skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Apple's fees cost 30% of the price, then the actual developers who make the software must raise prices to make up for Apple's fees. How much, though?

One might intuitively guess 30%, bringing $1 to $1.30. But Apple will take a cut of this price increase as well: $1.30 * 70% = $0.91, so still losing money to Apple's fees.

The actual amount they must raise the prices is (1 - (1 / 0.7)) = 0.428, or roughly 43%.

Doing this math backwards to factor out Apple's fees yields a confirmation: $1.43 * 70% ≈ $1
> The browser is a tricky one

Maybe, but they already solved that once already https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrowserChoice.eu
Hasn't Gerasimov been on the outs with the regime in Russia since the Wagner debacle (which was exactly a year ago)?
Presumably telemetry coming back
I don't get the accusation at all.

If anyone here remembers 2016, the vast majority of people, especially in Europe, believed that Trump's chances of winning were miniscule and that he was a joke candidate who only ran to satisfy his ego, not because he even wanted to become president.

If Assange, like basically every other journalist, believed that sabotaging Clinton's campaign was essentially impossible, then it provided a great opportunity to showcase corruption and gain support for his cause.

Additionally sitting on documents and dropping them closely before elections is a very common tactic. In the same way you would have to condemn the top AfD candidate being confronted with allegations, which the leakers had known for months, very shortly before the EU election. Certainly not any coincidence.
This would be easier if things like "integer arithmetic" weren't undefined behavior.
Didn't read the article I presume.
It was illegal before as well, it's just nobody really cared about Serbia, Afghanistan or Iraq (or any of the myriad of other warzones such as Libya).

At least in the case of Serbia though, an argument can be made that the NATO bombings back then were to stop a war of aggression in the first place.
> If a compiler is certain there's UB should it format the developer's hard drive immediately, or does it have to wait until the program is run before formatting to be standards compliant?

The standard has enough variants of UB that both options are possible!

For normal runtime UB (e.g. division by zero), it needs to wait until it is certain that the undefined code will actually be executed. So compilation/linking must not fail, the behavior is only undefined if the program is actually run.

IFNDR (ill-formed, no diagnostic required) is a different kind of UB; here it is expected that compilation/linking may already fail.

Then there's also the infamous "preprocessor UB" (e.g. https://wg21.link/p2621), which reuses the "undefined behavior" terminology despite not having anything to do with runtime semantics. I guess this is where the compiler might format your hard drive (old gcc versions actually launched nethack on undefined pragmas!).
China returns sample from moon' far side
The US DOJ famously almost broke up Microsoft over them bundling IE.
I didn't know this was a thing but me too
War? The EU didn't start a war when the US blew up nordstream 2. In fact they spent a lot of time nervously pointing at everyone except the US (who said they would blow it up).

It's a totally abusive and subservient relationship.

But then again the US doesn't allow the EU to have software companies, so they might not care that the data that would go to Teams is being hovered by a different US company instead.
It's true that the US lawsuit was in 2001, but the EU antitrust fine (the discussion subject here) for failing to comply with offering a browsers ballot screen was in 2013[1], merely 11 years ago.

Roughly the same crew still running the show, it didn't slip through their mind, just the $732 million fine wasn't enough to deter them from doing it again

[1]- https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/07/technology/eu-fines-micro...
Yep. See Jevons paradox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
Feyerabend has an interesting account of this in “Against Method”. One thing I also found very interesting in his telling is the role of the telescope in revolutionizing naval warfare. Galileo in part was motivated, and supported by, a sort of proto-military-industrial complex.
> Limit surcharging to credit cards only (debit cards and prepaid cards cannot be surcharged)

This is just one of conditions, being "allowed" is very limited.
Yes. During setup, there’s an explicit “no account” option.
Not to mention quite a bit of divine right of kings...

The land literally heals when 'the rightful king' is back in power
I couldnt do something like this in good conscience. It just feels too much like im snitching haha. Not that i know any of these sites
That is not permitted if the target either doesn't have military value or collateral damage exceeds the proportional value of a military target.

Not only it's unnecessary, unlawful and immoral, it also means that you're bad at war.
Agreed. Russia encouraging tourism into a war zone and not using air sirens to alert civilians should be punished.
Ahhhh that makes more sense
He got his wish. The tories removed the 15 year limit in 2022.

eta: I just noticed that he died on 7th July 2022. The law came into effect on 28th April 2022 but he never got a chance to use it.
Surface Laptop 7 review: A new era for Windows laptops
Except for curl, which now has more users familar with it than say wget or aria2.
I am also not a fan of the pivot to Snap. However, it is worth mentioning, that it has only been two years (I think, at least 22.04 LTS was the first release I had to wrestle with them on my machine), and the experience has become a lot better during this time.
NOFX is still one of my all time favorite bands. So strange to see them mentioned on hacker news!
I wonder if you're looking for cybernetics? The original meaning from the 1940s, not the corrupted science fiction shibboleth. Wikipedia - "The initial focus of cybernetics was on parallels between regulatory feedback processes in biological and technological systems...Wiener introduced the neologism cybernetics to denote the study of 'teleological mechanisms'."

Wikipedia suggests it lost a lot of drive in part because AI and computer science split off from it.
It's not about Sun Microsystems... but solarpanels ;)
Yes! I think it was a parallel study between nervous systems and electrical engineering principles by Wiener et al. that kickstarted cybernetics?

Interesting! Will ping you!
They used their ill-gotten market dominance to turn the desktop personal computer into a dystopian spyware machine for which the primary function is to serve ads and drive MS engagement. I struggle to think of any entity in the modern world that has subverted the potential of the information age more profoundly than Microsoft, they are a pox on mankind and a net loss to humanity
That doesn't prove that people don't care, just that Microsoft doesn't care about people.
To me, Christopher Alexander's work comes closest to describing "systems science". I recommend Notes on the Synthesis of Form, The Timeless Way of Building, and then skipping to the Nature of Order series.

I'm of the opinion right now that what we call "design" and "architecture" is really just the science of finding stable habitable zones in high-dimensional problem spaces.

What's cool about Alexander's work is that he makes a great case that this stuff is objective phenomena that can be studied!

I'm planning to write much more about Christopher Alexander on my own blog in the future, but meanwhile I can recommend Dorian Taylor's excellent works:

• https://the.natureof.software

• https://doriantaylor.com

I gave a talk on this subject at DDD Europe this year, so keep your eyes out for "Timeless Way of Software - Taylor Troesh" on their YouTube channel :)

• https://www.youtube.com/@ddd_eu
Just like above, this is not a negative statement about women but about understanding how their experience is different. Women are used to being approached and pursued by men that they usually aren’t interested in, and might even be dangerous. A positive response would invite more unwanted attention. An attractive women in a crowded public space is often experiencing men trying to initiate some type of interaction (often aggressively so) every few minutes.

Men’s experience with women also varies a lot depending on how they look, and their social skills among other things.
The American Wine Crisis
Prohibiting Outlook email domains – PyPI
Yeah... They are using a single-core 13W measurement to project out. For a 64x parallelization - no mention of any overhead due to parallelization or power needs of the supporting hardware. This is a key quote for me (page 12 of the PDF):

> The 1.3B parameter model, where L = 24 and d = 2048, has a projected runtime of 42ms, and a throughput of 23.8 tokens per second.

e.g. 64 x 13.67W = 874 Watts to run a 1.3B model at 23.8 t/s... I'm pretty sure my phone can do way better than that! Even half that power given their assertions in the table are still overpowered for such a small model.
It feels like MS has decided a few years ago there can only be one premium, quality vendor (Apple) and they give up and go the way of enshittification instead to get their $$$.

Writing this as a die-hard anti-Apple person, and I was one of a few Windows-based developers in my prev job (there are a few tools on Windows I liked that didn't have good counterparts on other platforms), but seeing where things are going, and having worked on a MBP for last few years, I'm not going back to Windows.
That's exactly what Microsoft would say about Teams though, so it's probably better that we err on the side of caution and ban curl bundling. At least until curl can prove that it's not anti-competitive.
Same here! Although in the context of "Writing" an IR, writing an incident response policy makes the most sense (but isn't very blog worthy)
Interesting to note that power plants were specifically mentioned. Part of the US bombing campaign against the Serbian genocide carried out by ICC-indicted Milosevic was .. bombing Serbian civilian power grid. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/balkans...
> Linux has many (better) tiling managers

I wish. komorebi is pretty much the only thing keeping me on Windows at this point because there is nothing comparable feature-wise on Linux.
I really would hope more people would understand this. Faced with indefinite detention and infinite legal cost would you admit to something you didn’t do to walk free? I’m pretty sure most people would.

It’s a difficult area of research, but there are various law schools[0] and charities[1] trying to help people who took pleas because they feared a harsher sentence if they couldn’t adequately defend themselves.

0 - https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Documents/NRE....
1 - https://innocenceproject.org/
I spoke with Mike before one of his last shows. I told him that I head they they suck live. He told me they got better.
So this sentence would not be able to exist... "Nice neighbors nurture nature, noting notable nuances nightly".
Have you tried cfengine ? I'd be curious of the feedback in heterogeneous environments.
wget begs to differ.

Kidding aside, where exactly does it end? How do you consider when you’ve hit “too much” and how many pieces must be split out when you do? Should every product in the Office suite be offered only individually?
Oh well. I guess it's time for Microsoft to discontinue Teams, destroy any related IP, purge any copies from GitHub/developer workstations/backups, forcibly uninstall it from end-user machines, update Windows to forcibly delete any copies installed in the future, and never, ever, ever under any circumstances try to compete in the chat/video conferencing market ever again. The world will survive, if just barely.
If folks want to look fashionable, I'm all for it!

That said, if I spent 500 dollars for a one-hour consultation and the result was a flannel long-sleeve shirt, nondescript jeans, and some van's oldskools, well, I'd politely ask for my money back.

That's been a standard look for 25 years, likely more. Plus, the fit; not loose enough for more modern fashion sensibilities and not form-fitting enough to look hip 15 years ago. And don't get me started on the color palette (the yellow of the shoes are a nice touch, to be fair).

Disclaimer: I'm getting dangerously close to 40, so it is overwhelmingly likely that I'm missing something. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a windmill I need to yell at.
I would bet it is Saipan local goverment, they probably don't have (or dont want to expend) the resources to secure him.
They should get rid of Edge and a few other stuffs too. Is there a tool to conveniently remove any feature I do not want? Googled around and looks like Powershell is my only reliable option -- and still I cannot remove Edge.
And they've only started trying to stuff AI down our throats.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11367-021-01946-6

I've seen several studies that dispute the efficacy of reusable plastic items (bags, cups, etc). The energy costs of producing the "sturdy" alternative are often high enough to offset the gain in reuse.

IIRC, one study showed that reusing the single-use grocery bag one time (as a trash bin liner) was enough to put it back ahead of the typical $1 reusable bags available at the check-out counter at most grocers.
yes, human average reading speed is ~250 words per minute, but to be fair, it's not a widely known stat.
No, it's just that you can't use dominance in one market to privilege yourself in another. Basically cross promotion and bundling are looked at very sceptically once you get large enough.
Sure it is. You don't see people complaining that a 20- or 25-year-old game no longer has its original servers running if you can easily host one at home or use a community-run one. Take Quake for example.
Does anyone know the source for this blog? I love it!
How Temperatures Affect Food
I’ve heard some claims that to get closer to brain-like energy efficiency you’d need to use a spiking neural network
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiking_neural_network
It's a bit sad to me that I've lost so much trust in Mozilla that I'm immediately suspicious of this campaign. This could be exactly as innocuous as they want this to sound:

> Your report will help us identify the attributes and traits of third-party websites that offer Firefox download outside our official source, so we can work with them towards better distribution practices – eventually, leading to better security, privacy, and user experience for Firefox users.

It's also possible that what they really mean is that they're going to go after these providers for trademark violations [0] like what happened with Debian [1].

I'd love to be in a world where I can trust Mozilla to generally do the right and honest thing, but I'm having a hard time imagining what other form this "work[ing] with them" could take, and it makes me very uncomfortable that they're not forthright about the details of their plan when asking users to help them identify targets.

[0] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/trademarks/policy/

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Debian%E2%80%93...
Greg of Bad Religion I believe also has some sort of PhD.
Building Trust in Fusion Energy
I've never ever had Meet bundled with any of my phones in my years of using android. On my latest S22, obviously the play store is there but the only other core Google apps that were installed were calendar, chrome, fit, Gmail, Google (the main "app" that probably bundles in the assistant and stuff like that), play music, maps and a couple of others. There was no meet and I can still uninstall calendar
They measured a speedup. SIMD is a super common way to speed stuff up and good compilers do it automatically.

A lot of string comparisons use SIMD now. In C++ if you use std:string on GCCit has done it for years. I bet Rust and Python (in the compiled runtime) ate doing it too.

No sense leaving easy performance gains on the table.
One thing I have learned after nearly a decade in the industry is that you should just never, ever, ever use `celery`. It's overly complicated to program with; the monitoring tools are not great; and the one guarantee you can make is that at some point, you will have some kind of difficult to debug, mysterious failure involving it.

If I needed asynchronous background processing in Python today, I'd definitely be looking into `django-tasks.` If you asked me yesterday, I'd have told you I'd use SQS / whatever the platform equivalent was, or, failing that, I'd probably go with `dramatiq`.

Edit: LOL, I can't believe I forgot to mention what a fscking nightmare `celery` is to deploy and configure. UGH.
My experience is good so far with them, but it's good to get a couple of automobile lights to wire in series or parallel to load them.

As the saying goes: "With Ali Express you test, don't guess!"
I am curious to learn too about this. I have managed to say at Windows 10 with strictly local accounts only.
I assume by comparing the sum of the downloads from all official channels to new telemetry instances claiming to come from Firefox packaged by Mozilla.

about:telemetry#environment-data-tab_partner
Agreed on the sugarcoating. My mother installed Windows 11 on a lab computer and had to call me for tech support for the first time in 20 years because she couldn't figure out how to do the most basic things. This is a PhD physicist who has been programming Fortran and Python since the 1990s and taught her parents how to use Ubuntu as their daily driver, yet she was completely stumped by Windows 11. It's been a daily struggle for her since.

Sadly all I could say was "yeah, that's why I use Linux"
Your point is interesting because I see this across the home hardware industry. Cheap electronics were subsidized by data collection and I suppose that market was lucrative until it wasn't. It happened behind the scenes, we knew it was going on, but it was abstracted away enough that we did not think about it. Now what is happening is that the hardware providers are getting into the marketing game directly. Personally in the past year I've given up on two pieces of hardware Alexa and Roku because they have morphed into ad machines. The market is open for privacy, convenience, and quality. Unfortunately, Apple seems to be the only major player in that space right now and we are paying their premium.
Perhaps, but (1) that's apparently what happens nevertheless and (2) to be clear, I'm just (further) answering the question about what's contained in this super long video
Scientists Develop New Algorithm to Spot AI 'Hallucinations'
Etched Is Making the Biggest Bet in AI
IIRC the FBI flipped at least one of the moderators and faked a murder, along with picture “proof” that they staged.

You are right though, I believe others were scamming him too.

Casefiles has an excellent three-part podcast on it.
I mean, I "fix my code" by avoiding languages with a lot of UB like the plague. I don't think writing a million lines of UB-free C++ is a human-shaped problem. We can pretend this is just a "skill issue," but even if it is it's a skill issue that's endemic to the industry (https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/758.html), so unless you're working on a project solo you're going to come across code that has UB and it's going to be your problem to fix it.

Given that, plus the reality that we insist on continuing to write a million lines of C++, treating UB as something you'll see frequently in your career is probably the reality-based behavior.
> You are stating that in order to get Art, Thinking and Judgement we need Proper processes

Well yeah, but no -- I was mostly parodying your style; what I actually meant could be put as: in order to get art, thinking and judgement we need proper processes.

(And Plato has not only been dead for what, two and a half millennia?, but before that, he was an asshole. So screw him and all his torch-lit caves.)

> «Faking thinking» is not "implementing thinking".

Exactly. And all the LLM token-regurgitatinmg BS we've seen so far, and which everyone is talking about here, is just faking it.

> May I remind you of Einstein's "As simple as possible, but not oversimplified".

Yup, heard it before. (Almost exactly like that; I think it's usually rendered as "...but not more" at the end.) And what you get out of artificial "intelligence" is either oversimplified or, if it's supposed to be "art", usually just plain kitsch.

> > see your failure to recognise

> Actually, that was a strawman on your side out of misunderstanding...

Nope, the imaginary "strawman" you see is a figment of your still over-complicating imagination.
That's OK though - it should be enough for text content. I think it's also OK to just have the RSS feed contain the title and summary of the article since I prefer to read the content in my browser anyway - but there are definitely different opinions here.
I know. I don't care. I don't want a partner who to all observers (myself included) appears to be trying to cheat.

My bare minimum relationship standard is a partner who does neither, and I hold myself to the same standard.
great answer, thanks
I've seen a few 3rd party post windows install tweak/essential utility scripts that use winget now. A search there shows a number of results, but the main one (winget show mozilla.firefox) seems to be official. I've never really liked those scripts though as it seems easy for someone to divert it to something else and I doubt a lot of users audit it.

Something that's been on my mind in terms of user reporting is while firefox puts a large emphasis on privacy, what proportion of the userbase conceal their user agent and disable/minimize telemetry
In modern times, the pound is defined in terms of kilograms, so it's a unit of mass.
I've been wary of joke candidates ever since I watched that black mirror episode
Going to RT did not help Assange's legal case in any way.

I'm against double standards. It was wrong from both Assange, Blair and other Western leaders and activists who claimed to care about democracy and human rights to deal with Putin's Russia the way they did.
Background tasks look well thought out, looking forward to try that.

Despite being somewhat out of fashion, Python and Django continue to serve more down to earth software development well after so many years. I picked it up around 2007 (remember the "magic removal" branch), and it only got better ever since. Many call Python "toy language" or "data scientist language" but the truth is that 99.9% of modern web development is database-backed and, unless you have some strictly computational tasks behind your APIs, the fact that e.g. Rust is 100x "faster" than Python is mostly meaningless. Django just works. Of course, there can be different personal preferences, but I'm really amazed by the project that is closing in on 20 years that is still absolutely relevant and a joy to work with.
Considering people are still running BBS Doors and other software from very long ago, I'm not sure that I completely agree.
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