skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Important limitation if you click through to the "Getting ready for Web Distribution in the EU" page:

> To be eligible for Web Distribution, you must [...] be a member of good standing in the Apple Developer Program for two continuous years or more, and have an app that had more than one million first annual installs on iOS in the EU in the prior calendar year.
It’s Stewart :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_wants_to_be_free
This exactly... I would represent myself, it would be fun.... and let Meta spend hundreds of thousands on lawyers. If I lost I would drag it out as long as possible and then if by some strange twist of fate I lost, I would declare bankruptcy and write a book about the whole thing.
wouldn't banning tiktok be hindering free speech?
Having recently set up a Gitlab self-hosted runner, the process seems far, far simpler - it's a case of running a Docker image on your system (or installing a binary/package), registering your runner through Gitlab settings and you're finished.

It manages running things in other Docker containers for you (or on one of many other runner options) and it worked without any modifications to my workflows. Very pleased with it.
I think they should allow unsigned apps to run in a similar way to developer mode on the Xbox.

You can enable unsigned apps, but you'll loose Apple services (e.g. iMessage). This should be enough to convince normal users not to do it, but allow those who really want to do it, to do it.
Literally cannot tell if you're serious or if this is satire.

As an off topic comment I know people who write stuff that has this sort of confusion and invariably the one's writing satire congratulate themselves on a job well done. I disagree with that assessment.
Don't worry, you still can! I've been actively contributing to the past 4 months, working on improving CI and the website. I started out doing PRs for typos and little improvements, and so can you! (I recommend looking for issues marked as "Good-First-Issue," they are the best entry-level things to work on.)
The fact that free software will not join the enshittification trend (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36611245). So try to stick to it for the long-term stability.
As an Apple customer in the EU, I'm staying on iOS 17.3 until they rewrite 17.4 4-5 times based on how many times they get fined again for malicious compliance.
The comparison uses old and/or deprecated/EOL serializers which no one in their sane mind should use today. Consider referring to my previous comment, thanks!

(and by deprecated I mean deprecated 5+ years ago like in the case of Utf8Json)

Sadly a lot of videos discussing performance do only limited research and do not approach the matter comprehensively (likely not worth it for YT algorithm favoring quick and easy content).

Nothing wrong with offering your own first-party use cases that attempt to simulate realistic workloads on top of suggested patterns for each respective contestant, but it is important to include more performance-oriented frameworks/libraries (which is why I mentioned MemoryPack) that are used e.g. in gamedev sphere which cares a lot about realtime communication.

With all that said, it's actually awesome to see a framework that offers first-class C# support, so I probably need to shut up and appreciate the fact :)
> people interested in power will try to game the system

There need to be heavy consequences. You used to be ostracized, at least for some short period of time and in some scenarios, for selfish behaviour. Now, it seems like we approve of and even encourage douchebags because everyone's gotta get theirs.
> I think the HN crowd forgets that what really runs the world are min wage workers running around and doing real world things

Is this really true? It's certainly a nice soundbyte when you're making class arguments or trying to dunk on the "HN crowd", but I think it falls apart under any level of scrutiny.

Who keeps your lights on? Who drives your bus? Who manages your sewage? Who teaches your kids? Who builds your roads? None of them make minimum wage and would probably be a little insulted to be characterized as such.

It's pretty reductionist to call anyone outside our realm of tech a "min wage worker", they're just workers like or I. I think it's a pretty stupid and pointless exercise to subdivide people into useful or non-useful workers, serving no purpose but to further pet the smugness of HN AI skeptics.
I still don't see why anyone is responding to DRM circumvention DMCA takedowns. The DMCA is very clear about the penalties for a circumvention tool needing a court order, and the section on takedowns does not mention circumvention.

I sometimes wonder if I'm missing some relevant change in law or case law, as the sections seem easy to read as somebody who isn't a lawyer.
We shouldn't assume that either of those tasks is impossible
I just find GitHub's interface very intuitive and easy to use. Even GitLab isn't close despite being very similar; and it was miles ahead of sourceforge, Google Code etc.

(This is from someone who is not a dev by profession and had no idea about version control at the time.)
https://archive.ph/2024.03.10-122546/https://www.nytimes.com...
>Sorry, I thought trolling was the technical term for abusing people over a computer network.

I choose to believe, for my own sanity, that this itself is a masterful troll.
The bigger problem with induced demand is that it's often poor ROI to add that lane where the demand is highest.

That is, imagine you have a big city. You can add capacity for 1m extra people to travel to the city centre, where there's lots of congestion. Or you find ways to induce demand around the other limits of town, even town current demand is low there.

Odds are you'll pick the first, because it's "obvious" and doesn't require much thinking to see it'd help. But we really ought to look at cost-benefit of the second option too, because repeatedly inducing demand in the centre keeps driving up the incremental cost of further improvements, along plenty of other undesirable second order effects.
Dwight Eisenhower, who also created The Matrix.
> If the Linux kernel had been hosted on GitHub from the start it would have turned out very different.

Of course I get the point you're making and agree, but this is still an amusing statement to read :)
A Restored Never-Before-Seen Lost Deleted Scene from David Lynch's Dune
My favorite thing to avoid Ryanair is, despit being most used in Europe, they never had a single deadly crash. not even once. So it's great reason to avoid actually. too safe? I prefer less safe airlines like germanwings? or maybe any other with actual crash history. Also some leg room is more important than my safety. you know?
So should I be able to build a butcher shop right by your apartment and let you deal with the smell?

There are zoning laws for a reasons.

Do you own “your” apartment?

I’m asking because some places consider it an “apartment” if it’s a rental and a “condo” if they are individual buyers and other countries call it an apartment regardless
"Moreover, keep in mind that the first million first annual installs have no CTF, and most indie devs will never even reach that point." Thus the CTF is mostly nonexistent for indie devs.

In any case, though, it's only 5 euros for 10 years of installs, and many indie apps have paid upgrades (which don't exist in the App Store) at least once every 5 years.
> the most important research problem in history

Probably not.

> assuming that AGI can be achieved by just scaling up current LLM models

Lmao.
Apple keeps a strong control nevertheless, as detailed in the page "Getting ready for Web Distribution in the EU."

> Apps offered through Web Distribution must meet Notarization requirements to protect platform integrity, like all iOS apps, and can only be installed from a website domain that the developer has registered in App Store Connect.

Further, the conditions for eligibility seem to block access to new startups and indie developers.

> To be eligible for Web Distribution, you must: (...) Be a member of good standing in the Apple Developer Program for two continuous years or more, and have an app that had more than one million first annual installs on iOS in the EU in the prior calendar year.
What's malicious about that? That the warning is designed to be ignored? If they deleted the warning, would that be much different?
Show HN: Totally customisable CalendarView in SwiftUI
I’m a big Adam’s fan and Last Chance to See is my favorite book of his. It’s the first thing I thought of when I saw the title.

If you’re interested, try the audiobook. It’s narrated by Adam’s himself.
> Web Distribution, available with a software update later this spring, will let authorized developers distribute their iOS apps to EU users directly from a website owned by the developer.

iPhone users don't really own their own device, do they...
I thought it was already established that you don't have to be in good standing... cough Epic...
I don’t understand how there would be sufficient evidence of this.
I've found having Netflix play in the background helps a ton. It has to be a show I've seen a few times and know the plot to, so I know what's going on without paying attention when I zone in and out of focus. Something easy to watch like The Office, Scrubs, How I Met Your Mother etc.

Doesn't always work though.
An Ocean of Data
I would think the 2020 number was more due to the pandemic craziness. It was ~18 in January 2020, then shot up to 25 that April. Now it's back to 16.80
That would be great! I'd love to just be able to make and app and let Iphone users get it, without Apple having any business in it.
Where I program, we still use subversion and, looking at the costs of migration, we decided not to move to git. The time and effort needed for that migration just couldn't be justified.
Looks very good (instant Flash erhm flashbacks) but jesus christ how to add more key points to the timeline?
No. From Wikipedia:

On June 12, 2008, The Wall Street Journal stated that Anheuser-Busch InBev, which owned a non-controlling 50% stake in the company, might attempt to acquire the remaining 50%.[3] On June 29, 2012, it was announced that Anheuser-Busch InBev would acquire the remaining 50% stake for an all-cash price of $20.1 billion.[4] On January 31, 2013, the US Department of Justice filed an antitrust suit in an attempt to prevent the buyout. The matter was settled, and the two companies merged in June 2013,[5] with the transfer of all United States rights to Constellation Brands.[6] As a result, all the company's brands are made (in Mexico) by an unrelated company. In the United States, Grupo Modelo brands are distributed by Constellation Brands.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grupo_Modelo
These stories are always outrageous and catharsis seems designed to be out of reach to encourage engagement with the problem.
We don't know the end result of acceleration. Is it Dyson Spheres, virtual environments or Fermi Paradox.

The capitalist interpretation is just your nuance of observation. It is about finding meaning. Humanity struggles with meaning without purpose and finds it difficult to find purpose without struggle.

That is not my unique perspective. For a great allegory, I would recommend watching the Twilight Zone episode "A Nice Place to Visit". It is precisely the vision of what endless acceleration might manifest and how some might perceive that type of existence.
Not just petty. It sounds like an awful lot of work for very little result. An actual vengeful person with that level of access could certainly do better.
The one million requirement is where you start paying them the 50cts per install, right?
"Always wait for a point release". It seems for this we need to wait for the _next_ point release. It should become clearer for EU side of the movement also - it is far from certain that Apple to be the one f*cked.
The classic example of admissions does not have a missing confounding variable. It's a case of aggregation at the wrong level.
Dennett describes it as real magic. The magic that can be performed is not considered real magic (it's merely a trick of confidence), whereas real magic is that which couldn't possibly be done.
Yeah, I've gotten sucked into those stories before too and some are just too fanciful to believe. The AI being trained on Reddit data is going to do more than hallucinate...
A mailing list is not the greatest thing in my opinion:

1. You have to subscribe to it
2. The interface for finding old issues can be bad (like long densely-packed threads with no search feature)
3. It forces me to manage my inbox (well, that's my problem)

They can all be solvable though. I never used sourcehut - are these all the same issues?
Reddit has a fake story problem unlike anywhere else on the internet. It's one of the reasons I stopped using the site.

Please don't bring these to hackernews.
Yep. I schlepped pizza 50+ years ago, as an employee, and with the employer's vehicle.
Trust me. This is amateur hour when it comes to how petty humans can be.
I'm really surprised to hear that. My GH profile has got me plenty of jobs over the years and also allowed me to skip things like programming tests that are usually part of the interview process.
This has Onion article vibes.

Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Own A Television
https://www.theonion.com/area-man-constantly-mentioning-he-d...
It is over. Many believe LLMs are more than regurgitation programs and even think they are doing the world a favour by posting ChatGPT content. Even worse, these models will only become more and more inbred as training goes on.
The biggest problem I have with splitting tasks is reluctance to do duplicate or unnecessary work. Breaking down tasks into smaller tasks means you must do duplicate work. The trick is to minimize it.

If you try to make no unnecessary work, you'll end up having to do everything at once.

Example: you want to refactor a program with two modules A and B where B depends on A. The least wasteful way of doing it is to refactor both modules together. But it's also the riskiest and hardest to estimate.

The broken down way is to refactor A and adapt B so that it works with the refactored A. After that you would refactor A, which would then risk making the adaptation effort very short lived.

If you want to do zero throwaway effort, you often can't break down the task. I have 20 years of experience and I still often find myself reluctant to do throwaway/temporary job in order to divide work. Instead I find myself doing multi-week efforts with zero yaks left unshaved.
And the victim just silently accepts their ditziness is local to only the office? Sorry but this is almost surely a creative writing exercise. I normally don't comment on these things but they also normally don't show up on HN.
There is no freedom in a capitalist system where the options are either wage slavery or starvation and to think there is reeks of silver spoon privilege. Your so-called freedom is built on economic oppression of the masses.
If that’s the case, what makes the work “creative”? (It’s possible two sets of people use the term to mean two different things)
> Be a member of good standing in the Apple Developer Program for two continuous years or more, and have an app that had more than one million first annual installs on iOS in the EU in the prior calendar year

These are the same as the current requirements to create an alternative App Store. So it sounds like this is a way for developers of a single app to allow users to install just their app. Before this comes into effect, these developers will have to create a custom store to allow users to install a single app.
The front runners for doing this would probably be Google and Meta. Large companies that publish several ad-supported apps. Side stepping the App Store would let them revert Apple’s privacy protections for tracking

However, I believe another statute of Apple’s implementation is that developers must pick. App Store or Self Distribution— an app cannot be both
> What are you searching for that might not want to include over a year of posts?

Well, for instance, Recently I was looking for the difference between bronze and brass. I'm contemplating using either in an upcoming project and my main worry is looks and rust resistance. Both google and duckduckgo managed to only surface obviously AI generated nonsense giving me no information whatsoever.

Excluding recent posts would fix that issue quite handily. In the end I found the information I needed on marginalia[0] which does similar exclusion of large swathes of the internet.

[0] https://search.marginalia.nu/
On average: yes, yes, and yes.
How would a nation state "thrive" on assassinating this person?

May I ask if you live in the U.S.? I have the impression that a lot of people there think that other nations revolve around destroying the U.S.
So, you think there is an equivalence between migrants and minorities who are long term renters who had to pay a deposit, got a background check and credit check compared to short term Airbnb “guests”?

Are you okay with a meat packing plant in your neighborhood?
The same reason it’s frowned upon to install random apps from the internet onto your PC. It’s a disaster waiting to happen.
https://archive.is/rqijb
> The blog post make it seem like the author is just expecting srht to be exactly like GitHub

The author complains users don't use the mailing list correctly or at all. That's something the author expects to work the way srht intended, but the users expect it to work like github. And that's pretty much the point of the article.
As an indie app developer myself, I don't want to have this reoccurring expense hanging over my head. As I incorporate, the 600$ in fixed yearly expenses is stressful enough.
Trolling is not the right word for this – based on the follow-up comment about it starting after rejecting advances, this is straight up sexual harassment. I share the general sense of disbelief but it’s certainly not without precedent – a lot of small and medium businesses place a huge amount of trust on individual people without much oversight, and some fraction of those people will misuse their authority.
Look; I'm no more of a fan of big-copyright than anyone else, but I'm still pretty sure that investment in tools that ultimately serve to let you download YouTube videos bypassing the site (etc) return fairly little in terms of either creativity or productivity to the world.
Accessibility Has Failed: Try Generative UI = Individualized UX
Of course it's a fake story. It's a tried and true method of farming karma: write the most rage-inducing (read: engaging) story you can possible come up with, post it on r/AMITheAsshole (or similar ragebait subreddit), and just watch the upvotes come.

It's called bait for a reason, and it's why most popular subreddits are not good places to hang out anymore.
Big changes for tech giants: Europe's sweeping law goes into effect today
Lootboxes - can't wait.
Never-before-seen Linux malware gets installed using 1-day exploits
I'm wondering if we'll be able to figure out which LLMs are Reddit-trained by asking them for advice around specific memes.
If this is not fake, this guy is an absolute idiot. 10 years of stuff going wrong and he never once bothered checking the edit history on his spreadsheets? The thing about taking screenshots and then not remembering if they were ever taken also doesn't make any sense; perfectly plausible if it happened once, but 10 years??? This is clearly fake.
If they're uncomfortable with written language, does that mean they're uncomfortable on the internet or using computers/smartphones?

For hearing people, the trend seems to have been younger generations are more into technology, so it's surprising to me that for deaf people it would be the opposite.
Hopefully we can agree that at least part of the universe "chooses" outcomes, rather than them occurring randomly. You could assume that "choosing" is what random outcomes feel like but I don't think that's productive.

Given that we have evidence of physical systems evolving their states by conscious choice, that begs the question "Why would large, complex physical systems have a governing force that doesn't exist in smaller physical systems?" Occam's Razor suggests that consciousness and will drive the evolution of all physical systems, and our elegant equations are merely statistical approximations following the law of large numbers given a population with a natural variance. Of course we can debate what it means for a low information system to be conscious and have will, but I think that's a more meaningful debate than trying to pinpoint the exact moment that a system becomes complex enough for the magical emergence fairy to sprinkle consciousness dust on inert matter.
"That's the problem with speculation (...)", which is: it's used to discredit the most plausible explanations.
eat, hydrate, exercise, sleep, meditate, stay connected with the people you care, learn to ask for help in real life.
You shouldn’t let people’s decisions around phone purchases bother you
The terms and conditions for web distribution [0] are concerning to say the least. In short, you have to have at least one million first installs annually on iOS to even qualify, in addition to other terms such as "good standing in the Apple Developer Program for two continuous years or more". I doubt Epic and the like would be considered in good standing as far as Apple is concerned. Also, quote unquote, developers will pay a core technology fee of €0.50 for each first annual install over one million in the past 12 months.

I don't see this ending well for Apple in any measure. It seems they think the EU lawmakers will just go away if they stick their fingers in their ears hard enough, but that's not how the EU works. The gears of EU turn slowly, but grind finely.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/support/web-distribution-eu/
Joe Biden suggests he wants to "ban AI voice impersonation"
It is indeed.

Can't have this being used by those who might not net Apple any money, they're locked out obviously. Fair and reasonable. /s
how do people use GitHub as a social media network exactly? I know the features are there but I've never talked to anyone who uses it.

a simpler explanation is that GitHub has a simpler/better interface than alternatives, and most people already have an account.
Knowledge graphs sound like the way you represent knowledge in Prolog and Datalog...and so nothing particularly new. Am I wrong?
is there a way to get the windows version without going through the microsoft store?

also any chance for a linux version?
I don't trust the EU much to fix the things that I personally care about indeed.

Namely: unrestricted access for new, small entrants. Less restrictions on utilities. Stuff like that.

My favourite pet example: I want DaisyDisk for iOS. What does Cook need threatening with to allow that?
For me at least, I presume that the social network comes from the people you talk to, with whatever medium you use, when one is involved in a project, wherever the code is hosted. I never saw GitHub to be special. I got work from meetups, from participating on mailing lists, etc. but not GitHub. There is no tight link to it, but I can presume for myself that can be that case for a particular project. But - to each their own on this matter.
It certainly does for the people I've been hiring if they talk to me about open-source contributions during interviews
"The problem with speculation is" that i'ts used to discredit the most plausible explanations.
I do not have a grand unified theory of what is or isn't racist. Nor do I need one in order to understand the concept that racist biases implicit in an LLMs training data can be reflected in its output, in a way that makes that output offensive to large numbers of people and unsuitable for general purpose use.

Fussing over the semantics of whether or not the LLM itself is 'racist' is a complete red herring. The article merely says that the LLM may 'use racist stereotypes' or 'offer racist replies'. It's perfectly clear what is meant by this, even if you disagree with some specific examples.