skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That only works if the external API is handing off the entire subscription to Apple, up to and including payments. But the entire premise is to move away from being forced to use Apple for these elements, which makes it a non-sensical interpretation. In fact, that particular interpretation is the current status-quo -- apps use APIs to create subscriptions entirely managed by Apple.

If Apple does not control the actual subscription, but is only providing an interface for managing it, then Apple must then alert the actual owner of the subscription upon changes. There's then no guarantee that the code on the other side is properly handling that alert.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40775600

POSIX doesn't sanctify this use.
Great compilation! Lots of great usability nuggets that could go beyond just blogs as well.

I especially love the progress-oriented table of contents/nav highlighting which section(s) you're currently viewing using the Intersection Observer API.
It’s one of the few benefits of EU being a complete backwater when it comes to software and consumer tech products.

There will be very little harm to EU’s economy since almost all of the profits are being sent to the US anyway.

Also this/GDPR/etc. is a form of protectionism (not that I see anything wrong with that to a limited extent) which will hopefully give at least some slight competitive advantage to EU tech companies (since they really do need it) and maybe a bit more crumbs to fight over.
I worked as an engineer in Apple for several years in a core division, and there was extensive training, and not perfunctory, about being ethical and doing the right thing. It was a very serious core principle.

Because of that, this case really looks like a mistake, not willful disregard, when I consider all we were trained in earnest back then. It seems the EPA found no violation, and Apple learned someone had failed to change filters as frequently as needed.
Another commercial for eliminating cash and moving to 100% digital currency!
Yes but I understand that you might not want to cut off the possibility. I personally dual-boot, but for similar convenience reasons I have some of the games installed on both systems.
Even dual-booting is a bit of a pain, some of which I have solved by having a dedicated SSD for each OS. Windows sometimes misbehaves and it's easier to handle that if it has its own drive.
Itself, obviously.
Well.... yea.... I do sort of have some high load... but not too much!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b3t37SIyBs
Q1K3 – Making Of [video]
Which will be the developers responsibility to know when that is and is rarely the default or normal case.
Cosmo author here. Could you please clarify what specific object file features we're abusing? The only hacky thing I did was remove the shebang line, and POSIX was awesome enough to change their rules to let us do it. https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1250 Beyond that, we just depend on stable ABIs and APIs. We don't link NTDLL for example. It's just straight up WIN32. On MacOS ARM we use the dynamic linker. I want Cosmo programs to stand the test of time. That's why I stopped building apps with NodeJS and wrote this instead. The whole reason this release is on the HN front page, is probably because it got rid of MAP_FIXED mappings and page size assumptions. So if you can tell me where we're still exposed, then I'd love to fix it. Thanks!
... Ouch.

Not wrong.
Time in China
But since you’re not rich and you pay the peasant tax rate of 40%, you’re 25% closer to communism than rich people who pay about 15%, to a first approximation. Checkmate, liberal.
A Fabulous program.

Saved me on more than one occassion.

recovers a lot more than pictures
> Buying a reusable token doesn't take 20 minutes more than buying a paper ticket.

No, but it could expend 20x the resources, and not be used 20x as much.

As the article mentions, the purpose of these paper tickets is for single-use or short term use, and the system also supports plastic cards for longer term use.
My most important microfeature is center-aligned pages. Whenever I read something on a large screen and the content is left-aligned, leaving a large gap on the right, it really turns me off.

I try to make [mine](https://rednafi.com) center aligned on all clients.
I don't believe they will go back to paper records.

However, I could see certain professions operating with simplified "air gapped" systems.

Not connected to the Internet at all. It would take some disciplined processes but it would be possible. Updates could be done by qualified tech's to maintain the air gap when updating with a "sneakernet".
Geez, what a rough time! Fascinating, though, yes I too have that "sense" of data structures - really interesting to hear that others do too!
As in, the car listed on the web site does not exist.

It's merely a gimmick to get you in the door and convince you to buy something else. (And probably illegal, too.)

Happened to me the first time I went to buy a car. I just walked out and went to a different dealer.
Another part to this is memory, "get me the cheapest vegan pizza that can get here before I have to leave" should be a prompt that just works, and should automatically take allergies into account. This is pretty much an open research problem with current AI approaches.
If you are interested in this kind of thing I highly recommend Dr. Geoff Lindsay's youtube channel. Deep dives into linguistic phenomena with a descriptive viewpoint.

https://www.youtube.com/@DrGeoffLindsey/videos
Kinda like auditing.
This is unholy and cursed
The Famous Computer Cafe – 1980s radio interviews digitized
That's the opposite of a monopoly. It's intentionally breaking up vertical integration.
Of course, the inverse square law, but given they are not designed to deal with multi-megawatt transmitters shining a light in their eyes, well that would be an issue.

(Of course if satellites have secretly been launching with ginormous notch filters on their receivers for the last 10 years in anticipation of this that might be a thing. :-))
I grew up in South London. When I was in primary school (equivalent to elementary school in the US):

- several of my classmates would pronounce 'ask' as 'aks'.

- I and many others used glottal stops in place of the 't' sounds in words like 'satellite'.
Feels like a solution to an American problem, cancelling things isn't much of a problem in EU.
> Linguicism is an idea invented by human-rights activist and linguist Tove Skutnabb-Kangas to describe discrimination based on language or dialect. The prejudice around “aks” is an example of linguicism.

> Decades of research shows that the idea that any variation from standard English is incorrect (or, worse, unprofessional or uneducated) is a smokescreen for prejudice. Linguicism can have serious consequences by worsening existing socio-economic and racial inequalities.

No, this is utter rubbish. While languages do change over time, most modern languages have their own standard form. You can't just say that it's prejudicial just because someone gets called out or judged for mispronouncing a word. In fact, they should be. Proficiency in the standard form of a nation-state's language is crucial to being an informed citizen.

Not everybody's whim should be accommodated. At some point, people need to take personal responsibility. Leave this ideological post-modern woke BS out of linguistics.
Yeah making it itemized on the payment screen would be fine. As long as the stated amount and the final total weren’t different, like sales taxes in US stores. No “$10… just kidding now it’s $13”. But listing it on the “bill”, yeah, wouldn’t mind a bit if they were forced to do that.
I'd argue it's the opposite. This is a long running model copied for NFT.
> I forget if you need to be a Seattle resident to get a card

Any resident of King County* can get an SPL (Seattle Public Library) card, due to a reciprocal agreement between SPL and KCLS (King County Library System).

* with an exception for a couple of towns within KC which are not part of KCLS, from https://www.spl.org/using-the-library/get-started/get-starte...:

"If you live, work, go to school or own property in King County (even outside the city of Seattle) you qualify for a free Seattle Public Library card through our reciprocal agreement with the King County Library System. (The only exceptions are the towns of Hunts Point and Yarrow Point, which are not part of the King County Library System.)".

And indeed, as already mentioned in a sibling comment, most counties have reciprocal agreements with both SPL and other counties' library systems too.
Are you really trying to claim that the only thing that lets corporations do their thing is a legal fiction that was dreamed up by Congress? And further, that Congress could not have just enumerated corporate rights separately?

That's goofy.
I’ve always noticed that water in plastic bottles gets a plasticy taste if it’s been stored a long time or in the sun and I figured that couldn’t be good.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40773151
There's a concept in statistics called sensitivity analysis. It seems like this is somewhat similar, but an alternative approach that might be interesting would be to modify the input in a way that you think should preserve the semantic meaning, and see how that alters the meaning of the output.

Of course, altering the input without changing the meaning is the hard part, but doesn't seem entirely infeasible. At the least, you could just ask the LLM to try to alter the input without changing the meaning, although you might end up in a situation where it alters the input in a way that aligns with its own faulty understanding of an input, meaning it could match the hallucinated output better after modification.
I can understand why a bag that has been hand sewn by skilled artisans in some tiny town in Italy (say) might be expensive. Skills take time to learn, and the labor is costly. (The leather itself seems to be a negligible fraction of the cost of production.)

What I dont get is what stops Chinese manufacturers from recruiting equally skilled local artisans in Asia to create their own luxury brands, and what stops Hermès from outsourcing their own bag manufacturing to those artisans in China instead or France or Italy.

Its not like China doesnt have a rich craft tradition. Do those domestic luxury brands exist? If so, why arent they sold for export?
What are cdk and dms in this context? I'm only familiar with them on AWS
This proposal doesn't either. Unless you are at a strait less than 200km wide. You could hop over the English channel, but if you want to go LA to London you have to take the long way around over the Bering strait.
Insertion in AVL tree's is fairly simple and doesn't really have any cascades so they are quite predictable, deletions on the other hand cascades upwards with a bunch of different imbalances and thus rotations(and post rotation balances) to be accounted for.

Recently implemented them for an advanced hobby project and having a solid fuzzing tester in place really alleviated a lot of headaches in the long term since it was able to produce quite an exhaustive set of conditions.
No, because as others said, there are a bunch of checks that Netflix does to check whether your internet is fast enough etc. even if you get 1080p you will likely get a fairly compressed image. It’s possible that Netflix over filters for internet speed leaving you with inferior quality.

Or you could use a 4K stream from Netflix (only available to premium premium subs) and encode it down to HD and likely get a better image.
AI's Most Ambitious Music Generators Accused of Infringement in Lawsuit
Seems like you can only post pictures, but videos would make more sense for music making.
> the car listed on the web site does not exist

Sure. And I get that some of the walking around is probably a ruse. But we're talking about their internal records.
GitHub Copilot Extensions are all you need
NFC doesn't necessarily create any additional e-waste. In Chicago we have an NFC system, and people typically just link their phone to their account and use that to pay.

I still use a physical card - so that I have a backup option in case something happens to my phone - but even there the volume of waste is trivial. I've had my current transit card for ages, and it doesn't expire until 2037. It's possible that the only technological decision I've made that generated less e-waste was deciding to splurge on a mechanical watch instead of a quartz model.
No, most people still do not know about how onerous the App Store rules are.
It's such a weird market segment to me.

Sure, they are obviously very high-quality products, but they are clearly not worth the money you are paying for them. You're very obviously paying primarily for the opportunity to brag that you've got a "genuine Birkin". It's like those silly restaurants putting gold flakes on food: you can't taste or smell it, so you're paying solely for the opportunity to be ripped off.

If you've got money to burn, why not get a fully-custom product made exactly to your wishes by a local atelier and end up with a far superior product for the same price? What's the point if you can't even fully enjoy the fruits of your labor?
Wasn't this literally a feature of the Amazon app? You could scan a book's UPC and have it pull up the Amazon listing.
What are the differences and similarities between Gren and Roc?
RTSP is the control protocol. Some other protocol is needed for the actual audio/video streaming. That's usually RTP, these days.

RTP is a core part of WebRTC, for example.

When you're doing a video call in a web browser, you're using WebRTC, including RTP. In fact, this RTP-via-WebRTC is the only way to send UDP packets from JavaScript!

RTSP is still used by older streaming systems and hardware ecosystems that are slow to change, such as network-connected security cameras. But in newer applications, WebRTC has mostly replaced it. Of course, the QUIC effort is in part an attempt to replace WebRTC, so the wheel continues to turn!
> Rules and order can emerge spontaneously from the society itself and it is much more accountable to their customers than any government red tape system will be.

That's a nice idea, and it might work in special cases where everyone has equal smarts, equal access to information and to economic- and self-defense power, along with a generous helping of fellow-feeling.

But in the general case, that idea doesn't comport with millennia of human experience: Too many opportunistic folks are happy to lie, cheat, and steal to the greatest extent they think they can get away with it, with little or no regard for others except friends and family (and sometimes not even them). For those folks, their seeming motto is often, "hooray for me and [forget] you."

EDIT: Also, overall costs are increased for everyone when each person has to be perpetually on guard for possible rule-breaking by everyone else. Better to achieve economies of scale by outsourcing some of that function to a commonly-empowered and -regulated agency.

And that's just fancy name for "government," of course. This is true even when the "government" is based on Hobbesian brute force: Even brute-force governments have to deliver a modicum of security and order at a minimum, lest they risk being overthrown by challengers.

(Think of gang leaders in failed states: They have to keep not just their "soldiers" but their "citizens" from becoming too dissatisfied — otherwise, they risk losing their power and, sometimes, their lives.)
Ditto. I like Gwern's content but not much the presentation. The same goes for Simon Willison's site.

I much prefer the brutalist look of Drew Devault, Fabien Sanglard, or Dan Luu's site.
State of VMware Workstation (Pro?) On Linux
But OO does suck, not because it is fundamentally different from the lambda calculus, but because it puts a kludgy set of handles that makes it easy to make bad decisions in front of a good, sound computational core. Of course, just like any advanced tool, an advanced practitioner can use traditional OO languages well, but the paradigm makes it just as easy for noobies to fall into pitfalls as does classical imperative programming, if not more so.

At the end of the day, all languages that are turing complete are the same language and the only differences lie in the kind of front end we provide. Unfortunately, we basically still have a single frontend, called C and every subsequent programming language has essentially just taken the C frontend and restricted or expanded it in small ways. We still ultimately work in terms of records, contiguous arrays and pointers. You can think of basically any more "advanced" construct in terms of pointers and it will make perfect sense nearly every time.
I always wondered if the, common in IT, phrases like 'do the needful' and 'do the necessary' that you hear from Indian English speakers evolved from Hindi phrases.
Netflix standards are so dumb. They asked for a 4K camera before Alexa had widely available 4K outside of the huge Alexa 65, and they got a bunch of shows that look terrible for it since the whole industry had standardized around Alexa pipes and people were forced to use other cameras.
I believe the litigation was about data integration, due to the mentions of Authenticom. Authenticom was a vendor my company used until we needed to start getting data directly from R&R. (IIRC we were a third party on a lawsuit related to that.)

Switching DMSes is likely disruptive, but is still pretty common. We've had dealerships do it every now and then.
Even if they end up with exactly the same level of lock in, and even if the new service is no better, it is still not totally pointless to react to something you don't like by leaving.

It is the single solitary only lever anyone has in the world we've built.
Fun demo, but it would work just as well for the customer to tap something on their phone (or even send/reply to an SMS) to trigger the hat-drop, and be much, much simpler, and likely more reliable. It looks like it isn't capable of actually placing the hat on the customer's head (it lands on the ground nearby), so the camera and AI stuff is only acting as a trigger, not a guide.

And presumably if another random person happens to stop inside the right sidewalk tile for at least 3 seconds during the 5-minute window, before the actual customer gets there, they'll get the hat instead!
> Right now if you want to create content for Netflix you need to buy like a $30,000 camera .

Just noting that the official guide[0] lists a number of cheaper cameras, including one that retails for $2k (the Panasonic BGH1).

0: https://partnerhelp.netflixstudios.com/hc/en-us/articles/360...
As long as it’s not too aggressive (Scope) I don’t mind it. The aspect ratio can have a feel to it.
Only thing I'll say is that this wasn't necessarily the case:

> "...before affordable data plans, accidentally clicking the browser icon on your flip phone would make you sweat. In the early 2000s, accessing a single website could cost you as much as a cheeseburger, so not many people bothered to Google on the go."

My circa-2003 Sanyo flip had an app to stream video(!) and a browser that was very useful for simple things like Google search. Back then, before it became the preferred way to upsell, unlimited data was a $10 (later $15) monthly addon for me in the US.

It wasn't until I'd outgrown that flip, a Treo, and two HTC WinMo phones that it crept up to $30/mo for unlimited 3G data. With later phones the whole price structure had changed for the worse so I ended up switching carriers and data had mostly stopped being a flat addon to a phone plan.
Car Deployment Kit (I jest, I have no idea)
What's a good example of an Iceberg Article?
I don't want to come off a loving Tesla too much, they're not perfect, but this is another big area where they are transforming the status quo. So much of the FUD being thrown at them is by this lobby, they still can't sell cars direct to consumer in Texas! Car dealers, especially used cars, in the US are one of the most hated consumer experiences. Pricing is unclear, consumers are talked into buying things they don't want or need, to the point that most women I know won't buy a car without a man joining them. Additionally, they're resistant to EVs because it is eating into their service margin. I saw a brand new Porsche dealer going up recently with only two Level 2 charges. Probably a 10M project, and they have only a token level of concern for planning for future infrastructure. They're out of touch, short sighted, businesses with little alignment to the corporate manufacturing brand.
I stopped doing my side projects in Java
Don't do that. (Deliberately misgender someone).
Linguistics as practiced for a long time is descriptive. It is the only practice that makes any sense given the extreme diversity of linguistic forms present in the world.

How about you leave your pre-modern prescriptive prejudice out of linguistics.

If you want to discriminate against people for how they speak, that's your prerogative, but it has nothing to do with linguistics as practiced.
Is there any marketplace that allows a seller to advertise a cheaper alternative within their marketplace?
US version couldn't keep the airplane in the air, USSR version cooked it's pilots, had dirty exhaust and probably still couldn't keep the airplane in the air.
MindsDB: AI Development Cloud Platform
https://archive.is/V3Tun
Yep, this is the thought process I had; a red-black tree or B-tree is something I'd consider for a map that needed sort order, and a hashmap would be what I'd use by default if I didn't care about order.

For additional context, I work almost entirely in Rust nowadays, and BTreeMap and HashMap are the two map types in the standard library (https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/collections/index.html). I've ended up needing insertion-ordered maps quite often in my work though, which is not something I've seen taught very often or in standard libraries, although there are plenty of third-party implementations out there, and in most languages it's not too difficult to hand-roll an implementation using an unordered map and a linked list by keeping both the value and a reference to the node containing the element in the map, which provides constant time insertion, lookup and deletion. (Rust is somewhat notorious for _not_ being a language where implementing something like this by hand is super easy though, since tracking mutable references to individual nodes of a linked list across separate hashmap values is not something the borrow checker is enthusiastic about)
You should probably add tighter ratelimits. I reached up to 2000 clicks/sec by making a simple spamming script:

```js
const config = {
sleep: 10,
max_requests: 20,
log_time: 100,
};

async function sleep(ms) {
return new Promise((res) => setTimeout(res, ms));
}

async function click() {
const res = await fetch("https://obscurebutton.com/api/clicks", {
headers: {
"content-type": "application/json",
},
body: JSON.stringify({ increment: 10 }),
method: "POST",
});

try {
return (await res.json()).count;
} catch (e) {
return 0;
}

}

void (async function main() {
let countOld = 0;
let countNew = 0;
let activeReqs = 0;

setInterval(() => {
console.log(
`[${activeReqs}] ${countOld} (${((countNew - countOld) / config.log_time) * 1000}/sec)`
);
countOld = countNew;
}, config.log_time);

setInterval(async () => {
if (activeReqs >= config.max_requests) return;
activeReqs++;
countNew = (await click()) || countNew;
activeReqs--;
}, config.sleep);

})();
```

Also in the future, do some input validation. Removing the `content-type` header causes a 502 internal server error to be returned.
Forcing opening in a new tab can go die in a fire. I don't understand how browsers even support that. It's so abused.

If I wanted it in a new tab, I'll bloody well open it in a new tab myself. The feature is right there. Don't overrule the user. That should be illegal.

Now instead i click, have to go back, close the old tab, and history is wiped. Thanks for nothing.
I wrote a blog post to describe my system in detail: https://www.dsebastien.net/how-i-organize-my-work-as-a-solo-...