skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The community is such that if one of either FreeBSD or Linux really outperformed the other in some capacity, they'd rally and get the gap closed pretty quickly. There are benchmarks that flatter both but they tend to converge and be pretty close.

Netflix has a team of, I think it was 10 from the PDF, engineers working on this platform. A substantial number of them are FreeBSD contributors with relationships to it. It's a very special team. That's the difference maker here. If it was a team of former Red Hat guys, I'm sure they'd be on Linux. If it was a team of old Solaris guys, I wouldn't be surprised if they were on one of the Solaris offsprings. Then, Netflix knew that at their scale and to make it work, they had to build this stuff out. That was something they figured out pretty quickly, they found the right team and then built around them. It's far more sophisticated than "we replaced RedHat Enterprise with FreeBSD and reaped immediate performance advantages." At their scale, I don't think there is an off the shelf solution.
Land value taxes pressure you to make money out of land, of GTFO and yield it to someone who can make enough money to offset the tax. This should work great in dense city downtowns, for instance.

The early internet was pretty non-commercial, and a lot of valuable domain names were taken by projects that do something useful or cute, but cannot generate any serious money, or any at all. An introduction of an LVT equivalent would unsettle all these small projects.

Another question is how to compute the value. I see only one non-arbitrary approach: to auction off every domain every year; the sum paid would be the tax. Cybersquatters would win many such auctions, but of course only for domains they think will be in demand soon.

Another question why dmv.org should in any way be related to DMV; I'd expect it to be DMV.gov because it's a governmental agency. You can't squat a .gov domain.
From my experience taking it hundreds of times over 10+ years, from at least 10 different sources.. since almost every source had a distinctive side effect from the others, while entire packets of some sources had zero side effects for me... I'd blame the shady quality of the genetics more likely than the actual original drug.

I'm sure the real drug has some mild side effects too for some people, but the fact that I can distinctively tell the difference between sources makes me think a lot of other stuff is making it into the generics.
Apple Announces macOS 15 Sequoia with Math Notes, Continuity Improvements
Most people exist in the long tail of some distribution or another. The more features that exist which stay out of most people's way, but solve a problem on some long tail, the more the iPhone ecosystem will feel tailored to everyone.

I think super basic SMS or SOS of some kind was announced? Full imessage support is new.
Many of these look like solid feature updates, but I'm waiting to hear about a native keyboard that doesn't pick the dumbest, most context-free possible word from the smear of letters I've fat-fingered into it.
In the video it doesn't appear to be a stall. IMO, looks like he just needed a few more feet of elevation and was in full control until the moment he hit the water. I could be wrong though.
Have you tried it yet?
Only if they fail to convince customers to buy the first, radically expensive version.
For those not in the know, these are two of the most highly regarded operators in the Valley (if not as well known).

Sarah was thought of as the person who "ran" Square, and Kevin is thought of as one of the strongest product leaders.

They'd both be in my top 3 worldwide hires I'd try to make for these roles.
I can't help but want to draw the parallel between triplebyte and dating app: both are marketplace for 2 parties, or say networks; both networks are inherently two-tier, one premium tier and one, let's say subpar tier.

For the premium tier, the problem is less so the efficiency of the matching process because participants have powerful signals, I would say the problem is the efficiency of negotiating a fair term because both parties are not incentivized to go to a public auction, hence no market price. Hence the hiring process may be less so investigating potential candidates and more so "let' just wait two weeks and see who's the highest bidder".

For the subpar tier, the problem is less so the efficiency of the matching process (this still is part of the problem), but more so a cost-effect analysis: is it worth throwing X amount of resources to filter a huge pool of unknown quality candidates?

Obviously, one more problem is that there's no easy way to use whatever incentive to quickly bump up the supply.

So intrinsically, triplebyte/dating app tried to use tech to alleviate the pain point, but it is a part of the bigger, convoluted mating dance, and improving a non-critical part of the whole pipeline doesn't yield a so-called step function gain overall. That, plus venture backing, forces triplebyte to go down the rabbit hole and try to acquire as much of the lower subpar tier network as possible, yet this dilutes their attention and human touch on the premium tier, and goes down a death spiral.

Sorry I do not intend to bash the author or the founders for picking this problem/user need to solve, it just occurs to me that this heterogeneous network with no easy way to increase supply/lower demand, is really hard for a marketplace company and sometimes simply throwing technology onto the white-hot competing segment may not be the groundbreaking solution. I wish the author all the best with their next endeavor
Mac’s have had “game mode” for a while already. https://support.apple.com/en-us/105118

It turns on pretty much automatically but you can turn it off.
Shame there was no mention that the Apple ][ launch on June 10, 1977. At least I didnt see anything in the running MacRumors summary.
Tried the angle.wtf one, but it seems to be stuck at one angle only (320°) on both browsers I tried on mobile, and it never progresses?
And while plenty of people do make six figures in the trades, it's a much worse way to make it. That level of pay almost always comes from overtime, uneven demand tied either to seasonal or boom/bust cycles, or traveling away from home for work. Often some combination of these.

Almost no one in the trades is just working a 9-5 across town for $140k year after year after year that's for sure. You might have seasons where you make that much but at some point you have to stop pounding overtime, or the work just dries up and you have to coast on what you put away earlier.
You just have to keep rubbing it in!

Poor CmdTaco, after all these years, still can't get a break.
iOS 18 Will Be Compatible with These iPhone Models
What is a computer? Strictly speaking, it an abstract model, not the physical machine that is used to simulate the model. You could build an entirely mechanical implementation made of wood, if you like. The abstract model itself is a formalization of effective method. So far, these are basic notions taught in any decently taught theory of computation class.

What is a concept? It is an abstracted universal in the intellect. Consider the example of triangularity. We can predicate this concept of any concrete, physical triangle, but none of these concrete instances are triangularity itself, and triangularity itself is not a concrete instance. Indeed, any concrete instance is necessarily determined to be this triangle, but not that triangle, while a concept as abstracted form is true of all triangles. An analysis of the concept allows us to discover properties of triangles, e.g., the property that the inner angles must sum to 180 degrees. Such properties hold for all concrete instances. These properties are themselves abstracta, not concrete things in the world. Triangularity is a matter of semantics, because it is the essential meaning of a triangle, what makes it the kind of thing it is.

The same can be said of quantities. Just as you will never encounter naked triangularity, as such, in the world, you will never meet the number 3. However, you will encounter collections of three things, things measured to be 3, things with three sides, and so on.

Now take a physical machine that is simulating a Turing machine. Can the machine add? Well, strictly speaking, no! You can, however, simulate addition, to a point, by representing numbers using a system of symbols and using syntactic rules to manipulate strings of these symbols such that they result in new strings that correspond to the numbers that addition would produce. But these strings aren't quantities, they aren't numbers per se, but representations. Your Turing machine's tape can be relabeled, and the interpretation of the strings on that tape are inherently ambiguous. They can be read, for most practical purposes, according to an interpretation that assigns to them a consistent numerical meaning, but there is no numerical meaning in them per se, any more than the ink in a book arranged in the shape of "cat" is the concept of Cat. You could assign to them a completely different interpretation, and there would be no inherent reason to prefer one over the other. Only the interpreter's purposes fix the interpretation. But the meaning assigned, the concepts themselves, are just the meanings themselves. They are the intelligible content that the interpreter assigns to those symbols, and this intelligible content does not reside in the physical computer.

So, if there is any magical thinking, I claim that is rests on the side of those who claim, rather flippantly, that machines can think.
iPhone mirroring looks amazing

with iphone notifications on macos + RCS its basically like a hacky imessage support for android texting on your mac (unless I missed imessage on mac supporting that already w/ RCS)

Native window tiling and password management is also going to be some competition for some popular open source / businesses providing that.
You might have missed the context of my response.

I assert that you cannot eat three meals a day at the office which is 30 mins away from home, and still be a part of your family, yes lol.
TFA makes the vague claim that the devices call home, but yes it seems all this is under false pretences. e.g., concerns about the Uyghurs but then just finding another source of slave labor to build their surveillance devices

> Instead, the coalition government including the mayor and aldermen want to adopt new contract conditions including criteria regarding human rights when purchasing camera systems.

> It is expected that all current Chinese cameras in use in Amsterdam will be replaced at lower costs within five years.
WatchOS 11 announced with Activity rest days and custom daily goals, Vitals app
Really cool, lost two games in a row, finally won my third one after the computer got extremely unlucky.
Can it get “it’s” vs “its” predictively correct more than 50% of the time?

That would be a huge improvement.
My opinion is that the rendering engine should be WASM specified in a header. This way the site provider can choose whatever engine they want, including possibly not even using HTML.
Naturally. Retirement is the most expensive thing you'll ever buy!
Swift's ownership features are still new and going through evolutions; so its current state isn't the necessarily the vision or where it will be in a year. E.g., here's a proposal that allows one to create a lifetime dependency between a function's return value and its parameters: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/d9aa90bae13e35...
> Palm CEO on the iPhone

This quote pre-dates the iPhone by a couple of months. So it doesn't remotely qualify as a "failed product" comment. It's just a bad prediction.

(And it's not that bad: the iPhone launched with 2G and without an app market or text-editing beyond delete-and-retype, for example)
It's frustrating that this seems to be the only option. I have a good email service (migadu) but they don't provide a client. I love how their pricing model is based on emails sent/received, since it allows me to have as many users/domains/mailboxes I need
The founder is the same person who made MongoDB, which is still source available, SSPL notwithstanding.

Point taken though.
Still waiting on the ability to set a custom alert tone for group messages. I'm in a couple that occasionally will just go off. The alert is the standard one that also sounds for regular (direct to me) messages, so I either have to mute that group chat for an hour—and hope it settles down within that timeframe—or mute it entirely, and risk forgetting to unmute it later.

If I could just set the alert to something different and minimal, I'd let it run. Bonus if the alert could be one thing for the first message sent, and a simpler thing for the ongoing chatter.
You came late to the party, but in short, yes you are right: you can skip the excesses the frontend-world got into and use the minimal needed tools to do the job. Every line of code costs time and money, but do not try to explain that to a Typescript/React-fellow or Angular-Fanboys.
"blah blah blah, *second only to Chrome."
A ton of stuff in banking is based on soft logic and human intervention. My first guess would be fraud detection.
How would ads work in this world? The advertising ecosystem relies on adding a 1-2 line JavaScript blurb to the page, and then the ads are added at display time.
Is the output similar to a web archive file (warc)?
Their proposed solution will be to regulate AI
Plenty of people live, travel or recreate in places in the US with non-existent cell reception. Rivers, lakes, mountains etc are full of cell dead spots.
This is fantastic!

The dice roll animation is :chefkiss:
ideally you'd be able to doing that without a change of roles/titles and management would be able to rotate teams into different types of work periodically
Apple Announces macOS 15 Sequoia Featuring iPhone Mirroring
Hyatt doubles down on Japan with line of luxury ryokan
I think what this article misses is that for most real-world problems, there is a) not an objectively "right" or "best" solution (just varying degrees of partial solutions that are imperfect in different ways), and b) there are reasons to coalesce around a single solution. So it seems perfectly reasonable to me that individuals who are able to be "the most socially adept and organized manager" could rally a community around their solution.
I'm quite sure (and hope) that in many cases - at least in this year's WWDC keynote - it was in fact intentionally a parody of itself.

A bunch of these were really on the nose.
Apple Unveils macOS Sequoia
Congratulations to iPhone users on the ability to "place app icons anywhere", a true innovation.
I think we're at the point where we need to ask, how the fsck supposedly "open browser" prohibits their own users from installing extensions they want to install? I mean, I get signing - if you want signing, you can use it. I even get the config option for enterprise setups, maybe - so if an org wants to standardize on Firefox and prohibit workers from installing unsigned extensions - fine. But when it comes to my own install, that's just bullshit.
Not really everyone watches anime "seriously", you can watch them in a more light-hearted way. I'm a big fun of Kill la Kill really because of how silly and over the top it is, same for the second season of JoJo.
I hope he never actually knows about this account before he's given access to it. I can imagine being raised with this being a thing and developing a mind palace around the contents of the inbox.

I can't imagine losing access to 18 years of life's history and memories because Google decided to kill free accounts, or charge more than you're comfortable paying, or they suffer catastrophic data loss. Or they decide to kill Workspace accounts and they can't be converted, and you are given the data in a mostly unusable format bc they weren't told how to export the data by the law.

I've lost entire wings of my mind palace because I lost a notebook, diary, hard drive, or published works and been bereft of that knowledge or those memories. Some wings I've been lucky enough to rebuild, others are like if the Notre Dame had never been visually captured, drawn, or scanned.

Imagine planning on recording 18 years of your infant's life--all their familial social connections and day-to-day happenstance; the things that make a person who they are--, preemptively, on Google's behalf. Then imagine not even having a guarantee that you will be able to use the data you collected for its originally intended purpose.

Set this up locally and in a format you control, and can secure yourself. Put it on a tape drive or on a USB in a digital storage preserver (something to power on the nand cells so they don't bit rot)

You don't know who your son is going to turn out to be. He might come to resent you for giving Google that level of insight into his life, or for recording it at all. After all, you have decided that your son does not have a right to privacy, and essentially given it away. Better to keep it local so it can be destroyed if that's what he would desire.
You want the freedom to make your own uninformed decisions based on data that you don't understand. That's fine.

It's when this inevitably leads to uninformed people making bad decisions for others based on easily available that they don't understand -- that is the problem. We've already seen this with shitty Covid tests. We see it all the time when insurance companies use the cheapest routes to "resolve" specific maladies.

If something can be exploited, it will be exploited in a capitalist economy. And everyone needs healthcare eventually.

This is going to simply accelerate the shit show.
I filed that under "new kind of UI".
WWDC 2024 live blog and news hub: iOS 18, 'Apple Intelligence' debut, more
I think he's insinuating that with a figurehead such as Sam Altman, that Sarah and Kevin might be more showpieces than given autonomy to operate.
Sure, I forgot about that detail, what license do you suggest?
and once again - another year with a great iPad Hardware wise but essentially unusable for coding tasks software wise.. Would love a reason to buy one and use as a travel coding machine but without local support it remains a non-starter
I had an original iPhone the day it was released. Lots of people viewed it as too expensive and "why would I need that".

When iPad came out plenty of people had the notion that "no one really needs that, it's just a toy".

This is a pattern with apple products going back to the original Macintosh.
What kind of bandwidth does 8KUW require? Not sure if an airplane could handle that.
No, Logitech mice and keyboards generally use Logitech's proprietary HID++ protocol which is built on top of standard HID. WebUSB considers HID a "protected interface class" and blocks access to USB HID interfaces. USB HID devices are protected because they include devices like keyboards which handle sensitive user data, such as passwords.

https://wicg.github.io/webusb/#has-a-protected-interface-cla...

WebHID also restricts access to mice and keyboards, but it uses information available at the HID protocol level to selectively block access to sensitive capabilities while leaving other capabilities unblocked. So, you can't implement an input logger but you can configure LEDs and other device behavior.

In general, WebUSB isn't useful for devices that already have some system-level support. If there's a driver, it will have already claimed the USB interface and needs to release it before the browser can access it. Even if the HID interface class were not protected, you still wouldn't be able to claim it because the USB HID interface is already claimed by the system's generic HID driver. The generic HID driver exposes a non-exclusive "raw" HID interface to applications. WebHID uses this non-exclusive interface which is why it doesn't have the same limitation as WebUSB.
> Similarly, it seemed to David Hilbert like it should be possible to have a system of formal logic that all could accept, which would prove itself to be consistent.

Minor nitpick, but I don't think this fully captures the essence of Hilbert's program. If we had a system that could prove itself consistent, that would mean nothing, because the system could be inconsistent, therefore unsound and so its consistency "proof" wouldn't mean anything.

Rather, the goal was to start from an arguably "uncontroversial" base of mathematics (something like primitive recursive arithmetic, which intuitionists might also accept) and use that to bootstrap "infinitary mathematics" of the kind the formalists such as Hilbert were arguing for. The hope was that one could prove the consistency of such more abstract mathematics (PA or ZFC) from the more concrete foundations.

Unfortunately, Gödel's theorems completely demolish that idea. It's not just that a (sufficiently strong) theory can't prove itself consistent, it also can't be proven consistent by a strictly weaker theory such as PRA (because if such a proof existed in the weaker system, it would of course also exist in original system).

Interestingly, there are systems which are neither stronger nor weaker than PA which can prove PA consistent: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentzen%27s_consistency_proo...
They just announced Rectangle-like window tiling in the new macOS version.
Used to write MSP430 (a Texas Instruments MCU family that was designed and manufactured in Freising, Germany in ‘90s) assembly language for a while more than two decades ago. It was mentioned with pride that the instruction set is based on PDP-11.
I’m almost sure that the first actual energy saving (i.e. affecting the CPU) mode was introduced in 2021 with Monterey.
Yeah it seems kinda meta and extra chippy than I remember it
When I plug in my work MacBook Pro it is noticeable faster and the screen brightens. There are definitely some kinds of battery modes.
I have a recurring problem where my Apple Watch won't sound the alarm if my sleeve or blanket is covering the screen. Like it won't even do haptic feedback. This has made it utterly useless as an alarm that's supposed to wake me up.
Happy to see the control center change. Look up for control center is a bad experience.
Not even close to how I remember it.

The iPod was nice because of the storage, but competitors (like Zune) had more storage and were cheaper. It took a while for iPod to get "good" and gain adoption.

The iPhone was closer to the Vision Pro. It was obviously a revolutionary product, but it was extremely limited, and it took several OS versions before it got to the point where it was really ready for mass adoption. The iPhone 3G or 3GS was probably the first one that really got traction.

I use my Vision Pro every day. It's far from perfect, but it's been valuable for me. There are some things that are just significantly better on visionOS. There are tons of rough edges, limitations, and missing features still - it's getting better each release, but it's got a ways to go yet.

I recommend the Vision Pro only if you really know what you're getting into, or actually need it for a business purpose. If you're writing apps for visionOS, you need one. If you're an enthusiast and have the disposable income for it, go for it.

Bottom line: it's not going to replace any other single device for you at the moment. It's more of an "early access to the future" kind of thing than anything else - but it's a future I really do believe will come in a couple of years at most, and in five years I think we'll look back at this period the same way we look back at the original iPhone.

In other words, the criticisms we're seeing here are valid, but they're not the full story. You can't judge the success of a platform based on the first iteration. As visionOS and "spatial computing" mature, these comments will seem silly unless you can put yourself in the context they're being made today.
So that’s the same to you? If somebody else has unauthorized access to security cameras, it’s okay because they are for surveillance?
The Downfall of Amazon: Dangerous Products, Fake Reviews and Vanishing Brands [video]