skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Assisted GPS is something literally every phone does, from every manufacturer.

The difference between every other manufacturer and Apple is that every other manufacturer lets you turn it off if you care about privacy.

> Without help from an external service, it would take up to half an hour to acquire a fix using GPS radio signals alone

Up to. If you're under a rock and haven't previously gotten a location.

> Apple is a hardware company first and foremost

Apple is a marketing company first and foremost. Why give users control, the only way to actual privacy, when not giving them control lets you make more money off of them and marketing privacy will fool people into believing you offer actual privacy?

> PS: Apple phones can acquire a GPS lock without cellular connectivity. I’ve relied on this feature many times in the Australian outback.

And yet despite this, your iPhone will send your location back to Apple, including where you were while you were offline, as soon as it gets network connectivity.

> Oh, and you can turn Find My feature off if you’re that paranoid.

That doesn't stop Apple from getting your location.

You seem to believe I'm a Google apologist. You're wrong. I've criticized Google plenty on this forum. I'm a Firefox-using user control apologist.
I recommend you check out “Scratches” in PyCharm (or any IntelliJ IDE). Cmd+Shift+N I think? I type it reflexively, it lets you create a scratch pad of any “type” (Python, PHP, plain text, shell, everything IntelliJ supports) and write code with syntax highlighting and all the bells and whistles you are used to.

They are all saved in a folder on your computer and easily accessible from the “Scratches” section at the bottom of the file explorer.

It’s my go-to for any text manipulation and I think you can even configure it up to run your snippets of code if you want (I’m stuck using CodeRunner cause I’m too lazy to look more into “running” Scratches).

I also use it to paste in information as I’m debugging a problem. Then I can use multiple cursors or regex find/replace to take information and turn it into commands to run. Yes, I know about CLI tools built in to most systems and I use them to create one-liners but sometimes I want a little more direct control and/or I want to build a script from the commands.
True, but so do most wild animals. Once domesticated and bred for taste and size, it might be amazing.
The thing is, progress in physics has become hard because physics has been extraordinarily successful. Between them, general relativity and the standard model (of quantum mechanics) explain all of the phenomena that humans see or create on earth and all the star-level things we can observe. Things only get hard once you reach enormous scales of the distribution of matter in the universe. So the situation can only seem "bad" to someone who isn't seeing the larger picture imo.
Didn't oculus have pinch to click before Vision Pro came out?
Let me save you a click.

Boeing 737NG, over 25 years old, yet another United maintenance failure.

A better headline would point out the United part and skip the Boeing part, this has zero to do with Boeing. The 737NG is arguably the safest airliner ever built, but you do need to keep up on maintenance just like any other airliner.
Your wish is coming true:
https://vegnews.com/2023/6/climax-foods-plant-based-casein

https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2021/12/10/Fooditive-d...

https://www.greenqueen.com.hk/pureture-fermentation-vegan-pl...
> you and up to twenty friends

I hate to be “that guy” but in retrospect, that doesn’t really seem to have been a great idea during a worldwide, deadly, airborne pandemic… at least until the vaccines were widely deployed. I guess that’s what you mean by late pandemic.
Alamo Drafthouse has really good food: https://drafthouse.com/

I think the fact that so many people want a good theater experience and the fact that they’re largely crap is a (current) market opportunity.

AMC has been rolling out upgraded experiences across their chain (food to seat service, reclining seats, etc), but I don’t know to what extent.
I’m scrolling New Stories on HN and the article above this one is “Boeing tells airlines to check pilot seats after shift led plane to plunge.” Oh, and the Boeing whistleblower apparently shot himself days before vital testimony. We only need to watch if anyone reigns them in to know how accurate Varoufakis is.
If it's just for you (and in some cases even if not), you can also just save the innerhtml directly to a database to get the persistence.

Run it through a sanitizer before serving it back, but otherwise it'll work fine.
contrary to most of the comments here, I actively enjoy going to the movies. Have always, and still do. To some of the points raised, I live in a decidedly rural area. So consequently, grabbing a movie at 10pm fairly frequently leads to me having the imax all to myself.
Another contributing factory might be that I tend to go during week nights, and after the opening weekend.
It's true that the home experience has improved tremendously over the years (I've had a projector+retractable ceiling screen for over a decade), it doesn't come close to an imax sized screen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigesimal
I have used Moto for my last 3 phones and they are great. Almost no bloatware, fast, good battery life. Only thing I would like is longer support for the phone OS.
Previous postings (including 30 days ago, but this one seems to be from 'tosh 8 hours ago and then manipulated by mods for a "second chance" post getting merged with a different posting by 'throwaway2037 from 2 days ago, and I'm happy for that):

March 7, 2022 - 62 comments - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30583808

Feb 17, 2022 - 49 comments - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30376140

Feb 12, 2022 - 44 comments - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30311112

Nov 1, 2022 - 33 comments - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33427349
Absolutely. But while we know there are a number of kinda dodgy apps in the App Store, one could only imagine how many more they would be without Apple’s oversight/gatekeeping. Not to mention how much better camouflaged the scam apps could be.
cmd+m is just showing blank screen in vscode
I never can decide, but I think you have made the correct point. For me, it was "four twenties, nine and ten", which was only funny because one said "sixty, nine and ten". I dunno, I love it and it terrifies me.

The first time I went abroad, I was in a wine caveau and paying the teller. When she said the price, my mind went blank -- pitch black. She said "five" impatiently in every language I spoke -- even latin -- and I kept wondering, yes, but what and five?
I don’t know why everyone sleeps on Mythic Quest. That show is hilarious. I can’t wait for season 4.
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/united-op...

Not an emergency landing, and as rootusrootus said (beat me by a couple minutes), it's an older (25 years) plane. This is unrelated to the current bout of issues in Boeing manufacturing.
I thought Redbox was kinda dead?
I wonder if the age of outrage culture has caused people to overreact to some bad anecdotes or experiences and extrapolate them to broad social trends, as they match it up to other people upset about the same thing on social media. Especially where it lines up with narratives you're already sympathetic to, or ones that online parties are trying to inflame for engagement. I don't see anything in real life causing me to think people act any more inhuman in recent years. Online is where I see it, but not in real life.
lambda calculus is one way to describe computable functions. this course chose to focus on Turing machines.

category theory is historically not important to theory of computation, and it has questionable use if you aren't familiar with abstract algebra
One argument is that realizing all worthwhile things take effort is the essence of adulthood. Realizing that cheap, fast, easy-to-obtain things - whether it’s food or content or careers - is unlikely to lead to happiness and fulfillment.

Growing up, a lot of kids just get things handed to them. Not just normal stuff like their meals made and laundry done. But school has been dumbed down a lot to make it less stressful. Computers magically work and it’s effortless to be plugged into nonstop entertainment. Friends are just the kids you live near and went to school with for a decade. You just assume life will be easy.

Then the real world hits. Maybe not even in college for those with easy majors, but certainly after college. Life isn’t fair. Maintaining your friends takes effort. People you think are less deserving than you are far more financially successful.

Some people never realize what it takes to attain happiness. You can lead a horse to water but can’t make it drink.

Happiness is a life full of effort and relationships. You need to put in effort to stay physically fit. You need to strive towards your goals to achieve meaning. Short cuts will not get you to where fulfillment resides.
Good point. Maybe it could be a certification test, or maybe some roles wouldn't require it, but I think standardizing software engineering would help the industry by allowing people to focus on the field for their entire lives instead of being sidetracked into management.
I really think you're missing my point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Julie
Same for me, growing up in the middle east. We used fountain pens for everything. And using pens/pencils wasn’t allowed for tests/submissions etc..
I’m sorry, what fight did Apple start with the EU fifteen years ago? You do know what a fight is, right?
Ya know the funny thing about Pebble, looking back as someone who is on his 3rd apple watch: At the time, I honestly thought Pebble was doing it the right way! And in hindsight, I still think that at launch, they had the perfect idea - for that point in time. Their initial success even matches that.

When the tech advanced, and use cases evolved, and users had become accustomed to the limitations of the apple watch style of smartwatch - which regarding battery life STILL HOLD TRUE... once all that was the case, Pebble had to deal with the "and now what?" and they couldn't.
We can't say with certainty that the blue whale is the largest animal ever, but to our knowledge at most there were several other species approximately the same size. And even those are based on estimates with rather huge ranges.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_and_heaviest_animals
> What is the point of spending time if you dont truly like the people you spend time with? I especially see this behaviour amongst wealthier colleagues who "go out" almost as habit with seemingly no satisfaction coming from it.

They're probably trying to cast a broader net, but I agree most people don't do it right and keep fishing in the same spots.
Seems pretty straight forward. Tim Cook says sales in China are not under pressure. Within two months it’s revealed that they’re stopping production lines because there is significant pressure. If it turns out this wasn’t new information between those two points in time then it was a fraudulent claim. Not the most interesting one imo.
The same critique applies
Simple no bs persistent notepad
The big problem is how docker was designed. It is essentially a jail that is supposed to contain a Linux binary.

Things are straight forward on Linux. You build your binary, place in a docker container and you are done. The nix code will also be straight forward. If you can build your code, then creating a container is just one more operation away.

Unfortunately docker requires Linux binary and you are on Mac. So the docker desktop actually runs a Linux VM and performs all operations on it, abstracting this away from you.

Nix doesn't do that and you have two options:

1. Do cross compilation, the problem is that for this to work you need to be able to cross compile down to glibc, the problem is that while this will work for most community used dependencies you might get some package where the author didn't put effort making sure it cross compile. To make things worse the Hydra that populates standard caches that nix uses, doesn't do cross compile builds, so you will run into lengthy processes that might potentially end with a failure.

2. You can have a Linux builder, that you add to your Mac and configure to send build jobs for x86_64-linux to that builder. Now you could have a physical box, create a VM, or even have a NixOS docker container (after all docker ion Mac runs inside of the VM).

The #1 seems like the proper way, while #2 is more of a practical way.

I think you are running into issues, because you're likely trying #1, and that requires a lot of experience not only with Nix, but also with cross compiling. I wish Nix's Hydra would also build Darwin to Linux cross compilation as that would not only provide caches, but also help making sure the cross compilation doesn't break, but that would also increase costs for them.

I think you should try the #2 solution.

Edit: looks like there might have been an official solution to this problem: https://ryantm.github.io/nixpkgs/builders/special/darwin-bui... I haven't used it yet.
>The compiler should be able to eliminate the unused parts during compilation, it’s not like adding JSON to the standard library is going to make a “hello world” program bigger.

I agree. I would argue against keeping standard libraries terse as an appropriate goal for a language because terse (or alternatively, inadequate) standard libraries are exactly what necessitate third party libraries for common functionality, which in turn lead to this dependency hell that so many people dislike so much. Not to say that a standard library should do absolutely everything, but the more capable a language is out of the box, the fewer third party libraries a language ecosystem will come to rely on, meaning that methodologies will be more consistent in more code and dependency management will be simpler.
We've banned this account for breaking the site guidelines and ignoring our request to stop. Not cool.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The fund is just $5B but the lawsuit covers anyone who bought Apple during the period
One cool thing about the purely additive notation is that you can then add numbers together by just gathering up all their characters, sorting largest to smallest, and combining any groups of 5 or more.
> Sometimes I think about how much money people would pay to make their computer run 20x faster.

I think people who can reliably do this are paid $250-750k/year at top paying companies.
there's a lot of hidden features

for example you can create multiple notes by doing https://blank.page/notenamehere
Please don't cross into personal attack on HN, regardless of how bad another comment is or you feel it is. You not only did that here, you did it upthread too ("your cultural bubble"). I appreciate that you've been making substantive points but we need you to make them without breaking the site guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Parent comment agrees with you, is just asking for more ergonomic syntax
Incidentally, why was Oppenheimer promoted as an IMAX movie? It was a letdown and a waste for me to have watched it on IMAX, as it was essentially a visually unexciting primarily conversational drama. Barbie would have been a better IMAX movie.
I taught my son a senary method for similar reasons, and also because hexagons are the bestagons. 12s are quite useful not only for time telling (since they give a nice number of ways to divide an hour) but also for evenly splitting the musical octave, and for counting with flesh between knuckles on one hand.

We do base twelve in our household. It's easier to hold in my head than base thirty-six.

Edit: I was halfway joking but I'm noticing that the 12-hour clock is very elegantly conveyed using base-36 hand gestures. The "hands" of the clock bring in this case literal human hands.

[0] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senary#Finger_counting
Some articles explaining huge pages for anyone curious (and hopefully people will trust that a high frequency trading firm has enough money on the line to get this right):

https://www.hudsonrivertrading.com/hrtbeat/low-latency-optim...

https://www.hudsonrivertrading.com/hrtbeat/low-latency-optim...
Definitely. Two things come to mind. 1. Weapons of mass destruction. 2. TikTok only becoming a real issue once they were publishing the 'wrong' kind of propaganda re the Israel Palestine conflict.
I thought I was weird for my bespoke ivory tower monorepo flake.nix, glad to hear I'm not the only one. It has been a tremendous help in managing my homelab.
That doesn't sound like streaming to me, it sounds much better. Getting out of the house, watching on a big screen, new releases made for the big screen as opposed to second screen content made to be forgotten once it falls off the home page.
I really hope USD is not it. Having worked with it trying to build stuff for the vision pro, it's a massive software library pretending to be a file format. It is inexorably linked to the source code that processes it to the point that making a processor for the format is a non-starter, and that seems to be by design.

The codebase is dense, hard to compile, using outdated dependencies, and doesn't play nice with anything else. Documentation is sparse, often incorrect, and severely lacking in anything like a new user guide. Everything assumes you work for Pixar already and know the ins and outs of their pipeline.
Right, in a windmill they're mounted at an angle for generating rotation. When you mount them on the fuselage you just set them at an appropriate angle for the aircraft.
Damn. Like I never thought of it that way. You need that OS layer. That should be metas core competency if they want to win. Games are something that runs on top of other people’s platform. I thought Zuckerberg did all this to stop being a layer on top of somebody else’s stack but all they did was the exact same thing with Oculus.

That is what always bugged me about the pivot to “meta”. They never had to find product market fit to succeed. They were never hungry. They could just throw money until something clicked… but money alone doesn’t make a revolutionary product. You need somebody hungry enough to see the world in a different way and then execute the fuck out of it.

Dunno how this relates to apple though. They have equal amounts of cash to throw at problems until they are “solved”. Perhaps the “operating system” is a solved problem already to some extent and maybe there isn’t anything truly new?
Rubocop in Ruby has the great trailing commas in hash literals debate.

That is what has solidly convinced me that programming languages themselves, like the compiler, absolutely need to fuck off with the rigid style proscriptions.

There does need to be a solid, configurable linter so that any given codebase can have its own strongly held and automatically corrected opinions. I don't trust any one person or a cabal to determine style for everyone using the language though.

When it comes to something like that Javascript semicolon debate, the way to solve it is linters with a flag for either set of people, so they can be their own dictators over their own codebase.
Began in 2009:

https://sfbangalore.org/

San Francisco – Bangalore Sister City Initiative was established in 2009 to engage Individuals and Institutions in Bangalore and San Francisco in creating sustainable 21st century cities through an exchange of environmental, economic, cultural and research ideas, expertise and resources.
[..]

https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/S-F-sustains-ti...

[..]Next month, a delegation of city officials and corporate executives, led by Mayor Gavin Newsom, will be spending three days in Bangalore, where initial agreements on projects involving sustainable building, health technology, water treatment and solid waste management are expected to be signed. All areas in which Bangalore, India's version of Silicon Valley, have said it could use some help.[..]

But..they came back with a grand plan for much higher density housing plans for Bay Area. High density housing and CEQA bashing and rezoning became policy then. Thats around when all that talk began..

They never did bring back networked public transportation that is the most crucial requirement for overpopulated high density cities.

Americans and Californians have no clue about what ‘high density’ means to resource scarcity and how it will make a city unlivable.

Lost a lot of friends when I tried to explain it.

Bay Area is a mess. PG&E is fleecing customers and it’s a monopoly. Even solar has to come through the grid. Water costs keeps on increasing. Traffic is a nightmare. Public schools are overcrowded. No new infrastructure. The cost of living in all of the state mandated high density cities in the Bay Area has only soared.

Calling Bay Area a ‘mess’ is like naming Tyrannosaurus Rex, “Little Fatty’.
Nolan just loves filming in IMAX and IMAX loves him back.
I love the name. Shocked I have not seen another utility use it previously.

Is there any plan for moving individual lines between commits? I imagine it could be a tricky thing to gracefully surface, but my git based workflow makes heavy use of selectively grabbing edited lines per commit. Which probably means I should be more focused on the task at hand, but I have a bad habit of seeing an unrelated bit of code that could be tweaked and want to commit just parts of an edited file.
Avatar 2 in IMAX 3D was a crazy experience
I get it, just providing more context. Should've phrased it nicer.
Mind that the two racing games I've tried were Redout and Trackmania Turbo, which have some more extreme movements like loops and high speeds, but being sitting in a VR headset and not feeling the accelerations that match your movement is just a recipe for motion sickness even if you don't normally feel motion sick. Add in the shitty FoV in all current VR headsets and I think we are a far way from that being a killer app.

For me the only apps that kept any of my interest are rhythm games like Beat Saber or Pistol Whip.
Do they have good food again? They simplified their menu, dropping more sophisticated dishes and locally-sourced beers when their CEO went on a drive to expand. Unfortunately the quality dropped way off and it really robbed the theaters of their local charm. Instead of eating there me and all my friends switched to eating elsewhere prior to the movie.

Alamo is literally the only place I'll watch a movie due to their "No, really: no using your cellphone" policy, so I'm happy to give them my business, but I draw the line at mediocre food. It's too bad and kind of ironic because they messed up their menu in a drive to greater profitablity and lost a lot of their most profitable business as a result: the margins on food and alcohol are far better than ticket sales.
That step is a much tougher one IMO.

I did it years ago, but it came with an acknowledgement that I very likely would miss out on opportunities that I would have otherwise had.

The way I see it, I don't want most social media in my life so I likely wouldn't be happy with connections that I'd only find there either.
"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: this has been a problem for a long time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35417006 (April 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30592985 (March 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13086020 (Dec 2016)

... and it looks like you've been doing it quite a bit recently, on various topics. We need this to stop. I don't want to ban you, you've been around for a long time and posted many good things, but you can't do this kind of flamewar on HN, so please stop. If you want to conduct provocations, there are other places on the internet to do that.
Yeah I used to get popcorn when it was simply high priced. But now that the pricing feels predatory I bring my own snack or have none at all. 2 hours is not a long time to go without eating.
Is this about timestamps or is there more to it?