust. Its defining elements, however, are loyalty and a strong executive, so presumably there would be support for antitrust action against those deemed disloyal.
Sustainable forrest management requires frequent controlled burns to manage underbrush. Around Michigan this can be a yearly occurrence.
You seem to be tying two different questions together. Would you have better business opportunities outside of Russia? And is it ethical to remain in a country whose government is acting against your personal ethics?

I don't have an answer on the first question, but I recommend disconnecting it from the second question. There are many governments in this world who make poor choices, suffer from corruption, perform unethical acts, etc. That doesn't make their people bad people. If you don't want to live in your country because of its acts, I commend you for holding that strongly to your ethics. But make that decision for your own reasons, not because you are worried of how it will impact your work. Otherwise your decision is less about ethics and more about money.
hug of death, archive link below:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240217123128/https://xeiaso.ne...
> Never drink from a river that’s downstream of farm land

This. More so I’d be concerned about pesticides (arable).
I think all railroad maintenance facilities have similar groundwater problems.
The OpenCTD: Open-Source Oceanography for Everyone
CS as in Customer Service... the people who have the shitty job of answering the phone!

Not only are they loyal, they are sharp and know their stuff.

Apple taxes everyone (devs', users etc) and pays staff well, (living wage all that) and makes a ton of money.
Mappa Mundi: The greatest medieval map in the world
Nature Has Value. Could We Literally Invest in It?
tl;dr

The western provinces of Canada are tracking a higher than usual number of peat fires that they expect will “kick start” a new round of forest fires in the spring.

British Columbia: 106 peat fires (typical average ~10)
Alberta: 57 (average ~6)
While I think this is probably true, I was surprised that a recent ask for a PWA implementation of a web app that I built was an iOS user. They do exist and I actually think on Safari, the action to add to home page feels more accessible.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240217123128/https://xeiaso.ne...
I'm thinking about the other way around. Assuming that their aluminum 3D printer works, print the aluminum mold using their 3D printer. Then make plastic parts with injection molding.
You’re thinking of the forest in British Columbia that don’t sit on meters of peatland.

This is peat burning deep underground. There is nothing forest management can do to stop that because it’s not a forest problem, it’s a dried out peat problem.
How mathematicians learned to stop worrying and to just get on with the business of creating new universes.
Spotify is the company that filed the complaint against Apple.

What I find interesting is that the article doesn’t mention Apple Music, which is a competitor of Spotify.

For Spotify it is unfair that they need to pay a 30% fee, while Apple Music doesn’t need to. Thus for 8$ per month, you would get more music.

The problem seems not to be the fee, but that Spotify cannot promote its own payment service.
https://archive.ph/2024.02.18-114735/https://www.nytimes.com...
You can but then you lose some of the advantages of the 3d printing technique e.g. the ability to create complex internal geometries
OpenBSD – New wi-fi driver, qwx(4), enabled in -current
> if there's no competion in the mobile space?

How did you come up with this?
Here's a more recent article (2023): https://mountainstatespotlight.org/2023/01/26/wv-healthy-foo...

Access to fresh fruit and veg in West Virginia is mostly a problem in the rural areas from what I can tell (and by searching for "fruit and vegetable" or "supermarket" on google maps).

Would teaching people how to grow their own fresh produce in the rural areas work?
> they are forced to pay a fixed 30% to Apple for every transaction done through the spotify app

Spotify has never paid this. You signed up online and then logged into the app.

To the degree Apple has behaved anti-competitively, Apple Music v Spotify is the clearest case. But it’s not because of payment processing, but that Apple can see Spotify’s data and strategy and then use it against them from a superior marketing position.
It's almost insulting how predictably this happened. I do wonder how much more money they made by selling information instead of just having a paid subscription model.
Also the audio book narrated by Sean Pratt is truly excellent (I would recommend reading the book yourself first).
"the rest of the year's worth of pay in one lump sum, to keep your corporate laptop, and COBRA coverage for the rest of the year should you need it. You will also get double the value of any unspent paid time off, including the time you would have gained during the rest of the year."

OMG I would love this kind of severance, in February no less. I'm accustomed to hearing about severance that goes from from jack squat to 2 weeks severance + 1 week per year worked, no insurance, no laptop, and maybe you unpaid vacation time that didn't carry over.

Lay me off, baby. Daddy's going on a 10 month paid sabbatical!

The worst that are affected are the people who didn't get laid off and now have to do the work of all the people that did. Double the work with no extra pay, what's not to like?
Just adding to my opinion. I might be totally wrong but it always felt to me that the Bay Area suffers from the problem of doing things that feel good but don’t improve outcomes for people. Regional transit in the Bay Area is pretty miserable unless your destination is near a BART line. Don’t get me wrong, it can work but it’s fairly limiting. For those with higher disposable income it’s no issue at all. Take Bart and grab a Lyft or take a Lyft from the start. For those with Les disposable income it can be incredibly difficult, take Bart then a bus transfer, perhaps some final walking. It can be a nontrivial ordeal.

It feels good to say cars are bad and implement parking maximums, but similar to the Neighborhood preservation rules in Berkeley, it’s really negatively impacting those without wealth.
Because you can add them
I hadn't considered that people might still be complaining about Florida in 2000 in light of 2020.
Why is the state bothering me about all these murder shenanigans I'm getting accused of.

All these pesky rules to follow are getting out of hand...
Dartford is downstream?
Yup, it merely surfaces all the bad actors out there that were previously unseen (except on your CPU/network/flamegraph)

I mean when one pushes me a banner with a clear CTA to accept everything and an intractable rat's nest of dark patterns to reject anything then I clearly and unambiguously know which side of the line they stand.

IOW GDPR works as expected.
These AI doomer predictions get more and more detached from reality.