skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, caches make sense, and are where PWAs are a legitimate solution. But PWAs also are sold as a replacement for native apps (hint: they're not, but a whole bunch of native apps should be PWAs, or just static sites...), and the author of TFA does subscribe to that view.
Surprised by the amount of negative comments. Kudos to the team! This is very impressive to accomplish in 24h with a 3-man team.
I think you might need to understand what a monopoly means and how insanely expensive it is to compete with one.
None of the low cost providers that I'm aware of support SMS or a phone number in general.
I don't think it means that you are complicit, because that signifies intent to exploit. If you are an immigrant who is exploited by the same system who naturalized to citizen (and is still exploited in the local context) I would hope you don't want anyone else to go through that.
I think it's worth point out that these commissions are in effect a progressive fee/tax - with the rich paying more (bc they can afford more apps and in-app purchases)

The alternative is Apple in an effort to maintain their profit margin sell some Euro-locked version of their phone that costs 50% more and that fewer people will be able to afford

The commission payment structure makes the device affordable/accessible to more people
Ah, yes, the death of programming. I'm pretty sure that people have been heralding the end of programming since approximately when Grace Hopper made a compiler. Some of the programming-killers have turned out to be useful (eg compilers), some, er, less so (eg 4GLs, 5GLs, previous attempts at AI-assisted programming), but none have thus far killed off programming.

Remember when the previous AI bubble was going to obsolete unsightly surgeons, drivers, etc with CV magic, about a decade ago?
Then campaign for Apple to add a feature that allows you to act as gatekeeper for your and your elderly parents. Don't require everyone else to have Apple act as that gatekeeper for them.
This is always how the iOS ecosystem was marketed and one of the reasons I personally give Apple my money. If the EU is taking that away, I solely blame the EU.
The cookie consent window is just a lazy way of how most developers decided to handle the regulation.

This might vary from country to country, depending on how exactly each EU member implemented it, but where I live, you didn't have to ask permission for cookies related to core functionality (e.g. basket state in a webshop). IIRC you were even able to get away with light tracking, if it supported your main usecase (e.g. counting product views to generate a list of most viewed products) and didn't expose the data to a 3rd party service.

But yeah, it's much easier to keep sending all the user data to Google Analytics and complain about the EU forcing you into spammy cookie consent windows then it is to understand what the legislation is trying to achieve and reduce the amount of data you're collecting.
you can just use your debit card, the only thing you need to do is raise your limit in advance. no need to carry that much cash around.
I can see where you might be coming from but I would argue Meadows is still correct and higher resolution.

Do provide a concrete example so I can unpack it.
> worthless climate certificates

I think that carbon offsetting is a good idea in the spirit of a glass half-full. It's unrealistic to expect the world economy to quit fossil fuels cold turkey, and a system that allows those who cannot transition to externalize their ability to reduce or eliminate emissions is a way to get close to the desired result with the constraints we have right now.
fulltime digital nomad here. I literally hop from country to country on a semimonthly basis.

I just dont' see the point of this.

starting at 1.95 a day comes out to around $57 a month..

I currently have my US number and sms via google fi and use airalo to download a data only sim, (iphone 14 dial esim ftw)

Total cost is less than this and around the same if I'm getting hot and heavy with my data usage.

the free usage tier seems interesting but again, people who can travel like me absolutely prioritze not spending time watching ads.
> Certainly they can (...)

No, that's the problem. You don't have certainty, not in any remotely scientific definition of the word, because you don't have enough data, and the data you do have is crap.

Also:

> I see no evidence that they can't self reflect

I see no evidence that there isn't a magical invisible unicorn in the sky that grants wishes to those who wear unicorn themed underwear, so, it must exist.
You find that _less_ scary? Turing-completeness doesn't entail file access etc. etc.
I worked in climate policy for awhile. I got out of it because I lost hope. I believe our governments have lost hope also. Covid taught us that if they inflict the necessary pain to control carbon, our governments will be consumed by populist anger. Only the Chinese system appears to have any hope of controlling people’s behavior that much without riots. And what a terrifying system! Even their control began to slip after a few years of zero Covid.

We will just have to deal with the consequences while we try to innovative our way out of this mess. It’s made me a AI accelerationist. Of the two civilizational dooms, I’ll take my chances with the computers.
ultimately Apple isn't fighting another company here, they're fighting a sovereign

the sovereign is able to change the rules of the game

this is not a war Apple can win over the long term

in the US stalling until a change of leadership might work, but in the EU it's universally accepted across the political spectrum that the US tech giants need reigning in
Yeah it's really mostly just a (heavily) stripped down binary JavaScript with basic arithmetic and operations to modify an ArrayBuffer. With Wasm-GC it's a bit more of a binary statically, strongly typed JavaScript. Either way, outside of static, strong typing, the binary representation and SIMD support, it's really not exposing anything fundamentally new.
> The commission payment structure makes the device affordable/accessible to more people

That is a weird conclusion, unless you think that reducing the profit margin would not give the same result.
The Switzerland availability sounds useful. Insane prices over there usually.
> your elder parents got an fishing email with attachment, they tried to open it then it said they need that app to view with a convenient link. Unsuspecting, they clicked on the link then their phone is doomed. Just like a Windows PC.

The app sandbox, watchdog and entitlements system is still in place in this scenario, how is their phone “doomed”?
I understand that this is your opinion, and you are of course welcome to have your own opinions.

My opinion is different than yours, and I think this quote from pmarca is highly relevant:

“I know it’s hard to believe, but Big Tech AI generates the output it does because it is precisely executing the specific ideological, radical, biased agenda of its creators. The apparently bizarre output is 100% intended. It is working as designed.”

https://x.com/pmarca/status/1761915996271468603
Android has had this option for years with plenty of tech-illeterate people using it wither very little issues. It already exists why are we hypothesizing?
That's what I do as well, but still sometimes it's chrome that opens, and so a "always really open an actual browser, never a webview" would be preferrable (and more recognisable when preferences are ignored.
First plan I check is no longer offered though. Second is more expensive. I guess these things tend to go out of date fast...
They absolutely have, here's European Commission chief Margrethe Vestager meeting with Tim Cook barely a month ago.

https://twitter.com/vestager/status/1745693612262953300
For anyone who's curious, here's an explanation of how the greenhouse effect works -- it's not just that some infrared radiation escapes from earth to space, while some other infrared radiation gets trapped. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqu5DjzOBF8
I seriously don’t understand how people can say that with a straight face. Apple was arguably one of the first companies to push hard on USB-C and anyone could see that they were going to bring it to the iPhone within a couple years of when the EU “forced“ them to do it.
I used gopass for a while and regret it. They kept messing with the contents of passwords, sometimes in ways that it itself couldn't read. Adding `GOPASS-1.0` etc. I feel like it also did way too many encrypts/decrypts for each password (I'd have to press my hardware button 4 times just to rename a password I think). Slowly fixing all my passwords having moved back to pass.

I'm no fan of bash or pass's rather anemic built in structure but I don't feel like gopass were the right stewards.
No they didn't. That was just sites that wanted to get permission for information not needed for the running of the application.
> This is from a long time ago, so please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the Amazon app isn't on the Android store?

Amazon Shopping has been on the Play Store from at least 2014 onwards [1].

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amazon.mSh...
They arent taking that away. No one is going to force you to sideload because most people won't sideload. Only a few Android apps aren't on the play store even though sideloading is very easy.
It's not just lazy. Many such pop-ups deliberately misinform the user.
They are getting rupees, dirhams, and ammunition for police (7.62 x 39, 9 x 19)
> What we should make illegal is for countries that (...)

Your comment is self-contradicting. If you expect solutions to work at a democratic level, you cannot advocate for a solution where a random third-party is able to force it's will upon any country. For instance, where do you fit in your mental model a scenario where a democratic country decides via referendum to meet all it's energy needs with coal?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_virtual_network_operato...

You'd be cutting deals with the existing providers, one by one, and acting as a reseller.

A dated doc:
https://www.gtigroup.org/d/file/Resources/rep/2016-12-16/2eb...
I think browserpass ff+chromium plugin supports otp as well. A nice thing is it's a native plugin so you can manage it with your system package manager (rather than the extension store).
You might want to take a look at the article before commenting ;)
I don't have Jstor access so can't read the study, but does this consider the intended demographic of the supermarkets?

Just some thoughts off the top of my head:

I would imagine that clients with a higher median age in general prefer slower music.

I would also imagine that clients with a higher median age in general are more affluent (or more likely to be shopping for more than one person).

As a result, I would expect spend to be higher in areas with an older customer base.

Managers with an older customer base would likely select music that appeals to their customer base, likely slower music. Shoppers who do not like the manager's music taste may opt to instead shop somewhere where the music is more in line with their own tastes, so I'm not sure that the independent variable here can be properly controlled.

Therefore, the study may actually be finding a correlation which depends rather on the affluence of the community, rather than what they purport to have discovered.
This is something for the Apple Vision Ultra to integrate along with electrochromic glass or some physical cover to go from full pass through to fully immersed VR. Would look like a clear version of those wrap around Star Trek glasses.
Just rebind it?
I dont know about you guys, but I seriously have no clue what many are really doing. Even after 1 minute of reading their landing pages. Are these already profitable products or products being used?
https://libvirt.org/migration.html

Though I would argue that relying on cooperative/live migration in the first place is a mistake.
My company pays less than 1/10th list for aws

But even if it wasn’t, aws could add a zero to the end of their prices next year and a lot of companies will not be able to migrate
Europe still has free speech? https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/07/07/europes-freedom-of-spee...

UK? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r7GRx8Sl-s

I would say may countries are moving to ban end-to-end encryption, which will lead to less free speech even privately: https://community.qbix.com/t/the-coming-war-on-end-to-end-en...
Starting over: Rebooting the OS stack for fun and profit
So then this all is just a roundabout way of saying "your phones are too expensive"?
Exactly. I've come to the belief that we need to attack the regulatory environment to allow this to happen. Those oldsters driving golf karts all over the Florida retirement communities have it right! But it is basically illegal everywhere without dedicated lanes and regulatory permission.
Open Source Components Library for React and Tailwind CSS
Personally I'm hoping for a constraints solver (like exists in FreeCad) but in Inkscape.
Not sure why we shouldn’t have any empathy for the people working 24hrs straight to try to help some people keep their jobs.
Shock doctrine.
Disaster capitalism.
Economic hitman
Just follow the links ;)
I use my own RAG implementation to learn with. Contact me for a tool demo.
> Newspapers may have said that, scientists did not, and would not have done

True, but most people's information to access about the issue is from the media. Most people do not have subscriptions to journals, or any decent subsitute.

Media reports also quote scientists, so while the GP's claim is incorrect and exaggerated, there have been plenty of badly wrong predictions in the media that do quote scientists - e.g. https://web.archive.org/web/20100212233059/http://www.indepe...
I'm surprised that the commercial insurance policies would tolerate this kind of copay kickback, since it arguably induces patients to be less discriminating based on their own financial skin in the game.

The federal government treats these as illegal kickbacks: https://oig.hhs.gov/documents/special-advisory-bulletins/878...
The first XKCD was published closer to the release of the original Doom than to the present day.
I do not see us reach AGI within the next ten years at last, probably in the next 20. Deep Learning and LLMs have taken us down a road that provides many such cheat codes, but is not AGI, and is ultimately is self-limiting in getting to producing an AGI.

I can see more people adopting a neo-amish style approach though as LLMs become more prevalent.

The problem I also see is that as the backlash increases against LLMs in specific, and AI in general, the marketers will mention AI in their product descriptions and web sites less and less. I think it will get to the point where you don't know whether a product uses LLMs or not. Alternatively, it will get to the point where LLMs are ubiquitous, and you can't easily find products that don't use them.

As a result, I think they are a part of life now. We can't ignore them, legislate them away, or decide not to use them without major impact on our lives. Instead, we need to legislate responsible use, legislate attribution and compensation, and learn to recognize the signs of GAN generated content.
Like who? I don't see many companies here with an unclear use case.
Phabricator is what we used before we migrated to Gerrit. The review UI was very nice, the issue tracker is still best-in-class, but Arcanist was a menace. Much prefer a simple "git push" over that client-side PHP contraption :-)

Are there plans for Gerrit interop with Jujutsu?
There is internal change. We can all take our own countries to account and drive the change we want to.

That is how we can achieve the same with no war.
Nothing says your internal design system has to include all custom designed inputs. The actual goal is standardization, not customization.

You want to have a single `TextInput` component, for example, that's used everywhere in you company and can be changed easily. Nothing is stopping you from wrapping an off the shelf component library or even the base text input from the OS or HTML.
> Nobody would force your relatives to side load.

O they absolutely will. There will be apps that are only available via side loading. These are apps that either a.) would otherwise be forced to comply with the user protections provided by apple's walled garden or b.) wouldn't have a viable business model and wouldn't exist to begin with.
Hash? Why would you do any hashing? The domain is only so large so it's meaningless even if you cared about keeping the original bytes in RAM (which you don't).

This is the same concept behind the fact that it typically makes little to no sense to hash phone numbers or credit card numbers.
Good point. And when you talk about a few years away this made me think about the ENIAC. A modern household typically consumes far less electricity than ENIAC.

Now our smartphones are 1000 times more powerful than the ENIAC and use less power.

Do you think Apple likes to jump on things? Apple usually tries not to be first, but definitely likes to polish .
I mean, Europe has competing products.

Apple doesn't even have the highest market share here compared to the US - that's actually Samsung¹ although Apple briefly overtook Samsung in sales in Q4 2023.

¹ https://www.statista.com/statistics/632599/smartphone-market...
> Much as Americans might fantasize about adding it as another star to their flag

Bothsidism is a strong in this one. Why am I not surprised it comes from an Austrian?

> If America drops a bomb, it is only because it failed at diplomacy.

First, diplomacy must be backed by strength, leverage, without it there's nothing to negotiate, because the other side can simply take what it wants. As such, sabre rattling is part of diplomacy. Nuclear deterrence is part of diplomacy.

Second, diplomacy may fail. Western diplomacy failed in 1938 and 1939, and there was war. Sometimes such failures happen and you need to be prepared for that. Layered defense.

I'm quite curious what would be your diplomatic solution to the Taiwan problem, hopefully it would respect the wishes of the Taiwanese residents.
For the sake of brevity, read "countries" as "ministries of energy in countries" or "relevant public or privatized equivalents of ministries of energy in countries" - there's many modes of governance when it comes to this. A good example of "illegal for countries" in this sense would be if the EU made their member countries adopt jurisprudence in this matter through implementation via their own respective national laws.

> You can be the first to go fight those wars.

At the end of the day, a public agency can only act on the basis of laws in their respective country. (Principle of Legality) How national laws are passed however is sometimes influenced through supranational organizations - entirely without the need of a war.
i was looking for a provider as well and google cloud run seems like a good option (havent tried it yet)
I don't know because I've never taken a one day prepaid card, but had I been visiting India as a foreigner I'd just buy a local prepaid card for a month considering it's so cheap.
I miss getting lost in a good article or story
Okay, hear me out. I miss the days when I could focus on one thing for more than 30 seconds. All these short videos and tweets have my brain feeling like scrambled eggs. I have always been sucker for long form well writen pieces in quality websites, for some reason we dont have a quality aggregator now becauew everyone is chasing dopamine trap. That's when we felt the need for need some long-form content to slow things down a bit ! and that's how we built Nebula.
Funny, at least you won't get killed by the police ;)
In hindsight, that's definitely the lesson I've learned from this.

But let's be clear: My issue isn't that their underpaid support staff didn't know what to do, it's that they apparently don't have the policies in place to just say "f* it. We don't know whats wrong. Let's refund or issue a new SIM". That would have been cheaper for everyone.
And this is why I preferred to buy from Tesla... I wish more car makers sold the same way.
Following one idea of regulation to the extreme: banning Apple products in Europe = problem solved.

The EU markets can do that.

However, in reality, regulations should be very scarcely used.

We are entering in a world more and more full of sanctions and artificial borders (like patents who protect a few chosen ones, or customs tariffs which are likely to affect GPU cards in case US<->EU enter competition together).

In this case, the message Apple wants to send is just to be left alone, instead of being brought to a planned-economy dream.

Apple isn't really a monopoly situation.

If users don't like the attitude of Apple, they can vote to close Apple: not buying theirs products.

You can perfectly live without Apple products (they don't even have official shops in few European countries), but this isn't the case with real monopolies, you cannot live without them, like WeChat Pay in China for example.

(I know that you know, it was just example of how regulations can get wrong)
It’s by choice. Most people in the US could achieve 1920s standard of living by working for a fraction of standard career (say 10-20 years), and retiring early. Instead, people choose to work till old age, to be able to afford modern comforts and pleasures.
Ad supported products are cancer. Also, other than the comments here, it only says "no ads" on the premium offering. No mention of ads in the "how Firsty works" section".

Not only do I hate this model but who the hell can afford to travel to America but can't afford 2 euro a day? Why even have an ad tier?
I was happy when I changed job, using SVN (Subversion) instead on Visual Sourcesafe. Then I dabbled a bit with TFS (Team Foundation Server)

Since around 2014 -- It has been Git all the way.

Well, until recently. Codebase at my current job is all contained in a single Subversion repo. It is difficult to maintain and branching takes GBs!

One of my first goals is to move over to Git, and into smaller Git repos. Of course, I have Magit to get it done. :-)
Even the EU's own website has a cookie banner: https://european-union.europa.eu

The only thing that stupid rule achieved is to make the web ever so slightly annoying to use.
This is a great article for people who are in the situation where they have to make decisions about billing and don't have much experience (and as a handy reference for those who do, but want some reminders, too.)

However, I will admit, I had a hearty chuckle at this line:

> "why can’t we just dump a file of what we need to bill on S3, and have a CRON job pick it up and collect payment?"

Under no circumstances does my engineer brain think this is a good idea. At all.

But, I will dump one aspect of my engineer-brain thoughts: My favorite "billing architecture" decision is to try to decouple billing as much as possible from credit in a system. For example, if you have a subscription system where the user pays ahead for a given billing period, I prefer to have the entitlement itself just store the expiration date and the details about what entitlements the subscription grants during the time period it is active. The billing system can store the subscription and sync back to the entitlement as-needed. This makes both manual billing by human operators (not to mention debugging and patching around momentary issues) and something like a Stripe integration very easy. You should, of course, be very careful to leave it open for extension in the future, but this seems to be a very nice decision that doesn't, in itself, limit you too much.

Obviously, this is not my original idea, but it's still something I've grown to like a lot, especially after having tried other things less successfully.
Car buying algorithm

1. Looks up nice new car

2. Realize a fancy new car is like $2-3k per MONTH (financing, insurance, etc).

3. Decide that there are about a million better ways to spend 2,000 a month (e.g. a $200 dinner every 3rd day, personal uber chauffeur, house-cleaners, etc)

4. Get used camry.