skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
iPhone sales may be down in China. But the Apple stores in other parts of Asia (Singapore, etc), are clogged with Chinese tourists buying iPhones.

Current jingoistic/nationalistic sentiments being drummed by the CCP in China is taking a toll on most foreign brands, including Apple, Tesla, BMW, etc.

Truth of the matter, which Apple is finally realising, the Chinese market is not going to recover for them ever again. Hence Apple is moving aggressively in the Indian and the other markets.

As an AAPL investor, while I'm happy with the investments Apple is making on next-gen tech like AVP, I personally don't see AVP or its variants becoming a mainstream product. Apple should focus on getting a face-wear product similar to the RayBan Meta glasses, with cloud based multi-modal AI support, Siri-onboard and an attached AirPod, that I can wear throughout the day, as my personal AI assistant.

I don't need spatial 3D. Just a simple overlay/HUD that will show me a way finder, help me with reminders, put a name to a (known and in my contacts) face, language translation, and as a "personal life concierge". Pair it to my iPhone, but make sure I never have to take it out of my pocket with UI and interactions using verbal, frame touch or via eye-tracking.

The Glassholes from Google got the basic concept right, but flubbed the overall execution.
Maybe +` (font)` in the title would help clarify? [Monospace]
Just eyeballing Geekbench scores for iPhones, CPU/GPU/NPU are all about 3x faster, and RAM capacity has doubled.

Do you need all that extra power? I dunno, but it's a pretty big difference.
Georgia Tech, Meta create open dataset to advance solutions for carbon capture
Not going to defend it, but I’ve always read it as an attempted countermeasure to unsophisticated espionage or domestic terrorism rather than an addition to their missile defense system. It’s not good enough to obfuscate targets when you can literally see and guide missiles from above their airspace, but it might trip up people operating on the street on their own or in small cells. America isn’t the PRC’s only adversary, and authoritarian dictatorships thrive only so far as they can control information and the movements of their subjects.
Event tickets are not usually subject to market forces, for good reason.
> The introducer of a novel idea needs to beat the incumbent by a large margin. This is just reality, not injustice.

It is an injustice and an impedance to scientific progress.

It is also a very odd thing to see in any technological progress. This is not a normal process btw. Generally we see S-curves and the newer technology is initially worse. That should be unsurprising given that it has had far less time and far less attention. You have to look at the potential and see if things are worth pursuing. We should not expect that to be carried by one team. If we do, we'll only have the lucky, crazy, and the big leading. That's not a great thing for science, especially if we want to claim that it is on the merit of ideas, not status.
The idea is that memory-only data systems like HyPer are able to make design decisions that make them significantly faster that disk-based systems (eg postgres), even when the working set fits entirely within cache for the disk-based system. Umbra attempts to act like an in-memory DBMS when the working set fits in memory while degrading gracefully as the working set grows beyond memory. Agree the title doesn’t have enough detail to see this though.
My amateur take here is, saying that something is a possibility, however remote, is different from "if you vote this way, this will happen to you" said by people with the power and motivation to make it happen to you if you vote that way.

Would we expect the same deference given to a mob boss issuing thinly-veiled threats to witnesses? After all, it's not impossible that an accident will totally randomly happen to the witness or their loved ones that prevents them from testifying. The boss is just sayin' there's data that shows accidents sometimes happen to people who testify, that's all.
> Your contract with the network when you get the show is you're going to watch the spots"

That's not actually the contract though. You're not breaking contract if you get up to use the bathroom during an ad break, with TV or YouTube.
There’s so much wrong with this.

The people paying the property taxes are the tenants. Except they’re paying market rate for the property while the owner pays far below that actual rate. In other words the artificially lowered tax rate is just a profit center for the owner.

Second, the owner does benefit from those property taxes: the property taxes fund a bunch of the infrastructure that makes their property have value, that makes tenants interested, covers police and fire, etc

Except because the land owners in these cases aren’t paying their fair share, so in addition to profiting off tenants that are paying market rate for the property owners are being subsidized by the increased base rate others have to pay.

People do not have direct control over the market value of their property so it is trivial to have a world where people’s property taxes could increase beyond what they could afford at all, while simultaneously pricing them out moving (to “realize” the “value” of their home), but if you’re renting a property out at the market rate then you should be paying taxes at the market rate.
Today's chatGPT and today's (not OpenAI) web search are very different creatures and experiences. Are you saying that today's chatGPT experience will be abandoned and replaced with a web search experience? That seems terribly unlikely to me.
The march toward systemd-electron continues.
and people wonder why all corporate comms come in the form of babblespeak...
They've been closed all week. I suspect at the bare minimum they have issues with payment processing and inventory.

Canada Post within London drugs reopened today
Little schemer is good, some people hate it some people love it. But it is a fairly light read the slowly teaches some syntax at a time, questions you about assumptions then revels the information as it goes on. It would be the least dry read. There is also sketchy scheme for a more thorough text, or even the rs7s standard, which are both pretty dry but short.

What made me appreciate scheme was watching some of the SICP lectures (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Op3QLzMgSY&list=PL8FE88AA54...) and the little schemer to learn more. I also read some of the SICP along with it, though I put it down due to not having the time to work through it.

Scheme is interesting and toying with recursion is fun, but the path a mentioned above is only really enjoyable if you are looking to toy around with CS concepts and recursion. You can do a lot more in modern scheme as well, and you can build anything out of CL. But learning the basics of scheme/lisp is can be pretty dry if you are just looking to build something right away like you already can in a traditional imperative language. But it is interesting if you are interested in a different perspective. But even RS7S scheme is still far from the batteries included you get with CL.

I personal found the most enjoyment using Kawa scheme, which is jvm based and using it for scripting with java programs as it has great interop. I used it some for a game back end in the event system to be able to emit events while developing and script behaviors, I've also used it for configurations as well with a graphical terminal app, I used hooks into the ascii display/table libraries then kawa to configure the tables/outputs and how to format the data.
You mean sunshine tax...
You’ll ask, and you’ll receive your PIP.
I would have probably recommended Android myself if I had been involved. The points you raise are valid, but:

1. You're going to have way better board/vendor support with Android.

2. The Android networking stack is more featureful than any RTOS. You aren't constrained with e.g. TLS support or paying a vendor $$$$ to implement what the infra team wants.

3. You can hire Android developers by the dozen. RTOS application developers are much more annoying to hire, even if they'll work for cheaper.

4. You don't have to pay a vendor (or build it yourself) to get basic platform functionality like A/B updates, a build system, secure boot, etc. Android has solutions for these of admittedly varying quality.

But you'd also get all of this and more by skipping the hardware entirely and just selling the app.
The appstore ToS explicitly forbids submitting apps containing code under the GPL or similar licenses, which was one of the main reasons I asked.
On the street relative addresses and way markers are enough. Think about the pre smartphone direction days.
I would get sent to jail for breaking ITAR
IANAL, but disagree. In the context of business relationships, tortious interference is "intentionally acting to prevent someone from successfully establishing or maintaining business relationships with others".

GRJ is not preventing anyone from maintaining a business relationship with Google.

That Google might -choose- to end a business relationship is on them, but they weren't prevented from having a relationship with their YouTube 'customer', or vice versa.
If you don't need an account or an api key to access it, then there's no contract signed, and so they can't restrict your usage contractually. An API with no requirement for an API key is functionally identical here. On the other hand, scraping a website that only exposes content to logged in users is the same as using an api behind a key. The relevant part is whether you need to sign a contract to access the content.
Is learning how compilers work or how to implement them still worth it with AI replacing programming?
It has no military capability impact. The situation is similar to South Korea's map.
Ha, I had the exact same experience. The lawyers sent me what they wrote for me to verify that they didn't mess anything up, and it almost seemed like they had based the patent on an entirely different document than the one I wrote up for the invention disclosure—not because they actually messed it up, but because patentese is almost as far from regular English as any foreign language.
Would have been nice for the bankruptcy company (what is the term… administrator? receiver?) to try to sell the portfolio of investments as-is to another VC. This may have both kept the startups alive and got them more $ overall for creditors. Maybe this would have been more doable in 2020!
If you're fascinated by canine instincts, wait till you hear about the super generations of monarch butterflies.
Are we sure that the company has industry data proving their claims that the disempowerment etc. is a sure thing, as the CEO phrased it, rather than just a possibility?

If so, that makes the sure-thing claim truly factual, and it will likely be a good defense.
I was looking for the examples: https://www.tess.design/models (It's linked somewhere in the article, but it should have a highlighted link.)
I mean, maybe you shouldn't sell of the right to buy your company.

The accelerator sounds scummy, but at the same time i can't help but wonder wtf the owners of these companies were doing. Did they just not read the contract? If you own a company i think you have a lot of responsibility for the shitty business deals you make. Its not like we are talking about some senior citizen hoodwinked into signing their home away.
Buybacks have tax advantages, which could be another reason Apple opted for it instead of a dividend. https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/sites/default/files/publicat...
Google has slashed one term in my two word query. The results of this 50% query reduction, predictably, were complete trash.
Yeah. Like I said, not defending it, but it seems more plausible than trying to trip up foreign missile targeting by making Google Maps worse.
They think if you remove 230 they won't act as an editor, but only as a publisher, which means ZERO rules for content published except what is illegal by law.

Anyone who has moderated a forum in their lives know how exceedingly stupid this idea is.
BeOS/Haiku are surprisingly modern considering their age. They made a lot of technology choices at the time that short term were limiting (multi threading everywhere) but long term were very nice. It was just that the short term issues was one of many anchors of them when they needed everything to go their way.

Haiku is the closest of these to being daily runner ready but like a lot of systems, lack of driver support prevents it from that lofty goal. It is pretty much the only reason that Linux has been able to go so far.
Jews, Blacks, LGBT, and other minorities should naturally align together to protect values of freedom. I agree we see anti-Palestinian-ism from the right wing that is coupled with other toxic behaviour. What I see in the anti-Israeli left-wing camp is departure from the values they claim to support.

And come on now, you're not blaming the Jews for anti-LGBTQ+ sentiments. The Jewish people have moved on from what's happened 3000 years ago while in Iraq and Iran today (e.g.) those are criminals. In Tel-Aviv and Jersualem there are yearly gay parades and in the Arab countries they jail and kill gays.

The crazy thing is that I as a Jewish person need to contemplate voting for right wing politicians because I feel the left wing is assaulting my people.
> rather behind in the foundations. It's a single user system with no real security

I believe multi-user systems are actually an ancient, outdated rather than a "modern" concept. It made sense when computers were huge, expensive and many users shared one even at work, let alone at home. Nowadays computers are almost never shared. Even when people used to have just one home PC per family (during pre-Win7 days) they mostly preferred to disable the sign-in screen and share the whole environment.

Nowadays multi-user OS facilities definitely help to build security but they were not designed just for this. Modern security can be done better without an OS-level concept of a user.
After reading this, the choice of word "exhibit" hurts
Earnings Per Share (EPS)

When a company buys back it stock, that removes from the market available shares to buy.

a. So now, the companies EPS gets boasted because the total # of shares outstanding is a smaller denominator.

b. Conversely, a lot of tech companies give stock options to employees. This (increases the # of shares) and dilutes the number of shares outstanding which then hurts your EPS.

So it’s also common for a company to offer employee stock options and then perform a stock buyback, to neutralize the EPS swing.
At some point we’re all being diagnosed with being human.
> there was no issue

You should compare with https://m.amap.com/
Brain fart from me, yep!
> investors

I don't see anything but this. Similar to startups hiring just to appear big to investors.
Still remember viewing the Acorn Archimedes with the RISC OS for the first time in 1987, when it was launched. Someone wrote a 10 line demo that rolled down the current screen, using a curl motion using bitmap copy/transform, using Basic. Breathtaking performance/speed.

Never knew why it bombed in the marketplace.
Austin and Miami were supposed to be the new tech start-up hotspots after the great COVID WFH migration. The zeitgeist was the SF Bay area was played out for a multitude of reasons the departees were only too happy to blog about. Austin and Miami also have a bunch of investors without a background in tech - in all, lot's of new players in a high-growth area make it a target-rich environment for those lacking scruples.
She, not he. kyren is a woman.
Every contract has some crap in for what seems like unlikely scenarios. If you can’t negotiate it out it is either that or the highway. If these startups could get YC funding they probably would have. So for some it is accept a possible imperfect contract or back to employment. Employment itself being full of contracts with crap clauses as well as common law itself having crap. Show me the perfect contract!
> envy has absolutely nothing to do with it

Please do tell me then, what exactly motivates all the proposals for restricting trading periods or changing to auctions? All I have seen is that Jane Street and other make “too much money”. The reality is actually different they provide a service in 20 countries across all asset classes and do it for only $12B/year, that’s actually very cheap once the scope of their reach and operations are understood.

Please explain what is the motivation other than envy behind the numerous comments proposing some restrictions or claiming they aren’t worse or even better.

There are definitely academic sources that will backup my assertions however the irony is that my position somehow needs to be defended when it’s actually obvious to anyone who has spent a lifetime on the inside of the very system we are discussing and that somehow absurdist proposals about restricting market hours are accepted on face value without any rational or academic evidence whatsoever.
This looks cool, after 3 years in financial technology industry working on c/c++ projects I’m in process of revisiting textbooks and relearning computer science fundamentals! Added raylib to my ‘explore’ list

I love this idea of reinventing wheel with such explicit goal (even if it sounds counterintuitive to some), we can rethink initial assumptions, best case scenario we come out with better implementations and paradigms than existing standards, worst case scenario you learn internals of tools and techniques you use daily!
Yes, like those. I guess a whole LSP that revolves around destinations and memory. To compile it is to reach some satisfactory state where the model--and this differs from person to person--reflects reality: total minutes spent or miles travelled.

I guess games already enable the forward, forward, turning, and such. But wayfinding is tacit: one person gets lost; another notes the top of the tower, descends into a dark thicket, flanks a camp of orcs, and somehow heads in more or less the way.

Of course, some of that is just going with the flow. Not so in traffic, in an unknown place, jostled by rail tracks and wondering whether to U-turn or not. (Unfamiliar roads, and was it east or west?)

A friend said they note landmarks. Or maybe one should have heuristics, like three lefts is parallel to one right. One thing for certain: without GPS, it is hopeless.
I've been in three different unions and posted similar about my experiences in the past and am usually downvoted to hell for it because of peoples' ideological alignment not allowing them to consider opposing experiences/viewpoints as reasonable.
I believe waypipe for single applications and something with wayvnc for headless full desktop (ex. https://github.com/bbusse/swayvnc )?
Conflict of interest coming from a company selling passkey implementation.
I have. Even at work.
This can actually make sense - why not make Electron a shared part of the OS instead of so many apps bundling it. As I understand Apple once built its entire GUI system around a flavour of PostScript which was designed for documents typesetting. Now the world just is doing a similar thing with HTML.
The latest iPhones are not actually 3x faster, or even 2x faster, for many common tasks such as opening a pdf compared to a 5 year old iPhone on iOS 12. Even for unusually intense workloads, like exporting dozens of pdfs at the same time, it doesn't get anywhere close to 3x.

So most of the gains are purely on paper.
I have no knowledge about such things but…

> The modern strategy is to just do borderless windowed and pretend true fullscreen doesn't exist.

This explains a lot as to why I experienced some interesting inconsistency going full screen in different applications in Windows ;)
Modern multi-user paradigms also have very weird ideas of what’s shared. Like, installing or updating software is the same permission tier as accessing another user’s documents, wtf?
Someone should finetune an LLM to create a "patentese" assistant writer.
We are in the 'phony war' period: after the war has actually started but before all the mayhem begins in earnest.

Like WW2 started in Asia in 1937 and in Europe in 1939, but things didn't really get going till mid 1941.
That would be a uniquely stupid interpretation of the law to try to set as a precedent but a company that blindly connects to everything on the Internet constantly. If making an http connection to a server and receiving content constituted acceptance of a license, Google would be the biggest and dumbest ATM ever
When is the auction? How can you bid?
Execs can have bigger voids due to gardening leave, non competes so it looks OK. But honestly because you can (in theory) lie on your CV it ain’t worth worrying about. So the scenario where you die because you run out of money and need a job because of a gap can be remediated that way. Change the dates or something.
It is such a simple thing but it works so well.
To get a look at SDF rendering in a game, check out the blue clouds on the ground in Solar Ash:

https://youtu.be/HqQpYSQDIZQ?si=vMKplmGJIGvUn_LT
Duh, it’s unskilled labor and not customer-facing, what do you expect? A coding interview? Culture fit assessment?
I’m with you on the API piece here.

Is the non-password protected end of the site really fair game for scraping? I’m sure the terms of service say not to, but are those enforceable?
> Use a Desktop Environment that supports the aforementioned technologies and works without requiring editing config files just to change the resolution of an external monitor.

I keep hearing about this, but... what DE does that? Heck, arandr works fine on those window managers that don't have it built-in.
Here’s where it gets interesting — GCJ-02 is based on WGS-84, but with a deliberate obfuscation algorithm applied to it. The effect of this is that there are random offsets added to both latitude and longitude, ranging from as little as 50m to as much as 500m.

Holy shit. I can't believe they created an adversarial mapping standard. That is insane. It really paints a picture of their worldview I think. The oppressed "middle kingdom" under siege. Wow, what it must be like to have that view that everyone else is against you, and you have to bulwark yourself at every opportunity. Yet somehow, balance that with the "historical trend of opening up". It's a scary attitude, and must be scary to try to implement it.

I never saw China like that before. This 1 article changes my mind about a few things. Even the map math is preparing for war! I kind of feel sorry for them. It's been like 70-some years but their war is not complete. And scary for the world: I hope they don't have to seek a cathartic resolution of whatever internal conflict they have by projecting it externally.

I don't see them like that, but details like this add support to that idea, I think. I had no idea maps were like this before today.... :(

Tho reading some other comments, it seems it's not so hard to undo this...maybe this is not really about war or such attitude tho...but then why? Why add that specialness to make it that much harder for people ? That in itself could speak volumes. It's a map, it's kind of representative of a national idea. How can you be for "opening up" but you make your maps different to everybody itself, and not necessarily better! Hahaha :) Maybe I'm just misunderstanding it.. haha :)
Reminded me of this tweet I saw a couple weeks ago (from our local zoo):

https://twitter.com/amazlngnature/status/1782416298636345452
None of the big copyright distributing sites really play by DMCA. DMCA is just the formal, legal process.

Most sites are putting some sort of self-managed process in front of DMCA. They can remove anything they want because their terms allow it. It in turn makes copyright holders happy without any of the risk of false DMCA complaints.
Seveneves was what I was thinking of. We meat the sea people, which really peaked my interest, then suddenly it was over. Really left me hanging.