skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I even mentioned that I think Apple should open up the store on their restrictions on porn apps and things like that. But that is also a separate discussion.

It's not a separate discussion. If Apple has total control over how you use your computing devices, things like that are the inevitable result.

And it's not just porn apps. Look at the web itself; it became popular because there were no restrictions on distributing browsers for Windows. If Microsoft had the power back then that you want Apple to have today, they would have blocked it and we'd likely be stuck in a Windows/MSN monopoly.
I also can't replicate your results but GP is pretty aggressive in a way I don't feel is necessary. Sorry you got scammed out of your crypto, hope it wasn't too bad. I do agree with the sentiment that you should be incredibly vigilant and verify anything you're going to put your money inside of, Bitcoin or otherwise though. But people in positions and wallets that are far bigger than you (presumably) have done worse so don't feel too bad (Ripple CEO losing $112 million worth of XRP, for example).

Edit: Unless that app had a ton of reviews removed recently, I recommend in the future looking at that number. It is crazy that they've gamed it up to #97 in the finance charts according to the app store listing for sure, though the Play store is not immune to this manipulation.
> Will you say the same for Paris, London, Rome, Milan, New York, Miami, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Beijing, Tokyo, Hongkong, Singapore, and Seoul?

Yes
If users want more freedom, they can just hit the third party app toggle. Some users like the walled garden; they can choose the app store.

do you see the equivalence here? what am i missing?
Numbers in many languages tend to be harder to internalize, yes. Numbers in Danish are a whole other level, thou.

Consider e.g. the number 157. That'd be 100 + 7 + ((-0,5 + 3) x 20), only that they don't pronounce the "x 20" because then it is too long.
Blood Plasma Transplant Study Shows Exercise-Linked Neuroregeneration Mechanisms
Your right, and once again that is the developers choice not the users choice...

That isn't the counter you think it is.
Typing. And it works fantastic with Go
It's not clear that will actually work. Courts are on to the trick of evading judicial review by rendering some issue moot, and there is precedent to work around it. For example, see the "Mootness" discussion in this recent 1st amendment case (Nutt vs. Ritter, 2023):

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-dis-crt-e-d-nor-car-sou...
As a non-migraineur (and neuroscientist) I find this absolutely fascinating! It's so wild that these are visual enough to draw.
Silicon Valley Moment
Yes, although worth remembering that many EVs are rear-wheel drive only.

An all-wheel drive or front-wheel drive EV can regen more effectively than one which can regen on the rear wheels only.
This is very interesting. A discussion of the process of estimating and predicting future events, specifically going into their focus on "base rates". Apparently they are significantly better than other groups that enter most predicting competitions. (who knew there was such a thing?)

I particularly liked the idea of base rates and averaging them. [1] I can see here that the idea of them is not to be on their own accurate (some of the methodologies individually are dumb), but do get an idea for the scales of numbers to talk about (the difference between a 5% event and a 10% event is very hard to notice as a human)

[1] "One was the rate at which provinces claimed by China (like Hong Kong, Macau, and Tibet) have eventually been absorbed, peacefully or by force; another was how often control of Taiwan has changed over the last few hundred years (twice; once when Japan took over from the Qing Empire in 1895 and once when the Chinese Nationalists did in 1945); the third base rate used Laplace’s rule. Laplace’s rule states that the probability of something that hasn’t happened before happening is 1 divided by N+2, where N is the number of times it hasn’t happened in the past. So the odds of the People’s Republic of China invading Taiwan this year is 1 divided by 75 (the number of years since 1949 when this has not happened) plus 2, or 1/77, or 1.3 percent.

Sempere averaged his three base rates to get his initial prediction: 8 percent"
But you still get the forced ads and any other related monetisation crap they can think of too yeah?
This is what drives me mad about this kind of article:

> The team had an answer, and it’s an answer that goes some way toward explaining why this group has managed to get so good at predicting the future.

Then a whole section and a half of stuff I don't care about to get to the answer:

> there was broad agreement that the base rate of war — between China and Taiwan or just between countries in general — is not very high
TFA uses sloppy phrasing, but it's correct. The claim is not that earlier logicians such as Frege viewed logical concepts as meaningless. It's that, before Tarski and Gödel, no one clearly distinguished syntax and semantics, and so earlier logicians lacked the conceptual resources to describe the difference between truth and provability, let alone investigate their relationship. (Frege only ever considers a single semantics for any formal system.)
I wouldn't really say that's a universally held notion, especially in the modern world. Historically, yes, but these days it stands more on its own. In similar vein, you could say biology is a subfield of physics, but most people don't think of them that way.
>This is a weird take - dunking on a product from more than forty years ago because it doesn't have modern ease of use.

Oh, good grief. The author repeatedly discusses the limitations of the product as they would have been seen by someone today and 40 years ago.
The Youtube app works without logging in (on Android).
They're too young for that, I think?
Restrictions on kosher slaughter in Canada violate Jews' Charter rights: lawsuit
I still remember when that happened to me, it was quite a bizarre experience. It started after coming back from a meeting where the room was all painted white and had some of the brightest light I had seen and then it started while I was coming back home in the car, it was a sunny winter day with bright white reflected snow.

I didn't feel the pain of a migraine like I usually do but the zigzag pattern started as a very small point in the middle of my vision, got home, lay down on the couch and the circle grew and grew. I'd say around two third of the outline of that circle was a zigzag and I vividly remember that there was a checkboard pattern around the part that wasn't zigzag.

It was hard to see at some point as it became bigger and bigger and I was beginning to panic. But there was an inner circle inside of it of clear vision and once the zigzag circle became so big that it was outside of my vision, I was back to normal vision.

I did some research back then to figure out what happened and saw all those medieval paintings and drawings that people with similar experience did. I would enjoy the experience much more today with that knowledge but it never happened again.

The experience last between 30-60 min.
I think the key is to realize and accept that some projects are now so complicated and large that no single person can build it from scratch.

The Unreal engine (for example) is built by a large team of individuals working full time over many years. No single human can start from scratch and build Unreal 5.

Same goes for leading edge AI, space rockets, Linux, AAA games, etc.

However what you can do is to work on things nobody has worked on before. A new type of programming language, an interesting new type of game etc. It is a lot harder to get started because you can’t simply target what has been done before. However you absolutely can make things that others find valuable. Indie game developers (for example) do this all the time. It is not easy but it is doable.
Humans are primates, but we don't presume we're more similar to chimpanzees than to humans.
Reverse Engineering APIs
Where is the talent these days? We have been on the hunt for somebody who has extensive experience but they all seem to be in hiding.
The problem is that you’re framing this as some kind of technical issue that no one else has reproduced. Did you follow any kind of common sense due diligence? How is this any different from blaming Google/Gmail because you fell victim to a phishing/scam email?
Wonder if Panic will switch to an LLVM-based toolchain moving forward.
> As about two dozen attorneys have told my family members in their case after taking tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars of their money

Not that you have to disclose, but I am taking an educated guess, as someone who has also worked for a (very) large law firm...

You reference a single civil case.

Where "two dozen" attorneys have each been retained as counsel, done work for your family on this one case, and every one of the two dozen of them have individually withdrawn their representation?

At some point (multiple points, really), something has to be very very wrong here:

Who are these attorneys who are all constantly withdrawing from your family's case, and why? That to me (and please, I am not attempting to judge) sounds like 1) their client (your family) failed to disclose fairly substantial material information to them, causing them to withdraw, or 2) their client has been notably/repeatedly uncooperative with their attempts to represent them, or 3) their client has (repeatedly) ignored statements about the futility of their case, and stubbornly pushed it forward, still.

And then we get to the court. A judge that doesn't raise an eyebrow at the second withdrawal of an attorney, let alone twenty plus is comatose at the bench. In my area, a capital city, judges want explanations from attorneys on their withdrawal, and the predicament doing so might leave their client in. They've even been ordered to brief public defenders (I know, criminal) before they could withdraw. Hell, even civil continuance orders for more than a month or so require justification as to why the continuance need be that long.
Probably the Thinkpad range is what you're after then. They're widely used by Linux developers, so their peripherals have working drivers sooner rather than later.
Users don't have much power, individually. They express their power collectively through the political system. I'm just very skeptical of the approach taken by Europe with the DMA. It seems to be less about empowering individual users and more about letting other large players carve up the Apple/Google 2-slice pie into a few more big slices.
Unfortunately, ASCII delimiter fields were used streaming data. The pain that created was simple - you'd try to send data containing an RS or a US and it would cause bad things to happen on the other end of the wire.

> Imagine the amount of pain that could have been spared if we had done it right from the start some 50 years ago.

I think it's Putt's Law: If you design something for idiots, someone will make a better idiot. In this case, it took less than 15 years.
it's not clear to me that you read or understood the article, all of your posts certainly feel as if you didn't.

He explained why 0 isn't the goal, you continue to act as if he didn't. I don't know where else this conversation can go without you going back and better understanding his actual point.
To be clear this is a software setting now, on all (I think?) Teslas.
>the creation of foreign proteins

Those proteins are already there though, right?
But at least in the case of guar gum in hummus it seems like it's picking and choosing what is a "processed food" rather arbitrarily. Would hummus with cocoa power be rated as high as hummus with guar gum? What makes pure coca powder different from guar gum? What makes pre-packaged hummus different from just always being considered a processed food?? Practically all commercially packaged hummus is created through an "industrial process". Isn't it then all highly processed?

It's applying an index to things without even really explaining why or what that index really means. What are the actual health impacts of hummus with guar gum versus hummus without it? It's ultimately telling us next to nothing other than highlighting some ingredients the maintainers don't like while ignoring ingredients they do like, seemingly very arbitrarily.

Does the index define roasted and ground coffee as a highly processed food? Why or why not?
I’m really excited to try this. Your design process reflects my own. Please support indexing ruby files.
The big pitfall in the api of browser and keyboard is there is not a method to get the status (keys pressed) of the keyboard.

I know that it is about security stuff, but for the games in js is a bad situation when the canvas lost the focus and the keys pressed change.
The xeno-estrogen Ethinylestradiol is used in birth control pills because it is more resistant to degradation by the liver than bio-identical hormones.

Birth control use one of a variety of Progestins, instead of bio-identical Progesterone USP, for the same reason.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethinylestradiol

If you could share what specifically you found to be "uninformed and insane" in my comment, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks.
Isn’t there something special about the arrangement of doctors not being employed by the hospital that might explain some of the individual suits?
I've been getting migraine auras with scintillating scotomas since I was 16 though it only happens about once every few months and they last a few minutes to a couple of hours so they have not been too debilitating. This article provides a great description.

First time I had one, I thought it was a stroke because I couldn't read anymore and I had paresthesia (numbness and tingling) in my hands and face. I believe the paresthesia is mostly brought on by anxiety/hyperventilation as I don't always get it.

My scintillating scotomas don't look very bright though. In fact, the first few times I had them, I didn't notice any color at all. I just noticed that part of my field of vision was missing. It's weird. You could be staring directly at someone's face but you cannot see part of it and yet you can see everything else normally. At the same time, there is no noticeable gap or hole or discontinuity in your field of vision. Just like the article mentions, it's like a distortion of space-time within the field of vision.

I don't think it's possible to accurately convey the experience through art but you can get a vague idea by looking at altered photos of human faces with 4 eyes and 2 mouths. You can feel your brain trying to create blind spots in order to make sense of what it's seeing. It's a bit like that except your brain isn't trying to hide specific features but a fixed portion of your field of view.
I know mostly "it depends", but I wonder how that much experience affects job prospects, and what kinds of unique skills and advantages it gives. Software development has changed a lot and there are surely people who have been doing the same thing with no improvement, but 40 years is a lot of time to get very specific knowledge, and experience gives skills that can't be learned. At the least, it means you're reliable.
I wonder what the air quality is like in and around racing car circuits, given brake, tire, and exhaust pipe emissions.
> But the NYPD is sued all the time, and I haven't seen evidence of them systematically acting vindictively against either plaintiffs nor their attorneys.

That'd be a full time job. Over the last 15 years, NYC has been paying out a million dollars per WEEK for NYPD abuse of power lawsuits alone.
Epson has by far the most complete online collection of documentation I've ever seen. It even has manuals <https://files.support.epson.com/pdf/qx10__/qx10__u1.pdf> for the QX-10 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epson_QX-10> (1983), a CP/M machine!
Time for TikTok to cut its ties to China
You can't get a raw deal in a market economy. The deal you get is what the deal was worth.
We’re still at the “rhyming not reasoning” phase of LLMs. The question of whether we move past rhyming and onto reasoning is a good one, and I’m not sure what I think about it. But I am pretty sure that coding is a lot more like reasoning than it is like rhyming, at least for de novo problems above a certain level of complexity (intellectual challenge) and complication (moving parts).

I remain open minded about what’s next and at the rate things are changing, I wouldn’t rule anything out a priori for now.
It's important to recognise precursor systems like Hypercard, and the BBN SGML based mailsystem, in fact SGML itself, as a predecessor to HTML markup (there was an active "why did we use HTML and not SGML" conversation crossing over into XML days). Web did not happen in a vacuum. Gopher and WAIS existed.

It's important to understand the distinctions between a protocol (HTTP/S, TLS, QUIC) and an encoding (XML, HTML) and a governance structure (or lack of it)

It's important to distinguish between what architects think they are designing as the built environment, and what people actually use space for. And that is true in meat space as well as hyper space.
Just because the process today is "good enough" doesn't mean that it's a worthwhile use of developer time to create that process.

But, you're highlighting one of the challenges of changing the status quo. The "new thing" has to be significantly better than the old, otherwise people won't immediately want to switch.

Similar arguments were probably made when the iPhone removed the physical keyboard.
> Its not illegal to ask for voluntary cooperation

Cooperation obtained under false pretences may be fraud.
Ahh, so we are to be kept as pets or have our dead bodies arranged in display cases.
But none of those are remotely as good as GPT4 for example.
Perhaps it seems unusual, as Apple has so much technical control, an unusually extensive legal budget, and doing a very effective job of castrating any "threats" or as the EU might say "significant competition".

And Apple has the cash to play chicken with any potential fines if it comes to it, so its not hedging much if at all.

It is clear that the EU is going to have to get very tough, before Apple is going to proactively take into account any of the "spirit of the law" that the EU would like it to understand.
I agree. I was originally totally confused why people would drive out to see something you can see in photos.

The moment I saw it while driving there, I gasped out loud. It was leaning. It was bright white. It stood tall above everything else.

We dropped by on our way from Florence to Cinque Terre. It’s worth a visit.
The base rate arguing seems like specious reasoning. For example, if you had a volcano that erupts roughly ever 100 years, base rate reasoning using the past 99 years of data would suggest that the probability is 0 and using 1000 years of data would suggest it's ~10% when in reality your base rate in the year following an eruption is 0 with every passing year your probability of an eruption would increase & increase past 10% for every year past 100 that goes without explosion. Same goes for something like war where pressures build up and war becomes more likely rather than less. So getting judged that you're better at predicting by giving low probabilities for rare events isn't that insightful because you'd be outperformed by someone who predicts a black swan event because the magnitude of the event matters.

> The prediction got some press attention and earned rejoinders from nuclear experts like Peter Scoblic, who argued it significantly understated the risk of a nuclear exchange. It was a big moment for the group — but also an example of a prediction that’s very, very difficult to get right. The further you’re straying from the ordinary course of history (and a nuclear bomb going off in London would be straying very far), the harder this is.

Yup, the group got it right but predicting a rare event doesn't happen isn't that difficult, it's just notable because everyone was overly freaked out, particularly in the media due to self-repeated sensationalism. Peter Scoblic is correct that the risk is significantly understated because it's not correctly adjusting for the impact of the black swan event happening (e.g. if a nuclear explosion were to occur, you'd expect nuclear retaliations).
Noted! I'll see if I can get Ruby to work in the next hour or two
Many people suggesting zsh, but if you’re willing to move to fish you’ll get many features out of the box.
Keeping that case shut almost bankrupted them in the long run, though. They survived only thanks to money from the open-case people.
Apple fans would always claim that this was a security measure to prevent malware. I have always found the claim dubious.

If you believe in that as a security measure, you could still have a signing requirement and apple could revoke trust on known-bad binaries. Which is probably what they will do.
I'm at a 1/4 of that. I love it and I'm just hoping it sticks around long enough to get me to 40 ;)
Some numbers can be precisely represented using IEEE-754 floats. Two (2) is one of them.
That was very kind of you, and I appreciate that you value life so much, no matter how small; but I’m going to say you are an extreme outlier.

Realistically, how many people would go to all that trouble to save an ant nest on land that they are building on? And that’s not mentioning how many ants probably died in the move or were left behind and died in the rebuilding of the foundation, even despite all the care you took.
For me it's the ten hundreds or similar way to call the thousands. It's something that I have to picture the number in my mind and then translate it to the equivalent in thousands.
Sure. This is a financial instrument used by industry professionals though, not just an 'app'.

You can (and some people do) call buying shares 'gambling' too, at some point it just comes down to what our definitions are and it's not very interesting.
Because they will go to a court to move to enforce it...
I, too, have suffered the impending feeling of dread as part of my field of vision disappear into nothing, only to re-emerge accompanied by the scotoma.

The thing that got me each time were the purity of the red-green-blues of the scintillations as well as the triangular geographical shapes that seemed to reveal the foundations of cognition.
I wouldn't qualify myself as a great programmer, but I never had the feeling of reaching a wall. There are just so many things to explore. I would just pick a language or area I'm not familiar with and try to work on some project.

Write a (mini)C compiler in OCaml. A distributed reliable key-value value store using the Raft protocol in Go. Work on some toy OS in C. A Gameboy emulator in Rust. A doom-like game in C++. Do 500 leetcode problems. It's endless!

I personally like to pick up some programming projects from MIT or similar institutions. Considering you're self taught, you may benefit from more academic material. Just pick something that corresponds to your level.
https://archive.is/kIbGL
Those are some seriously great engineering numbers. Mera, with all the negative pressure it receives (rightfully so) is an engineering powerhouse.

But I do wonder how they foresee monetising this.
The HX-20 lost while the Tandy Model 100 won, because the latter found a real market: Journalists and others who wanted to write on the road. The former's screen isn't large enough for writing despite the good keyboard, and vertical markets where the screen size didn't matter as much weren't large enough to drive HX-20 sales. BYTE's review explains this. <https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1983-09/1983_09_BYT...>
the article was about brake emissions. Yet you're pointing to an article about tires.
For the doctors, it is really hard to loose a license. Even then, a doctor can move to another state and continue to run practice.
The Clay Davis way! "I'm cutting through all the red tape. Then I load my pockets up with cash, and by the time I do my walk through the neighborhoods, it's all gone!"