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Apple's half-hearted approach to entering the dating market since every app essentially is now a dating app in disguise.

More importantly, the release announcement appears lost and betting on a different voting result. It reads weird, not the kind of societal benefits drop used over the last years.

The product launch seems hasty, somewhat not considering the fact that Trump got elected and went full reversal on DEI.

The press feature before Google+ aka Apple Invites was around a special interest topic: https://www.apple.com/ne/newsroom/2025/01/apple-introduces-t...

In contrast, the latest release marks a sharp departure. It is almost clean of pride-/woke-related references: https://www.apple.com/ne/newsroom/search/?q=lgbtq

Thoughts?
So here's what we've seen:

- Acting Trump lackeys will simply ignore any court orders that block the EOs that Trump has issued.

- Congress isn't doing anything.

- In all likelihood, DOJ isn't going to enforce anything, so long they're aligned with Trump.

- Should some lowly law-enforcement officer decide to play hero, and arrest anyone that any federal judge issues an arrest on, I'd fully expect them to be removed, or meet resistance from any bodyguards/protection that the DOGE boys will receive.

- Even if anyone decides to pursue, Trump can issue pre-emptive pardons for all past federal crimes.

It is sort of a crisis, because the few checks and balances that were put in place, simply aren't functioning.
Well their main reason is a compiler written in Roc won't be performant. (And their tag line is "Roc: A _fast_, friendly, functional language.")

So yeah, I am not interested. Plus I feel in general not dogfooding your own language is a bad sign.
It's possible that the… uh, 4? I think? Times I've spent a month in the USA, covering California, Nevada, Utah, NYC, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Massachusetts (and Connecticut, only on the way through, but had a pizza there) may have not been diverse enough to fully encompass your cuisine, but…

But the food I actually saw in the USA was mediocre.

I didn't have any interest in 20 varieties of Oreo or bars of chocolate with bits of pork in it (for the latter, I'm vegetarian); the stuff that Whole Foods sold had slightly less flavour and variety than European discount stores like Aldi, Trader Joe's might as well have been a corner shop; the fancy restaurants were merely OK, the only positive of the fast food joints was the low cost, the "oh, you gotta try this while you're in Manhattan!" cafes and diners were on par with the random UK town centre breakfast diners you try once to see what they're like and never go back to, all the pubs were somehow even worse than Wetherspoons (UK chain with a bad reputation), the "cheese sauce" on tortilla chips was on par among the absolute worst approximations of cheese I have ever encountered.

And why is half your yoghurt thickened with gelatine, anyway?

The best food I had in the country was at a place covered by an NDA; but even that, the best, was "4 stars out of 5" by European standards.
That's definitely an interesting hill to die on. I can say as a paid Kagi user and regular donator to ВСУ
> I’ve heard multiple times from execs in my company that “software” will have less value and that, in a few years, there won’t be as many developer jobs.

If LLMs make average devs 10x more productive, Jevon's Paradox[1] suggests we'll just make 10x more software rather than have 10x fewer devs. You can now implement that feature only one customer cares about, or test 10x more prototypes before building your product. And if you instead decide to decimate your engineering team, watch out because your competitors might not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
The part where participating in collective cowardice overwhelms the individual will to seek truth.
Which Europe? I live in Germany and travel frequently around most of the Western, Central and Northern Europe. No nets.
I assume you work in your freetime, besides your actual job.
I think you're talking about Choice-supportive bias.

I don't know why you're throwing this out here without anything to support it.
US screws up and Europe gains some points is a best case scenario. I don't mean to sound like a patriot, but the US is a big deal and it's currently administered by unsound forces.
His voters would be very upset if a single dollar was cut from the military budget. It's the same crowd and mindset that was all in on the Iraq War. The second amendment is the only amendment and anything seen as weakening the country in terms of actual strength would result in windows being smashed again.

But cutting money from weak nerds? Destroying education? That's fine. Nobody needs it.
> Want to attract more applicants? Offer more compensation.

This was already addressed in the original post. Why write in this "spelling it out for you" style when they already addressed it?

> Do you know why people go through the pain of becoming a doctor? Because they make a lot of money when they get through the other side.

This is really reductive. There are multiple reasons:

- very stable employment

- very prestigious job, and has been for centuries. Conveys authority. Your family can boast that you're a doctor.

- very interesting tales come out of employment, and your family probably

- very easy to feel good about being a doctor - directly helping people etc

Not all of those for everyone, and they no doubt don't all turn out to be the case, but doctors apply for multiple reasons, and many of them aren't in high-paying areas at all. Doctors (in America, which I assume is what you're focusing in on) are paid well partly because they have high expenses in terms of liability insurance.
You don’t even need a sophisticated defense against trickery and propaganda.

The thing that works almost automatically, with exceptions, is decentralized power:

- direct voting on issues by all citizens

- compartmentalization of government into specialized units

- bottom up federalism

- appointment of representatives on a per project basis, not for general power

With decentralized power, people make pragmatic decisions, because they are focused on solving problems and not on maintaining power.
So first the US isn't a monarchy last time I checked, Trump doesn't have the mandate to do what he's doing now, no matter how much you agree with his decisions or not.

And secondly no, Trump also publicly lied about his positions by saying he had nothing to do with Project 2025.

But it doesn't matter if he did say the truth anyways, saying that you'll make a coup doesn't make the coup okay.
You’re describing an autocracy, a dictatorship. Of course they aren’t allowed to do what they want, there’s supposed to be this thing called the rule of law, "checks and balances", separation of powers, any of that ring a bell? Plus a two-party system is a fundamentally malignant example of democracy, not to even mention the crazy amount of power the POTUS has compared to well-functioning democracies.
Trump said so many things, so many outlandish things that I think a sizeable percentage of the people who voted for him didn't quite believe he would do. I don't have hard data on that but I did speak with several repubblican voters who dismissed the worries saying that he was just joking to provoke the libs.
Indeed. The allegation of "racist" has lost its power because people feel free to be openly in favor of racism again.
Commercial surveillance enables government surveillance. If an app constantly sends my location to a corporation by default, a government-level adversary can just demand it from that corporation, no need to burn a 0-day on me.
My post did not take the position that understanding problems isn't important.

Using LLMs can even help you understand the problem better. And it can bring you towards the solution faster. Using an LLM to solve a problem does not prevent understanding it. Does using a calculator prevent us from understanding mathematical concepts?

Technical understanding will still be valuable. Typing out code by hand will not.
When most of services nowadays seem like a hostile subscription, this brings joy.

edit: use of Yandex on the other hand.. yeah that's a no go for paid subscription.
Some people form a belief and then look for evidence to support it, others look at the evidence and check for inconsistencies before getting attached to a belief. "Nobody" wants Trump to be Hitler, they're observing parallels which you have rejected because of your desired beliefs.
The public is actively being distracted by big headlines regarding tariffs, what country / area Trump wants to take over, and stuff like that.
I used to really like this news/op-ed outlet back when I didn't know anything at all. It hit all the right points, points out the problems, and had a clear narrative I could get behind. When I was young, and dumb.

Temporally it hasn't been that long at all since then, only about 5 years, but the difference those years made might as well have been 20. With lockdown and the time to read, you have time to read and contemplate, and when you decide to read the classics, a whole new world opens up where the answers become crystal clear because you stand once again upon the shoulders of giants. A fog is lifted, and no one seems to realize just how bad things have gotten but in retrospect after reading about the American Revolution, WW2, The Stasi, Mao, first-hand accounts. Its amazing.

Nowadays, its easy to pick this all apart. The author is drawing comparisons with 1984, but has failed to realize that 'The Party' that he is so anxious about isn't the Democrats, or the Republicans. Its anyone beholden to central bankers. The Central Banks are 'The Party', and they have infested both sides and quite a lot of government.

In a plurality, having two parties continuously above the 33% threshold guarantees no other parties can win in practice.

Most of the plugs the author hits now have been worn down by perspective that normally comes as a combination of education with age. Most of the points and rhetoric all come back to one book that helped Hitler take power.

That book was called The Crowd, A Study of the Popular Mind by Gustave Le Bon written 1895. Other aspects come from more recent research into Torture, and Influence (i.e. Robert Lifton, Joost Meerloo, Robert Cialdini, and the Cult Deprogrammers, etc).

The many warnings fell on deaf ears, the people believed that these things weren't happening because the people doing them said so, and it started long before, with the erosion of our institutions by the Boomer generation which promoted most heavily Judicial Activism.

After the point of no return.... The fall has us all. No one wanted to listen and do something when it could have mattered. The cost was simply too much back then, and it increases with time, so now its going to come down to lives just like any safety rule written in blood.

It is sad that this has to happen, but that is what happens when you let the enemy take over a generation's education, and instead of teaching them the tools they need to survive, you give them Wokeism.
>Diversity statements help us avoid getting sued by students and employees.

Why does anyone need to write a diversity statement ? This is bonkers. When I applied for grad school many years ago as an international student, many applications asked for a diversity statement. My stupid ass didn't even know what that meant at the time. I forced myself to write some crock about how I studied Physics and Computer Science, and how I had some ideas about interdisciplinary work. I thought they meant diversity in technical backgrounds. Not only was what I wrote a load of crap, the stuff that these people expect is an even bigger pile of crap. Can we do away with this ?
> You’re unlikely to be able to afford to live in the center of a dense Western European city on researcher wages, and most of the jobs aren’t in the city center either, so you’ll probably still need a car.

Universities in Europe tend to have quite central locations in the cities. Also universities are practically guaranteed to have good public transport connectivity, as students have to be able to get there.

And even though researcher wages can be low relative to US, within the respective countries they are solidly (upper) middle class, and housing isn't a major problem.
InfinitX | Hybrid (Scotland) | Full-time | Technical Operations Engineer

InfinitX provides technology solutions for private markets, enabling trading of unlisted assets. We are hiring a Technical Operations Engineer to optimize our infrastructure and ensure seamless system performance. This hybrid role requires 3 days/week in our Glasgow office and 2 remote.

What You’ll Do:

* Manage CI/CD pipelines & automate deployments

* Monitor & troubleshoot infrastructure and app performance

* Optimize data pipelines and system integrations

* Work with dev teams to maintain and deploy applications

* Stay updated on DevOps trends

Who You Are:

* Experienced in DevOps, automation, and cloud technologies

* Strong problem-solver, adaptable to fast-paced environments

* Knowledge of financial markets & FIX protocol is a plus

Apply at recruitment@infinitx.co.uk (Must be based in Scotland).
You are really underestimating how many users just forget they have such unused subscriptions, and how much of subscription based company monthly revenue is those that are not used at all.
Your complaints are highly exaggerated.

Anecdotal, but more than enough data to disprove your point, over the last 8 years I've used multiple dating apps, never paid a dime, and have been on somewhere around 400 first dates.

I'd also add that my match rate with bots or scammers is very low, certainly under 10%.
It's in the FAQ. Someone else posted a link to it in the comments, check it out. And yes, it is about tacit programming.
OP FYI: US copyright law doesn't recognize or require a range of years, only the date of first publication. Many organizations have decided to omit (the) year(s) altogether. https://blog.ntpsec.org/2020/02/15/copyright-year.html
> Another moral is that insulting Americans probably doesn't actually work in general. "Deplorables", "Garbage", and others were turned around into rallying cries during the 2016 and 2024 campaigns...

It depends on the insult; sometimes that doesn't work. One of the purest expressions of joy I've seen in politics was Scott Adams (Dilbert guy) back in 2019 analysing [0] a group of anti-Trumpers trying to rally around being called "human scum". He had a lot of interesting things to say back then about the art and science of persuasion.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_3HGjAVv0M 1:30 to 7:30
Has the Minister for Agriculture, Food, Fisheries and the Marine ever farmed?

Has the Minister for Education and Youth been an educator?

Has the Minister of State at the Department of Transport ever helped build a road?

Has the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration ever been an immigrant?
I found it way better simply because you can blacklist garbage SEO'd sites.
No we started with too low of a price, and we added enterprise pricing later on. So it was a combination, but we didn't pivot.
Show HN: Polaris, a self-hosted music streaming server in Rust
I'm happy to announce the release of Polaris 0.15.0 . Polaris is a self-hosted music streaming server, to enjoy your music collection from any computer or mobile device. It is free and open-source software, without any kind of premium version.

This release is the biggest one since Polaris' humble beginnings 9 years ago. It's technically not a rewrite but there is not much code that was left untouched. The highlights are:

- New visual design for the web client (screenshots[1])
- Ability to browse the music collection by artist/album/genre, not only by file
- Support for multi-value fields in song metadata (eg. multiple artists on the same song)
- Revamped search functionality, now supporting per-field queries and boolean operators
- Android client now supports search and playlists (and all the new features from this release)

See the changelog[2] for a complete list of improvements.

This release is a result of many months of work. I hope all the love and effort I put into it are visible in the end result .

[1]: https://github.com/agersant/polaris/discussions/227
[2]: https://github.com/agersant/polaris/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
Show HN: Throw a Whole Book into an LLM to Extract Characters and Relationships
Let's try a small experiment with LLMs that have a large context length: feed an entire book into the context window and ask it to generate a list of characters, their relationships, and physical descriptions—data that can later be used for image generation.

In this repository, you can find two tools: a script that extracts data from book text using an LLM (Gemini or OpenRouter API) and an HTML/JS (D3) visualization of the character graph. An external text-to-image model can be used to generate character illustrations (a Google Colab example is provided).

Explore the visualizations, play with the script, and feel free to add more books to the repo via pull requests!
Exactly. I've used the free tier a bit. I'd say it's never worse than Google, and sometimes significantly better. I'll happily pay a bit for this. But no way am I paying a single cent for anything where a significant part of what makes it work is Russian.

Glory and liberty for Ukraine!
> Only paying customers seem happy about Kagi.

It is paid service, what is the other option? People that don't use the service being happy with it?

> because their brain wants to justify them paying for search

It is search engine, not candy crush. No one wants to pay for searching, if they do it is because they find it useful. It is not their brain gets a shot of dopamine every time they do a search on it.
All those might be true. Just don't stop there. What actual competencies are then required to be the minister of something? ;-)
I daydreamed a dating app once where all the matching was done by tween girls at pyjama parties, and everyone signing up had to abide by the matches provided. I reckon the young ladies would have a very high hit rate of who was meant to be with who.

And while I’m here, OKCupid when it existed as mostly a website around 2013 was probably the best actual dating app and attempt to provide a decent enough platform for people to express themselves, and the question answering section where it would then deliver a compatibility rating was really good. But then the churn and being bought by Match completely killed it. OKC was the first dating platform that seemed like it was genuinely designed to work.
Ctrl-f Android: not found.
AFAIK it never pans out really. People turn out very stingy if they're faced with a decision to pay or not to pay for every article, so the revenues end up a lot lower than what the subscription model would pay.
An elevator can never be held accountable.

But the producer of the elevator is usually held accountable if the elevator crashes.
Am Brit, that stood out to me too. I mean, I've made the same comment, so I know what was intended. (See my next comment for another example of this "skill").
GNU Make also embeds GNU Guile, a criminally underused feature:

https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Guile-Int...
I've often wondered if there is a problem with 'handedness', or more specifically 'footedness' whereby my brain is expecting the motion to start off with my right foot moving forwards first, but the game model goes left foot first. Mixed with head bobbing as well this throws off the brain's balancing model, as everything is "opposite".
Certain games I have immense problems within 15 minutes playing, such that I feel drenched in cold sweat and nauseous, others I can play for hours or more without a problem, even if they are the same type of games. For instance Quake nope, Unreal tournament fine. Rainbow Six Siege fine, CoD not a chance, though Battlefield is fine.
Maybe there needs to be something in games like the goofy test that snowboarders use to decide which foot forward for orientation, but more developed for motion sickness?
Why Twitter super follows is not widely adopted? or is it?
Since quite some time I am wondering why there are so many successful creator economy business like substack, patreon and more but twitter super follows (Formerly paid subscription) is not widely accepted. I paid ~$5 to subscribe to elon musk but even musk is not actively posting for his super subscribers. Same case with many other personalities. Ideally this should have worked wonder, imo.
How do you stream millions of songs per month when there is 43,200 minutes in a month?

If what you mean is you can pick from their library of millions of songs, Kagi sounds like an even better deal. For $10 a month you can search 400 billion web pages.
As a purely mechanical point: having a D president with R house and senate and supreme court is a very different situation to having R all across the board, which is why the "checks and balances" have stopped working.
Hey I'm interested in the Customer Success Engineer role but I'm located in Canada, is being a US citizen a hard requirement?
With 'gitk' I'm not sure I'll ever have to learn how to use 'git log'. A Good Enough preinstalled GUI is too convenient
Me too, for me the ease of use is rather important. NSJail is very easy to use, I am not sure which ones I tried when looking for these tools but some of them were an absolute pain to get going.

Edit: funnily, chatgpt 03-mini tells me nsjail is the second hardest to use (first = systemd) of these...
Note to self: Make something good enough that friends will feel the need to make up pitches for their friends to use said thing.
That is literally an example of household debt and irresponsible fiscal behavior.

The trade deficit is based on many things. But ultimately the asymmetric purchasing power of one side leads to a higher deficit. If that purchasing power is drastically increased via irresponsible debt, you are creating an imbalance.
Technically, they do

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36517149

But as the comments pointed out, the invested money is "only" ~700k, so they're likely not such a mistake as you're imagining
Ignore the investment, the land, the input costs, the pollution etc. - the jobs pay 50c an hour (+ and the jobs making the input materials and parts pay 50c an hour) and the rich owner of the factory might rake in a cool $25,000 a year.

Either all the things cost way more or everyone from employees to owners lives like peasants.
Mtr is indeed nice.

One thing I've not understood is why will some hops have consistently lower ping times than hops farther down the chain in the same trace?

Is it indicating that the router is faster at forwarding packets than responding to ping requests?
Purity spiral.

The left won't be competitive in elections until they learn what it is, why it results in alienation of people who would otherwise support them, and find a way to escape it.
Uranium is one of the elements that are greatly enriched in the continental crust of the Earth (like also thorium and the rare-earth metals).

So in the continental crust the abundance of uranium is more than one hundred times greater than the average abundance of uranium in the entire Earth or in the Solar System.

Otherwise uranium would have been almost the least abundant chemical element, as it is on average in the entire Solar System.

Tin is among the metals that are depleted in the crust of the Earth. Elsewhere tin is a few hundred times more abundant than uranium.

A continental crust like on Earth can appear only on planets that have been melted, so that the light and heavy minerals have combined and separated by density, with the continental crust floating over the molten magma and then solidifying. Most of the Earth has been melted by the collision that has formed the Moon, but possibly also by other smaller collisions.

In most other places in the Solar System it will be unlikely to find so easily accessible and abundant uranium as here on Earth.
Yeah I just mentioned this in a different comment. OKC stunned me when it came out because it seemed so interesting and effective. I met my ex-wife on there! Ha.