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> You're paying for Apple Invites whether you realize it or not. There's immense value in making their platform more sticky.

I'm not stuck to Apple's platform, I'm quite happy here. Apple services aren't drenched in ads end to end. Apple's services aren't constantly asking for nickels and dimes; it's one charge, every month, for a buffet of services that are regularly added to and actually improved, making them distinct from... fuck, the rest of the Internet basically, which seems to boil down to a revolving door of stupidly named services backed by VC funding that get popular, quickly, because they don't charge anything and aren't drenched in ads, and then slowly they add the ads, but there's an ad free tier for not much money, oh but now there's ads in that tier, which is also more expensive, and then the service shuts down because they didn't hit 60 billion users before their runway ran out, but there's this new service...

And while I'm certain they do some spying and whatnot to facilitate targeted ads, they at least pay lip service to my privacy, and my experiences developing stuff for their hardware tells me that at least there is a whiff of security to their hardware. There are a lot of things as a developer I'm straight up not allowed to do.

The "insidiousness" of Apple's plan so far seems to be, largely, making damn good products that people want to use, and backing them up with cloud services that work well. I wish more tech firms took that approach to be totally honest.
I don’t want the uncool Android kids at my parties. Because then I have to listen to them droning on about the kids of things Android people drone on about.
I wonder if a better strategy would be to, rather than relying on the ranchers to submit claims (hard to measure, unlikely events falling on people randomly), they could just tax all tourism and come up with some formula to pay out to all the ranchers based on their expected harm (easier to measure, law of large numbers).
like, "not your keys, not your bitcoin", if it's bitcoin, it's not your currency
"Yes, of course, I'm using AI at every single opportunity where I think it'll improve my output"

<<never uses AI>>
It does. If you try to send a photo in an inferior green bubble chat, you get an error. Face time calls don’t work.

The text is harder to read for me because it’s low contrast and can’t be configured.

It’s significantly less secure, and a government agent required I use blue bubble imessage to submit an important document for security, and wouldn’t accept it by sms or email since both were not secure enough
If civil servants invoke Hitler to justify declaring “Resistance” to the democratically elected President, and said President turns out not to be Hitler, then they invite the reaction that results.

I was promised Muslim internment camps in 2017. There having been none, I’m cheering on the DOGE strike teams.
I have no experience with the last 2 companies you mentioned. Do they have the kind of eFPGA IP I've seen sometimes or do they only make CPU or fixed logic designs? The FPGA in the rfsoc has a lot of logic and DSP resources. It'd be a shame to give that up.
> Not default there, default gone. And if it turns out that we missed the mark on a regulation, we can always add it back in.

Absolute, total, and complete insanity.

This is a combination of stupidity and an actual attempt at e/acc. They explicitly want to break everything, and maintain total control of whatever comes out of the mess.
I don't use facebook so I currently invite my friends to various events and parties by texting the same image with the info to a bunch of groupchats and a few individuals, if this makes that cleaner I'd be pretty happy.
I agree with you, but how do you effectively prevent it? Standards vary across countries; what's not acceptable in Europe might be acceptable elsewhere.

For instance, discussing or questioning Nazism is illegal in Germany but allowed in many other countries. Should every LLMs be restricted globally just because Germany deems it illegal?

Similarly, certain drugs are legal in the Netherlands but illegal in other countries, sometimes even punishable by death. How do you handle such discrepancies?

Let's face it: most of the time, LLMs follow US-centric anti-racism guidelines, which aren't as prominent or necessary in many parts of the world. Many countries have diverse populations without significant racial tensions like United States and don't prioritize African, Asian, or Latino positivity to the same extent.

Moreover, in the US, discussions about the First or Second Amendment are common, even among those with opposing views, but free speech and gun rights are taboo in other societies. How do you reconcile this?

In practical terms, if an LLM refuses to answer questions because they're illegal in some countries, users will likely use uncensored models instead, rendering the restricted ones less useful. This is why censorship is never successful except by North Korea and China.

Take Stable Diffusion as an example: the most popular versions (1.5, XL, Pony) are flexible for unrestricted use, whereas intentionally censored versions (like 2.1 or 3.0) have seen limited adoption.
Eh that ship hasn’t sailed (yet) and this type of commentary isn’t productive toward preventing it from setting sail.

We are in fact a nation of laws and we ought to demand enforcement.
Fascinating.

What are the black swan events for those holdings - I assume they can get margin called?
Unfortunately it happens all the time in my friends circle, and it's for technical not anti-social reasons. Group texts that include Android users are so buggy that they tend to die out, whereas iMessage-only groups tend to be long lasting. For this reason we use WhatsApp for the core group chat, but there's still a ton of side-conversations and meme-ing in iMessage groups.
Zig was not ready or nearly as popular back in 2019 when the compiler was started.

Not to mention, Richard has a background mostly doing higher level programming. So jumping all the way to something like C or Zig would have been a very big step.

Sometimes you need a stepping stone to learn and figure out what you really want.
A 10% tariff on China won’t stop globalization. Even an 100% tariff wouldn’t. American goods aren’t 10% more expensive, a lot of them are 10x more expensive.

Look for American made kitchen knives. You will be lucky to spend less than $2k on a block of Made in USA knives. Meanwhile you can get a pretty good set made in China for under $200.

If you wanted American companies to compete, you would need a 10x tariff to make that $200 knife set cost $2000.
Men are dying of thirst in the desert and women are dying of thirst in the ocean.

(not my analogy, but IMO very succinct)
This is an important topic and I don't think this article is really getting into all the important things that have been learned about it over the past few years, primarily by VR developers.

Too much of the current dialogue is about how players can "get over" it. This is silly. There are demonstrable, proven things which cause motion sickness via the visual system. Unfortunately there are some irreconcilable issues with doing certain activities (ie moving/turning without player input) in VR games so it's either abandon those activities or blame the users. Considering Meta has now poured nearly $85bn into their AR/VR effort, there's a lot on the line and the last thing they're going to do is admit that the technology is fundamentally limited to certain activities.

Here's an early video from Oculus when it was still a bunch of enthusiasts chasing something magic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DgfiDEqfaY&t=1356s

But nowadays you have people that play VR and have "VR Legs", and then you have the rest of us who have normal human brains and normal human eyes and don't want to take it upon ourselves to relearn how the world works so we don't puke when playing an FPS.

The bottom line is that the human visual system is very sensitive to acceleration, especially in the peripheral vision. Acceleration can be linear, angular, or even in odd dimensions like during an FOV shift which god forbid a game would do without telling you.

The easiest thing you can do to save yourself is get a smaller display or sit further away so that your peripheral vision is spared any of the motion and your fovea is gathering the majority of it. This is why "tunnel vision" in VR works for some people.
Would be great comedic relief for sure since I’m mostly working in the backend mines, where the
LLM-friendly boilerplate is harder to come by admittedly.

My defense is that Karpathy does the same thing, admitted himself in a tweet https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383 - I know exactly what he means by this.
"Start with two beavers..."
explanation needed, bro.

nerdy langnoob or noobie langnerd here. not sure which is which, cuz my parsing skills are nearly zilch. ;)
Pause any spending $X on a Foreign Nation is not aligned with making America Gooder.

The better question is why hasn't anyone done this before?
Switching to the linux world 20 years ago was one of the best decissions I ever made.
What I learnt on the way is absolutely priceless. Thanks go out to all OSS developers!
> Guests can view and respond to an invitation using the new iPhone app or on the web without needing an iCloud+ subscription or an Apple Account.
(Disclaimer: I'm PocketBase author)

It is nice to see more backends utilizing SQLite. The benchmarks and the Comparisions section also seem well done.

Just a nitpick - list the versions of the tested platforms.

Based on your benchmarks repo it looks like that the tests were done against PocketBase < v0.23 but note that PocketBase v0.23+ (especially with the Create API rule dry submit removal in v0.24+) has introduced significant changes and performance improvements - ~4x times in high concurrent scenarios in our own benchmarks[0] (if you want to retest it note that the CGO driver is no longer loaded by default and will have to be registered manually; see the example "db_cgo.go" in the PocketBase benchmarks repo or in the "Custom SQLite driver" docs[1]).

[0]: https://github.com/pocketbase/benchmarks

[1]: https://pocketbase.io/docs/go-overview/#custom-sqlite-driver
Someone saying extremely stupid things in public, just making shit up and punishing those pointing that out, doesn't strike me as "honest", it strikes me as heavily disordered. And starting this stuff on a Friday night is the opposite of being transparent or welcoming scrutiny. Also:

> Thomas Shedd, a Musk-associate and now head of the General Services Administration’s Technology Transformation Services (TTS), told government tech workers in a meeting this week that the administration plans to widely deploy AI throughout the government. Shedd also said the administration would need help altering login.gov, a government login system, to further integrate with sensitive systems like social security “to further identify individuals and detect and prevent fraud,” which employees identified on the meeting as “an illegal task.”

https://www.404media.co/things-are-going-to-get-intense-how-...

Finally, batting against someone trying to make the status quo worse for his own gains isn't "batting for the status quo". If your house needs renovating, and I stop someone who tries to set it on fire, it doesn't mean I'm against renovation.
Last time I tried it was missing both speed and incremental compilation. That still looks to be the case due to no linker support.

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/21165
On the other hand, eliminating wolves has a cost to it, which affects everyone and only benefits ranchers. Which is the more ethical outcome? Privatized gains and socialized losses, or socialized gains and privatized losses.
How come through this people with any device can add photos to a shared album, but not through regular shared albums?

On that note: how to get cross platform shared photo album without pain or google?
We're talking about gov employees here
I feel like we’re just in that period of Downtown Abbey where everyone is waiting for the World War I to start. Everyone can feel that it’s coming and no one can do anything about it.

Reality is in a war between the West vs Russia/Iran/North Korea/China whomever we end up fighting, we’re going to do whatever we can so the Western civilization and soldiers survive and win.

Ultimately Google is a western company and if war breaks out not supporting our civilization/military is going to be wildly unpopular and turn them into a pariah and anything to the contrary was never going to happen.
With protest signs. Not weapons and restraints. And gallows outside.
They just want to train their LLM on real applications and not their own LLM
Indeed, looks like it is just an unspoken rule and an interview trick after all. I would not want to interview with this person, much less work with them.
Very nice! I wonder if it would be possible to see articles related to a topic. Maybe using the hubs as a starting point and then following the related links in each article?
Show HN: I used Azeron to control my robot like a puppet
This one is classic:

> Girls would say, red flag if a guy has shirtless pictures and then liking profiles where guys were shirtless.

This is surprising:

> In our case we had even acquisition in terms of male/female, but the retention of girls is lower than that of men, so you end up with 66% men and 34% women.

2:1 men to woman is a far better ratio than what most people claim (5:1 is usually thrown around with no evidence).

These points will ruffle feathers:

> But I think dating apps can currently be used at each women and men advantage, it is just necessary to have the right strategy:

> For girls you need to lower your standards and force you to go on a date with guys that you dont have the flame for (it is actually very hard to do that for a girl, very very hard)

> For guys, you need to pay a photograph (to get liked) and pay the premium plan (so that your profile is shown to other users). If you think a dating app has no incentive to show paying users to girls, then you didnt read this article ^^
Even the super bowl they are flying into smaller airports in the region.
How deathly boring this all is.

On one hand it’s a good thing: so many invite services are coated in ads they deserve to fail. On the other, yet another service getting sucked up into the tech giant blob.

If open formats prevailed we would have expanded calendar invites so they just appear in your inbox like any other email for free. But alas, everyone has given up on that.
That’s a textbook „surveillance capitalism” move.

Any chance of a tutorial or some materials on doing exactly this sort of thing?
I've been seeing C++ fans talk about how they never see memory safety issues in practice in C++ for a decade and a half. I even believed it sometimes. But if there's ever been a common story over those 15 years, it's that these anecdotes mean little, and the actual memory safety property means a lot.

The only time I've seen "almost memory safe" actually work is in Go and Swift, which have memory safety problems with concurrency, but they're actually rare enough not to matter too much (though in Go's case it would have been easy to design interfaces and slices not to have the problem, and I wish they had). I simply don't believe that Zig is meaningfully more memory safe than C++.
> I got an email from Bumble a few years ago that said I was in the top x percent of people swiped on.

Was this humble brag relevant to the rest of your point?
> see the async debacle and whatnot

The async featureset in Rust is far from complete, but async is also somewhat of a niche. You're not necessarily expected to use it, often you can just use threads.

> Zig is memory-safe enough in practice

Temporal safety is a huge deal, especially for the "programming in the large" case. Where unstated assumptions that are relied upon for the safety of some piece of code can be broken as some other part of the code evolves. The Rust borrow checker is great for surfacing these issues, and has very few practical alternatives.

> If we're limiting ourselves to systems languages, you still have a number of options like Ada and Coq.

It's easy to be "safe" if the equivalent to free() is marked as part of the unsafe subset, as with Ada. Coq is not very relevant on its own, though I suppose it could be part of a solution for proving the memory safety of C code. But this is known to be quite hard unless you do take your care to write the program in the "idiomatically safe" style that a language like Rust points you to.
While on the level of an individual farmer that makes sense, what about the whole of society?

From what I understand, in archeology driving marginal land out of cultivation is one of the prime indicators of a civilization in terminal decline.

Advanced civilizations tend to rely on irrational productivity quite a bit, hence things like the post-COVID labor shortage.
> Would a child of European descent born and raised in China be a 'westerner' in your eyes?

Not just to my eyes. To chinese eyes, african eyes, middle eastern eyes, etc. There have been tiktoks and youtube videos of westerners born in china who were called foreigners by the chinese themselves.

> What about a second generation child, still fully ethnically European?

Elon Musk was born in south africa, a non-western country in a non-western continent. Charlize Theron was born in south africa. They are both westerners. Doesn't matter where you were born.

The european person born in china can become a chinese citizen. But he can never become "chinese". Just like a chinese person can never become a european/westerner. He can become a EU citizen. He can become an american citizen. But he can't become a westerner. Am I wrong here?
There has been no revolutionary change in governance since FDR. The federal apparatus has been tightening the screws with ever vaster and more expensive compendium of regulations and laws. End result, about the largest incarcerated population of the world.

The parties in power failed to unwind any of this so instead they got an unhinged strongman who promised to do it with a sledgehammer. Trump is a symptom rather than a cause.
Does your feed have anything left?
Why has hacker news turned into politics central :(
That should work now because of RCS.

Email is secure enough though. People make up security rules in their heads all the time, doesn't mean it's true.
Do you not view RCS as being a reliable channel?
It’s time, actually. Natures currency is a butt ton of time.
Elite collection

Selling off foundational relics to private bidders is imho a sign that an organization is done.
I mean if that was true then the current situation wouldn't be happening. The story of the US Congress over the last two decades (probably longer) is they have ceded an enormous amount of power to the Executive via inaction, and continue to do so.

The problem with simplistic narratives where you give stuff names is it masks what's actually happening: the Executive is near enough to a dictatorship - power and authority is deliberate vested in one person. This makes it very different to Congress, which only wields power by the collective decision making of hundreds via majority or even super-majority vote.

So "Congress" doesn't really exist as an entity: because there is no guiding consciousness or collective in it which is deliberately trying to seize more power, and the story of its power is the exact opposite: it keeps giving it away (because the individual members of Congress can only retain that position and it's local benefits by staying in Congress, best accomplished by deliberately avoiding responsibility of any kind).

If you've ever tried to get 4 people to decide what to get for dinner, the guy who simply says "Let's get tacos" usually gets his way because everyone else keeps deferring.
Wouldn’t someone with a computer science background and knowing how to actual program be better?

If I need someone who can actual code your standard enterprise development - where most developers work - who would I be better off hiring, someone who knows theory or someone who knows how to code?

Do doctors, lawyers, teachers or any other professionals graduate just knowing “theory”?
Agreed. If you feel that your company is a good forward-looking investment for whatever reason (appreciation/dividends), it doesn't hurt to keep some holdings--from RSUs or otherwise. Though with transaction costs what they are somewhat per this article/discussion, the right question should probably be "If I had the money in cash, would I buy these shares." Employee stock purchase makes things a bit more complicated depending on the exact terms. Post dot-bomb I got a lot more conservative in terms of holding company stock from RSU/ESPP after a decade with a couple of private firms which doubtless cost me some money but I think I took a reasonable approach overall.
If you're paying for more iCloud storage, you have iCloud+.
There are a ton of other options than FB at this point. Partiful is my personal favorite, and has way better features than Apple Invites has after testing.
The year is 2025. You have an internet browser. Look up the concepts you don't understand.

How are you so certain about a phenomenon not existing when you have no idea about it? Do you apply the same filters to everything else you don't understand?

Also be careful with wishing for "progress" to be rolled back. First it's other peoples' freedom to live their lives how they want to and then it's yours.
My experience having Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Google Gemini 2.0 Exp-12-06 rewrite a complex function is that it slowly introduces slippage of the original intention behind the code, and the more rewrites or refactoring, the more likely it is to do something other than what was originally intended.

At the absolute minimum this should require including a highly detailed function specification in the prompt context and sending the output to a full unit test suite.
Not really, once you get past senior the “shape” of staff+ engineers varies greatly. At that level the scope is typically larger which can limit the usefulness of LLMs - I’d agree that the greatest value I’ve gotten is from being able to quickly get up to speed on something I’ve been asked to have an opinion on and sanity checking my work if I’m using an unfamiliar language or framework.

It also helps if you realize staff+ is just a way to financially reward people who don’t want to be managers so you end up with these unholy engineer/architect/project manager/product manager hybrids that have to influence without authority.
> Creation of invitations requires an iCloud+ subscription.

It's service slop after all.
Yes, that's eventually what will happen, but it becomes quite expensive, especially for smaller companies, and well, they might not even have an office to conduct the interview in if they're a remote company. It's simply best to hire slow and fire fast, you save more money that way over bringing in every viable candidate to an in-person interview.
> they mentally don't want more than X active conversations at a time

This is true. My cap was at 50 conversations at the same time. After that, my brain got fried (male here).
> U.S. Transfers First Guantánamo Detainee Under Trump, Who Vowed to Fill It (Published 2018) - https://archive.ph/gsO8I

Seems like this has been some time in the making. Kind of terrifying
Reminds me of TechLead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbUU-D2Hil0
IIRC, Richard explain that in one of his videos about Roc. I have seen at least a handful of them.
"Large international banking things have strong ties to large governments" is kind of a weird thing to dispute.

Try starting an independent one if you think otherwise.
If it's anything like the web version of Facetime, it's not gonna be a great experience for non-iOS users.