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There's no special treatment of Apple stories or any other $BigCo stories on HN; the dominant variable is simply random fluctuation. If you're seeing otherwise, it's almost certainly because random fluctuation provides a rich set of datapoints to confirm whatever perception you're inclined towards. Mostly we're all primed to notice, and weight more heavily, the things we dislike. (Endless past explanations about this here, for anyone who cares: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).

For example, if you dislike $BigCo then it will seem like negative stories about $BigCo are being suppressed. Indeed there are tons of examples of such stories not staying on the frontpage—but there are also tons of examples of exactly the opposite. How one weights these is a function of one's own perception, which is governed by what one likes and dislikes. People who like $BigCo are just as convinced that HN is biased against $BigCo, and find just as many datapoints to support it, and post just as many complaints about it.

These dynamics are as old as the hills and impossible to stop. All we can do is answer specific questions when we happen to see them. I only saw this one randomly; in the future, please use the reliable mechanism (hn@ycombinator.com) to get your question answered. It's not as if any of this is secret!
> We own this platform, (we built this platform), we make the rules

I own my phone, I make the rules.

If Apple doesn't want Epic on the App Store, fine. But their current level of control over what people can do with the devices they purchased and own is absurd and has nothing to do with market size.
This is the best way to get into programming - find something that is bugging you and fix it!

I’m also very impressed by how you harnessed AI tools to speed up the process - I think you chose just the right workflow to allow the AI to augment but not replace you, ensuring that it writes good and working code!
Not just years, it took a law requiring it to happen.
Part of the reason why he had a massive technological advantage, though, is that he came from a society that had so many resources to spend on things that are strictly about waging war on its neighbors more effectively. And because its neighbors were also like that - they also had resources to spend on both the tech and the soldiers - both Spain and its opponents were engaged in a brutal never-ending arms race. So when Cortes came to the Americas, he came bearing all the fruit of that. Which in this case was technology, primarily.

With respect to food in general, it's not that it's difficult to produce at scale. But your ability to produce food is inherently limited by three factors - the land, the people to work that land, and the tech those people use. Now, pretty much any agricultural society can produce enough food to feed all the people who produce the food (and all other basic necessities besides). Everything past that point is surplus, which can then be spend to feed people who are not producing food. Which is first and foremost the rulers and the priests - and thus you start getting social stratification - but then also artisans (who make tools) and soldiers (who go and conquer more land to farm and subjugate more people to farm it). And, at some point, a portion of those elites - who have enough calories and enough leisure time to waste on "frivolous" activities not having to do with immediate survival - uses that time to do research that eventually translates to better tools. Furthermore, if their society is in a constant state of war with neighbors - as was the case in Europe for most of its history - those tools are likely to be better weapons specifically.

Horses are clearly not the single definitive factor here, but I don't see why it couldn't be a significant one. This whole setup I just described is clearly a positive feedback loop, so even relatively minor factors introduced early can compound massively over time. And if horses meant that a single European farmer could produce, say, as much food as two Incan farmers, that's a lot more resources that can be spent on waging war and on figuring out how to do it more efficiently.

I should note that the above is not a rehash of Diamond, but rather my own thoughts on this matter. Speaking for myself, I think that it's really the non-stop warfare in Europe, where no single entity managed to unify the entire continent and make it stick for long enough, that was the defining factor in pushing Europe ahead in military science specifically (and other things more or less incidental to that). And then its relatively small size meant that much of this aggressive potential was directed outside of the continent - as military tech progresses, wars of conquest against peer-level neighboring states become less and less lucrative, because you have to spend considerably more resources to conquer the same amount of land and population. Much easier to take all that tech you already have and go curb-stomp some civilization that doesn't have it yet.
Button.css

I find it's often easier/cleaner to just pop a CSS file in for some of these foundational components that have tons of variations. Can use nested CSS now, and the selectors are easier to to work with IMHO and take care of specificity.
> and LLM search/query implementation.

So part of pg_vectorize is specific to LLMs?
> How is WorldCoin better than just having a bank account that you have to go into a bank in person to set up?

I think the idea is both about being able to use it for ID (specifically, ID that you are a unique human being), while also making it accessible in places where there's large "unbanked" populations. If it was BankAccountCoin, there would be over a billion people left out. I'm not a fan of it, and I don't think it will ever work as well at this as it will at making Sam a bit more cash, but the concept isn't entirely flawed.
So the ones already all over amazon aren't supposed to be there?
I just asked ChatGPT 4 Vision to translate this website - https://www.ad.nl/tech/techbedrijf-vervangt-binnen-7-minuten...

It returned the dreaded 'Sorry I am unable...' message. Seconds later I tried the same in Claude 3 Opus and it gave me the English text in 5 seconds. What is going on with OpenAI? Weird.
I love the concept, but I'd really prefer being able to use it against local llms (localai, ollama, etc).
Playing KSP is the reason why I empathize with the tipping over situation
NYCB Tumbles as Beleaguered Lender Tries to Raise Equity Capital
These kinds of things are everywhere. To pick one at random, if you want to list a product on amazon.com, there's no shortage of consulting companies that will figure out how to make it happen. And then you can get a consultant for your amazon advertising (the ads that go on amazon.com to advertise other products also on amazon.com) and a consultant to help make your company the default choice when a customer clicks the buy button in the "buy box," and a few more. You can easily spend hundreds of thousands on these consultants.

Honestly, the Amazon hustle is a crazy and fascinating little ecosystem in a bunch of ways.
Though I’m in favor of forcing Apple to do certain things (right to repair, sideloading apps, and more), this is one case where I can’t take a side. Epic (and actually Tim Sweeney), for all its bravado and underdog pretense, is a bad actor, a loose cannon and a dishonest player. Epic Games and Tim Sweeney thrive on drama and theatrics, and somehow seem to be driven solely against Apple while not batting an eyelid when it comes to other platforms where it pays 30% (or more?), such as Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo. [1] I have no sympathy for Epic Games as long as Tim Sweeney and his drama goes on. This doesn’t mean that I believe Apple to be innocent. Tim Sweeney has a grudge against Apple. I don’t see anything more in the history of this saga.

[1]: https://daringfireball.net/2020/08/sweeney_hand_waving_game_...
And which is efficient modern technology taking its place?
Maybe, but unless your goal was to deny service to a small, fast-moving window of the earth's surface you would need quite a lot of these.
> resulting in the compiler having to guess if you really meant 0 or whatever NULL

IIRC you had to cast 0 to a pointer, which made it a null pointer as distinct from arithmetic zero. Or am I confusing myself... It's been a while.
Do you also not drive a car in a place where your driving can be twisted into jail time when you hurt people?

Why does the concept of personal responsibility for decisions insult you so deeply?
I don't know. If people were confident in their beliefs, why is it worthwhile to go through effort of reconvincing them what they already believe?
I've dabbled in PL research before, and not to downplay the work as this is just my opinion, but the Rust ownership system is too invasive. It prevents entire classes of architectures and algorithms from being directly represented without auxiliary structures and other code contortions. I don't think it is an approach that should be mimicked.
That's not entirely true. As a 501(c)(3) organization, they are bound to honor their founding bylaws on pain of having their tax-exempt status revoked w/ retroactive consequences. I won't comment on whether this is the fault of the bylaws or the IRS... but in the end I think we can agree that this was evidently not an effective enforcement mechanism.

As for the whole "cleverness" topic... it wasn't designed as an oligarchy, that's merely what it has devolved into. The saying "too clever by half" exists with good reason
support contracts are mitigations to management career problems, not to technology problems. Managers always want that throat to choke to deflect blame or buy time
Absolutely. I’m surprised that the belief in much of the comments is that the technical input of developers (like myself) affects whether Oracle gets consideration.

Oracle gets consideration because teams want to have a lifeline if something goes wrong or (worst case) someone else to pin the blame on when it does. And this happens because some businesses are actually so big that that level of comfort doesn’t even dent the budget.

Oracle actually has some nice parts and some rough edges (a statement that applies equally to PG and SQL Server too, for instance), but it comes with a king-sized security blanket.
The standardized test cheating industry will still pay people to take the test and memorize certain questions, just like they've been doing forever. But that form of cheating might become a bit less useful when adaptive testing means that individual test takers are less likely to see the same questions.
This was my first thought too. I've not used it (just clicked through the tutorial) but it has a strong flavor like "Rust, but pleasant".
> So you just lob in a heat seeker at the middle of the noise, and hope.

There's already another category of missile for that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-radiation_missile
Boeing not providing records linked to panel blowout says top US safety official
If it's inevitable, better to be first than late. Personally, I don't think there will be AGI anytime soon or at all, and if there will be - OpenAI is not the one that will achieve it.. and if they do, they will not be the one controlling it.
For me this article raised a estimation problem that I deem as interesting as the German tank problem[1]. I took a crack at it. Wish to see what people with better statistical knowledge than me think of the data and the conclusions. I think my maths/stats intuition for problems like this is OK, but I lack rigour.

[1]. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem
Very Cool! Would it work for Pydantic out of the box? Or that's something coming along?
How do you explain the history of world religion?
And how long would that take to happen?
Sure it is. When someone gives me a dollar, I have no idea if it's fake or stolen.

That sort of thing only gets handled very indirectly and much later and after a bad actor does their bad thing enough times for the surrounding greater population of good actors to notice a pattern.
Yep and i think the market is saturated, but they still need the number to go up for the big shareholders. I mean they have a gross profit of 150 billion, it's not like this is helping the workers making apple's products and services.
Around when did this mass migration take place? Is there any reason posited as to why?
Most of the "free" things out there could only be sustained by the near-free money that companies could get in the recent low interest rate environment. Many companies ultimately had unrealistic business models, creating massive distortions in the marketplace and hurting companies and people who were trying to create actual, long term value.
Is your theory that Hamas allows journalists free reign to report on anything in Gaza no matter how unflattering, without shooting the reporters who do so, just so that when Israel bombs the journalists will report the bombing? I doubt that.
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Does not this already happen in case of fraud pretty much everywhere?
Just a couple of rowdy folks...Japanese tourists makes more noise...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2021/jan/10/police...
Fair enough, no jail time then but how about the personal liability in money. You fuck up, it's your own money you gotta pay with, not the company's bottomless war-chest.
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It's in the article, but tl;dr yes
Very interesting. I didn't know the cofounder quit earlier. That's rough.
Your use case is fairly specific. Tailwind is a tool, if it doesn't make sense to you and your use case, it's okay to not use it. That said, it's not okay to misrepresent what Tailwind actually is like the original commenter did.
How do you guarantee output structure? Does it ever fail to conform?
I remember seeing a bunch of these red fire alarm boxes around the Boston area in the 80s and blue police boxes as well. They must all have been obsolete and it took me a while to learn what they were (I never asked an old person so nobody I asked really knew beyond what you could divine from inspection. Only now do I know why they are locked. Which was a bit of a mystery!
> Do you also not drive a car in a place where your driving can be twisted into jail time when you hurt people?

If you believe figurative and actual violence are identical, this analogy makes sense.
I'm T1D (insulin-dependent). I used a Dexcom for a couple years a while ago, back around the G3 through G5 era or so. I ended up stopping using it because my diabetes is very well managed, and I found it didn't make a huge difference to my management. With my insurance, each new sensor every week cost about $50, and would fail in various annoying ways: sometimes it would just stop working in the middle of the week, or not work at all from the start, or disconnect randomly for a few hours. Each sensor also used a ludicrous amount of plastic for its applicator, like a tennis-ball-sized hunk of hard plastic, that you just chucked in the trash, every week. Maybe things have improved, but it was a bad combo of unreliable and expensive so I just quit using it and went back to finger pokes.

If it were like $5 per week, I might put up with it. Maybe this over-the-counter model will be affordable. We'll see, I guess.
Another incident of someone getting 12 doses over the course of 2021 in India!

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-59905339.amp

“The retired postman said the jabs had helped him to get rid of aches and pains and "stay healthy". He claimed he had not suffered any adverse effects.”
Amazon as a gateway to illegal or fraudulent products? Please, a trillion dollar corporation must surely have professionals watching this over.
"Students will still take the exam at a test center or at a high school."

You're not going to be able to take this with an iPad on your couch (or with a friend/parent nearby). Likely just as draconian as today, except no pencils required.
Some more discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39617745
Nothing against you, but I swear Svelte is Rust of frontend tech. Whatever the topic, it always pops up out of nowhere.

idiot edit: not React, Rust.
There's nothing about some random contracts I can see in DMA. DMA however does say that the gatekeeper (Apple) isn't allow to block or retaliate against competitors. Or users for that matter.
I bet some NYT is planning some changes to Wordle use/tracking so they have to clamp down on the competition. They will likely requiring NYT login just to play, or adding additional ads to page
> with barely any checks on their political and financial power

I fail to see the difference?
I never worked for Oracle or as an Oracle consultant, but used to develop on Oracle RDBMS. I liked it quite a lot and it was very powerful. But today, I'd use Postgres.
They went from making premium products to buggy objects filled with ads
Can this be a F# Type Provider?
What even is a phone in the future anyway.
There are a huge number of phone apps which are not on the desktop and you have to use them on your phone. Tons of banking apps, e.g. Cash App, Venmo etc, are not supported on the Web. Other apps, like TikTok have Web versions which are so broken to the point where they are unusable.

I have to keep a Chromebook to be able to run Android apps on the desktop, unless anyone has another solution?
You will still go in, but it will be on a computer there.
Some more discussion over here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39617745
I have not found Flux to be particularly useful. For schematic design and PCB layout KiCAD is my go-to. Flux was difficult to use and the purported AI assistance was non-existent.
So I somehow completely missed that this was ever a thing.

But let me get this straight. Sam is the CEO of OpenAI. Basically the company that is making it harder and harder to know what was made by a human or a machine.

Out of concern over that, makes Worldcoin as some authentication method? So the problem he helped Shepard in, he has another company that he could make money on to fix said problem?

Am I missing something here or is this... super shady sounding?

That's before getting into the whole scanning our eyes for a few bucks thing.
Apple's last quarter results: $30 billion in net sales from Europe, their second largest market behind the Americas. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/fy2024-q1/FY24_Q1_Consol...

The idea of leaving Europe is nonsense. Apple is a publicly owned corporation, and Tim Cook would be immediately dismissed for such financial recklessness.
Oh no! This is unreadable and unmaintainable.
i didn't exactly lie when i claimed that the few hacks i did in php some years ago meant that i could work on a php project. i got hired, and found that most on my team were junior devs whose code i ended up improving multiple times, despite me never having worked with laravel before (which turned out to be very nice to work with).

my next side project will be something using react, so i can add that to my CV.

then i can say i have more than a decade of experience in web development, and i am familiar with react.

of course, if they specifically want someone who has 3 years of react experience, then i am out. best i can claim is that i have worked on similar projects before and try to convince them that that experience is transferable.
Seems like a great feature (and honestly allows us to do smarter things for strictly structured generation). I'm curious, what's your main motivation for local llms vs hosted APIs?
For Oracle DB there are a number of viable, well built and active open source alternatives like Postgres, is there any real alternative to Active Directory? I've long considered AD to be microsoft's true killer app, especially for very large enterprises.
It will only be offered in testing centers and high schools. However, students will use either school-owned devices or their own. I believe they can download and take a practice test on the device in advance, to make sure everything works smoothly. I still wouldn't want to install the stuff on my device!
Tesla German plant halts production after attack claimed by far-left group
Awesome to see you here Ali!

You may or may not remember, but we used to run similar tech YouTube channels as young teenagers and worked on a few videos together. I've been following circleback since you guys were accepted into W24. Congrats on the launch!
As someone said on HN: there are a lot of sattelites to catch methane polluters so maybe they are just spy sats.
Can we do CPAP machines next?
Ok, now I see what you are saying. Thanks!