skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that list of reasons are long, for me personally iMessage is the reason I'm not switching to Android alone. For others, it might take more but once you start to remove reasons, switching can be based on competitive reasons instead of lockin, ie iPhones are better devices than Pixels and worth the premium vs today I have to get an iPhone because I want to use the dominant communication tool to talk to family.
I have a green bubble because I don't want to live in a walled garden. I'd like to think there are still youth social circles where that'd get you clout.
It was quite popular on YouTube at that time. With several YouTubers attempting to replicate the experiment, with various levels of success.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD4KfY4Nafgv6enUyv9Mw...
Yep, its really a lose-lose for everyone except Apple. Apple could even release a client that doesn't allow Android<->Android iMessage and I doubt many Android users would care. Personally, I just want a decent messaging experience and I would be willing to jump through the extra hoop of downloading another app even if my iPhone using contacts aren't willing to.
I am about to turn 38 and I got it, so it's at least slightly lower than 40.
OK! Let's assume you've built a water delivery system, a series of pipes. You attach anyone who buys a licensed faucet, and collect a modest monthly payment, as a typical utility would do. You use these funds to cover the operation costs of the pipe system.

Your pipes use a standard threaded connector.

If somebody attaches to your pipes without buying your licensed faucet and without paying, just due to the interoperability of threaded pipes, do you have the right to disconnect them, and rework your pipe connectors in a way that prevents unpaid connections in the future? If not, why?
It feels like "progress" and "change" are glacial. I'm about to turn 50. I have been in tech since I was 23.

When I first entered the workforce there were more people doing the same amount of work than happens today. From 93-2000 I watched tons of companies lay off staff and spread the work to the remaining people. Then the same thing happened in 2008-10. Then the same thing happened over the last 5 years.

The new normal (because of the decades of change):

No one has time or space to focus, everyone is asked to do too much. So no one has time to do quality work so we feel like our work is shitty and we can't take pride in our work - yet we spend most of our waking hours hours doing that work. Which impacts our quality of life and increases our stress levels.

Maybe that's why everyone is anxious.
Astro needs a better elevator pitch. I spent several minutes on the site, clicking and scrolling, but sample code was minimal and not easy to find. This is not effective marketing in 2023. If a developer has no idea what developing with your tech stack feels like after ~60 seconds, more times than not that developer will leave. Sorry, Astro sounds cool conceptually, but in this case I think brutally honest feedback is warranted.

For what it’s worth, I also think Django needs a better elevator pitch, but Django captured me in 2010. I might try pushing for a home page improvement. Django does have tenure and mindshare working in its favor, though.
If anyone is interested I have a sealed copy of the shareware version … for a good price :D
1-2 GHz is super congested. Some of the most popular mobile bands are in that range. With mobile carriers bidding billions of dollars for spectrum, there is no way to Wifi Alliance could find free spectrum. Also, spectrum is allocated per country; we are very lucky that the ISM bands are international.
This looks so good! I missed your original post and wanted to add some comments here.

Saw that your screener filtering is instant. Do you have everything loaded to the client side? If you want some feedback, I think the filter slider for the active rule could use a bit of a redesign. The magenta color is too vibrant for me and the actual bar itself is barely visible (could use more contrast against page background).

For data providers, have you looked at EODHD? They are a bit more expensive compared to FMP but the data is a lot higher quality from what I've seen and they have 24/7 live chat support. I don't know if it would fit your budget but could be worth to ask their support. Disclaimer: I build something similar in this space and I'm currently trying to migrate from FMP to EODHD.

Always fun to see others build tools like this. Would love to chat more on discord if you are up for it. Just followed you on twitter so we could go from there. glhf
> CFAA

Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA)
> If Apple were truly acting in their users best interest, they would want their users to have encrypted and fast communication with all devices, through an open protocol or otherwise.

yeah that protocol exists. it’s called RCS and it is coming to ios soon. imo apple is allowed to gate imessage behind ios-only if RCS support is a thing
Well, Resolve suffers from the same attitude in places. While a good and usable product, it suffers from many design gaffes that go unaddressed year after year, despite denying users functions that are expected in any similar product.

The render-job UI is pretty shambolic (as is the treacherously inaccurate timeline on the same page), for example. And BMD refuses to add simple functions like "match timeline properties to clip." Instead they have a prompt that offers to match only frame rate, in contrast to just about every other media-editing app I can think of. Fixing that should be easy; and if it isn't, the codebase must be hopelessly inept.

The integrations of Fusion and Fairlight are buggy and exhibit nonsensical and misleading UI behavior. Resolve has a node view... oh wait, now it has two node views, which are not integrated with each other or with the editor. Fixing that should be priority one, which could create a truly excellent hybrid product that some of us have asking for for years.

And now they've ported the thing to the iPad. Really? I realize that from the outside we don't know how engineering people are allocated, but nonetheless it seems absurd to spend resources on that while the desktop product suffers from serious defects that have languished for a long time.
Does this mean humanity's data is generally worse in the winter? Like all our articles, stories, forum posts, etc reflect poorer writing and thought during Winter?
The web services I self-host (2022)
This is an amazing idea as well as execution providing best use of resources to end users.
s/tidally/totally/; talk about creative autocorrect!
Love stories like this that unintentionally show how hard parenting is. I guarantee a big share of non parents are thinking “I would simply stop the bad behavior or would have never let it start to begin with”
That is wonderful! I love the easy to use and friendly looking UI.

If I were to add a feature I would like a PDF so I can print it more easily, and have the layout with half the page filled, so I can fold.
Or, to expand a bit:

If Apple should be expected to open up iMessage, then why shouldn't Facebook be expected to allow interoperability with Messenger, and Telegram and Signal forced to open those up, too?

Or, if you wish to take it a slightly different way: Why shouldn't the New York Times be expected to give everyone a copy of their paper for free? Information and good journalism are a public good, after all.

Why shouldn't pharmaceutical companies be expected to make all life-saving medications available for free?

Why shouldn't ISPs be expected to make Internet access available to all for free?
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their SMS but by the content of their character."
it's a interesting way to probe the inner workings of it.
> Can't do that with your Steam games

Some Steam games include MP3 copies of their soundtracks ready to copy to your music library. Other games include it as relatively cheap DLC. Steam has a Soundtracks tab in its Library that makes it easy to see which ones Steam knows you have access to and even includes a mini-media player.
That's an impressive feat if true, but I wonder when you would need it outside of a seriously threaded architecture. That is, the server you are embedded in has one thread per client or backend. In a modern server architecture I suspect you could still use KVM if you put your mind to it. For example, switching between internal processes doesn't have to be done according to Linux scheduling. KVM is just a hypervisor architecture, and even though it requires you to call it from the current thread, you can still build fast process isolation on it. Source: I have done it.

Launching a new VM is not something that should be done outside of a restart or reconfiguration.

I think for me, what WASM brings to the table is perhaps reduced Linux-isms. Everything has become a little bit Linux-or-nothing, and if WASM presents a unified API towards all operating systems that is a good thing. I'm still not happy that Browsers are de-facto operating systems now, and with WASM even more so.
Minecraft redstone is what you're describing at a certain level.
We did just throw more spectrum at the problem. The 6GHz spectrum for Wifi 6E is a big change. It effectively eliminates the contention in higher bands. The downside is that need to buy new gear, and like all higher bands, need more AP.
I was at a university print fair recently. The numbering, edition numbering, etc. was all over the place. There was no standard. It was confusing for me, as a buyer who really isn't a collector and connected to this stuff. It didn't stop me (or others) from buying a few things though. Prices weren't tied to edition size, and I didn't overhear any buyers asking about this stuff anyway. Yeah, this was the low end of the market, but great art still speaks for itself and will sell regardless of if there's a couple hundred or an (effectively) unlimited amount of them in the world.

As an aside, I get annoyed when I try to buy something limited online & it sells out instantly and shows up on ebay. Stuff like that makes no sense to set a hard limit for since artists are probably leaving money on the table (they could either raise their prices or produce more). A timed release would be nice in these cases, but quality printing is a skill and I get that an artist can't always leave the number they're committed to make to chance like that...
In Brazil, tobacco is heavily regulated. They can’t advertise on TV and they must show scary health alerts on the back of their packages, for example.

Since government started this trend, in end of 80s, tobacco usage is in free fall, as shown by this Brazilian Cancer Institute chart: https://www.gov.br/inca/pt-br/assuntos/gestor-e-profissional...
The addition of new options that are default-on is an incredibly user-hostile pattern, and it is depressingly common:

- Modern Windows versions introducing new telemetry options (to say nothing of existing disabled options being toggled back on...)

- LinkedIn with with new notification types that are turned on by default, with no option to disable all notifications entirely (there are now so many notifications that the notifications settings page has a nested page)

- My former University's newsletters mailing list, which keeps adding new types of newsletter that I am default subscribed to, despite previously unsubscribing from every other newsletter (I finally just created a mail rule to block the entire subdomain.domain.edu).

And the list goes on...
Is this a late April's Fools joke?
Facts. US iPhone users are so incredibly entitled, the suggestion that they're going to move to a third party app to accommodate Android users is laughable.
That studio manager will be out of a job in five years if he doesn't get on the bandwagon and evolve.

This is the film to digital transition. It's going to be rough for a bit, then take over everything all at once.

The upside for these editors is that they'll be able to be single-person studios and pursue their own vision without meddling from studios or massive capital, equipment, and personnel needs.
RCS has no end-to-end encryption in the standard, though. That's a non-standard google messages extension. I think a better example would be the cross-device messengers like signal/whatsapp/etc.
Money is a hell of a drug. This is why regulation is the only answer.
The EU makes in it’s proposed law a lot of exceptions for open models. It might be a big selling point for mistral (or Facebook) but maybe tricky to deal with for closed models like OpenAI.
I'm sure they're quaking in their boots over the prospect of paying a $2m fine a decade from now.
Was that a BBC B Micro from Acorn Computers?
I don't know about your last paragraph. Continuing your assembly analogy, yes learning assembly helps you get a feel for what's happening under the hood, but does anyone learn assembly these days? Also in terms of energy consumption is there a case to be made for human programming vs AI programming? Or is there a better interface than natural language between AI and humans, given natural language is so imprecise?
I cleaned up the code a little bit, but I didn't test it. This will have the same limitation as the Python I posted earlier in that you're not authenticated.

from pathlib import Path

import scrapy
import requests
import html
import json
import os

# Set this:
USER = 'Jugurtha'

BASE_URL = 'https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0' # https://github.com/HackerNews/API
LINKS = f'${BASE_URL}/user/{USER}.json'

class HNSpider(scrapy.Spider):
name = 'hn'

def start_requests(self):
items = requests.get(LINKS).json()['submitted']
for item in items:
url = f'{BASE_URL}/item/{item}.json'
filepath = Path(f'posts/{item}.html')
if os.path.exists(filepath):
self.log(f'Skipping already downloaded {url}')
else:
yield scrapy.Request(url=url, callback=self.parse)

def parse(self, response):
item = response.url.split('/item/')[1].split('.json')[0]

filename = f'{item}.html'
content = json.loads(response.text).get('text')
if content:
text = html.unescape(content)

with open(Path(f'posts/{filename}'), 'w') as f:
f.write(text)
self.log(f'Saved file {filename}')
wait. WHAT! this app chainforge is great!
Yes, that is exactly how production Wasm VMs optimize heap accesses. Bounds checks cause no overhead as a result. That's the case in all modern browsers, as well as in wasm2c.
having the average size of the fishes could point to the origin
Everyone else is a second class citizen. Apple brings in more than TSMC's next 3 largest customers combined.
Europe needs to escape providerism
N=470 vs N=80 can impact the replicability
Deep Learning – Foundations and Concepts (Chris Bishop)
No its super old cause it was created a long time ago? Why dont you go update it or make a free up to date version? Why do people act like software creators owe the world something?
I believe encryption is not in the RCS spec yet.
Redesigning the Val Town Editor
Wow, that's genius! Thank you for explaining, TIL.
When my son was diagnosed with shaken baby syndrome [1], I investigated the science of this diagnosis and found out horrifying mistakes in French diagnosis guidelines, especially in physics-based arguments. These guidelines were written by medical doctors who did not seem to have the slightest understanding of basic physics, resulting in gross unit conversion errors, absurd comparisons, contradictory reasonings, and so on [2]. These flawed arguments led to flawed conclusions regarding differential diagnoses of pediatric head injuries, resulting in hundreds of erroneous medical diagnoses and allegations of abuse in the country.

[1] https://www.cambridgeblog.org/2023/05/a-journey-into-the-sha...

[2] see e.g. https://adikia.fr/2018/05/biomecanique-des-chutes/ (in French)
Surprised this doesn't have more upvotes, without phone number registration Beeper Mini isn't actually back.
> The stats would be different if people trusted strangers

That's an interesting angle. Trust is the fine line between friend and stranger though. The stats would be different because "acquaintance" no longer has meaning.

> Overly connected is the issue, cause it incentivizes bad things for popularity.

Yeah, I thought about it some more and shit really went downhill once FB replaced the timeline with the algorithm. That surfaced the worst behavior for attention. You're right about extended networks.
Maybe it's something like a much milder kind of historical human sacrifice, where the intuition is that greater sacrifice means greater reward. This is useful in some cases such as delayed gratification but is harmful when the sacrifice is seen as directly producing the desired gain.

Generally there's a correlation between sacrifice and and reward- the "no pain no gain" idea goes back fairly far for example. When the intuition taken to it's logical extreme that the greater the ask the greater the sacrifice necessary, which is where you get something like Moloch.

It's interesting you mention the ladder and hazing - one idea is that human sacrifice was more prevalent the stronger the hierarchy, and that sacrifice helped support the hierarchy and priests in a position of authority, which seems to run parallels to what you're describing.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-human-sacrifi...
Length doesn't mean quality; the data could also be more concise.
More importantly, the same lower bands that let Wifi go through walls let mobile signals go through walls to enter your house. It is more valuable, both to the mobile providers and to the customers, to use that spectrum for mobile data.
Maybe the PR side is to keep book lists constantly in the news. Also not too sure about OP point.
Terminal Trove – A collection of CLIs, TUIs and all things in the terminal
If I had no other obligations I would probably play EVE sixteen hours a day. It's simply not a game I can play casually lmao. In my opinion it's the greatest MMO ever created.
> The only blocker is that Apple doesn't want it to exist.

This is my main source of excitement around this project. The existence of this project shows that there is no technical reason it can't exist. So, what is the reason it doesn't exist? Exactly what you said: Apple thinks it is in its best interest not to.
If I see "import torch" in your models, is it really 565 LOC?
Do you mind sharing some tasks that you are solving with GPT 3.5? Be very concrete, if you don't mind. I am struggling to make it work for my business use cases (i.e. the ones where I am looking for "reliably helpful") and am very much looking for inspiration to define the limits. The hypothetical is interesting but seems to not do too much for me on its own.
That law feels uncomfortably close to victim-blaming!
It’s holiday season, I still have a bunch of crappy quality calls with my family all the time. Talk to any doctor about their tele health experience, crappy WiFi gets in the way of them providing care coooonstantly. It’s WiFi that is the weakest link, the problems are rarely caused by the ISP.
Structurally, the cloud version was you logging into your iMessage account on a friend's computer. How could Apple possibly prevent that?

I think it actually makes a pretty strong case for Apple opening up a better interface that lets people achieve the same outcome they clearly desire so much, they'd even compromise their own security to achieve it.
> And yes, iOS allows 3rd party apps but not nearly with enough permissions to act as a full Messages+iMessage alternative.

Not an Apple user, but I imagine even though there's some allowances for third party messaging, there's a lot of holes. For instance, what happens if I ask Siri to send a message to a specific contact from my Apple Watch. Will it send it over Signal if I've added a Signal address to their contact card and went the mile to set that as the default messaging app for that user? Curious.
On one hand, yes. Video games use stock assets. That part isn't surprising; other forms of media do the same (stock photos, sound effects, video, etc) and it's hardly remarkable when they do.

On the other hand, it's also expected that the developer of a new video game bring some amount of new material to the table. A video game is meant to be a creative work with a distinctive flavor of its own, not simply a collection of assets -- and, from the sound of it, the latter is essentially what The Day Before is.
If you only have friends that also have iOS devices, you can create an iMessage group and send messages in it. I don’t know how that works in the US but apparently it’s really popular.
The depths of the input element
On the Beeper website it sayss they use "blue bubble" to refer to iMessage.
I think you and I are interpreting “riffraff” differently.

I took it to mean the myriad of SMS scams and spam that is rampant outside of iMessage, not Android users broadly.

My point was that Apple isn’t caring about their users by doing this. They’re negatively impacting my ability as an Apple user to communicate with people who prefer Android, and that is a stance that affects both parties. It’s not pro user.

I suspect we’re in violent agreement that excluding-Android-as-a-feature is not a pro-user stance.
Thank you so much! I'm so happy you enjoyed it!

That's a good idea about printing it out - I'll look into it!
Bingo. I was excluded from a group chat of ~15 people because I was the only one without iMessage.

Eventually they included me. I showed one of them the chat in Google Messages and he was amazed at how nice it looked, since Android supports Apple reactions. They're also jealous of all the emojis I can react with (and I admit I do it just to rub it in their face).
I would want to know who is asking to buy me a gift before I say anything to an anonymous chatbot. And at that point they should just talk to me.
You're asking why cryptographic attestation isn't a requirement to use a service that still supports >10-year old x86 Macs?
That assumes an objective definition of "privacy respecting". I am of the opinion that telemetry can be privacy respecting.
I was 18-20 when I had appendix removed. And it was actually higher/closer to ribcage than on average.

My parents knew about "you can't properly raise your right leg" home test.

While ER folks - well first ones in the evening were crap and basically sent me home to see if it will pass.

Then in the morning (yeah it didn't pass, and I don't think I've slept much because it felt like a bad tootache in your stomach) other ER doctors checked:
- 1 Celsius or more higher temperature rectally compared to armpit
- push fingers at general area of appendix on your stomach hurts like any other pain (say bad stomach, having been hit ...etc) there would hurt, releasing the pressure slowly is fine and gradually reduces the pain, while quick/snap release of pressed spot felt like you've just been stabbed with a knife (well OK how one would imagine that feels).

And within minutes they accepted me into hospital and I was operated within few hours.

And I guess jump is doing similar things to muscles and tissues since it's quick/explosive type of movement.

Also - and it's been ~20 years so memory is fuzzy - I think doctor explained/mentioned exponentially larger pain on quick release of press compared to slow pressing and even just holding same pressure for longer is general sign of inflammation, not just apendix.
French engineering and computer science education really emphasizes math and theory. That is an advantage in AI.
This is the exact reason I refuse to touch Mastodon - the people who are Really Mad about Elon's purchase of Twitter are the exact people who made Twitter so toxic that I avoided it like the plague. I guess I'm happy that they are self sorting onto their own platform, but I'm going to stay far away from it.
this sounds like you want to trick people into letting you middle-man conversations with their friends so you can collect market data. gross.
A car. We're on the web and yet somehow you can't link to your one car.
And honest content. One order of magnitude more honest at least; Google is like asking the Kremlin for truth.