skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're confusing the legislative branch with the intelligence community and other participants in the military industrial complex. Yes, Congress is full of incompetent elected officials who "can hardly pass a budget." But the MIC is comprised of highly specialized professionals with careers spanning multiple presidential administrations and dozens of congressional sessions. It is a mistake to assume these people are incompetent.
you have to wonder what the statute of limitations is on Apple's NDA blowdart. Surely 10 years after the work was done if its not being used people should be able to at least talk in broad strokes about their work without fear of repurcussion?
> US is the only one winning Civilization Earth

Not a single city in the top 100 most livable cities on Earth.

That's a very strange kind of winning.

https://www.eiu.com/n/campaigns/global-liveability-index-202...
You could say the same about Dyson or Oxo or Bodum. Having a single esthetic and coherent product line is a choice.

On the face of it, it sounds like a company would want coherency, but in practice it means leaving a lot of money on the table for every single of your products. Any consistent design decisions means anyone who's not pleased by it has no option in your lineup to go to. That's of course a gamble Apple is willing to take.

For instance, Apple consistently uses glass and metal in their product design, the only exception I can think of being airpods and their mouse. I personally prefered the plastic for weight and comfort, so that set me out of the market for their headphones and I went to Sony for instance.

Same for laptops with touchscreens, if you care any bit about them Apple is a no go to you. Same for so many things.

PS: on inconsitencies and incoherencies, Windows is the king of the kitchen sink approach, and it's consistently stayed ahead of Apple in numbers. Another instance on how being opiniated isn't only a positive aspect from a business perspective.
That's why we need more raw data. Even if people argue, if it's this or that to blame, raw data is always a good thing.

Adding the "good" to turn it into "good raw data" is even better.

Considering the last few years of manipulations with the data about "the plague", sure, there will be arguing, but again, more data is a good thing.
Ukrainians confessed multiple times they attacked it with HIMARSes:

1) https://www.bbc.com/russian/news-62533233

2) https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/12/29/ukraine-offe...

"Kovalchuk considered flooding the river. The Ukrainians, he said, even conducted a test strike with a HIMARS launcher on one of the floodgates at the Nova Kakhovka dam, making three holes in the metal to see if the Dnieper’s water could be raised enough to stymie Russian crossings but not flood nearby villages."
This 100%. If this turns out to be real, I bet anything that they are clueless how it works, if they can even get it do anything.
I can think of at least one. Bullying on buses has dropped significantly in many places because people can now browse the internet instead of tormenting weaker students to kill boredom?
Dash could probably get close enough as well. It's a bit limited compared to React but provides quite a lot of interactivity. (Plus, the server is stateless which is nice.)
This seems completely backwards and contradictory to me:

""'
Let's return to the user profile example. With GraphQL, instead of the frontend deciding what user data to display and where, this decision-making process can be moved to the server. When the GraphQL server receives a request for user data, the request includes specific fields that the frontend wants. In response, the server sends back exactly what was requested - no more, no less.
"""

First, it says that the server, instead of the FE decides. Immediately after, it says that "the request includes specific fields that the frontend wants".

If the request specifies the particular fields it wants, then it is the FE deciding what data to display...

So I think ChatGPT has this totally wrong. I'd love to be corrected here, but my understanding is that a (perceived) problem with REST, or at least the way it's used, is that the backend often requires specialized endpoint that anticipate the needs of a particular frontend context. In that sense, they are tightly coupled. This happens because, in order to avoid having to execute dozens of requests in order to fetch the data needed on a particular page or screen, you write some endpoint that is intended, from the outset, for a particular UI in the client app. You also have the opposite problem where an endpoint returns far more data than the client cares about in certain spots. Enter GraphQL: since the client queries for what it needs, it can specify precisely what it wants, ranging from a single nested field to a much more complicated object.

Note: I'm not judging the merits of this GQL pitch. I'm just saying that's the argument, as I've understood it. That being the case, not only is ChatGPT contradictory in the above cited section, but it also has the whole argument backwards.

As always, very glad to be corrected on any of this.
I don't mind a project that is profit motivated since it incentivizes the people working on the project as well as drives them to create solutions that solve customer problems. I do, however, have a problem with VC backing due to their frequent insistence on pushing for short-term maximal share pricing rather than long-term value. Modern VC also seem to suffer from a fatal mixture of hubris and narcissism, certain of their genius and business acumen despite all evidence to the contrary.

When advising start-ups who are taking on VC funding and the inevitable "business guidance" they push on founders I like to remind them that even the best investors are only good at investing. If they were good at business, they wouldn't bother with investing in other companies but instead start companies themselves since they would own 100% and maximize their returns.
To point 4, I wonder if someone did the pros and cons and decided it was worth it. Imagine sitting around a table with several people "jacked-in" to their own headsets (e.g. all in a conference with the Berlin office), but you want to converse quickly with someone in the room - hah your camera will then be looking at Janice's front screen and this will be considered eye contact (although I guess it's not much different to a Zoom call).

Looking forward to someone writing an app that tracks faces near the device and fakes giving them attention...
> Yes the technology allowed to increase the crop per acres, to ship goods across the world, to keep food cold, to warm/sterilize it, find new drugs, mass produce clothes for few cents, etc.

> That miracle comes access to free and dense energy also known as fossil fuel. If oil/gas/coal was not found/used or just not as abundant, we might not have known the same past 150 years.

That's only because humans were too naive and risk-averse to recognize that once we split the atom we had access to 1000x the energy with comparable reductions in waste. Perhaps if we had AI back in the mid/late 20th century it could've explained to us the benefits of nuclear power vs fossil fuels. Instead we fell for hallucinations of our own making via events like Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima.
Indeed, but even in this case, the spectator could still be at any location outside of the 3D area being filmed (in this case, the game itself) for complete experience, or inside for a incomplete (potential blindspots) presentation.
> I sincerely doubt a double-digit percentage of Apple employees have touched and android phone or used OpenAI APIs

I strongly doubt you're right. Apple is full of geeks; just because they tend to be tight-lipped doesn't mean they aren't paying attention to all the same stuff we are.
Bing search in Firefox on Linux, not logged into Microsoft, for "Chrome":

Promoted by Microsoft
Microsoft Edge
Try the latest browser from Microsoft
Microsoft Edge is powered by the same open source technology as Google Chrome,
providing best in class web and extension compatibility.

Bing has become annoying about putting ads before real results, and often hiding the real results. Bing image search is awful about this.
> ld64 is a fork of the old and slow GCC ld linker.

ld64 was a complete rewrite, circa 2005, courtesy of Nick Kledzik. `opensource.apple.com` has still the old Changelog(s).
https://github.com/rotten-apples/ld64/blob/master/ChangeLog
I know it's a joke, but I think it's still a good illustration: https://i.imgur.com/XLuaF0h.png

From everything I've heard, Apple's org structure is a lot more focused and UX-driven from the top down than basically any other large tech company. That means you get a lot less compromising and in-fighting.

The other side is how Apple makes money compared to other companies. Meta makes money mostly by selling you (the user) to advertisers (the real customers). Same with Google (70%ish ad revenue). Microsoft is a hot mess of competing B2B fiefdoms (the vast majority of their revenue comes from businesses, not consumers). Amazon only makes a few products directly for consumers, and mostly makes money from being a marketplace + AWS. That leaves Apple fairly uniquely positioned as a premium consumer hardware company that also sells consumer software services to enhance the experience and... drive more hardware sales.
Nope, Kotlin is plenty popular on backend, so much so it's mundane to see it in popular frameworks like Spring and Play. It helps that it's designed to coexist with Java.
Do you really want to "jack in" just to watch a movie or listen to some music? Isn't the point of a TV to relax on the couch, maybe cuddle with the wife?
The world is burning and what gets our attention? Aliens; and from a country infamous for alien ship sightings and that same country is known to lie when it's an advantage to them. Not to mention the testimony is hearsay.

Either we have some grifters who don't have a job and are looking to make something out of their background. Or the US is doing some psyops for who knows why. Or just plain old mistaking one thing for another, perhaps through mental illness or jumping to conclusions.
> They are designed to give you the result you wanted to find.

This is not true anymore... they're designed to give you the result that their paying customers want you to find. Even if that means that most of the search results are irrelevant to what you wanted to find.
I'm anxiously waiting for the code (or for someone to reimplement it open source). Sounds very fun to play with.

I've recently been having fun with OpenMVS [1]. Using Gaussian splatting (which is initialized with a point cloud) would bring it to the next level!

[1] https://github.com/cdcseacave/openMVS
I had an encounter with a UAP while I was with some friends in a park. We all saw the same thing. It was so black that its darkness was the only reason we noticed it against the night sky. It loomed over us, maybe 100 feet above the ground, and followed us when we walked away from it. It stayed for about 10 minutes and then flew away. It never made a sound, I never saw any lights, never felt any heat, but it was able to hover. It was hard to tell the shape, but roughly a disc, maybe a sphere.

I never reported it or anything, mostly due to not knowing who to call and lack of evidence (cell phone cameras were primitive at the time and it was too dark). We still talk about it occasionally, not really knowing what to make of it.
You start with SVG

Then you go to Canvas

Then you go to WebGL

Source: Early engineer at Lucidchart
Maybe that's why some people prefer keyboard shortcuts; I don't move my eyes around the keyboard when typing, or when pressing Ctrl+S or Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V or in Windows I can Alt-Tab repeatedly and the highlight moves and I can looking around at the available windows while watching the selected one change with my peripheral vision. I can keep typing in a textbox for a bit while looking away, but with a virtual keyboard or speech to text which might be getting it wrong that's less of an option.

Compare with a smartphone, I can move to tap the 'back' button in Safari without moving my eyes to the back button. Looking "at" the phone generally is enough to see where my finger is, and say clicking on links I can look at the link and move my hand to it and move my eyes away while my hand is moving.

Having to coordinate looking and clicking - while I haven't tried it - I can imagine that feels more load-bearing, more effortful, more constraining, more annoying.
Reading through it, I was struck by the contrast of how broken the web page was with what the author was saying about UX. The author seems experienced in the field, but the site felt completely broken. I don’t know if it’s a device or browser issue, but reading on my iPad, if I tried to use my right thumb to scroll, the page acted as if I had reached the end of the article, even though it was clear there was more because the last visible line was only half-visible. (And this was after having to manually zoom in because all the text was shoved to one side and tiny.) Scrolling with my left thumb worked about 50% of the time. The rest of the time it worked as poorly as scrolling with my right thumb. I gave up after about 5 paragraphs.
And what's up with "the experience", which refers not to a theme park ride but rather is doublespeak for "the ad that we crammed down your throat"...
Quest Pro owner[1]: it's "a total waste of money", "embarassing how much of an unpolished piece of garbage it feels like", it's "a steaming pile of trash", "infuriating", "buggy", "janky".

MKBHD on the Vision Pro: better image passthrough, better responsiveness, better hand tracking, better eye tracking, better image quality than any other headset he's ever used.

You: "overpriced hardware".

No, better hardware.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36220459
I think there is more to that. As in maybe Apple hw buyers are not that interested in gaming on it?

For most a console make more sense and if someone wants gaming a gaming PC/Laptop usually a better deal.

As far as I know MoltenVK (Vulkan on top of Metal) is available as part of the Vulkan SDK.

DX12 on MacOS was announced a while ago https://www.codeweavers.com/blog/cjsilver/2021/12/22/were-ge... and started to run recently https://www.codeweavers.com/blog/mjohnson/2023/6/1/unleashin...
No. Antarctica did not necessarily gain ice, this study does not discuss the Antarctic ice sheets. This study is about the ice shelves (sea ice).
Is there a live web demo?
New solution to the Fermi paradox: Highly advanced extraterrestrial civilizations deliberately delay their appearances, letting centuries of erroneous UFO sightings desensitize us first. This tactic allows their real spacecraft to go unnoticed, as cynicism has led us to dismiss any new reports.
> crypto is absolutely massive for avoiding capital controls in countries with inflation, etc

etc doing some heavy lifting here. The article is about US-based crypto company. How is your list of massive uses applicable to US specifically? (I actually have sympathy for coinbase for at least trying to follow some rules)
Or we could just not kill them?
Ah, Jonathan
Haidt who has had two recent articles on HN -- that I've seen -- insisting he should be allowed to win this argument with less evidence than a criminal trial. Here's one of them:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35948332

And the footer of this paywalled piece indicates he has a book coming out in 2024 that is probably about exactly this same topic.

I can't read most of this article, but I can see the promo for his next book. #Priorities
>Each city is assigned a liveability score for more than 30 qualitative and quantitative factors across five categories: stability, healthcare, culture and environment, education and infrastructure.

It is easier for the kind of person who reads HN to efficiently trade their labor for money in the US than in Europe, and this index does not account for that very important aspect of most people's lives -- earning power.

American society is more chaotic and dangerous than Europe, I do concede. Maybe more Americans who have accumulated enough savings to last the rest of their lives should move to the top 100 cities in this index.
This doesn't pass the occam's razor.

The simplest explanation are mental illness, shameless fame seekers and confused people who saw rocket debris or some supersonic fighter.
Among the disciplines of applied math, I was awed by those who choose to specialize in operations research. It’s really that transcendentally boring.
So, to stick to the conversation, how is this different from the demand to know or guarantee the outcome of a political process beforehand?

However, I'm not here to discuss specific politics, just principles of reasoning.
While I don't really have an opinion either way on whether we're likely alone or not, I just want to point out that the blindspot in this argument is that all those things are truly necessary for life.

This is like a form of the anthropic principle [1], where we think that just because those conditions appear to have been necessary for our evolution (and since Earth life is the only example of life we know), that exactly those conditions must be necessary for life elsewhere.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle
I don’t get this. The business has suffered severely. But more relevantly, the product has suffered severely.

The most prominent example was the failed DeSantis presidential announcement.

I mean, Twitch regularly does larger livestreams with video!
Yeah I had a similar reaction to yh first response. But after I asked a follow up 'But the frontend is still deciding what data to ask for', it gave me a better explanation and then an example.

That final part made it clear to me (assuming it's not a hallucination!).
The only explanation I can think is that cash tips are often unreported or underreported on taxes. This underpayment of taxes moves the tax burden very slightly towards people who's incomes are taxed correctly.

Its bit of a stretch, though.
Important to note that this is different than what Codeweavers did and the timing of both their announcements is purely coincidental.

https://www.codeweavers.com/blog/mjohnson/2023/6/6/wine-come...

Apple did contribute to the Wine codebase and have their own translation layer.

Performance and compatibility seem to be much better than what Codeweavers showed which is expected given the translation appears to be DXIL to MSIL instead of DX to VK to MS.

The Mac gaming Reddit has a bunch of people posting results

https://reddit.com/r/macgaming/hot

And someone’s already made a tool to simplify running games

https://github.com/IsaacMarovitz/Whisky/releases/tag/pre-0.2...

This is also a triumph for open source imho because wine is now receiving patches for macOS directly, and it’s a symbiotic relationship that hopefully grows.

Things look very promising.
How does all that pricing and business decisions work with volunteer moderators? Is it just momentum?
or the US government is just afraid of not being able to easily track all monetary transactions legal and illegal. Big brother needs to see all in order to control all.
And what are you using now?
Microsoft is very hostile toward its users. They added Ads in the paid version of the operating system. You can't uninstall Edge. Even if you remove Edge, which is difficult, the following Windows update will reinstall it. Instead of searching for the next big idea, how about you fix your dam OS first and stop installing stupid games and showing Ads? Keep it Microsoft with your stupid games, and Google has nothing to worry about you. LOL.
Honestly people who can, should ditch windows.
If a protest is not disruptive is it really a protest?
no I showed him how to navigate while watching me on the other monitor...then let him fly around and talked him through the controls.
I needed to learn something to build an app, and react was complex, so I tried Svelte.

With no experience, both seem like fighting with magic. I get stuck on obscure issues for hours.

I would have thought this whole process would be significantly more straight forward at this point.
Jonathan Grey, a current US intelligence official at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (Nasic), confirmed the existence of “exotic materials” to the Debrief, adding: “We are not alone.”

...

Grusch said it was dangerous for this “eighty-year arms race” to continue in secrecy because it “further inhibits the world populace to be prepared for an unexpected, non-human intelligence contact scenario.”

“I hope this revelation serves as an ontological shock sociologically and provides a generally uniting issue for nations of the world to re-assess their priorities,” Grusch said.

A conspiracy spanning the better part of century should have more high-level whistleblowers than Grusch and Grey. If their claims are proven out the names Grusch and Grey will be immortalized in history. We still talk about the Gutenberg printing press. Centuries from now people will still talk about Grusch and Grey, and how they kick-started a new era of human knowledge.

Are we to believe that over the course of eighty years, comprising hundreds if not thousands of individuals, many of whom would have access to the same documents and materials, not a single one of these individuals, motivated by either honor or ego, decided to make this world historical disclosure?

The story seems engineered to appeal to the conspiracy theorist. A brave iconoclast bucks the system and exposes a massive coverup - a truth that just happens to confirm all the poorly sourced and speculative claims made by the true believers. Wait, why haven't we seen any miraculous technology derived from alien tech? Ahhh, this tech exists, but it's hoarded by a secretive cabal who may or may not themselves be aliens/reptiles or blood-drinking elites. Etcetera, etcetera.

On the other hand ... it would be apropos if bureaucratic inertia led to a world-shattering disclosure. And the conspiracy theories could be 95% b.s. and 5% truth.

For all those reasons I'm not really convinced. Are Grusch and Grey convinced because the evidence is that overwhelming? Are they seeped in online UFO conspiracy culture, and reading a very slanted interpretation into the intelligence documents they have accessed? Are the analyses the military has run on any recovered materials sufficient to determine an origin in non-human intelligence? Have any experts outside the military examined and tested these materials? Does there exists genuine recovered craft ala Independence Day or are the "craft" large meteors that, if you squint, kind of look like a spacecraft? Have they recovered biological material?

Ultimately we won't be able to make a true determination until we get some actual evidence. First, reviewing any documents that supposedly contain these extraordinary claims. Second, interviews with other intelligence officials who have spoken with Grusch and have had access to the materials. Third, getting these materials into the hands of relevant experts, to determine if non-human intelligence is the most likely source.
What's interesting is your checklist also seems to work for people trying to oppress minority groups.

So basically it's the steps to building popular consensus despite missing or contrary facts.

Fascinating.
How does this actually work?

If you're classifying "banned" / "sensitive" text strings, and intercepting network requests on all employees computers, and then showing the "banned"/"sensitive" text strings to admins in a web interface... aren't the employees leaking a ton of information to you, a third party?
Siri is my alarm clock and my weather report, that's about it. Siri needs a lot of help.