skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a world that often glorifies extroversion as the key to success, the quiet and soft voice of introverts often gets sidelined. We hold a common belief that thriving in the workplace requires being the loudest and most visible.
However, is this truly the case? Is extroversion an absolute necessity for success?
Not really. Introverts, with their thoughtful approach, bring unique strengths to the table.
Unlike those who speak readily, introverts carefully consider their words. They contribute meaningfully only when they have something constructive and valuable to share.
Apple Cynic/Windows user here with a genuine question - why is this interesting? I'm currently looking at my wife's old corporate-issued windows laptop, which is running 2 external monitors as well as it's own display - am I missing something here, or is this just a case of Apple being held to different standards to other manufacturers in terms of feature parity?
Controlled Digital Lending: Publishers Against Library Books
>Apple is predatory on a level that 1990s Microsoft could not have dreamed of.

That's hilariously wrong.

In the 1990s, there were only two computing platforms to speak of: Windows and the Mac. Windows had *90%* of the marketplace. Microsoft had deals with PC makers that required them to include (and charge for) a Windows license on ever machine they sold. When Netscape happened, Microsoft leveraged their immensely dominant desktop position to squeeze the upstart browser company out -- Gates famously said "I'll cut off your oxygen supply," which is more or less an overt confession to monopolistic behavior.

Nobody has anything close to the kind of market power and predatory behavior that MSFT had in 1996. To suggest otherwise is to either display profound ignorance of that period of time, or to show you have a weird axe to grind about Apple that causes you to overlook actual facts.
Your argument is about a hypothetical counterfactual.

We are both arguing fiction against fiction. We can't re-run the experiment without Apple.
"Better" != "Good enough"

An app store (any app store, not just Apple's) can be the former without being the latter.
I agree with “don’t relate” as a general concept, but I had to stop shortly after reading this:

“There are two reasons a person redirects the conversation/attention back to himself: (1) the person is deeply self-centered and incapable of processing information about anyone unless it relates to him. It’s likely this person is cripplingly insecure, and therefore his worry about himself has turned into his only functioning pathway to the world. Or possibly this person is a sociopath.”

I know the author goes on to state a more benign reason as the second reason.

But opening with the possibility that someone is a sociopath for over-relating is wild. I’d expect the child of a therapist would choose their words with more purpose and with their intended meaning.
I think a better way to say this is that every developer's understanding is absolutely incorrect in some jurisdictions. Maybe they're correct in their jurisdiction, but once you start talking about this online, as with every discussion of legalities on HN, people start talking past each other forgetting that many European countries will disagree with each other, and especially forgetting that the US may have several dozen wildly different interpretations.
My company is highly intertwined with WA and if they killed it off in the EU, we'd just switch to Signal/Telegram/the millions of other secure messaging services out there ¯ \ _ ( ツ ) _ / ¯
Taiwan is not clearly independent. The issue was treated in Treaty of San Francisco, yet the treaty never unambiguously declared whether Taiwan is independent. It's an extremely complex legal issue. You can state your case but understand that the opposing case has just as much legal ground.
Many years ago I used to despair every time I used my dad's windows machine. Every time, his browser window was filled with loads of toolbars installed by various sites and utilities, leaving him with a tiny usable content area. I kept explaining why this happened and he never changed his behaviour.

I got him to buy a Mac and for a few years things went well. But then he started complaining about it behaving weirdly or running slowly. I'd take a look and find he'd installed some free utility or some other odd bit of software that was screwing up his machine. I kept explaining why this happened and he never changed his behaviour.

I keep telling him to get an iPad, as at least then everything would be sandboxed and iOS would kill background tasks. But he says, no, he needs a real computer.
Apple's response, in a nutshell:

- A weird callout to the nationality of the company right out of the gate

- Spotify will be nothing without us (insert crazy ex memes)

- "Our engineering helps ensure that Spotify’s apps can work seamlessly with Siri, CarPlay, Apple Watch, AirPlay, Widgets, and more." -- yeah, because those are your products, Apple. You make your money on those products being tightly integrated

- A bizarre quantization of the apple ecosystem by total number of "APIs" Apple gives them access to (250k)

- A claim of insider coercion between Spotify and the EU Commission that made it difficult for Apple to win

- They are going to appeal
I added motion blur in a slot-machine like game I wrote.

http://www.softdorothy.com/Blog/Entries/2011/10/26_Making_Th...
Appearances are important. But so is substance. I don't hang out with
girls that are all fur coat and no knickers, as we say round here :)

Regarding BP, as a Brit I'd love to do an episode [0] on Mavis Batey
sometime. Have you visited? One of the surprising facts is about the
extraordinary physical working conditions in the huts... it's
summer, the roofs are painted in dark green tar and camouflage, the
machines are kicking out tens of kilowatts...

[0] https://cybershow.uk
Apple announces new MacBook Airs with its latest M3 chip
"without Apple Spotify would be a dead product by now" is fiction as well

You can argue fiction against fiction by saying everyone on iOS would pay as happily on Android if there were no iOS
Concorde was ine of the precusers of modern day Airbus so. As an aircraft, despite being gorgeous and an engineering marvel, it was kind of pointless, I agree.
Ask HN: Have you had issues with TrustPilot or similar alternatives?
I like that the article explains why Rust is great for memory safety, but won't solve everything. It also shows how to write memory safe programs in new low-level languages like Zig, offering spatial memory safety, combined to arenas and hardened memory allocators for temporal memory safety.
Webmention is great, it's truly decentralized but it doesn't work if you have a static site which is probably a considerable percentage of personal sites.

In the future, I might come up with something that integrates Webmention for sites that already have them.
They should be able to opt-out though.

E.g. sell games but use no Xbox services on Xbox.

I wonder if the DMA will bring Steam to consoles.
The Taiwan Strait is extremely efficient for shipping routes. The sea and wind to the East of Taiwan are treacherous. Going the long way round would be very difficult and greatly increase shipping costs for a substantial portion of the world's goods.
Speaking of video, I’m on my second MacBook Air and have been very happy with them both except for one consistent concern, their unreliability with regard to external displays. It bothers me sufficiently for me to bring my Apple TV with me when delivering training, which is kinda ridiculous. I think my next one will be a Pro. That’s a pity really – I like the Air form factor and I don’t really need the extra power. I do think I need a real HDMI port though.
Game used to be about driving everyday civilian cars fast.

Now its about who can parse the rules the finest.

It isn't "organizing" things that spoils them, its the organizers.
c dominates every other language again...https://github.com/dannyvankooten/1brc#submitting
What if Apple doesn't pay the fine?
Striped marlin change for group hunting
> They are not interested in becoming full time Arch Linux root administrators just to conduct their daily business on their device.

They don't need to if they don't want to.

I'd be one of the users who are not inclined to transform my iPhone back into my days using Linux on desktop and suffering the pains of doing it. I do have the option to turn my computer into that if I want, I do not have that option for my phone even though it's just a computer.

No one would be forcing users into doing that, it's about allowing the users who want that control over their own devices.

You are attacking a strawman.
There definitely are correct patterns for handling signals -- the problem is more that there are also quite a lot of "looks plausible but has a race condition" ways to write code.

The whole signals infrastructure in Unix has always been a bit dubious IMHO -- my impression from reading the Sixth Edition sources in the Lions book was that it looked like it had basically been put in to handle "signals are fundamentally fatal" cases like ctrl-C of a process from the terminal or SIGSEGV and friends, with the signal handler really only being there to do cleanup before the process exited. If that's all signals are doing then none of the race condition stuff matters (including the traditional "when a signal handler is called it resets to SIG_DFL" race that was fixed by BSD-style signals) and nor do you need to care about the enormous mountain of pain that is having to handle EINTR return values from system calls. But once the mechanism was there it got used for other things, many of which involved "the process receives and deals with signals as part of its normal continuing execution".
Don't forget to make it radioactive!
Abstract ideas will remain abstract until a concrete implementation is actually implemented. It's a tautology, but there seems to be something additional that's weird/absurd about it to most people (kind of like, it cannot be taken seriously)...it's hard to explain.

I think this essay might be trying to articulate the same/similar thing maybe (I'm guessing here):

https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/04/21/universal-love-said-th...
Both sides are correct not to trust each other. If you were an anthropologist studying the differences in moral philosophy and religion of various groups of Americans 1,000 years in the future you’d call the present conflicts different religious sects. These debates about e.g. the nature of gender and when you can kill your offspring, are religious in nature. Islamic sects that are at war with each other have less fundamental doctrinal disagreements. On top of that, the factions have fundamentally divergent views about issues that are weighty in a multi-ethnic country: the nature and desirability of diversity, and multi-culturalism. Overlaid on that is a divergence in economic interests between regions that benefit from globalism/the knowledge economy, and regions that are left behind by those changes.

Groups that diverge on fundamental values can’t trust each other. Historically, it just doesn’t work. When such divergences emerge around the world, they almost always result in political schisms.
It feels like the big negative effect here is probably the energy cost of the desalination plants. But if we can generate energy while getting free rain on top of that, it seems to me that would make a massive difference to this balance.
Disrupted, sure. Severed? You do know that we still have a functioning SMS network, right?

Also, personally, I don't even use WhatsApp since I can communicate with my family using Signal. It's so easy that even my grandma uses it.
You're going to need to elaborate on what exactly you mean if you make an incendiary claim like that.

Jared Diamond's argument is that for an animal to be domesticated it needs to have a very specific collection of traits—tameability and ability to breed in captivity being two important ones—and that there weren't any sufficiently good candidates for domestication in the Americas, Africa, or Australia (besides the llama in South America, which they did domesticate).

With which part of this argument do you disagree? What candidates would you propose for domestication in non-Eurasian continents?
The KMT is now a modern political party much like any other, which generally performs very well in elections.
There is no such thing as "moving infinitely fast", that's something the other person made up. What if light didn't fly straight and made loops and flowed like water and clustered up and stuck together?

If you're going to make up nonsense, you're not talking about physical reality you're talking about cartoons or magic and fantasy.

When something moves fast in photography it has motion blur and that spreads its coverage over a larger area. In this demo the motion blurred 'torus' and 'sphere' both get made artificially more opaque to make the animation work. You can see it happen.
The person I replied to in fact did not know that

> Apple was nearly dead. Microsoft literally gave them a big investment to keep them alive
Apple doesn’t have 90% of the phone or computer markets. Microsoft had near total dominance over every desktop computer on the planet.

The only argument than can come close to that is Apple has a large share of phone app revenue because people using Android don’t pay as much.
Gleam Version 1
No, I'm arguing that if Apple feels entitled to steal 30% of my hard earned money, then the open source maintainers should also feel the same entitlement, because without their work there would be no iOS, and no App Store.

Apple owes their existence to the Open Source maintainers the same way Apple claims I owe my existence to their proprietary APIs.
Further discussion -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39590246
Apple is not taking in consideration that the argument works completely in reverse, without all the apps paying them a 30% cut, or developers investing time into creating apps for their ecosystem there would be no iOS in 2024.
Coming from years of experience doing this with Waterfox - I would not recommend using anything like this.

I used to be quite aggressive with compiler optimisations - but all you are really doing is introducing instability and more often than not, performance regressions.

For the latest release, I actually started including polyhedral optimisation provided by the LLVM Polly project, but the effort resulted in essentially 0 performance gain. It was to be expected, as polly isn't really going to net general performance improvements, especially with the type of work a browser is doing.

It's also VERY easy to mislead yourself when adding these optimisations by getting a good run on a benchmark once or twice, yet you could try another run and get a different result. I am guilty of this myself, it took a long time to realise the mistakes I was making.

The reality was, I found, running on fresh device in comparison with Firefox, was almost no difference. The majority of performance improvements came from the engineering effort put in by Mozilla themselves and they are VERY good at that. The devs are also conscious of the available compiler optimisations and make a very good effort to include any that make a difference.

> Compiler optimizations include AVX, AES, LTO and PGO.

Firefox already does LTO and PGO, and for majority of the code, where AVX is beneficial, it is already included with code dispatch if the CPU supports it (for example with media codecs). The same goes for AES in the NSS library.

Does that mean you can't get Clang/LLVM to generate AVX instructions? Yes, I'm sure it does. Does it actually make a meaningful difference? No. Not that I've found from years of doing this and eventually just abandoning it.

The only time I ever saw big, proper gains from compiler optimisation alone was when I was compiling Waterfox with Intel's C++ compiler and using auto dispatching with the Qax [1] flag. Intel were doing some magic there. But the effort to get the Firefox codebase compiled with it was nothing short of sisyphean and essentially an exercise in masochism.

[1] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/cpp-compiler/de...
Also why walking on top of sand can burn your feet, file digging your feet in to just below that top layer is suddenly very cool.
On that Lisp, I'll guess adapting something like Macsyma would be a no-no because of the constriained specs, right?
Is this the case for Europe too?
Nobody is obligated to "advance development". Also many innovative ideas come from projects that are done without the expectation to get value out of it.

> it seems the author was rather serious about his language

You kind of have to be serious about something in order to invest many hours into creating and finishing it. It can still be fun.
Young devs won't believe it, but until the early 2000s...

...a lot of companies didn't use any form of source control at all. :)
I have a suspicion that organoids will be to artificial intelligence what ornithopters are to flight. Technically possible, but reinventing it from scratch instead of following biology strictly will give us dramatic performance improvements.
These last few legal responses from Apple are really damaging their "cool" factor. Apple has, for some time now, succeeded by staying quiet and just shipping high quality stuff.

Their PR / legal team acting like children when they don't get what they want is a genuine harm to their brand. It's amazing to me that these press releases are approved.
I've used just about all of the above (and a couple that weren't mentioned, like Apple's MPW Projector, and Voodoo).

Git knocks them all into a cocked hat. Linus changed the world (again).

The one thing that I would like to see in Git, is true support for fractional repos (setting up a "window" into a Git repo that only includes a subset of files). SourceSafe (another one that wasn't as bad as the comment mentioned) had one neat trick: You could create "aggregate" views, encompassing files from different repos.
Back when he was still alive, I had to turn on "Parental controls" on my parent's Mac Mini, to stop my dad from accidentally removing things from the Dock and being unable to put them back.

It took him years to realise Google search results had a scroll bar, and it wasn't just the 3 items that fitted on the screen.

He wrote simulation software for the radio propagation of military IFF transponders before he retired, and his idea of "computer safety" was therefore somewhere between "do not connect them to the internet" and "put them in a faraday cage".
To be clear, I agree they are not meaningfully equivalent. I just meant to say that they are the best options other than remote, especially if you consider that private offices haven't been common for software developers for over 30 years. Private offices are awesome and cubicles are tolerable to fine depending on your coworkers.

Open offices are almost invariably terrible for employees - although I have to say that I was once in a large room with a (often closed) door along 5 other engineers as a sort of "private open office" and that was actually okay.
"...a good listener is actually someone who is good at talking". Totally agree! In aorder to be a good listener you need to be able to give a good feed back
Can you elaborate? I just checked the site and saw someone has already added a site with substantial data. It kind of looks like spam to me since this is meant for personal sites. Maybe you saw that? If yes, then I agree. It looks suspicious because I don't have any moderation logic in place.

But if you mean something else, it would be nice if you can tell me why. I'll do my best to address it.
And yet for some reason my dad never has any malware on his iOS and iPadOS devices, whereas he always did on Windows devices.
Your company probably knows you're reading this story at work
"Not touching you! Not touching you! Still not touching you! Ow! Moooooom, he just hit me for no reason! Seriously, I wasn't doing anything at all"
It is currently pretty clearly describe. Compile it in LGPL mode and you are good for propriétaire use cases.

There is nothing fundamentally dangerous with the LGPLv2.1.

It is mainly annoying in case of static linking due to the obligation of providing object files but will not contaminate your codebase like the GPL does.
What Is Backward Error?
Server Actions in Fastify
Artificial Intelligence AI worm infects users via AI-enabled email clients
it appears you took the tabloid stuff and ran with it as a reason to disregard anything she says due to mental illness. at least that's how your first comment seems. including all of your comments against her in this post, you clearly have a bone to pick and i disagree with all of them. but that's all i'm gonna say about that, except, maybe you should listen to what she has to say in the article and also read the book "molly" by blake butler and have your views on love challenged.
I know. All those poor iPhone owners who bought them so they could use the millions of apps created by developers for free for Apple, and the same devs who also get rinsed on hardware and other costs. Apple get absolutely nothing out of any of this.
We're not scrubbing over a pre-rendered animation here. We're using a library called threejs (a WebGL wrapper) in the background figure and adjusting the camera/models in response to scroll position (within a react environment)
My dad is giving photography lessons, and one of the constants are people realizing during session one that they, in fact, do need glasses when the autofocus does not agree with their eyes.

When I borrow my dads camera for the odd shot at times, I totally relly on AF, if I went by the view finder I am almost blind... Same thing the other way round!
The golden age of DVDs isn't over yet for anime fans
Ask a retail worker.

Entitled people tend to show their faces on some contexts, and hide it on other ones.

What is weird is that with free software developers the power relation has the opposite direction than the one where this normally happens.
This was a fun side project to get some experience as an inference engineer using AWS + ChatGPT's API. The goal was simple: take some text and image content that I already had available (LI profile) and filter it through ChatGPT's API for fun.

The result can easily remake what looks like LinkedIn, but it can also concisely answer a question or get funky by presenting content as-if a pirate, astronaut or other silly personality. It'll even generate images of what it thinks I look like based on my profile pic.