skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To expand on and put numbers to this: to escape the solar system from Earth, you need to add about 17 km/s on top of the energy you start with by working from Earth's orbital energy. Earth is going about 30 km/s around the Sun, which helps quite a lot!

However, this also means that to hit the Sun, you need to remove more or less all of the energy that Earth starts you with. This is the key insight - if you do a bit too much or a bit too little, it slingshots around the Sun (getting close to it but not going into it) and stays in orbit rather than landing in the Sun.
For whom was in tech during 90s and now in 2020s, what are the differences between Microsoft back then and Apple now in terms of why the regulators are so "soft" against an actor that is overplaying it's hand for consumers?

I was not in tech in that time, but I was cognizant about the fact that entire segments of media and policy makers just dunked on Microsoft due to anti-competitive practices back then, and I recall congressmen and congresswomen, members of DoJ and so on openly talking about break Microsoft in pieces and I wonder why we do not have those conversations today in the biggest markets (China, US and EU)?
> That, to me, suggests they know that this person isn't merely doing 'a bit of torrenting' but is perhaps part of (or even, orchestrating) some organised piracy scheme. Or more.

This seems unlikely given they have an IP address and an ISP provider.

It's hard imagine that anyone involved in organised piracy schemes is actually using a raw ISP address rather than a logless VPN that laughs at warrents and subpoenas.

It's hard imagine that anyone involved in organised piracy schemes is actually using Piratebay with a "leads right back to them" address that shows up on https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/peer/ and other such tools that scrape public trackers.
I can reproduce it with Chrome, Firefox, both with no extension.

On three computers.

In case it was not clear, here is the full STR.

1. Click on a cell.
2. Click on the formula bar.
3. Type something, Press enter (you can even directly press Enter).

Expected: the next cell is highlighted but not in edit mode. So you can use arrow keys to move highlight around.

Observed: the next cell is in edit mode; you cannot move arrow around.

To make it worse, sometimes (but not always), if you press enter AGAIN, it would go to the next (the third one) and STILL in edit mode; you need to press enter AGAIN, which makes the highlight move to the fourth cell, only then it properly exists edit mode.

The bug is also reproducible with Esc (cancel change):

1. Click on a cell; 2. Click on the formula bar; 3. Directly press Esc.

Expected: exit edit mode

Observed: you are still in edit mode. You have to press Esc again.

A gif demo: https://i.imgur.com/KV6rRP6.gif
It matters in an advisory sense (that is, other courts may use it to gain understanding), but not in a legally binding sense.
The Zip Code Shift: Why Many Americans No Longer Live Where They Work
Open plan offices are awful experiences and cause you to be constantly interrupted. WFH is best as you get to control everybody, especially your manager.
Flying car firm Alef hits 2,850 preorders, worth over $850M
Personally, I find 2 and 3 to be creepy and robotic. 3 also feels intrusive.

The conscious analysis of tone and body language is obviously important for many people to get by socially, especially for neurodiverse people or people outside the norm of the situation. However, I think it is important to avoid remarking directly on body language.

You can still let these non-verbal observations guide a conversation, of course. Rather than remarking on someone's smile when they mention a subject, you might ask them to elaborate on the subject.

Unless they've asked to be psychoanalyzed, most people do not like the feeling of being analyzed.
And not only that, wrong answer on a privately owned for-profit website.
Pulling gold out of e-waste suddenly becomes super-profitable
Yes, these are fines, not damages. The headline says as much.
Somebody on here recently described Concorde as "peak boomer" which was a comment that changed my opinion about it. Yes, it hit some local maximum for what can be accomplished with protractors and a three-person crew on the flight deck. Sure, it brought Phil Collins to the US to perform a concert "before" his UK concert on the same day. It also rattled a lot of windows in its flight path. Right now, everybody else is wondering if they will be boarding a 737-"fuck it, we'll fix it in a software update"-MAX.

If there are any decadent flights I'd like to take from seeing YouTube videos, it would be one on Etihad's "The Residence", but even that doesn't exist any longer.
Cool, convenient and coins
Health system network turned out to be a house of cards – Cisco cards, that is
Considering how SF manages other stuff, where is the optimism coming from that they will manage this well? Genuine question.
More than 2M research papers have disappeared from the Internet
> it makes me angry that I can't post another answer on that question to debunk the existing incorrect answer because that question is closed as Duplicate

Closing as duplicate is annoying. Unlike normal answers, which participate in voting and defer to the asker for acceptance, it effectively functions as a "super-answer" imposed unilaterally by a power user with few checks on if they were wrong.
> There's a LOT of room for improvement, but there's no profit incentive for improvement, and let's be honest, git is very nice at it's price point, so we're likely at a local maxima for a while.

There was no profit incentive for creating Git. It still got created and became popular.

It's just that Git is far closer to good enough than what came before it - many of those were true horrors (I'm looking at you ClearCase).
Do big tech companies listen to anything else than fines or loss of income?
If there is any other way, that would be preferable
New technology to show why images and video are genuine launches on BBC News
Also you say static vs dynamic linking is not important, but here in the GPL FAQ there is reference to this:

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#GPLPlugins

> If the main program dynamically links plug-ins, and they make function calls to each other and share data structures, we believe they form a single combined program, which must be treated as an extension of both the main program and the plug-ins.
Why do you assume it's a legitimate thing to do? Nothing changed from a copyright perspective. You can copy a GPL file directly, or take a photo of it, then decode the JPG, OCR the bitmap and put the result in a file, or you can train a LLM to reproduce it. It's all the same, if a judge feels you've copied a substantial part of the file then it's an infringement.

The same way an LLM would generate that code without the license, another LLM could find that code and determine that it infringes. If anything, the emergence of LLM powered agents will empower the free software movement to find infringements.

The only way free software would "end", is if judges would not be able to enforce copyright, because for example the copyright infringement is obfuscated too much. For example if LLM powered agents are going to both generate and run the code without ever saving it to disk. We're not quite there yet.
Depends on where you are, but there are numerous attempts to reduce these things in Canada ,where I live, and the US has similar schemes.

Check-in is now online, bag drop is automated, security is a breeze with Verified Traveller or PreCheck, immigration and customs are simplified with NEXUS/Global Entry/APEC, and airline status can get you priority baggage. I am often in the airport lounge within 15 minutes of arriving at the airport, with that all completed. Same with immigration. Plenty of countries offer concierge immigration schemes if you pay between $50 and $300.

> Couple of hours to get to the airport

You have to be in a pretty sparse area for this to be the case, so a lot of this just comes down to living far from a city.
Probably VCS based on ASTs instead of text changes directly.

Or it'll all just be done by LLMs then.
It's a great story but I can't think of it as an example of general financial illiteracy.

Corvette lt1 is $70k which was $40k in 1993.

It would be $780k today if invested in S&P 500. A nice retirement safety net.

It would be $6 million today if invested in Microsoft stock. That's fuck you money.

So kids, if you're young and have unexpected windfall, invest it at least in S&P 500 index.

But I'm not surprised most people don't do that. I didn't at that age.
It's chilling to see the blog archive end at "January 2024"
I salute the decision, but I wonder, is the fine big enough? I mean how much money did apple make with this behavior. If even after the fine they are net positive, wouldn't they continue the same way?
Git (and almost GitHub) are closer to the release of the first version of Linux than today.
This seems a lot more fraught with peril than fixing the code
Are companies like this not proof that the free market system does not exist? I mean how could PG&E still exist if this were the case?
That seems more like a grift of the environment promoting women. It's easier to control sockpuppets and you don't have to pay them.

I don't think that person cared one way or another about women, they were just taking advantage of the environment.

They would have faked male speakers had it benefitted them.

(not condoning, just noting my perception)
> OpenAI recently fed everything on GitHub into a language model which will cheerfully reproduce GPL'd software without license or attribution.

Currently, when does reproducing code become a violation of the GPL? If I see an interesting function in a project under the GPL, can I copy it? What if I rename the variables? Or what if I reimplement the function exactly? Approximately? Add perturbations Etc, etc. I get ship of Theseus vibes.
Can Spotify sue for damages as well?
> I once had a colleague who told me in very serious terms "the truth doesn't matter" in relation to his and many others shared perceptions of a political issue. I rapidly disengaged from working with him. It is deeply scary.

How many political topics can you think of that really are based on fact though? At the end of the day, don't they all boil down to a combination of opinion, personal preference, and morals?
I'm currently working primarily remote.

My point was to say that at least some of the problems with open offices are actually the open offices - not that I don't like the people.

I love my wife, but I'm still getting disrupted when she comes into the office (at home) and talks to me.

And purely remote also has its downsides. The best mix would be something like remote and private offices.
Go also does the latter to be fair.

If it weren't for Rust, I'd use Go. But Rust's development tools are incredible with rust-analyzer, clippy, etc.
IIRC because tuning PID controllers for vastly different heating and cooling rates isn't that easy. A CPU can ramp up/down a lot quicker than the cooling system could or should even attempt to react. It's easy to end up with a oscillations the common temperature vs. speed curves (maybe with a hysteresis range) is already annoying enough to tune. Good luck having users come up with good PID terms for their individual combination of parts (CPU, thermal interface, mainboard, case, fans, pump, radiator, etc.).
A (Shockingly) Short History of 'Hello'
> Etihad's "The Residence", but even that doesn't exist any longer.

This still exists. It is flown from London and New York to Abu Dhabi.
The Apple press release response is here: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/03/the-app-store-spotify...
Awesome news! Apple deserve far worse than this.
https://archive.ph/yRiqM
> not even construction-grade earmuffs
Have you tried:

3M Peltor Premium Plus Earmuffs X3A
https://www.3m.co.uk/3M/en_GB/p/d/v101190004/

in my opinion they're really good, though, to be honest, I haven't tried them in an open space env. I'm also a sufferer of misophonia, it's beeping noises and random notifications for me.

I also noticed they make getting into the flow a lot more easy; and, surprisingly, they also reduce the activation energy of getting into work. I suspect that's because our envs are EXTREMELY noisy (compared with the mythical natural state) and the brain always keeps track (subconsciously) of all the noises which leads to mental energy depletion
I agree with the sentiment but this is Big Tech fighting with Big Tech, or rather Big Tech / Music Rights Mafia fighting Big(ger) Tech. Small publishers are just happy bystanders in this case.

Would've been great if regulators had gotten smart on their own but I'm also happy to take it like this I guess.
As soon as the first person registers WinRAR I'm sure they'll let you know!
Got:
>panicked at 'No GPU found given preference', /Users/tommy/Git/wonnx/wonnx/src/resource.rs:13:10

Is the path to the rust hard coded?
I wrote a few post on Apple's brewing problems, outlined within: https://www.philoinvestor.com/p/downside-at-apple-a-10x-in-1...
> what are the differences between Microsoft back then and Apple now in terms of why the regulators are so "soft" against an actor that is overplaying it's hand for consumers?

The monetary proportion that big-tech contributes to US GDP. It would be silly to assume the US would ever kneecap it's most profitabile and rising industry. After killing its manufacturing industry, tech and finance is all ti has.
For modern spacecraft such as Dragon capsule, almost all operations are completely automated by default: launch, landing, ISS docking. Manual overrides exist, but they are intended to be used only as a backup in case of a computer failure.

I can see an argument for manual landing on another cosmic body, given the famous story of Neil Armstrong saving Apollo 11 landing by manually landing the capsule. Though the latest generation of lunar landers can perform the procedure fully autonomously, using machine vision to find an optimal landing spot.

I tried looking up, whether manual or automated moon landing is planned for HLS program, but couldn't find anything specific. It's probably going to be some mix of both.
Maybe MS just wanted to be nice.Maybe author was in a juridsiction where it is unclear how enforcible those clauses are if it was outside work hours and not using company equipment. Maybe they thought the price was low enough that it wasn't worth the potential backlash of appearing to be underhanded.

Just because something is in the contract doesn't mean it gets enforced to the letter if neither side wants it to be.
And I was wondering where your comment went...
Judging by recent design trends you also have to only hire blind people to be like BMW
Especially the point about Fastmail really is a good point! You nailed it with your comment.
With JMAP in particular, they have been given huge potential with a huge feature set but have not implemented it (especially not in their own products).
Especially Offline Usage...
So enraged that it makes you write a blog post with profanities in red, bold type no less!
Could someone please explain to me the following: does Apple have to pay the fine just once and then it can continue with the same practice of taking its 30% cut and preventing Spotify to direct users outside of the app for payment?

Or can EU sue Apple immediately again for the same thing? Or does Apple get some time to change their ways and if they don't, then they will get fined even more?
Microsoft's market share was well over 90% in the 90s. The iPhone's market share is 60%. Very different market dynamics.

It was a lot easier to see how Microsoft was being mean-spirited for consumers versus Apple. I'd argue that Apple's policies are consumer agnostic, and the only people really up in arms about Apple are developers and some of its partners.

Also the US is no longer in a position to be punching it's own companies, given the onslaught of Chinese companies that are seeking to undercut in even auto manufacturing now.
it was landing, so it wasn't much noisier than say a 747, but a bit noisier. or perhaps i was just used to it - my dad was an RAF vulcan captain (same olympus engines as concorde, minus reheat) and if you had a squadron of them taking off on QRA you learned the real meaning of noise!
The ponzi bomb under the city walls
Europe's last hunter-gatherers had sophisticated societies to avoid inbreeding
> I doubt you're working in a food desert after all.

Someone who has never been in a suburban business park, I see!

> Ditto for coffee and even coffee shops.

ESPECIALLY for acceptable coffee!

> You don't even have to tell coworkers which one you're working from and you can switch rooms throughout the day.

So - and I mean this in a very real way - WTF is the point of this?
I don't know if I disagree with this, but this reminded me about one thing that for some reason stuck to my mind once.

It was about statistics and probabilities. I think I was talking with ChatGPT about superpositions or something and somehow we got to talking about how e.g it might be impossible to make a system which could predict everyone's favourite flavour of ice cream.

Interestingly enough though, it is perfectly possible to gather data about people's favourite ice cream flavours (and we could even go as far as to say that we could ask every single human on the planet) and make a statistical model which is able to answer what is most probably everyone's favourite ice cream flavour.

I find this really interesting. We could think of one person's flavour as essentially random and impossible to predict, but when we gather enough of these random data points, we are for some reason able to build a relatively accurate system to guess someone's favourite flavour. I don't think this is obvious at all.

Anyway, I didn't have any real point here. I just wanted to share one example of interesting thing that I think is an example of "emergent behaviour" and seemingly magical at that too.
> To prove that GitHub Copilot trains on non permissive licenses, we just disable any post-generation filters and see what GPL code we can generate with minimal context

This seems like a key line.

I can get my browser to output GPL code with a carefully crafted Google search query, and there might even be unlicensed use of GPL code in my browser itself. But as I understand it, as long as I don’t copy GPL code, I should be fine.

In this case they’ve disabled the GPL filter, and gotten GPL’d outputs. Fair enough. The question though: when the filter is on, can I trust it? Not sure!
Android app over 2.5 version wont sync database with Syncthing. So you need to keep ver 2.5.
It's not a simple wrong answer. It's a poorly designed system that causes a pattern of wrong answers, on this question and others. For comparison, consider the consensus on this site when that system is Google search giving wrong results.
Interesting claim:

> Today, Spotify has a 56 percent share of Europe’s music streaming market — more than double their closest competitor’s — and pays Apple nothing for the services that have helped make them one of the most recognizable brands in the world.

Don't they have to pay the provision of the subscription like other apps?

EDIT: actually read the letter and they indeed don't (thanks for the responses too)
I don't think this advice will be as valuable in a world that is dedollarizing as rapidly as this one.
FTA:
"Apple's fine, however, is about a quarter of the 8.25 billion euro fines the EU regulator meted out to Alphabet's (GOOGL.O), opens new tab Google in three cases in the previous decade."
From Felix Richter: "The information technology and communication services sectors, i.e. most things tech, were responsible for more than 70 percent of the S&P 500’s total return of 26.3 percent last year. Excluding companies from these two sectors, the index would have returned just 7.6 percent in 2023. The “Magnificent Seven” – Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Amazon, Meta, Tesla and Alphabet – accounted for roughly 60 percent of the index’s total return, illustrating how top heavy last year's rally has been."

In short, nobody wants to be perceived as the one that cooked the golden goose.
“Apple’s New Fees Will Kill Free Apps”[1] is worth a watch too.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6dbNzFD0zM
Where in the world would politicians get a cut?
Reminds me of an old joke among auto enthusiasts: "How do you know if someone drives a manual transmission? They'll tell you".
Multiples and sampling.
a knee jerk reaction when being attacked is to fight back. This is a replacement for that
This is going to happen to every connected car feature eventually.

I honestly never understood the desire for an app that can control your car. Sure its convenient I guess, but is the ability to turn on the AC before you get in the car really worth both the security risk and eventual sunsetting of an app and mobile network with direct access to your vehicle?
The EU member states get a big tax rebate at the end of the year. They're free to use this money to give tax rebates to their citizen or use it to build new infrastructure.
This is a matter of a skewed voting system too. The comment explaining the answer is wrong has 38 upvotes, but the answer has only 12 downvotes. This means there are at least 26 people who agreed with the criticism, but were either unable to cast a downvote or refused to cast one (in the name of Positivity™, probably).
projrc3.zip

I know people who still make zip/tarball copies of source trees because they don’t trust git, etc.
I mean this is largely what The Innovators Dilemma was about, I thought?
Blogspot makes me angry.
In the US at least, I tend to think that was the last gasp of an old anti-trust regime that had basically run out of gas by then. The 80's saw a conservative revolution that extinguished a lot of worker and consumer protections.

https://www.promarket.org/2019/09/05/how-robert-bork-fathere...
This is how much revenue Apple accumulates in 45 hours.

Apple’s 380B USD in annual revenue is over a billion dollars per day.
But what is derivative? When does being derivative w.r.t. the GPL mean? Can I copy a function from a GPL’ed project? What if I rename the variables? What if I re-order some of the lines in an inconsequential way? This starts looking like the software patent problem, or the ship of Theseus.
Linux Crosses 4% Market Share Worldwide
Apple makes both the hardware and software, it’s their device, hence they can do almost anything they want.

Microsoft at the time provided only software and put legal and technical restrictions on PC manufacturer’s ability to uninstall Internet Explorer.
I don't have my Gitlab credentials set up on my Laptop but I'll open an issue in the Gitlab Repo once I'm finished with my exams.
> I personally think it is better to to let individuals be natural

I challenge you to consider what you're assuming to be "natural." It seems you're implying not taking women seriously to be "natural," but that's simply an indoctrination you've had since childhood, apparently so effectively you're not even aware of it?

This is not natural in many cultures now and throughout history.
It's also why these days I do not host any of my code on Github. Only then did I realize how much of an iron grip it has on the ecosystem. People expect Github Actions, Pull requests and well now people want to use CoPilot for all their work.

It is extremely worrying.