skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
gestures wildly at every other Apple products that switched over

Apple said from the start of Lightning (which was and is heads and shoulders above micro-USB) that they planned for it to last as long as the 30-pin connector and it did. People complained when we went from 30-pin to Lightning and they complained when Apple went from Lightning to USB-C.

As a tech nerd I wish they had moved the phone (or at least the Pro version) to USB-C sooner but I understand why they didn’t. You all act like we had to be “saved from Lightning”, regular people don’t care, they liked Lightning, I liked Lightning. Micro-USB is trash, I can see wanting to escape that hell, Lightning wasn’t a problem for the vast majority of people.

And before “but they made money off MFI”, I don’t care. It was a drop in the bucket revenue-wise for them and meant that your Lightning cables has a minimum standard they would be held to. Something I can’t say for my other cables.
> Surely if you are free you will stay on the old terms and never had much incentive to move anyway.

No, there's a lot more to it than just the money (commission and fees, etc). Apple has a strict set of rules and and approval process that apps have to go through. If your app violates any of their rules, you are not allowed to distribute your app. And unlike Android, if Apple says no then there are no other options, let alone good ones.
>This isn’t 1970.

Yeah, I remember when Led Zeppelin first came to my town.

All the way from England.

It wasn't 1970 yet either.

That was two dollars well spent.
Only a subset of used cars in the US have any kind of warranty. Most are sold without one.
I just looked back at some photos to confirm that I cradled our daughter right-sided.

I'm right-handed, but do some other things left-handed too, like holding the knife in my left hand while eating. This has always seems much more logical to me, since the knife is a secondary tool. I hold the fork in my right hand regardless of if my left is holding a knife or not.

I also notice that when raking leaves, or mopping a floor, I can never make up my mind which handedness feels more comfortable, and just switch between them.

But I was very handed when it came to holding our daughter. Always her head on my right side, whether cradling or with her head on my shoulder. I didn't have a problem doing simple tasks with my free non-dominant (left) hand, but cradling a baby seemed too important a task to give to it!
>Otherwise I'm not sure why it matters whether it was written in Haskell?

It's a common trope with less popular languages. Often when I check out some project on GitHub, the first "feature" in the readme is "written in rust".
none of what you just said would be a plausible explanation for the persistence of poverty, economic instability, environmental degradation, drug addiction, chronic disease, etc etc

I'd bet even the authors of the 2 books you've hinted at wouldn't even make that claim. I'm sure they would see many of the problems listed as systems-level issues
Mhh, you're right, I didn't think about that :(
Unfortunately, nuclear seems to get a bad rep from a lot of people. I suspect this is because of a mixture of things:

1. The rare instances of it going wrong look catastrophic, while the many times it does better than coal/oil/gas go ignored. Kinda like how people fear plane travel more than driving, despite the former being far safer than the latter.

2. It's more expensive to setup, so there's an economic incentive to either stick with what's there already (fossil fuels) or try and go with renewable solutions.

3. A certain percentage of the left/environmental movement seem to hate the concept, either because of subtle influencing from the fossil fuels lobby or because the idea of compromising and going with a system that isn't 'perfect' doesn't appeal to them.
Thankfully, Apple doesn't own YouTube.

What they don't like is porn and gambling.
Emergency alert (first time it has been used)
They want to get rid of the humanism for special rights for special groups. There are examples, where this is indeed warranted. A few and in specific cultures that cannot be generalized. But DEI losts its goal on the way and people are way less tolerant than before. Be that about skin color or anything.

It really was a drug for low confidence people to feel better about themselves compared to others, even while the ideas state that you need to self-reflect instead of being indignant.

Humanism gets rid of racism while DEI keeps it alive in perpetuity.
discord suck so bad and I also have no idea why all the kids love it, i guess it's network effect.

I really spent time on it. It's terrible software. Pure bloat.
Author here. Also working on bringing this into pancake's r2ai project and supporting local models and other cool stuff
Unfortunately? It's a chance that there are a lot of "unprofessional people in open source".

And what whith the whole being "professional" as a value system, which I fear has often to be taken in the very narrow USofA centric PoV ?

I can't relate to the sentiment that everything has to be aseptized in order to conform to a very strict and dehumanized, bland and sfw (aka professional), just to cater to the work environment culture of a few.

If in your freetime you don't like something coming from an open source project that doesn't owe you anything, don't use/associate. If you don't like it in your work place, there's a reason you're paid I guess? Or change job, or do an internal fork.
precisely. this simply inflammatory
"14 Years of Go" by Rob Pike
It is very well written. I've learned more about this topic in this article than in some classes in college. Thank you!
> I don’t know what you think declarative means, but the example you’re showing is as non-declarative as it could be for such a simple thing.

According to Wikipedia this is a style of programming where you describe _what_ you want rather than _how_ it should be done. What I see in my example is declarative per this definition: "I want a chart with <source>, with this X label and that Y label".
I couldn't agree more. All these short contents are okay, but they're like snacking when craving a real meal. But these TikToks are a real headache. Even it's been a while since I came across a really good piece to lock me in for several minutes straight.
Totally agree, but to me it's funny. IMO the EU should be their ability to change the game to actually force other players to be more apple-like by having some kind of liability and being required to provide certain guarantees to protect their customers from predatory developers. As a market, it should be hard to steal/trick/do bad stuff at the interface/technical level, so where money changes hands or resources are requested from the OS.

The EU should be asking themselves more why they have never created any significant platform of value, rather than trying to hijack the wealthy platform that apple has created so they can force them to be like android.

I live in the EU by the way. There are so many things about life here that are great, but there are a lot of things that the EU is ignorant and bad at. They should actually be regulating Google/Play store not forcing Apple to the lowest common denominator.

And you know that the only reason why they're doing this is Spotify anyways. Virtually no Apple customers care about having alternate app stores, and those who do should just get an Android.

The real reason why they are doing this is they want the wealthy platform that Apple has created, while at the same time being totally incapable of understanding what made it wealthy to begin with: trust. You don't have to worry as a consumer about apple stuff, because you trust that it will be alright. That's why Apple customers pay a premium, to not care.

The alternative is actually the default. Literally all other platforms are freemium, ad-sponsored techno-dystopias. You are given everything for free while there's a race to hack people's brains and turn them to mush, because the only value in such a system is ads and selling people's information. Nobody buys anything because it's a crap platform. The web and android I mean.

So, yes, Europe can and will make Apple comply, but they're going to kill the golden goose in the process by ruining what makes the platform valuable for people. They will probably never even understand why, because this isn't really the EU's core competency.

If Apple were HQ'd here it would be a totally different story btw.
> The AppStore has 100% market share of the iPhone platform.

Well, sure. But my local H&M has a monopoly inside the H&M. For example, they don't allow any competitor's products inside their store.

Would you call that a monopoly?
There is a 3rd option - do a custom design that considers site-specific issues. Say there is a project with an unusual requirement. Taking one from my experience, a height limit so that a certain area still gets an appropriate amount of sun.

The options are "go", "redesign to be more squat" or "no-go".

What I'm giving you is a sketch at how advanced environmental laws actually conflict with the idea of using cookie cutter designs. The ideas are at odds with each other.

> The world also has "Red Spotted Scuttlers"

Not after a typical infrastructure project. Usually a bunch of habitat gets killed off and it isn't unusual to lose a population of something exotic.
They do and they are? As far as electricity is concerned, that is.
Productivity growth is the overriding determinant of quality of life over any extended period of time.

Take two countries at the same starting level of per capita GDP, and give one a GDP growth rate of 2%, and the other a rate of 4%, and within 30 years the latter will have twice the per capita GDP of the former.

It's very hard for a country with half the per capita productivity of another country to match their quality of life.
> Apple isn't really a monopoly situation.

The Apple App Store does have a monopoly on 2.2 billion devices and did $85 billion in trade in 2021.
Enterprise is about focusing on the top earning accounts. This clearly isn't one of them.
this. i am in that camp, but i mostly read and not comment like others mentioned. i find that most people commenting still have gone through the post.
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This is now the recommendation. Companies even make allergen packets to add to your baby’s breast milk / formula / early foods for gradual and systemic exposure.
I disagree. This is a common trope that ‘bad guys’ deliberately engineer global problems for their own good.

There are bad actors - people who deliberately do or say the wrong thing for malicious purposes. There are also strategists who have learnt how to game the system. The net result appears to be a concerted, planned effort to create the problems we have in the world today, when in reality, they have mostly emerged is a result of complex issues - driven mostly by human behaviour and accidents - and that can’t simply be ‘engineered’.

There are players who are trying to (for example) avoid a move away from oil, but it’s naive to think that the conflict and environmental problems that it causes have a solution that could allow them to be ‘fixed’. There is a cost to everything we do, and there are always winners. Same goes for war, water or poverty.

I think your perspective is that the winners are taking home a disproportionate amount of the winnings - I agree.

Michael Jackson [1] is the another Systems Thinking guru, and argues that ‘wicked problems’ like these can never be solved, and it’s irresponsible to claim otherwise.

Instead, it’s only possible to improve the situation for those involved in it. It takes time, effort, leadership, a change in mindset - and almost always sacrifice - to instigate real change. You can’t just tell the bad guys to do the right thing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Jackson_(systems_scientis...
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Does Nekoweb declare to be part of the open web? Seems more like the artistic feel for websites as they used to be. Not a very valid argument in that context.
Apple doesn’t have the upper hand here. Apple talk a good talk but if Cook actually attempted to pull out of the EU market he would be facing some very angry shareholders. So realistically Apple have to do what the EU wants. The timetable is TBD though.
They're not volume providers so much as focused on the top revenue generating accounts. This is targeted and specific to remove the low revenue accounts from the business. It's a normal tactic.
I think it has to do with the inclusion/exclusion of Russia. I looked at your source Worldometers, and they included Russia as part of Eastern Europe.

I think that the inclusion/exclusion of Greenland could have a big effect as well.
Don't blame the messenger. There would be no cookie consent banners if websites would use cookies strictly in your interest.
Despite the British English elsewhere, "could care less" is a particularly American error. I think that's noteworthy.
His problem isn't that he overcomplicated a theory, his problem is personal and he expresses it with racism.

> diverse [...] which the AI interpreted as meaning “nonwhite”

While an AI isn't objective in any way, it is the result of the dataset. This is also an accusation against the DEI groups that grant themselves the title of being less biased or just self-reflective enough. Problem is that they simply are not, on the contrary.
True enough;

The gory history of Europe’s mummy-eating fad https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/mummy-eat...

The Gruesome History of Eating Corpses as Medicine https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-gruesome-history-...

but people generally don't like to be reminded.
and apps that have their own Stripe account and/or want to tell customers that they can save 30% by paying through the website, or pay 30% more to use the Apple subscription/payments system. But user education and market competition would mean Apple's 30% is way, way too much, so hardly anybody would actually do that if they had the choice...
I worked on a billing and AR system for a small pharmacy chain years ago. Our company would get pretty large random checks from ins carriers totally out of the blue. As in, we had billed them nothing and they would send us $150k checks in snail mail. They wouldn’t realize their mistake and come asking for it back for months. We had a special account named “magic money” for it. The billing world is crazy town.
> We should make it illegal for software engineers to complain about industrialisation unless they give up laptops, gpus, air-conditioning, coffee machines and refrigerators.

By this logic, we should make it illegal for anyone to complain about anything, given that we all have benefitted in one way or another by industrialization.
While we have a socio-economic that values market and profit over social benefits we will keep this going just because it's cheaper. (and also because there is some big people gaining lots of money with it)
The market is in the toilet right now: https://layoffs.fyi/ (not my site fyi)
I recently found a 90 minute cassette from 40 years ago with some good obscure music I had forgotten. The accessibility and touch of the cassette and a floppy interfacing with the player or controller gives a better tactile feedback then a USB disk or MicroUSB disk. You can more easily loose the USB disks as well as they are smaller and don't really make noise when dropped.

As MiniDisc and Zipdrive are obsolete I'd like to have a minicd or businesscard CD audioplayer based on a RaspberryPi Zero. With using Vocos, EnCodec or Lyra v2 you could fit 200 hours of stereo audio on the small cd at around 3 kbps and select them with some buttons and a LCD screen.
Similar to the Imation RipGo or Memorex portable 8cm mini-cd players which could play mp3.
https://languagecodec.github.io/

Alternatively I could use cassette or microcassette.
https://hackaday.com/2021/10/20/audio-tape-interface-revives...
https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/10/17/a-wind-up-cassette-play...

I could run a bootable OS on MicroSD and using external small cd's as data or app storage, perhaps also to boot from. An OS experience [Redox, Haiku, KolibriOS, Dragonfly, Fuchsia, MorphOS, Serenity] booting from a 8 cm business card CD depending on the day, weather or mood.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_CD

Or perhaps just boot into a Raspberry Pi zero menu to select or boot a random OS from the Zero and use Airtagged encrypted USB-C sticks (making sure each OS can read the encrypted volumes).
I understand the intent, and support it. However, the implementation with the consent window just breaks the flow of browsing. It is also pretty much broken when it comes to accessibility and screen readers. On most platforms I know, you can scroll past the content window, since it is only impelemtned with a div overlaying the rest of the site. Screen readers mostly have no problem scrolling past this overlay. I know, because I use screen readers.
I totally get that feeling! It's nice to find something that actually grabs your attention for more than a few seconds. Do check out , Nebula seems like exactly what you need – a place for good, in-depth content
I've always been an Apple ecosystem user. Both main devices and accesories. Apart from my first one, all my smartphones had been Apple. I've only used Apple computers since 15 years.

But that's it. Once my current iPhone breaks (and I took my protector off), I'm not buying another one. This is malicious compliance at the expense of user.
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What irony? It is made for the artistic look and feel of websites as they once were. Seems to have nothing to do with the "open web" as you might like to put it.
The relationship is asymmetric - the other commenter's point doesn't make its inverse correct. Big players who can negotiate with Apple (like Amazon [1] or Netflix) can avoid the Apple tax. This means that smaller developers are at a disadvantage with respect to revenue and in their ability to work together to make a hostile platform irrelevant. This is why regulators are very important here.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/3/21206400/apple-tax-amazon-...
> Under no circumstances does my engineer brain think this is a good idea. At all.

Yeah, if that's the model engineer in the "don't build your own billing system" mantra then the article had the opposite effect on me. Now I want to build such a system because this made me feel like I'm significantly more qualified than I previously thought.
This is exactly what Carvana does when you want to return something to them
The examples that come to mind are FOSS apps that cannot be distributed via the App Stores due to Apple's policies. VM software like UTM, old console emulators like Delta, community clients for services like YouTube or Twitch, and apps that work around system limitations to provide things like a clipboard manager.
Many of these tools and techniques are still very useful for woodworkers for laying out cuts and shapes on the timber. I have and use many of these in my workshop.
Yes, if there are only two stores in the world.
Isn't the number one reason that nuclear gets a bad rep because there is no compelling solution for getting rid of the waste?
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Is it really vim if you don't have modes and can't combine operations ;p. Everything is pretty much single keystrokes that don't combine in any meaningful way. The only "vim" thing about it is h/j/k/l. Thing like collapsing don't use vim keys z(a|o|c), going to different places doesn't use g<thing>.

There's some weird scroll into view code as well, holding j to just scroll down buffers up a bunch of scrolls and then scrolls all at once. I'm guessing it's a side effect of smooth scrolling or something.

To avoid being a typical grumpy HN commentator, nice work :).
Hey Dijit,

Thank you for your words. Finding external groups that transcend physical proximity is definitely a thing.
Sometimes I find and meet good people on the internet or IRL. But making, maintaining and growing a friendship feels too much of a hassle. I don't know if it is because of my past experiences mentioned in my article or not but this what it is unfortunately.

It is not that I can't get along with people. People around me really like me actually. They always try to have a chat with me or invite me to somewhere. Although I really love having beautiful conversations, my social battery is so weak. 30 mins at max and then I want to stay alone with myself.

You are right about superpower. I fit in most places without problem. Is is just I don't feel belong there.
I got what you mean overall, though. I appreciate your beautiful words.
VCs only want profitable companies so that they can get that sweet sweet exit payday. CEOs of larger, listed corps are competing in the same markets as startups and so are forced to pursue the same or risk looking like they're failing in the market.

Ultimately everyone(customers, employees, the company, longer term investors) loses except the investors who are able to influence the company's direction and priorities.
Getting it out of the ground is expensive in both dollar terms and the cost to lives.
The FFT is present in some of the pre-Mamba state space models as well to optimize applying the convolution.
The Internet Archive taking over a dead website domains and URL's makes sense to keep them useful to web users (the ongoing fee of the domain name is a pain, but not that expensive)

we have taken over other people's systems with mechanism (like purl.org ) but a static website would be even easier--

redirects galore (20 million broken links fixed in wikipedia) or give us the domain name. We even had a 404 handler people could put on their website, but that may be out of date-- if others want to put it on their website (please vice!) we would bring it up to date.

We also have a 404 service in the Brave browswer (go Brave!). Please communicate to Chrome folks, Mozilla, others how awesome it would be for them to build this into their browser.

info@archive.org if you would like to do something like this.

-brewster
Digital Librarian, Internet Archive
That's exactly what the comment you replied to was describing.
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Everyone in this sub thread:

I agree with the sentiment (as a Firefox user who does not like the Chrome monopoly), but keep in mind this looks like a project purely for fun. The author owes us nothing and is nice enough to share their experiments. They may not have even noticed it only works on Chrome. We can certainly find a nice way to suggest them to specify that this is Chrome-only, maybe by sending a PR on the README file.

There's no need to be negative. You can even convey your message nicely.

Usually, people are receptive to feedback if the feedback is respectful and gentle.
Follow-up story: https://www.rawstory.com/nbc-cpac-nazis-hit-back/
I play hockey left handed, but do everything else right handed. Has always felt natural to me, I can't remember ever doing differently.
The joys of a pre-SSL world.
Don't do it
> I'm not sure Safari's console even supports CSS?

It does, at least styling text.
And the dev tools, in my opinion, are fine. I'd rather use Firefox for debugging, but my main driver is Orion (Safari-ish with FF/Chrome extension support) and use it a lot for random websites.