skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pre launch of AirTags, users could opt in to always on location permissions for the Tile app. Post launch of AirTags, Apple makes it hard for Tile users to have always on location permissions.

> You are asking to have Apple pick up random BLE messages and send them to various 3rd party vendors with corresponding location information?

I'm not asking for anything. This is just one of many examples of the form: Apple offers API for 3rd party accessory, accessory is successful, Apple launches 1st party accessory, Apple restricts 3rd party accessory API.

Is this behavior illegal? The Department of Justice says it is. The courts will decide.
I think if you bought a residence near the existing airport, any time after said airport was built, knowing full well there is an airport there, you should not be able to complain that there is an airport there.
I would like to hear from East Asian people if this is something they find useful.

After 30ish years of internet without it I would assume they got used to LTR.

It feels like this would cause a lot of bugs because devs aren't prepared to handle vertical correctly.

Vertical can be nice for poetry or prose but forms? I believe in Japan/China/Korea most signs, subtitles etc are LTR. Mongolian script is something else but it feels like bringing an antique custom to forcefully override some past Russian and Chinese imperial impact.

I really don't want to sound ignorant or xenophobic and would like to hear from someone native to this.
See https://www.lexaloffle.com/picotron.php?page=faq

> Picotron supports PICO-8 style shorthand syntax, almost the whole API, and other compatibility features that make it relatively easy to port PICO-8 cartridges. However, it is not designed to run PICO-8 carts out of the box, because the underlying machinery is quite different. For example, Picotron uses floating point numbers, and so can only approximate PICO-8's fixed point math behaviour.
While I agree with sentiment - it's a slippery slope. At what point does "training" stop. Is sampling an instrument "training"? Is trying to mimick other artists/instruments via electronic means (i.e. Autotune) "training"? Pandora's box is open and there is no way of closing it - besides consumer preferences.
Gravis Store shutting down all locations in Germany, Bosch to lay off thousands by 2025. This is just from last week. Some people are blind, indeed.

Tell me more about those new investments pouring into Germany. Maybe we are consuming different news.
> This entire comment is wildly misinformed.

As far as I can tell, you don't dispute a single statement in my comment.

> Are you forgetting Apple charges like $1200 for a phone these days?

This is a strawman. iPhone starts at $429 in the US, and there is no law saying companies can only monetize with up-front hardware costs. Such a law would be unprecedented in software.

> Are you suggesting that in order to cover the extensive research and development costs of music playback (sorry did you really say this?)

I didn't say that. I said mobile music playback. Streaming the world's music catalog to a mobile phone reliably with all-day battery life would be unthinkable 17 years ago, and the primary innovator making it happen was Apple, not Spotify. Core Media APIs are simply the tip of the iceberg, yet are widely recognized as best in class by a lot. Android took over a decade to catch up to iOS audio latency in 2013: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2021/03/an-update-....

Remember when Spotify released their take on music playing hardware with Car Thing? They literally couldn't sell their first run of inventory and ended up taking a 8+ figure write down. That project probably cost Spotify more than they've paid Apple in fees in the last decade, yet the Spotify in-car experience is great because of CarPlay, an Apple technology!

> they need to take a 30% cut of every song played on the device?

I made no claims about how much Apple should be paid for this. I simply pointed out that Apple is paid nothing for it by Spotify, yet people still are upset by that.
I'll go a step further, how?

Sure it makes sense for a music center like Nashville to do this, but for the entire rest of the world? You can't block them from the source material without destroying the entire industry. So you'll just move the generation elsewhere. To be fair humans have "sounding like" each other down to their vocal tics since time immemorial.

You could label (secret key, ledger, hash) legitimate artist recordings and then just shame unmarked (illegitimate) ones. I'm not even sure you could get a national law to "protect the owner", but unless you get rid of the internet you're not going to enforce it effectively. All you can do is reduce its profitability.
So You Want to Build a Sports Betting Model – My College Basketball Journey
Hi HN,

I have spent the last 4 years or so building betting models for college basketball. With the season coming to an end I decided to sit down and write some thoughts on the whole journey. Happy to answer any questions you might have!
This is a very "outside" take on what all these countries are doing.

It's measuring their velocity on a linear path towards integration into a US-dominated global economy with a specific (classically) liberal, individualist, humanist vestigially-Christian culture and then characterizing deviations as mistakes or compromises or fallbacks.

The "inside" reality is that many of these countries and their people are skeptical or hostile towards that economy and culture for legitimate historical or cultural reasons of their own. These are largely countries with accomplished, strong histories in the modern era and they are taking informed, principled bets on a different future than the West is pursuing. They have their own development and continuity objectives that sometimes compete with or are otherwise incompatible with docile integration into the Western hegemony.

I don't even dispute that it all amounts to the same thing on the surface of effects: China is at a crossroads as their chapter of rapid industrialization comes to a close, some countries that do have lagging economies, military conflict and aggressiveness is ripe, etc -- but I think it's worth giving credit to the people of these countries for making their own informed decisions that are different than what we might make, instead of writing them all off as simply mismanaged or whatever.
> I've read a number of acts for myself, procedural civil and criminal, and have even run into the invisible wall between legislation and case law.

Glad to hear it corresponded with your lived experience, it really was surprising to see how the map correlated with my own understandings of the law developed through my degree!
AI-generated digital twins of patients can predict future diseases
RetroArch
> Phones today have almost no configurations, and there are no scripts or commands to run to fix things that might be broken.

I agree. To put it in somewhat starker terms, it might be your device, but we have rapidly eliminated ownership of the devices. It's not even all the War on General Purpose Computing; there's so many factors here: an expectation that apps/os just work/are simple, need for security sandboxing, and most of all imo the shift of more computing/resources into the cloud. Connected services where the app is a thin-client to far off systems, that's a huge shift away from the ownership model of computing we briefly had.

It's hard for me to imagine what exactly might trigger a resurgence of the Personal Computing model. But computing, for the time being, is no longer ours, no longer humanities; it's heart has effervesced up into the cloud.
Step 1: purchase reinsurance

Step 2: use reinsurance to cover losses

Step 3: reinsurance premiums go up or reinsurer refuses to insure you
The paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43246-024-00456-w
You are what you eat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HOJwK7bQvw
> In the same interview Putin said that if the US had not broken the promise to Gorbachev to not expand the NATO eastward

Gorbachev called that a myth in 2014 when Putin used it as an excuse to invade Crimea. USSR's minister of foreign affairs Shevardnadze and minister of defence Yazov have said the same thing. Source, excerpt from an interview to ZDF: https://twitter.com/Jesuitchild/status/1749887239226617873

This talking point is a shining example of propaganda. Gorbachev and Shevardnadze have gone as far as explaining why even in theory, such promise couldn't have been made. It's a complete fabrication.
The startup/shutdown time is possibly explained by being an 2013 machine, but I have little reason to replace it right now - it’s only 8GB, old slow CPU (by modern standards), old slow SSD - but it does Firefox, thunderbird, the occasional Python script and a few more things perfectly well.

I’ll replace it when it breaks.

With respect to power draw - there is no simple way to force hibernation on Catalina AFAIK, but the power draw in sleep is minuscule - it hardly registers on my wattmeter (and e.g. it loses only 2-3% percent per day of battery while sleeping).
> The purpose of the UN is to provide a forum for discussion, and nothing more

The UN Charter disagrees:

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Article 1

The Purposes of the United Nations are:

1. To maintain international peace and security, and to that end: to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace, and to bring about by peaceful means, and in conformity with the principles of justice and international law, adjustment or settlement of international disputes or situations which might lead to a breach of the peace;

2. To develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, and to take other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace;

3. To achieve international co-operation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character, and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion; and

4. To be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations in the attainment of these common ends.

—

> the UN by definition cannot force its members to do anything,

I mean, like any government, in practice it cannot without the cooperation of sufficient of its subjects in enforcing the rules, but in theory, yes, it can issue binding mandates, both through the Security Council, and through the ICJ, and, on a narrow set of administrative matters, through the General Assembly.

> because membership is guaranteed by recognition of sovereignty.

False, otherwise there would be no such thing as a state which has both applied for membership and only been given the status of a non-member observer state (which recognizes sovereignty but does not give membership.)
It's the only design they could do that was backward-compatible though.
Also Kubernetes (k8s).

See-also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeronym
Haneda is bigger, but not big enough to take on Narita’s 2019 42 million additional pax.

Most large cities have more than one airport anyways. London has like six, New York has three, Beijing has two, etc.
"techniques from an arcane branch of theoretical computer science called computational complexity theory"

I mean... complexity theory is pretty much at the core of theoretical computer science, right? Hardly an arcane branch of it.
Is there a way to do the random note button but for a random tag? I keep ideas in one note but tag each idea either gamedev, writing, zine, or webdev. Would be nice to bring up random ideas for a potential spark of motivation.
We are adding the price to the landing page soon!
>Humans also need faith to function

Faith is fundamentally a bad idea. Take my word for it.

If you're rebuttal is: "Why should I take your word" you've already partially come around to a more formal method of thinking that is based on questioning.
Google is removing third-party apps and clock faces from all Fitbits in the EU
A Twitter privacy change would make glassdoors look insignificant
Ok, but having these emergency features on a regular phone, with free service (I think for two years when you buy a phone) is a game changer.
This is great. Thanks for sharing these.
It looks like net worth is also public information in Norway. Fascinating!

See “What the tax lists contain?” at https://www.skatteetaten.no/en/forms/search-the-tax-lists/
You're wrong. California does have price controls on insurance.
Eh, I get all that, but Narita is still quite useful as a transfer hub for passengers traveling between North America and East Asia. Haneda’s gate capacity is also a limiting factor, Narita is a necessary companion airport to soak up excess passenger demand.
It is (in theory). There is a via rail track and stop < 1 km away.
mtl was absolutely not the indisputed business center of Canada in the 1960s.

Headquarters and capital were already moving towards Toronto by the 60s, following the opening of the St-Lawrence Seaway, the growing importance of the american economy for Canada and the progression of the quiet revolution which saw the province become way less interesting for the old money from the Golden Square Mile.

The FLQ was also most active in the 60s, culminating in 1970 with the October Crisis and then nearly seized to exist in the 70s/80s bar the occasional bombing by the RCMP (see the Keable, Mcdonald commissions and Robert Samson)

The 1980 referendum did lead to what a few economists dubbed the "Montreal Effect", and there's certainly some factual basis to it in the form of the flight of many anglophones from the province, but arguing that the sovereignty movement was mostly if not solely responsible for this trend we were seeing before it was on the radar instead of precipitating the ongoing changes is overstating the case.

That said, Mirabel was a disaster regardless of the following growth of mtl. It was rushed for the Olympics, the plans to properly connect it fell before it became clear that mtl's population wouldn't grow as fast as predicted and airlines absolutely loathed it from day one.
OpenAI Courts Hollywood in Meetings with Film Studios, Directors
Technically not in general but practically yes on iOS since it's either just SMS, MMS or iMessage on iOS instead of also RCS. That's a constraint they enforce on the colloquial SMS experience, it's limited to whatever they decide it is, and they decide that it's strictly old tech.

Saying they don't control SMS is like saying they don't control HTTPS or access to the web. Sure they don't get dictate the protocol itself, but they do control practically the singular implementation of it on their platform, heavily influence what people can do with it, and also control the entire software stack underneath. My iPad 3 is functionally useless despite being just as capable as it ever was (not very) because although it can still run apps, I'm only allowed to run whatever happens to still be on the app store.
I also refuse to touch node-sass (Bulma wisely opted for the Dart implementation, so this is a bit of a tangent). Node itself partially shares the blame for the binding situation, and it's improving with Node ABI. Regardless, it's just too complex a dependency when, as you pointed out, pure CSS is increasingly very capable.

It's encouraging to see Tailwind recognizing this and embracing it more thoroughly in their 4.0 alpha.
It doesn't matter if someone was forced into buying too many apple products or not. Governments have a responsibility to prevent Apple from abusing their market position and captive audience.
Or alternatively in a just world we would teach our children not to be little shits to each other because of their tech choices. I just can't wrap my head around how the whole SMS vs iMessage color thing has become such a dominant "problem". It's been that way for as long as there was any distinction to be made between SMS and non SMS messaging. It's valuable information to the end user, and it's easily dealt with by using any other messaging system other than SMS to communicate, like apparently the entire rest of the world does. But somehow it's too difficult for american teenagers to figure out how to install Signal, or Whats App, or Telegram, or Facebook Messenger, or use email, or Discord, or IRC, or Matrix, or Skype, or Google Chat or literally any other of a few hundred messaging / chat systems that are out there.
In my little internet sphere, the only time I see genx mentioned is by genx themselves, and it's to complain about how easy everyone else has it, how weak everyone else is, and most of all, how badass genx was/is. It seems you're becoming the new boomers.
> but if your lines get longer than the screen width that might be a sign your sentences are too complex
RollerCoaster Tycoon at 25: 'It's mind-blowing how it inspired me'
Regulation could be good or bad depending on how it is crafted. That doesn't change the economic fact that price controls cause supply shortages.
New York City Map Is Full of Dutch Secrets
Antarctic ambitions are reshaping critical science at the pole
Yeah, the dude obviously made bank working on all of those Habitat for Humanity houses. And all that supposed oil arbitrage resulted in his huge $9M net worth[1].

C'mon, not everyone has the same motives that you do.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_Unit...

(Note: when he left office Carter had a negative net worth because the blind trust he put his peanut farm in had been mismanaged. He and Rosalynn worked their way out of debt by writing books - about 30 of them.)
Did you see the definition of faith Tillich uses? Do you think that's "fundamentally a bad idea?"
> Last I heard a worker could leave his employer at any time for a another job elsewhere, taking any skills and know-how with them. Who is bleeding who?

Of course, we never heard of employers colluding to suppress wages, no sir.

> It has always been the case that to best protect the worker you need to create a thriving economy with alternative employment for workers to arb their employers, not regulations or unions.

This is the bullshit of the ages. Jobs exist in countries where worker protections are high, believe it or not. It's the reason why I migrated to Europe for that matter.
Planting Trees May Not Be as Good for the Climate as Previously Believed
Emission Impossible
I'd rather abbolish copyright, patents and ip laws in general. Just keep trademarks. There is no patching of this broken system.
> Now personally I do believe becoming interstellar should be one of our shared goals, and that it will be good for us (and the rest of the biosphere) long term. However, I really think that "nevermind the starving kids they will die anyway, it is what it is, focus on space instead" is gonna actively deteriorate our chances of ever getting anything done because it comes off as deeply detached and cruel.

Your intuition is correct, but there's even more reasons that that. I will use a movie clip to introduce what I would try to do if "we" "decided" to set off on an unnecessary interstellar voyage prior to taking care of people (particularly children) here on Earth first:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdcE3VyKv5U

And why would I do this?

a) bfytw - https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=BFYTW

b) Some other reasons that are more well thought out

Humans would be well advised to not forget (or, learn in the first place) that it is MUCH easier to wreck things than it is to build them. I recommend "measuring twice and cutting once", as my grand daddy always told me.

PS: I should really try to be not such a pessimist/asshole, so I will also include this clip from the same movie as a counter-balance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et4sMJP9FmM
Long-term thinking isn't super trendy, or even incentivized maybe?
My kids are 12 and 14 and I can't get them interested in coding beyond what they might do at school. They showed an interest in Scratch, but I believe I introduced it WAY too early. Moreover, it moved them too quickly past the creative aspects and into writing code. Also, years later, I showed them PICO-8 and they weren't terribly interested.

In hindsight, I would recommend working with them at a young age (<10) to design game art and ideas. Then, the parent implements it and ports it to a portable platform. The child sees the creative aspects and the final output, but is shielded from the coding side in the early days. I imagine a child playing a game they designed on paper with crayons would be really satisfying. It would almost be like magic!

Then, let the transition to the coding side happen more organically or through a school program or some such. Maybe when they finally ask, "So, parent, how do I actually code these games?"

Just my non-data backed opinion...
The claim:

> Despite their importance, airports are enormously difficult to build, not only in the US but around the world.

The evidence: all about the US, with a brief sentence about London Heathrow.

New international airport construction projects started in 2021-2022 include Sydney, Mumbai, Addis Ababa, Manila, Cavite (Phillipines), Dong Nai (Vietnam), Noida (India)…

Sounds more like this is just a ‘you’ problem :)
Very happy to see this here! I don't use Bulma (mainly because I don't use CSS) but I had the pleasure of working with Jeremy in the past, and he deserves every bit of recognition for this! Insanely talented frontend developer, super nice guy, excellent football teammate :)
Was it? I can understand making friends with people you bump into randomly throughout the day, but someone just sending you a message isn't exactly bumping into you, it seems like the person was explicitly seeking you out.
One name I don't see here is "Heidegger". I remember hearing years ago that Tillich drew heavily on Heidegger, sometimes with little more alteration than swapping in "God" for "ground of being".

Perhaps someone better acquainted with Tillich and Heidegger could weigh in?
I will let Dave and Nick chime in here if they want to, since they saw the Apple acquisition closer up than I did, but here are my views:

(1) Your beliefs about what happened to FoundationDB's customers are incorrect. Everybody who had a FoundationDB license when we were acquired either got a free license to the software in perpetuity at their current levels (the free tier), or in the case of our paid customers, they were able to continue using it on an even larger scale in the future. None of our paying customers were screwed.

(2) We are not aiming for an acquisition or any other kind of early exit. Our previous successes enable us to be a little bit more risk-neutral this time.

(3) Even if we did vanish, what have you actually lost at this point? If your operational database gets yanked (which, I reemphasize, didn't actually happen to anybody), then you're screwed. If your exotic software testing technology gets yanked, then you're literally exactly where you are today. Doesn't seem like as big a risk to me.

Apologies if my answers here were not diplomatic or whatever, but I try to be very direct about this stuff.

EDIT:

Actually let me add a number (4) We have validated that people are willing to pay for Antithesis, and we have a growing business being built. To the extent we're an attractive acquisition target, it's likely to be due to the strength of our business and their desire to scale it out / make it more widely available, and not simply to improve the internal tech stack of an acquirer internally.

BTW, one example of an FDB customer that was still a small startup when we were acquired was Snowflake. They obviously had no problems continuing to grow and use FDB, as they still use FoundationDB as their core metadata storage today and have since they started working with us.
This is mainly focused on noise levels. They did not focus on large runways and the water runoff calcs and flight paths and elevation restrictions on neighboring buildings etc.

It’s easier to put in an airport first and then build a city around it than the other way around.