skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the boat I'm in. My version of Signal already updated and encouraged me to switch SMS out of the app, which I did. Now I'm sort of split between these two apps; my family is, for the moment, still using Signal for both, but I expect they'll soon enough be forced to use Android Messages, at which point we'll have little reason to continue using Signal.

Once my immediate family is out, I expect it'll be a domino effect with my extended family and friends -- those of us on Signal will have fewer and fewer reasons (ie, individuals in our graph) to use it. As much as I'd like this to not be the case, I think it will be. A smallish percentage of my contact list was on Signal, but every few months, another few people would join. I expect this trend will reverse.
Because it's actually a new browser, not just a wrapper/reskin around webkit, gecko or blink.
But wouldn’t doubling the time reduce pressure for innovation here?
Yeah, they have to be able to. Something about this story just doesn't add up unless this is explained.
What would a Telco do to me with such data? Anything that I would care about?
What Is Mastodon and Why Are People Leaving Twitter for It?
right, because you expect every browser to just use webkit/chromium
>The blue check does not mean verified moving forward.

Just what are you basing this on? I've seen lots of people toss this around - where specifically has Elon or Twitter said that $8 will be a license to do whatever you want? If anything they have been adamant that will NOT be the case.
Yeah this kind of thing is easily verifiable.. Per page 41 in their 2016 annual report, the balance of cash + short term equivalents went from $3.6 billion in 2014 to $3.5 billion in 2015 to $3.7 billion in 2016. Their annual GAAP loss was roughly 1/7th of that. Not the most profitable company in the world, but they had plenty of cash and hand and no real trouble fundraising.
Thanks! Your comments are encouraging.

[1,2]: Most people don't have antibodies, so big K+ blood is fine for most people (we worry about avoiding transfusing big-K positive blood into big-K negative people who will be transfused many times, such as somebody with sickle cell disease, it's not really a major issue for most people getting a rare transfusion).

So, K+ people are definitely allowed to donate. Also, there are people who have antibodies to little-k, and so they would actually need big-K homozygous blood.

When we need blood that is big-K negative, such as for a chronically transfused patient or one with antibodies to big-K, we try find units from people whose units were previously identified to be big-K negative. If they don't have any, the donor center can screen blood for them. We then verify compatibility with a crossmatch (reacting plasma from the patient with RBCs from the unit to make sure there is no reaction).

Remember there are lots of other blood types - big-K is one we have to match sometimes. Little-k is another. There are at least 70 altogether, so we can't really even try to match all of them. Even matching C, E, and K is straining the ability of the system to provide special antigen-negative blood.

It will be interesting to see what the long-term applications of lab-grown blood will be. I do worry about rare blood not being as available.
What's wrong with Apple hardware? I hated the 2016-2020 era of butterfly keyboards, limited ports, overheating processors, and touchbars as much as anyone, but I'm really happy with my 16" M1 Max these days. I wish it had a USB-A port instead of an HDMI port, but it's otherwise brilliant.

Meanwhile, macOS frustrates me more and more each update. Back in 2015, I would never have considered switching to Linux. At my last job, I spent an entire year on Manjaro and only switched back to macOS to do iOS dev.
I believe he didn't want to do it in the end. But he was too arrogant and thought that he would get out of the singed deal in any case. Maybe he did want to force some info out of Twitter. But he ended up playing himself.
> Rust, has the same syntatic grey areas? I don't know enough about Rust, but from what I know it should have the same issues called out in the HAL paper OP cites.

Which ones? Afaik in Rust it's always clear whether an identifier belongs to the value or the type (or macro) namespace, for example a variable declaration is `let foo =` or `let foo: Bar =` (possibly with a pattern on the left hand side), parameters & constants being similar. This alone rules out most of them. It also doesn't have if/else branches without braces, nor _Atomic. So yeah, seems odd to claim it's disingenuous.
That is very interesting. But I think the answer to the parents question about why people are not boarding rubber dinghies from the UK to India is that in absolute terms poverty is not the same in the two countries.
The author is also one of the lawyers bringing suit against (Microsoft) Github Copilot.[2]

[2]https://githubcopilotlitigation.com/
I cofounded a company years ago with a bunch of people around the core concept of 'Legal is Code'. Had a falling out with my cofounders but the company is still going.
Having the waiver makes it seem like something you need permission for, but in a free society, you don't.
I'm curious, what kind of endgame was he planning, if any?

How do you launder and benefit from even any of the coins, if you know you're a wanted man and everyone is watching to see where the coin pops up?
That's an interesting point actually. Are there any yunohost providers out there?
Working on it! https://github.com/phylum-dev/birdcage

Allows you to specify the allowed permissions in a toml file. Still a wip, but would love some feedback!
A color scheme isn't much, and the products don't match.

Copying the arches is basically copying a logo, and I'm pretty sure nothing like that happened here?
i didn't say your 2nd can't hurt your 3rd, but it can't *IF* your 2nd is eliminated before your 1st. which often happens. for instance, a simplified version of what just happened in alaska:

35% peltola begich

33% palin begich

18% begich peltola

14% begich palin

-- https://electionscience.org/commentary-analysis/rcv-fools-pa...

begich is eliminated first, even though he's preferred to each of his rivals by a sizable majority.

but more notably here, palin is a spoiler. her supporters get peltola—their least favorite. BUT if they insincerely/strategically rank begich in 1st instead of palin, then begich wins. i.e. they get their 2nd choice instead of their 3rd.

so they have to LIE ABOUT THEIR FIRST CHOICE in order to prevent the spoiler effect. whereas this is mathematically proven never to happen with approval voting.

> I still disagree that Approval's lack of later-no-harm is a feature, though. In practice, what it means is that voters have to think strategically about how well they think the various candidates will do, in order to decide whether they have to "risk" giving an approval to a candidate who they genuinely don't like, but who might be the only chance of preventing a detested candidate from winning.

you can't argue about strategic voting because:

1. as i just showed you, IRV/RCV has an even more severe vulnerability to this—you have to strategize about whether to support your FAVORITE, not whether to support your 2nd favorite.

2. approval voting gets better results with strategic voters than IRV does with HONEST voters, so even in the worst case scenario, approval voting is still better. see these VSE calculations by harvard stats PhD jameson quinn.

https://electionscience.github.io/vse-sim/VSEbasic/

my link already discussed all of this quite clearly.
They should probably look into two-factor auth going forward.
This general reasoning error (or purposeful trick? always hard to tell) is in almost every single news article I come across. Almost every car accident happens close to home between sober drivers, so I always make sure to be far from home and very drunk when I drive
~~I think its a browser writing by one person.~~

Edit: the point is that its an independent browser, not that its built by just one person
You should be impressed. A browser engine from scratch displaying a mammoth like google products.
They said its hard to believe how dumb some very rich, succesful people are.

But they do be that dumb.
Thunderbolt documents are behind NDAs (as far as I know), but you can get a good feel for the types of testing required by checking out the USB-IF Compliance Test Specifications: https://www.usb.org/documents

Thunderbolt is basically a superset of that.
Does being this abrasive generally result in conversations you feel are productive?
I worked in an agency. The way pretty much all creative process in any large company works is that the stakeholder (such as a brand manager) signs off on a broad vision for a creative campaign. The agency then uses its creative talent to create the actual collateral. Most of the times, the stakeholder will only be asked to look at (or want to look at) major campaign collateral (such as a superbowl ad).

All the stuff that AI is automating currently is too mundane and cheap to involve a decision maker. No brand manager is spending time signing off on 1 of 12 product images out of 2000 SKUs on their site.

My point is: the business use case for AI generated art is really overblown. Small businesses definitely interact with creative tools directly, and it will be of great help to them. But in any business of any significant size, the creative process is offloaded to the “creative types” and the only input decision makers will have is to tell them what something should look like. At no point will they actually sit down and try to use creative tools to create stuff.
... also custom and paremetrized iterators:

class FreakyCollection {
// ...
*even() {
// for ... iterate skipping the odd ones and yielding the rest one by one
}
*having(quality) {
// for ... iterate and yield just the items that have some quality
}

and usage then is as simple as:

for(let item of freakyCollection.having(42)) {
Good luck eating a cow fresh out of the pasture.
Rate of sea level rise 'has doubled since 1993' due to climate change
> I don't understand how anything you wrote invalidates my argument. Yes, the inventor does not get the full settlement amount, but some money is still better than a lot of debt that they might end up with if going after IBM themselves.

As I agreed. However, you're wrong that a troll necessarily goes after the infringer you know about, and in fact they may not even bother.

Secondly, "broadness" is a term of art in patents. It doesn't mean what you think it does. It doesn't mean "advancing technology." It means the scope of things covered by the claims.
Nobody is trying to impress you. There have been no new browser engines for years, with the idea that its impossible to develop one anymore being a meme people would espouse regularly.

This is impressive as a group of random interested people have made significant progress to making a functional web browser off the back of passion, not billions of dollars. Andreas has be an incredible force for showing what bringing people together through passion and openness can do.
I think these are very valid thoughts, even today. I loved the old days of telnet & Pine, and then Netscape Navigator with built-in email & newsgroups. Even Outlook Express did a decent job with NNTP.

but the endless flood of spam was too much, along with the ever growing risk of "illegal content." Just became way too risky, ISPs started dropping it, and the spiral continued.
It's much worse now, partially due to the fact that young people's first computing device is a phone, instead of a family computer.

Here's a story about an engineering professor lamenting that their first-year students do not understand folder structures, because they have been using Google Docs for a decade, and don't use use anything besides the search bar.

https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-direc...
docsify [1] takes that approach. It's a tiny HTML file with a chunky JS script that fetches Markdown files and renders them. It doesn't work if JS is turned off and it's probably less accessible than if the browser natively understood Markdown, but it is an approach to building documentation sites.

[1] https://docsify.js.org/
That's why I emphasized always. The laws and precedents saying that anything that quacks like property is taxable property are decades old so they predate Bitcoin. In 2013 the government just said "Remember these laws from decades ago? No? They apply to you."
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The “from-scratch” part is key. (The “can display Google Docs” part is also, well, correct in a strictly technical sense, see linked screenshot. It is still a significant achievement—even GNOME Web / Epiphany, based on WebKitGTK, has some problems running Google Docs.) The browser is based on a new engine that started development in 2019. It was originally written for a hobby OS with its own toolkit and only ported to run on top of Qt as well some months ago[1]. The original author of said OS used to be employed working on WebKit, as far as I understand.

[1] See previous discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32809126
Should at least have been a Starbucks coffee
> Lizardman's Constant

Thanks for this, that's a good point.
Thus the hackintosh [0] approach.

[0] https://hackintosh.com
The firmware update mentioned in the blog post includes some improvements related to retimer suspend behavior on both 11th Gen and 12th Gen units that should improve suspend battery life on Linux.
The electronical connections are all the the edge, but without the latch at the back of the connection, it won't be a secure fit.
For many it's still better than WhatsApp because it implements actual E2EE.
That’s because nobody who cut costs feels compelled to go out and proselytize about it. At the start of the pandemic I helped dozens of customers cut their spending to $XX pm as they were inherently crippled during COVID (think travel, hospitality). My management team at AWS supported this effort. It was actually one of our strategic goals.

Anti cloud zealots are having their time just like pro cloud zealots did. You have to understand your workloads and cloud offerings to see if it’s right for you.
I'm pitching my explanation to the presumably technical audience of HN readers.

This is a world in which people are familiar with webmail (email access through an HTTP gateway), and of both Web- and App-based interfaces to services such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, SnapChat, and Reddit.

I'm reasonably comfortable in the thought that whether or not the Great Unwashed Masses think in terms of "HTTP Gateway" or Browser vs. App, they'll work through this particular Sysiphian obstacle without a great deal of effort.
Well he did say the idea was to see half as many ads. (Not a great value prop though imo)
> What are your thoughts on Alice?

SCOTUS keeps slapping down the CAFC, and the CAFC just keeps weaseling their way out of it. It will take clear legislative direction to slay this dragon once and for all.
That can be solved with tax/other laws. Guess who will be most impacted by those laws? Not people with one or two apartments as much, but those who do in large scale - that is again politicians and their helpers who help launder illegal money this way. If there are loopholes in the law, people will abuse it but we have to realize the loopholes are not meant for the layperson but the powerful few who abuse it at much higher scale.
Improving the time/quality of examination would reduce the number of bad patents, and thus raise the bar for something to get patented, requiring MORE actual innovation, and less fake process based crap.
Some cities have “Big Bazaar” which is similar to a Walmart (smaller though, the Indian market doesn’t have the variety of brands and products other countries do). There certainly are a lot of other similar stores. A more American thing that isn't readily available is like a Costco, bulk shopping would be pretty tough there, and people are fine to go out on a more regular basis to pick up fresh milk/veggies.

No American big box retailer will ever be built. Indian government doesn’t allow foreign companies to come in and set up shop very easily (at best they can get in with 49% ownership like Starbucks/Tata). Additionally the logistics situation is very different. Less ports, roads between cities built differently than USA, traffic across states is not a right like USA and various restrictions/inspections/fees can occur. It’s worth keeping an eye on IKEA’s expansion specifically in India. They really want to grow the marketshare, they have the right price points, and people seem to genuinely like and want them around. But lots of artificial hurdles which i suspect are caused by local traders/shops knowing how much business IKEA will take from them.

Indian Amazon is approaching the utility of American Amazon and are pretty good about taking advantage of the existing couriers and air cargo which takes care of some of the interstate logistics I mentioned. The funniest part to me is that every individual item you order comes with it’s own delivery person, there isn’t yet much work to consolidate packages. The current generation is growing up with Amazon though and I anticipate many future improvements.

I also see a dead comment in this thread saying India doesn't have malls... I've never seen more malls in an area than I have in big Indian cities. A lot of them are pretty good!

Source: many extended visits to india
Picked up a System76 for a Linux work laptop earlier this year just to have a beefier CPU compared to the Framework (this was before their CPU refresh), and it's actually been fantastic (surprisingly good compared to the last desktop Linux machine I had a decade ago). However, I love the idea of the Framework so much that I'm still trying to find any excuse to pick one up anyway. You know how important work/life balance is in the remote era, so that means I should really have one machine for work and one machine for personal use, right...?

Call me crazy, in this world of constant technological treadmills, but I'd be ecstatic if I had a laptop that I could ship-of-theseus for the next two decades or more.
Consoles used to be very power efficient but since the pro-console era launched they have basically become smallish PCs that you connect to a television.
Look at the first image:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ziggygamedev/the-store-...

If you asked me to describe it from the first picture, I might say, “It’s a picture of a monster in front of an Ikea store,” and I might not even notice that it’s not an Ikea store.

I don’t understand the “this isn’t infringement” argument, since it looks super obvious like it is supposed to be an Ikea store. I have a hard time imagining someone looking at the picture and saying, “That’s definitely not an Ikea store.”
Also, it’s not going to snap anything going into a bag in a hurry / without remembering the dongle is in.
And they've introduced a new problem: rather than buying a standardized USB-C dongle, you've got a new one-off form factor.
*Kind of.

More power to them, but modern browsers are one of the most advanced and sophisticated pieces of software in the world, probably right next to an OS. WebKit and Chromium respectively have had billions of dollars and decades of development poured into them. The current duopoly state of the market reflects that fact, unfortunately.
I have always wondered about it. Would actually fresh beef be tough? And by fresh I mean eating it same day it is butchered.
It's very easy to make sync code async. Just add an `async` to the function declaration. You don't need the `instanceof` check or `Promise.resolve` - you can `await` any type of value; it'll get unwrapped as a Promise if it has a `then` method, or otherwise just give you back the value. See [MDN for await].

If that's okay for your code, then go for it. However, downgrading a sync function to be async has serious performance implications - turning a trivial sync function call in a tight loop into an awaited async function call will make your loop 90%+ slower [benchmark]. You're also going to allocate much more memory for Promise objects. The code I linked above is from a library implementing a sandboxed Javascript VM. If we forced all calls into the guest sandbox, or from the guest sandbox back to host functions like `console.log`, to be async, the VM would be unusable for many applications.

[MDN for await]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

[benchmark]: https://jsbench.me/y0la7auape/2
> The resulting C code was so large

> you'd need to branch past ~33MB of code in a single function to hit it.

That's... an impressive amount of C code.
Right, though I'm familiar with that only in theory.

Are there relay instances / pointers on how that works?
This post seems to lack any useful information to come to the conclusion of "phoning home the content of PowerPoint slides". That said, if you use the tool in question, you'll notice that it only suggests layouts and these seem to be fairly generic. They don't seem to take into account the content so much as how the content is laid out.

This could be as "simple" as Microsoft phoning home with the layout of the data (bullets vs title vs paragraph of text) combined with perhaps hash codes of any topical features (things that indicate technology vs food).

I've never been "surprised" by the feature the way I am with Github Copilot where it sometimes feels like it's reading my mind. The Designer is just a simple way to click a button and get back 5+ recommendations on how you can layout the data.

Without some kind of evidence, my explanation is just as valid as the blog. That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
We'll be writing a more detailed blog post, but basically it involves forcing the retimers into a suspend state when they should be suspended in more cases. In theory, this should happen anyway, but we're apparently hitting some edge cases on the retimer behavior currently that prevents proper suspend in some cases.
Have you found it to be problematic that some (perhaps many) lawyers like bikeshedding in Word, as it gives them an excuse to pad their billable hours?
in most cases, those (as well as licensing) aren't considered direct, variable costs, but rather sunk costs, as they exist regardless of the number of customers served, even if there's a rough correlation with size. this is akin to sales vs marketing costs. the former is usually a direct cost, while the latter is not, even though marketing costs often scale (roughly) with size too, but most of that cost isn't directly attributable to a specific revenue opportunity as in the sales case.
Lord Lucan hunt continues 48 years after nanny murder