skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You realize the world market is irrelevant. If some company has a monopoly in France, they don't care whether or not that company has less market in other countries. Apple has a monopoly in the USA and so the USA is going to try to break that monopoly. Google has already been sued and lost on it's app store market share. Apple's is larger.
The Canadian government should make stealing cars illegal. Oh wait.
I worked in the HashiCorp sales org for a couple of years -- Vault's weird identity-based pricing model was by far the biggest issue with getting prospects to buy Enterprise. It's great if you're a large multinational with highly-consolidated infrastructure and application identity, but if you're operating on a smaller scale than that or are not highly-centralized it's totally infeasible. The sales segment that focused on the smallest deals was rarely able to sell Vault Enterprise at all -- both because the pricing was so high and because the pricing model itself didn't scale in a way prospects felt they could understand and budget predictably for as they grew. We heard "we love the features, but there's no way we can afford that price" all the time. Various people beat the drum on this internally for literally years right from the initial switch to the current pricing model, but other than minor "client counting" tweaks, nothing ever changed.

I see they have a SaaS product called Vault Secrets now and I bet that's exactly why that product exists.
Reminded me of the Augury attack[1] from 2022, which also exploits the DMP prefetcher on Apple Silicon CPUs.

[1]: https://www.prefetchers.info
This has exactly zero useful content. It’s just a bounch of links, no added value.
I can’t imagine it’s a popular choice or one that’s even considered by Apple.

Isn’t that what a Mac Mini is for?
Note that the "Singularity" turns up in the novel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marooned_in_Realtime

where people can use a "Bobble" to freeze themselves in a stasis field and travel in time... forward. The singularity is some mysterious event that causes all of unbobbled humanity to disappear leaving the survivors wondering, even 10s of millions of years later, what happened. As such it is one of the best pretenses ever in sci-fi. (I am left wondering though if the best cultural comparison is "The Rapture" some Christians believe in making this more of a religiously motivated concept as opposed to sound futurism.)

I've long been fascinated by this differential equation

dx
-- = x^2
dt

which has solutions that look like

x = 1/(t₀-t)

which notably blows up at time t₀. It's a model of an "intelligence explosion" where improving technology speeds up the rate of technological process but the very low growth when t ≪ t₀ could also be a model for why it is hard to bootstrap a two-sided market, why some settlements fail, etc. About 20 years ago I was very interested in ecological accounting and wondering if we could outrace resource depletion and related problems and did a literature search for people developing models like this further and was pretty disappointed not to find much also it did appear as a footnote in the ecology literature here and there. Even papers like

https://agi-conf.org/2010/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/agi10si...

seem to miss it. (Surprised the lesswrong folks haven't picked it up but they don't seem too mathematically inclined)

---

Note I don't believe in the intelligence explosion because what we've seen in "Moore's law" recently is that each generation of chips is getting much more difficult and expensive to develop whereas the benefits of shrinks are shrinking and in fact we might be rudely surprised that the state of the art chips of the new future (and possibly 2024) burn up pretty quickly. It's not so clear that chipmakers would have continued to invest in a new generation if governments weren't piling huge money into a "great powers" competition... That is, already we might be past the point of economic returns.
Depends on the location and plan.

The residential plans have allocated bandwidth and the traveling plans do not. So the traveling plans can get slow when other people in your area are using Starlink and you're just getting the leftover bandwidth.

I've gotten speeds as low as 5Mbps and as high as 300Mbit. Depends where you are. Usually it's pretty good. Upload has been good too but I have occasionally had trouble sustaining really large uploads (eg 10 GB).

In general it's great for working. It handles zooms and has enough bandwidth. It would be great for an off grid cabin.
The free market approach went out the window when we decided software was copyrightable and DRM unlock tools are illegal. Otherwise Epic would just release a jailbreak that installed Epic Games Store and we'd be done with it.
> The sophistication and technology being used is also becoming problematic in detecting these scenarios even for highly aware/technical folk.

This kind of worries me too, but I think we can still defend almost 100% by just following rule #1:

“Do not send money in response to anyone contacting you unsolicited, either over the phone, email, SMS, social media, etc.”

You can get a lot of mileage from just that. There is never a case where such contact is not a scam or spam. If it’s someone you know or already do business with, use rule #2: hang up, wait an hour, and call them back using a number you know to be correct.
The Physics of Languages (2023)
Meanwhile, a lot of people end up buying cars sooner than they would have had to otherwise, because someone thought it was a good, environmentally-sound idea to make electrical wiring out of tasty, tasty soybeans.

That's capitalism taking a lesson from nature.
Was going to suggest this myself, this was a godsend when I was working with a big team on a C# project going through a messy refactor.
Something has changed. The auto warranty scam calls have stopped, which at one point were the majority of scam calls I got. Scam calls are most of my calls as well.

Now I get:

- Travel package scams (I believe this is related to timeshares, this is most calls I get).

- Medicare/Medicaid scams (a close second by volume)

- Auto accident scams (pitching an insurance payout)

- Home security system scams (free security system!)
I think you might need to adapt that strategy for the modern world where sexual degeneracy has become acceptable for corporate messaging.
You can also do this for iPhone...
I have a couple of these literally as household decoration. They are really quite neat.
The 0.01% who hate apple anyway can't live without the need to turn the iphone into an android because it's what's good for the children (users). It's really amazing the lengths folks talk about how superior android on these threads and apple is the root of all evil.

The other 99.9% could care less and I predict they will be unhappy with the results of forced-enshitification of iOS.
I'm saying that, even on a grammatical level, it's visible that the author must have had a motive for putting the sentence there that was somehow extraneous to and different from the motive for putting the other sentences there.

Noticing that sort of thing is a useful skill in the critical reception of media. That's why I pointed it out.
Great news. They should next should sue Ford for monopoly over the F150.
The real trick to surviving the early game is to abuse the heck out of surprise attacks. Do not fight enemies in the open early on! Throw/zap stuff at them from a distance and then retreat behind a door. As soon as they step through the door, hit them! You should see a yellow ! indicating a surprise attack (guaranteed hit). Now retreat and do it again!

This trick works with anything that breaks line of sight. Doors and tall grass are my preferred options. It even works if you step through a door (closing it behind you) or around a patch of tall grass (to the opposite side of the grass from the enemy) and the enemy immediately opens the door or otherwise follows right behind you.

See my other reply [1] for more tips!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39779664
It is disappointing that this form of discrimination which is very real and impacts so many is ignored at all levels.

Companies bend over backwards to show they are not discriminating on just about every identity trait except for age.

Companies are OK turning away someone based on age when that person would likely be a more useful and productive employee than someone significantly younger.
CA Proposition 1 Narrowly Approved by Voters
PRC cities are not particularly dense. Population densities in cities within a country tend to follow zipfs law, which would predict BJ and SH to be 3-4x larger than it currently is. Many economists and urban planners was suggesting PRC should densify tier1 about 10 years ago. But hukou anbd industrial policy seems to be designed to limit megacity sizes to redirect popuation towards growing 3rd, 4th+ tier cities into their own economic hubs. IMO trying to avoid SKR/JP where everyone rushes to a few economically viable regions.
I've updated my comment with a note about yours. I'll admit I haven't gone through the recordings or transcripts, thank you for doing that.
Does he still edit comments in the database if the don't align with his political preferences?
Yeah this never made sense to me. Yes, it detects no acceleration. Great. But we know it IS accelerating; if you fall your speed will increase, this can only occur if you are accelerating?!
In the US you can actually lose relationships if you don't have imessage. None of the other apps matter.
>> I had assumed getting around the deadbolt would require a locksmith or breaking the door.

Look into what happens when someone pulls a fire alarm. Some building-wide lock systems will actively unlock doors during a fire scenario.
Cloudflare?

They provide DDoS protection to DDoS providers that would otherwise have taken each other down, so those providers can find clients for their services which further necessitates Cloudflare’s main product.
You have a choice here on your platforms, this isn't even remotely an honest comparison, is it?
Oh wonderful. Thank you! I was looking for something like this for my project https://htwins.net/scale2 and others which use svg or canvas
Obligatory link to an article covering how Reddit got started - Tons of fake accounts

https://www.vice.com/en/article/z4444w/how-reddit-got-huge-t...
VitePress 1.0
Glad you're liking it!

> How can I keep offline without uploading data to cloud?

There's no first-class way to do this right now. Godspeed will work perfectly fine offline, but you can't disable sync. However, if you really wanted to, you could disable network access for the app in the Network inspector of the Electron devtools ([⌘+Option+I] to open dev tools, then click the Network tab).

> While I'm offline, how can I back up my TODOs? So I can restore them after I reinstall Godspeed?

The only way to restore tasks right now is to sync them through the server.

I totally understand if these things are a dealbreaker for you! Hopefully you can check us out again if we support something more amenable to your work requirements.
Battery life is more of a concern on mobile devices because if your phone dies you can't call 911, get an uber, navigate with maps, or message a friend. There's more reason to protect mobile batteries than laptop batteries.
Study About Purported Ancient 'Pyramid' in Indonesia Is Retracted
Apple + Google form a duopoly. Apple has locked down iOS to let them do whatever they want and overcharge as much as they like, and Google has no incentive to be any better, because there's no serious 3rd contender*.

For typical users not buying Apple means having to compromise on privacy with Google, which isn't a great option either. Both are trying their best to create vendor lock-in and make it hard for users to leave.

From developer perspective not having access to iOS users is a major problem. Apple inserts themselves between users and developers, even where neither users nor developers want it. Users and devs have no bargaining power there, because Play Store does the same, and boycotting both stores has a bunch of downsides for users and devs.

*) I expect people on HN to say that some AOSP fork with f-droid is perfectly fine, but that's not mainstream enough to make Apple and Google worried, especially that Google has created its certification program and proprietary PlayStore Services to make degoogling phones difficult.
3mm hotel keycard form factor.
We originally spelled it qaml which stood for quality assurance, machine learning. That wasn't obvious to anyone and everyone would pronounce it as "qwamel" which we hated so we decided on camelQA instead. Thanks for the question. I was waiting for someone to ask it!
There is an option to request a copy of your data at: https://privacy.apple.com/
https://archive.ph/PtrCy
China would attack US bases in Japan and that would trigger whatever needs to be triggered for Japan to enter the war. There’s no way that China would try and invade Taiwan while also not trying to stop the US from intervening.
Out of curiosity, you're paying for all the infrastructure out of pocket? And tangentially, what is your setup? Presumably browsers are among the more resource hungry applications you could run in the cloud, are you spawning each browser in a container in some large server or are you spinning up/shutting down small instances on demand?
There was recent news alleging the russians are using US satellite data for their missile attacks on Ukraine.
Fascinating.

>> The porcine donor was engineered to carry 69 genomic edits, eliminating glycan antigens, overexpressing human transgenes and inactivating porcine endogenous retroviruses. In vitro functional analyses showed that the edited kidney endothelial cells modulated inflammation to an extent that was indistinguishable from that of human endothelial cells, suggesting that these edited cells acquired a high level of human immune compatibility.

>> The Yucatan miniature pig breed was chosen because its organ sizes are comparable to human organs28. In addition, pigs with OO blood type were selected to eliminate ABO blood-type incompatibilities29.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06594-4
Apple convinced us that only they could keep us safe. Turns out their argument is specious - they can't keep us safe either. They haven't been able to keep malicious apps off of their App Store.
Do people not read licenses that they use? MIT means anyone can use it for anything. The text is very short, and very clear.

why are people surprised when other people start using the software/close sourcing/packaging it and selling it?
Why do the app store policies and prices look so similar between iOS and Android? What competitive forces are going to change a duopoly with soft collusion?
I usually just need to run one big interactive job on a server, in which case I just do

tmux
my-command
Ctrl-b d (detach)
logout, go to bed, sleep, whatever
log back into the server, tmux attach

Would there be an advantage to using this over that?
Redis will remain BSD licensed (2018)
They've never tried to hide that (to their credit)
>I need to open my laptop to buy a Kindle book instead of continuing to use my phone

You can buy in iOS Safari and not have to open your laptop.
Also here: https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offens...
Agreed. I remember seeing a YT review of the camera on the S23U and really raving about it.

Then he said that he wouldn't use it, because his family and friends won't let him... said they practically staged an "intervention" last time he used a device without imessage.

This wasn't a small YouTuber. Among teens, the pressure is even more real. imessage is being used to drive adoption in a really bizarre way.
You are in luck

Flux.ai does that…have a look at this tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y56AqPOjp0k&t=366s

Flux Copilot will happily assist you going from an idea to selecting the right components all the way to manufactured board!
Giving 7 billion to a food programme is irrelevant when you have policies that enslave Global South to monocropping and force them to import your exports with IP laws (GE seeds) or when you have protectionist subsidies (as U.S. notoriously does) that makes your own exports not competitive. The harm of U.S. policy to the aid recipients is far in excess of 7 billion+, as you claim here.
For folks who don't have time to read a 90 page document, the case rests on specific claims, not just the general claim that iPhone is a monopoly because it's so big. Here are those claims:

1. "Super Apps"

Apple has restrictions on what they allow on the App Store as far as "Super Apps", which are apps that might offer a wide variety of different services (specifically, an app which has several "mini programs" within it, like apps within an app). In China, WeChat does many different things, for example, from messaging to payments. This complaint alleges that Apple makes it difficult or impossible to offer this kind of app on their platform. Apple itself offers a "super app" of course, which is the Apple ecosystem of apps.

2. Cloud streaming apps

Similar to "super apps", the document alleges that Apple restricts apps which might stream different apps directly to the phone (like video games). It seems there are several roadblocks that Apple has added that make these kinds of apps difficult to release and promote - and of course, Apple offers their own gaming subscription service called Apple Arcade which might be threatened by such a service.

3. Messaging interoperability

Probably most people are familiar with this already, how messages between (for example) iOS and Android devices do not share the same feature-set.

4. Smartwatches

Other smart watches than the Apple Watch exist, but the document alleges that Apple restricts the functionality that these devices have access to so that they are less useful than the Apple Watch. Also, the Apple Watch itself does not offer compatibility with Android.

5. Digital wallets

It is claimed that Apple restricts the APIs available so that only Apple Pay can implement "tap to pay" on iOS. In addition to lock-in, note that Apple also collects fees from banks for using Apple Pay, so they get direct financial benefit in addition to the more nebulous benefit of enhancing the Apple platform.
Even without this that is happening in small ways. I've seen a few fairly visual pages (graphs & charts, etc.) where parts that could be done with plain HTML+CSS such as separate tables containing the data (or a subset thereof) displayed in the charts was also rendered on a canvas.
It's wild to me to see people defending Apple in the comments here.

60% of Americans own a phone they're not allowed to install third party apps on, and the ONLY way to get apps is to pay a 30% fee to Apple on every purchase.

Imagine if Windows allowed you to only install apps acquired through their store, and with the same 30% fee. Microsoft literally had a huge anti trust case against them for simply setting a default browser, one you could have switched away from at any time.

It's probably the clearest monopoly in America right now. The damage to consumers is immediately visible (30% fee leaves a lot of margin on the table for competitors). Just look at the number of apps that either don't allow you to purchase their subscription on Apple at all, or charge substantially more. It should be a slam dunk case.
More architectures are feasible with the way modern open-source makes software available. Breaking up the hegemony of x86 in the data center is a good thing.
3MM is three million, for US accountants and thus engineers writing docs for VPs. 3mm is three millimeters.
Yeah people are happy to post and use social networks and forum sites (eg Discord, here, etc.) when those sites don’t make intrusive changes a significant amount of users dislike or do shady things like the Meta Cambridge Analytica scandal.
The downsides to the apple monopoly are much more straightforward. "Apples iMessage policy lead to this kid being bullied and because of that they did x" is a much easier sell than whatever sound bite you can come up with about google.
Take your hands off your team calendars
This is incredible --- @chearon thank you for open sourcing this!

I think most folks probably don't realize how difficult it is to go from HTML -> PNG programmatically. You get hit with a thousand papercuts related to either Node<>Browser differences or HTML<>Canvas differences.
Apple sells over 60% of new smart phones in the US.
reddit's success shows how much luck and timing is involved. It was basically a digg clone until digg imploded on their own and everyone flocked to reddit. Kevin rose should be listed as a cofounder.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/06/microsco...
The first chapter of Fire Upon the Deep is one of my favorites of all time. I really some of the concepts introduced (ie, universal constants aren't universal) to resolve Fermi paradox.
That's because Wikipedia isn't run by a Silicon Valley swamp creature. It provides a decent living for those who run the corporate side of things, but was never intended to create millionaires. Keeping the servers running isn't a cost that will grow exponentially; you need a lack of focus on the product by incompetent people who think they should be unfathomably wealthy to get the revenue demands that Reddit has now.
https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://3e.org/vvannot
I find this to be an incredibly bizarre thing to say. Nobody is stopping you from thinking anything, of course you're allowed and surely you know this very well.

I suspect what you're really saying is "Will you still respect me for being a creationist". And the answer is, LOL of course not. Nobody is entitled to have their wacky ideas be respected. A lot of the "free speech" complaints are really demands that other people treat your bullshit with respect, which is an absurd demand.

But if my suspicion above is way off, please tell me. I am curious why anyone would say what you said.
I'm pretty sure he knows what Doordash is. I assume the thing that doesn't exist is ordering via a phone line, not an internet-based interface.

i.e. texting or calling a number in a specific way based on some standard tons of fast food places provide to make fast food orders without human interaction.
If "hot" described any temperature from "the dark side of Pluto" to "the core of a brand-new neutron star" - then how useful a word would "hot" be, for communication between humans?
The first chapter of Fire Upon the Deep is one of my favorites of all time. I really love some of the concepts introduced (ie, universal constants aren't universal) to resolve Fermi paradox.
It would be amazing if we could could use Zig for TLEs, and we'll look into it, but I worry it might not be possible because Zig can't guarantee memory safety in the same way that Rust can.
Yea I think that also needs to be part of The Talk with your elderly relatives, too: Random online people are not looking to make friends with you, no matter how friendly they seem, they are taking advantage of your loneliness. I can see how the conversation could be unpleasant and you need to be delicate and respectful when telling it.
A lot of OSS founders make bold claims to their contributors and donors like "oh we'll never take XYZ feature away or charge for our services". Until they do.

It's fine to be proprietary. It's ideal for most business models that are products and not building blocks.

It's better to start as closed source, then go open if you feel it's a good route for what you're building. You'll piss less people off that way.
I 100% agree. There is a balance and also different dynamics based on the trajectory of the company. When a company is growing, you could have new blood and old hats. When a company is shrinking, everything sucks.
Generally in the US, if you want to participate in friends and family group messages, it's either iPhone or be left out.
I wasn't implying anything of the sort. I was simply trying to illustrate that market share is relative to the definition of "market" you use with extreme examples. Frankly, I'm not even saying that defining iOS/the app store as a market unto itself is a good definition.