skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ASML follows US restrictions because of US power. That purchase is just convinient excuse. If they never bought it, US would force them other way (e. g. access to banking).
Here is my billing profile: bp655f42f5e90faba9cbd5805. Looking forward to testing it!
Very cool.I wish I had the account earlier
How do you intercept so many beepers ?

- you have to know they have been ordered

- you have to know when they are sent (from Europe)

- you have to intercept them (in which country ?)

- to modify them

- to put them back in the delivery (so you have ties with the shipping company)

- without nobody noticing

So Israel was likely not alone, or they have agents in many places...
How did you promote the product to reach your target audience?
In most industries regulation is an opportunity for incumbents like Apple.

If Apple can profitably provide AI services without breaking privacy laws but their competitors can't Apple wins.
> it helped a number of children conceived via IVF (he had provided a sample for fertility testing many years before) identify and contact him

Wait, so a sample he submitted for fertility testing was used to impregnate a number of women? Without his knowledge?
You'd think it was a bad thing to put on your CV that you tolerate abuse :-/
I’ve been interested in Henry Charles Carey, the chief economic advisor to Abraham Lincoln. He wrote a book called the “Harmony of Interests” about the need for state policy + markets (to contrast with purely free markets). Lots of data and rigorous argumentation.

Apparently this was known as the “American School” of economics — and it dominated from the mid-late 1800s for over a century.
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I wonder if they want to go for-profit before major updates
You can give all the examples of socialism working in other first-world countries, and you still won't get through to the temporarily embarassed millionaires.
At the first glance, it looks like Airstrip is a platform to build your own prompt based tools without writing additional code with a simple and nice organizational control plane. It also seems the case with RAG.

But, say I have a more sophisticated solution, like a Langchain based agentic solution that happens to have a chat-like interface. How could I integrate that solution into Airstrip?
Only a subset of Threads users are currently exposed to the Fediverse, and I believe only partially (not sure if replies have been enabled yet, and if they are, if they're visible as regular replies, or under a separate heading?).

I'd also note that social media use differs hugely per country. See, for example, WhatsApp vs iMessage use in the US and outside, or how Brazil used to be big on Orkut. I wouldn't draw too many conclusions from Brazilian usage patterns vs the rest of the world.
I recommend anyone to try to work through a few compass-and-straightedge constructions. It can be really satisfying and meditative.

Oliver Byrne made an insanely pretty colourful version of Euclid's Elements, which is available online. Grab a pen, paper, a string to make circles, and the edge of a book to draw straight lines, start with Proposition 1 and go as far as you'd like: https://www.c82.net/euclid/book1/#prop1

(There is also a physical facsimile of Byrne's Elements (ISBN:9783836577380) – it is one of the best additions I've ever made to my library. It is simply gorgeous.)
The reality is Dave Plummer was called out again after incorrectly claiming Start Menu drew text sideways, that he built the entire menu, etc and was forced to backpedal when presented with evidence to the contrary. (He even revised the YouTube video title from I Built Start[...] to I Worked On Start [..., 1].) Once a scammer, always a scammer, it seems.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fr4Q6CF0E_8
Gygax didn't insist everyone play his way all the time, he didn't even play that way himself all the time. But he did deeply want a "standardized" way to play to exist, for things like tournaments.
You can't post flamebait like this to HN, regardless of which country you have a problem with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: it looks like we've been having to ask you to stop breaking the site guidelines for years:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39281820 (Feb 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35656288 (April 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34844518 (Feb 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18585046 (Dec 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18575831 (Dec 2018)

Continuing like this is eventually going to get your account banned. I don't want to ban you, so if you'd please review the rules and stick to them, that would be good.
Knives are perfectly capable of killing you, so let's not worry about nuclear bombs?
that's great, but it's not proper training, it's a hike, fantastic activity but (especially growing older) our life is mostly sedentary and it helps a lot to do a proper sport or intense activity at least 3 times a week (i personally workout every day, but sat and sun, for 1 hour with a high intensity sport, not weightlifting).
The older you grow the harder it is for the system to process the amount of stuff we eat (especially high calories, highly processed food that is available nowadays) and doing a high intensity activity (heartrate up, muscular stress etcetc) is, in my opinion, fundamental and often ignored by people.
Isn’t Taiwan’s success in creating a TSMC correlated to the pyramid of their workforce which supplied skill at every level commensurate for high tech manufacturing’s demands? They have a high number of post-grads in their population AND also a large number of what we in the US call vocational/technical-educated working class. How are we doing as a country over time by the same measure?
I don't think they intercepted. Think they just bought the pagers, prepared them and sold them directly to Hezbollah in one big batch.
Targeting, yes; retargeting, no.

So much user time is spent, for example, on a few big sites which have enough data within their own siloes (based on users' behaviour and topics of interest), they can target pretty well without relying on external data. The big video sites, social media, Amazon/eBay/etc.

And then there's a big layer of smaller sites who can inherently target because they're already specialist in nature.

The losers in this scenario aren't really the brands, they're big generic sites such as news media who don't have any way to acquire targeting information on their own.
Code is infinitely copyable. If it has been done before it can just be copied, hence the time it takes is 0. If it takes more than 0 then what you are doing is actually something else entirely, like gluing said code to something else for the first time.

If it is not the first time, then you already have the code and hence the time it takes is 0.

There are cases where code is similar to code you've written before or you cannot just copy the old one due to licensing constraints. In this case estimation is easy, somewhere between an hour to a day or two.

Anything larger can be broken down to hour to day or two chunks since it has been done before.

All great, except this last case simply doesn't exist for the type of work that I do. And that is true for many people, software is extremely unpredictable because the stuff you need to build on top of might as well be quicksand.
Because you go to prison for breaking the law
Is there a way to add and use niche custom terminology?
It is obviously the increase in those who haven’t checked boxes. There have been so many articles about this and nearly every article has a comment from an Asian student saying they work to ensure their essays don’t reveal their race. Clearly the college admission advisors are telling Asian students to not mention their race.

Also, I’m not sure if international students count here but there’s likely been a drop in Asian students applying to US universities which if they do count may affect the numbers as well.
> at some point I was online searching for any info about the Russian Imperial census held at the end the 1890s

Any idea where I might find a list of Russian navy officers from then or the following decades?
> and now, with this trade war, it's clear consumers will bear the burden.

"Now"? The trade war has been on since what, 2017?

> There's nothing inherently beneficial about manufacturing in the U.S. other than symbolic gestures tied to identity politics.

While I think that argument can be made in general, if you consider certain sectors and certain products, the calculus changes. Onshoring chip production is a matter of national security. Not necessarily in the "big bad China will take over Taiwan and put backdoors in our chips" sense (though that's certainly a concern), but in the sense of not being dependent upon an adversarial state for fundamental advanced technology.

> Most consumers want affordable, high-quality products

Sure, but that's not sustainable. You end up playing "chase the country with the worst worker protections". This isn't the case of chips (yet?), but there are quite a few things where China used to be the go-to for manufacturing, but production has moved elsewhere because costs went up, and it's cheaper to stop doing it in China. The long-term end result of all this is that everywhere has labor costs that have gone up enough that offshoring doesn't really buy you all that much.

Of course you can say, "okay, maybe that's true, but at least I can get my cheap iPhone now, and moving production to the US hurts that now, rather than decades from now". And I'm somewhat sympathetic to that. But ultimately Apple may just have to change how it prices things if it costs more to make iPhones. They already make solid profit on each unit, and perhaps they'll just have to make do with less of a markup.

> Instead of focusing on where products are made, the priority should be on ensuring that they are durable and not part of a system of planned obsolescence

I feel like Apple is a pretty bad example for you to use here. I had to replace my perfectly-functional, four-year-old Pixel 4 last year because it stopped getting software updates after three and a half years. Meanwhile my wife has a six-year-old iPhone that will update to the latest major version of iOS tonight, and it will likely keep getting updates for a couple more years. My new Pixel 8 will supposedly get major OS updates for seven years. If I break the screen on my phone or the battery gets bad, I can get them replaced fairly affordably. These are improvements!

Apple's repair situation is worse, but that's a choice Apple has made. If they wanted to focus on repairability, next year's iPhone would be the most repairable phone on the market. But they don't want to do that. Moving manufacturing around is orthogonal to all that.
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it's not unfair, the whole history of scientific progress is to cure unsolvable things with science. this seems pretty solvable to me ;)
it's pretty much the same as giving everyone anti anxiety pills cause it's less effort than fixing the root causes.
Something like 40% of Republicans believed Obama was 'responsible' for 9/11 in 2015/16

(failed to prevent, not personally perpetrated)
At the same time if you suggest "maybe we shouldn't use X, Y and Z analytics then" then you get laughed out of the room. So is there really a choice?
Presumably the partners are brought in en masse via some third party brokerage/aggregator service.

It's not like a news site is selecting and managing 1500 different partners individually.
I haven’t needed to optimize displays for projectors for some time, but when I did I was shocked how long 1024x768 survived. If you were lucky you’d get a 1280 pixel projector. And almost invariably, any shade of grey lighter than E7E7E7 was indistinguishable from white. People like to put light gray lines in tabular data to help the eye track across. It disappears and then people keep interrupting the meeting flow to ask questions about the data they were meant to be able to answer with their eyeballs. Though once in a while they’d put light grey in a bar chart and then they were fucked.

They are also all ever so slightly out of focus. Or dust on the lens. Or projecting on an orange peel wall instead of a screen.

I’m curious how things have improved in let’s say the last ten years. Still hot garbage?
Honestly? Because they can't. If any other country had control of the world's reserve currency, they would do it, too.

It's the same reason why the US can place sanctions on Russian individuals in a way that, say, India cannot.
Odd criticism.

UIKit is the iOS counterpart to MacOS’s AppKit and both are implemented as convenience wrappers around CALayers.
They are also infinitely customizable. You can overload UI/NSView and draw vector-pen style on a blank canvas or render whatever you want on a GPU frame buffer. This is how MapKit, Safari, and the Camera view is implemented.
How is it more privacy respecting when it's sending stuff to OpenAI servers?
yeah the reality is that people are going to take it in waves to "fix the mistakes they did in the past 6 months".
It would be helpful to document your architecture. Eg what kind of text search you use, eg trigrams, some sort of benchmark for searching with/without expensive embeddings.
AI voice cloning scam
Dunno that it's awkwardness so much as the discomfort of watching someone with pretty messed up teeth forcing too-large ID brushes in between them
Arctic seed vault faces problems with global warming
Fastify v5 Is Here
So the free market was the enemy all along, what we needed was state planning?
By that logic, aren't the vast majority of Israeli adults legitimate military targets due to mandatory conscription and reserve service?
Probably because they're not characters. They're just bytes undefined by ASCII.
What I always find funny about this, is that the popup is presented with "We value your privacy", followed by "allow us to share data with >500 partners".

I wished that such statements had some value greater than nil.
I suppose it depends on where you are from and your politics, but I think many people outside the US would feel safer with chip production in the US than under Chinese control. I don't think most would really jump at the chance to buy the same chip from a US manufacturing plant vs. a Taiwanese one, but if China were to make a move on Taiwan, I'm not sure the world's computing resources would be particularly safe. (Not to mention, I wouldn't be surprised if the secret back-room plan was to raze Taiwan's chip manufacturing capability to the ground if it looked like China was going to win a takeover of the island.)

Even ignoring the specific players, having critical advanced technology manufactured in more than one place increases world security. What if, say, a catastrophic earthquake were to significantly damage Taiwan's chip manufacturing? Having expertise and working, active manufacturing elsewhere is a good thing.
Apple Intelligence is a bunch of new tech they haven't really released yet. In typical Apple fashion, they start slow, and will improve it year over year.

Apple rarely backports new tech to older devices. It probably could run on the older chips, but it doesn't look like Apple isn't going for the widest possible rollout. They are launching it for the newest chips only, and are not wasting time porting it to old chips, when they don't even know yet how it's going to scale. So right now they are focussing on English speaking markets and newest devices only.

They are skating to where the puck is going to be, and in a few years no-one will care if their tech runs on the A16 or not. Right now they are focussing on getting this thing launched, and backward compatibility would only slow them down.

And its a selling point to get people to buy new iPhones, so it's win/win for Apple.
Theoretically, a slashed zero should not have the slash extending beyond the main body of the character, but in practice, especially in sloppy writing (when the slashed zero is more common) it often does. Also when designing a font for someone who has difficulties distinguishing character shapes, small differences like that may not be immediately obvious. Using a reverse slash immediately shows that it’s a zero without any clashes.

I think it’s a fairly elegant solution at the slight cost of being a little unfamiliar (although the slashed zero itself is quite unfamiliar to most people).
Agreed. The 3rd party app I'm using to read HN on mobile (Glider) has this feature and it's both useful and unobtrusive.

Screenshot: https://www.imgpaste.net/image/SDoBg6
It's frat culture turned into a company. You get hazed for a year or two and then you're part of the ingroup hazing the next batch.
Well, slightly off topic, but in the case of Volkswagen, everybody knew they (and other car companies) were doing it for at least a decade before the scandal blew up : car magazines were even publishing articles about it !
Oh wow, a country BULLYING its neighbors. Imagine a country doing that. Luckily, the US never does something like that. Or imposes sanctions on a country half a world away, sanctions which the entire world has to adhere to unless they want to lose US trading all together.

Some of these talking points fall apart upon typing them, let alone posting.
I think an index of all documents (including the contained text etc) should be a standardized component / API of every modern OS. Windows has had one since Vista (no idea about the API though), Spotlight has been a part of OS X for two decades, and there are various solutions for Linux & friends; however as far as I can tell there's no cross-platform wrapper that would make any or all of these easy to integrate with e.g. your IDE. That would be cool to have.
> And some of us would still disagree: HN has, for a long time, been exactly the union between the overly optimistic technologist (tech founder) and a very critical engineer.

Other's would know more than me, I'm just an anecdote.

All I can say is that I find many responses to be Pavlovian, not well thought out, overly negative or cynical, and in my humble opinion just part of a low effort zeitgeist against capitalism.
I would say as a company having an extra foundry in a less earthquake prone part of the world is a good idea to keep the company alive in the case of a major disaster.
No, there were engines that were capable of flight, guns capable of rapid fire, television technology and radios.

That was "advanced modern technology" then, and as the passage of time has marched forward, what we consider modern changes - so what's your point?
Of course FVEY/CSIS would push anti PRC narrative. PRC's espionage behavior basically translates to "using words", it's so mild vs what others majors are doing that it needs to be characterized as "over seas police stations" to make it seem extra threatening, when it's bottom barrel espionage activity. MSS handlers using words to leverages / intimidate, to convince people to return to PRC on their own accord, i.e they're not abducting anyone let alone extrajudicial assassinate. Like the solution to countering these activities is to say... naw I'm good.
I'm not a font or readabiliity expert, but it sounds like that is the tradeoff they had to make; paragraph legibility is not as important as being able to make out the words in the first place, and people with visual issues will struggle to read even if the font is better suited for them.
It's unlikely to be able privacy laws, but rather DMA / competition laws.

Apple Intelligence requires deep access to user data, systems apps, etc to make it useful.

Under the DMA, Apple would be required to also offer similar functionality to competitors (e.g. Google).
https://www.lexend.com is an alternative.
When I'm on my phone and a website shows the ads popup, I open it in Brave, which just blocks everything. That's the current implementation of "do not track" settings.
Bandwidth is currently limited by the infinity fabric implementation on consumer AMD CPUs, 6/8 core CPUs with s single CCD top out bandwidth quite early and improvements from higher clocks are minimal even from like 5600, assuming timings are overclocked similarly and beyond basic xmp/expo
Hey there, you can still use the HN_3 code to get some credits. Feel free to share your feedback, and we’ll see what we can do for you!
It doesn't matter what they want. It doesn't matter why they want it. They are not entitled to this information. They should not be able to know anything at all about us without our explicit consent. We should not have to sacrifice our privacy and peace of mind so that businesses can succeed. If they can't succeed without surveilling us and selling us out, then let them go bankrupt.
Of course it depends on the model and the condition, but somewhere around or under 5-600 euros?
Why is all of humanity gated by the FDA? The FDA doesn't regulate every jurisdiction on the planet.

Go take it to some other country if the FDA is the problem.

Why didn't that happen here for many decades?
This is again worth debating, but many comments here imply that the best amount of taxes is 0.

I don't think they realize the kind of place they would end up living in.
How to make ink, how to make writing tool,.... Paper? SOL kid....
> The "problem" you describe is your US citizenship requires you to pay tax on earnings from outside the US

No, I think you're missing the issue.

Suppose the company (let's call it XYZ Ltd) is owned 100% by my spouse. Let's say XYZ has $XYZPROFIT in one year. It then pays $XYZUKTAX on that profit, but the US isn't involved whatsoever. If it pays me $MYSALARY, XYZ reports that to the UK government and pays $MYUKTAX. I then report the US government $MYSALARY and $MYUKTAX, calculate $MYINCOME, and then calculate $MYUSTAX (which is normally $0, since UK taxes are higher than US taxes).

Now let's suppose I own more than 10% but less than 50%. Now I basically have to report to the US the same information about XYZ's financials that the company reports to the UK government, as well as answer 40-60 questions each of which would take a few days to understand the meaning of. Thankfully that's where it ends under normal circumstances; pay an accountant to prove you're not cheating the system and you're done.

Now suppose XYZ is 100% owned by me. It has $XYZPROFIT for the year, and pays $XYZUKTAX on that profit. Now, by default, $XYZPROFIT is included in $MYINCOME, but $XYZUKTAX is not included in $MYUKTAX; meaning by default I'm going to be double-taxed. I can avoid this, but only with 1) extra paperwork, and 2) forgoing any tax breaks for start-ups that the UK government has.

> "Pay unto Caesar, that which is due to Caesar and pay unto God that which is due to God" or words to that effect.

As I said, I don't mind paying taxes, but I don't want to pay it twice.
Swiss sounds reliable, but a Swiss communications company was also bought and compromised by the CIA since the 70s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG
I suppose those of us who have used vi(m) and terminals and command-line tools for years or decades should welcome DHH. Better late than never!

I had the good fortune to attend DHH introducing Rails at OSCON years ago. After he finished his presentation the first questions asked about which editor (TextMate) and font he used.

Similarly, Steve Jobs’ choice of jeans and black turtleneck, and Zuckerberg’s hoodies, got imitated and I think mistaken for the qualities that led to success. I expect DHH will cause a similar rush to Neovim and terminal apps, for the same bad reason: imitating superficial features of a successful person.

Funny to read about vi in the form of Neovim replacing VSCode. vi actually replaced editors much more clunky and tedious.
It won't JIT compile on anything other than GraalVM however. So it'll run, but slowly.
You should try to implement the iOS photos.app in flutter and see how that goes.
This requires scrolling through gigabytes of photos as fast as your finger can swipe without a single hint of slowdown or a loading spinner. And it’s been that fast since.. iOS 7?

Yeah it’s not the language or the SDK that’s slow. Rather it’s inexperienced, lazy, or overworked developers that can’t/won’t write performant software.