skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it is not breaking native apps, it is pushing you to update your tech... currently you cannot update some code for your website to work offline on iOS

like there is a competition... few companies have great websites/web apps and if a native app worked, people will not abandon it for a web version of course... the competition you claim web apps lost (even on android) has not yet even started :)

in a very huge article-like top level comment I wrote about how this "install" web apps is misleading and comparing native apps directly to web technology

web technology is not all about apps... I just checked one good example: hover.com has no native app, never had... they made the website work on all screen sizes.

actually I never cared if they have web manifest implemented so that I can switch them to standalone (web app, vow)... now I see I could do this but I will not because this particular domain I choose to use NOT standalone (not as an app) but from the browser... it is a well written website that could be used standalone but since I rarely use it and from linux desktop, I do not care

actually, web manifest is a draft not a web standard yet:
https://www.w3.org/TR/appmanifest/

all it does (what some people love to call "install") is initiating standalone usage and you can get a home screen button

each and every web capability practically has its own standard... caching and offline websites are possible via service workers, orthogonal to standalone and "web app"

what I want to say it is not that simple that web app vs. native... hover does not pay Apple or Google because they were capable of responsive design... if you use a service like it every day or standalone is crucial or your choice of using it, use it that way, it is still run in your chosen browser sandbox whether you hide browser UI or not

it is about choice and it is about the future... what I can tell you knowing web capabilities well, 99% of the time it is possible to deliver the same experiences with a browser as native apps deliver

the web is an alternative, even for standalone experiences (apps)... it may be like linux and stay niche or become like chromium

time will tell
Trudeau Government Is Sued over Emergencies Act
Want Gemini and ChatGPT to Write Political Campaigns? Just Gaslight Them
I always enjoy this sort of "here's how I set up my computer" post/repo. I just switched to WezTerm, but now I know that there's Warp. One of these weekends I'll have to take it for a spin.

But setting up a new Mac? I follow the instructions on the welcome screen and plug in the old one. It works perfectly as far as I can tell, I'd have to count to figure out how many laptops I've migrated from one to the other but it's a solid decade of getting my exact setup running on a new machine with no tweaks necessary. I've never felt the urge to make a fresh start.

I did have to purge Python libraries when I switched to the M-series processors, that was a pain in the butt to figure out. Other than that, smooth sailing.
Absolutely. There is a german book called "Erziehen ohne Schimpfen" (Parenting without scolding), which provided me deep insights into the behaviour of my children and my own behaviour in response to it. It is also a stated fact in this book that in "non-western" countries it is normal that a child is raised by the whole (extended) family (grandparents, uncle / aunt, brother sister, friends, etc.) which is a relieve for parents in general.

It just does not help to punish or shout at your child in any way, in fact it makes things worse. However, in situations like I described above, it also helps to be more forgiving about your own behaviour, as long as you try your best to prevent these "breakdowns" and most important APOLOGIZE instead of just being ashamed. Nobody stays calm all the time.
Interesting. There is even a word for it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politainment
"Cargo Cult Agility" should be a term!

It turns out that iteration (and recursion) are pretty mind blowing concepts to have to explain to people. Like for instance just explaining why is it important to iterate faster?

I've gotten lucky explaining it once or twice, [1][2]; but mostly I think it needs to be something someone experiences somehow. Either by programming or engineering or some other way.

[1] Some engineers understand what a control loop is, and you can explain why iterating (faster) actually leads to better precision than trying to measure things precisely in one go inside the loop. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-loop_controller )

[2] You might be lucky to find a manager who really understands PDCA or OODA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDCA , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop . Unfortunately these are also somewhat prone to cargo-culting. On the "upside", OODA cargo-culting may be subject to natural selection.
I really like how Medium lets you know how "distraction free" their reading experience is (using huge popunders, privacy notices, sticky headers).
I would assume that the worldwide yearly cost of data corruption is orders of magnitude larger than the cost of mandating ECC everywhere.
I think they're really cool tools. I personally have no interest in trying to get in on the AI gold rush though.
You can always sue them, this is how the Facebook co founder became a billionaire
https://nypost.com/2024/02/11/news/alabama-radio-station-wjl...

> The Jasper, Alabama, station was ordered off air by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) as authorities continue to investigate how and why the heavy steel structure suddenly disappeared.

> “In all my years of being in the business, around the business, everything like that, I have never seen anything like this,” Elmore told The Post.

> “You don’t hear of a 200-foot tower being stolen,” he added.”

> While the self-proclaimed “Sound of Walker County,” still has its FM transmitter and tower, it is not allowed to operate while the AM station is off the air, according to FCC.
One of my RPis died somewhere in the mobo. I can turn it on and mount it over USB and read the SD card but it doesn't boot.

Another one lost the ethernet card. It was before they had Wi-Fi, or I didn't care to use Wi-Fi, I don't remember.

A Pi zero died, full stop.

A number of SD cards eventually died.

Not a very reliable platform compared to my laptop. On the other side my laptop costs almost a couple of orders of magnitude more.

I still use one RPi 3B+ with a TV hat and it has been on for about two years. It doesn't do anything else.

I switched to Odroid for everything else that could run on a small server, because it was impossible to find Raspberries. They work well, I'm happy with them. The only problem: I have to pin the kernel to their own version with their own drivers. The distro is Raspbian and I upgraded it a couple of weeks ago.
It’s an additional abstraction.

On Windows/Linux closing an app requires doing the obvious thing. Press the big X, you’re done. You’re back to the previous app instantly.

On Mac after closing a window what you see on the screen is a lie (besides the ever subtle menu bar and shades of gray); you’re still in the visually-hidden app.
> The idea that RTO is driven by real estate values is so detached and uninformed it's borderline juvenile conspiracy.

Idk about anyone else but the story told is far more convincing that corp real estate is being propped up and your denigrating dismissal has done nothing to change that.
Commercial real estate 'debt bomb' of $929B comes due this year
The typical defense against this is a pro rata investment right - if the company tries to conduct a financing at an artificially low valuation, you are allowed to invest alongside the investors to protect your percentage position.

If you had this right, and felt 150k was too much money to support your position, you could have gone out and borrowed the money from another investor.

To be honest, if at a 1M post money valuation you couldn't justify defending your position, the company was probably, in fact, approximately worthless.
Virtual desktops on Windows still feel pretty hacked on, don’t they? Hopefully that’s a focus point for Windows 12.
Email in emacs is useful because workflow automation can be done based on emails I'm reading.

Chat is similar.
"Unlike in the modern dating process, they cannot get to know a potential partner intimately before deciding whether or not to commit to a relationship."

This sentence caught my attention because it strikes me as false. People do commit in many ways, and rather quickly, and then they break up. A history of many break ups and similiar experiences is probably the chief difference between today and centuries past. IMHO all breakups and all experiences leave their mark.
Again, louder for the folks at home:

VC's rhyme with feces, and compare for precisely the same reasons!
Ancient DNA Reveals a Tragic Genocide Hidden in Humanity's Past
The NY Tyrant Guide to Not Being a Horrible Writer in the Year 2010 (2010)
Even without a proper modulation monitor, simply tuning a radio to the station will tell you if you're on-air or not.

The operators knew. They just didn't care. Or they may not have known that the tower had been stolen and assumed the transmitter was broken and were procrastinating to fix it.

Moreover, I can't imagine anyone successfully tearing down a working antenna. My guess is the timeline went: transmitter stops working, site sits idle for a few months, thieves notice it's turned off, raid the place, station owner finally decides to do something about it, discovers they've been cleared out.
> You don't strictly need a psychologist or a psychiatrist (goodness gracious!) or a team of professionals for help. Not even a nutritionist.

Maybe. Only a competent professional can tell you that. How could you otherwise tell if you need it or not? Yeah maybe someone healthy that wants to get a little healthier, but my entire argument was centered around people that are clinically obese. And even if you are apparently healthy, you would be surprised how bad the average American eat without realising it.

And an ethical psychiatrist can help alleviate the inevitable anxiety that comes from changing diet. Maybe people can hold a strict diet for a couple of months, but without getting their anxiety in check they can very easily slip back into old habits.

I mean, if I was talking about people with severe drug addiction I bet nobody would bat an eye about recommending specialists, so why do we treat eating disorders differently, when it is shown they mess with the same types of reward systems in the brain?
more discussion at the reddit post

https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/1asosph/i_end...
Not directly related to the article, but about this:

type CommonFormatter struct {
Formatter
}

Be very careful when using it as a short way to create custom errors. For example, an error type like this:

type ErrUnexpectedValue struct {
error
}

Can be used like:

err := foo()
if err != nil {
// You probably want to add more info though, not just `error`.
//
// Can be used with `errors.As`.
return &ErrUnexpectedValue{ error: err }
}

But, while it's convenient to write, it might be easy to use the wrong way if one is not careful with getting the types exactly right (e.g. if the returned wrapped error is a pointer or not).
Without sources, it's simply slander.
Given that you can find so many people's addresses online in people databases or tax records, this seems useless.
So this definitely isn't instant, but you can get pretty close (this is my setup without disabling SIP):

1. Go to Settings -> Accessibility -> Display, turn on Reduce Motion.

2. Use something like this in your skhd config:

ctrl - 1 : yabai -m query --spaces --space 1 | jq -r '.windows[0] // empty' | xargs yabai -m window --focus

Repeat this for however many virtual desktops you typically use.
When any new tech gets hyped enough, some people instinctively drag it, if not for technical reasons then for aesthetic and social ones. If the worst thing people can say about HTMX is that its creator posts memes, the tech itself must be doing pretty well.
So if you own a minority stake in anything, you can be told at any time that it has been reduced to a value of zero?

I guess this makes sense if they alternative was bankruptcy. If you can't inject money to help at a critical time, then I suppose it makes sense that the business you have a share of is basically worthless, and only the one that has more money is worth something.

Is this just routinely abused to disinherit a shareholder? Does this mean that being a shareholder is just about finding alliances you can use to screw others over, until you eventually get screwed yourself?
eventually you'll think about power outages. i had a pihat battery nearly explode on me. beware!
If you use phind.com or similar tools, they can get you started using the references on the right or refining your question:

https://www.phind.com/search?cache=gvivp6ubidmlzrtntlrt72i8
Why should it be too late? You increase bone density by training. If the military finds people have not enough bone density they need to add more fitness exercises (e.g. strength training) to initial training.
I'm not so sure. The fact that were editing the code as text and not as mutations and annotations on its syntax tree has always struck me as a sign that we're still in the stone ages when it comes to expressing ourselves precisely to a computer.
Maybe such a weapon would violate MAD? So it becomes destabilizing? Also, one such Russian weapon would lead to massive budget boots for the US DoD. The MIC loves a good Red scare narrative.

As for the 130 counties, that's kinda comical. Only a handful of countries have nukes. Only a handful can put one in orbit. And only one of those countries has actually used nukes.
Logically and morally speaking, if not semantically speaking given a logically and morally inadequate definition for a highly political word, that's completely false.

Virtually everyone is forced to work, or face death. Being forced to work is the de facto human experience. Effectively, there isn't a choice to work or not.

Presenting work as a choice is closely analagous to presenting eating as a choice

Pay, or relative lack thereof, is what defines degree of slavery (complete or partial).

The only real arguments being a.) if one is paid what the work is worth and b.) how much of that pay is retaken in the form of taxes (direct or indirect like when company towns, or estates, recoup most of the pay in the form of costs to the laborer).

Therefore, we will add an additional form of enslavement process: purposefully (often illegally) diulting the value of labor so that it is cheaper.

If a serf is "paid" but the boss and landlord recoups nearly all of that pay in rent and taxes, is the serf a slave?

Few moral and logical people would say no.

Slaver hand-waving deserves to be called out.
Incredibly naive. Easy to de-anonymize. First they come for the books, now AI practitioners come for the health data.

"Estimating the success of re-identifications in incomplete datasets using generative models" - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-10933-3

"...We here propose a generative copula-based method that can accurately estimate the likelihood of a specific person to be correctly re-identified, even in a heavily incomplete dataset. On 210 populations, our method obtains AUC scores for predicting individual uniqueness ranging from 0.84 to 0.97, with low false-discovery rate. Using our model, we find that 99.98% of Americans would be correctly re-identified in any dataset using 15 demographic attributes. Our results suggest that even heavily sampled anonymized datasets are unlikely to satisfy the modern standards for anonymization ..."
Wrong. Potential fines for a GDPR breach, under which this could fall under, are 4% of the firm's worldwide annual revenue from the preceding financial year. But there is also a criminal code in the works for violating data provided by this bill.
> "both the founders and early investors lost nearly all their shares. (99% of it)"

I understand from this sentence that the company was in such an horrible financial situation that even the other people who were on the same situation as you agreed that it was better to raise debt on horrible terms rather than to bankrupt the company.

What was the status of the company before ?

It could have "simply" just been desperate that everybody agrees to be diluted.

The other possibility is that, if you were only 2 shareholders, that the other guy, created an artificial funding round, essentially diluting you (eventually potentially as a Breach of Fiduciary Duty).

The key is to understand what is his position now, if he actually lost or not.
Simplified version I can type from memory (I.e. on a system where I don’t have my gitconfig aliases):

-—graph -—oneline -—color
Not all public insurances perform these elections but some, e.g. Barmer GEK, Techniker Krankenkasse, DAK-Gesundheit, Kaufmännische Krankenkasse – KKH, Handelskrankenkasse und BKK RWE and I think also AOK.
How to "create an embedding" depends a lot on what kind of data you have.

Usually, you train a neural network to solve some kind of task with your data. The most common task is probably classification, for example, "Is the animal shown in this image a dog or a cat?" or "Does this text sound happy or sad?".

Once your network is trained, you discard its last layer, which was responsible for classification, and use the output of the second-to-last layer as your embedding vector.

This works because the first few layers of the network have already transformed the data into a generally useful representation, which gets turned into specific classes by the last layer, or can be used as an embedding vector instead.
I'm not familiar with the rules here but is not caring a complaint route to a defense? It can be in many other fields.

I.e. purposefully don't have any monitoring, purposefully don't go to the site often etc. then only respond of someone tells you there's a problem.

I've dealt with a few contracts in the past that have stipulated that we must respond within xx hours of becoming aware of an issue, if I didn't want to run the service it would be in my interests to do everything in my power not to avoid becoming aware of any issues.
> Qt app can match a native application in performance

Correct. That doesn’t make it a native application, still.
I’m pretty new to running these locally, but here’s my understanding:

Best models currently: codellama or deepseek coder. 6.7B or 1B depending on how much latency you can tolerate

Treesittee: from looking at the logs of the chat completions requests for Continue or Twinny extensions for VS Code, they both appear to just send a chunk of the document as well as a special placeholder to indicate where the cursor currently is.
Jailer?
The "actual real solution" with the regard to the topic in this thread is demonstrated well by a number of countries around the globe: force everyone in a country to be part of a public health insurance system, financed mostly by deductions on income and tightly regulate price setting for drugs and medical services administered under that system.

If that sounds too much like socialism for your taste, give rich people the option to buy additional services or restrict the public system to basic medical services and drugs and require private insurance on top for cutting-edge stuff.

Profit is a great thing, but it is not an end to itself. The point of liberal democratic societies is to guarantee basic rights for everyone, while constantly improving the welfare (which is not the same as wealth) of as many people as possible. Capitalism has made great contributions towards that goal, but it also contradicts it in several critical places and thus needs to be regulated where necessary.
> Some interesting research has been done on the "loss landscape" of these giant neural network models, and my understanding is that they are messy and complicated.

Do you have any recommended reading for this? It sounds like a super interesting area of research.
It’s funny how I cannot live without this feature
In France, polling stations close at 6pm except in a some large cities where they close at 8pm.

In general, for Presidential elections the gap is significant enough that TV stations announce the winner at 8pm sharp (with a countdown for good effect).
Frontend developer. Never tested in Edge.

I primarily develop and use Firefox. Rarely is a cross-browser compat issue reported, but if it does that we can test + fix on the go.
One of the people I admire for their programming skill works on a raspberry pi. I use my work MacBook through ssh because I prefer Sway to MacOS's window manager. We are many and varied.
Multiple implementations of the same interface.

When people don't know which implementation will be used, they tend to stick to the standard or the documentation.

We see this in places like the C language or in Common Lisp. Library writers must take into account that the implementation they use their library on may not be the same as the implementation their users will use.
How about a camera server?

Why yes a ESP32 can do that, and you get to play with a another cheap stack.

How about Blinking leds or a Display, or led strip... WLED and artwix have you covered!

A project like ESPresense is evolved from a PIzero project.

Let's not forget that some of the pi's appeal is that it has those GPIO headers!
Fundamental research, like what a grant would pay for, is a fairly tiny part of what pharma companies do. The vast majority is the development. Modern drugs take ~$1.5 billion dollars to bring to market. In my experience, 99% of that cost comes after what looks like academic research.
https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/special-temporary-authority#....

An operator is allocated radio spectrum so stands to reason it’s use-it-or-lose-it.
It seems the prinicpal "R&D incentive" that the parent poster considered was IP/patent law. Im not sure how that baby could be split in an A/B test.

Pharma companies receive very little (relatively) in terms of grants or research funding.

R&D spending can be amortized as a business expense when calculating a tax bill, so I suppose that could be repealed, raising the effective tax rate.
Financial incentives, obviously
I’m not sure what this comment is trying to say
I mean, this is how Saverin lost almost all of his stake in Facebook and then regained some of it in a lawsuit. At least if you believe the movie! :)
My employer has all PRs merged by a bot once they're approved. The bot takes the PR description and uses that as the commit message. The PR is the unit of change that gets reviewed, not the commit. This makes for a nice linear bisectable history of commits (one per PR) with descriptions, references to issues on our tracker, etc. And no need to worry about force pushing, rebasing, etc, unless you want to do so.

Of course it's got the same end result as doing an interactive rebase & combining all the in-progress commits into a single reviewable unit of change with a good commit message, but it's a bit more automatic.
I'm not actually advocating for "beating the shit" out of them; I'm just repeating what a marine told me about his experience.

I was a fat kid with an actual joint disorder (that would never allow me to be in the military), but I lost a lot of weight via marching band in high school while eating double cheeseburgers heartily throughout; there was a lot of fast food nearby. I've also gained and lost weight several times in life but have to tailor my exercise to an extreme to accommodate my disability. That is to say, I can't imagine life with good joints, but I've still managed things somewhat.

If I was actually setting up a sort of pre-boot program, it would indeed feature low-impact exercise and carefully controlled diet for a few months. Weight loss drugs are still a bit new, but I could absolutely see them having a place in such a program.
It deserves to be amended to a far greater degree than that, but also the above statement isn't relevant when there is only one "employer" available. Which has often been the case, historically, and maybe more so in the future.