skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No but a lot will start building PWAs wherever they can instead because they no longer need to write an entire second copy of their app that only runs in one place and can’t share code and they don’t have to just pay 30% of their revenue to someone for no good reason.

Trust me, Apple pissing off developers is absolutely going to have serious implications for them.
Actually reading this article shows some heavy conjecture.

They talk about the existence of Pegasus software, and they talk about the fact that generically, it has been used in the world to track journalists.

They don't actually cite a single example of a Palestinian, much less a journalist, being tracked through Pegasus. Likewise, they say it "appears" that this data is then used for targeting but no indication as to what makes it appear that way.

The article is basically "spyware exists" - and the rest is pure speculation about how it could possibly be used but no evidence (mentioned) that it's used that way.
Deportation and re-education: life in Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine
I use terminal, vscode and firefox, docker to do development. Linux (specifically popos) works well for that and a lot of other stuff.

For that I use a Thinkpad X1 Carbon.
I'm not aware of any technical reasons why a given language would profoundly struggle to have a good REPL. I think it's mostly a matter of culture where REPLs aren't a priority in some language ecosystems because programmers there don't generally work that way.
Related:

Airtable acquires Airplane - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38861271 - Jan 2024 (158 comments)
> Numerous members of Al-Dahdouh's family have been killed by the Israeli military during the Israel–Hamas war. His wife, seven-year old daughter, and 15-year old son were killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Nuseirat refugee camp on 28 October 2023, in addition to eight of his other relatives. On 15 December 2023, while Al-Dahdouh and his cameraman Samer Abu Daqqa were covering the Haifa School airstrike in Khan Yunis, they were hit by an Israeli missile, injuring Dahdouh and fatally wounding Abu Daqqa. Despite the death of many family members and his injury, he quickly returned to reporting on the war after both incidents.[3] His son, journalist Hamza al-Dahdouh, was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis on 7 January 2024,[4] and two of his nephews were killed in an airstrike the following day.[5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wael_Al-Dahdouh
The linked timeline from JetBrain's side doesn't exactly shower them with glory - taking more than a week to respond to with CVE numbers is not ideal. But the linked toot states:

> it's super inappropriate to lie to researchers who disclosed this to you responsibly about what your plans are.

That would be super inappropriate, yes! But Rapid7 hasn't alleged that publicly that I've seen. All I have seen so far is researchers alluding to bad behaviour and deception, and no concrete or falsifiable accusations.

Cutting Rapid7 out of the disclosure is definitely poor form, but that's a far cry from lies and deception. As a not-totally-disinterested outside observer (using JetBrains' IDE products but not TeamCity) I definitely want to know if they are behaving badly so I can factor that into my future plans. But without a concrete falsifiable accusation it reads to me like butthurt on the part of the researchers involved.
Why was the employees' common stock worth $0? Liquidation preference for the outside investors?
Related: How can a regular employee joining a startup know beforehand that there isn't a high chance of their equity (which is probably a significant part of their total comp) being worthless even if a big acquisition is made?
When you describe it, it sounds a lot like an average Hacker News commenter.

Enjoys hearing themselves speak so they can't help themself but to share a speculative idea or opinion on something they have little familiarity with.

High tolerance for being part of the out-group or sharing unpopular takes.

Placing logic (or what is logical by their own judgment) above all else including social niceties.
Having never heard of Ultra Librarian, I thought this was somehow related to https://justgetflux.com/ and that they'd made a switch from doing color changing to hardware.
That may be true but a couple things have changed since those very dated sample points. (1) Definition of journalist (2) quantity of journalists (3) willingness to be on the very front lines in order to get better stories (4) technology enabling journalists thus being able to be more dangerous spots. (5) speculation -> journalists who are using press credentials as cover

I'm neither way on the conflict but want to correct some of your arguments assumptions that lead your conclusion astray.
No because we know that they aren't actually doctors, and it's just a nom de plume for their artistic output. Just like Dame Edna Everage, who you mentioned, that everyone knows wasn't actually a woman but a character played by male comedian Barry Humphries.

Whereas referring to men who actually do want to be seen as women for whatever reason - such as Scarlet Blake and Isla Bryson, mentioned in the article - as women, even though they are not, is in a similar category to calling Zholia Alemi a doctor.
Memory allocation can literally fail for reasons completely outside the control of the application (for example because the OS enforces a maximum virtual memory size on the application).

The fact the most allocations are fulfilled via internal pools is immaterial, at some point the allocator needs to ask the OS for more memory. This parallels the way that most I/O doesn't actually performs syscalls because of buffering.

Also allocations might end up performing arbitrary I/O indirectly if the OS needs to flush dirty pages to disk to free up memory.
Because eventually there is no difference in managed service from gcp oci msft, so when data egress cost doesn’t matter you can use any providers service. The margins will get worn away since there’s no longer high switching cost.
They don't really. Money matters aside, the apps still need to be approved by Apple. They could drop all fees and it would still mean they don't allow alternatives.
I love that writing LLM-friendly docs is just... writing good docs. There's a ton of overlap between accessibility work and preparing things to be used by LLMs.

I wonder if an unintended side effect of this AI hype cycle is a huge investment in more accessible applications.
You're not wrong.

Fortunately, you have choices. You can choose to avoid software and operating systems that feature automatic updates.

You can even write it yourself, if you wish: You're absolutely empowered to be absolutely in control of your things.

There's nothing stopping you.
I don't think that fasting is problematic to the medical industry in the US. And if it is, it's not because it's zero cost. Doctors love zero cost interventions. The real challenge is just the standard medical challenge: 1) educating doctors as new evidence comes in, 2) doctors educating patients, and 3) patients complying with the intervention.
There is no alternative to mobile computing. Both vendors have draconian rules.

These are devices so essential to modern functioning that the regulators need to come and tell both Apple and Google that unlimited web installs are user rights.

Epic is right. Apple and Google are monopolies over an entire class of computing, and it's a 100% artificial racket.
How is that experience relevant? Students aren't taking the test remotely, they are taking it in a controlled test center, just possibly with their own device.
By what metric is Epic Games having an account a "threat" to iOS? Are they going to hack end-users' devices? Collect their private information without permission and sell it to third parties? All just by having a developer account?

Isn't the app review system combined with iOS's robust security infrastructure supposed to prevent such an outcome? If a company as big and legally accountable as Epic, with a long track record, is so dangerous - by that standard lots of other developer accounts should be closed down too, just to be safe.

It's perfectly reasonable to go "I don't want to do business with Epic due to how they've treated me" but being your opponent is different from being a bad actor. Using language like this pointlessly inflates the magnitude of what Epic actually did and misrepresents the nature of their conflict with Apple.
Anyone who has owned a cloud connected device or software will tell you that companies cannot be trusted with remote access, they will abuse it every single time. And they'll have the useless cargo-cult security industry telling users that it's "best practice" and for our own good while their companies are spamming us or spying on us or removing features or outright hacking us or taking away access to our own data while they sell it to third parties and try to lock us into their ecosystem.
Well written, Sam - I admire the clear communication and transparent reasoning laid out in the post. I'm sure this decision took endless reflection and consideration; I'm happy for you that the announcement seems well received so far.

#planetscale_forever
Single payer health insurance, for example :)
That is extremely common at city intersections. The pedestrian has priority but the car also has a green light for a turn. I don't know about the exact timing of the sequence but there are many intersections where the pedestrian has a right to cross and a car has a right to turn (but must yield).

The same city (like many places) also has pedestrian crosswalks that aren't light controlled at all.

The cars need to watch for pedestrians. Lights don't necessarily means that cars obeying the lights never ever have to watch for pedestrians also crossing with the lights.
I’m currently wearing a CGM from Lingo (https://www.hellolingo.com/) which is pretty much the easiest way I’ve found to get my hands on one without a prescription (as I’m not diabetic).

So far it’s shown me that the sluggishness after a carb-heavy meal its heavily correlated with the glucose spike and how good my organism copes with it.

Can’t wait for the day we have our own Fallout style Pip-Boys!
Indeed, periodic checks with a well-thought-out interval do make sense. Well done!
As Kwpolska pointed out, Launch HNs are a different category of post—they get a guaranteed initial placement on HN's front page, though after that they rise or fall with upvotes. They never get placed at the top, though.

Launch HNs are one of the things that HN gives back to YC in exchange for funding it. The other big one is job ads for YC companies. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
Tim Cook would be deposed if he pulled out of the EU market. There’s no way that shareholders are going to allow Apple to leave that much money on the table, it’s unthinkable.
In Flux, this closed source aspect doesn't exist. Any user can fork and alter any part.
Apple absolutely competes with Epic. Mobile in general and iOS in particular are massive markets, both player base and profit wise, for gaming.

On iOS apple has decreed that they deserve 30% of that action. And is now banning the developer of one of the most popular games (on any platform).
In the context of standards essential patents, yes. In the case of DMA compliance, it’s a bit more TBD until the EC issues more guidance and actual legal precedent is set, but what we do know is that the DMA still allows Apple to set terms that 3rd parties must both agree with and abide by which means having an active developer account with Apple. If Apple believes Epic will not abide by the terms in good faith, they don’t have any reason to maintain a relationship with Epic, and Epic has given Apple plenty of reasons.

The real and interesting question is whether they can do this before they prove Epic’s non-compliance with the new terms.
So now it's not just Artificial Stupidity, but Artificial Insecurity.
Dumb framework for dealing with incompetence.

"I'm so incompetent that more data is going to lead to worse outcomes! So let me stick my head in the sand and not measure!"

Imagine if any other profession operated under this framework:

"Ehhh, if we inspect too hard we might make a repair on this airplane that will cause further damage, lets just not do the inspection"
Safari has a special interface for content blockers to work without any permissions. They provide blocklists and the browser does the blocking itself. [1] Don't know if that's an option in Firefox.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/cre...
If you are at a large company, he'd love to decompress there for now!
If your using other wars as a comparison like this what was the journalist per capita and have you adjusted for the prewar ratio per capita also. This seems like ham fisted attempts at statistics otherwise
You don't control access to half of the world's mobile devices do you? :)
Is there irrefutable proof of it in the current conflict? Unless something leaks from the IDF, we'll never know. But there are well-respected news orgs and NGOs identifying patterns of it.

“CPJ is deeply alarmed by the pattern of journalists in Gaza reporting receiving threats, and subsequently, their family members being killed,” said CPJ Middle East and North Africa Program Coordinator Sherif Mansour. “The killing of the family members of journalists in Gaza is making it almost impossible for the journalists to continue reporting, as the risk now extends beyond them also to include their beloved ones.”

https://cpj.org/2023/12/father-of-al-jazeeras-anas-al-sharif...

And Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-strikes-kill-...
The email I've seen from Schiller presents it as a combination -- it says that Epic has previously broken its agreement with Apple because of disagreements about the rules, and that Epic has publicly disagreed loudly with Apple's DMA rules. The disagreement wouldn't be a problem without the history of violations.

No idea where this will actually go with the EU regulator, but US courts said it was okay for Apple to keep Epic's developer account suspended based on this.
Highly recommend Medellín if you can swing the remote expat life.
Not sure of the tone of this post, does the idea of a bunch of enthusiasts having fun with old computer hardware actually upset you? If so, do you feel similarly about hobbyists that tinker with things like old cars, old clocks, old musical instruments...
Industrial automation would like a word. Seems to be slowly moving to TCP/IP but lots and lots use serial communication either internally or to the HMI/workstation.
I don’t know why so many people defend the Israel genocide. Everyone I meet offline including Israel born Jews are accusing their own government of genocide.
And contact lenses too!
Whats the confidence in the underlying data giving 10%?
> - if applicable, swap the default, white Bowden tube by one that's heat resistant (Capricorn comes often as a recommendation), that's for your health

Capricorn makes great bowden tubes, but even they're quite explicit about the risks of using any PTFE tubing--theirs included--inside a hot end at ABS temperatures.[0]

The health risks come from toxic PTFE off-gassing above the normal temperatures for PLA (though it starts off-gassing in small amounts at around 200°C). It's nasty shit, and you don't want to be breathing it in. Heat resistant bowden tubing doesn't do anything about that off-gassing; it's just meant to help mitigate deformation of the tubing at higher temperatures.

You're infinitely better off just tossing the PTFE-lined hot end and upgrading to an all-metal one. That anyone--cough, cough Creality and others in the inexpensive intro printer market--is shipping them on any of their printers in 2023 is just insane.

0. https://www.captubes.com/safety.html
Have all of the nations agreed upon who gets to put things on what parts of the moon? Is anything in place to stop a nation from relocating or desecrating burial sites? If so that is actually not a bad price considering its about double the price of the national average for a burial in the US on Earth.
Git-SIM – Visually simulate Git operations
While searching for a way co convert git logs to mermaid gitGraph I found this awesome tool.
This has also been one of the deadliest wars for civilians in general. Also when you’re using such a loose definition of journalist obviously the deaths would be greater.
The early stages of many companies are pretty nebulous as you're exploring different ideas/positioning and building the basics.

It's reasonable that someone joining <1 year in would be considered a co-founder if they had founder-level commitment.
there appears to be no effort by cpj to determine if the journalists were killed by palestinians or israelis. is that accurate?
Cannot everyone get the sense that how we currently build software is one gigantic leaky abstraction?
Tracking the ownership of your Chrome extensions sounds exhausting, especially if you're someone who just wants to surf the damn web and are not some kind of super nerd.
> This is funny to point out since they did it specifically to sue over it (you pretty much can't other wise).

Are you a lawyer? You sound awfully assertive in making this claim, especially with the slight contempt/patronizing tone.
> These are devices so essential to modern functioning that the regulators need to come and tell both Apple and Google that unlimited web installs are user rights.

This might be what you want but without new legislation, because the DMA ain’t saying what you want, regulators are not within their rights to impose this requirement.
What is the source post of this? Is this chart really showing 0.1 millimeters of vitreous chamber depth change over 4 years? That almost sounds irrelevant, so maybe I'm missing something.
Fascinating! Got any examples of particularly good or bad cold-climate cities?
> Hunter gatherers would maybe eat some berries here (much smaller and less sweet than modern berries) and there.

Archaic humans had access to plenty of wild fruit that were high in sugar and tubers that were high in complex carbs. They even had access to concentrated forms of sugar like sugarcane and honey.

They obviously didn't have refined sugars in everything they eat like we do but that they had access to limited sugar in the form of berries is a persistent myth. They would have been exposed to large glucose spikes regularly whenever they came upon a new tree that was in season while migrating.
i agree with your summary
The longevity people think that blood glucose levels are an important predictor for rate of (biological) aging. See e.g. https://www.lifespan.io/topic/blood-glucose-is-a-biomarker-o...
I think your approach is that giving more data to individuals so that they can be informed and make better decision about life choices. However, if we look at reality, the data is already there, without experimenting we can already get a ton of data. Then the question is have people made better decisions about their life choices. I think the answer is No.

And thus I doubt very much that with this device or devices like this, the diabetic population will be reduced. In fact, I believe it to be the opposite.
Main thing that comes to mind is code signing and executable reputation. Here's my understanding: an unsigned exe on Windows throws up scary warnings to users before it will run, until that specific exe is trusted by enough users and added to some central database. If you signed with a legit EV certificate (at least ~$400/year) it's trusted implicitly and no warnings. If you sign with an OV[0] it will give warnings until the cert is trusted, but you can then use the cert to sign new exes (ie updates to the program).

I just ran `osslsigncode verify qemu-w64-setup-20231224.exe` and it appears it's signed but the 1 year cert expired in December 2023. Still, I would expect that QEMU releases tend to be trusted fairly quickly assuming a decent number of users.

[0]: open source options available for free[1] or ~$50/year[2]. If you get your app on the Microsoft App Store, they'll sign it for you which is also free ($19 lifetime account IIRC).

[1]: https://signpath.org/

[2]: https://shop.certum.eu/data-safety/code-signing-certificates...
The field that has been doing this is called Program Synthesis. Here’s an example survey:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/program...

I’ve wanted to see the traditional techniques combined with modern ML to sort of drive the search and generation process. Then, we’d still have the advantages of both formal specifications and classic AI (esp traceability). While looking for a synthesis link, I stumbled onto one paper trying to mix the two approaches:

https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/download/5048/49...
So that's a pain point that Circleback is now aware of: you want to be able to go off the record.
Postgres can develop problematic behavior if you have high churn tables - tables with lots of deletes on them.

If you have many inserts and deletes on a table, the table will build up tombstones and postgres will eventually be forced to vacuum the table. This doesn't block normal operation, but auto vacuums on large tables can be resource intensive - especially on the storage/io side. And this - at worst - can turn into a resource contention so you either end up with an infinite auto vacuum (because the vacuum can't keep up fast enough), or a severe performance impact on all queries on the system (and since this is your postgres-as-redis, there is a good chance all of the hot paths rely on the cache and get slowed down significantly).

Both of these result in different kinds of fun - either your applications just stop working because postgres is busy cleaning up, or you end up with some horrible table bloat in the future, which will take hours and hours of application downtime to fix, because your drives are fast, but not that fast.

There are ways to work around this, naturally. You could have an expiration key with an index on it, and do "select * from cache order by expiration_key desc limit 1", and throw pg_partman at it to partition the table based on the expiration key, and drop old values by dropping partitions and such... but at some point you start wondering if using a system meant for this kinda workload is easier.
The Mystery of a 1970s Bell Labs AI Chatbot Known as 'Red Father'
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IME -- and I've just replaced a Postgres-only unlogged cache table with Redis -- it's not about the storage or caching, but about the locking. Postgres needs to acquire (or at least check) a lock for reading as well as writing. Although some optimizations have been done for mostly-reading-workloads (search for postgres fast-path locking), you'll still run into lock contention problems relatively quickly.
If you knew which signals were false positives, they'd be true negatives.
>Furthermore, there have been so few western journalists on the ground because Israel (and Egypt) prevented them from entering, I think this prohibition alone should be considered unacceptable in the 21 century

I think the prohibition is wrong, but what do you think "real journalists" can offer people that isn't already being spread around? We are inundated with stories from this conflict; what is CNN going to add to the conversation? Most of these outlets are mouthpieces for their respective governments anyway, their point-of-view is predictable.
Hmm ... Good question. I would assume that JAX and XLA is based on LLVM (like everything else these days) and that you could probably grab the IR at some point to compile it to your target.
On the 3rd floor of the ADT security building in Boca Raton FL, there is an impressive collection of early telegraph based fire and burglar alarm hardware. Not open to the public but hopefully someday more accessible.
> I can't imagine letting a service like that define things for me like that.

Yes, that's very clear. Everyone is super impressed with how free your thinking is.

However, you completely missed the point of my comment by interpreting my hyperbole so literally.
Are we seeing the same percentage of journalists killed by the Russian army in Ukraine?