skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Obviously there's web, Android, Windows, Linux, gaming consoles, and smart tvs, so there are some work-arounds to avoid the evil empire

So obviously, effectively all other forms of computing (including by the way, Apple's own general purpose computers). But this one single OS, distributed by one single company, for two (counting the iPad) hardware platforms, which are also manufactured and distributed exclusively and only by this same single company "has near complete control over what software and and cannot be published, and [gets] to take a tax on all software sold"?

Being kind and not dismissing this as outright hyperbole of the highest order, why is this the case? I'm a fan of open source software and hardware, so the fact that this is the case seems like a MASSIVE failure of the entire computing industry at all levels. How is it a company that was famously described as "beleagured" for decades, that supposedly needed a cash infusion by Microsoft of all companies to even stay alive, that has always and famously been singularly focused on their own vision of computing and never been particularly concerned with compatibility or openness, how have they become the single dominating player in the the computing world? How have they gained "near complete control", when the platform they supposedly wield all this control from didn't even have a software store to begin with, and their conditions are as onerous on developers as they always have been? Why did developers flock to this system? Why did consumers? It's not like this is a bait and switch situation. The iPhone was NEVER an open development platform. The 70/30 split has been there from the day the app store was announced. In app purchases weren't a thing to begin with, and when they were announced they too had that same 70/30 split.

So how in the world has Apple come to dominate and why hasn't the entire rest of the computing industry managed to come up with anything close to an answer? What is it that Apple is selling to consumers and developers that make their clearly marked and publicly restrictive ecosystem to enticing when the open options are sold right next door? And how have they managed this dominance without even being the majority? Android to the best of my knowledge as more installs, so why is Apple the one controlling the market? In what other industry does the #2 player control the field?
Just want to incentivize switching from radar gun to sound gun. Local departments are who principally enforce this, and taking away a reliable speeding revenue source should hunger their budgets up a bit for the noise enforcement. I'm sure laser speed acquisition could be added.
And importantly, Ashley's not qualified either. She has a track record of this stuff!!
You would expect these are going to have anti-anti-drone defensive measures, lower profile signals, directional, IR/laser, wideband/agile-RF and the like, aside from things like shrouded blades, indirect message routing via a master drone to reduce RF energy cost.
You have to get the costs balanced too- it can't cost 1 million dollars to kill a 250 dollar drone, for obvious "what if the adversary was China" reasons.
Sweden does as the US tells.
Why is this case located with the United States District Court For The Northern Mariana Islands?
Why is Apple in a monopolistic position and why is AirBnB not?

The effect of AirBnB on everyday life of people and the economy is in my opinion at least a thousand times larger than any effect that Apple has.
If you're portly, it's hard to look good in a suit.
Modern history of Indonesia is also brutal, strange and very hard to grasp and accept. Just 6 months ago, a new generation choose a murderer, linked with previous coup as their new president because he was looking cute and post dancing videos on tiktok.

[I live in Indonesia as an expact]
Much like Snowden, people attach to whatever the highest-profile thing they released was, and act like that's the only thing they released. It's not, it's just what got the most attention. It's maybe 0.5% of the portfolio if you're being generous.

Both Snowden and Assange went far beyond "blowing the whistle" in what they leaked and/or solicited.
Linear Algebra 101 for AI/ML
'Gold gab ich für Eisen' may be the closest thing to that.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_gab_ich_f%C3%BCr_Eisen
Agreed. The de-risking of the housing market has been disastrous for <= millennials.

The de-risking has come in the form of artificial scarcity caused by zoning gatekeeping and outdated fire code, amongst other things. It’s time North America took a hard look at the root causes and fixes them before there is a crisis of confidence in leadership (which is already happened to me - I’m moving out instead of buying in to the insanity.)
You have it completely backwards; bad code can solve a problem. It may objectively work, even if it's bad because it's not maintainable, doesn't handle edge cases, etc. If you're one of the many shitty programmers employed as a software developer, it's still good enough for you.

On the other hand, a fashion advisor GenAI that can't tell good fashion from bad fashion is worthless because the whole point is to tell good from bad. If the AI agent is going to pick out stuff which looks bad anyway, why wouldn't I just do it myself and save the $15/month that whatever idiot SF tech app is charging me?
That's a beefy FPGA! Wish I had access to one to revive my 2009 era FPGA coursework knowledge but it seems the dev boards start at 5 figures which is too rich for a side project.
I think it’s just the difference of having something run on your hardware. If Apple allowed you to install a different OS on your iPhone (and there was a viable alternative) it wouldn’t be nearly as bad.
I agree, but none of them has autopilot, and the article lacks a technical assessment of why it happened, but I reckon it was due to that. ECUs, on the other hand, don't decide their own actions; they are essentially microcontrollers. All modern cars have plenty of ECUs, each for specific functions, like terrain ECU, brakes ECU, etc. They are extensively tested for FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis), so the margin of error is slim compared to modern electric cars with all these autopilot technologies.
> Nobody is competitive in the mobile space.

In what way is any of this intended to bring competition into the mobile space? By letting some entrants provide alternative app distribution?

The only plausible outcome of this is that Apple reduces their involvement in Europe (it’s already happening with features in the latest iOS that aren’t coming to European users) at which point Google will become the only software vendor. Congrats?

> You can't scaremonger with a straight-face like this when everyone is in the pocket of American manufacturers.

You had me at mobile OSes, but the majority of phones sold in Europe are produced and sold by companies in China and Korea.
> Let’s wait until we know more details of what happened.

Yes, there are some unknowns here, would be great to find out all the details.

> This could’ve been the trucks fault, or it could’ve been the driver falling asleep and blaming the truck.

But based on the facts known so far, we know this is not it. The driver was braking hard given the locked rear wheels.
I agree that it would be great if the ecosystem was a bit slower to use every new version and it does seem like things are beginning to tend in that direction as many foundational crates have begun declaring MSRVs of !LATEST.

However I don't think the pace of updates really changes anything in terms of tool chain security. If Rust decided to go to a 36 week release cycle, each release would just have 6x as much stuff in it. If you can't keep up reviewing N changes in a 6 week release cycle, moving to a 6*X release cycle will not help you review N*X changes.
How can that be when at least 30% of consumers visiting airbnb.com do so using Apple hardware, OS and browser?
Electric cars can have absurd torque , so much that they overpower any reasonable brakes. (ICE cars are usually designed as you describe.)
Just have the Fed take it. They've already printed enough money to buy $2.4T in 'mortgage-backed securities', what's a few more $T on the pile?

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WSHOMCB
Terraform Navigated the Idea Maze
I don't think it has to be more complicated for women:

> Suite or sports jacket or t shirt

Suit (or dress) or tailored shirt (maybe similarly with jacket but not suit trousers) or blouse.

Bear in mind you probably care about it more than anyone looking at you, especially if you're giving 'a presentation at a tech conference'.
Even if you create a "conscious" system, if you don't study the brain in vivo, you have no way of relating that "consciousness" back to our own. You've build a very intelligent system, it just had nothing to do with brains.

E: if you want to talk about conceit, look no further than the idea that I'm order to study the brain, we "just" need to build one first.
Things that happen when xe stopped to use NixOS
Ultimately he was caught because he delegated the task to his cousin, who ignored his instructions and sent all the packages from the same post office.
I lived over 15 years in a house on a 2x2 lane. Speeding deaths doubling would cause less social harm than the hundreds of thousands (at least) suffering mental issues from constant vehicle noise. All the opportunity costs.
Honestly, the app store is so full of crud I find it hard to believe they’re really checking. I have zero faith in any app in the app store until I’ve inspected it myself.
Sometimes it’s useful if the mean/median has meaning
My Brief War with Russia (1990)
That effect is 100% done in software. Full black on screens is just really good now. If you don’t believe me look at a photo in full screen while zoomed in.
https://archive.is/jyXNj
Live by culture war dipshit behavior, die by culture war dipshit behavior.

Whatever he's getting, he brought it on himself.
This is mini-pv, but dupont is the same concept: https://i.imgur.com/bV1zUkm.jpeg

It's designed for an oval crimp around the insulation & a m-crimp on the wire. The typical cheap crimpers have two sizes of m-crimp, which is fine for a lot of JST connectors for example, but not this.
When I get time may compress the table as well then, in looking at example arithmetic encoders they seem to have some flat table implementations as well (https://github.com/nayuki/Reference-arithmetic-coding/blob/m...). I don't see how that's misdirection, I left the table uncompressed specifically for transparency reasons. Was just trying to keep that part simple.
I think HN assumes some knowledge of tech and underlying knowledge on that. You can assume the average person knows how a transistor works or has at least taken linear algebra (even if we failed the class). Your average teenager is still going through algebra.

I mean, as a 13 year old I tried to figure out anti-aliasing, but my conclusion was completely different to the reality.
Igloo, Inc.
Thank you! I got a “disable your adblocker” blocker..
And the EU should look into Google's unfair practices from its domination of web search and ads. I suspect it will.

If Google starting charging site owners 30% of their revenues to index their website on Google Search, and there was no possible alternative, the EU would probably be looking at them pretty harshly too.
having performed the oobe bypass , it has not been possible on machines by some vendors , while continuing to work on others ... on a side note it seems hypocritical to use anecdotal evidence while denying others the opportunity ...
> Dressing well is like 95% about being in shape

Not at all. Check out https://x.com/dieworkwear. He talks extensively about this.
The implications that the spot can disappear inside the observer era is interesting. I had assumed it was a multi-epoch spanning structure, not something which was ephemeral inside human recorded observations.

Watching the TV broadcasts of the comet collisions "string of pearls" was amazing. Watching a slow fade on the spot might be something which requires a decades-long movie capture. (obviously, periodic stills being combined over 10-20 years)
Simplicio was the correct one in that part of the book!

Galileo's arguments about the tides were deeply flawed. Simplicio's "I don't buy it" is the correct response.
Mine was https://www.create-games.com
It's a federated representative democracy with some issues, some of the components of which have some level of direct democracy.

It is also a republic. It could be a republic even if it was a pure direct democracy somehow without "issues" - in fact I struggle to see how a direct democracy without issues could be something other than a republic.
Is there a former non-sitting US president? Did someone just beaver away at a standing desk for four or eight years?
I went through a phase where I was really into looking good at work. Everything got tailored. Fancy shoes. Matching belt.

Now I’ve gone full dragon programmer mode. My beard is out of control. I work from home and wear basketball shorts and a beefy-T 99% of the time. I wear barefoot shoes and don’t care about style whatsoever. My wife hates it. I feel free. Time to go recompile a kernel.
Related: I've been on a kick of buying non-plastic clothes (as far as is reasonable). I could see that becoming a broader trend.

I think the trend in tech fashion is high-quality, custom-fitted, non-plastic, basics. It tends to be "quiet luxury" but more for basics - such as high-end jeans. Absolutely no logos.
Because I don't have all the facts and I can't put the genie back in the bottle.

I think there needs to be a balance between "if you really want to research this alleged invasion of privacy then you should look here" and "that guy is bad, everybody go harass him". I haven't seen the logs and I haven't read the company's website in detail, so I'm not going to point the finger at someone for what could be a misunderstanding.

Maybe the website does point out this behavior. Maybe it's a badly configured script. Maybe it's as bad as described. I certainly don't know and I'd rather not join an internet mob until I've done my due diligence.
Why overlapping molecules would indicate memorizing or over fitting is beyond me. Imagine a mechanic designing linkages. They may collide, but if they could pass through each other, they could work. Then they might reconfigure them. Similarly, overlapping molecules could be a step along the way to understanding if the algorithm is focused on binding structures rather than global physical structures.
The linked Reddit posts include other people seeing the same pattern, which seems to be to that the same AI-generated works are listed under many different slightly-differently-spelled author names, presumably to show up more in search ranks.
Reminds me a little of a stored XSS I read about last year.

https://tttang-com.translate.goog/archive/1880/?_x_tr_sl=aut...

Had that same root of not having the mime.types in the container, leading to server-side sniffing of the mime type for the Content-Type header.

It's just a bit interesting the impact such a file can have
Apple seriously needs to make all internal coms about rejecting apps public to the person being rejected. I do mean all this way, when people blog about it, there's no more ambiguity and it can be assessed. Also, you can see if they're rejecting it for something they already approved of prior. It feels like some people doing the reviews dont look at prior history at all. Maybe they dont even get access to it, or maybe they dont want to do it. Let the applicant see their entire history, let them better clarify.

This is so embarassing to see every time.
I'd go further and that lately, for the average person, tech is causing at least as many problems as it solves. The public internet is a chaotic mess of scams and ripoffs. Social media is a cesspool that many people still feel obligated to participate in. Dating apps are an exercise in masochism, etc etc.

What actual problems are we solving for these people?
The US has a peculiar bit of transit bureaucracy that (until 2021) made it difficult to fund integrating airports into wider transit networks. Airports could charge fees to passengers to fund transportation improvements, but only if those transit networks were exclusively for transit to and from the airport, so you couldn't just add a subway stop. JFK, for example, has its own train ("Airtrain JFK") that goes from a near-ish subway station to the airport.

That makes it take more than an hour on transit (including ~2 transfers and 15 mins of walking) to get from Grand Central Station to JFK. It also costs more than $10 total, as opposed to the $3 that a subway ride costs.
They're cheap enough. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8661478/ Going by this you can get 200 miles of long distance line for each penny per kWh.

And look at the map, they seem quite widespread.
By your reasoning literally every job is “gig work”.
Every time I see this story, I try counting the round vs square rectangles, and in practice they seem about even in my life. Door frames, picture frames, books, cabinets, and windows are all actually squared off.

(And natural things aren’t rectangles at all!)
Apple didn't develop a "general purpose computer" either, they developed a cell phone. They entered into an established product market, with a product that was even more locked down than the current competition (remember, Palm Treos and Blackberrys?). Even "dumb" phones had apps and games (though if you think Apple's fees are ridiculous, you should look up the cost of developing a bejeweled clone for your old sony ericson, "Qalcom BREW" would be a contemporary starting point). Within this market, 3 different competitors (Palm, Microsoft and Google) also threw their hat into the ring, with far more open platforms. Palm and Microsoft eventually gave up, and Google is the majority player with the fully open platform. Yet Apple is somehow so dominant that we're crafting entirely new rules around them doing the same thing they and many other highly integrated hardware/software manufacturer has done for ages. Why?
I wish I knew about this in the microcomputer days. I started off with SIN() and COS() for circles which were very slow. I realized that you can just scan down a pixel at a time in the Y axis and use Pythagoras for the X. Also for a circle that calculation does 4 points.

But the way posted here would much much faster than that!
> yet a labor shortage persisted.

It's a bit trite, but: Is it a shortage of labor, or is it a shortage of pay for labor?

I realize that other issues can come into play like barriers of accreditation, people not realizing demand exists, lack of funds to pursue education to supply the demand, or a perception that the whole career-direction is a "bad bet", etc... Yet once you've seen somebody say "labor shortage" to describe a situation where the pay is terrible, it's hard to un-see it as a kind of sneaky blame-shifting tactic.

Ex: "I can't find anyone willing to sell me a new car for $1,000! Clearly America is gripped by a devastating car shortage. Manufacturers must step up production, and the government can help fix this crisis by giving car-purchasers like myself a tax break."
Indeed, I have exactly one pair of sneakers. When they wear out I buy a new pair. I usually spend $50-100
Have you seen the stuff Brave gets up to? It's not any better.
Yup. It's been 'Game On' for several years now. I would expect that using the RF signal for detection will go extinct as an opportunity in a very short time span (esp as targeting gets more AI-ish capabilities), detecting the audio signature will be key, and reducing that signature will accelerate.
Rounding edges is also a great way to “intentionally” fix a piece that got dinged on the workbench.
My local hackerspace uses this service with some OCR to email members when they have mail waiting at the space.
> Which is surely an innovation in drive-by-wire implementations.

I wish it was illegal to have drive by wire in brakes or steering. These are the two most vital systems in a car that I absolutely need to retain control of in order to stay alive.

All software has some bugs, so we need to acknowledge that. Brakes and steering are too vital to let them be controlled by software alone, when we know there are always some bugs in all software.
Ukraine has been using improvised small FPV drones since Russia invaded pretty much. The Russians in contrast seem to have been using larger drones (like those supplied by Iran).

Hezbollah has been attacking Israel from Lebanon for many months now with small drones and the air defence systems like Iron Dome haven't been able to effectively deal with that. One recent example: https://www.timesofisrael.com/hezbollah-swarms-north-with-at...

There is a major effort right now in Israel to address that gap.
Pirate groups normally create both x265 and x264 releases, and in different resolutions (720/1080/4k).
I clicked the link, then clicked media, most if not all of the images were of people who were “in shape.” Heck, there were even pictures of people at the gym. Do I need to dig deeper?
Being in shape means having better posture.

Having better posture means making better impressions.

Making better impressions is the whole purpose of dressing nice.

You don't have to be a macho with bulging biceps and a ripped six pack, but you can't be a fat couch potato made of blubber either.
Yes, Debian transitioned to NTPSec with bookworm. The NTP package is just a dummy transitional package to that installs NTPsec.

https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/net/ntp
I would expect someone who wants something from someone else to formulate a polite, specific request, and to then submit the request in a manner somewhere on the spectrum between respectfully and deferentially.

Unless I totally misunderstood, and you don't want anything, and are just expressing that the universe failed to live up to your expectations. In which case: my bad, sorry for the misunderstanding!
It doesn't seem wildly unlikely: there is a fundamental shift in how office spaces work.

But the other side is possible too: even if the loans had a guaranteed long term value (like SVB's bonds), they could be an issue in the short term. More so if getting the value out of the loan requires both time and effort (eg: legal costs).
This is just an ad and a puff piece. A "trend" for 0.01% of the population is not substantial.
Chat Control and the New Panopticon
With the important caveat that the surcharge can't be more than 3% or the fee, whichever is lowest. Is there a similar caveat for cash discounts?
There is a HUGE shortage of workers who can operate tools requiring CNC expertise. It's an extremely high-stakes quantitative exercise in many cases and the cost of error can be equivalent to e.g. a SaaS outage.

CT has a robust technical educational system, a relic of the heyday of Colt, Pratt & Whitney, and UTC, now Raytheon. One of the best states for it, glad to see it getting some attention here.
> I don't think I've given Amazon any reason to believe I'd want them, though.

Amazon recommendations have always been borderline useless at best, even before they became a drop-shipping crap hub.
The case is federal, it's not confined in jurisdiction. But the plea deal is being entered there because of "defendant’s opposition to traveling to the continental United States to enter his guilty plea and the proximity of this federal U.S. District Court to the defendant’s country of citizenship, Australia, to which we expect he will return at the conclusion of the proceeding"

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nmid.64...
You clipped the second half of this quote, "and buying clothes that fit well". That does seem to be a big part of what dieworkwear guy talks about.
People are spending a huge percent of their paycheck just to give their landlord the easiest job in the city.
Not what I'm advocating and certainly not REPL. When I'm talking about a live environment, I mean something _like_ Pharo [1]. I'm arguing against long compile and deploy loops, not formal verification.

[1] https://pharo.org/