skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Apple was relying on Google's developers which forked and stopped developing WebKit.
2. The product stagnated and became behind on all of the web technologies.
3. Eventually they caved and started catching up.

1. Google was at some point the leading committer on WebKit, but there were other companies and organizations who contributed code as well [3]: Nokia, RIM, Igalia. They weren’t dependent on Google; but in hindsight, they knew at some point they were going to fork WebKit to create Blink, so they had incentive to put in a lot of effort.

2. Apple had different priorities than Google; many of the early CSS and other web features came from Apple/WebKit. Google had no problem just implementing things whether other browser vendors agreed or not.

If you look at the Interop 2022 dashboard [1], you’ll see that WebKit is either at parity or ahead on the focus areas.

Apple shipped :has(), the most anticipated CSS feature in a long long time before anyone else. They’re shipping in iOS 16 all of the cutting edge features; I documented them earlier in this thread [2].

[1]: https://wpt.fyi/interop-2022

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33284773

[3]: https://techcrunch.com/2013/02/09/apple-and-google-still-lea...
As a huge Substack fan, I'm curious, what do you dislike? My only complaint is that sometimes the best content costs money, but that's actually also what I think makes the platform good imo!
What scam? This is disability accomodation law that tells companies have to follow the professional web dev accessibility standards
No need to be so conspiratorial either. Generally features make it in because they improve developers' experience.
So much judgement in one post.

1. I am not saying the market/residents have to accommodate anything, I am simply stating my preference that if I have to travel for 5+ days I would rather have a full kitchen. If the residents don’t want to provide it, fine. If many other people feel as I do, then that’s kind of what markets are for.

2. I don’t typically take 2-4 week vacations, but I sometimes do travel for work for extended periods.

I recognise being able to travel at all is a privilege but having a personal preference for a full kitchen I don’t really think warrants such a judgemental response.
Same since day one I always get it the other way around. I still don't understand why it is named like that.
I think the first part of a standard lib is pretty straightforward to design. String operations, math, standard protocols, I/O are petty well understood. It gets more tricky once you get to higher levels abstraction like UI.
> If you're working a on a big blob of a thing that can have waterfall-style estimation and delivery then you'll avoid all that.

It seems that among the cool kids, "waterfall" is considered a bad thing that everyone should avoid.

I admit I miss the days when I could have spent weeks working on a project without being interrupted by daily "agile" meetings.
But with a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard, could be a compelling form factor
Oh probably shouldn't be sending those the iranian revolution then.
What exactly is broken about finance? Is it the fact that it has become completely disconnected from real world value or is it something else?
Few cities have been building housing as fast as Toronto. The main issue is whatever housing toronto builds, the government turns up the immigration tap twice as fast.
"Hello Verizon Mobile customer service? No, nothing is wrong with my phone, I want to lease my land to you for cell towers. What's that? You have no idea and neither will the next two people you transfer me to and eventually I'll give up. Awesome-sauce"
> Seriously, lisp?

Sure, why not? This is a Wayland client, not the server (aka, compositor). But there's little technical reason not to make the compositor in Lisp either, other than the time commitment. If you want Rust clients and compositors, they do exist. If you don't know how to find them, here's one that turned up on Google: http://way-cooler.org/

Some more Rust/Wayland stuff:

https://github.com/Smithay/wayland-rs
> I plan on dying in that house

Yup I've made this plan a couple times now.
Is there a torrent available? This is an effective way to ensure the models and information remain available indefinitely.
It's inevitable, as the 30-year mortgage is an intrinsically toxic product: https://byrnehobart.medium.com/the-30-year-mortgage-is-an-in...
> Nearly my entire neighborhood consists of old Gen Xers and Boomers living in 2500-3500 sq ft houses, sometimes alone.

Where is this? I'd love a place where single people can afford a 3500sqft house?

Here in silicon valley it takes two tech salaries to afford a 1300sqft box.
What do you mean, more dependence? How does DANE make a domain more dependent on the TLD owners than they already are?

Specifically, what kind of attack would a TLD owner be able to perform on a domain that uses DANE that they wouldn't be able to perform if the domain weren't using DANE?
Answering my own question here, but maybe release tickets the day of the concert. That way, scalpers will be taking a bigger risk since people want to be sure they can get tickets before the day of.
I'm using the fetch API for making requests and fetch sadly forbids the Cookie header from getting passed. Will be looking into how I can bypass this.
> But I'm very curious how good one has to be in order to be better than a below-average doctor, or a 50th-percentile doctor, or a 75th.

In dermatology, on which I was working, models were better (at detecting skin cancers) than 52% of the GPs, going by just images. In a famous Nature paper by Esteva et al., the TPR was at 74% for detecting Melanomas. There is a catch which probably got underreported (The skin cancer positivity rate was strongly correlated to clinical markings in photos. Their models didn't do quite as well when 'clean', holdout data were used).

But the nature of information in all these models were skin deep (pun intended). They were designed with a calibrated objective in place unlike how we approach clinical diagnostics as open ended problems for the doctors.
I feel like having too much doc is not really a problem :)
> there is not a lot of high-quality data looking at all the possible effects of fluoridating community water

This guy just inadvertently (or not) created a great study pool.
> Copenhagen is fundamentally different in that exactly one outcome is somehow chosen / selected and all others cease to exist.

In MWI exactly one outcome / branch is somehow what we see and all others cease to exist to us. MWI just gives handwavy answers about how it is so.
Memristors aren't huge yet, are they? Don't they have wear issues? Who is working on them?
Welcome to health care. We produce a ton of documents that then disappear into a terrible document management system to never be found again.
Indeed, in their defense, thet have bowed down to some regulators and are run like a business now in places. After being strong armed and forgetting to pay taxes, but props for that, fair enough and honorable. Just that its subsidised by pirating maneuvers in other places.

Sometimes, Americans and american businesses do not understand the social leaning eu countries, the people have worked hard for generations to keep people like uber(yes , people, we know behind companies are people) at bay and they know why. People want to be able to live off of one full time jons salary, no matter the sacrifice.
They also want to their neigbors to have the same privilege, they dont want their neighbors to rob them.
And if it does not work, then the social system shall serve as a fallback.

Nothing to do with lack of work morals, it is a different mind set.
> USA/SpaceX is in a far better position to quickly repopulate LEO with satellites when the debris has fallen down

Until china threatens musks other factories and he voluntarily decided that defense isn’t a good business for SpaceX. Or maybe he’ll do what he did with Ukraine and advocate for china just to end the war (probably due to business risk of Tesla et al).
Interpol launches first global police Metaverse
It was unnecessary to mention Acid. Acid was meant to test cherrypicked unimplemented features, not to test coverage.
OK, AI is bad but compare it to human doctors/radiologists that are often worse. I still remember stats from some X-ray detection where AI diagnosed with 40% accuracy and the best human doctors with 38% accuracy (and median human doctors with 32% accuracy). Now what are we supposed to do?
You might try Sitemark. I know nothing about them beyond their stated purpose: "Sitemark is the platform where Network Operators and Property Owners come together to connect the world."

https://sitemark.org
The rich already do this with private tutors or they do what Paul Graham does and one of the parents becomes a stay-at-home full-time tutor for their children.
I'm getting a little tired of the fallacious argument which compares some new technology to an old technology from the past, and says "see how people were afraid of that technology from the past, yet their fears proved unfounded? In the same way, fears about this new technology are unwarranted."

The reasons I grumble whenever I see this argument made are:

1. The things being analogized are usually not related in such a way that one prediction not coming true suggests that the other prediction won't come true. You have to examine the likelihoods in isolation, you cannot reason from analogy about everything.

2. Often, predictions about the negative consequences do come true, it's just that we adjust our response to them and fit them into our new view of the world. For example, the prediction that allowing calculators in the classroom would make students worse at arithmetic wasn't wrong, we just decided that we didn't care if students are good at arithmetic anymore. That's fine if it's how we decide the world should be, but it is not the same thing as the prediction being wrong.

3. More generally, the way I view disruptive technologies is that they are not "just like" some previous technology, and therefore analogous to it. What I mean is, when someone says "people staring at their phones is just like people staring at newspapers in the past", they ignore the fact that phones replaced newspapers. There was a competition, and newspapers lost, so we have to acknowledge there is some meaningful difference between the two that explains why.
It might come down though. If it's in the near future, maybe the tickets are priced "aspirationally" at the moment. I have a very hard time believing a large number of people would pay $5000 to see Adam Sandler.
They're referring to this section of the article:

> Learn at least a half dozen programming languages. Include one language that emphasizes class abstractions (like Java or C++), one that emphasizes functional abstraction (like Lisp or ML or Haskell), one that supports syntactic abstraction (like Lisp), one that supports declarative specifications (like Prolog or C++ templates), and one that emphasizes parallelism (like Clojure or Go).

The question being what would Rust add to this list or where would it fit here.
Add a paywall to videos and any other problematic content, fund production of subtitles that way. Or just move them to Patreon or similar platform, so they technically are on different website.
That's what got me about OP's case. I'd hate to watch a technical learning course without subtitles, and I can't imagine most people wouldn't benefit from them here.
Even 10x engineers are getting hit by inflation!
New Data Transmission Record (1.8 petabits per second)
In less than about 42 hours, Google has fully rolled out the last spam update - the Google October 2022 spam update. The update began on October 19, 2022, at about 11 am ET and was completed on October 21, 2022, at about 5 am ET.
I didn't mean to say it's you throwing a fit, I meant to say that students are throwing fits. Unless you're a student? Sorry I didn't convey that clearly.

I wouldn't say that the purpose of the 5-paragaph essay is to teach clear writing. It serves the same purpose as mandating a format for a conference; no format mandate means you get N formats, which makes evaluating them much harder.
https://xeiaso.net/ is equally great content in a similar style in my opinion. Different area of topics a bit, but I enjoy both very much
Chip War is a fantastic book about the history of this industry. I would recommend it highly for some background information.
Google gives me this page for Verizon as the first result for "how to lease land for cell tower":

https://www.verizonwireless.com/business/real-estate-inquiri...

I expect you'll find more info further down the page.
That law is from a purely legal perspective, wild. It doesn’t at all matter the specific issue, this law grants standing for someone to sue who is not harmed nor even involved in an act [1]. This is genuine perversion of the law and we are going to regret not immediately closing this can of worms. This law literally allows the government to end run around all federal and constitutional protections including state constitutions.

You could outlaw guns with this, eliminate interracial marriage, prevent women from voting, censor arbitrary speech.

[1] I don’t want to say crime because it’s a civil suit. Texas could in theory pass a law like this about anything.

This is a long way of saying that the Texas abortion law is a whole different league from ADA where you actually have to be harmed and prove it to sue.
I am apparently one of those sodastream personality types, too.
It's amazing how a visualizer from over a decade ago is still best-in-class.

The next best thing I've seen is Electric Sheep, but it doesn't react to the actual music.
Using Brev to decrease our AWS instance costs by up to 94%
HN does not have transparent moderation so you won't know unless you have root access to the server logs. This has always been the case with HN, the moderators have free reign and no accountability so you won't find out because the secrecy is part of the design.
For what Cambridge cops make, they ought to be good!
I'm not sure what services PalmOS provided to the apps, but to my limited knowledge the apps themselves were non-multitasking, and had a standardized database per each app instead of the filesystem (i.e. something like proto-IndexedDB, but more oriented to documents or blobs). So it's kinda difficult to imagine them having the problems of quasi-multitasking and more complex MacOS. But perhaps things became involved by PalmOS 5.

Though the event handling part sounds like DOS' raw approach, versus Win95's abstraction—and I guess could plague any kind of a system.
There is truth to that, but these kind of companies have crossed all lines. Takes a lot before truly greedy politicians intervene, it is against their nature.

I fully agree with your historical point, I read about thensoutj sea company in the uk and the stake holders, i was shocked, but nor surprised. The wikipedia page actually makes for good reading if you have time.
It's not a programming language. (Rather like HTML.) It's a markup language that can be used as the encoding for a real programming language, but it's not a programming language itself.
No. Some syntax can be learned in an afternoon, that's it
You know the most common thing you hear busy people in their 40s and 50s say when their kids reach a certain age? "I wish I'd spent more time with my children".
Easier != better.
Check out his C64 demo "A Mind Is Born", where he fits a "procedurally-generating" song with visuals in barely 256(!!!) bytes.

https://linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/
Personally I run Steam (and pretty much every other gaming related program) through an Arch container using distrobox[0] on my NixOS setup. It runs without any issues and integrates with my system very well.

[0] https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox
Plasma Toroid Experimentation
Amazing. I though I was a nerd.
That's not how this works. As a carrier, I would always try to exhaust use of municipal or other public rights of way before dealing with a building or property owner.

Given that mmWave radios need clear line-of-sight to work properly, many 5G radios are going to end up being installed on poles. Somehow I doubt a building owner is going to match the $48 per year cost for me to rent a pole from an LDC, or $12.96 per pole per year from the incumbent.
Presumably on linux this would "just work" (assuming drivers for the IO ports are written)?
This has been a thing for a long time, with MRI in particular.

It gets quite philosophical. To diagnose something you need some pattern on the images. As resolution and tissue contrast improves you see more things, and the radiologist gets to decide if the appearance is something.

When a clinician says there is a problem in some area of anatomy and there is something on the scan, the radiologist has to make a call.

The great thing about being a tech is that making the call isn’t my job. I have noticed that keeping the field of view small tends to make me more friends.

A half imaged liver haemangioma, a thyroid nodule or a white matter brain lesion as an incidental finding are a daily occurrence at least.
As someone currently sponsoring my immigrant spouse, I can first-hand tell you: the US immigration process is probably a lot more complicated, slow, burdensome, and frustrating than you think it is. It's expected to take 18 months and over $2,000 in various fees before my (currently undocumented) spouse will get a green card, and be able to begin working legally in this country.
In the scenario you described, the majority of voters in those areas must be land owners, based on how they voted. Assuming that the elections you are describing are genuinely democratic, why should people vote counter to their own interests?

In general, candidates that promise to do things that benefit people who are not their constituency don't get elected. Personally, I want to live in an area where most of the residents own their own property rather than renting it. Why? Because people who own their own property are more invested (literally) in maintaining it than renters.

I live in an area with recent massive flooding (in areas that are not historically flood zones). Lots of people are outside fixing their own properties but also hiring people to fix the problems, both functional and aesthetic. If they were all rental properties, the motivation of the landowner to fix the aesthetics would not exist until the current renter left.

The problems in real estate are not primarily property ownership vs rental, but the financialization of the real estate market.
The GDPR is not "the source of the now-near-ubiquitous cookie-consent noise". Rather, those banners arose from malicious compliance by companies protesting the earlier EU cookie law, and you've seemingly fallen for the ruse. Furthermore, the GDPR fixed the loophole that made this malicious compliance technically legal. So the only take away from your point is that enforcing regulations on large companies suffers from incompleteness, which is obvious.

Your assertion that the GDPR affects "personal ownership of other people's perception of you" is blatantly false. From the GDPR: "2. This Regulation does not apply to the processing of personal data: ... (c) by a natural person in the course of a purely personal or household activity". It explicitly excepts regulating personal activity, and instead focuses on commercial activity - ie companies. Companies do not have some inherent right to keep surveillance records on individuals. And this often referenced idea that company behavior is
merely individual behavior scaled up is utterly fallacious, starting with the fact that companies are formed precisely to shield liability by diffusing responsibility.

And sure, the corporate lobby is extremely powerful in the US, so I agree I'm dreaming to think that any law would ever hamper the credit surveillance bureaus - they already bought their regulatory capture with the indemnifying "Fair" Credit Reporting Act. But still if we're talking about what ought to be, then a law that would allow me to opt out of their keeping surveillance records on me is sorely needed. I for one would be happy to live without them.
Put another way, society and culture are things that are essentially imaginary. They take place in the mind, and I doubt society or culture could organize itself without some shared imaginary space strewn with personifications and myths. Take that away and society and culture become impossible.

Your unease is more warranted for things like evolution, which does not depend on a shared imaginary space.
It's not that AI has been conflated with machine learning—those are words that are supposed to refer to the same thing. The confusion is conflating either with slapdash applied statistics.
I'm so happy to see this at the top of the list on a Friday afternoon. Totally made my day, as well as a few others who are too busy right now trying to close out the week to f5 on HN.
No, you can't really draw that line from 1997 to today's Apple.

(a) Deprecation of a framework is inaccurate. It was halting development on OpenDoc -- which had been sold as the future of software development on Macs and other OS's up to that point (sort of, you had to be there). There is no modern parallel; Apple halting all development on UIKit and removing support and tools for it tomorrow would be something like it.

(b) Steve said in the video that the guy in the audience might be right. But he also said that Apple had to focus to survive.

Apple just barely made it -- remember that while the iMac was a design masterpiece, it wasn't that big compared to the rest of the industry; Apple was still essentially fighting for its life with every hardware release until the iPod.
My formative years all have tracked music as their soundtrack, and I still listen to them regularly. Many of the people whose music I enjoyed back then are still making new music as recently as this week, including several you mentioned. Many artists were accessible on IRC, and the community was at least as good as the music. There were lots of opportunities to form lifelong friendships with great people.
Here are a couple links. It may be a little heavy on the jargon, but Mark's explanation is fantastic, even for the layman.

- Breaking down Mark Suciu’s “Verso”: https://andrew-hughes2012.medium.com/breaking-down-mark-suci...

- Mark Suciu's "Verso" Part (note the highlighted comment which describes the main "controversial" sequence): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlcxbZbHTj8&lc=UgwTbcW99Wm9Z...

- Mark Suciu Explains His Verso Part and the 50-50 Ender: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w97Y06WACOE
Windows Subsystem for Android currently uses the same infrastructure for GPU virt as the Android Emulator (ie command stream encapsulation with gfxstream, virtio-gpu device).
Thanks for the link. It seems to me though, that it's no easier to explain having the illusion of experience than to explain actual experience (and vice versa).

I've heard Joshua Bach talk in similar terms and I frankly do not get it.
That what I mean - I haven’t encountered this.

I’m way down in New Zealand.
This site is formative to me. One of the underrated aspects of MOD files is that they're totally transparent - you can learn from others' work by examining the same files you use to play the music. It's more transparent than basically any other medium out there for learning to create music by example.
I feel like memresistors have been hyped since HP tried to use it to save their business from 2007-2015. Nothing ever came from it from HP at least. Have there been new developments that make it more likely to be viable?
Bad faith.

And it goes the other way, if you want to play that game.

If what you were saying were true then "whiteness" couldn't possibly refer to things such as purely abstract cultural-norms (either don't exist or is weasel-word according to you). So then what are they referring to?
Marginalia's Index Reaches 100M Documents
People bought with a mortgage though, and rates went down.
I'd expect someone from HN to give more descriptive reports than "gives me an error".