skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A more layman way to describe it that avoids too much over simplification is that these learning models try to group things and apply probabilities to sequences of groupings.

E.g.; A word is a grouping of letters, try to find the sequences of letters with the highest probabilities.

A phrase is a grouping of words, with punctuation marks.
Try to find the sequences of words with the highest probabilities.

A sentence is a grouping of phrases. Try to find the highest probability sequences.

A paragraph is a sequence of sentences. And so on and so on.

Within very narrow domains (specific writing styles, say technical or legal writing), these models can be very accurate, since the sequencing of words into phrases, and phrases into sentences, and sentences into paragraphs etc., are very predictable. People call this kind of predictable sequencing a 'style', and it aids us in understanding text more quickly. More generally across all domains, it's much harder to accurately predict these sequences, because AI identify the 'style' of a text, purely from the text itself. No context surrounding the text is given to the AI, and so it guesses.

For example:

a political press release, will be written in one style of writing. And a company marketing press release will be written in a slightly different style of writing. As humans, we can easily distinguish between what is commercial marketing, and what is political, because we are given that information upfront. In latin (the choice language for some mathematicians and logicians for historical reasons), we have the information 'a priori'. A learning algorithm, isn't given that information up front, and must determine only from the text itself, whether it is more likely to be a marketing release selling some product, and therefore it should adopt a certain language style, or a political release selling an ideology and therefore should adopt a slightly different language style.

When we don't know the right answer, and have no way to determine it, the solution that most computers are programmed to adopt is a minimax solution, i.e., minimise the maximum possible error. It does this by sort of mixing and matching both marketing and political styles.

When a human reads it, sometimes it looks very strange and funny. Usually this is because it has some distinguishing feature, that we can immediately recognise as placing it as either a political or marketing document, i.e., a company name, a political party, a corporate or political letterhead, a famous person's name etc. The computer naturally doesn't know who Donald Trump is, since we haven't taught it who or what a Trump is, so it doesn't give it any precedence over any other word on the page. Actually, in the case of Donald Trump, I bet if you took the dates off of all of his tweets, even humans would have a hard time distinguishing if they were political or commercial in nature.
That's a great point!

Depends on the what you define by "externality".

I like to look at it this way, what's being tested? I see three groups:

- testing the software you wrote.
- testing integration with other software you wrote (microservice interaction maybe?)
- testing integration to third party software.

I'm telling you our current plan, feel free to poke holes:

In the first case the only externalities that seem to really matter are mostly resource and configuration files. We could detect I/O with such files and rerun the test if the underlying resource/config changed.

In the second case were planning on collecting coverage for all services being tested and then employ a more sophisticated diff heurastic.

For the third case mark those tests as always run, hopefully you are testing your codebase and not just thirdparty integrations.

We have a poc of a syscall tracer that gives us an I/O map of the test being run or the software being tested. this includes reading/writing to files, pipes, network etc...
> This "I don't want another app" thing is senseless to me. Why?

My elderly mother pushes one button to text me and everyone else anything else is a show stopper, End of story.
And, obviously, the employment rate is harder to game than the unemployment rate. There are long term trends that affect it (women entering the workforce, etc.), but it's an overall more stable and valuable metric to look at.
Only some Samsung's have unlockable bootloaders.
Age is only a state of mind. You're as young as you think. I'm not sure who said it, but it's true.

I'm 70 and working on my fourth startup. If you're bootstrapping like me then you don't need permission from anybody. It doesn't matter if you can't get into a favorite startup accelerator or raise venture capital because of your age.

I like hard challenges. I've seen far too many people retire and a few years later they're dead. My late father did volunteer work full time after 70 and he didn't stop until 95 when health issues slowed him down.

Whether I taste success or fail there will be a fifth startup in my future I promise you.
Google's version of RCS on Android is a proprietary closed source fork of RCS that Google refuses to provide a public API for.

> Google's version of RCS—the one promoted on the website with Google-exclusive features like optional encryption—is definitely proprietary, by the way.

If this is supposed to be a standard, there's no way for a third-party to use Google's RCS APIs right now. Some messaging apps, like Beeper, have asked Google about integrating RCS and were told there's no public RCS API and no plans to build one.

If you want to implement RCS, you'll need to run the messages through some kind of service, and who provides that server? It will probably be Google.

So the pitch for Apple to adopt RCS isn't just this public-good nonsense about making texts with Android users better; it's also about running Apple's messages through Google servers. Google profits in both server fees and data acquisition.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/new-google-site-begs...

SMS is a universal standard supported by even the oldest devices that will still connect to current cellular networks.
That's how hardware FIDO2 keys work now. There's no walled garden. You can remember a passphrase that generates a key that is used to derive every website's key in turn.

No cloud, no synching, nothing. You're fucked if your passphrase is stolen, but that's the tradeoff.
I thought the same thing, but they have a page that explains it pretty well — TypeScript v. Hegel

Turns out Hegel makes it a goal to be provably correct in respect to types, whereas TypeScript makes tradeoffs for productivity.
https://github.com/JSMonk/hegel#benefits-over-typescript
Sounds like they are acting in bad faith.
When your business partners are world governments, unfortunately mass suffering is the table stakes. Even ignoring Apple's exploitation of cheap laborers who subsist on a standard-of-living magnitudes below you or I, their repeated inability to admit failure is what scares me. Apple gives the US government access to too much data without a warrant. That's a fact. Here's another fact for you; the CCP has equally oppressive access to the data of their citizens. Apple has no right to sell entire nation-states access to their citizen's data, especially if they want to educate everyone else about how "privacy is a human right" and all that.
I think they did, but then walked back and announced that you will just fallback to the previous version of whatever IDE you were subscribed to if you cancel the subscription. I think the situation caused quite a backlash when they announced the original plans.
> Why is the answer not to force interoperability?

Do you want the U.S. government to just strong-arm a private company into adopting a not-very-popular plaintext messaging standard, or do you want them to force the licensing of Google's proprietary extensions that support encryption for 1-to-1 messages as well? (Even with proprietary extensions, group messages are always plaintext.)
> an important part of Western traditions.

anglo traditions

Lots of (western) countries doesn't have anything comparable
That sounds like a win for the union and it’s members.

Union members would presumably much rather pocket the money than have it go to standing desks. Sacrificing stuff they don’t want in a negotiation is negotiation 101.
This said my understanding is thermal efficiency in a typical engine is around 20%, and in an electric motor it’s in the 90% range. Holding traction aside I would have assumed the power is considerably more important than energy density, and energy density plays a bigger role in distance, no?

After 500 hours of Kerbal space program I’m a bit of an expert in these things.
Same. Remote work has become incredibly old, but I'm basically in a tech desert. I'm on my second "fully remote" role since the pandemic started.
It's funny, I was wondering whether this replicated Simon Willison's work on Datasette [1], but I guess I got things confused because Simon himself was the first to comment on that older post about how clever this was.

[1] https://simonwillison.net/2018/Oct/4/datasette-ideas/
The Unsexy Story of How Rich Guys Get Rich: Mike Brown (2017)
> "Morality is either objective or completely arbitrary" is a false dichotomy
> some reasonable foundational beliefs such as "I generally want people to have it good and not suffer"
> But the belief that it's generally good when people don't suffer is obviously subjective, even if widespread.

Why is generally not wanting to hurt people a "reasonable foundational belief?" It's definitely not universal in humanity right now let alone historically just look at the celebrations of war crimes in Russia. Everyone who thinks there are binding ethical beliefs in any way must ascribe it to others otherwise they're just talking about personal taste and we don't need words like "ethics" or "morals."
> while Meta’s track record is horrendous, they actually have done an okay job at locking down how data is used internally

Taking you at your word any of that's even true, even broken clock and all that. We're talking about the company that managed to track people without them even having to use any of their services.

But in the end there's no reason to believe they won't just sell it to 3rd parties further down the line like they've done multiple times in the past. If they collect it and can't use it for ads that's even more of a reason to sell it and recoup at least something on the dev time invested on implementing the tracking.

> Quest isn’t cheap because it will eventually collect ads data, it’s cheap because social VR, the main Meta argument, requires adoption

It's been cheap for years, way before Meta even existed. Unless ol' Zuck has had this planned for that long.
“Although human–robot collaborations can create new jobs and increase productivity, pundits often warn about how robots might replace humans at work and create mass unemployment. Despite these warnings, relatively little research has directly assessed how laypeople react to robots in the workplace.“

One of the main goals of the article appears to be fact-checking the claims made against robotics in industrialized nations that haven’t psychologically embraced robotics.

Other research would likely find different results in those cultures - e.g., people probably wouldn’t feel insecure in those cultures, and therefore wouldn’t have negative reactions coming from insecurities.
Seven Best Programming Languages for Microservices
They are acting in bad faith. Just like Starbucks, which is doing the same thing to cause problems for thier current employee unions.
You are completely right! I was going to say it's mainly the Commonwealth and the US, but there are more common-law countries than I would have thought: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/common-la...
Nobody prevented Microsoft from creating a Youtube app for Windows Phone.

Oh, wait. Google prevented Microsoft from creating a Youtube app for Windows Phone.
You should expand on where you think increased wages are an issue for those who din’t get hired.

People have a lot of difference thoughts about unions, it’s hard to know what random strangers on the internet have as a background and what they are referring to in so few words.
I noticed that the syntax choices differed ever so slightly from Typescript - given the project is 4 years old & TS is 10, this seemed an odd choice for some of the more arbitrary syntax decisions.

But then I realised it seems to follow Facebook's flow syntax a little more closely. I wonder if there's any shared heritage.
That may be a difference but it is not the point. The semantics of the headlines are being discussed, not the particulars.
the person I'm talking to seems to think that an actor with a smaller audience and smaller capacity to cause damages should be punished equally to someone with a bigger audience and bigger capacity to cause damages. with great power comes great responsibility, and the law reflects this

whether you think courts generally award damages appropriately or not is beside the point
30% is rounding error??!
This is Sweden and almost at the most northern part of it. It is located a relative short distance from the polar circle. Solar is a very cheap form of electricity but it has some significant problems to overcome that far up north.

Hydro, nuclear and wind is what northern Sweden uses.
I agree, we should decmate this commen tread.
I have a different take than most here. Let's face it the devices are pretty good in both platforms. Apple does the basic stuff fast, but doesnt even support the other stuff because it's a prepackaged experience. Androids are very versatile and have some convenient features (secure folder, headphone jack, sometimes better cameras etc). The primary reason for apple is the brand recognition and lifestyle choice. Many people think they d look 'amateurish' holding an android. It s an uber-popular fashion item. And kids are a ton more sensitive to peer pressure
I and most adults I know have never used those apps. We’re also on our ~15th iphone
Open for Verizon to read/modify, you have no way of knowing the other half’s identity (was their number given to someone else in the meanwhile), no encoding is specified/due to non-ASCII characters taking more SPACE (in 2022) so auto-SMSs still today will just force ascii text, making it often unreadable. Like, it is literally a single digit number of bytes difference.

Also, you need like.. a carrier plan to access, wouldn’t really call that open. Any network based messenger can work over my home or even McDonald’s wifi, without any third-parties
FYI: Tor Browser – 11.5.4 (Android, Windows, macOS, Linux) Released → (October 12, 2022) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33183581
The way my ridiculous Dodge V8 barks when it starts, and shakes and snorts at idle is why I will never be happy with an electric car.

https://www.amazon.com/Sign-Merlin-Spitfire-Alex-Henshaw/dp/...

The correct title is "Sigh for a Merlin", and refers to the sound a Merlin V12 makes. This engine also powers the P-51, and I can vouch from first hand experience of what that engine sounds like.

The local airplane museum was happy to do a P-51 flyover at my dad's funeral. You could hear its song long before it came into view. Nothing in the world sounds like a RR Merlin V12 wide open.

-- Sigh --
"it's like, deep and stuff"
Just "know how to listen". Alex listens to no one which was clear in both trials and also why he couldn't keep an attorney.
This is a great explanation, at least for HN readers.

I found two top-level comments linking it, upvoting those might help:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33181525

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33181647
I'd like to challenge this narrative somewhat, why do people care about what teens like exactly? I've heard for years (EDIT: decades, as long as I have been alive) teens are a "coveted demographic," but teenagers, especially today hardly have any disposable income. Why is some sense of "popularity" valuable, which is somehow valuable enough to be its own category apart from sales, a quantity that I thought would be much more important.

Wouldn't being popular amongst people who actually buy your things more important? iPhones are definitely popular, but they are profitable not just because they are popular, but that they are popular at the price point they are.
It would be really funny if the compensation "calculator" pretended to be doing arithmetic behind the scenes by having the decimal factor labels on all the location, seniority, and other modifiers, when really it just looked up the salary grade range from a hashmap and served it to the user. "The numerical modifiers are guidelines, more than actual rules..."
I recently watched an interesting conversation between Todd McGowan and Walter Davis on Kafka[1] which you might enjoy.

There's a bit in the aforementioned interview where they mention if one is learning German, a good introductory route is reading Kafka and Heidegger's Being and Time. I've been contemplating whether I should learn German to read my favorite thinkers in their primary written language (and even potentially make a move to Germany, away from the weariness of California), or, rather, become more grounded in the English language.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdjx7ZanqAg
That's such bullshit
WebAuthn credentials can be backed up, if you want. They can also be impossible to back up (and thus steal), if you want. It's up to you, which is more than I can say about passwords.
Yes, sorta. But I think the case of a chat protocol and "Apple should make macOS available for all PCs" are still a bit different.

For example, speaking personally I have no gripe if Apple doesn't want to write an iMessage app for Android, but I think it would be great if the specs and/or APIs were available so that others could write one, even without reaching for one of the regulation-style arguments mentioned above.

Both imply asking Apple to spend effort. With putting macOS on PCs the effort is obvious. But making it possible for others to write an iMessage client also requires effort: For example designing iMessage's technology in such a way that a malicious client can't compromise the system, keeping the protocol relatively stable and sanely versioned, documentation, and so on. With my engineer's hat on, as an opinion, I think this type of effort would contribute to make iMessage better tech as it's in line with the nature of a strong comm protocol, while macOS doesn't benefit as clearly from being on other computers.

The main counter-argument to it is the notion that walled-garden messengers have innovated faster on UX than the standardized ones and then you're back to unresolved quibbles about what's user value and so on. I don't think we've found the one true way to better-tool-to-more-people yet.
Somehow they still managed to repeat a common historical misconception in first paragraph:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-the-luddites-rea...

I suspect it's less about the deep research and more about the tribe.
Yes, this is true.
I'm talking about the present, not launch.

if I argue that "cars in the US must be equipped with seat belts," would you say "not before 1968!" and believe that we were both talking about the same time period?

I guess, as always, I should be absolutely specific about everything, lest someone fill in a gap incorrectly...
I don't know much about it, but many great countries agree with you in practice and so it must have a lot going for it. Still, I like the bottom-up approach the common law provides.
If anybody has made it this deep in the thread and has curiosity left to spare, I’d like to recommend https://legaltalknetwork.com/podcasts/make-no-law/ , which is no longer active but whose episodes remain highly valuable in understanding first amendment law.
People should not be encouraged to nurture unsound opinions.
> The bots don't need to be paid

They're definitely not free. They need to be purchased and maintained. A bot would be a significant initial investment, compared to a human.
What happened with 14?
It sounds more to me like they're offering college credit and improved healthcare plans; both of which are expensive and something you'd want. The coursera thing isn't the main benefit at all

> The company told retail and corporate staff this week that it will increase benefits for outside educational classes and health care, according to people familiar with the matter. Workers will get more funds to pursue coursework, and employees in some states will be able to access new health plan benefits,
I get it. It should be noted that enabling the Increase Contrast accessibility option in iOS/iPadOS does correct the issue to an acceptable level. Whether that should be necessary is up for debate.
> First amendment isn’t under attack.

True, but...

> Alex Jones isn’t being punished by the govt.

The courts are part of the government, and Constitutional limits on government power apply to civil liability; the First Amendment, quite notably, restricts the conditions in which defamation liability can be applied.
Using a framework will harm the maintenance of your software
Man, every one of these comments has completely misunderstood the point. WebAuthn is an open standard. The provider is only there to sync your key. If you want, you can keep it yourself.

Why is everyone yelling about the sky falling down when this is the best thing to happen to authentication since ever?
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stochastic_terrorism

He could have anticipated his actions would lead to these outcomes.
Smart move to be compatible with TypeScript’s declaration files.

Not sure if this provides me enough benefit to move from TS. On the contrary it removes “non JS” features like enums. I can’t live without enums..
A beautiful article. Read it and think.
This is all easily answered and resolved by paying equity. Then we can dispense with this silly back-and-forth. Right now it's like a toddler trying to get other toddlers to work for them while they try to grub all the profit. Make the profit spread over all stakeholders...no more arguments and we can all continue on, making money.
>effectively sentencing them to homelessness forever

Not if you have lived in Florida for the past 40 months[0], which is why many professional athletes change their residency to Florida and start the clock on the day they sign their professional contract. It appears Alex missed a trick here.

[0]https://www.floridabankruptcynow.com/floridas-homestead-exem...
Check your dns? They work here.
Yeah, the flagships do, that's why I'm recommending them.
How?!?
I miss having TouchID as an option too… but, you can also, you know… just use a passcode and not set up FaceID…?

Also, just curious, what’s the problem with FaceID?
It's the initials of the authors of the Nature paper
> My two oldest children - 13 and 15 - have loudly proclaimed that having a "green bubble" would be worse than death.

They'll get over it quickly, since in reality (I also have two teens) all group chats with friends are "green bubble" chats because participants include Android users. They'll instead grow to loathe the "blue bubble" chats with their parents and/or guardians.
That’s sort of the problem though. The sms was/is never secure.
Apple pays pretty well, this doesn't seem unreasonable to me that they would have offered these perks regardless
I’ll wait for Schopenhauer to come out.
I understand your response, but thankfully this community doesn't have to take the word of a terroristic pedophile truthfully. Thank god for your interpretation of the 1st amendment!
This was on the root partition, which is subjected to a lot more concurrency issues than an sd card normally would fwiw.
the experience on all those is way worse. telegram is pretty good but still not there. others arent even close.

snap is the least awful alternative.
Verizon: https://www.verizon.com/support/advanced-messaging-faqs/

AT&T: https://www.androidauthority.com/att-rcs-google-3121088/