skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The lack of an obvious place to go seems to be all that stands between Reddit and total collapse. Instead of an obvious Digg->Reddit type path, it's more like Reddit->a bunch of less than equivalent options.

You've got your Lemmys and Lobsters and so on, but none of them are a centralized catch-all. I can't (for example) go to Lobsters and talk about Star Trek in a /r/DaystromInstitute equivalent, and the official equivalent running on Lemmy is far from equivalent to what the subreddit was before all this chaos.

It's kind of the same deal with Twitter. Twitter was the place ~everyone went to as forums collapsed. Now there's [Discord, new forums, Reddit, 9000 different ActivityPub platforms, Bluesky, Cohost, ...] and none are quite a match for what even the narrowest niche used Twitter for. You could easily go from your forum chat threads and topical threads and recreate that experience on Twitter with a high level of fidelity. Digg->Reddit was similar.

There's no obvious match for the centralized platforms because they sucked up all the energy for creating new centralized platforms that existed before.
The key insight always was hexapodia.
Show HN: Web Tunnels – Passwordless authentication for the web
It's to a degree orthogonal to devs your hire as well resourced APT will be able to penetrate any org regardless of quality of developers an org hires.
Just brainstorming here: anything temperature-based? Starts degrading above 10C for example. In your fridge it's no problem, chuck it out of the window like a savage and it will eventually degrade, unless you live on the poles.

Sounds like a good avenue for (organic) material science research.
As an iPhone user I am willing (and believe I am) paying Apple a premium for a well curated and reviewed App Store (vs android). I just wish they would stop “double dipping “ and charging far in excess of their costs (and in excess of reasonable profit) to the app sellers.
For the last badge, it wasn't masterful strategy: I played until I got lucky with an overpowered Ring of Wealth run, and farmed the dwarven floors for like 3 days before breezing through the demon halls and ascending. That one and only six challenge run landed with 1,050,700 points, which was just enough to get the final "Over 1 million points" badge.

That was the last round I played, almost a year ago. I consider myself free from the game now, but look back on it fondly :)
Now that Reddit is a public company, will information about the "maxwellhill" account be released?
Perhaps a hardware engineer can help me out here, but I don't think Apple makes an unreasonable margin on the iPhone. Overall they make 26% [0]. Really quite reasonable considering highly-developed proprietary software is bundled with the device

They make a lot of money because they sell * a lot * of iPhones.

[0] https://valustox.com/AAPL
I think the burden of explanation is on the great great grandparent post which proposed an accelerometer "entirely made out of the same magnetic field" which would let it satisfy an equivalence principle for "magnetic force".
That essay is written by a political scientist. His arguments aren't very persuasive. Even if they were, he doesn't actually cite the person he's writing about, so I have no way to check the primary materials. It's not like this is uncommon either. Everyone who's smart since 1760 has extrapolated the industrial revolution and imagined something similar to the singularity. Malthus would be a bad example and Nietzsche would be a good example. But John von Neumann was a million times smarter than all of them, he named it the singularity, and that's why he gets the credit.
They will make that argument, and the government will point out that Apple is trying to charge 27% everywhere those choice decisions were taken away, pretty conclusively proving... it's all about collecting the rent.
How do you think Apple will differentiate their case from United States v. Microsoft Corp., where Microsoft was implicated for almost identical monopoly misconduct?

The complaint literally says verbatim, "But after launching the iPhone, Apple began stifling the development of cross-platform technologies on the iPhone, just as Microsoft tried to stifle cross-platform technologies on Windows."
Conventionally speed running communities define their own categories. So as long as there's some way people can agree for how to compete things work out OK. You'll see that for example several important speed running games have "No major exploits" in a category rule - who decides what's a "Major exploit" ? The other runners, duh.

At a GDQ it's fun to watch some awful exploit "win" Mario in eight seconds (not a real example) by messing with a game bug and precise input, but it's also fun to watch somebody who is incredibly good beat it the way you'd imagine you could if you were much better at the game, so there's room for multiple categories in popular games.

If there's a split it can often be resolved by having two categories. If you think it's stupid to hope to get a good seed in Minecraft, you can just only run the chosen seed categories, meanwhile if you think that sucks because it doesn't reward agile thinking you might prefer the random only categories. Both groups get to have fun.
It looked surprisingly pretty weak to my non lawyer eyes. I mean I fully understand that apple business practices are building a moat through highly integrated software but its almost a feature for their system and you buy it knowing that.

It feels like it goes back to Android vs Apple approach to their ecosystem.
Ask HN: Use GitHub Copilot GPT endpoints with LangChain etc.
Has anyone managed to use Github copilot gpt endpoints with something like langchain?
I want to call them from within a custom vscode extension.
Ha. I'm not sure your remark really responds to my concerns. I do use very small set from all the things. And do pay (small amount, I admit) money to some of them.

If I choose to pay for a tool and the tool maker doesn't pay for their tools, then how much better off we are? I can't really see this next iteration of non-GNU ecosystem faring that much better if only few benefit.

And for that matter, I did pay money for non-free tools. And bought Linux on those CDs distributors used to sell. Then the free-er ones somehow got better, so that revenue stream had nowhere to go. As I said, there's no easy way to pay for free stuff.
V Language Review (2024): A Practical Guide
I love zoxide! Also for your list: lsd, a prettier ls.
The problem is that the “stability” and invesment interventions from the USA has typically come with some rather unpleasant strings attached. I think it’s either patronising or ignorant to suggest that various Latin American countries policy decisions weren’t made with that in mind.
Hi everyone!

At pico.sh we have been experimenting with new and interesting ways to leverage SSH for all sorts of use cases. Our latest experiment are with web tunnels an new way to serve authenticated sites.

Happy to answer any questions and very excited to receive feedback on this new way to authenticate users on the web.
I can't seem to load the page, would love to read.
Here is the non-paywall link to the full NYT article I shared:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/technology/apple-doj-laws...
The NPR piece on Reddit this morning stated it was founded by Steve Huffman and Alex Ohanian, and didn’t even mention Aaron Swartz.
They probably had private investigators following him and scrutinizing everything he did and has done. Also they were likely attacking him in the questioning/testimony. PIs could have also bugged his places.

This can lead to significant stress and it can seem never ending, and it can push people over the edge if it is sustained stress. This can hurt the other aspects of his life making, possibly hurting his ability to make money. So it could easily push him to suicide.
cybercriminal organizations pull way more $ than cybersecurity firms do
Maybe when supply outstrips demand? It looks like there is more than enough business for the foreseeable future that there is no need to restore to protection rackets.
Social media as a concept is in big trouble: Facebook, Tiktok, and others are constantly explaining themselves in Washington. Twitter has transformed into Elon Musk's media toy. Reddit is full of echo chambers that produce very little original content.
Microsoft confirms Windows Server issue behind domain controller crashes
> The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it has launched an investigation into the company due to the “unprecedented magnitude of the cyberattack.”

Let the coverup begin, well actually they probably started wiping days after the attack.
the scammer seizes the opportunity to strike up a conversation and guide the victim toward feeling like they’ve hit it off with a new friend

Ah, so not something we of the 'tism need worry about. The only way I respond to wrong numbers is by blocking them.
Finally. It was about time that this would happen.

Google got one anti-trust lawsuit, Meta should get another one (by owning too many social networks with billions of users each) and after the failed anti-trust lawsuit that Epic tried to sue Apple under, this time the DOJ is finally going after Apple.

Good.

I'm really looking forward to the United States v. Apple Inc. anti-trust lawsuit that will actually make some changes to stop the 30% commission scam once and for all.

After that, now do Microsoft (again)
> People protested, eventually taking thousands of subreddits offline, which Reddit then fixed by replacing the moderators/owners of each subreddit.

Reddit couldn't have handled this better IMO. Mods literally held subs hostage, which, when you think of it, is just so stupid it made for some good natural selection.
If it works, why die? You have a chance.
You can incrementally delete your posts and interactions while backing them up. Once done, you can request your user data to verify that deletion has taken place, and then cancel the account.

https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite , this and other tools make it easy to manage.

Reddit has hamfistedly broken whatever value it once had as a platform for long form discussion, with the interesting and valuable fringe, hobbyist, and obscure niche forums having been banned or moderated into inane milquetoast. Now, its value seems primarily as a customer support resource for companies outside the US, or as a platform for attracting clicks on other platforms.

Reddit's going the way of MySpace. Unless you like burning money, this IPO is one to skip. All the things that made Reddit great, once, are gone now. There are no compelling reasons to use it; it's slow, intrusive, disrespectful to user privacy, performatively moralizing and preachy, caters to the worst sort of moderation and curation power dynamics, and serves no relevant purpose in the ecosystem of the modern internet. The best and only value of Reddit comes from older archives of scraped content now used as training data for AI.
Where did you see the announcement they sunset it?
https://archive.ph/OKal7
ncdu is the best du replacement by far.
> iMessage, Apple Watch, and cloud gaming

I think they’ll have a pretty strong case. The Apple Watch not working with android being the one that will need the most convincing. I could see it happening, like when msft needed to put IE on macOS
They have a remarkably durable market share. Some people are in effect forced to choose apple since apps they need (in some cases medical apps!) are iPhone only as the seller just does not bother with android.
I love this idea. Is there something similar for web-apps?

I wonder if you can easily add AI-based fuzzing or AI-based sample workflows to a testing pipeline.
GoFetch: New side-channel attack using data memory-dependent prefetchers
There's approximately 2 app stores, I wouldn't call that competition.

Even in the most egregious days of Microsoft's OS monopoly, you could still choose to install software. Apple makes it basically impossible to do this outside of the context of their app store, which they charge heavily for access to and have no qualms removing or preventing apps that compete with its own. If this doesn't constitute monopolistic behavior, the bar is so high I'm not sure anything would ever qualify for it.
In my Midwestern area, infant care is ~$2000/month or more at a center and you get down to ~$1200 a month if you're at the right kind of center by age 4. So there are still some thousands to contribute to childcare even with $16k "off" and then that doesn't count diapers or clothes or formula (breastfeeding is great but you can't do it forever, some can't do it at all, and it is very hard to do on a practical level if you've got an hourly/service job).
It's in his interest to have a small cash compensation though since long-term capital gains tax is smaller than income tax. Also, he can always take a loan against his stock to get liquidity without triggering income tax.
https://archive.is/OKal7
Spirituality != Religion
Simple kernel module to control Jetson Orin clocks from user space
The aim of this kernel module is to provide applications in user space access to the clocks in Jetson Orin machines through system calls - ioctls().

Basically a wrapper of the standard Linux Kernel Common Clock Framework, actually it could be used in any other platform just by changing the device tree overlay, everything else is completely generic.
Great writeup. Here's a full-text review that contains all the math needed to build a model of this process (2013):

"Quantitative modeling of bacterial chemotaxis: Signal amplification and accurate adaptation, Yuhai Tu"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3737589/

The main points are:

* Both receptor cooperativity and accurate adaptation can be described quantitatively by simple mathematical models.

* An integrated model (the “standard model”), which contains both signal amplification and adaptation, is developed to predict responses of it E. coli cells to any time-dependent stimuli quantitatively.

* Exponential ramps induce activity shifts, which depend on the ramp rate through the methylation rate function F(a).

* Responses to oscillatory signals reveal that E. coli computes time-derivative in the low-frequency regime.

* E. coli memorizes the logarithm of the ligand concentration and the Weber-Fetcher law holds in E. coli chemotaxis.

It also goes into cooperative phase transitions in the receptor complexes as a means of signal amplification, using the same model as in Ising ferromagnetic spin-spin interactions in physics.
Obama was in Afghanistan longer than W. All 8 years vs what 6.5 for Bush? War is bipartisan. Who do you vote for if you object to the current wars for example? Who should you of voted for if you objected to any of the previous ones? The majority of the duration of these wars they lacked popular support, the vote to end them wasn't provided as an option.[0]

> GOP with an even stronger rhetoric...

I look at action over words.

Under Bush illegal immigration was higher than Obama. Understanding Bush and Republicans of the time "pro business" mantra of the era that makes sense, businesses wanted to pay lower wages. Bush helped them out.

Obama needed to show economic recovery, particularly among the working poor, similar to how Clinton wanted to. So he built the 'kid cages'/youth detention facilities (name changes depending on who is in office) and enforced the immigration laws. This decreased the supply of labor available and allowed workers to catch up after 2008. As workers catch up they buy goods and services, this expands the economy and thus lowers deficit to GDP ratios.

[0] until Trump apparently. I'd credit Biden for the Afgan withdrawal but he refuses to accept it (like you have done in your comment here). Overall a disaster of a pull out is better than continuing a disaster of a war, for me whoever takes blame for one also deserves the credit for the other. He also is the first guy in my adult life to not start any new wars. I'd put together a version of the above deficit chart but with wars started by administration but I think you agree this comment has gone on long enough.
I like decimal math, and I don't think it's well supported in many languages.

I also like AppleScript's crazy English (or French or Japanese) syntax, and I can't help but wonder if it (and HyperTalk) were partially inspired by COBOL.
Inevitably the cause of the breach will be something like an open firewall.
Singularity doesn't necessarily rely on LLMs by any means. It's just that communication is improving and the number of people doing research is increasing. Weak AI is icing on top, let alone LLMs, which are being shoe-horned into everything now. VV clearly adds these two other paths:

o Computer/human interfaces may become so intimate that users
may reasonably be considered superhumanly intelligent.
o Biological science may find ways to improve upon the natural
human intellect.

https://edoras.sdsu.edu/~vinge/misc/singularity.html
On the browser front, it’s easy. iPhones have batteries so battery life is a concern. That’s why Apple treats them differently than Macintosh computers, which you can choose your own default browser engine for.
I just went through the process of deleting my content using their data removal tool and their mechanism for deleting your data triggers those "X was removed for violating community guidelines" emails for everything it deletes. I had 9 emails from them as soon as I submitted it.
Onboarding into an Organization – A Set of Questions
I received a version of this list from a friend who joined as a VP in the Product organization at a previous job and have subsequently expanded on it. My reaction was "who the hell is this guy asking so many questions?", so if that's *your* reaction, I get it! Sharing this to get feedback from the community.
There is a move to rename the crime to "financial grooming" because the term "pig butchering" is an intentional form of victim shaming. Anyone who is still using the term pig butchering should be immediately discredited.
yes safari is preinstalled but on an iphone you aren't allowed to install another browser (in this jurisdiction) so there's technically no precedent yet
https://archive.is/SYlk5
That's a reason someone might prefer Apple's first-party browser, sure. How does it justify banning third-party browser engines though?

Are we ruling out the possibility that competitive browsers could offer better battery performance, too?
And then, they make much much better margins on the App Store.
Congrats to Reddit and YC. An example of the adage that all successful businesses succeed despite themselves and why product market fit is so important.

I remember the early days.. I deleted that early account b/c reddit was so addictive. And it arguably still is. I remember receiving a few replies from Aaron. He was a kid who was living in the future way ahead of his time.

I migrated here though when reddit diversified subreddits.. kinda like when Facebook opened up to the world reddit became less useful for conversation.

And I've gone through a few accounts/handles for the same reasons here as reddit.

Downvotes and even distributed slashdot moderation work to discourage conversation and ultimately engagement unless you garner a critical mass to break out of the algorithm. I imagine post engagement follows Zipf's law. This probably explains why people buy upvotes and followers etc...

No site is immune to this as far as I can tell. Niche subbreddits help but then those tend to be actively moderated. Very specific forums also tend to be better for specific things (like car forums).

Good advice is to never read the comments to the things you post and I guess that means replies as well :) .. It's a weird dynamic because what all humans really need is to be heard..

And yet magic internet points are not quite the correct filter. Maybe AI will save us.
You make a good point about the possibility that they could be even more successful with stronger leadership and product focus. I can’t argue with that and don’t disagree.

My points were focused on the fact that the data just doesn’t currently show Google failing or declining as a company.

It’s going to be really interesting to see how the Google AI strategy plays out. I agree that they could have absolutely been the leader. They had the money, resources, and ingredients to make it happen.

I believe that AI is a threat to their current business model. How much did that influence their investment and focus on it?
Argh - the font is nigh-unreadable on a FullHD monitor. Why on earth does the modern web UI insist on the SUPER-THIN variants of fonts?
I'm (legitimately) curious could the fact that (almost) all of that is now open in the EU due to their laws but not the US. Would that hurt their argument since they blocked off the change from the US. Or would that all be solved by a statement along the lines of "Well, EU iPhones are now less secure."
How does Facebook succeed making stupid amounts of money in this context? Is it the reality that they just have enough of data to make targeting effective enough?
I think for difficulty 4+ pen & paper is necessary because there are too many constraints to consider, so I made myself a small helper based on rlorenzo's comment [0]

[0] https://galati.dev/personal/zebra-puzzles-helper
> I think he has a unique talent for creating lasting online communities

And, most importantly, money
In short, yes, because the preservation of human life supersedes other religious considerations.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10619987/
> An individual E. coli has no brain, obviously, and is even many orders of magnitude simpler than a human cell, and yet already it possesses something like a sense of smell, drive, even a memory.

A person is billions of billions of more effective cells than an E.coli cell: still our sense of smell, drive and memory do not seem to be billions of billions times more efficient.
Might subsisting on what the land and sea provide also be considered thriving, if done with a close group of people?

I might be in a grass-is-greener mentality, but I think we're kinda broken now; we've hacked the earth computer and aren't taking seriously the job of stewardship. Watching the birds and the recently-emerged Douglas squirrel and the moth that got into the house- I'm envious of their lives. I don't want to give up meta-cognition, but I do want to give up the specialized roles and the reliance on technology and move on (with others) to hunting and gathering on a suitable area.

The earth-computer is marvelous to observe. Being of the Star Wars generation I've grown up with computers and see them as a sideshow now, not to last long because of the complex infrastructure behind it all.

Some influential books I've read:

Wool, by Hugh Howey

The New Wilderness, by Diane Cook

Why We Need to be Wild, by Jessica Carew Kraft

Feral, by George Monbiot
Consumer harm is pretty easy to argue, Apple doesn't tax macos programs but it does tax ios programs. That argument results in billions of dollars of consumer harm. There are many arguments against that view as well, but I just wanted to show that it is easy to argue for consumer harm.
GitHub Copilot General Availability in the CLI
Why do you think that apple should get to make this choice for their users?

If they are so concerned with not letting their users drain the battery if they wish, why do they allow games on their store?
I lived in California for 5 years and didn't see or hear a gunshot either outside of those exclusions. Same living in Canada for 20+ years. It's not a useful measure to be honest.
Show HN: Plaid-like SDK for consumer data (i.e Netflix, YouTube, Amazon etc.)
"5,500 ft above sea level"

What your talking about works on small hills near sea level, but runs into real physical limitations. It's also slow and thus vastly more expensive per acre foot than commercial systems.