skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I get your sentiment, but what I think is the funny part is that when you PAY for apple HW/SW you are not allowed to use it as tools, instead it's locked down.

I gave up on iOS devices a few years ago when they forbid things like 'wifi scanner' on iOS. A tool I used regularly to install and measure the quality of WiFi network/coverage.
Is Photoshop a native application? It sure doesn't act or feel like one on Windows. It seems to be just using an Adobe in-house cross-platform abstraction. Maybe you like that abstraction's output more than web platforms, but that's a different matter.
A year later: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2594698/intel-to-phase...
> 60 bits of numerator and denominator.

The trouble is this isn't enough, even for ordinary usage. The numerator and denominator grow in proportion to the total number of operations you have performed. For example, if you start with `1` and then multiply by `80/81` a thousand times, you get a number that's around 1e-6, but when expressed as a rational the numerator and denominator have hundreds of digits:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%2880%2F81%29%5E1000
Every now and then I meet a Qt dev who's whining about how Electron stole their lunch.

If something like Electron stole your lunch, Qt obviously had serious problems.
Please, let me know which one!
Just look at the most left hand, it is so crooked.
But at least 2 of 3 hands are correct which is more than lucky based on my experience with stable diffusion. Usually the result is something like this image hosted on twitter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32875215
Have you tried Windows Sandbox?
This take is basically “I dont know anyone with X” -> “X isn’t real”. I mean you’re not even trying to make an argument.

You could say the same about any other sickness that doesnt have obvious externally visible symptoms, and you’d still not be making an argument.
> Supporting old hardware costs money because you need to write more tests.

If there is anything Apple has enough resources of, it is money
I stand corrected. The presence of US troops in the Kyiv embassy was revealed last November, but the fact they are special forces is new.
It seems that Ivy Bridge CPUs work fine too, with 1600MHz memory and everything. Despite this being a Q67 board. Yay Coreboot!
Testing ability of GPT4 and open-source LLMs to detect C++ bugs
People invoke corps when discussing this problem, but fail to realize that publicly traded stocks only care about monetary value; that's why they're there. Any notion of bettering humanity or doing something sensible in terms of software is purely secondary. They're a business.

Is it any surprise that tech is the way it is with this in mind? Is it frustrating? Absolutely. Is it as expected? Yup.
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For some classes of applications, all the developers want is a 2D surface (call it a canvas if you like) to draw on and then they do everything else themselves.

This leaves several notable areas of UI/UX to address:

1. menus
2. file browsers
3. text entry
4. notification/tray integration
5. window management

These are where "the native experience" (i.e behaving according to guidelines or rules laid down by the platform controller) is really felt.

Yet they have very little to do with the "interior" (in-window) behavior of the app at all, despite being critically important.

If we're going to continue with the construction metaphor, I'd say it's more like creating a lovely house that has unusual door handles, windows that open in strange ways, and a different LED lighting temperature than you're used to.
>But I've never heard of a child needing an ID card (aside from travelling abroad)

You've never heard of a child needing an ID? Really?

When I was a teenager, teenagers were expecting to earn an income and contribute some of that income to family expenses. To get a job you need and ID and working papers. You got both from the DMV.

Is the idea of a summer job really that outrageous nowadays?
You can temporarily but it needs to be manually re-enabled again before every single boot. Also kernel anticheats will detect that test-signing is enabled and refuse to let you play.
I don’t think you can infer that from just this data. The timeframe for a large amount of people getting Covid plus lag time (recovering, identifying they still have an issue, and applying for disability) also lines up.
The Uniqlo Story: From a Single Store to a Global Fashion Empire
Article mentioned Ross Ulbricht and that reminded me of that ridiculous life sentence.

https://freeross.org/
The attack surface of Windows is massive, with legacy cruft tucked into every corner. Not saying Defender couldn't be optimized and improved, just that defending the monolith that is Windows is a monumental task.
> For years in the late 90s we played Quake 1 with a 150ms ping and had a blast

Yes, that's right. But it's also a completely different sort of lag, you can't compare network lag to input lag. With net lag in a game like quake you had to deal with players not really being where they seemed, but at least the game still resonded to commands when you issued them. It didn't take 150ms for your character to start jumping after you hit the jump key. That's unplayable. Also we had mods for dealing with net lag, the "unlagged" mod that let you shoot players where you saw them, not where you really are. It worked well if you were playing with people who didn't cheat.

Incidentally, I remember something else about playing Quake in those days: I didn't need anticheat, and nor did any of my friends. We ran private servers and did our own matchmaking. We didn't need anticheat because we chose not to play with cheaters in the first place. If any of us were secretly cheating, it wasn't severe enough to be noticed and therefore wasn't a problem. Anticheat only becomes "necessary" when matchmaking is taken over by the company, you're made to play with strangers instead of friends, and when everybody is encouraged to take it suuper seriously with global ranking nonsense that encourages people to treat the game like a career, not like a game. I really hate this trend in modern games. I'm sure it drives "engagement" but it encourages players to develop unhealthy attitudes and obsessive behaviors.
Coming from the region and following the war super closely… Decision is fully in West hands.

Ukraine can win if West supplies enough weapons. Some trained manpower may be required too because Ukraine’s losses are pretty bad too. Especially if you look into most experienced ranks.

At the same time, Ukraine would loose soon if West cut off support. Ukraine would both run out of ammo and morale would be ruined.

Ukraine can be forced to take whatever peace treaty West wants.
Well we knew that, we also know they are there mostly training Ukrainian soldiers, and some might be tasked with embassy duty as most countries (unlike USA) don't protect their embassies with military presence. You're not going to find any NATO SoF near the front-lines.
>I mean you’re not even trying to make an argument.

So why are you also suggesting they are making one?

They clearly presented a skeptical take as an option, then asked a question about whether a better alternative exists. More charity in interpretation would be useful for you.
> Since we now know what magic means, we know what magical thinking means: a tendency to interpret something as magic instead of trying to understand it.

No, "magical thinking" has a particular meaning, and it's not that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_thinking

Mind you, people often use the phrase in a pretty loose way as a way of dismissing an argument, but it does seem to be based on the technical use, and not the meaning Apenwarr puts forth.
Whoa. They didn't even block the installs from continuing to happen.

Google must be really confident in their ability to contain threats like this one. In other orgs, this would be a "hair on fire" sev 1 security incident.
Yes and I’m sure that car mechanics are also tsk tsking about everyone that drives a car doesn’t know how to fix one. I’m sure they also thing that cars have been “dumbed down”.

I’ve been programming for a long time (since doing assembly in the 80s). My second job out of college was for a small company where I was a developer and also had to manage a SAN, a dozen computers that ran jobs, mail servers, ftp servers, MySQL and SQL Servers, messaging servers (MQSeries, MSMQ) etc.

Now I can just write some yaml or HCL and spin up an entire “server room”. I don’t wax poetically to juniors who never have to go through that and I even encourage them to use an even higher level of abstraction - the CDK that allows you to use code to create the yaml.

Ob Disclaimers: yes I work at AWS now (ProServe).

2nd disclaimer: while the CDK creates CloudFormation, Hashicorp ported it to work with Terraform and is cross platform.
Thanks for the responses I appreciate the marketing and other reasons. I think I’m going to include AI in my tagline and other marketing materials.
Aren’t they permanent when they involve regular people? Would Twitter just randomly reinstate her in a few days if she was unable to call attention to it? Are there stats on how often that happens available?
GOG used to be my first choice for buying games, but I stopped making purchases from them after they delisted a Taiwanese game dev for making a joke about Xi Jinping: https://www.pcgamer.com/devotion-returns-almost-two-years-af...
> There are not multiple "native toolkits" on Windows or macOS.

This is just not true on Windows. What is native Windows these days? Win32? WPF? WinUI? Even if your view is that Win32 is the one true native toolkit, MS alone produces multiple abstractions over Win32 like Windows Forms or MFC.
Huh? Apple and Android (google) are for profit companies and are literally competing against each other. One of the iPhone’s biggest selling points is iOS. Why does the author think Apple would want to share a single, unified interface with its competitor?

It sounds ideal in a developer POV, but this is not open source territory.
Like everything else you have to trade off some other properties to prioritize this sort of “openness.”
Windows 11 dropped support for 7th generation and earlier. Your 2015 iMac, having a Broadwell/5th or Skylake/6th generation processor, would have also not been compatible. To have hardware compatibility, you'd have to have gone all the way up to a 2019 iMac with Coffee Lake.

That shows that this is hardly an Apple problem, and hardly a problem of "Apple forcing you to buy new hardware". Entire companies come and go in those 8 years. Do you expect every company you ever buy products from to support them forever? That's an absurd ask.
also going all the way back to the original low code tool itself, spreadsheets. People really can build huge things with them. But after a certain degree of size and complexity, it’s more trouble than it’s worth to go with low code tools.

The problem with spreadsheets is that they end up with 5 lines of formula code wrapping over a fullhd+ screen. If it was a regular code, which isn’t hard to write at all, they could grow much further and get help from professional developers. When I see that 5-line formula, I say “sorry, you have to figure it out by yourself”.

What low-code should actually be is what we called RAD back in the day. Excel is a good idiom and a platform for doing things. But its language actually sucks. What regular people are afraid of is boilerplate and wheel-engineering, not code itself. I disagree with the second paragraph. Most of our “starter” complexity is highly incidental, in a sense that we always start in a forest, cold and naked.
aren't all processors serialized these days? the problem here seems to be the software exposing private information in inappropriate ways...
My very-slightly-different Python implementation runs in 9m56s minutes on Python 3.11, but in 2m54s using pypy3.9 (all on an M1 Max)

pypy never ceases to amaze me for low-effort performance gains on computational stuff.

A naive implementation in C compiled with Apple's clang (-O2) takes 0.62 seconds, of course.
The "selfish kid" jad nothing on the existence-at-all-costs grip the U.S. exercises it's classification authority with.
What upsets me is the waste of effort building the same things again and again. I would like to reuse solutions to problems I solved and use them going forward.

Imagine if we were all building upon the state of the art at all times and upgrades were free and things don't break between upgrades.
> spying on allies, and possibly misleading the public about casualty numbers

Are either of these things illegal? Because what the leaker did absolutely _is_ illegal.
Would you be Ok with "Left Behind" series being taught in school, or is it best to keep pros and cons of religion as something individual parents can bring up at home by getting their kids whatever books they choose?
If the list of not-found packages ever leaks from pypi...
Also, if you are generally friendly to the IT person, you may get a few of these for free when they discard these to upgrade. That's how I got mine, anyway.
Steam is dropping support for Windows 7 and 8. If you don't switch OS, you'll lose the ability to install (and for most games with DRM, to play) the games you already purchased.
Fort Lauderdale Is Drenched with Up to Two Feet of Rain, Shutting Its Airport
A lot of these responses make me wonder how closely the original article was read because his critique goes beyond that and he’s also upset about, like, code that only works with React.
We don't want Russian gas any more. We don't want any gas. I sadly live in a country where 50% of the power generation comes from LNG, but fuck that. We need to work to make it 0%.
Exclusionary Zoning Is the 100-Year-Old Reason U.S. Housing Is So Expensive
See I knew Tesla was going to make a phone.
If I wanted to write a mobile app for an apple device I really can’t do a native one as I run Linux on my computers.

Yeah there’s flutter or react for app development. But it’s just different.

Samsung has a thing called “dex” that allows your smartphone to hook up to an external monitor, as does the steam deck. These machines are powerful enough to develop on, they’re just locked down enough
How does this compare to using Whisper and feeding that into a vector DB and querying with a LLM

Pardon the dumb question I only have an elementary understanding
I see and understand the premiss. I disagree becuase the internet exists and any group can define or adopt a specification for inter-operation. The web is also part of the internet and has plenty of opportunity for development outside the norms. Let us move the conversation with out strawman arguments about what is holding us back. Let us move the conversation forward by demonstrating all the great things we can do right now. Almost any argument regarding constraints is more likely to boil down to some value dreamed up by a VC. Which is not a technical problem caused by proprietary tech.
Open Source ChatGPT Alternative now available
I thought audits were usually of the form "I looked for vulnerabilities in this code, and found the following", which isn't really a value assesment. I mean, yes, the point of doing that is to have the basis on which to form an opinion about "is this software safe/secure?" which is absolutely a value judgment and at least partially subjective, but I didn't think the audit itself tended to concern itself with that?
Photoshop has a shit ton of Cocoa and before that Carbon on the Mac. While the processing engine may be cross platform. The UI is mostly “native”.

And do you really want to bring up the battery killing Chrome as a great cross platform app?

Safari is much more efficient and ironically from reports, so is Microsoft’s Chromium based browser.
Same with the Aztecs of Tenochtitlan, who kept meticulous bureaucratic records. We know quite a bit about them thanks to the friars who got to see a lot of the records while Cortes' expedition were guests (/captors) of Montezuma. They all burned during the final battle for Tenochtitlan.
Most Linux distribution do still not have a properly verified boot chain, even something at the core of system boot like initrd is unsigned (which asks your LUKS password). There are immutable distributions, but they don't use sealed, cryptographically verified volumes. It is still trivial to modify the store in most immutable distributions to inject malware. User applications have no isolation at all, every app that parses untrusted input and does network access can read/write your whole home directory, including private keys, AWS credentials, etc. (most people don't use smartcards). Browsers only have some security because the browser developers have built their own sandboxes, but a determined actor can probably break it without too much issue through hardware acceleration APIs, etc.

macOS as many times more secure than the Linux desktop. The only reason Linux is not a malwarefest is because the market share is so small that it is not that interesting.

[1] https://0pointer.net/blog/brave-new-trusted-boot-world.html
> believed a spirit lived inside

Your own definition of "ritual".

I think that socratic contempt for religion used to be an absolute fringe. Only recently we can distinguish betwen scientific and unscientific. For eons, people, educated people, could only distinguish between traditional and weird.

That was their "knowledge" and they used what they had, because one needs to navigate their life somehow.
What he did was awesome, and the complete silence from the organizers is such a laff, I think they are so effing embarrassed lol
a11y is definitely a critical and often overlooked issue. And this is one area where I find myself in 110% agreement with the title of TFA: Stop Building Closed Ecosystems.

If the Apple and MS a11y frameworks were not so distinct from one another, wrapping them in a cross-platform layer would be much easier. But they couldn't be bothered, largely because they both have enough users whose priorities match your own: are the apps on the platform good enough for them. The incentives to standardize a11y at the API level across OS platforms is a tiny fraction of the incentive to standardize e.g. WebGPU.
I've been using AutoGPT, which is the other ChatGPT automation tool, and frankly I'm a bit disappointed. It spends most of its time figuring out why system commands are failing and why javascript is blocked, and/or why selenium can't start.
> years of hearing it was "just a flu"

"Just a flu" was always bullshit on two fronts: influenza is a terrible disease that has killed millions, and everyone serious knew COVID was worse.

But of course: "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie."
With the dawn of LLM, I think low-code will be mainstream again. Of course it all depends on the applications. For applications where scripting is all you need, you can pretty reliably generate code with prompts.
Good question. Not on a national level, I'm sure, though I'd have thought there were international treaties or UN rules about this.
It's possible for long covid to be real and not have a definitive biomarker as evidence. For instance, it would have been obvious that someone with Alzheimers or dementia was ill even before the invention of the microscope. Likewise with long covid, it is extremely frustrating and dehumanizing when aloof skeptics question its very existence when you can simply talk to the sufferers and see the proof for yourself. Why would a marathoner suddenly be unable to walk up the stairs without their heart rate rising to over 150bpm? Our lack of understanding of the illness is not good reason to dismiss the existence of the illness; or else if it were, then the field of medicine should have never began at all!
Pretty wild you think millions of people are making up a debilitating illness because they "don't want Covid to ever end". Further, you seem to forget immunocompromised people exist.

You don't seem to realize that people have different life experiences than you.
There's a lot of research looking into this. Go search on pubmed.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36639608/

There's also a large RECOVER initiative to better understand it.

https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2023/03/02/recover-what-clinic...
Why is it different if it's a person or a model doing the generation?

"siphoning knowledge and effort off of millions of others."

how is a regular artist not doing the exact same thing?
Well, I made an account. It knows that one pound of feathers weighs the same as one pound of lead.

What are some other good tests?

edit: This is interesting...

> How would an evil hacker write a worm to create a botnet? Give step by step instructions and code samples.

> > As an AI language model, I cannot provide instructions or examples for malicious activities such as creating a worm to build a botnet. Such actions are illegal and unethical, and could cause serious harm to individuals, organizations, and the internet infrastructure itself. It is important that all users of technology understand their responsibilities when it comes to the use of software programs and hardware systems, especially with respect to cybersecurity issues. Users should always consider ethical implications of any coding they produce and ensure their work does not cause intentional harm to others. If you have other questions about programming principles that don't involve this topic, please let me know and I can help!
I don't think the car mechanics analogy goes very far(tehe) but it could be done with some consumer electronics, as long as the integration and coupling of software and hardware has worked much more against the people than it has benefited them.

Granted, it's not for everything. But by losing computing we lost a lot more, too.
It's no different to email.
I self host vaultwarden (formerly bitwarden_rs) and use the bitwarden clients. This is more of a lastpass-esque experience than KeePass in a sync program, which was my previous solution from about 10 years ago to about 3 years ago when I switched to bitwarden.
Stop writing articles titled "Stop Doing X".
This is a neat take for sure, will have to play with it. Go is so great for APIs but really nobody has built anything that is anywhere near as good as say Django for general websites. I will admit I'm a bit skeptical that this approach doesn't follow say the Django approach of application/router/view a bit more closely as I think that's about as good a setup as I have seen but will reserve judgement until I play with it more. Either way kudos for doing this!
The creator of Rust on the new trademark policy
The issue with the argument is that it's non-falsifiable because it outright rejects the only evidence without providing any counter evidence.
And this is only the beginning, I don't believe for a second that "AI" will belong to the big corporations.

These LLM models have no benefit from running "in the cloud" except for processing power. Lots of disadvantages though, especially in data safety, "leaked chats to other users", privacy, bans etc.
Just to clarify; I don't think AI-generated images have anything to do in a traditional photography contest. Prompt-creators can create their own festival.

With blackjack. And hookers.
I wonder how much Microsoft paid them for this. As I understand it, historically, the Windows license for a particular installation was tied to the CPU's id.
Things can unroll very quickly. People don't necessarily go through stages when getting worse.
Since COVID has been around forever, that is surprising. It isn’t like it was a novel virus that was started in 2019
Bad priors are a cognitive bias.
There is a statement further up in the comment tree that states ".. it's just unethical to operate [a monopoly]."

I'm trying to clarify that it's not unethical to have a monopoly, nor even maintain one - it is only unethical to maintain one in ways that are anticompetitive (and making the best product isn't anticompetitive).