skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The Swiss way is not random WTF are you on about.

You failed to explain how it will help DB to hire more people. Yes, this is random until you connect the dots.

> Skilled workforce will always come if you pay for it enough to make it worth their effort.

To Germany? No, they will not. I would not, if the money were my primary incentive (yes, I’m THE skilled workforce you are talking about). You are talking about half of current German GDP to make it an incentive. And the whole country must start speaking English as a primary language. And of course there’s global demographic problem: you see, population of our planet will peak soon enough, poor countries will get richer and there will be less and less incentive for educated people to move. For small countries like Switzerland it may be enough for a while. For most of the Europe merit-based systems won’t work - we will have to offer support and education to refugees and unskilled economic migrants. Neocolonial model with immigration-supported economy is simply not sustainable.

> Why are you so focused on birthrates?
See above.

> Uneducated people having more kids

Who said “uneducated”? In Germany education rates are very high. The problem is not education itself, but deferred or abandoned family plans because of simpler life opportunities elsewhere.

> Food for thought.

I don’t think you are in position to tell this to anyone regarding this topic. You clearly have not educated yourself enough on this matter.
sorry but no

(1) chrome has a better security record than Safari so they are not protecting users by disallowing it. in fact they're doing the opposite. Preventing users from using more secure broswers

(2) the privacy protections are already circumvented in current WebView based browsers. How do you think Firefox iOS is able to sync all your history?

Arguably they're doing it to prevent any erosion of their native app market. other browsers provide more features like full screen support and PWA support, both of which are ways of providing app experiences that don't go throu apple's cash cow $$$$$ store
The biggest weirdness on IRC compared to all other platforms is that you NEED to be online 24/7 with your client or you'll miss stuff. There is no "backlog" except for the one you see yourself.

On the other hand it's a good thing, people can't just join and scroll down 10 years of chat history.

But you'll also be completely unfindable unless your client is online.
(FYI you've submitted this comment twice about 1.5 minutes apart. I've voted for the older one rather than this one. Mods/dang: maybe the two reply sets should be merged?)
For those who can’t see the tweet:

“I’m back at DARPA, but this time part of the leadership team as DARPA’s Chief Information Officer (CIO).

I’ll be at Defcon this year on stage with the Agency Director talking about larger picture items, and hopefully even greater ambitions than when I last keynoted BlackHat/DefCon as a DARPA PM.

We all pulled off real magic the first time I was at DARPA (~ 2010-2014). In addition to helping stand up I2O as the agency “Cyber” office, a lot of the magic created through things like Cyber Fast Track (CFT) were due to the direct participation of this community.

The projects, designed to ensure they gave back to this community, continue to evolve and grow today!

Let’s see if we can make an even bigger dent in the universe this second time around!

Kindest,

Mudge”
Didn't Jobs say something along the lines of "But when companies get big, they sometimes lose their way and start to value the wrong things. They start to value the people who create the process, rather than the people who get things done. In a big company, politics can get in the way of what’s really important—great work. In the end, companies don’t die because of this. They die because they stop innovating."
> To qualify for the entitlement, your app must:

> Be distributed solely on iOS and/or iPadOS in the European Union

These jokers. This is the usual malicious compliance.
What is considered "high"?

The Rivian R1T's clearance goes up to 14.9 inches, and has a motor per wheel. Does it count?
> Allowing alternative app stores and browsers is likely to lead to more security issues, more users using tech support resources because a dodgy app downloaded from a 3rd party app store they installed broke their phone in odd ways and will likely increase expenses without increasing revenue.

I commented this already, but I would expect iOS sandboxes apps in such a way that it doesn't have any impact on other parts of the phone even if the app is hacked for example.
I'm all for Apple opening up to other browser engines on iOS but at the same time I'm worrying that this is gonna end up in furthering Chrome as "the web" over time.

Especially considering iOS is far from having majority marketshare in EU compared to Android... this feels like forcing a minor player (iOS in EU) to help a major player (Chrome).
I don't think you could find a windows laptop with comparable build quality (or display quality, which I consider important if you intend to use a laptop for its intended purpose) for 1/2 the price of the air. I do think you could find a laptop in the same performance ballpark (ie. 75%+ of the single core speed, which seems to be where the newest gen Intel mobile chips sit in comparison). This is a bigger difference than I expected, admittedly, though the gap closes if you care about multicore performance numbers.

Here in AU, a 16GB air with 512GB SSD = 2400AUD. The base model (8/256)) = 1800 AUD.

I would consider an appropriate comparison model to the air to be something like this:
https://www.harveynorman.com.au/acer-swift-go-evo-14-inch-co...

For 1/2 the price, you get a laptop with an OLED screen and one of the newest/fastest non-M3 processors you can buy. It also happened to be the cheapest laptop with a new Meteor lake processor I could find, though I'd have to imagine there are laptops with worse specifications in other areas for the cheaper.

You can obviously spend up from there to improve build quality, get more SSD space (probably by swapping out the stock NVMe drive), more RAM (if you're lucky maybe they have SODIMMs, though I'd guess most laptops, especially non-16", might have soldered memory).

In terms of non-savvy vs savvy, mostly it's that a non-savvy laptop buyer, generally speaking, doesn't understand:

- Screen quality/tech. Resolution, TN vs IPS vs OLED, matte vs gloss, maximum brightness

- How different processor generations compare. Especially walking into a store, it's common in my experience for laptops with 5500u (Zen 2 6 core) to be sitting next to a laptop with a new eg. 125H, both at similar prices. The newer processor is the pick (performance wise), but this is completely nonobvious. It's particularly bad at lower specs, where you can have an i3 N300 (8 e cores) next to perhaps a Ryzen 5700u or Intel 13600h...

In theory salespeople should lead them in the right direction, but likely as not they can spend twice as much on a fancy laptop that looks schmick (and probably is) when they could get 90% of the same experience with something like the Acer above. eg:
https://www.harveynorman.com.au/hp-envy-x360-14-inch-ultra-7...

This is admittedly a 2in1, and it has a better processor, but it could well be worse in every other way.
Won't somebody think of the trails!? We should all stay home to preserve the trails so that some unknown generation at some unknown point in the future can ... also stay home to preserve the trails.
I don't have easy access to pypy so I can't run the benchmark on that I'm afraid. I'd love to see some relative results though.

> You could argue anything that’s performance bottlenecked shouldn’t be implemented in Python in the first place and therefore C compatibility is critical.

Honestly, I think I'm heading towards "python should only be used for glue where performance does not matter". The sheer amount of time lost to waiting for slow runtimes is often brought up with node and electron, but I ran the benchmark in node and it's about halfway between go and python.
I would call this "understanding" and reckon it you could use it as a reply to pretty much any comment. Unless you see things exactly as they are and apply no interpretation, then this is the mechanism by which humans "make sense" of the world.

I guess you mean that the story is harmfully reductive or demands further critical examination, but I just want to defend telling oneself stories as a thinking tool.
You could explore using a platform that gives you more tools and support out of the box, that allows experimenting with a custom setup, but doesn't need a big (both costs to set up a team and time to manage and get something good enough done) investment upfront.

What I have in mind is Palantir Foundry, Snowflake or similar. SAP would be overkill.
NASA Adjusts Crew-9 Launch Date for Operational Flexibility
What you're saying is not happening on macOS so what is your argument really?
Bread Price-Fixing in Canada
Why don't apple just dump EU instead of adhering all its bureaucratic regulations?
While it could be applied to coding, our focus is on bringing features that are already well known in software workflows to people outside of software engineering.

Imagine: Diffs for CAD files; Diffs for music producers; Diffs for layers; Diffs for accountants
...
-> Diffs for the whole company

Now, we need a generalized SDK to make it easy to build apps with built-in change control.
Yes. It makes JS run at ~30% speed, a worthwhile tradeoff given how often JIT bugs are used in exploit chains.

https://daringfireball.net/2024/06/apple_disables_webkits_ji...
There are more phone users than PC users though. Stats estimate a 4 billion difference. Can you imagine the costs of having just an increase of 400k users flooding your shops and online forums for help because of one of these third party stores/browsers? It makes sense if you could do this in the very beginning (as it was the case for PCs) but for smartphones that were closed since the beginning (it is downhill in the cost/revenue world)
There are people who have fallen for a phishing e-mail, and those who have not yet knowingly fallen for a phishing e-mail.

No one is perfect. No one is invulnerable. All human beings are fallible.

Given the current state of LLMs and Generative AI systems, I submit that we should not be surprised that the same is true of them.
>Can you actually list any of these "equivalents"? I'm actually genuinely curious

I paid ~780 Euros a year ago for a 14" Lenovo with an 8 core AMD Ryzen 7840HS, 32GB LPDDR5X and 1TB NVME, and 2560x1600 IPS display. I can't justify spending double the Euros for a Mac with less RAM and storage. I just can't. Now you can even get laptops with OLED screens for that price.

Oh and best of all, the screen can open almost 180 degrees meaning I can prop it up higher on a portable flip stand for better neck ergonomics and still view the screen at a 90 degree angle VS MacBooks which can only open ~135 degrees reducing the positions at which you can use the machine as the moment I prop it up, the screen faces my chest instead of my face while opened all the way.

Macs may be technically superior on paper but they have all these design quirks and limitations because they only want you to use the products in this very specific way that one design guru in Cupertino though of is the right way to use a laptop while looking cool, and I say screw that, I'm the customer, I should be able to use it however I think is best for me.

If I were doing stuff like photo/video editing for a living or developing iOS or MacOS apps, a MacBook would totally be worth it due to it being better for those tasks (or the only option), but for my own use cases of web + Windows + Linux + light PC gaming, Apple's products make no sense to me especially given their prices in Europe compared to Col and wages.
They are just trying to uphold their monopoly seriously.
Anyway, it will come the one or the other way — everywhere. It's just a matter of time, but on top people will fingerpoint even more at Apple, and it will have a much broader negative impact for Apple than simply by introducing it. With all their recent acting they are just confirming that's all about market power and greed.
Based on FlameShot app, it seems like his/her use case is more towards taking a screenshot & edit them at the same time.
Whatever happened to cruel and unusual?
The main question is whether they will allow Firefox, Chrome and Edge to use their own engine or not. The guidelines leave enough room to deny any potential browser engine if they want to, so it depends entirely on how Apple will decide on actual cases.
By that same logic, having different rules and regulation and review processes per continent, country or region also wouldn't scale.
A mandatory comment of the single most important tabs related feature, called "Simple tab groups" extension. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/simple-tab-gr...

The rest IMO is just nice to have.
System wide. This is documented
WebView in app vs PWA (Progressive Web App)
I also think it's about the whimsicality of it. Focusing on the process sounds so rational and cognitive. The issue is that it is devoid of feeling. A quest makes me feel something! Adventure! Let's go! There'll be dragons, there'll be riches and there'll be friendship! I need to seek out like minded individuals, I need to conquer my challenges, I need to go for the rewards that make me feel eternally rich!

That's what I feel when I think about a quest. Sure, you could say it's all good advice too, but that's just rational. Emotions move me, thoughts move me only a little. If I can get that advice (conquer challenges, seek peers/mentors, go for what I want) by thinking about it emotionally that's much more powerful than thinking about it rationally.

The rational understanding != the emotional understanding
FWIW, if I place the code in a function, so that variable lookups are constant-time rather than a dictionary lookup in the module globals, then (on my Mac, with Python 3.12) I get a two-fold speedup. That is:

def spam():
t1 = time.time()
i = 10_000_000
r = 0

while i>0:
i = i-1
if i<500: r += i
else : r += 500

t2 = time.time()
print(r)
print("Time:", t2-t1)

reports 0.87 seconds outside a function and 0.43 seconds when inside a function.

(Using the shell's time, of course, also includes the Python startup time. When I use it I get 0.94 and 0.49 seconds, indicating a 0.06s startup penalty.)
Yes, and it does come with its lot of problems. I've never heard of ransomware attacks on phones, for example.
> Almost all of that functionality is available in build tools that have been available for decades.

Build tools? These are runtime and operational concerns. No build tool will handle these things.

> And then all you're left with is scaling. Which most business do not need.

Eh, sure they do. They might not need to hyperscale, but they could sure benefit from simple scaling, autoscaling at peak hours, and scaling down to cut costs.

Whether they need k8s specifically to accomplish this is another topic, but every business needs to think about scaling in some way.

> Almost everything you've written there is a standard feature of almost any CI toolchain, teamcity, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, etc., etc.

Huh? Please explain how a CI pipeline will handle load balancing, configuration and secret management, and other operational tasks for your services. You may use it for automating commands that do these things, but CI systems are entirely decoupled from core infrastructure.

> We were doing it before k8s was even written.

Sure. And k8s isn't the absolute solution to these problems. But what it does give you is a unified set of interfaces to solve common infra problems. Whatever solutions we had before, and whatever you choose to compose from disparate tools, will not be as unified and polished as what k8s offers. It's up to you to decide the right trade-off, but I find the head-in-the-sand dismissal of it equally as silly as cargo culting it.
Sandboxed app stores would likely involve more efforts to keep it performant, functional and secure. Efforts that don't result in more revenue
The first step is to stop pretending AWD and 4WD can sensibly mean different things… unless your number of wheels differ from 4. The naming is truly idiotic.

Instead, be clear about any locking or torque split requirements, so you don’t take your sports SUV with no locking diffs and a 70/30 Torsen center differential on the trail. E.g., “this is an advanced trail that requires three locking differentials or equivalent”, and for lighter trails “this trail requires at least limited slip differentials”.
Can you be prosecuted for hacking cybercriminals back? Because I am pretty certain that you, if you had something stolen from you, are not actually allowed to break and enter the thief's house, take your stuff back and leave, and you're definitely not allowed to make a copy of keys for their locks while you're at it.
App store is NOT needed! It is another AOL type of walled garden. There is no reason why PWA can't replace most apps.
Basically that's exactly it.

HN isnt the platform to go deep on it, but im a fairly well evolved techno-conspiratist - and I've (as I jokingly stated) "forrest Gump'd" around a lot of silicon valley history..

And in my use daily of attempting to build what should be a simple thing with all the inputs of the GPTs, and paid versions - I am convinced that when youre using the tools in a meaningful manner which is leading in certain directions - there are triggers, and I think even humans, that get invloved.

On multiple occassions both on claude (paid) and gpt (paid) - ive had them strip out code AS ITS BEING GENERATED and tell me that its being stripped out for violations/concerns - but it just flashes the message, doesnt tell you which code, what violations, etc.

It lies, it ignores direct stements, ignores context in uploaded files, violates memory boundaries, and maliciously removes previously approved snippets of code/features etc.

I have managed exceptional devops teams, developers, PHDs even. I know whats up.

These bots are designed to edge, and consume your use of them.

THey actively, but very insipidly, thwart certain things.
But it’s perfectly acceptable for their own browser to phone home. Absolute bullshit this is.
I wonder if WebKit would pass these requirements.
The market? I don't know a single person personally or professionally with a MacBook Air. I haven't seen one in person in like 7 years.
Any comparisons to Propel Auth? (Another YC funded auth service that seems to have lot of overlap here)
> Allowing alternative app stores and browsers is likely to lead to more security issues

This is a false argument because even the first party offerings have security and privacy issues. Apple has redefined what "privacy" and "security" means to imply "only things we make" as a sort of selling point. Yes, they make OK things, but who is to say someone can't make something better? Cooler? Funkier?

Also, what happens when the entire planet is vulnerable to the same flaws? It's rhetorical - you get security companies offering services to unlock and decrypt devices for anyone willing to pay them. And what happens when Apple decides to say... remove XX category of apps by a government request? You end up with people owning very expensive slabs of glass and titanium because they weren't allowed to look for apps elsewhere. Apple's way is not the way.
> ....until our app experience meets the level of quality that we, our customers, and our partners expect from Sonos.

We'd rather expect you to test before releasing a terrible app. Did you not talk to anyone outside of the chain of 'do as I say, I know best'.
It's a mixed back. Germany was supposed to be demilitarized following the immediate end of WW2 but the successor to the Marshall Plan (which was actually fairly short-lived relative to what many people seem to think) was a US program to rebuild the European military as a bullwark against communism. This led to a reversal on the decision that Germany should never have a military again although it was initially limited to purely defensive operations - a restriction that has been repeatedly weakened due to the insistence of its allies, including the US.

A bigger difference between the two Germanies is that East German industry was mostly stripped for parts as part of reparations to the Soviet Union which continued for a long time whereas West Germany received active funding as part of the Marshall Plan. West Germany also had access to a lucrative market for exports whereas East Germany had to focus on reparations first, self-sustainability second and trade at a distant third with very bad returns.
>Didn't Jobs say something along the lines of

Jobs said many things, some right, some wrong (dismissing PC games and the OpenGL API as a fad leading to Macs low market share during the PC wars). The difference is he said those things when Apple was still a start-up or a small tightly run ship with the DNA from NeXT.

Apple of today is a multi domain multi national behemoth with 20x-50x the workforce of back then. What sayings apply to start-ups don't apply any more to largest corporations in the world.

What he said decades ago is no longer relevant to the Apple of today.
I think they mean you can not distribute it to the US, as this is a EU mandate-only.
They will, as they are forced by the EU if they don't allow any.
It's because you ain't that guy. Ideas are in the air and theoretically they will eventually happen, the question is are you going to be that guy or you'd rather watch someone else make it happen.
Antifragility of Starting Up
I've been reading Nicholas Naseem Taleb's Antifragile. I like the concept of antifragility but some of the arguments are contradictory.
W.r.t starting a new business,
- It would be considered antifragile because there is limited downside (loss of income for x years before shutdown or profitability) and unlimited upside (the business has unlimited upside of making money)
- it would not be considered antifragile because you are subject to adverse outcomes due to small change in your financial situation (like a health crisis or covid economy where you do not have the income to withstand the impact).
I'm trying to articulate this argument in my head and cannot seem to structure this. What are your thoughts?
I'm only talking about myself, since I'm talking about what I can't deny rationally, i.e. the fact of my own conscious experience. I can't speak for schizophrenics. I don't think you need a definition for your self in the sense that I'm talking about. Like you said, how would such a definition work? Definitions aside, I can't deny the fact of that self, even though I could by a slim margin doubt literally anything else.

I'm talking about the essential process of experiencing whatever comes to pass in my mind and senses. That process would surely continue if my memories disappeared. If all thoughts, memories and senses disappeared, well I can hardly say what would happen. All I can say for certain that my experience is happening right now, and it's not contingent on any particular thought, memory or sense.
I use iPhones and Macs precisely for this Apple quality control.

I have used everything else (Symbian, Windows 8 phone, Windows 10 Phone, various Androids including pure Google Pixels).

They have all been tragically subpar compared to my experience with iPhone and iOS.
These are really great questions - if it will take a 4 person dev-team a year to build what you have at the moment at $100k per engineer, what would $400k in co-development spent with your existing vendor get you? Often quite a lot!
I noticed your posts about the rag-agent tool you've made - I'd like talk to you more OOB.

I have a very good usecase that cant be placed onto HN. Ill ping you.
A guy on Youtube already built this... https://youtu.be/2AecAXinars?si=p42afAGJrUEsHedX
The Evolution of Network Security