skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To briefly summarise what I wrote yesterday:

Let P be "observation shows us that the universe 'unfolds' predictably"

Let Q be "the FC lacks free will"

You are claiming that P implies Q, and !P implies (or at least suggests) !Q.

But I am claiming that there is no connection between P and Q. P may be true, and Q may be true, but there is no necessary connection between the two. P is an empirical observation, but you cannot thereby claim that Q is an empirically-derived statement. And therefore, I think, we have no reason to believe Q.

Hopefully this very short summary clarifies things, and not the opposite :)
Including the apps you paid for on iOS?
- The government created an incentive structure keeping people on government benefits from being productive members of the economy. It should fix that.

- There is still a question of scale: the trust-fund-baby population is several orders of magnitude smaller than the makes-50k population

> I advocate a 100% inheritance tax

Well then I don't think there is much common ground between us :) A 100% inheritance tax severely dis-incentivizes savings and investment, cutting off capital to the businesses that have created so much value over the last century.
Roblox Creator Fund offers $500k for in-platform development
Roblox will prioritize multiplayer projects that feature mobile optimization, social mechanics, and in-experience avatars.
Free Open Source???

Unciv

https://github.com/yairm210/Unciv
Same. Also happened to my brother's account after we thought we'd nuked everything.
I have a dumb, and likely annoying, question: why isn't Rust the clear choice? I think it has to do with Zig's "interop with C" but this is very abstract for me. Is there a code example that shows something that's super easy in Zig but a PITA in Rust?

I've heard that Rust's types and compiler can be frustrating to deal with as well. Is Zig a more "joyful" programming language?
I've tried multiple times to use discord, and the fundamental blocker for me seems to be in it's name. Every one feels just like a private slack channel for a company I don't work for. Discordant.

To say that product is going to replace twitter is -imo- just wrong.
Some countries have visas specifically for digital nomads and remote workers. Those have reasonable requirements that many/most nomads can satisfy.

Other countries, such as Thailand, do not offer long-term visas for typical digital nomads and remote workers. The LTR visa is targeted at a very different demographic. No one plausibly called a digital nomad will get the LTR visa.

The Thailand Elite visa has just one requirement: paying a lot up-front for it. Wealthy nomads get that. Older nomads (50+) can get a retirement visa fairly easily. Neither of those include a work permit, or Thai taxes.

For remote workers and nomads who can’t afford Thailand Elite and don’t qualify for any of the other long-term visas I suggest looking into Iglu.
On the contrary, it's exactly on the spot. EU used the term "gatekeeper" for such a market position, where you can dictate the terms of the market (and have oversized influence over other participant's behviour), while dodging classification of "monopolist" on technicality. It's exactly the point.
https://archive.ph/2024.03.21-094704/https://www.nytimes.com...
The new Firefox "Copy Link without Site Tracking" feature may help a lot for this :-)
Back in the day you used to have to pay a bunch of money upfront to buy the software that allows you to develop software for a particular platform, then you were free to distribute your software as you wish.

If Apple is really concerned about keeping out the riff raff they could raise the annual flat developer fees.

But we all know that's not what they're actually concerned about - the app store is estimated to have 80% margins right now. They're just charging what the market will bear, and the market will bear quite a lot right now as they're part of a duopoly on smartphones.
IANAL but that has been the modern interpretation whereas in the past that wasn't the case. Standard Oil was good for the consumer for example.
I really dont understand the hate. Reddit to me is a mini Facebook, with some added anonimity

* Mods dont get paid - Facebook Groups has niche groups much bigger than niche subreddits. I subscribe to both FB and Reddit for the car models I own, the FB groups are 10x bigger with 20x posts. Those mods dont get paid either, and Facebook as a much bigger spam/fake account problem to work tirelessly to defend your group against

* No API / 3rd Party access - well, just try asking Meta for a free API to build an adless wrapper around the Facebook wall, good luck

But spez is the bad guy here and zuck is a saint. Or they're both bad guys but if you think that, then spez is on the right trajectory to easily have a $20b company in 5 years

People seem to be confusing - high potential for profits with building an adless platform that also has succesfully passed the network effect
Perhaps, but I'm glad they're at least trying.
I mean, if we are going to assume “China attacks Taiwan” means “China attacks US bases in Japan” we might ad well assume it means “China preemptively carpets Japan with nukes rendering any Japanese response irrelevant”, but in any case, no one is arguing that Japan would either not react to an actual attack on Japan that left them capable of response or would require Constitutional changes to do so. But “Japan” and “Taiwan” are still different things.
Looks like someone important didn't like that Apple placed a blatant backdoor in their CPUs.
> This is also the case in broadband where ISPs carved up neighborhoods between themselves to reduce competition.

The reason there is only 1 broadband ISP is because people are not willing to pay sufficiently more for fiber to offset the costs to install fiber to the home, especially in places with buried utilities.

Therefore, the existing coaxial connection is the only economically viable option.

Also, it rarely makes sense for 1 home to have multiple physical infrastructure connections, so they lend themselves to natural monopolies. If a house has access to fiber, it makes no sense to spend resources to run another fiber to the house.

Which is also why ISPs should be utilities, but that is not comparable to personal devices.
Why does every attack needs its own branding, marketing page, etc...? Genuine question.
It's called the plasmid exchange. The search is parallelized to however many individuals there are, which is arbitrarily large, then the result is shared.
The comments here seem extremely emotional against Apple. If you want a free device then the android ecosystem has many great examples. The S23/S24 ultra are phones which are as good as the iPhone. I have always been an Android user because of the freedoms. But forcing iOS to become like android makes no sense. Android already exists and you can already use it. The onboarding app will even move all your data. iMessage is even going to support the useless RCS standard. I am not sure what people in this thread have against Apple. Doing the things they require will simply make all the advantages of iPhone evaporate and it will be simply left in the dust. If you want android, buy android.
It still seems pretty disingenuous to say it doesn't exist even today just because we do the same thing with better tech today - very likely what their hypothetical company would've ended up doing, same as Netflix or Twitter embracing the technology for their use cases and moving away from DVDs and SMS.
Yup, too long ago for this scam, but the dating scam. Woman from Russia, a number of nice email conversations, then she wants to come to meet me. I suggest we meet in the EU, splitting expenses, and of course that will not work. Push it a few more times (absolutely not picking up the option she's pushing to "send money to help with my airfare to the US"), and surprise, I got ghosted. This scammer/scam-team at least seemed to fairly quickly pick up the signs of a non-cooperative target.
This is not a source, it’s an option piece and not even on topic. Anything from ISW is not neutral, it’s ideological due to the Nuland-Kagan connection: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F1kjvOsXwAA1tVk.jpg
I've used satori [0] on the backend with TypeScript/Deno to render React JSX + tailwind CSS as an SVG (which is then rendered to a PNG). Of course you could use another flavor of JSX (or even plain HTML) or omit tailwind, but it's really cool that you can use the same stack as a typical frontend and render it as an image.

Satori is meant for rendering Open Graph images (e.g. the little images that come up when you post a link on Twitter/Slack/Facebook), but I found that it works well for rendering arbitrary images. Satori has no native dependencies, so it kinda "just works" on the backend. It supports a subset of modern CSS, including flexbox.

My use case is posting match reports for League of Legends into a Discord text channel, e.g. person X just played a match, here are their stats.

It's quite nice because there are almost zero server-side native dependencies (the one exception is the library to convert svg -> png requires some native libraries).

Here's what a match report looks like: [1]

Here's an example of what the JSX looks like: [2]

I also built a small project [3] that renders the JSX in a browser to make developing the images just as easy as developing a normal website.

If others are interested in this, I would by happy to write a blog post about the process.

[0]: https://github.com/vercel/satori

[1]: https://github.com/shepherdjerred/glitter/blob/main/assets/p...

[2]: https://github.com/shepherdjerred/glitter/blob/main/packages...

[3]: https://github.com/shepherdjerred/glitter/tree/main/packages...
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They send you a text "Hey, how's it going? Remember Paris?"

And you reply "new phone who dis" and they apologize and chat about unrelated things for weeks becoming your friend.

This is why any text from an unknown number should be "block and report as spam".
When was the last exclusive deal like we have on console then? I never heard of one.
Yes, the day they kill old.reddit.com will be the day my Reddit usage drops to near-zero.
> and my own example is the default home page for Canada. It's now exclusively sports and right-wing nuttery.

I think that’s typical for any national sub, because it will be filled with people that live in places that don’t have the critical mass for a local/regional subreddit (or just don’t fit into it).
https://xkcd.com/250/

also I think there was a thing on krebs where a reputation defender company was also operating one of those mugshot search sites

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/ceo-of-data-privacy-comp...
Fantastic tool. Now we just need the vscode extension ;-)
All of these are pretty sane, except for:

> Also, the Apple Watch itself does not offer compatibility with Android

Will they force Samsung and Google to have their watches interoperate with iOS too, or are they exempt because they are bit players in the field?
As of yesterday, the logged out mobile experience got much worse for me. There is now a bottom-of-screen popup prompting you to login, advertise on reddit, or shop 'collectable avatars' (who the hell would do that...).

Every time you navigate back from a post to the feed, yet another popup. But I've come to recognize this is an intended feature and not a bug.
It seems weird to degrade their own users' experience (when receiving texts from friends with Android phones), but Apple does it deliberately as a nudge to get people to use Apple products.

There's no valid technical or security reason to do this. It's a tactical decision on Apple's part.
This seems obvious to me, as there'd be ten times more computational resources.
> In the last year, Reddit has pushed localized home pages across the world, and my own example is the default home page for Canada.

I found this quite nice. A lot less American politics on the front page and some fun bits of local news.
>There is never a case where such contact is not a scam or spam.

Bail?
That's still the case. Its still almost impossible to buy a Linux laptop from one of the big vendors. Even the rare models that they do sell, like the Dell XPS Developer edition, are hidden so deep in their website that they're almost impossible to find unless you're sure it exists.
"And let’s face it: older people have all the wealth in the world anyway"

My argument is that your comment is incorrect (hint: they don't have all the wealth in the world) and your tone.

I don't disagree that they are the best target if you are a scammer its how you delivered the comment awfully close to blaming the prior generation for all our woes .. i.e. doesn't matter anyways because they "have all the wealth in the world anyways" flippancy.
I've been trying many of those but the meat pie is new to me! Thank you, I'll give it another go some day soon :)
EU tries to force apple to allow different browser engine but apple still don't want that - safari mobile is crippled and support for PWA is half baked on purpose. Most businesses (such as banks, dating apps, music apps) who would stick to support only Web with half baked user experience on iOS would loose to anyone who would provide native mobile app.
Weird, I never once set them myself but I've been subjected to them a couple times. Is my laptop developing gremlins?
Wow, that's great! Loved the way you coded it in pure JS.
I'd be happy to trade you something you consider better.
https://ycharts.com/companies/AAPL/gross_profit_margin
So people talk about it
It should be. Note that the economics word "rent" essentially refers to any and all unearned income that you acquired through raw power. Which, yes, includes real estate rent in excess of maintenance and financing costs.
There are a lot of android phone users that will disagree with you here.
Walmarts cut is largely based on their costs to stock and sell the item. Appstores costs are not related to the cut they take as they have >80% profit margin.
If the problem was balance, why were tricycles not widespread, then? There must have been other factors.
And another service I’ll never use again
You're not wrong. You need to be top-top talent to get offers on skill alone (I've seen it with one individual, it's rare).

The real kicker is that "All the people liking you outside the job" is going to be radically different at each place. There is no way to calculate for that.

This is why workplace culture is stupid. We don't need to be a substitution for real friends. Just let us do our jobs. Socializing is a great skill, but it doesn't equate to being able to debug Golang or detect accounting fraud.
That was interesting, thanks. I liked the co-location analysis idea.
It seems to be a great tool, however on the few checks I did on big XML files, it shows modified lines in normal green and modified attributes in bold green, which makes them difficult to detect visualy.

I didn't find in the documentation how it is possible to change the style of the diff, or to ask for another color in the bold case.

Any idea?
is reddit not already orangered?
Just like microcorruption in real life :)

https://microcorruption.com/map
> Would that be a better situation, then periodically looking at my phone?

Inconvenience aside, I think it would at least result in fewer of these distraction scenarios happening, since there are existing taboos against picking up a book, newspaper, music player, or camera mid-conversation and ignoring people to do these things, but somehow there is still no equivalent taboo about phone use.
I saw that announcement, but I thought they changed their mind about a week before it was announced?
> This, to me, seems to be the hurdle to clear. These cases are complex and have lots of evidence. The Nevada Supreme Court essentially said that the bite mark evidence in his case is not needed to convict him.

I'm concerned that a supreme court of all courts justify a ruling with “would likely have been” reasoning. Like, really? How about we throw that out of the window, and let a court decide whether it's enough evidence instead of guessing what a court would've done in that situation??
It's true other engines like vLLM are way faster and more optimized. I started with Ollama because its codebase is Go. In reality Ollama does not even take full advantage of llama.cpp itself as it does not implement concurrency plus adds latency using json in a CGO call. I discovered that building the wasm plugin, I was disappointed, and it's not on the ollama priorities to solve that see https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/3170

Another advantage of Ollama is it can easily run locally, so does the wasm plugin. Accomplishing the goal of local development environment which uses dreamland.

That's great feedback. I was thinking about fixing the concurrency issue myself, but creating a vLLM wasm plugin is a better idea. The user code won't need to change as long as the plugin exports as the same wasm host module.
After appeal to Musk, X suspends accounts that outed neo-Nazi cartoonist
There's also a pretty large econ literature questioning that it actually benefited the consumer, much of which concludes that in cases where the trust's anticompetitive power didn't itself rest on government-granted monopolies, it probably hurt.
"Killed"/"killable" is one of those terms that changes with age. Was GM unkillable? Well, they aren't dead, but... Was Windows unkillable? Well, it's not dead, but... Is Facebook unkillable? Well, it's not dead, but... So the old fogies who would tell you GE, GM, IBM are all unkillable aren't wrong but neither were the younger folks they were responding to.

Lotta zombies hang on long after their relevance fades for the future. "X is unkillable" is a good way to reveal a limited imagination for future changes. You go from talking about disruption to talking about how things are now disruption-proof!
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You cannot dismiss something as "propaganda" or with a reason "Putin said so". In the same interview Putin said that if the US had not broken the promise to Gorbachev to not expand the NATO eastward, the war would not have happened.

I am not an American with no serious understanding, I live in an area that used to be Soviet Union.

Everybody knows you should not corner a wild beast.
I find the riffs where the participant didn't lose weight more interesting.

My prior on this is that any low-variability diet should lead to weight loss: people get bored of eating the same N things, and eat less. That should be true of anything: potatoes and dairy, potatoes and chicken, potatoes and cabbage, etc.

If there were a big n=lots study showing that a certain low-variability diet did NOT lead to weight loss, I'd consider that to be a major finding.

Using that standard, riffs like the "potatoes and eggs" are interesting: no clear trend in the subject's weight. But of course, that's an n=1...
The potential to freeze an HTML page in time with minimal changes at render time is already there. [0] Such an ability can even be baked directly into the rendered HTML page so the viewer would be able to download a copy of the page as it is seen at a given time. Other archiving facilities, such as archive.org, take static snapshots of accessible pages if allowed by the publisher of the page and requested by anyone who wants to make that snapshot.

My point is that it is possible to achieve in principle and in practice, albeit that might be practiced as often as one would like to see.

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[0] See SingleFile by gildas at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/single-file/: “Save an entire web page—including images and styling—as a single HTML file.”
People waved the EU case away with the same argument. Actually it is a kind of iArgument.

However nobody buys it besides their most loyal customers.
Anticompetitive != monopoly.
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> Apple's App Store might be Walmart, but the phone I bought is not Walmart.

I don't know if that's inherently correct in people's eyes. For a counterexample, note that video game consoles are very popular, and I don't see any widespread opposition to the idea that e.g. Nintendo is controlling what you can play on a Switch.
Most consumers are not even aware of how restrictive iOS is - for the same reason why they aren't aware game consoles do the same thing but way worse. All they know is where to buy compatible software.

If you told them "you have to pay 30% to the person who invented books every time you write something" they'd scream censorship and call for an armed revolution.
It's a signal that a call is a scam - 99.99999% of calls to me from the area code of my phone number (and surrounding area codes) are worthless scam calls, because of https://xkcd.com/1129/

I'd love to ignore all calls from unknown numbers EXCEPT the actual area code I reside in, which they don't know. Then calls from schools, doctors, etc might actually get through.

As it is, those go to voicemail and I get them eventually.
> I think if you explained it to the average iPhone customer you might be shocked they side with Apple. The concept of a platform where for free you can take advantage of it and just make 100% of the revenue without cutting in the owner of the platform is completely alien to how things work in what they consider the real world.

Who is arguing it should be free? Why create a false dichotomy where it's either the status quo (30%) or nothing (0%)?

I'm sure most people would accept a reasonable fee. It's hard to put an exact number on this because it would have emerged organically if Apple actually allowed fair competition in app stores. In the absence of fair competition, the best comparison I can think of is credit card processing which is about 3%

And don't forget that Apple receives enormous benefit from these apps being in their store. If not, consider what would have happened had Apple not allowed any apps in their store. Hint: Android would have eaten the world.
Many things are dangerous. Use caution and have a backup plan (keep the area non-flammable and keep a bucket of sand nearby) and you'll be fine.
>Also, the Apple Watch itself does not offer compatibility with Android.

This is the reason I am now on an iPhone after being on Android since ~2009. But this could also apply to Samsung too. There were two watches I was considering - Samsung's and Apple's (for health monitoring reasons, I have a family history of heart problems, and am already nearly 10 years older than my dad was when he died). I would either have to buy a Samsung phone or an iPhone to get the functionality I wanted, and TBH I really don't like Samsung's take on Android (I've been either Cyanogenmod or Motorola for over a decade), so an iPhone it was. But I would have preferred to get an Apple Watch and have that work fully with my Android phone, but that's not even a starter, let alone the limited-functionality you would get with a Samsung watch with another Android phone.

I'm happy with the watch, and I now like a lot about the iPhone. But it was 4x the price of my previous phone.
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> In the same interview Putin said that if the US had not broken the promise to Gorbachev to not expand the NATO eastward, the war would not have happened.

Yet this contradicts his statements in 2002 that it was not a big deal and not his business. He only changed positions when he viewed the Russian economy as big enough to wage war and take territory.

There was also no such promise, this is a complete myth.

Russia is doing what it has always done: try to steal more clay. They have been doing this for a thousand years, far before NATO. Russia was neither cornered nor threatened.
PostgreSQL is such an amazing piece of software, that keeps being more awesome release after release. It has almost become a full-featured operating system at that point.

And the ability to write extensions in Zig is very nice.