skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The power of Apple and Google is literally monopoly power. As in, government-granted copyright and patents that allow the holders to restrain the conduct of competitors.

Decades ago people were crying out against it, but nobody with power listened because they thought we just wanted to steal music[0]. Well, we did, but that didn't make us wrong. Now the world economy is owned by a handful of oligopolist-elected dictators who have maximally exploited the laws in question to make meaningful competition literally illegal.

No, seriously, try and ship a phone without big tech's blessing. It won't work. Hell, Amazon and Microsoft both tried and failed. Everyone only writes apps for Google Play and iOS, and any attempt to make them work elsewhere is a criminal felony.

[0] To be clear, their real concern was finding ways to legally bind China to pay us for "our IP" on pain of being shut out of world markets. Dictatorship is fractal.
> Evidently most prefer living less nicer lives and being slave/impoverished by services...

Purely remote work will be a race to the bottom in terms of wages. I would rather put up with a bit of commute a few days a week, which allows me to keep my comfortable salary. Living on salary dictated by the lowest paid workforce pool will be far less nicer.
OpenAI board reappoints Altman and adds three other directors
BMC is not a requirement these days as there are options like using a piKVM or AMT/vPRO on certificied Intel systems.

Personally I turn IPMI off. The difference at idle can be up to 20w. Not to mention the outdated interfaces are a sercurity risk
I hate this comparison because the tone of it discounts the real human suffering caused by these events. Yes, we are better off now. But the transition through the industrial revolution caused a lot of pain.

The rise of AI is going to cause real human suffering. Sure, we will probably be better off in 100 years. But that's little comfort the those that lose their jobs or the ones that get crushed under the new AI powered Noble class.
https://archive.ph/ogW7D
Unveiling the Majesty of Redwood Trees: Explore Their Deep Roots
Requirements are too high, then.

For me it is a bit weird that
1. House must be fire-safe, asbestos-free, require eco heating system, etc etc. At the same time, nobody can afford to build a house (I think you need to be un top 5% in my country), and rent is really expensive

2. Same with doctors. You often not even get prescription easily, no medical advice, no own/custom medical devices etc etc, qt the same time a lot of people can't afford doctors.

I guess I am with libertarians on these issues. Imo, it is better to warn people and give them choice. Just plainly denying access to housing and medicine to poor people is plain evil.
Regulators did get involved: https://twitter.com/ThierryBreton/status/1765793776692326891
You don't have to promise it. The ADA promised it for you. It's the libertarian dream not to be forced to abide by those regulations.
> Not having data is quite a significant gap.

Requiring (raw) data is relatively new, and is only in a few fields. For most of the history of peer review data was not required. In fact, none of the PIs I worked in during grad school would ever agree to releasing the raw data. I'm pretty sure they're still not in most of physics.

IMO, it's reasonable to require it, but understand that this is a relatively new requirement and not part of peer review culture.
At least those acres are producing electricity.

The elimination of farmland to non-farming uses is not new with solar.

Watch the grizzly old farmer cry in "The Real Dirt on Farmer John":

https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/realdirt/#...
I didn't use consumer cameras to test this, and I assume cloudflare doesn't either.
The Most Remote Place on Earth Has Space Junk and a Sea Monster
Please, do not use Raspberry Pi for a homelab unless you are 100% sure your workload is OK with it. I've just sold mine after ~2 years it being in a box in a closet. It's just to weak, too useless. I value my power socket slot more that RPi. If ARM is important, especially Mac Mx, the lowest Mac Mini is not that expensive. RPi is close to zero in performance. It could be just some unnoticeable VM in Proxmox/AnotherHypervisor performance-wise.
Sure, but Blender does support CSG with polygons easily. You can do all typical CAD operations, modifiers, parametric stuff, you just have to pick your accuracy on the fly, not later when exporting. You do realize that everything eventually gets turned into polygons before production right? Well aside from sheet metal design I guess.

I've lost count how many Fusion360 modelers I've seen that can't properly turn their models into a mesh and 3D print curved surfaces with visible polygon banding lol.

> vertex modelling can be very fast when you don't need high precision, so I can see why artists like it

It's not about speed, it's about control. When making assets for rendering all kinds of wild tricks are sometimes needed that go beyond modelling solid objects, plus adjusting UV coordinates for texturing and the like.
Agreed. I'm trying to use it at https://github.com/wekan/wekanstudio . Contributions very welcome.
> > Didn't you just say that you didn't want to read about any other build system, as that would involve effort?

> No, I did not say that, and you also know that.

and

> My goal is to be able to build my project with as little effort as possible. "Effort" includes evaluating different tools and reading their documentation.

Apparently, I don't know that, or I'm being trolled. What even is knowing something when folks contradict themselves two replies in?

> If you've not used them, then your confidence that they are equivalent to Cargo comes from where?

The endorsements of others who have used the tools. But, I'm starting to suspect that you wouldn't consider any endorsement of any tool other than cargo as valid...

> which does need a package management system, so I will be doing this at some point. But I very much doubt that it will be as easy as you claim.

Note that I said "build tool". A package management system is a hair more complicated. You'll need a week instead of an afternoon.
Try Remix! https://remix.run/
Tolkien himself was frequently derided by other authors and literary critics for his "childish" writings about hobbits and goblins and elves and such. This kind of thing is hardly new, it's just there are more channels to express this.

This probably also influenced his decision to just not say anything.
It's linked from TFA in the More section.

https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/08/apple-threaten-epic-illegal/
> That's precisley why official/standard build systems suck, they are extremly cumbersome to wrangle when you go off the beaten path.

That is the first sensible criticism I've heard in this thread. Thanks for engaging maturely and with an insight that can only come from actual experience.

My counterargument is that the Make experience is cumbersome to wrangle on projects that are very much on the beaten path. But I see your point that it is flexible, i.e. it doesn't get more cumbersome if you go off the beaten path.

The other caveat I'll give is that my rosy view of cargo may be in part because I haven't written a lot of Rust code.

> Just let me write a build.bat/build.sh per platform/compiler/configuration that are explicit and precise in compiler flags, paths, output files, pre/post processing, etc so nothing magical is happening under the hood.

I agree with this completely, and this is why I avoid what I call "configuration-oriented programming", which is where you're trying to do something that requires a programming language, but you have something like JSON /YAML/TOML instead of a programming language.

But at a glance it appears to me that `cargo` can farm out to the programming language of your choice pretty easily so it doesn't feel like this critique applies.
I'm American in the UK for the past seven years, and this resonates with me. It's nice to be outside the daily fray and constant social commentary in the US, but still have the ability to watch and participate when I feel like it. The funny thing is, I don't care about UK politics at all... I enjoy learning the procedures but I don't follow the drama.

Another point from the article that resonated with me:

> Another advantage of his geographic distance: Congress generally gavels in around 10 a.m., perfect timing for Surdy, whose classes are just coming to an end at 3 p.m. in the UK.

I absolutely love the UK timezone. It's my favorite part about living here. I work remotely for a global company, and by sitting in the UK, I get significant overlap with people from California all the way through Japan. It's particularly nice for me as a night owl, because I don't mind evening meetings and chats. But I would hate to wake up at 530am like some on the West coast need to do.

Sometimes living in the UK really feels like having a head start on the US... I like to say that I'm geographically GMT, but biologically EST :)
idk if the authors are reading this, but here's some feedback on the row encryption scheme:

1. Please use an AEAD!

2. IIUC, the current design exposes the hashes of the data values. This seems undesirable and I think you can avoid it.
JavaScript was slowing me down. All in on Elixir
My "home lab" is a raspberry pi 4 and a few more devices thrown into a drawer. Not pretty (especially the gordian cable knot), but it works.
I agree all the socials are full of memetic hazards and nonsense. Data plane issue.

The platforms obviously bear major responsibility for this but to an extent their hands are tied by dispute about what constitutes "valid" speech.

My perspective is that if this had been an "organic" protest it would have been fine.

What TikTok demonstrated is that the platform is willing to directly spread misinformation to users through system messages with custom UX flows to magnify the impact. Devs at TikTok worked on this, they had meetings about it, they tracked progress until the work was done etc. That's a CONTROL PLANE issue.
> On the topic of web viewing, do you know that engineers want this? In my experience, managers liked it because they could get an overview quickly, but the engineers hated it because it involved copy-pasting paths from the browser to their local tools.

In my experience it's the opposite. While some firms issue Linux workstations to their engineers most use VDIs (and god forbid sometimes VNC) hosted in a datacenter that can be far from the office. The already poor latency becomes atrocious when they say open Verdi over LSF, which is X-forwarded from the host to the VM before getting encoded and sent to the client.

Web tools bring the interface and rendering over to the client side and allow for a much smoother experience even if the server is physically far away.
The Palestinians have their own version of history which let's just say is inaccurate. One example is they underplay the seriousness of the Arab attack on Israel in 1948 and things like the Egyptian air force bombing Tel-Aviv seem to evaporate from their version of events. They also tend to completely forget about their collaboration with Nazi Germany and the numerous attacks against Jews pre-1948. Really history in the sense of "his story". You can argue Israelis also do this, which is probably correct, but I think you'll find more diverse views in Israeli society and more access to facts. In fact many Palestinians use Israeli historians as their reference (while conveniently not pointing out what parts of their claims are still under debate/disagreement).

It's true that some people were forced to leave after the Arabs started a war on Israel in 1948 and those people generally weren't allowed back. It's also true that many people chose to leave and also weren't allowed back. That said your logic makes no sense to anyone with western values IMO. Your life is more important than your property. I.e. between the option of staying in your property and dying and leaving and not dying the choice for most people in the west is clear. It's true that if they leave they may not be allowed to return. We can argue about the morality of that given they started this current war as well. I think in practice Gazans will be allowed to go back, but time will tell and events will transpire. If anything in practice leaving their homes to allow Israel to focus on Hamas would have likely shortened the war and increased their chances of getting back home and to normality sooner.

I can't really follow your logic who is wanting to kill who and who has been abusing who.
> “It just feels a little intimidating when you open the portal and the first thing it says is ‘be aware, we’re going to bill,’” she says. “We have to send these messages and we shouldn’t have to think to ourselves, ‘Should I send this?’”

If the provider doesn't bill, problems from the patient's perspective:

1. Some patients are reluctant to message when they should, because they don't want to impose when they know the provider isn't set up to charge. Same "Should I send this?" problem.

2. Providers end up needing zealous triage/gatekeeping/diverting on messages, so more messages might end up handled with more generic responses.

3. Providers might have incentive to shift messages to billable nurse calls, just for fiscal sustainability, turning a message into phone tag and/or long hold times.

Personally, I'd prefer to pay for good message responses. (Initially I assumed I was, but the charges didn't seem to show up on the EOBs/bills.) Much like with a lawyer, but maybe priced lower than the effective rate for minutes with patient in an in-person appointment (since messages do have more async flexibility, and lower office overhead).
Yes probably it was a DIY version of that.
It's not weird. One of them is piracy to play games, watch movies, and post throwaway memes. The other is for training generative models that directly compete with the creators of the pirated works and drop the value of human creative skills to zero. The actual act of piracy is small compared to attempting to devalue and commodify our most human characteristics and abilities.
> Am I the only one who hates working from home?

I talked to a lot of tech workers in SV and found out that a plurality prefers hybrid, a smaller minority prefers fully remote and an even smaller minority prefers fully office.

People just want balance in their lives. Also, being in SV, everyone was aware of the fact that fully-remote will inevitably lead to "Detroitization" of SV, as companies can just hire in the cheapest cities around the world. So there is also a selfish motive to demand in-office work.
I don't think you realize your very own example is proving that it's actually bad. If Microsoft did what Apple did, you wouldn't have steam as the one gaming store, you would have the windows store.

Open store competition in the gaming area leading to steam being far in the lead, not the OS gatekeeper, is a proof that it allows for more choices for consumers and the better one taking the lead.
Yep. It is also known as exponential smoothing in other contexts.

I wish the author had linked to the wikis for either of those things up front so people who had heard of it already (and know why you probably don't want to use it for your UI) could move on.
Same in Australia!
You may have also found a market, but don't have the right product. If you are chatting and building a relationship with 57 people, is there something in common for them that they would be willing to pay continuously for? Or more for?

Sometimes your idea isn't worth scaling, but rather just focus on serving the people you've found and give them more and more value.
Does it use the same wordlist as wordle or have they specifically chosen words that would be impossible to not get?
We dont even recognize bad care. People are overweight and suffering from chronic disease , but since they are “alive “ and taking meds we still call that a good outcome
People in the know will game the system, poor will suffer, as always.

If you only can own one house, how companies who build and sell them can operate? If we make an exception for them, suddenly all companies become builders who build one house in 5 years

Etc etc
It really hurts to watch Apple shoot themselves in the foot like this.

A time will come when Apple will have legitimate reasons to crack down on third-party app stores. Someone like Meta will invariably try some crap like sneaking VPNs into their apps so they can get complete surveillance on their users (ex. https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/).

Apple is going to have less credibility when they say "no, this is wrong" when this eventually happens if they keep screwing with Epic like this.
> I'm making a small web service based on GPT4 for non-English speaking audience. It creates marketing strategy for marketers and business owners.

What problem are you solving? Someone can sign up for gpt-4 for $20 and do this themselves just by asking it to write them a marketing strategy.
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Get in Loser, We're Going High Frequency Trading
For a second I missed the irony here, genuinely thought to myself 'wow that would be awesome'. Just joined my first fantasy league so I am gung-ho on fantasy now, apologies.
A software-engineering focused podcast episode about the early days of high-frequency trading.
Not quite; DSD is pulse density modulation (PDM). This is using pulse width modulation (PWM). The basic idea is the same though.

Note that Class D amplifiers can use either PDM or PWM, though the former is less common at least partly due to (now expired) patents.
Doesn't matter. Why does the developer of the operating system get to take anything from a sale between an app developer and the owner of the actual cellphone? It is not Apples phone anymore after they sell it to a customer. Imagine if your car manufacturer wanted 30% of revenue from the shops you drive your car to.
>as long as you buy the hardware, you should not be prevented from running whatever you like on it.

Nothing is stopping you from gutting a switch and putting steam deck components in it to run Windows. You can do all that without bypassing Nintendo OS encryption.

>Want to look up a game guide from the Internet, on a device perfectly able of doing so ? Fat chance, need another device for that!

But that's a software problem, not a hardware one. If you want a browser on the Nintendo OS you either need some exploit on how it renders web pages (legal) or a way to install an app that goes around the Nintendo store (dubious, depending on how you approach it).

>why should the manufacturer of the hardware be in business of deciding what streaming services you can use ?

To be fair, Nintendo does allow streaming services. If your favorite one isn't on Switch, it's a business issue, not a store regulation issue. No different from a game you want not having a switch port.

Netflix wants market capture so it's everywhere. Hulu, not so much. Disney probably would have gotten on it if it didn't launch a few years after the Switch.
I first heard that Sequioa have shallow roots on QI - so I googled it and … yes we have been SEOd to death.

Google or duck duck for “redwood shallow roots” and you get the shitty “repeat the phrase you are looking for while saying “come let’s us discover” and that actual facts buried down the bottom if ever

All this because time on page and time before returning to index page is more important now than actually having information on the page readily accessible

This is both why Wikipedia is great and why an LLm that answers the fucking question in the first paragraph is a strategic threat to google

Google killed Yahoo because banner ads were too profitable for Yahoo to give up - even pg wondered around Yahoo trying to convince them.
It wouldn't be suitable for that at the moment, but might be after some refactors coming this weekend. I wrote a very quick scheduling API which pushes schedules as workflow triggers, but it's only supported on the Go SDK. It also is CPU-intensive at thousands of schedules, as the schedules are run as separate goroutines (on a dedicated `ticker` service) - I'm not proud of this. This was a pattern that made sense for the cron schedule and I just adapted it for the one-time scheduling.

Looking ahead (and back) in the database and placing an exclusive lock on the schedule is the way to do this. You basically guarantee scheduling at +/- the polling interval if your service goes down while maintaining the lock. This allows you to horizontally scale the `tickers` which are polling for the schedules.
In the end, everyone’s just becoming a game company.

Er, sorry; an “experience” company.
The push queue model has major benefits has you mentioned. We've built Hookdeck (hookdeck.com) on that premise. I hope we see more projects adopt it.
Yeah, that's exactly my point.
Supply is a problem, but so is demand. More specifically, speculative demand.

About 20-30% of buyers in today's market are all-cash investors. [1]

[1] https://www.corelogic.com/intelligence/us-home-investor-shar...
CC companies like you to try and resolve it with the merchant first, if possible. Obviously if it's overt fraud (e.g. charge without your consent) then it's not the case, but if the merchant can prove you authorized the transaction (even if you regretted it later), and you claim it's unauthorized then you will be committing fraud. It's probably not something you can be prosecuted for, but the CC company wouldn't like you trying to defraud them too much. OTOH, if you contacted the merchant and tried to cancel and they didn't respond or refused, then the CC company would likely be on your side. So the merchant that is trying to look like legit business would rather cancel when asked. It's not about being nice, but about following the rules. The rules are in your favor, but if you are the one breaking them (e.g. by pretending the transaction is not authorized while it was) then it may turn against you.
Other posters have covered the gist of the events, but what creates the impression of flailing for me is Apple taking a hard stance in one direction, underestimating the backlash, and promptly recanting and changing course in exchange for (as best as I can tell) no advantage or concessions. That happened with PWAs, and now has happened with Epic.

Maybe there were behind the scenes concessions made and I'm completely wrong, in which case I owe Apple management an apology. But my impression as an outsider is that there is no real strategy here; executives at the company seem to be throwing their weight around and picking fights at random, getting slapped down, and immediately retreating.
Wired in particular has gone downhill these days.

Now they write articles like "my balls-out quest to achieve the perfect scrotum": https://www.wired.com/story/my-balls-out-quest-to-achieve-th...
Well, we also do have an overhead here and doctors usually make way more than the average person but still majority of the doctors work in public sector. It's not completely rosy though - the biggest downside is that quite often you have to wait quite long to visit a specialist, especially if it's any good (our previous government said "let them leave" so lots of medical stuff just migrated to the west...) but hopefully with the increase of spending on health (we are around 6% of gdp...) things will improve.
I agree its pretty niche; but i still think its better for users, who will probably never interact with it directly, than placing an arbitrary ceiling for certain functions
I have the same opinion on LoTR, but at the same time I found that Dune's prose is little better than fanfic (if that...)

Every now and then I go for a reread, hit a passage talking about a magic sword and the book trying to rawdog convince me that this sword (dagger?) is super cool and awesome by... well outright saying '"this sword is super cool and awesome" (trust me, I'm the narrator) '