skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading through I got this:

- Cheap = a pain to read

Good and modern visual design exists explicitly to deliver information to a person in the most accessible way. If you show a Japanese website to someone who grew up in Ireland, they will be overwhelmed. Not catering to different cultures, like the website suggests - only makes it worse.

- Cheap = a lot of spam

Having low cost of equipment and almost unlimited anonymity, makes fighting against spamming or "enshittification" exponentially hard. Just ask anyone who bothered to run their own mail server or open forum board. It's just not feasible for us to be able to have a nice experience without a level of trust.
You can get your own specific stats for Netflix using a Chrome Extension (https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/netflix-viewing-sta...). I'm sure there are a few different ones, that was just the first google result.
> it means the underlying product is not good enough to stand on it's own feet.

Adobe CC not strong enough? That's not it.

Subscription retention practices like this are to juice quarterly numbers to delight analysts on the earnings calls. If Adobe was a private company this level of lock-in desperation wouldn't be necessary. We'd still be able to buy the software once like we used to.
I couldn't care less about AI in Photoshop but I'd love AI in Illustrator to generate vector stuff.
“Short of that sort of clause being declared unenforceable” is not an insurmountable barrier. Clauses are deemed unenforceable all the time.

Reverse engineering is not a problem.

Shutting down a competitor business draws scrutiny. Beeper’s strategy is not clean, but apple’s behavior in this space could be framed as anti competitive to begin with. They’re probably hoping so for some kind of concession that will force apple to open and provide a way for beeper to operate that is more above the table.
(2006), sorry I was misled
Maybe they did and maybe they didn't. Nice example of biased journalism though, suggesting an association but providing no evidence for it.
Pope approves blessings for same-sex couples if they don't resemble marriage
> Are they too woke? Too weak?

Because as a citizen I have no control over them, while they do have lots and lots of control over my life and the lives of my fellow citizens around this part of the continent.

For comparison, I couldn't care less about Musk or X or any other private company involved in what some State-like power labels as "propaganda".
That was my reaction, too. I have always avoided VC investment, but "it's not a done deal until the check clears" has applied to literally every deal I've ever done.
Apparently since Apple made it more convenient to iPhone users to not only message other iPhone users from iMessage, but also receive their text messages in that single app too, it's a monopoly?
Key limitation: can't be installed to run standalone (in a partition on your nvme boot drive) if you care about partitions alignment.

Variants without this limitation were discussed yesterday.

Usecase: a rescue distribution to start from the UEFI menu manually, or automatically if your normal boot fails
Right, AGI is "artificial general intelligence" and refers to what AI used to refer to. The term exists to distinguish between a theoretical human or skynet -like AI and the current models that work within a specific domain after they co-opted the term AI for the common person.
Voice Over is insanely easy to work with, I recommend it to everyone I work with. I would say it takes maybe 20minutes to get a hang of the basic shortcuts and navigation modes.

I've been thinking about making a "VO for Web Devs" cheat sheet at some point, would that be a useful thing for you?

(Of course, I'm making assumptions about being in the apple garden.)
Yes. I knowingly chose the example.

If you want a less controversial example use the word “one” and consider the voiced labial–velar approximant.
Crescent Enceladus
Owner/exec/whatever: reads some bullshit about AI

“OMG you guys, we can save so much money! I can’t wait to fire a bunch of people! Quick, drop everything and (run an expensive experiment with this | retool our entire data org for it(!) | throw a cartoon bag of cash at some shady company promising us anything we ask for)! OMG, I’m so excited for this I think I’ll just start the layoffs now, because how can it fail?”

- - - - -

The above is happening all over the place right now, and has been for some months. I’m paraphrasing for effect and conciseness, but not being unfair. I’ve seen a couple of these up-close already, and I’m not even trying to find them, nor in segments of the industry most likely to encounter them.

It’d be very funny if it weren’t screwing up a bunch of folks’ lives.

[edit] oh and for bigger orgs there’s a real “we can’t be left behind!” fear driving it. For VC ones, they’re desperate to put “AI” in their decks for further rounds or acquisition talks. It’s wild, and very little of it has anything to do with producing real value. It’s often harming productivity. It’s all some very Dr Strangelove sort of stuff.
I've been enjoying working with Qt as well. I'll start publishing more about Cahier in some weeks. I wish all the best for your project!
Yeah github.com/KoljaB is quite a collection of stuff! I agree.

It all seems your vision of JARVIS, which I share completely but haven't accomplished what you have, again excellent work and thank you for sharing, is very attainable. Probably combining your work along with KoljaB is very promising.
There are plenty of greenfield use cases where Rust will need to bind to existing C and C++ libraries.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00490...) suggest that in 2017, 8% of the US adult population had a felony conviction, 24% of Black adults, and 33% of Black males. But for TSA Pre/Global entry, the relevant number is the number of fliers, where I suspect the felony rates are lower.
Yeah, it's outright incredible how much even tech libertarian HN commonly visceraly HATES market competition and wants to outright remove the possibility of market alternatives for critical services.

I bet if HDMI and USB wouldn't exist, they'd protest against being able to connect their MacBooks to non-Apple TVs and non-Apple keyboards - to keep them safe from evil Samsung monitors and bad Logitech mice.
AFAIK the players like AIM, MSN, ICQ didn’t cut off access to third party clients.

Maybe they wanted to, but it was too onerous back then to force client software updates that they had to continue supporting reverse-engineered versions of the protocol?
Yes, because it lowers art down to the realm of the report card.
Identities exist and are associated with the material world, but are not directly tied to it. "The king is dead! Long live the king!" illustrates this perfectly. The mortal person who has been embodying the identity of "king" has died, but the identity of "king" persists and will be embodied by a different person soon.
Event Platforms Directory with Various Filter Options
Uber is profitable as of the fourth quarter of 2023. You will also note that around the time of their financial announcement[1] their stock price gained about 50% in share price, jumping from $40/share at the beginning of November to $60/share today, about six weeks later.

[1] https://investor.uber.com/news-events/news/press-release-det...
Inflation is everywhere and always a monetary phenomenon.

Cool website though!
> It's rather incredible that X was investigated first, given that bin Laden's "Letter to America" recently went viral on TikTok

...and then TikTok removed it.

> It was not that long ago that saying Covid came from a lab leak was "misinformation"

Just saying it might have been a lab leak didn't get it labeled that way, at least in all the media I read. Saying it was almost certainly a lab leak and presenting scientific evidence to support that argument also didn't get it labeled.

What got it labeled was things like saying it was proven to be a lab leak and proven to have been deliberate, with no evidence presented for it being a leak and no evidence presented that it was deliberate, and accusations that everyone presenting evidence that it might not be a lab leak being accused to being secret agents of the CCP.
Verbal contracts are still contracts. And this was written down.
There is an epidemic of people dying inside RU after criticizing Putin, the closer the circle of "business" the more notorious the fall through a window. The rest goes to prison under false accusations when they are public figures; this is the problem of not to have separated the political power from judicial power, among other things.

Those business also makes me to think that the next one is not going to be better. Anyway, the hope should never lost, life is full of twists and turns.

PS: I don't have Russian friends so my opinion is just based on what I see externally.
You do not want open communication standards as much as the next guy. You’re advocating for a closed communication standard.
You could make a somewhat similar argument about an email provider sending emails to iCloud email addresses, thus “piggybacking” off Apple’s iCloud servers. Granted, Beeper probably doesn’t prevent it being used between two Android users, but the primary function, and why people would pay for it, is to communicate with Apple users.

The primary difference is that in one case it’s a closed proprietary protocol and in the other an open protocol. But who pays for what is not the main concern. Apple would still disagree even if Beeper would be willing to share an appropriate part of their revenue.
Tesla's Self-Driving Tech Has Competition
All my homies hate Richard

And while we're on the subject of the Richard comment chain, I found the cursing not to be NSFW, but the ableist language (dumb, stupid, idiot) was NSFW.
If Adobe’s a buyer at $20b, they’re a buyer at $20b. I don’t see how selling stock to the public along the way increases fragmentation or prevents monopoly.
https://archive.ph/Munde
Disclaimer: Not a lawyer

It isn't clear to me if Apple's internal team working on this was the original plan - think "embrace, extend, extinguish", or "we'll do the basics, everything else is a 'third-party opportunity'" - or if they were formed as a backstop in the event an acquisition or licensing deal didn't happen.

See also the current situation with AliveCor over ECG tech in the Apple Watch.

Bottom line, Masimo wants to be paid - which I get - but I think the case will also try to settle whether or not Apple (or anyone) can integrate these features in something that (legally speaking) isn't a medical device without paying licensing fees of some kind.
> I think this should be of particular importance to the US which has fudamental rights protecting freedom of expression.

It is important for everyone in the world and most nations have already wrestled with this problem. The US is not special. The only reason the US is starting to wonder about the influence of other states on such a critical piece of infrastructure is because they are not dominating it anymore and only now are beginning to find out that there are other nations present that have different cultural norms.

Laws like the DSA are exactly created to address this problem. If you want to operate in the EU, you have to adhere to European laws and values.

> I'm very worried about co-ordinated lawfare against Musk-operated companies being used as a tool to force his compliance with systems that exist to get around laws against the US government's direct involvement in censorship. I'm also worried about the EU's lurch towards Chinese-style censorship of social media. And, I think we should be able to talk about it now while we still can.

Well, other people are very worried about companies exploiting exploiting every technique they can think of to fuck their users and make more money. Trying to prevent that is not even remotely close to Chinese-style censorship.
XD never took off. If Adobe wants to get into the UI market they would need to go back to the drawing board and start from scratch. If you're starting with a failed product you're most likely going to fail again.
I hadn't come across this "tongue ties" until now.

The article mentions that it is a condition that does exist even though is pretty rare. The fact that it is a recognised health condition should be enough for the NHS to put the information out there.

The other side of it is doctors who diagnose and operate.

Firstly, do you have any evidence that spurious diagnostics and operations are actually happening on the NHS at a rate that could be construed as either malice or rampant incompetence vs simple error? The article describes a situation where one of those (or both) is likely at play.

Secondly, if doctors are paid per procedure, how is that any different than a purely private system? The doctors's incentives go towards doing more of the procedures. Top that with the fact that the patients/parents have no financial incentive to avoid the operation, and you get a double whammy. The worst incentives of privatised health care topped with no (financial) incentive to stop the malpractice from happening.
Hours of TV watched a day are unintuitive to me, and by my opinion absurdly high. I discovered a few months ago, this graph:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/269918/daily-tv-viewing-...

Which completely shifted my understanding of TV consumption. Median daily UK linear TV viewing time was 3 hours in 2021.
It appears to vary by country
Except for TikTok. Something must be done about TikTok. It's Very Dangerous!
thats impersonation of an employee or otherwise representative of the entity, and would be ultimately not be Microsoft's issue, but that of the person doing the impersonation.

Since they aren't employed by Microsoft, they can't substantiate or make such claims with legal footing.

I'm sure there are other nuances too that must be considered, however on the face of it, if a Chatbot is authorized for sales and/or discussion of price, and makes a sales claim of this type (forced or not) then its acting in reasonable capacity, and should be considered binding
US Steel hasn't failed, it's been pumping out money for a long time. $1.6B in profit in the last 4Q's on a market cap of $9B. It's far from dead - leverage is only 45%; they've got $11B in equity in the company. [https://valustox.com/X]
The problem you have is that by defining a "FUN" standard, you've probably created a basin of attraction [1] for what is basically the web today. It doesn't take much before you've basically let the ocean in.

There are clearly many points between Gopher/Gemini and the modern web... but I'm not sure any of them are stable. Between the difficulty of keeping out features in a principled manner in what will inevitably become a group effort and how easy it is to accidentally spec something that turns out to be a lot more complicated than you thought it was, you're pretty much working in a space where the Horrors of the Web are lurking just outside your door, and you'd be surprised which missteps will let them in.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attractor
> The problem with e-vehicle subsidies is that for some reason we as society decided that an electrical car should also be a luxury car with insane and impractical acceleration, humungous range numbers and all kind of creature conforts and aesthetical fru-fru you can imagine.

That's not true.

There are many electrical cars that definitively NOT luxury. Heck, I don't consider my Tesla a luxury vehicle when I compare it to vehicles from Mercedes, BMW, Audi, Porsche, etc.

On "impractical acceleration" - isn't that just a consequence of the technology? I suppose we can mandate artificial limits on acceleration, but it isn't an effect of a "luxury" denotation.

Humungous range: EVs have much less range than fossil fuel counterparts.

I think your framing of EVs as luxury is unfounded. Pricey perhaps, but that is a different matter.

Agree with your point about a marketplace for EVs with less range and consequently less battery capacity needs (also less impactful on the environment), and there are cars offered of that segment, but I maybe they're much less popular?
I’m pretty sure this is just estimating Adsense revenue based on some fixed CPM. Many large YouTubers make the bulk of their revenue from sponsorships and brand deals. I would take the numbers with a large grain of salt.
As someone from the South Hills area, I, too, am interested in seeing how this goes...Pittsburgh has really changed over the past 30-40 years, replacing a massively overwhelming population of blue collar jobs with white collar (mostly doctors and lawyers). I know a lot of folk who work at/have worked at U.S. Steel and hope the transition works out for them.
Very interesting, thanks for posting!

I am not sure if the way to go is a cheap web, small web, slow web, indie web, or maybe some combination of these attributes, but something about the current web feels off, mass produced and superficial.

The old sites created by people who did cool stuff just for the sake of doing it are so hard to find now. I miss them.
In a well-functioning democracy you'd vote on someone who you'd agree with on something like 9/10 issues. However, not everyone agrees with you, so they might end up having to create a coalition with someone you agree with on 6/10 issues. In the end you end up with 7.5/10 issues going your way. Not ideal, but not too bad either.

In a first-past-the-post system, voting on the 9/10 politician is a complete waste as everyone knows they'll never get a majority. Plenty of people like the 0/10 guy, and the 3/10 guy is quite popular too. So better vote for the 3/10 guy: sure, you don't want him, but having him in office is still better than the 0/10 one winning!
I'd bet they're hoping to just have an AI alternative by 2025
So, everything google and any other "big" company does, i can reverse engineer and resell the infrastructure that i'm using, free of charge?
Deep Field: The Heart Nebula
Yeah, a faster top speed would be nice for sure! I mostly do mountain unicycling, which stays in the sweet spot easily (unicycling is pretty slow compared to i.e. biking).

The desert isn't a very challenging environment for obstacles, even still, this front-follow would be very hard to achieve with piloted FPV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koWzoCUUIbE

Alas, there will never be a consumer Skydio 3, and the Skydio 2 is now $5k via their enterprise pricing :(
People that are old enough can remember applications like Pidgin, Gaim or similar, I do not remember anyone attempting and wining to sue the developers. The user will create an account so IMO if I have an Apple account (I own an old Apple laptop) then WTF would Apple care I send the bytes from a differrent application.

I am curious what a judge or legislators will decide on this, can a company force you to use their client to connect to their service? Then Google can force us to use Google approved and signed apps to access youtube and google apps, even if they can't block alternatives they can bully the alternatives with the justice system.

It would be also interesting to know if using this app instead of the fallback it is actually using maybe less resources and it would be a benefit for the world for Apple to open the protocol.
Do we know Beeper complained to regulators here?
> I can’t imagine any company being okay with another company reverse-engineering their product and then charging for it, without at least paying for the infrastructure they’re using.

How is this not a violation of the same Computer Fraud and Abuse Act that was used to prosecute Aaron Swartz for unauthorized access to a web server?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Swartz
Just because the acquired company falls into the "can't justify higher rev multiple thanks to synergies with the acquiring company" and "not successful enough for the IPO".

If there was no options in that niche, the market objectively would be a lot tougher.
You… may be thinking of the ECHR (not an EU body), though even describing that as advisory would be a major over-simplification. But for the ECJ, you’re just flat-out incorrect.
> Software engineers are mercenaries hired to create value for shareholders, and anything else is just delusion.

Value is a sustainable product, not some shovelware piece of crap. If the shareholders don't see that then that's their problem, and it's probably best to part ways and warn everyone you know from working with them.
Well, as it happens I'm not, but I imagine it would be useful for people in general, and I'll promise you an upvote on HN if I see it. :)

I imagine you can make a solid guide if you really focus it on the use case of "here's how to evaluate your site for this specific purpose".
If it has enough features to match Electron, I think it's likely to end up the same size (100 MB on disk)
How dare they pick a side when trapped between a rock and a hard place.
> it's easy to visually confirm everything is cleaned up.

Yes and no.

It's easy to not make a mistake in a function. It's basically impossible to not make this mistake in 1'000 functions.

Especially as code evolves over time, being 99% perfect about this, or even 99.9% perfect, is just not good enough. Not nearly enough.

And this reminds me of something Schneier said, that everyone can make a cryptographic algorithm that they themselves cannot break. That even as a professional, having your algorithm broken is not even embarrassing.

Similarly, very good coders are not even embarrassed when they fail at memory management. People may be better or worse at it, but even the best of us are terrible at it.

I once knew a very good coder who bragged about how apparently he's the only one able to write code that's not buggy like this.

To prove a point, I spent an hour reading his opensource project and found several resource leaks, at least one of which was remotely triggerable.

It's easy to do it right once, usually, but no these mistakes happen all the time.

> if I find [… typo words(?) omitted … ] a leak in the code I usually refactor to make the correctness more obvious.

This seems to contradict that it was easy to avoid in the first place. Yes, refactor can help. But there's a bit of learned helplessness, in that this is actually the language's fault, and it doesn't have to be that way.
My view is that all of those messaging platforms blocking alternative clients are equally problematic.

I've arrived at this position because I'm not able to use any of those platforms because they don't provide accessibility tools that I need. Beeper does, and most matrix clients do also.

I recognize that the open source "everything should be open" view is not remotely mainstream, but the only way forward is to demand better.
An unfortunate number of people would only be able to access that global library using the computers at their local library.
> Regarding Photoshop, there are no real alternatives.

Unfortunately, the same is true for Illustrator. There are competitors that have 95% of the features, but that remaining 5% is critical for serious professionals.
They didn’t just pay $20b for something that’s probably worth $500m so I think they won this round.
But it does need to be bought multiple times.
> Insisting on one absolute definition and calling anyone who uses another definition "disingenuous" is not hugely constructive.

Nobody said anything about an absolute definition.

When describing the C standard library, the only reasonable interpretation of "nonstandard" is that it does not adhere to standard C. There are no counter-examples anyone has been able to provide from any corpus.
That's not really the issue at play here, it's at what point does forbidding 3rd party clients to your service become anticompetitive. Right now the answer is basically "never" but I think the technological landscape would be healthier if the bar was significantly lower.
But the user with the iCloud address is (probably) an Apple customer.

Similarly, with plain SMS, the cellular provider owns (some of) the infrastructure, but the user is a customer.

With Beeper, the customer is paying Beeper, but Beeper is using Apple's infrastructure (without paying for it).