skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And especially in hotels, locked doors aren't about keeping everyone out forever (there's dozens of reasons that'd be an awful idea, from cleaning staff needing access to medical emergencies).

They're about making it inconvenient enough / loud enough to gain unauthorized access that someone is going to notice and complain to the manager.
> Deleting simple things like email, which are just a swipe away on Android, are notoriously difficult on the native email app,

Not sure what exactly you’re talking about, because deleting an email (from the mailbox list) is a long swipe to the left on iOS/iPadOS too, unless you have changed the settings for that to archive the mail instead of deleting. It has been this way for a very long time.
Congrats on good execution! This solution looks quite unique from a product perspective, though it makes sense that it should exist. I wish you luck! I know it is quite hard to market something that people might not be looking for.
Acknowledging the complexity inherent in how the U.S. gov't finances initiatives.

However, eventually, the buck stops at the taxpayer.

Yes, the federal gov't issues bonds to finance their activities (i.e. deficit spending), but the creditworthiness of the U.S. is intrinsically supported by the federal government's capacity to collect taxes from its citizens.

Eventually, "we the people" foots the bill. It might be amortized over decades and deferred more years still, but it's still a debit to "we the people" of $8.5B in the ledger.
I’m not following what this gives you that Veracrypt's inbuilt hidden+decoy OS feature doesn't already? It seems
they require you to manually set up a veracrypt hidden partition for anything to be "hidden" anyway. How is booting your encrypted partition in a VM within Tails more secure than booting it directly?
I needed to transform a 12MB HTML file into a PDF document and headless Chrome quickly ran out of memory (4GB+).

We are now using a commercial alternative that seems be be using a custom engine that implements the HTML and CSS specs. The result is reduced memory usage (below 512MB during my tests) and the resulting PDF is much smaller, 3.3MB vs 42MB.
I had (probably still have) a similar-ish problem. I have an old nVidia Shield handheld that I bought a wired ethernet adapter for. Something about that adapter would kill my network dead after a random interval. It took a while to figure out what device was causing it, and unplugging the adapter would instantly cause the network to come back to life. I never figured out what the root cause was, I just stopped using the adapter.
If phone OSes and ecosystems were fungible, then I'd agree. It's reasonable to prefer iOS for many reasons, but still be disappointed in the walled-garden, non-interoperable aspects.

Customers don't really have great choices right now when it comes to smartphones:

1. One OS is locked down, has a walled-garden ecosystem, but has many privacy-protecting features.

2. The other OS more open (interop & user-choice-wise, not really in the FOSS sense), but is run by a company that seems hell-bent on eroding user privacy.

These properties are dictated by Apple and Google. But due to the barrier for entry, there are no alternatives that come even close to duplicating Android's and iOS's feature sets. Even simply using a community-developed Android-based OS can cause you to lose access to many useful features Android provides.

I guess I went off on a little tangent here, but my position is that the existence of Android is only a defense if switching between the two doesn't incur high costs, both financial and non-. That's demonstrably not the case.
A Chicago Office Building in 1976
As we continue to debate remote work vs Return to Office, this video offers an interesting perspective of working in an office through the lens of history.
If you are using Postgres for vector embeddings, you are using TOAST
You could, of course, still open it with 3M Glass Bubbles or explosives from other brands.
> I'm not sure who is at fault

It's the people who thought Ethernet Pause was ever a good idea.

I've only seen it lead to tears. In all of the situations I've run into, it would be better to drop packets that are arriving too fast to handle than to try to fix it up by trying to do flow control. Ethernet is unreliable, and packet loss is the overload signal; PAUSE changes overload from drop to buffer, and then you end up with problems with overlarge buffers. In addition to things like where a multi-queue nic has one queue overloaded and sends PAUSE, which results in starvation for the other queues; or PAUSE getting broadcast over a switch when it shouldn't have been, etc.
Unless there is legislation that forces something, the ship for the app store has sailed. Not to mention, several companies have some version of this, including game consoles. And even legislation in the area seems hard to draft, as seen by DMA.
Is this exploitable through JavaScript?

In general from what I've seen, most of these JS-based CPU exploits didn't strike me as all that practical in real world conditions. I mean, it is a problem, but not really all that worrying.
> You realize that when you add appstores like Cydia to an iphone that you immediately open them up into gaping security holes right?

Then this is an OS sandboxing issue, not an App Store issue. The only difference between an app store and a regular app is the app store is permitted to install other apps. This extra permission should not introduce any security flaws if sandboxing is working properly.
Wrote blog on how to use Markdown in Next.js site
https://www.shaunakc.com/blogs/integrating-mdx-blog
This blog shows how to use MDX to write blogs in a Next.js site. MDX allows to integrate JSX with Markdown
Thanks for trying it out and for the feedback! Good point, that's something we can easily hide and handle in different ways (e.g. show as a suggested follow-up prompt, toggle on / off, etc.)
Larian's impact on RPG genre: "We can't invest $200M to make BG3"
Arguably, F-Droid is a (Android-only, not possible to make such an app on iOS) super app that very much exists in the western world.

> Apple itself offers a "super app" of course, which is the Apple ecosystem of apps.

To be fair to Apple, both Google and Meta have loads of apps for iOS that compare to the Apple suite of apps. Although there is definitely a pre-installed advantage for the Apple apps.
When investing, I always ask myself the question, "Does the CEO/founder/leadership team have the same incentives I do to make the company succeed?"

Dual class share structures, special warrants (very common in SPAC days), etc. all misalign later shareholder incentives with leadership incentives. As a rule, I avoid such investments.

I wish such incentives were (a) clearer to see in many cases, and (b) not as common as they are.
Show HN: Memories – FOSS Google Photos alternative built for high performance
Memories is a FOSS Google Photos alternative that you can self-host (it runs as a Nextcloud plugin).

Website: https://memories.gallery/

GitHub: https://github.com/pulsejet/memories

Demo Server: https://demo.memories.gallery/apps/memories/
(demo runs in San Francisco on a free-tier cloud vm)

Memories has been built ground-up for high performance and is extremely fast when configured correctly. In our testing environment, it can load a timeline view with 100k photos in under 500ms, including query and rendering time!

Some features to highlight:

* A timeline similar to Google Photos where you can skip to any time in history instantly.

* AI-based tagging that runs locally on your server, identifying and tagging people and objects.

* Albums and external sharing.

* Metadata editing support

* A world map of your photos, supported both on mobile and the web

* Did I mention it's extremely fast?

Would love to hear feedback from the HN community! :)
Most Garmin users wouldn't ever be using Apple Fitness+ to workout.

Totally different markets. The lack of sensor compatibility and lack of battery life make the Apple Watch a non-starter for a lot of the really serious fitness/sports use cases.
KMFDM sucks! 'Our music is sampled//Totally fake
It's done by machines//Cause they don't make mistakes'
> Einsteins notation (X_n Y^n being defined as sum over ‘n’ of X_n times Y^n) is one of the most elegant and simple solutions that really work.

Yes, but that notation still includes the indexes being summed over, which I think is the point that no. 7 was trying to make. What doesn't work is a notation that just says XY, without any indexes whatsoever. The ordering of indexes and the specification of which indexes are being summed over matters, so a notation that leaves those things out doesn't work.
While I agree, I think you underestimated how much this comment thread would wind up somewhat derailing conversation about the actual article. Dear lord people it's a simple disambiguation - there's no need for upwards of 40 comments about it.
Yeah it's really hard to make something complex work with so many parties involved. 2-way SMS works well enough at least.
Not per-capita. And anyway, the point is that people need to be close to them. It wouldn’t matter if you split the Mojave Desert into 50,000 smaller parks.
When will the parents face justice? They enriched themselves and the father was even working at the company while the mother was trumpeting her son all around Stanford to anyone who would listen.

Much like the recent convictions of the parents in the recent school shooting, these parents that helped create a family criminal enterprise need to be brought to justice and serve time in prison right along with their son.
LLMs (either online services—which also risk getting cut off—or the hardware to run them locally) are probably a lot more expensive than trafficked workers.
I use the dongle, fwiw. It stays attached to my "good" wired earphones.

I don't really have any strong feelings either way about it. I dropped my phone once, and the dongle took the brunt of it (saving the expensive stuff) but I did have to buy another.
If you have a Mac the easiest is to use the Image Capture app, which comes preinstalled. A lot better than the Photos app, in my experience.
This has absolutely nothing to do with consumer choice. Apple device popularity among consumers has created a market of apps and technology that exists. That market is larger than the GDP of most countries. It is governed by Apple’s policies, and those policies are anti-competitive against companies wishing to participate in that market.

Spotify, just by virtue of the fact that someone installs their app, must pay Apple 30% of their revenue. Imagine trying to compete in a market where you have to pay your largest direct competitor 30%… And on top of all that, Apple keeps the internal fancy APIs all to themselves. It’s insane this hasn’t come sooner
> If you think any major social media site is not willfully ignoring some percentage of the bots, I've got a bridge to sell you.

Sell me. How do they usually do that? Any concrete example?
Almost all the stuff Garmin leaves out is the stuff I don't want to do on my watch anyway.

I bought an Apple Watch and it was so fiddly and always trying to get my attention to the point I returned it.
Show HN: Harder version of gandalf prompt injection game
Educational, open source silly game, to train yourself in prompt injection and LLM security.
Ok, I understand this may be an unpopular stance and risk downvotes. However, I want to share my perspective on government intervention in business, particularly regarding anti-monopoly actions against companies with proprietary ecosystems.

Firstly, I'm no fan of monopolies. Yet, I'm conflicted about the idea of the government compelling anyone to divulge trade secrets or alter their services to simply foster competition, especially when the company in question has opted to create an ecosystem of products and services designed to be exclusive. For example, Apple's iMessage doesn't integrate with other platforms, and its smartphones are optimized for its ecosystem.

As consumers, we're aware of these limitations and have the "freedom" to choose products that better suit our needs instead. Labeling a company as a monopoly simply because its products don't play well with others overlooks the investment and innovation behind their development. After all, it's Apple's technology, infrastructure, and service on the line.

Why should these companies be forced to share or open their ecosystems? While there are valid arguments for promoting interoperability and open technology, the idea of mandating companies to share their proprietary advancements seems to contradict the essence of free enterprise. Should they then be compelled to 'open up' their infrastructure against their will?
The article addresses this. The patient previously had a human kidney transplant in 2018, which failed sometime in (reading slightly between the lines) 2023, as well as having other health issues. Another human Kidney wouldn't have been made available to him for five to six years, and his doctors didn't believe that he would live that long.

I still think it counts as brave though, certainly not an easy choice.
Amazing, I came up with the same thing. There's probably more of us out there!

> then have to close it and never know the end

That bit has irked me to no end since I was young!
Marooned in Space Time is about people who missed the singularity.
If you're taking a call on a phone with headphones, you need an mic on the headphones for anyone to hear you. There were several years you had the option of using BT headphones while the iPhone had both BT and the jack, but you were using the jack.
The night Godzilla trampled Hollywood
You speak of this like its something that is behind us.

lol, thats funny.
The Acolyte – The Message Is Strong with This One [video]
Just to be clear here, are you talking about the 'left-brain, right-brain' thing? Because I thought that was pretty well debunked.

Also, I think you are talking about the corpus callosum for the 'bus' right?
It's just different. Like KDE/Gnome/i3/Windows is different from each other. MacOS applications are more like services, while windows let you perform the current task you have. As an example Preview.app allows you to open PDFs and picture files. But you need to open a file to do anything to it, and when you do so, it creates a window allowing you to interact with the file. When you're done, you close the file by closing the window (which is why it duplicates the window when you chose "Save As"). The window has a 1:1 relationship with the files. The menu bar is part of the application, but the currently focused window can interact with it.

When you're close all Chrome windows, that just means you're done with the webpages, not that you're done with Chrome. Chrome dev team can set Chrome to terminate when all windows close, but they've not chosen to do so. It's there when you want to create a new window when you want to interact with a new webpage. And again it's up to the developer to choose to tie the application lifecyle to its windows.
Wired/Tired/Expired
I don't see anything about it reading local documents like exel, pdfs, or docs.
Anyone see how this is accomplished?
> Rather than allowing multiple gigabytes of outstanding buffered writes and deferring writeback until a gigabyte or more has accumulated, you'd set things to trigger writebacks almost immediately and then force processes doing write IO to wait for disk writes to complete once you have more than a relatively small volume of outstanding writes.

This is especially true when the thing doing a bunch of buffered writes is in a VM. If the VMM is buffering writes to the host fs, you get the described effects in the host OS and the guest OS.
Why don't twitter. com just do the super apps w/ e-commerce thing? It's financial regulations, not App Store regulations, isn't that the case?

What are challenges for implementing such "payment" system on iOS that can transfer, say Monopoly money vs real USD? Aren't those almost entirely legal or compliance matters for very good reasons? The Alaskan 737 MAX 9 landed largely intact thanks to still-working parts of regulations and we all value that.

So why not they just do that? Or CAN'T they?
You are exactly describing the recent EU lawsuit
This looks interesting. I would love a comparison between this product and LM Studio.
> This creates a disdain for SMS, and anyone who uses it over iMessage. It is such a strong feeling, that having green messages makes you "uncool", especially in the younger crowd.

The thing is, I think it's perfectly fine, reasonable, and correct to have a disdain for SMS. The problem is that people transfer this disdain onto anyone they are "forced" to communicate with over SMS.

> I think the long-term sequalae of the blue-green message is to push people to use stand-alone apps...

Defaults matter. The friction to using iMessage on a brand-new iPhone is zero: it's right there, front and center, and doesn't require anyone to download anything new or confer with family and friends to figure out what the "right" other messaging platform is.

> ... like WhatsApp and FB Messenger

Oof, no thanks. I'd rather not be pushed toward using messaging apps owned by a company known to do shady things with user data. I've managed to get a few friends and group chats off those platforms and onto something else, but unfortunately there are still a few on them that I don't want to just cut ties with.
True, I can recommend hotwire turbo as an alternate similar to htmx, it has a js framework called Stimulus that integrates nicely for those instances where you need some custom interactivity.
No, the problem would exist even if the bidding process was completely fair, because it still creates a situation where a long-standing project creates stable returns for a company while decoupling the service it provides from both market forces and public accountability. It is the worst of both worlds: shielded from market forces by having its customer be the government, providing a government service shielded from public accountability by the corporate veil

Yes, we should reduce corruption and break up existing entrenched players, but the core issue is in the structure of that kind of arrangement. I do also think that there's no good reason to have a "corporate veil" in the first place, but that's a broader problem
I wouldn't want it, but I can see both Apple and heads of a lot of IT departments loving the concept of a locked-down MacOS.
They probably belonged to alcoholics.
Can you recommend a non-Dune Herbert book? I recall seeing Dosadi when I was a kid in the sci fi section of the library and just never picked it up. I generally like hard sci-fi and my main issue with Dune was that it went off into the weeds too many times.
I'm a little confused by your comment. I've been using the Prawn library to generate PDFs on the backend for a side project I am working on for quite sometime https://github.com/prawnpdf/prawn

(Admittedly, the PDFs I generate are most certainly not beautiful, so maybe that's the difference)
As I understand it, If you have a even a moderately varied diet, multivitamins and supplements have little effect. If you have a hole in your diet, or you have a condition that prevents eating certain foods, supplements are needed to keep you healthy. It is also worth mentioning that although things are labeled in a 'daily recommended' intake, it takes months or years for symptoms to develop.

I don't like people labeling them as 'ineffective', because they definitely prevent very real and life destroying conditions like cretinism and rickets. This is mostly because people think 'if I need this to be healthy, then having too much of it should make me super healthy', which is not the case. If you get enough (which most people in developed countries do) then your body can do its various functions. I've heard the metaphor 'giving a mason more bricks than he needs won't make him work faster' or something like that.
> Most locked doors can be bypassed even faster in some other way than unlocking them. A rock through the window...

This is a bit harder when said window is only reachable from the outside, and is 78m above ground level (and all the walls are brick, so they're stronger than the wooden door).
Some of those apps are iMovie, imusic, Apple tv, Apple tv+, Final Cut Pro etc. Also the app store has apple arcade and other subscriptions.
Didn’t they only become suspect, because they stopped posting at the exact time Ghislaine was arrested?
> eventually it creates such a powerful incentive for competing rental supply to enter the market

But that only works if additional supply is allowed to enter the market--which in a situation where rent subsidies were even necessary in the first place, is overwhelmingly likely to not be the case.

In other words, the actual problem is that rents are too high. The correct "fix" if that is the case is to allow new supply to enter the market; but if you are doing that, rents won't be too high in the first place, because supply and demand are allowed to work. So if you actually have the problem of too high rents, it's because you aren't allowing supply and demand to work--and in that situation, subsidizing renters just makes the problem worse, by reducing the incentives of existing landlords to do anything to improve things.
Apple uses their own technology to make their products better. That’s not a scandal. Their products aren’t the most dominant in streaming, maps, or payment. Most of the complaints are about what they aren’t doing (going out of their way to make proprietary features available to 3ps), not what they are doing (say: giving themselves special push notification permissions). So what influence are they exerting exactly? Why is it so pernicious?
No, I understand the argument, it is just built on a false assumption about how the iterations work. That a change is small does not make its effects insignificant. A single codon change could profoundly alter the protein it encodes, and even a small change to a protein or its expression can have a massive effect on the organism. It's not the structures of an orgnaism that mutate, it's the instructions that generate those structures which mutate. Imagine for example a typo on a blueprint - where there was supposed to be a " instead there is a ' and suddenly instead of an 8 inch air vent, now you have an 8 foot door. There is no intermediate step where you have a useless 2 foot hole.

Evolution is not a slow process, it is an irregular process. The odds of a useful mutation popping up at any given time is low, but once it pops up it's there immediately. Yes, an evolutionary process could never make an iphone, but no is claiming that evolution produced the iphone. The complex systems evolution produces are things where all the changes are individually useful.
> (I wouldn't be too surprised if we eventually see companies distributing a BSP that's written in Rust).

The Expressif folks are paying someone to make sure that Rust works well on the esp32.
fuck yeah finally, I am so sick of text based diff
Blame Apple for that. They require you to disable security by jailbreaking your phone in order to install Cydia. On Android you can easily install other appstores while keeping security intact.

If you don't want other app stores, just deploy an MDM profile that bans them.
Unless things have changed, yes but no. You have to leave the app running, and turn off display sleep/lock so the phone is always awake. Which practically means it has to be plugged in. It's a major pain. As someone else commented, a classic example of Apple limiting background sync in the name of "stability and battery life". That has a grain of truth to it, but let users make that choice!
It should be 3MM
Does Apples own stuff have the same limitations?