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> Other than cultivating a base of iOS users spending 7x more than Android users on apps[1].

Those iOS users certainly aren't spending 7x more on AppleTV and iTunes albums. It's because of third-parties that Apple can convince users to spend money in the first place.

> That sounds like significant value to me and not dissimilar to what the console manufacturers pitch to developers.

If console manufacturers had the hardware margins Apple did, they wouldn't be console manufacturers anymore.
Creator here - you bet! It's a big problem.
As far as I know there is no way to tell Postgres to keep a particular index or table in memory, which is one reason to be weary of using one PG instance for many varied workloads. You might solve this by earmarking workload-specific replicas, though.

If you can keep your entire working set in memory, though, then it probably doesn't matter that much.
Every abstraction leaks. A good abstraction for your domain is stable in your domain and only leaks outside of your domain. A great abstraction is separable allowing you to only drop down the abstraction level where needed and allowing the rest of the code to continue using the abstraction where the leaks do not matter, and layered allowing you to only drop down as much as needed and making it easy to rebuild parts of the upper layers on a new foundation.
An Unfamiliar World, 21st Century's problem with population decline
> Whatever he arrived with, it changed the plans of the Ukrainian government

So you're claiming that Ukrainian government was willing to give up all the annexed regions including the territories they still controlled? Because that's what Russia was demanding.

Do you have any evidence to back your claims?
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Thank you for the definition. Isn’t this precisely what’s happening in Gaza?

Even the ICJ ordered Israel to take steps to prevent any acts of genocide in Gaza. Do they also don’t know the definition of the word?
Which adblock extension are you referencing here? Ublock for instance uses local block lists.
Using China as a comparison doesn't work b/c Apple manufacturing is so intertwined with China. There is no Apple without China right now.
I use Abbott Freestyle Libre 3 and it has been deeply insightful about my progress with T2D. An increase in fasting glucose over 2-3 days tells me I need course correction (more movement, choice of food).
I also noticed consistent correlation between bad sleep days and raised glucose levels over the day. Made me internalize how important sleep is.

I believe, next major uptick will come from CGM in wearables like Apple/Samsung watches [1][2].
I hope, even non diabetic folks use it to improve their health.

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2023/09/14/apple-watch-blood-gluco...
[2] https://www.macrumors.com/2024/01/23/samsung-racing-to-beat-...
I'm not the OP, but I had a CGM several times through Levels. I can tell you that the major spikes (glucose over 200 after sitting between 80-90) really made me feel like shit. The 2 times I can remember it getting that high were when I had too much sushi, and a huge bowl with white rice from Chipotle. Brown rice never seemed to spike me nearly as bad, especially if paired with something high in fiber like black/brown beans. From a long term health perspective, I have no idea if it's a problem or not. I didn't like how bigger spikes felt, so there's probably something to it being bad for you long term. Obviously the more often you spike as a "healthy" person, the less sensitive your body is to insulin. Staying even on my glucose levels is always where I felt the best.
Down, accessing from EU. Got the error page with a telescope, and also another, more elaborate one about a host without DNS or something.
Yep, right there with you. OCaml was only ever better in my view because it had developed enough libraries to be an actual pragmatic choice, unlike the other languages in that family. And yep, Rust is perfectly good too, IMO, but I do find that I rarely-to-never actually care about all the zero-cost abstractions that make it "hard" to use.
PL/SQL is terrible. But organizing your Oracle database in a way where you can do everything with only application-accessible statements is even worse.

Oracle places still do a lot of stored procedures.
Covid-19 killed off one strain of flu, and that will change the next vaccines
Why would anyone want to listen to some nutjob propaganda podcast? Especially when it's long?
There’s no way the EU allows Apple’s interpretation of the DMA after they did this, Apple really made a mistake here. As you say, how can you be sure that alternative app stores won’t just be booted off by Apple for $REASON?
You are right I might have interpreted the message in a bad way.
That is impressive control, especially with no CGM!
Right? I saw the headline and thought ‘nothing of value has been lost.’
> The new Dexcom sensors are more accurate. Less drift and no calibration.

As someone using a freestyle libre who's never calibrated, how often do you need to calibrate it? Reason for asking is that I'm likely to switch to the g6 if I go with the TSlim X2 for looping. TIA!
Sorry; this does: https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/how-chinas-aggressive-sea-tac...
(not googler)

Google's codebase is idiomatic to Google due to their strict language tooling. e.g. their C++ code stays away from advanced features. The tooling teams at Google have very strong say.
The existence of crime isn’t a logical reason for eliminating law enforcement. Having a choice of marketplaces… imagine if Mozilla gave you that!

A corollary… just because one piece of software has fewer reported CVEs, doesn’t mean it is more secure.
I didn't say that Israel has never ordered an evacuation. I pushed back on the commenter who stated that finding a militant in a hospital or school makes it a valid target.

> From my observation

Well from Human Rights Watches observation:

> Human Rights Watch has not been able to corroborate them, nor seen any information that would justify attacks on Gaza hospitals. When a journalist at a news conference showing video footage of damage to the Qatar Hospital sought additional information to verify voice recordings and images presented, the Israeli spokesperson said, “our strikes are based on intelligence.” Even if accurate, Israel has not demonstrated that the ensuing hospital attacks were proportionate.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/11/14/gaza-unlawful-israeli-ho...

> I don't think

Again, giving a warning doesn't make it ok to bomb a school. Notice how the HRW quote mentions the attack not being "proportionate"? That's why I seek advice from the experts.
> Yeah, its really weird to appeal to the noble intentions of a corporation. They're both just engaged in business.

This is what's wrong with the current overly capitalist system. Companies are totally allowed to have no conscience, and externalise whatever they please to consumers and the environment. And you could even argue they are 'forced' to do so by due diligence legislation.

If we let this continue there will be no world left to fix. We have to change the game. I'm not saying we should go full communism. Capitalism isn't bad but there needs to be a balance between business and society with actual accountability (rather than the current 'green' initiatives basically just being PR without any kind of enforcement). It can't be all about money.

I think for US culture it's hard to imagine doing this but here in Europe society has always had this balance, at least in most countries. Initiatives like RoHS, GDPR, DSA/DMA are often called anticompetitive but we are actually trying to improve things for the benefit of society, not just the shareholders.
There's so much to the world of high performance printers beyond Vorons.

I'm heavily modding my Kingroon KLP1 to print with 65°C chamber temperature for ASA, and building a The 100 for ultra high speed printing.

There's ever-escalating material printing capability you can desire, necessitating higher and higher chamber temperatures, with requisite engineering challenges (matched thermal expansion coefficients, kinematic mounts for the bed, part and hotend cooling, keeping motors cool, bearing lifespan...)
There’s no good guys here. But the broader contextual framing is Iran vs the west imo.

Hiding among civilians may be a necessity to their military objectives. But it does mean that many civilians will be killed. And the reality is that most of this is driven by offensive Iranian geopolitical aims.
I find single lane one-way streets to feel much safer to walk through as I can generally manage to anticipate the actions of one driver at a time.
The original Mac cost about $7k in current dollars.

I remember thinking the original iPhone was hugely overpriced, too.
Google Search Cracking Down on Mass-Produced AI-Generated Slime
Have you never dealt with an automated text message? That's just a computer using a phone number. Robocalls can also come from AI chatbots that don't require a human.
I was wondering around a local store, MediaMarkt I think, and I saw a random handheld games console — two sticks, a D-pad, XYAB buttons — with the well-known video game Microsoft Excel pre-installed and visible on (I think, I'm not a Windows person) the start menu.
What percentage of their sales does the China market represent?
Thank you for explaining how you work. But kinda sounds like a workaround?
We live 2x-3x longer than we used to. We should take the best possible care of our bodies.
Momentary high blood sugar is perfectly fine after eating carbohydrate-rich meals.
I seem to remember there was a "trick" with the g6 where you remove and reinsert the transmitter to get it to last longer... I suspect the time estimates are quite conservative.
Yes. A virtual machine specifically bypasses any on-device protections, protections which the terms of service indicate they have. However, I think the primary deterrent to cheating here would be as you mentioned the proctor and the other students.

To get around this, I theorize a more subtle overlay could be fashioned (imagine some sort of screen reader that speaks chatGPT-generated answers through the provided earbuds). However, at that point you could spend your time studying for the test in the first place.
Yes, and honestly his "why" section really reads like "A hammer can do everything a screwdriver can, and I really like my hammer so I'll use it to push screws into planks".
They jail you, give you low quality food, and eventually the jailer may send a medical team to manage your type 2 diabetes -- most likely with a finger prick and test strip; and they'll give you dietary guidelines that the jail/prison food doesn't satisfy.

US version; (oh, and they'll charge you for the medical care)
It actually may actually be the other way around, at least for newer CGMs.

Try doing a few fingerpricks in a row. The variability will surprise you!
Absolutely it is: it is based on the trust we all have that the government will do whatever it takes to guarantee the value of a dollar. Me being able to commerce with you in dollars and not, say, in old zimbabwean dollars rests on the shared assumptions that the US State can and will be there.
If Microsoft would have called their Windows Phone the Xbox Phone and focused it on gaming, I think they would have been way more successful.
The misunderstanding here is that cars are the primary way people commute into the city. This might be true in some places, but for most cities PT and residents make up the bulk of commercial traffic in a city - it makes sense when you consider that most roads only let a few dozen cars a minute through, vs a few hundred people per train (and way more during peak hours).

However, you look at the built environment in a city and the pedestrians often only get 20% of the road area between buildings, while cars get 80%.
https://archive.is/oZcqu

Important takeaway:

If you use benzoyl peroxide creams, store them correctly. Heat turns them carcinogenic.

> Proactiv’s 2.5% benzoyl peroxide cream, manufactured by Taro Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., contained as much as 1,761 parts per million of benzene during Valisure’s stability testing, while a similar cream from Target reached 1,598 parts per million and a treatment from Estee Lauder Cos.’s Clinique hit 401 parts per million. A 10% benzoyl peroxide cream from Reckitt Benckiser Group Plc’s Clearasil initially tested just at the FDA limit, but jumped to 308 parts per million of benzene after being exposed to high temperatures for more than two weeks.

FDA says 2ppm is safe limit.
So you're saying they should ensure compatibility with all LLMs on Day 0 so you can avoid a personal "grating" feeling. It's called an MVP.
It depends on the company and their policies. When working at large companies, there is generally a HR department that has to "approve" all firings. This is usually to make sure policies and laws are being followed.

At smaller companies in most of the US, a manager can just say bye and you're gone.
No one celebrates the deaths of Russian journalists.
In my view you have compared it to the only other language for which it is small by comparison :) But different strokes for different folks! I have nothing against Scala, its multi-paradigm thing is cool and impressive, it just isn't for me except by way of curiosity.
I already prepared to make a rant with "yet another cool-hacker invented prompt injection or discovered how LLM works", but was pleasantly surprised that it was not the case
Japan was facing a superpower with unlimited resources. Ukraine is facing a second-rate region power which has nothing going for them besides nukes and a large pool of servile and suicidal recruits (so a bit like Japan in that sense). Not exactly equivalent situations?
Related aside: the genius of the Soviet school of finding athletes (emulated by others, like DPRK) is that you don't depend upon a kid trying something like Olympic weightlifting and discovering they have an aptitude for it. Instead, you screen & test the entire eligible population and focus people in the right direction early on (then keep them focused with various incentives and counter-incentives, like a nice place to live instead of a communal apartment).

One might have some incredible Olympic rifle shooters or kayakers or weightlifters or what have you, but because those sports are niche in many countries those talents may never surface (so Madeleine's amazing fast-twitch weightlifting nerves/muscles are 'wasted' on volleyball instead). When you really care about medal count, all sports are important, so you want to maximize your chances of finding the right kids to put on the national squads years in the future. It's really smart, but depends upon political/economic structures thankfully not present in other locations.
For those looking for less game and more meditation, check out ASMR Playground. Its sort of a Garry's mod meets a mixed reality meditation experience. You transform your play space into a relaxing garden with dozens to items, plants, campfires, candles, etc. Listen to over 10 hours of guided meditations, music, binaural beats, and 100+ ASMR loops you can place everywhere.

Nothing is gated, so if your an experienced mediator, you can jump right into all the music and beats. There is also ways to blank the world in the Altered Reality section. Sit in a white or black room, fly through a star-field simulation, or float through bubbles of colors.

https://www.meta.com/experiences/6790309754420050/
Hey Dang, huge fan of HN.

How do you reconcile HN's political neutrality and the fact that almost every overtly political story that hits the front page about certain subjects[1] are blatantly biased on one side?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39435324
This surprises me. When a state like Mississippi has lots of poor people you would expect credit card companies to simply not offer the poor credit cards--instead Mississippi has a 39% delinquency rate in contrast to a 13% delinquency rate for Iowa.
Pulsejet Drone Flies, Could Have Big Impact on Cost of Future Weapons
(update: i submitted this yesterday and it didnt get traction, i guess @dang must’ve merged the old submission in here. you really didnt have to, but its a nice gesture. thanks dang!!)
I'm pro-choice but arguing the government doesn't have the right to limit medical procedures doesn't seem obvious to me.
Fortunately for Apple, there definitely is not a movement against iPhones. If anything, the youth associate status with iphones, and if you don't have one you are a loser deserving ridicule. My kids have stopped asking as they know I'm not going to give Apple any of my money, but for a very long time they begged for iphones because kids made fun of them for "having a droid." Today's youth are definitely not the rebellious counter-culture youth from my younger days. They are very much conformists.*

*Speaking very generally of course, and only from anecdotal experience which is a very small slice of the market that my kids know
Except repository ids change when the repo is forked.
01974?
Same here! Would be very curious to know if today and yesterday's outages are related in any way, or if this is a coincidence.
It's not about these tens of million, it's about control over all of the money, and about control of everything on the device more broadly.
1. Onus doesn’t mean legal requirement. Civilized nations can be, should be, and generally are held to standards far exceeding legal statutes.

2. They DO have an actual legal obligation to protect journalists as well, try searching for “civilian.” If they are targeting journalists (read: civilians) that would obviously be illegal.
I have the G7 and it's incredible. On a medtronic pump... wanting to switch asap
Yup, I tried this. I sweat A LOT
Raptor: Recursive Abstractive Processing for Tree-Organized Retrieval
I am asking questions and sharing thoughts about the research I saw above. I do not have the funds, time or motivation to do this type of research.

Just my first thought about the article is that it is doing this "think of the children" type of thing to make a case for recalling something that is really useful for many people.
You don't "need" any of the entry points when you are beginning Python.

print("Hello World") is a perfectly valid and runnable Python code.

And when you are working on a small part of a large code base, you usually don't care about __main__ either. So yes, it's complexity but it's complexity that you don't need to encounter right away.

Python is intuitive off the bat. public static void main(String[] args) is not.
That is indeed a fair point. I find it hard to fault OLPC for these dynamics however. OLPC had a real "hacker" mentality to it in the best senses of the word. It's easy to see the missteps in retrospect, but hard to see how they could have ended up anywhere else given the moment in time
Yeah, it would be great if the watch could just do this for you, instead of needing to buy a new sensor every 14 days.
On the contrary, building cities to be nicer places to be a pedestrian in means you can design them more around people without cars. Look up statistics on how much land we dedicate to parking. You end up with far more effective use of land, higher overall productivity, and a larger tax base which helps support the infrastructure investment in a virtuous cycle.

Park and rides in suburbs so commuters don't have to take up disproportionate space in the more valuable city environment are just a part of this, but the root of the issue is providing viable alternatives to driving. Housing policy and public transit policy are deeply linked with this.
The general hacker idea you have is... not reality.
> That's their "agenda" for the public. The real agenda is to protect Canadian's capital and to prevent communism from ever taking place in Canada. As any other western secret service.

Is that supposed to be worse? I like the secret agenda too.
Logistically speaking: By the time the dust settles on such lawsuits, the next generation is here while the companies can use whatever loopholes to stall out for another generation. Consoles are so ephemeral in the grand scheme of things, and lawsuits take so long, that it's not worth it.

Meanwhile, mobile OS's have been around for 15+ years and seem to be there for the long run. Playing the long game makes sense.

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Emotionally speaking: Tim Sweeny is a game dev at heart and probably respects dedicated console gaming (despite coming to notoriety via PC gaming). They sell consoles at a loss to make gaming more accessible which is many devs' goals at the end of the day. IOS and Android are closer to a PC than a dedicated console, so closing down those environments make no sense. Android inherently isn't closed but Google was strong arming 3rd parties behind the scnes (which Epic won in court over). Apple... well, many people reading this probably know that history.
Please, can you tell me where?

I need to find a home for my 40 year old Macs (almost every model), CRTs, cables, etc.
Are you saying this war has a higher civilian casualty ratio that other wars? Sadly history shows that civilians have been casualties of war at high rates compared to combatants.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualty_ratio
It's hard to compare anything else to MS in the 90's because Windows (and Excel) had 90%+ marketshare. MS was able to strong arm companies into doing what they wanted by threatening to withhold Windows licenses.

The MS case and recently lost Google case are closer to each other than anything going on with Apple.
Facebook yesterday, LinkedIn today. TikTok tomorrow?
I was once recruited by a consulting firm that developed the control center for the SFFD, and visited the command center. They had computers listening to the pull box circuits and displaying box locations, but they kept the wind-up Morse inker to put dashes on a paper tape, and its bell, in case that failed. That was pre-cell phone, though.
tl;dr this links to a pdf that provides guidance and world-building for a role-playing game master/referee to run a one-shot adventure that involves an astronomy puzzle, maybe. (I've not read too closely, to avoid spoiling for myself.) The text largely eschews any stats so people can adapt it to their system of choice. The initial conceit seems to involve the literal players astrally projecting into the characters they create, who are denizens of some exoplanet imbued with magic. The players traveled there after our Hubble Telescope disappeared.
Oracle was a really solid choice 30 years ago, when 1Tb was an unheard-of database size. Back then, its query optimizer and a couple of strategic hints could make a huge difference in the runtime so that a report could be produced in minutes instead of hours.

These days? You can buy a server with 1Tb of RAM, for the price of one Oracle license. Any Open Source database will work just as well as Oracle on these kinds of datasets.

And if you have bigger datasets, then they are likely not that suitable for RDBMS anyway.
> by mitming the bus between the iris scanner and the rest of the unit, and making it report fresh unique scans

Hmm, I wonder if the worldcoin team also thought of that possibility?

(Yes, they did, the iris processing is done inside a hardware enclave so that the obvious attack is not possible)

https://whitepaper.worldcoin.org/technical-implementation

I am broadly anti-Worldcoin but it is reasonably competently executed at a technical level. It would be good to understand what they actually did before declaring it to be impossible.
As it turns out, you can't say everyone is a noncombatant in an area, and then place combatants there and think everyone is ok with that.