skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The salient point isn't any of what you mention. Basic new testament teachings suggest outreach and help is the church's business: feed, cloth the poor. See also Alger's "Ragged Dick."

Leadership isn't stating an AI policy then putting it our for the world to see. It isn't having billions in cash and assets. Rainy day? You aren't guaranteed tomorrow. Maximal help today is indicated. Spend it.

I'm reminded of the lady who rolled into a TX legislature pushing for a Christian goal last year I think. The legislature guy (an evangelical himself) smartly didn't get drawn into silly arguments merely saying the church's business is helping people not pushing rules in public schools. The applicant had no reply.
If you pay for iCloud ($4 a month) you can send an iCloud link easily to any video that anyone else can access at full resolution

I realize this isn’t what you are asking for. But it works well and doesn’t depend on Google’s closed version of RCS
Absolutely and for this case a different plan mattered.
> Imagine a microscopic, fully autonomous and self-replicating Roomba that is also able to adapts at the individual and population levels.

Well, if the Roomba could exchange genetic information with the surrounding population and adapting to a changing environment would give the appearance of intelligence and design.
> Someone had to create the laws

This is unknown and a quite anthropomorphic view on the universe. Just because we can create things doesn't mean we ourselves were created, even in the way you're talking about in the First Mover argument.
> If apple is forced to open up, it creates a market for more security products, meaning healthier competition and more transparent security.

Have you not had to use a third party security product on your work computer? All third party security products for computers are scams and inefficient
If people are claiming that a country is threatening nuclear war, they damn well better be able to back it up with something more than narrative-shaping sound bytes.
Yes, but it probably doesn't tell the whole story.

There's basically a few axes you can view this on:

- Number of connections and complexity of connection structure: how much information is encoded about how to do the calculations.

- Mutability of those connections: these things are growing and changing -while doing the math on whether to fire-.

- How much calculation is really needed to do the computation encoded in the connection structure.

Basically, brains are doing a whole lot of math and working on a dense structure of information, but not very precisely because they're made out of meat. There's almost certainly different tradeoffs in how you'd build the system based on the precision, speed, energy, and storage that you have to work with.
> But no one would force you or anyone else to leave that Apple ecosystem you hold in high regard. There would simply be more opportunity for alternatives

“Opportunity for alternatives” is not free. There will be a trade off to enabling it, and my perception is that it’ll negatively affect those who are happy with the status quo.
Apple and Tesla aren’t competing in the same market

> It’s like complaining that Teslas don’t support CarPlay

It would be like that if the Tesla dash App Store somehow generated $1.1T annual revenue while taking 30% off the top of third party app manufacturers, while using that revenue and their own competitive advantage (not paying 30%) to grow and erode secondary markets via their own first party apps
Nintendo emulator 'Suyu' removed from Gitlab following DMCA request
Fair enough, that's dominant in the US.
I fear that's a losing battle. Forming cliques seems to be basic human behavior. It's not so much about the status symbol itself, as it's about being able to "other" people for whatever reason du jour.

This seems especially true for children, who lack the maturity to judge social interaction less superficially. Not saying adults are immune to this sort of thing, of course.
AFAIK, the part that's been debunked is that there's a complete separation of concerns between the two hemispheres. From studies on split-brain patients, there does appear to be some specialization, but it's much fuzzier than "right brain does art, left brain does analysis" or anything like that.
This is wild projection, but it reminds me of the good advice I got when writing undergrad philosophy papers – map out your tree of arguments (especially if they're logically complicated), and structure your writing around that; talk in as conversational prose as you can because it mercilessly exposes jargon; highlight when you introduce new concepts.
I’ve always wondered why online vendors block pickup returns for their return labels and force you to physically drop them off. I assumed they had negotiated special courier rates for RMA ?

This might be only in Canada.

Any insight ?
> Apple itself offers a "super app" of course, which is the Apple ecosystem of apps.

...if that counts, is the suit claiming that they somehow don't let other developers have multiple related apps? Because it seems that something like Meta's suite of apps (Facebook, Instagram, Threads) that all share login data and suchlike should qualify if "the Apple ecosystem of apps" does.
I think the author's point is more "diets work for as long as you stick to them. If the diet is temporary then so will be the weight loss"
I used an early RC to build docs for a chat library: https://speedybot.js.org

Most of downsides I encountered were related to pre-release issues but overall a very pleasant + powerful toolkit

I really enjoy the ability to sprinkle interactivity inside markdown docs, file-based routing, search, etc
Why does the percent taken matter? How much is appropriate? Ultimately they’re transparent about the fee, the choice is the developers.

In any case there should be a way to put your phone into some insecure mode and then you can explicitly download any app you want, yes.

But about Tesla - if you could make money, lots of money, selling Tesla dash apps, who cares if they take 30%? The alternative is today, you don’t really make anything at all.
Unfortunately it doesn't appear to allow customizing colors yet.

I chimed in on this issue[1] to express support for that. You may wish to also chime in on that one, or open a new issue if you think that the feature you're looking for is sufficiently different from the one discussed in that thread.

[1]: https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic/issues/611
>They are performant, efficient, easier to read, easier to write, and easier to understand.

Proof? Source?

>I don't see any reason I would pick React for a greenfield project anymore.

I don't see why you wouldn't. It's stable, performs well, works in every browser, easy to find answers for problems you run into, and almost every knows it (or should, it's 2024, you don't have an excuse anymore).

>I get that if YOU don't want to use a modern framework

React is the modern framework. It's nimble, concise. The other frameworks are regressive -- they make mistakes that older frameworks already highlighted as being problematic over time.
A couple of links on the topic:

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

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nothingness/#WhyTheSomRat...
If RCS is so bad, then maybe Apple can work with Google to design a better protocol.
Perl spread regexes.
in all fairness to the people of reddit, this is a top-down propaganda assault, not a grassroots uprising. reddit is 100% used as a controlled-narrative dissemination tool by nation state actors all over the world.

monkey brain see upvotes, monkey brain assume group consensus correct, monkey brain follow [0]. repeatedly banning or blackholing anything that goes against your desired narrative leads to a smaller and smaller percentage of users willing to speak out against the consensus, so these opinions become even more marginalized, repeat until desired level of radicalization is achieved.

it even happens on HN - heavily downvoted comments are presumed to be barely worth reading because multiple people went out of their way to downvote. you could control the public opinion of a small country with <$50k worth of black market upvotes per year. that kind of power doesn't and hasn't gone unnoticed

[0] see 1951 Asch conformity study
They received a $16.4 million house in the Bahamas:

https://blockworks.co/news/ftx-customer-funds-bahamas-house

There’s probably more grift that went their way, but this one was easy for the government to prove because their names were on the deed as owners, yet they didn’t pay anything.
Do I have to use Vue in order to use VitePress? I'm looking for a React solution, perhaps Astro fits?
The aspiring rector who wrote a four-paragraph paper and cited himself 100 times
First, Chrome's rendering engine is Blink. Chromium is not a rendering engine, it's the open-source version of Chrome.

Second, third-party browsers use their own rendering engines (Gecko, Blink) on MacOS, while iOS only allows WebKit.
BTW there is interesting feedback from 4 people on a Treesitter post yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39762495

(1) The top comment is from the author of difftastic (the subject here), saying that treesitter Nim plugin can't be merged, because it's 60 MB of generated C source code. There's a scalability problem supporting multiple languages.

The author of Treesitter proposes using the WASM runtime, which is new.

(2) The original blog post concludes with some Treesitter issues, prefering Syntect (a Rust library that accepts Textmate grammars)

Because of these issues I’ll evaluate what highlighter to use on a case-by-case basis, with Syntect as the default choice.

https://www.jonashietala.se/blog/2024/03/19/lets_create_a_tr...

Other feedback:

(3) The idea of a uniform api for querying syntax trees is a good one and tree-sitter deserves credit for popularizing it. It's unfortunately not a great implementation of the idea

(4) [It] segfaults constantly ... More than any NPM module I've ever used before. Any syntax that doesn't precisely match the grammar is liable to take down your entire thread.

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I think some of the feedback was rude and harsh, and maybe even using Treesitter outside its intended use cases. But as someone who's been interested in Treesitter, but hasn't really used it, it seems real.

One problem I see is that Treesitter is meant to be incremental, so it can be used in an editor/IDE. And that's a significantly harder problem than batch syntax highlighting, parsing, semantic understanding.

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That is, difftastic is a batch tool, i.e. you run it with git diff.

So to me the obvious thing for difftastic is to throw out the GLR algorithm, and throw out the heinous external lexers written in C that are constrained by it, and just use normal batch parsers written in whatever language, with whatever algorithm. Recursive descent.

These parsers can output a CST in the TreeSitter format, which looks pretty simple.

They don't even need to be linked into the difftastic binary -- you could emit an CST / S-expression format and match it with the text.

Unix style! Parsers can live in different binaries and still be composed.

The blog post use case can also just use batch parsers that output a CST. You don't Treesitter's incremental features to render HTML for your blog.
No they can’t because consumers have already made that choice. It’s done. We are talking about this moment in time, not some fantasy world where everyone ditched their iPhones.
I heard it best explained that time is how matter gets to compute outcome. Don't put it down, pass it this way.
You might enjoy knowing that the name of one of the oldest known gods in Finnish history, one with very Cthulhu-style looks, came to mean walrus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iku-Turso_(creature)
It'll get done sooner than later, that's money just left on the table right now for EU browser makers. And the enforcement of the DMA correcting Apple's most obvious malicious compliance has been swift (backtracking on EU PWAs).
I’m sorry you were affected, I hope it works out as well for you as possible.

The problems for the victims are huge though. What’s often missed, or purposefully overlooked by people, is the appreciation of assets. If you put money in FTX and doubled it, but then lost, getting back what you originally put in is a significant harm. People made financial decisions on the basis they had increased their holdings.

Another issue is how the compensation is recovered. With Madoff it was recovered from victims. That is, if you put your money in, and then over the decades took out more than you originally put in (easy given the apparent rate of return), the administrators sued you for the difference and pulled back in, some cases, millions of dollars, bankrupting people who were otherwise living off their pensions. Whether that was the morally right thing to do or not is a hard call to make, not one I would want to make, but that’s a very significant harm caused by Madoff that is often overlooked.
Thank you! There has been a lot of work on midi generation in the past and many people have gotten great results using the approach that you describe. The reason why modern music generators like ours create audio files directly is because midi can't represent all of the nuances of acoustic instruments (vocals, violin, trombone, etc). The allure of modern generative AI (diffusion networks and autoregressive models) is that they are finally capable of generating high quality audio which sounds natural.

If you're interested in really exciting work on applying AI to creating synthesizer patches, I recommend you check out synplant2: https://soniccharge.com/synplant2. Their tool can load in any audio and then create a synth patch which sounds nearly identical to the input audio.
I’ve hated working on every Angular project I’ve worked on. No matter the team, the experience level or complexity, it’s always been an absolute misery.

I cannot understand how it was invented/why it exists, how smart people at Google convinced themselves to use it. I cannot understand how they let it escape into the wild or even why those not forced to use it, choose it.

I know I’ve begged before for this, and it’s pointless, but please if you’re in the position to, please consider snuffing it out and starting over.
paradox?
That is a shockingly user hostile take, especially considering you call out the reason why so many people still use it: it is the only solution for most users that consistently works.

The main reason people still use it is despite the issues with MMS (and SMS in general) the reality is that every vendor wants to own the messaging stack to build or strengthen moat, and the regulators who are in a position to enforce standard protocols have incentives in many or all countries to weaken the security of messaging protocols to meet surveillance objectives (whether those objectives are well scrutinized methods with judicial oversight, or blanket surveillance requirements).

Blaming the user as lazy or incompetent completely overlooks the significant financial incentives that platform owners and network providers have to maintain the status quo, or force the new status quo to strengthen their moats.
The only saving grace was that they ended up on the hook for the cash advance.
> Then it would be much harder to argue for that they are unfairly competing in the platform they provide.

No it wouldn't, because you could argue that they should allow competing OSes on their hardware platform.

> I don't think they take "there's no hard line" as an excuse to do nothing to enable competition.

I'm not saying they should. You're not responding to what I said. They didn't need to enable apps at all. They did, and allow things like Whatsapp to compete with their phone and messaging apps. They've enabled competition. Courts don't do anything like that.
Sort of. My reading of the DMA is basically what you're saying; Apple has to let people install what they want on their phones, Apple cannot self-preference with app capabilities. Apple is planning to comply not by allowing users to install what they want on their devices, but instead by offering companies an avenue to enter a business relationship with Apple through which Apple will allow users install that company's applications, provided that Apple has vetted and signed them. That is, all told Apple still has final say over what apps are allowed on peoples' phones. It sounds like the EC is going to nix those app-signing requirements, but the rest of the scheme may or may not be deemed acceptable.

So the question remains whether the spirit of the DMA is "users should be able to install the software they want on their computers" or "businesses offering apps and services should be able to compete with Apple on the iPhone". Is this a fundamentally a pro-user law or a pro-business law? There may be overlap, but they are not the same.
lol ok I must be out of touch
What does code being used by AI have to do with "big bad megacorps who effectively exploit FOSS developers?" I don't see any connection there, while I do see it for something like SSPL.
SBF's dad "worked" for the company getting paid a million dollars a year, both parents received several gifts of expensive of real estate, and were responsible for directing where political campaign contributions (taken from customer money) were going. They were almost certainly aware and complicit with the crimes he committed, and profited hugely off them.
Yeah, iMessage completely craps out when sending messages without signal. A red dot and manual “retry now” button? What is this? ICQ in 1995?

WhatsApp on iOS does a much better job, ironically (it just sends all queued outgoing messages once connectivity is back in the background, like every email client did back in dialup days).
Vermaden is a fairly prolific and established author on matters Unix and FreeBSD.

If you don't trust the author, there are images and search terms for each of these items. If they seem useful, go vet a source for yourself. They're available in many places other than aliexpress.
I agree for the most part, but at least it is a tractable problem, unlike providing public transport for the entirety of Wisconsin including Milwaukee
If they would only verify quality and provide safe APIs and paths to safely integrate they can have their platform. The issue is that they are both managing the plantform and (unfairly) participating themselves.

If they had one set of APIs for smartwatches that can be used by them for the apple watch and everyone else for their smartwatches they wouldn’t get sued. But instead they give themselves deep integration into the OS and limit everyone elses access. When you are one of the only available platforms thats not okay.
Yeah Preact provides you with most of the benefits of React without the massive bundle size of react-dom (react-dom is roughly 130kb minified, whereas Preact is about 11kb minified) [1][2].

The author even mentions Solid, so presumably he's aware that there are other frameworks utilizing JSX.

[1] https://bundlephobia.com/package/react-dom@18.2.0

[2] https://bundlephobia.com/package/preact@10.20.0
No? Who said that? Wrong on every count, especially the word "good" to refer to removing the headphone jack.
There was another HN thread today about Google Scholar PDF Reader - they introduced a citations preview in a popup. Question. Can Linkz.ai be integrated into the PDF-viewer?
It's hard to know where SEO ends and AI content begins but it's definitely a www phenomenon, not just "4-5 large social media sites".
Horrible? I can see mildly offensive, but horrible? Why is it so bad exactly?
Unfortunately, fb has failed to mention an important thing: Mastadon servers will just refuse to peer with Threads.
> I fundamentally don't understand the mindset of people who want to take that kind of risk for a 10% boost in their games' FPS[1]

Me either. But, lots of engineers are out there just writing single threaded matlab and python codes with lots of data-dependencies and just hoping the system manages to do a good job (for those operations that can’t be offloaded to BLAS). So I'm glad gamer dollars subsidize the development of fast single threaded chips that handle branchy codes well.

> In reality, the vast majority of the 1000x increase in performance and memory capacity over the past four decades has come from shrinking transistors and increasing clockspeeds and memory density

I disagree, modern designs include deep pipelines, lots of speculation, and complex caches because that’s the only way to spend that higher transistor budget for higher clocks and compensate for the fact that memory latencies haven’t kept up.

> Part of that is paying back the debt that decades of cutting corners has yielded us.

It will be tough, but yeah, server and mainframe users need to roll back the decision to repurpose consumer focus chips like the x86 and arm families. RISC-V is looking good though and seems open enough that maybe they can pick-and-choose which features they take.

> I almost gave you up an upvote until your third paragraph, but I have to now give a hard disagree.

I’m not too worried about votes on this post; this site has lots of web devs and cloud users, pointing out that the ecosystem they rely on is impossible to secure is destined to get lots of downvotes-to-disagree.
I cannot disagree more here.

Biology is just astoundingly complicated, especially micro-bio.

Lets look at the 'Central Dogma' of biology as a point to focus on a bit. It's the idea of 'information' transfer. DNA gets decoded into RNA which then gets decoded into Protiens, right? Easy peasy little discussion. You go into how DNA works a bit, it's structure, it's functions. Then you go a bit more into RNA and the various sub types, how the decoding proteins work, Slicer and Dicer, etc. You then talk about how three letter codons work to make amino acids, how you transport the mRNA out of the nucleus, etc. At each step you take a look at how the thing works and you mention some other launching off points for more research if the kids are interested. This is how a lot of education works, things like cooking, math, history, etc.

Except nearly none of what I just said about the 'Central Dogma' is considered true anymore. Sure, some of it is, but the vast majority of how proteins get made is not encompassed in it. Nearly the entirety of modern micro-biology is all about the 'exceptions' to the 'Central Dogma'. So much so that you can't really even say that there is any appreciable difference between RNA and proteins anymore. Every week, and I am not joking here, there is at least one new paper detailing some hybrid mess of RNA and proteins that has critical importance in how we understand how even the most common parts of a cell works. It's to the point that I would not call the 'Central Dogma' and outright lie, but more of a useful fiction.

Like saying that a 'for loop' is how the internet works. Yes, there are 'for loops' in the internet, yes they are critical, yes, you need to learn about them. But no, you cannot teach someone about the internet via a fascinating example or two about 'for loops'.

Understanding biology is Hard, it is the end result of 4+ billion years of literal life and death. It is not something that can be done in a few examples. Even an understanding at a 12 grade level does in fact take a full school year to get to, and even then, it's just the barest launching point into the wider field. The OP s wrong. Full Stop. 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.

Edutaiment is not the way forward here. Hard work is.