skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's why I said I realize the gravity isn't the same. I'm trying to point out it's in a similar category, not the same level of importance. Apple might not be a government, but they have a LOT of power and very little accountability. Epic's rule breaking was done to force Apple to show their ugly side, much like how the protests were designed to show how ugly the law and law enforcement was.

Here's the thing when you have a highly asymmetric power relationship, whether it be with a government or a business or any other large organization. You can point out how bad their policies are, and never break a rule, and people will just sort of sadly nod their head in agreement and go back to doing what they do. Or, you can force them to show just how ugly their rules/laws are on in real life -- not just theoretically. The latter actually gets things done, which is why I made the relation between the two things.

Or put more simply: show, don't tell.

Apple's App Store policies are, in my opinion as both an iPhone user and a developer, bad for everyone but Apple. So no, it's not important just for Epic that they win, it's important for the broader community of developers and users. Apple clearly is punishing Epic for fighting them and securing some victories, and personally I don't think we should tolerate that sort of behavior from Apple.
past f8 on full frame (and wider on smaller frames) you run into diffraction, so you actually do get more detail with a slightly wider aperture. i only glanced at the links but it seems about right.

also, everyone knows what a face looks like
Earliest forest discovered, scientists say
> While we will continue to discuss every tiny detail about the GDPR

Because large legislation by the EU like the GDPR and DMA has the the Brussels effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_effect
I don't think that article is a good case at all and with the lack of transparent pricing even harder to understand. We all care about efficiency but still not sure why I would use this over existing databases which are cheap to throw some more memory at. As you pointed out below I think CRDT is interesting. I would love to see some real-world comparisons to see how much their efficiency claims actually matter.
If European judge would decide anything about European company operating in USA, do you honestly believe that American judge would even consider it?
Absolutely.

But they also monopolized the market and prevented alternatives.

DMA is about fair markets.

Without Google, Apple, or Tiktok, we'd have other platforms. Maybe fairer platforms? It's not like there'd be zero innovation in every category without those companies.
I've been using xScope since late 2015. I haven't used PixelSnap, but looked at it and was considering buying as PixelSnap's magic "snappable" features are pretty cool. xScope is $50 and PixelSnap is $40 to install on 1 Mac, but $70 to install on 2 Macs and $160 to install on 5 Macs. I have two laptops and a desktop and appreciate licenses to install on my personal Macs for non-simultaneous use, and xScope has this through the App Store purchase.

xScope also offers other tools. I use Rulers, Loupe, Guides, and Crosshair and they are all nice and work as expected.

https://xscopeapp.com/features
It is a bit tangential, but this article [0] by Baldur Bjarnason sheds a light on the EU's perspective in crafting regulations such as the DMA, and how that seems to be largely misunderstood by the big US tech companies.

[0] https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/facing-reality-in-the-e...
Does anyone know if there is any processor(in phone) with SVE/SVE2?
As SVE/SVE2 SHOULD be in all new ARMv9.0-A + CPU cores.

I did have a chance to test only Qualcomm Snapdragon cores ( Samsung Galaxy S23).
Is it true that the Linux Kernel has traditionally deprecated the idea of "security bugs"? I thought the kernel crew took the view that a bug is a bug.

So perhaps this policy is a kind of spoiler response to efforts to require all security bugs to have a CVE allocated.
> Who would ever listen to an idea by someone who was too timid to voice it though?

Happens all the time. Just not common in the US. It’s a cultural thing.
I actually checked my history then.

There weren't many real tech companies in Malaysia. Even FAANG was still unstable, nobody really expected them to last. Especially that Amazon dude who was never making any profits.

Most of the tech work here was just advanced spreadsheets. I thought the future was just boring stuff like better/faster/more scalable CRUD. There were a lot of poor jobs for intelligent people - basically if you graduated from Stanford, you'd probably end up selling foreign tech, building better spreadsheets, or consulting for a bank that doesn't care for tech.

What I would bet on then was optical routers and 5G. Much of the other stuff was just sci fi.

AI was one of those things. It's always been around as long as computers have; what are the odds someone would actually figure it out? It's more likely that some other paradigm like evolutionary programming would have taken off.
I can see now how that line can give the wrong impression. My unit is very dear to me, to the point where I call it by name like any other housemate. It's always "honey, I'll give Bob a go at these dishes". I guess I was expecting constructive discourse on HN without having to dodge knee-jerk comments at every step.
This dishwasher is much smaller, so would require smaller tablets to work work efficiently. Certainly possible, and Daan Tech sell small tablets for this use.

One benefit of measured detergent is that the wash cycle can dispense the correct amount for different parts of the cycle, for example the pre-wash can dispense a small amount and the main cycle can dispense a larger amount. The rinse at the end can dispense rinse aid.

This system offers more control to the machine about when fluids are used, though it would be much better to include refillable tanks instead of the cassette system.

I own a Bob and use powder since mine has stopped pumping detergent...
Core Technology Fee™ designed to render third party stores completely dead on arrival, for one.
>The programmers who are both smart and clean don't hang out with you.

Not true. I've literally stated in my post I've seen them. Your statement is illogically contradictory to my statement.

>From your perspective, it looks like there is an inverse correlation but that is only because of Berkson's paradox.

Possible. But I'm not sure how you can state this as fact without knowing where I've worked or having data to back it up. Everyone is going off subjective opinions here and no one can be sure who is definitively right or wrong. I feel you're the one who's biased here. Unless you have something more then anecdotal data to back that statement up I feel it's just your own two cents against mine. Which is fine, anecdotally both are valid.

>They don't get hired at the same companies you work for, they don't have the skills needed to work on the same projects you work on, their articles don't get to the front page of Hacker News and so on.

Right. So what companies have I worked for? You can make this statement because you know? Anecdotal evidence or not, you literally have no basis here.
How many months is to be expected by industry standards?
When it comes to services like that, the underlying db engine is the least interesting aspect.

I haven't used SqliteCloud so I can't vouch for them but they make a pretty good case for their technology: https://blog.sqlitecloud.io/how-and-why-we-brought-sqlite-to...

Pub/Sub is, I believe, a rare functionality with hosted sql databases so if you need that, SqliteCloud is one of few places to get it.

They claim they have a unique feature: ability to sync the database to mobile device with CRDT. So you can have a hosted database updated from your backend and have it synced for fast offline access in a mobile app. That, I believe, is something no one else offers.

Weblite is also unique to their platform https://docs.sqlitecloud.io/docs/introduction/weblite

And in general, if you're familiar with SQLite, having option to have it hosted by SqliteCloud is better than using e.g. hosted Postgres and having to learn Postgres
Red were kinda the Tesla of the film camera world. New name, new tech, new price point, fashionable branding Vs existing long established players.

Thing is ARRI pivoted and covered the new tech pretty well, and had the existing business links into the rental market allowed them to continue unflustered. Red got the layman hype because they seemed to make high quality available to more people at an achievable (but still high) price point. The industry didn't really care though. They rent cameras, not buy them and they were already affording the old stuff.
The EU disagrees with you with its "right to be forgotten".

Alternatively - you make an excellent case for the paywalling of vast swaths of the internet.
I don't know about everyone else but I'd like more context.

"Is responsible for the consent popups"... ok. What happens now?
Even with these chemicals being as difficult as they are to verifiably remove, I can only imagine it'll be easier to figure out the path forward excluding these from human contact on a reasonable timeline compared to augmenting or modifying human systems to resilience against PFAS contact. E.g., check out the EPA list [1] on known human effects. Our bodies really, really don't like these chemicals.

"Reproductive effects such as decreased fertility or increased high blood pressure in pregnant women;
Developmental effects or delays in children, including low birth weight, accelerated puberty, bone variations, or behavioral changes;
Increased risk of some cancers, including prostate, kidney, and testicular cancers;
Reduced ability of the body’s immune system to fight infections, including reduced vaccine response;
Interference with the body’s natural hormones;
Increased cholesterol levels and/or risk of obesity;"

[1] https://www.epa.gov/pfas/our-current-understanding-human-hea...
There is the legal - armed resistance to an occupation is legal - and there is moral - armed resistance attacking unarmed civilians is never morally right.

Settling occupied territory is neither legal, nor moral. Bombing hospitals is both illegal and immoral, as so many other things the IDF has been doing for the past months. Then there are the crimes committed against Palestinians over the past 80 or so years - it's not because the government is different that your ownership rights can be ignored.

This becomes worse when the governing political parties in question, Hamas and Likud, have charters that exclude the possibility of peaceful coexistence.
> And instead of helping to build a place for Palestinians to live, they kept them under direct military occupation until 2005, then under blockade plus air raids (in retaliation for Palestinian attacks, but usually ending up with a 10:1 ratio of dead Palestinians for each killed Israeli citizen).

Gaza got billions of aid since 2005. Water pipes were built, material was delivered. What happened with it? They built one of the biggest underground tunnel systems in the world (as we can see right now), they dug out the pipes to use them for rockets, same with the material. And all the time they attacked Israel and then said "we cannot live in peace, Israel blockades us", leaving the 'after we attacked them again and again' part out.

Palestinians had all the help in the world to live a peaceful life in the Gaza strip with more freedoms over time if they can show that that freedoms don't lead to more dead Israelis. Each time they chose violence instead.
> Let's go back to 1983

When exactly do you think google was founded?
Not quite. The claims, in the only one I've seen regarding RAW compression, are for a specific pre-emphasis curve being applied to the raw data, then the raw data being compressed and only cover this being done in a video camera.

When looking at a patent check the "Claims" section. An infringing device would have to perform those steps in the order provided for the patent holder to have a claim.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, but I've had a lot of dealing with patents.
We mostly don't waste time dwelling on the ethics of long dead people, and the few that do are usually seen as some ivory-tower kinds without any concern for present issues.

But rest assured that the people that study those things know quite well it's the country leaders declaring wars, not the people.
CloudKit uses the user’s iCloud storage for private containers and bills the developers (although it’s usually free) for "public" CloudKit containers[1].

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/icloud/cloudkit/
> discussing what constitutes "valid" reading.

How can reading be valid or invalid? In my opinion the usage of the word valid in such a context is complete, nonsense. It is similar to trans people proclaiming, they are invalidated by misgendering. Some go even as far as claiming that their right to exist is questioned. That all happens in the mind of the self-proclaimed victim. If I don't want to use made up pronouns that change every hour, I don't deny anyone the right to exist and live a happy live. I am simply exasperated by the ever growing demands of them.

Back to reading. If you or anybody else doesn't feel welcomed enough by readers of great classical literature, it doesn't mean anything. Nobody is entitled to be respected as a "valid reader" by every other "valid reader" out there. If they don't see the value in what you read, it is their loss, who cares. Try to find someone else to form a peer group and don't complain about being kept out by a gatekeeper.

> 2. Listening acuity improves with practice. If you listen at 3x speed (or faster, depending on the speed of the narrator), it's kind of incredible how many more words you can keep in your head at a time.

That goes completely against my expectations and experience, with hearing up to factor 1,5 albeit. But, I'll try it.

> 3.

Usually students write down in math lectures.

My overall point is, there is no such thing as "valid" or "true" reading. There are different modes of consuming long form texts, some have advantages over others for certain kinds of texts or certain kinds of consumers. [1] The fact that not everybody agrees on that should not make anybody feel being kept out. Expecting to be supported by everybody is a sure way to be disappointed.

[1]: I've read somewhere, but can't find the reference at the moment. That the same complaints happened when people started to write down Homer's works instead of learning them by heart.
Lego spike prime is a good set to learn from. It can use Pybricks
You’re replying to a comment as if it’s suggesting ad networks are good. It’s not. It’s just stating, rightly in my opinion, that this is a huge win for those giant tech companies.
Like with early-ish Wired, there are also specific issues of DDJ that I remember, and specific articles.

For so many other magazines I only have a vague notion of the magazine as a whole, or long-running features, but it otherwise all blurs together in a vague mass of nostalgia.
Teleperformance CEO insists AI cannot replace human staff
WindSend – quickly and securely transfer clipboards, files or directories
Add to list appearance of new law firms or big 4 accounting firms needing data for unspecified reasons.

And changes in the work hours of execs
> Remember this anytime you watch CNBC & the like.. they can describe in hindsight the WHAT, but the WHY is generally made up on the fly. A classic smart sounding but meaningless joke answer to the above question is "More sellers than buyers". A lot of financial media is basically this.

There's a much broader topic behind this called Rationalization [1]. I won't forget the sentence by a professor of psychology that said: People are not rational. They are rationalizing.

For me, it took a while to sink in but now I do not focus too much on explanations anymore as these are anyways afterthoughts of intransparent internal processes. However, I pay more attention to how people act.

Interestingly, all this is also some kind of rationalization that my mind made up. But how can I be in control of the inner workings of my brain anyways...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalization_(psychology)
In 2002 I was dreaming of having a voice-controlled smart teapot connected to water pipe, that would pour and boil me the exact amount I need (and other amount for others).

Now I dread this stuff and avoid buying devices that live their own life and make decisions for me (and are always buggy), plus require a whole lot of maintenance. (Maintenance and fragility are what comes to my mind when guys show their raspberry-pi home contraptions off.)
That is fair. The CRDT offline sync is interesting.
> Googlers avoiding chat history

Oh, so that's why they keep churning thru chat apps.
> And on the next line, "Assembled in China".

Are you suggesting that Apple aren't the people in charge of iPhones? You might like to pass that on to the EU, they're worried about iPhones and they appear to have accidentally decided that probing Apple will help!

I'm sure the EU is trying to regulate how China manufactures iPhones too, if that is some sort of consolation prize to you. And my response is the same - there is a reason it is happening in China. The reason is EU regulations.

> ...market dominance might, possibly, be due to something other than people liking it.

Case in point; the market dominanace of Apple in Europe is primarily because EU regulators are technophobic. North America can manage to design a smartphone. Asia can design smartphones in plural. Europe can manage the Nokia 1100 which is not nothing. Well done Europe. But not enough to compete with serious players.
The DMA tax. It has the side effect of killing off open-source projects for the iOS with their egregious installation fee in Europe. Every time you install an open-source app, the developers are extorted by Apple with Core Technology Fee of €0.5 each and the Fee waiver guideline does not mention open-source to be a valid criterion for such exemption.

Limiting USB-C speed to USB2.0 for iDevices that are deemed "not pro", and not having Thunderbolt access despite the hardware could in theory allows it, limiting customers choice to buy the "pro" models for a full experience. And a slightly bigger Lightning cable is still being used in Apple Vision, which is clearly a flying middle finger to the USB-C change.

Apple are starting to commit on the adoption of RCS standard in 2024 too but they still won't support Google's E2E extensions, and instead working with GSMA to make their own encryption standard. The point of RCS is to make communications open, not by trying to make you feel special. Perhaps Apple is still trying to make a segregated market with different colored bubbles just like iMessages.

This might be controversial, but I think it counts: notarization hell (I would like to call it "notorization", combining both notarization and notorious). Starting from Catalina, Apple is forcing all Mac app to be notarized by Apple before use, making the experience of installing custom software other than downloaded from the App Store extremely difficult, in that you have to press a lot of buttons, buried deep in the settings and not as apparent as they should. This makes genuine open-source development for the Mac itself quite hard as it not only need to go through Apple's notarization service before publishing, which is sometimes flaky and not always available all the time, but it also means Apple have control over what apps are allowed simply by revoking your certification, unless you jailbroken your Mac to disable notarization (https://disable-gatekeeper.github.io). Interestingly, Apple could have totally banished checkra1n from running in Mac by revoking the notarization, but Apple doesn't.
It’s certainly ironic, being that anything an LLM says is instantly “forgotten” and never updates the model weights, and it’s abilities are finite with limited compute and precise costs estimated for each action it does.
> Those released in the latest exchange and in the Gilad Shalit exchange were convicted

Yes, and the list of crimes was made public. Many of them were indeed "throwing stones".

As I said, some are definitely held because of terrible crimes they actually committed; however, it must be noted that Palestinians are tried under an apartheid system, by a military court. Furthermore, it seems that many are held for no good reason, and many are tortured or sexually abused - confirmed by human rights groups.

BTW, if a convicted prisoner dies before they complete their sentence, they keep the body on ice until the sentence expires - that is just... evil.
Nah, there's no reason to accept terrible behavior from people just because they also do some good, the more we push back and frankly punish large companies in real terms the more likely we are to get a peaceable arrangement.

Google and Apple are not thinking "ah let's figure out how to work with these people to make a sustainable system" they are thinking what the most extractive operation they can get away with is, they do not deserve our regard because we also got blinky toys.
Hard agree. For me, it's the delegation of concerns that visual programming excels at.

I don't have to care how you're getting a random point in a sphere. Whatever algorithm you want to use works for me. And since you know which algorithms work better for which scenarios, you can put all of that delegation under the hood. All I have to know about is which node to use. And if something starts breaking, I know that it can't be my problem; it has to be a problem with the node's code and that domain professional can address it.

Of course, a good dev might say "That's just having a really good API", which is true! But once you have an API so good that you don't need to know any of its internals, you're essentially trying to write a graph using documents, which is kind of silly.
High-level servers are a great example (node servers, python servers, etc). There's not any utility in writing an expressJs server with text that isn't satisfied by writing it as a flow chart. Servers, at that level of abstraction, are so simple that all you really need to do is tell which keys go where, when. And that's most simply done by drawing boxes and arrows that all point to each other.

Put more starkly: there's no difference between writing `Lib.Physics.GetPointInSphere(param1, param2, param3)` and linking a `GetPointInSphere` node to `param`s 1, 2, and 3. So I think that if you're in a domain that is already at that level of abstraction, visual programming is a fantastic way to go. And if you're not already at that level of abstraction, there's value in getting there (even though it's probably going to require fracturing/modularizing existing concepts).
A 9-0 victory including Obama and Biden's appointees?

The gist of CO argument being that the state executive can unilaterally declare an event an insurrection (there has been no finding to date in court) thus blocking a candidate for federal office?

The liberal justices threw this in the trash because they recognize how dangerous this is. After all, imagine if everyone who participated in a BLM riot [1] in 2020 were declared an insurrectionist by red-leaning states and barred from office?

[1] Which were far more destructive and deadly than Jan 6 and did target federal buildings
"Centers on..," would be pretty normal usage. Making it active, like in the article ("Centers at least one...") is a little bit unusual and I can't recall seeing that usage before. Swapping it for 'features' would of course be completely unremarkable. It makes sense though, I don't mind it.
> Are you saying that the laws governing digital markets should vary based on a manufacturer's current marketing strategy?

Definitely not. Hence why I said:

> In reality they're all equally bad.

People who own a computer should have full control over their devices, full stop. I don't care if it's Apple, Google, Nintendo, whomever. They shouldn't have any say in what a computer can and can't do after they sold it.