skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's strange to me is that the main author of the spec -- Ben Wiser -- seems to be against closed, wall-garden paradigms as he has written in a blog post "I just spent £700 to have my own app on my iPhone" [1]. In the post, he laments the state of the App Store monopoly on iOS and ponders returning to Android for the app installation freedom.

How can he reconciliate these views with this spec, which he is the main author of? Surely Ben sees the parallels?

He writes: "Apple’s strategy with this is obvious, and it clearly works, but it still greatly upsets me that I couldn’t just build an app with my linux laptop. If I want the app to persist for longer than a month, and to make it easy for friends to install, I had to pay $99 for a developer account. Come on Apple, I know you want people to use the app story but this is just a little cruel. I basically have to pay $99 a year now just to keep using my little app."

It's honestly comical and a little sad.

[1]: http://benwiser.com/blog/I-just-spent-%C2%A3700-to-have-my-o...
According to wikipedia, bitly started in 2008 and was in fact twitter's default url shortener in 2009, at which point Gaddafi was very much still in charge.
> and enabled by developers who have insisted we shove as much difficult-to-implement functionality (by which I am talking about CSS complex stuff, not powerful-but-easy-to-code APIs for OS-level access)

Interesting that fixing "how to center a div" is considered harmful, but WebSerialPort is actually very good?

> The result: there is now effectively one dominating web browser run by an ad company who nigh unto controls the spec for the web itself

I don't think this this reality. Google proposes a bunch of APIs that goes nowhere because the other browser vendors consider them harmful. Google's previous attempts at trying to drive more adtech into the browser have failed due to a lack of support from other browser vendors.

I think "who drives the web specs" is probably in the best situation possible. It's largely Google, Mozilla, and Apple who all have slightly different interests in what makes a good web platform, and the web ends up better for it.
> Their basic idea is to direct people to your content.

This is less and less true, as evidenced by the progression of 0-click searchs.

> There are countries where content companies didn't like what Google does: Google took them out of the index -> suddenly they where ok with it again so that Google put them in again.

This story screams antitrust.
I was there too, in the 1.0 days, and still am. But these days are gone, Firefox is not coming back. Back then Firefox was immensely better than IE. As long as the other alternatives are just as good, there is no reason for the mythical "average user" to change over. Why bother if you can do everything in Chrome? We may understand the differences, ideological or technical, but good luck explaining that out there. There's a massive disconnect between user and technology and as a result people will live in the perfectly curated technological bubble that's been served to them.
To increase adoption. They are also working with Qualcom [1] to bring it on-device. Not sure if they're licensing it, but when you tweak hardware for something specific, you kinda want people to use it.

[1] https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2023/07/qualcomm-work...
Goddamn, this is one of the most aggravating sites I have ever seen. I would rather 1995 flashy shit than this.
I agree, I fall into depression after I eat anything seed based
That is one cherry picked example... And it is an odd situation to have picked. The colony that has yet to have its nutrients extracted and exported requires less fertilizers. Who knew /s.
I've passed every PIP I've ever been put on (2x).

But in this case it's not even a real PIP.
Fascinating, specially because I just found out that I’m not amongst the majority in this respect.
Google is really trying to distance themselves from their "don't be evil" days I see.
No, I get it. I can't see a blackout day happening (the one stopped SOPA/PIPA) again either.

But it still happened, against M$, who was the behemoth of the time, so things are never impossible.
Not sure anybody here appreciates social science, but I will never not give a shout-out to "Decoupling Rape" by Whiteman and Cooper. Such an authentic account, while still managing to stay relevant to abstract and higher-order debates in my field. I suspect many have not read it because it is so heart-wrenching though.
A long-period radio transient active for three decades
Do the research outside the (sometimes dangerous) restrictions imposed on study and cognition by science.
Yup, this is depressingly normal (heh). Stats is hard, and people don't interrogate their results when they like them (unfortunately).
Yeah, he's a monster. I'm jealous, would be awesome to hear how did you get that opportunity. :)
Thank you so much for sharing all of this. I've copied it to my phone so I can refer to it later.

I take quite a lot of vitamin D (6000 IUs daily), cetirizine (zyrtec), and nicotinamide riboside (300 mg), and a cheap multivitamin. I'm a little wary about adding stuff to that but I'm definitely going to look into all the things you've mentioned.

Psychedelics are super interesting to me but I really wouldn't know where to start. I'm 53 ferchrisakes. Last time I was around people buying mushrooms was 35 years ago at a skate park.

> just lend an ear

Say... that reminds me. Tinnitus isn't something you are dealing with as well, is it?
Lucky for you, they also define UUIDv8 as a free-for-all where you can do whatever you want, and nanosecond precision is one of the examples given in the RFC.
I don’t really know what software you write, but trashing flash from software is a thing.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/flash-memory-wear-killing-...
One I particularly liked: "FastDTW: Toward Accurate Dynamic Time Warping in Linear Time and Space" by
Stan Salvador and Philip Chan.

[0] https://cs.fit.edu/~pkc/papers/tdm04.pdf
I think the point is why has revenue dropped 10% for TSMC if everything downstream is going gangbusters? Doesn't it point to a drop in demand for chips, and therefore the retail devices they go inside?
Thanks, I was somewhat unknowingly conflating the openness of the data (I know a bit about how Bellingcat sources their data for example) and the public service nature of the open reporting. I get the impression that "OSINT" is typically used to mean both, even if it technically refers to the former (rather akin to software where it refers to both source availability and licencing, but in casual use often refers to the former).
Another prediction from a genius forecaster. This post reads like illogic 101. How do you teach someone horrors of Nuclear weapon by nuking a city?
Water sublimation stops at -80c, 193 kelvin. Flash freezing followed by long term storage in liquid nitrogen should be sufficient for preserving quality indefinitely.

More practically, while sublimation hurts "quality", it does not harm the nutritional value of the food, so does not seem like that big of a deal in the context of famine policy.

For rice it is even less of an issue, because rice is routinly stored dry and rehydrated when cooked.
And tech people fell for it hook, line, and sinker.

It's completely and utterly irrelevant that Chromium is open source, because the web is a protocol, and having the source for an implementation of the protocol doesn't matter in the least when you don't control the protocol. You can't just fork Chromium and remove a feature, because websites expect the feature, and your browser won't work on them. You can't just fork Chromium and add a feature, because websites don't care about your tiny fork and won't use your feature. You can't fork Chromium, you have to fork the entire web.
The rule could probably be generalized to not building a business on a ccTLD, but there are instances where being unconnected to the country could directly be a problem. For example, .so (Somalia) domains have become popular as a generic ccTLD (because "so" is a generic English word, I guess?) used by companies like Notion, but technically it is against their terms to own one if you don't have a bona fine connection to Somalia.

(Policy: https://sonic.so/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/dotso-domain-nam...)
> How can this view be with this spec, which he is the main author of? Surely Ben sees the parallels?

It can be reconciled with love for money and total lack of moral fiber.

Aka « I don’t give a shit about my actions destroying every one, as long as I go get paid »
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I agree with everything except the last part...

It's not a "threat to" the industry... It literally _comes from_ the industry... Unless the tech industry is willing to lose one of its biggest sources of revenue, this is exactly what the industry wants...
The Nature of Glass: Technologies of Transparency, Materials on the Move
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. I really like the blend of art and information in these.

It feels sort-of like a good "explainer" YouTube video with voiceover and graphics but -- instead of being forced through the material at the pace chosen by the author -- I get to freely move through it at my leisure. I can skip ahead, linger, or go back.
With all due respect, read some research on weather science.
It sounds like we need to port more software to Electron
Wow, what an amazing page!

I just spent way to much time reading there, much like it can be tricky to take your eyes of a terrible accident.

His posts about vaccinations being a genocidal instrument designed to destroy the local population and then replace them by immigrants are quite gripping as well.

The guy has spent an an amazing amounts of time writing about stuff that he does not quite understand (in German we have a nice name for this level of understanding: "Gefährliches Halbwissen").

There are some weird and subtle inconsistencies, though. It makes me wonder if these are simply the hallmarks of a tortured brain, or if it is already possible to auto-generate pseudo science at a large scale with good prima facie plausibility.
> But Golm noted that “it is important to highlight that the findings of the study are not deterministic. What this means is that the presence of negative emotionality or ADHD symptoms in a child does not mean that they will be maltreated. It only increases the likelihood to experience maltreatment.”

Your story isn’t really a counter-antidote all. The study is saying that a feedback loop exists, not that it’s the only variable.

If anything, your anecdote supports the study. A baby had a positive disposition and was treated well, avoiding the feedback loop so much that the management of the symptoms stood out to your doctor.
In addition to inventories like other commenters mention, remember this is a capital intensive business. When chip makers collectively add more capacity than is needed, prices drop (ie revenue drops).

It could also be "normalizing" demand as people shift spending from goods to services.

The possibility space is much larger than global recession.
How is it possible that you can fine tune Llama v2 but the weights are not available? That doesn’t make sense to me.
Thanks for the vote of confidence in H I Sutton, I've recently been recommended his videos and wasn't quite sure how seriously to take them, even if they do appear well researched on the surface.
Like Kleobis and Biton, we won't know until I am dead.

However thus far, a paper that literally changed my life: "Value Dependence Graphs: Representation Without Taxation", D. Weise, R. F. Crew, M. Ernst, B. Steensgaard, POPL 1994. (This was the proverbial butterfly flap that moved me through three countries).

There are many many other good papers and it's not a one-dimension metric so it's hard to pick out winners.
Related(?) to this recent blog by Google [1], discussed here [2] at the time as

"Google to explore alternatives to robots.txt".

[1]
https://blog.google/technology/ai/ai-web-publisher-controls-...

[2]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36641607
Most Gen Z are not good with computers
It's difficult to invest into Gree Electric, because of the risk of sanctions :/ though it's a great discovery for me. Thanks for sharing!
More or less, but the solution to the tragedy of the commons is quite simple: collective action which ensures that the burden of providing for the desired resource / behavior / service, is apportioned fairly. Then, in exchange for the collective demands, each individual's needs are met.

The reason we can't do that anymore is that it requires something like an equitable distribution of political power. Our current system is so top-heavy in terms of who determines policy and political direction, that even simple problems with easily-mitigated failure modes are beyond us.
My point is due to the numerous layers, news reporting cannot cover every perspective and every layer, thus they pick and choose. The process of picking and choosing is bias.

Per the API on bias in journalism:

https://www.americanpressinstitute.org/journalism-essentials...

Thus, IMO, to get away from as much bias as possible, one must search deep into research papers to efficiently absorb as many details as possible.
Amazon and Google may not have bases in those countries, but they have a lot more weight than the typical company or individual.

Hitching your wagon to their success seems unwise. They won't make sure you make it to the end

Just buy a gTLD domain. You probably don't even need a separate domain for your link shortener...
> It’s completely illegal if you think about it.

Google would argue (and they won in federal court versus the Author's Guild using this argument) that displaying snippets of publicly-crawlable websites constitutes "fair use." Profitability weighs against fair use but it doesn't discount it outright.

They would also probably cite robots.txt as an easy and widely-accepted "opt-out" method.

Overall, I'm not sure any court would rule against Google's use of snippets for search. And since Google's been around for over 20 years and they haven't lost a lawsuit over it, I don't think it's accurate to say "it's completely illegal if you think about it."

US copyright law is one of those things that might seem simple, but really isn't. Hence many of the copyright lawsuits clogging our judicial system.
Okay.. honest question without negative intent: Why should we care? Stats are cool and all, but what am I supposed to do with this information?
Amazon Will Make Some Employees Relocate for Return to Office
If you can get proof that it’s due to a quota - sue.
So, you don't like a web platform proposal
Yea it’s strange that right now we have four direct derivatives (OpenBSD, FreeBSD ,NetBSD and DragonflyBSD) and an combination of OSF Mach 4 and FreeBSD which has Billions of users (macOS ,iOS)
It’s for an auth use. And at least we’re using CBOR. But I get your point.
It feels like that should be true, I get it. However Java Card is very real.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Card
Interesting link, although not sure why it doesn't have the original title ("Women are superstars on stage, but rarely get to write songs"). The original title better represents the link than what was provided.
Given that it's basically impossible to prove that a particular text was generated using a particular LLM (and yes, even with all the watermarking tricks we know of, this is and will still be the case), they might as well be interchangeable. Folks can and will simply ignore the silly license BS that the creators put on the LLM.

I hope that users aggressively ignore these restrictive licenses and give the middle finger to greedy companies like Facebook who try to restrict usage of their models. Information deserves to be free, and Aaron Swartz was a saint.
Mackinac Island, Michigan
From the article:

> A unique local ordinance passed in 1895 prohibits the use of any motor vehicles on the island.
Anything that comes out of Bellingcat or those associated with it has been good in my experience, although that's from a layman's point of view. Their now-defunct podcast went into a lot of depth and talked about their methods and it all seems very good.
>I keep hearing this sentiment on HN and IRL. As a journalist I think it misses the mark somewhat by failing to account for the value of reporting.

There is valor added by journalists in even niche sectors. A journalist that reports on cars knows about the industry itself and can give an informed take on different developments, he might know how a car works, he might know about different trends in design, or markets, or whatever else. That is his added value.

When it comes to videogame journalism, though, they act as little more than spokespeople for corporations. They generally don't understand the product or how it works (mechanically or in terms of design), and in some cases aren't even adept at playing videogames themselves. The only thing the world would lose if no game journalist ever mentioned WoW again and the devs communicated directly with the playerbase would be the appearance of impartiality journalists give.
Some previous discussion from 2018:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16194112
You can call it values if you want.
But the guy isn't in a wildfire risk zone. He just has a slightly untidy yard in a suburb. And I do mean 'slightly', go watch the news report. It's not a junkyard and the company's argument here isn't credible.
If we can ship lettuce across a continent, where would this land constraint exist? Antarctica?
> the general public has a genuine right to know who you are

Why? If there are legitimate issues, you can always be dragged into court, or at least your business can be boycotted and suffer bad PR etc.

Being forced to put your home address just so every whacko with internet access can threaten your children, who had no choice in your business decisions, sounds like just a terrible idea.

Try making a false claim against yourself on r/RBI with dox and report back.
> If Apple could build an iPhone for 1 cent, why wouldn't they still charge $1000 for it?

Cause in healthy capitalism, a competitor could step in and sell it for $999 and Apple would lose market share quickly.
Probably thought they could get away with it since it's a poor African country.
I have seen all of those things happen! They are real pitfalls!

But I truly do not follow your reasoning here. What you are describing here are truly odious management practices that violate just about every tenet of those methodologies.

This seems to be like blaming a recipe instead of a cook who willfully, knowingly contradicts the recipe at every possible moment.

Thoughts?
> Lots of economists are clearly wrong, as mutually excluding statements cannot be simultaneously true. To find out which side is which, you can employ simple logic

The world isn't black and white, and nearly zero things as complex as pros and cons of allowing insider trading can be reduced to naive boolean logic.

It is a fact for a long time a lot of economists, perhaps even a majority, are for insider trading because it provides signal to markets and pricing quicker than only allowing investors to discover problems on a quarterly clock-tick, which results in a lot more damage from asset floodgates instead of smoother transitions.

Ever read any published paper on the topic? Use Google scholar, you'll find useful knowledge there.
Workers KV is actually largely implemented as a Worker, in TypeScript. :)

Think of `workerd` as the "kernel" of our "cloud operating system". We try to avoid putting things in the kernel if we can. Features like Workers KV, R2, Queues, D1, etc. are generally built as "userspace" services, that is, they run as Workers.

Durable Objects is a bit special, it's inherently something that needs to be in the core runtime, and which many of these other services build on top of.

FWIW, if I were starting over I'd probably write the runtime in Rust, but it wasn't quite ready yet when we started six years ago.

(I'm the tech lead for Workers.)
It'd be interesting (but probably challenging, in terms of data quality) to see this extended beyond top hits. It's unfortunately not surprising that men dominate the world of professional hit songwriting; it would be interesting to see if that extends to independent songwriting and producing.
At the risk of falling afoul of the site guidelines, can I complain about an uncommon annoyance? Apparently this blog pulls a Facebook, or more precisely a fbclid, and adds ref=blog.phnx.im as a query parameter to every link. This seems less than fitting for a post on a privacy technology, and actually breaks the link to the IETF BoF minutes[1].

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/101/materials/minutes-1...
Sorry if this is insensitive but; what are "we" supposed to do to have more women write songs? People are so quick to point out male dominated professions, but what exactly is the purpose of pointing it out - what does the author intend to accomplish?
I used to use Facebook a lot. It knew me, always recommended stuff I'd be interested in and I sometimes spent hours on Facebook and not even realizing it, only after I finished and then I'd feel guilty about it. The same shit next day.

I quit all social media 3 years ago. I don't visit them daily anymore. I visit Facebook only with a purpose to check something specific when I need it in one of the groups (in my country reddit or Twitter is not popular, we have Facebook groups for everything) and I almost never check the feed. When I do I realize I changed so much in those three years Facebook no longer knows me and the stuff it recommends is not interesting anymore.

I don't miss any of it. Yeah, sometimes I don't get what colleagues are talking about, but it's not important. I have more time on my hands to do anything else.
That place was absolutely nothing before Disney developed it. The land was worth exactly what Disney paid for it. And there was no guarantee that it would turn into what it is now. We reward business for taking risks with their money. Disney took an immense amount of it, an absolutely outlandish amount of it. They poured money into that swamp. All on the bet that people would pay through the nose to see Mickey.
It's exactly the opposite. We have better ways to combine the knowledge of several models together than sampling them. (i.e. mixture of experts, model merges, etc) Relying on synthetic data from one LLM to train another LLM is in general a terrible idea and will lead to a race to the bottom.
Research Reveals Negative Effects of Hotel App Adoption on Customer Spending
Dehydration is definitely one of my triggers. I think I'm fine on the gluten front (although I've never removed it from my diet). I think some dust or grass or mold allergies are another trigger of mine.

I'm very sorry to hear about your mom.
This is sarcasm, right?

If not: in general, in the US, it's perfectly legal for a company to just arbitrarily decide they need to fire N people, and arbitrarily choose a particular person to fire meet that "quota". This is true regardless of how many layers of managers are involved, or what bullshit PIP hoops are jumped through.

There would only be a legal issue if the worker was subject to a bona-fife employment contract (quite rare) or if they were discriminated against on the basis of a legally protected characteristic. Just being the least senior member of a team is not legally protected.
> When fired from the hospital

For anyone else that stumbled over that for a second - "fired" is of course synonymous with "discharged". English is a weird language!
On a related note, minimum parking requirements are hilariously bad (e.g. including gems like laws based on a trend line fudged between two data points):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUNXFHpUhu8
That was my first exposure to Linux in 1995. I remember downloading 30-something floppy disks over a painfully slow T1. I deployed our company's sendmail email server a few months later, running on an old PC. In 2006 I switched to Linux as my daily driver and if I need windows these days, it runs as a VM.