skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
iMessage only works on iOS.

If even one non-iOS user joins a chat then all features except for basic texting (SMS and MMS) are dropped.

I don't think I need to tell you how much of todays' social interaction happens in group chats. Not having WhatsApp in the Netherlands when you're younger than 30 would effectively make you a hermit.

It's probably similar with iMessage in the US.

This creates an enormous peer pressure effect, especially for young people, to buy an iOS device.
In the majority of applications outside consumer electronics, the bottleneck problem with Li-Ion batteries is their cost and manufacturing resource intensity. We're lacking cheaper and easier to mfg options compromising on some qualities.
I think what we're going to discover is that AGI isn't One Thing, it's many Intelligences, and "human level" composite AGI is actually pretty dumb. So we'll make a smarter one, and that'll be the singularity done and over with.
That's exactly the issue: if the public is entitled to something, it can be published, and those intending to publish it can not therefore be barred from it or from the means to do so.

Well, except for open public courts, for reasons. (The judiciary’s concern for the the freedom of the press has limits where it comes to the judiciary itself, rather than other government institutions.)
5th Amendment Protects People Being Forced to Hand over Passcodes to Police
This seems like such an inopportune time for Google to pick this fight; right when better YouTube (Tik Toc) has gotten popular.

Anyway, all of these viral video sites are concentration destroying garbage. Hopefully YouTube will choose to die on this hill, and then we can ban Tik Toc and be free of this waste.
Oh aye for sure - All unions are risky to start with, that's why you gotta keep them quiet until you have overwhelming support
We didn't, back then. C changed the game for low-level machine coding - what other games would be changed by fragmenting FAANG?
The AAP, until recently, recommended no screentime before age 2. They dropped that recommendations due to lack of strong evidence. That said, if your child has a speech delay, their SLP's first question will be about screentime.
Hopefully it wasn’t the children themselves self reporting their screen time
More complicated than that? Across all tasks, each was half a std dev higher. That's very significant?
I would wager a very small % of them care about the legal structure of the business and just wanted to build really cool stuff with Sam.
I feel it’s obvious in some respect that if “screen time” means TikTok or YouTube binging then there’s probably something more developmentally useful you could be doing.

That screen time might lead to a maladaptive brain as evidence by MRI, strikes me as an extreme effect. I’d be curious to know what else this experimental design had been applied to in the past and whether it’s at all commensurate with this purpose.
No Spotify = No Pixel Sales.
> I will not allow them

Then pay for youtube premium. why should google provide you a service for free, without ads? They aren't slapping users, they are offering ads or paid. Free ad-free was never a sustainable solution.
ChatGPT and the Scary Elimination of Work
The integration of artificial intelligence, especially ChatGPT, into my daily routine has been nothing short of transformative. As a web developer, I've found that this AI significantly lightens my workload, streamlining tasks that previously required extensive research and problem-solving. The efficiency of information retrieval has been so enhanced that traditional search engines seem almost redundant. This shift is not lost on tech giants like Alphabet, who may well perceive it as a looming threat to their hegemony, echoing their previous miscalculations with ventures like Google+.
> Well it's not a matter of the people existing, it's whether they are rich or not. They can exist without the money.

I meant people with a certain amount of money. I don't think we should be assessing pros or cons of economic systems based on whether people get to keep their money.

> Anyway, if you don't think it matters if they are of benefit

I don't know what this means.

> then why did you bring up the fact that they pay taxes?

I bring it up because saying they pay less in income taxes doesn't matter if they're spending money on stuff that employs people (which creates lots of tax) and gets VAT added to it. Everything is constantly taxed, at many levels, all the time. Pretending we don't live in a society where not much tax is paid seems ludicrous. Lots of tax is paid. If it's paid as VAT instead of income tax - who cares?
I agree that this should be a part of the title. It could then mention how applicable this is to humans, but that is another story.
We're getting there, slowly but surely. WebGL + WASM will eventually let you simply drop down a custom rendering engine, but we've got a long way to go to get there. We're creeping up on being able to sensibly render an entire UI that way, but that UI will not have good accessibility until the browser exposes that more generically, and a lot of other little details.

Then you can do whatever you want, or, more realistically, grab an open source alterna-rendered that does something close to, but not quite exactly, what you want, but close enough.

It's a lot of work to get there from here, but all the forces push that way and I expect it will happen, even if it takes another decade.

Reserve your seats now for the inevitable progression of HN stories, roughly by year:

1. Show HN: My Alterna-render Renders Text Around Arbitrary Images

2. Layout.rs: A Minimal Alterna-Renderer In Rust

3. Layout.rs Has Gotten Too Bloated

4. Why You Should Stop Using Alterna-Renderers And Just Use HTML+CSS

5. Facebook's App Reaches 5 Gigabytes of Rendering Code

6. When to use and not use an alternative renderer
It's actually reasonable for people to build theories about the world around them by carefully observing the environment around them.
Dubious at best. If one has children they notice quite visibly that screen time makes their children more agitated during the days they have screen time. And screen time is as addictive to children as it is to adults, and we should consider the effects they have on their developing brains.
Mind. Officially. Blown. Sometimes the coincidental timeliness of things popping up on Hacker News is just weird. u ROCK deepseagirl!

I've recently wanted to start building Linux kernels and play with device drivers again. Wanted to build and then execute on top of QEMU. Downloaded, configured, and built Linux kernel 6.6 following recipes from arch and a few other places. Doing a reasonable .config was a painful process (picking what to include etc.) The kernel build took several hours. The resulting image refused to boot under Virtual Machine Manager, to say nothing of using gdb etc. to interactively debug the kernel.

So, I figured I was looking at a solid weekend of googling, stack-overflowing, swearing, reading kernel Documentation files etc. and finally getting everything set up and working happily.

NOT! The easylkb script did the entire thing completely automatically, culminating in a login prompt on a running virtual machine!! The Linux kernel .config was one of the standard ones I believe, but I hadn't yet found it. The complete kernel build took on the order of several minutes instead of several hours.

There were a couple of minor issues I had with easylkb, which I will share as comments on github.
Palestine Internet Connectivity as Seen in BGP
Show HN: Send private messages over a public channel
The other day I was on github assisting a compiler developer replicate an accidentally-quadratic observed behavior in generated code and was asked if I was willing to privately share my full source code with his company. While that was ultimately unnecessary as it was easy enough to find a simpler example, it did get me wondering about how exactly was I going to do that:

1. github does not (to my knowledge) allow private messages

2. all communication had thus far occurred on the public record (or at least Microsoft's version thereof)

3. my peer did not publish any contact information in his public profile, and out of respect for his privacy I did not look elsewhere

In yet another case of life imitates art imitates life, while I was building this, another developer on this very forum was complaining about not being able to set up a public "dropbox" on the internet in the context of receiving bluesky invite codes which, according to them, were being immediately redeemed by bots. I can't speak to that, but their structure does seem to make them easy to regexp against.

My objectives were to build something that:

1. provides reasonable security against doxxing oneself to other participants

2. runs just about anywhere, even without an internet connection

3. requires no setup beforehand; since this turned out to be impossible, it was later relaxed to "no installation, but might benefit from it"

4. is easy to audit: no external dependencies other than the standard library

What I ended up with was this ~35KiB blob of js + html + css which (I hope) can be broadly summarized as "PGP for people who don't get invited to key signing parties". It is reverse-proxied via Cloudflare (I have a great ISP, but my aging homelab server probably can't handle any significant load) at:

<https://plaintext.world/>.

If, for whatever reason, Cloudflare is a part of your threat model, the shasum -a 256 for the uncompressed file is:

153e8022213bc565b5b914a263162920a6039251dd6da5a77b3a37f35de9b1a3 /var/www/html/plaintext.world/index.html

You'll find most of the relevant technical information on the page itself, though you may have to view-source: in the rather likely event that I've omitted something from the manual.

Since this is a technical, VC-backed forum, I'll add a couple more private FAQ entries that may be of interest to some of you, in exchange for the potential of free publicity. Due to HN posts being limited to 4k, you'll find them as a reply by yours truly.
Article title amended to fit within limits.

Original title:

'EFF to Supreme Court: Fifth Amendment Protects People from Being Forced to Enter or Hand Over Cell Phone Passcodes to the Police'
For me I think it was version 5 in 2003 https://gamemaker.fandom.com/wiki/Version_5

At least the screenshot tingles something in the brain.
There's no money in free software
Are we that convinced that only tractor-trailers work well for overland freight?

Even if you insist that big-box retailers represent the peak of retail capitalism, is it so difficult to imagine that these might be placed along a central corridor with rail running along the back, each store able to pluck the intermodals off the flatbed car, and load empties back onto it? Spaced out so that every business could unload at the same time?

Everyone's always bitching about cars and how they've made things awful. But how much traffic/carbon/misery would we eliminate if freight were taken off the highways?
Google Sign Up – This phone number has been used too many times
> You don't need a mobile phone, you can use a friend's phone, or use a landline. Just be sure to remove that number from the account settings, once you have established the account.
No peer-reviewed paper that parachutes help make sky-diving safer either.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC300808/
YT/google has hardcoded a delay just for Firefox users for web page and video loading, this removes that timeout sequence so it loads instantly.
One of the jobs a CEO may be called on to perform is to take the hit to protect the company.
So, this begs the question: what cognitive functions can be diagnosed from an MRI?
Three quarters of software engineers face retaliation for whistleblowing
>it's a business like any other that puts food on peoples plates.

So is murder for hire. However, both being firmly within the "crime" category of business, all allusions to legitimate business concepts such as "reputation", "contract" and "predictability" are illusory, rhetorical and rarely survive first contact with some felonious scumbag who wants to screw you over. Particularly when one side of the interaction is not an experienced and dangerous criminal.
>advances our collective mission.

Microsoft's profit.
WHATWG's stance: No support for GET requests with body in Fetch API
Yes and: Their anode uses "hard carbon", not graphite. Apparently without sacrificing energy density.

This is huge. HUGE.

China dominates the graphite market and now has export controls.

IIRC, most current Li and Sodium batteries use graphite anodes of some kind. Northvote's use of hard carbon may prove to be an amazing cost and derisking advantage.

I know nothing about their novel Prussian White cathode.

I eagerly await the expert analysis of Northvote's anode and cathode.
Half a standard deviation is 8 IQ, and effect size has nothing to do with significance.
No, I mean Ilya’s public statement, and the board walking back their statement… there’s a lot.
That doesn’t work when you have a monopoly though. This isn’t a bakery or “totally legitimate internet website making business that absolutely is real and wasn’t invented specifically to bring a case to the Supreme Court”
“screen time” is such a nonsense phrase. Sure make sure your kid gets physical exercise but to primarily define and rate the value of an experience a child is having primarily based on whether it is on a screen or not is hilariously myopic especially among people that supposedly claim to have a progressive view of technology.

The question is WHAT is the child doing on that screen? Are they blobbing out or are they playing a video game that stimulates and challenges their brain (a strategy game, even action games) or socializing with friends in a video game learning how to conflict manage and operate as an effective social group? (minecraft is full of this).

I mean we ruined the world for kids, I can’t blame them for looking to virtual worlds to transcend the hellhole we left them even a little bit. Sure, the kids should just “go outside” and play in the… development full of huge pickups that aren’t even designed to able to see children (they kind of look custom designed to run over children actually), with no public spaces to explore and play in, no sidewalks leading from the development to anywhere else and endless strip malls, parking lots and cars as far as the eye can see…

Their brain is going to be healthier engaging with good video games than that landscape.
I think “merely” brain images is a bit dismissive if by your own quote they’re using functional MRI and comparing the profiles to known maladaptive functioning. Or are you saying that fMRIs can’t possibly capture complex social behaviors?
Absurd, back to real TV for me
Then again, when you don't want to be exercising...

I love it when I'm winding down from work, in the middle of nice chilled out relaxing music, and suddenly some roided-up asshole comes in at 10X volume SHOUTING at me "You want to get ripped in the gym?!?! Follow my workout method and crush it!!!!"

Thank you, YouTube, for destroying the entire last 20 minutes of relaxation I just enjoyed.
That's because it died. It was replaced with an identical clone, however it is still quite small.
Kind of hard to see Bootstrap and Tailwind so casually lumped together with regard to how they break semantics, as they are at least an order of magnitude apart in that. Bootstrap will throw in a p-0, but Tailwind is designed to essentially make everything a p-0.

And that's an important distinction, as I think the current challenge with CSS for designers (and everyone) is that it now sits between design and development. That is, we've long departed the document model use case, wherein you're simply laying out a static Website that you just want to be consistently styled across pages and easily changeable (perhaps the optimal semantic use case).

We now build apps wherein we encourage essentially inline styles to be co-located with components. That itself is a complete rejection of the semantic CSS model. And it's exactly why Tailwind—being explicit about its purpose in an application development context—goes that order of magnitude beyond Bootstrap.

But, how does a designer work semantically in this context?

I think there are a lot of things wrong with Web development these days and styling at the component level is an example of one. Tailwind is the right tool for the wrong job. It solves a problem that shouldn't exist. And, in doing so, tempts some to believe CSS is the problem.

Edit: Don't get me wrong. CSS has its own problems and a good number of them. But it can't be blamed for not being used semantically in the current Web development environment.
I spend most of my dev time in typed languages. Going to untyped languages feels like going from K'nex to clay.
Im glad this is brought up. This research feels like dots being vaguely connected together. What am I even supposed to do with this info?
This article is really odd. The long lists of disadvantages feel a lot like the lists of disadvantages that ChatGPT produce, where relevant disadvantages will be placed right next to things that are wildly inapplicable to whatever I'm doing. And the whole list is extremely impersonal - there isn't a single reference to the product(s) that the author worked on, so it's impossible to tell if the downsides are even real downsides or not.
the US does have them - but I'm not convinced we should - vs building them in say Germany and putting them on a ship. Yes assembly lines are profitable. However less assembly lines that produce more trains allows for efficiency from scale and thus could potentially be even more profitable while selling trains for less.

NYC does not have a lot of trains. Sure they are in the thousands, but automotive assembly lines can turn out as many cars in a week as the whole US has. Trains also generally last for 40 years (the London trains in question are older than that).

Note that the US has them because of "buy America" rules and not for good reason. Those rules likely increase the costs of trains.
MariaDB is MySQL.
I think they will remove Biden singing AI models if white house ask them softly.
Not sure what you mean? Our whole codebase is .ts files, and we use tsc and esbuild without apparent difficulty.
I think the scandalous part isn't the accident, it's that Cruise actively tried to cover a critical aspect of it up, which impeded the investigation.
> Arguably Google needs to do the same work as a traditional payment processor

Unarguably, they don't need to do that. They want to, because a monopoly on payment processing makes a lot of money.

If 4%/15%/30%/whatever is what Google needs to charge to run their payment processing business, that shows that they're extremely inefficient/incompetent, and the market would be more efficient if other companies were able to offer that service instead. Last I checked, Stripe charges 2.9%, which is even less than what Google charges Spotify in this unicorn deal.

EDIT: the same goes for "store infrastructure" or whatever. If Google offered publishers the option to run their own infrastructure for distributing apps/updates/whatever, everyone would take that deal rather than pay Google's nonsense fees.
Claude 2.1
Yes, but the premium can be deducted from taxes, also cantons offer health insurance subsidy for families with low income.
Pointing out that biologists use animal models that don't map perfectly to our biology is a lazy criticism. It's not a good-faith way of engaging with research, and demonstrates ignorance to the purpose of modelling in any field.
Well it takes some work to get something you like...

But prompting with things like, "Return all future images for this chat in the style of x" help.

You're not just going to be able to say, "Create all my artwork for my game" but prompting and honing in on something is easier, imo, than learning how to create that artwork yourself.

If you do something like pixel art, you can also get a rough draft from dalle then do some editing yourself. Again, it isnt doing everything for you but its significantly easier and faster than learning how to be an artist yourself.
That is an excellent answer.
Fwiw I appreciate your effort! That sounds really frustrating.

I agree the recent bun/tsx/esbuild (but bun especially) has shown the node CJS/ESM fiasco was a bit of an emperor-wearing-no-clothes moment, where I think us every-day JS programmers just trusted the node devs at their word, that CJS/ESM had to be this painful...

But now, seeing that it doesn't have to be that way, it's like wait a sec...the last ~5 years of pain could have been avoided with some more pragmatic choices? Oof.
Gabor Mate has taken a close look at the epigenetics of trauma. He suggests it takes a few generations to clear up, but it's unclear if that's an epigenetic thing or just a re-traumatizing thing.
Casual observation, always careful in the mind of the observer, is a piss poor substitute for scientific data collection. Are you, as we speak, conducting a double blind, properly controlled and sampled study of juvenile cognitive development and device exposure?
Green shipping picks up speed
Yeah I wonder if Square could have taken the series in a more Kingdom Hearts-like direction if it had had the runway to do so.
I have children and do not notice this.

What you want to be true isn’t necessarily universal.
Cognitive and sensory capacity each contribute to the canine spatial bias
Interactive 3D planet temperature from 1962 to 2022
Maybe. Or maybe the causal relationship doesn't go in the direction you assume without evidence, and maybe your cousin is just intolerant.
Blazor is just a new iteration on Volta (2007) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Live_Labs_Volta
there's an artist out there that probably has the opposite problem, this is how many games are made
Those would be electric monks :)
Go further than current Paris pledges or face global warming of 2.5-2.9°C
Sorry I don’t understand. Stress had an effect or had no effect on children’s minds?
It is easy, but I'm terrified of getting my Google account banned.

Do you do anything to avoid that?
You’re making this harder than it needs to be.

If you are in an area not open to the public, you can be told to leave regardless of whether you are filming. If you fail to leave, then you are trespassing. The fact of trespassing will override other rights. For example: you have the right of free speech. You don’t have the right to hold a protest inside of a Walmart. They can have the police remove you despite the fact that it infringes on your speech.

They can’t stop you from filming, but they can stop you from going to private places where they don’t want you to film.
Hydrogen-enriched layer in the outer core sourced from deeply sub-ducted water
They literally said that since at least January of this year: https://budgetlightforum.com/t/google-chrome-upgrade-planned...

They know it's anti-consumer. They see that the YouTube push is actually causing people to install more, smarter ad blockers. I myself have finally got around to setting up pihole. "We're serious, by 2027 your adblocker will be toast" whatever, if you think we're still using the browser to block ads, you grossly misunderstood your userbase.
>You cannot say that the project works because of you, and then turn around and pretend you have nothing to do with its failures.

You'd be surprised. I've been in at least 2 companies where that was the case and had to be the scapegoat for projects going sideways due to poor management.

Humans are shit and would much rather push the blame on someone if the company culture is not blameless.
your response is proof once again, HN will go through any amount of mental gymnastics to avoid common sense on diet and exercise