skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would guess they're no different to any other users in the past decade. In other words a percentage will comment and a small percentage will post.

It's always been that way.
Why? People are free to download hundreds of apps to talk to each other. The Signal protocol is so widely adopted. Matrix is a well designed protocol. Why should Apple and Google be the ones dictating messaging protocols.
Except for all the US people that keep in touch with Europeans! Source: me (a European) that has a GF in the US. They all get converted to WhatsApp :')
Feds Can Film Your Front Porch for 68 Days Without a Warrant, Says Court
Very cool, thanks for the extra context!
Yeah, I'm having the same issue. I have the option under my account settings, but when I go through the flow it doesn't seem to take. I get a "You're now sharing to the fediverse" confirmation toast, but the feature stays off. I've seen posts from other users, so it does work for some. Hopefully it's a minor glitch!
Seems like the "refactor" to a completely new project also includes new license restrictions with Elastic license for the core application. Can't say I blame them and at least it's not the damn BSL, but I still don't like it very much.
Yeah it'd have to be a RTS/ Diablo type of mechanic, although if you keep food as a number-of-moves-limiter, the turn-based aspect may be less critical.

Maybe a game could work where each player explores the map independently but when a creature is encountered, the other player is teleported in, and then returns to prior spot after the fight? Could be fun.
It worked for me for what it's worth. I found that staying under 2000/day means i do not gain weight. this is easier than having to prepare special meals or other things. ymmv
Apple has a setting in macOS that disables installing apps outside of the App Store. This would be a completely reasonable setting for iOS for less tech savvy people.
Nope. As far as he knew it was in complete working order with no suggestion it was about to fail catastrophically until he woke up on the floor.
I like the Dosadi books, Whipping Star, the short stories in Eye, Eyes of Heisenberg, Destination: Void, The Santaroga Barrier (which my wife hates), Under Pressure and Hellstrom's Hive. If I had to pick just one it might be Whipping Star but maybe Under Pressure is the hardest sci-fi.
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I would love to see that happen.
You... haven't worked on a large codebase, have you?

The part that baffles me about this entire post is that it's trivial to obtain pointers to member functions legally, without the fragility associated with guessing VTable offsets.
While the tool seems interesting, I wonder if it truly offers a significant advantage over existing solutions like `gron`. More benchmarking and feature comparisons would be helpful in assessing the merits.
> On reflection a simple single agent theory that might work is that the deep value is for status

that segues (via a basic Glass Bead Game move) to Bourdieu; eg https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39783112
> the total amount of stakeholder claims filed is $23.6 quintillion dollars

What is that, 52,000 times the total wealth in the global economy? How could anyone quote a number like that in any serious context with a straight face? Did Bankman-Fried promise someone that he'd double their money every day, and they are expecting someone to pay out on that insane promise?

https://www.credit-suisse.com/about-us/en/reports-research/g...

> 454.4 trillion USD – global wealth at end-2022

https://www.google.com/search?q=23.6+quintillion+%2F+454.4+t...

> 23.6 quintillion / 454.4 trillion = 51936.6197183
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I don't think so, at least not as a consequence from this case if Apple loses. Antitrust cases are usually very limited in scope. Microsoft's loss required many actions (documenting Active Directory and other protocols/formats, browser choice screens, etc.), but no one else in tech were required to do so.

John Sircacusa (from ATP.fm) pointed out years ago that the heart of Apple's biggest issues is business relationship management. This was when Apple only had a handful of issues with a few companies and made some poorly received statements about developers. Their ability to build mutually agreeable relations has only gotten worse in recent years.

Sony and Microsoft have kept their relations with third parties tough but ultimately agreeable. They promote practically all of their third parties (unlike the App Store which has so many apps that its like winning the lottery to be promoted). Consoles have stores which are probably more curated but which third party publishers/developers actually like.

IMO, DoJ, EU, etc. are acting primarily because they have received so many complaints from Spotify, Microsoft, Epic Games, Google, Meta, Tile, etc. Governments don't take action for the "public" interest on its own.
I have many boxes of different cables and adaptors like this. Nice to know I'm not the only one who likes collecting them.

My favourite addition in recent years is really long USB cables, like 5 metres, and HDMI 90 degree adaptors in every orientation.
It does make the news, we also have laws about satellite imagery and Israel and it's a pretty well-known fact the US shares intelligence with Israel which everyone always injects in any conversation about Gaza. They also have their own Ofeq and EROS series, so they're not in complete darkness regardless.

It's also irrelevant to this conversation, as Israel is an actual ally, while Russia/China are not, so I really don't understand why you would bring this up in this conversation other than to muddy the waters with whatboutism.
I own some cryptocurrency. Am I able to assert that due to SBF's influence on crypto markets that my stake (which right now is about $1000 in value) would be worth approximately $6.7 sextillion dollars, give or take a few sextillion?

Or, are only customers of FTX able to make completely ludicrous claims?

I'm not a particular fan of SBF but that number seems insane and if that's the metric for his sentencing, then something is amiss. I doubt there is a connection, right? But the fact the new CEO calls it out indicates to me he isn't very qualified other than in gaslighting.
It's a semantic thing and I agree with the feedback - specifically with the "F" in FOSS. That sort of license would be Open Source but not completely Free (as in freedom, not beer).
The usual solution is something like: for x units of excess past the set limit, remove y unit of subsidy/support.

Example: something costs 20 money, if you earn 100 money or below, then it is subsidized to cost only 10, where 10 money is a subsidy.
For every 2 money you gain, 1 money in subsidy is removed.

If you earn 104 money, it will now cost 12.

The x and y values vary depending on what kind of things are subsidized, but this is a fairly simple way of doing it that doesn't punish you harshly for a small difference in earnings.
Regulations come into place when there's consumer harm, and consumers have TONS of choices in regards to games.

The vast majority of the library on Xbox/PS is cross platform. PC gamers are enjoying their vast Steam library and there's plenty of Switch clones that can handle everything from AAA gaming to indy titles.

Also the largest gaming market is on mobile phones by far. So here we are with this antitrust suit.
There is a work-in-progress fork here already: https://codeberg.org/redict/redict
If you write your chord progression as midi then you can run it through a plugin like Heavier7Strings (https://www.threebodytech.com/en/products/heavier7strings) and it will be able to create relatively realistic sounding guitar. I hope that helps!
When the choice is between "slow" file transfers and being unable to do file transfers because of NFS timeouts, the choice should be obvious.

I've lost data as a side effect of a simple file transfer timing out.
Canadians may revolt once they realize how broke they are
> Reddit is kinda trash these days... it's just full of idiots

Reddit is the same as it always has been, but once a social media network reaches a certain scale, you can't really deal with the problems in the same way, or any way.

ex: Social network has 1000 active users. 1% (10) are disruptive: spammers, flamers, trolls, maybe just plain morons. That's fairly easy to handle, even if you only have 1 or 2 people with moderation powers.

Alternate scenario: Social network has 10,000,000 active users. 1% are disruptive. That's 100,000 people you need to regularly moderate. Which means instead of having a few "benevolent dictators" who can handle all of the content moderation, you need a team of moderators. Who probably have their own disagreements and agendas (like, I don't know, maybe a moderator of the largest picture/meme subreddit using their power to funnel traffic to a site they control while blocking competitors to slurp up ad revenue[0]). So now you need super-mods for the mod team.

It's like building out a business. You can have a high-performing 20-person team where everyone is a strong, valuable contributor. But the likelihood of your 10,000 person corporation, or even your 250 person department, having every single person be a valuable contributor is 0%. The percentages don't change as you grow, but the absolute number does.

The % of HN readers who want to make dumb reddit-style jokes here may be low, but if HN were 100x more popular, it would be as bad as Reddit. It's just the way things go.

[0] https://www.dailydot.com/debug/reddit-quickmeme-banned-miltz...
Can you explain the difference? I wrote this story and I do not follow what you are saying here.
Sorry for the late reply. Yea its an interesting problem space and one
that belongs squarely in the public interest area.

Public interest and commons problems look hard because the incentives
look hard. They are not always if you use the right craft and
leverage, The GPL is a masterpiece of guile when you think about it.

Another way to build trust is legally by creating some very tightly
drafted and constantly lawyer-policed consortium that gets donations
from bigger players but ensures selfish interests are never allowed to
prosper. Such a network would need to have the power to literally tell
Google and Apple to fuck off without seriously impacting itself, and
that kind of distributed power/spreading would be hard to maintain
against constant attempts at capture.

By the way, look at what the BBC have been doing with content
provenance and media supply chain assurance. Its possible some big
owners will watermark and release new commons in the future in such a
way as to ensure it's tamper-proof.
That’s a specific strategic choice, wanted by Steve Jobs himself to maintain leverage on the browser ecosystem.

If Chrome was let loose indiscriminately on any platform, how long before it became a Macromedia Flash, hobbling battery life and performance on whatever platform didn’t align to Alphabet’s strategy?

Also, how long before Alphabet began prime-timing Android, leaving Apple versions trailing months of not years behind, and restoring the “Works best on IE” experience of the ‘00s?
90% of the time, our lambdas are just making AWS SDK calls or querying data stores like Postgres, Redis, and DynamoDB. The limits are in memory consumption or raw CPU processing but network and service latencies. Those are precisely the workloads where Rust (or Go) can't provide much benefit. The only drawback really was Node's cold start times and JIT overhead that was never really used. Python was faster, but a similar story.

LLRT gives the quick dev and deployment time, automatic OS and SDK updates (when using a zip rather than Docker image), and very low cold start latencies. The rest is nothing much more than await-ing network responses.

Obviously if it were calculating millions of hashes, rendering images, and other similar tasks, I'd run to Rust or Go. But the default looks to be LLRT.

Any larger program with thousands of lines of code or more wouldn't be in TypeScript. But for a twenty-line lambda, especially with JSDoc that has no separate build step? No brainer for me in terms of cost-benefit.
> The author argues that calorie /counting/ does not work. This is true.

No, it is not. The misconception behind is that you have to be calorie-perfect. That is not what calorie counting is for: it's for ballparking and educating yourself. One should always count calories, measure weicght, and if the direction is going up/down adjust accordingly.

You are not measuring fuel for a plane to fly, you are eyeballing caloric input for one sack of salty water that may or may not burn it all, and that is not supposed to be a perfect calculation.

Besides, below they state:
> The only way to lose weight permanently is to permanently change your food environment. Or, you know, drugs.

Drugs are not the answer and fools' gold for those that hope to make zero change in their lifestyle, take the magic pill and voila.
Tooling has improved for ambitious software developers
> With convincingly articulate LLMs on the horizon, the problem is only going to get worse and more accessible to would be scammers.

Eventually, maybe we can just run any email, text, or even phone calls through our own LLM driven assistant that detects and notifies about the scam.
Yes, do! I've only read A Deepness in the Sky and A Fire Upon The Deep but they were absolute joys, despite their intimidating page count. Just mind-bendingly inventive and continually interesting. I won't ruin anything for you, but as a reader you make assumptions which then turn out not to be true via progressive revelation as the books go on. Brilliant stuff.
Reddit has declined in quality significantly since the API changes. All my favorite subreddits lost their moderators, which were always the heart of the site.

Couple that with their constantly pushing their own (objectively inferior) client and killing the best ways to browse the site, I've really dropped off on how much I use reddit.
Also remember that the US was at the top of its industrial power during second WW. This time has passed long since. Nowadays it would have a hard time outproducing China and Russia, so I don't think that even a world war would be a solution (not considering the fact that a new WW could be the end of the world itself).
"Strange definition"? Isn't that literally what I said, that it changes definitions with age (and focus)?

Which of those companies still have the influence they did at their peak?

If you've got a startup, growth mindset, you're growing or you're dying. And even growth in revenue, headcount, profit, etc, can lag growth in relevance by decades.

Got any interesting new GE projects on your radar you'd want to work on that you think will be relevant in 20 years?

Do you think Paul Graham of twenty years ago would've called GE unkillable?

It's the difference in ambition and goals that leads to one person loving to take over today's Microsoft (or Reddit) and another - probably much younger person - wanting to start tomorrow's.
Often times, the hotels don't even require to turn in these cards upon checkout, so they are thrown in the trash. A nefarious actor could just pull one out of the trash and so not even have to be a guest in the hotel.
Seems to me that invasion of foreign countries is pretty provocative.

Except that The Peoples' Republic of China and the Republic of China are recognised by 95% (or thereabouts) of the world, including the US, as 'One China'.

An 'invasion' of China by China makes as much sense as the US 'invading' the US island of Manhattan. Why would China , or the US for that matter, invade themselves and damage valuable infrastructure, commercial property and manufacturing capacity?

The only reason for China to take military action against one of their islands is if that island declares Independence. You know, like the Southern Confederate States did in 1861. I remember the North didn't bother to take any military action then.
On reading it seems a lib like libsodium can simply set the disable bit prior to cryptographic operations that are sensitive on M3 and above.

Also looks like they need to predetermine aspects of the key.

Very cool but I don’t think it looks particularly practical.
Yes, but more accurately, never mind the future: I am pessimistic about the present.
That's not bad. Thanks
Neither have the safety of Rust, but are far less prone to memory gaffes than C. They make for a pragmatic, usable middle ground.
Which of them would you call unkillable?

I think Graham is getting a bit sentimental and overly attached to incumbents in his network.
pay more, offer better pensions, etc. I don't think people join NASA for the money anyway
My biggest problem is how hard it is to get my data out of apps in usable formats, move it between apps, or put in custom apps. My iPhone would be great if I could use my own data and apps as easily (and freely) as my old Samsung Galaxy.
You see this as about two major phone companies when in reality it is about all the small phone/os/app companies(competition is good in a free market) that get pushed out because the only two major companies (apple and google) share insane contracts between eachother essentially creating a horizontal monopoly that squashes competition.
I can’t wait for every data hoarding app (Facebook, Reddit, Google) to require sideloading so now we’ll have the choice to either use Android or Apple when being tracked down to granular details.

I want it to be semi onerous to enable apps outside the App Store, for this reason.
I can count on one hand the number of MMS messages I've ever received.
Just the small amount of people using NFS suggests this tunable should remain the default. Nothing is stopping sysadmins tuning for their environment.

There's no one-size-fits-all answer, which is why it's a tunable.
J it's interesting too, without the non-ASCII mess:

https://www.jsoftware.com/indexno.html

https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/System/Installation <- install

https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Guides/Getting_Started <- help
Browser manufacturers normally don't have contracts that binds them to supply product X for Y years.
> Do you know how to read @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ syntax?

Do you not?
I don’t know how common it is, but why would you take that risk on the road for a couple kg of weight savings? If you’re racing competitively that’s one thing, but is it worth it on the commute?
Apple app store has the exact same problems. There was even a post on HN last week about an scam app being the first result in the app store.
> Counting calories. Say your weight is stable and you start eating a single extra piece of sandwich bread every day. After a year, you’ll gain 3.8 kg (8.3 lb) of fat. Almost no one counts calories that accurately.

I'd argue that one big benefit of counting calories is that it teaches you that a single piece of sandwich bread contributes a surprisingly high amount of calories to your diet. This potentially empowers you to minmax your plate with the things that will get you the most enjoyment/satiation for your calories.
You are looking at things like the failure of full self driving due to massive long tail complexity, and extrapolating that to LLMs. The difference is that full self driving isn't viable unless it's near perfect, whereas LLMs and text to image models are very useful even when imperfect. In any field there is a sigmoidal progress curve where things seem to move slowly at first when getting set up, accelerate quickly once a framework is in place, then start to run out of low hanging fruit and have to start working hard for incremental progress, until the field is basically mined out. Given the rate that we're seeing new stuff come out related to LLMs and image/video models, I think it's safe to say we're still in the low hanging fruit stage. We might not achieve better than human performance or AGI across a variety of fields right away, but we'll build a lot of very powerful tools that will accelerate our technological progress in the near term, and those goals are closer than many would like to admit.
You should read this article, it was quite good, even if you do continue to use React after. It's good to understand the alternatives, even if you never use them.

https://joshcollinsworth.com/blog/self-fulfilling-prophecy-o...

It's been a few months since I read it, but I recall the main thing I took away from this was: React isn't necessarily the best choice, other frameworks provide better performance, development experience and tooling that should also be considered

Of course these are just opinions. Everyone should consider all the facts and come to their own conclusions about what they use and don't use.

Companies will continue to use React of course. But I'm not sure if I would use vanilla React for anything I have complete control of.
>Chao, 50, died the night of Feb. 10 after having dinner with a large group at a ranch near Johnson City, west of Austin. The report describes a frantic scene as friends and deputies tried to pull Chao from her Tesla after she backed it into the pond near a guest lodge on the property.

>A friend, Amber Keinan, told detectives that Chao called her at 11:42 p.m. and said the car was in the water and she was trapped inside. The conversation lasted 8 minutes as the car slowly sank.

Intoxication and delta P aside, is there any reason why the Tesla door couldn't be opened such as a shorted lock/unlock mechanism or an electric latch of some sort? I haven't ridden in a Tesla to know how their doors work in general.
Microsoft __chose__ to use Blink, ostensibly because they felt that maintaining EdgeHTML was too costly. On iOS, you either use WebKit or your browser is technically and legally banned.
Yea, that does seem like a reasonable way to design less corrupt mechanisms for these processes, but I think the standard way piecemeal designs like that get rejected is by arguments to "efficiency" (Nevermind that efficiencies gained by bundling require some pretty strict discipline within a firm, mostly benefit the firm, and are easily dwarfed from the government's perspective by the inefficiencies taken on by the problem we're talking about)
That is absolutely true. But if you're just blogging and only need the base install with Classic Editor and Akisment, it's actually quite nice and still better than most other platforms for self-hosting.
Thanks for the feedback. I think the process of buying some products is inherently difficult because the space is very fragmented and there really isn't a lot of incentive to streamline the process.
I don’t carry my MacBook around with me everywhere I go, though, so it’s different.
My systems routinely report transferring files at speeds much faster than what the physical medium asked, only to have them get stuck and fail on a time out a while after.

Having such behavior be the default is, to my limited understanding, a bug in the Linux kernel.
So, just to simplify your argument, you're saying that grade school students should not be taught biology in a way that GP finds more engaging, because:

> You do need to learn the names of these things, you do need to get down and do the work of learning all the facts, you do need to fill your brain with these things that are going to affect you as the world gets more and more complicated, you do need to connect this incredibly vast amount of information together. It is going to affect you or the ones you love.
Really cool. I wonder if it would work to use the DUSt3R project[1] to get the camera intrinsic and extrinsic parameters so you could create a scene that can be turned into a nerf from any pictures without the need for special apps to use for capture.

[1]: https://dust3r.europe.naverlabs.com/
US should sue themselves for requiring a phone number for a person to exist to begin with.