skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A big part of what makes a phone platform competitive is the apps for it. In the Netscape/ie days, Netscape ran on many platforms and made the underlying OS less important.this led to Microsoft going to great lengths to make windows/ie a walled garden. I saw this in working developing intranet apps. Things that “just worked “ on windows/ie didn’t work for Mac/linux/unix users.
The “super app” part of this lawsuit seems to me to describe a sort of layer that allows smaller apps —- “mini programs”— to program to that layer instead of to android/ios, and makes the app the same on either OS. It seems apple is being anticompetitive in its actions to prevent this.its sort of like QT letting you have one code base for various os’s. I think apple can try and make the native apps for iOS be better through innovation, but anticompetitive behavior is not ok.

From page 29 of the lawsuit: “Apple did not respond to the risk that super apps might disrupt its monopoly by
innovating. Instead, Apple exerted its control over app distribution to stifle others' innovation.
Apple created, strategically broadened, and aggressively enforced its App Store Guidelines to
effectively block apps from hosting mini programs. Apple's conduct disincentivized investments
in mini program development and caused U.S. companies to abandon or limit support for the
technology in the United States.”

If apple has capabilities on iPhones that androids don’t have, then native iOS apps that use them will be more desirable . That would be beneficial competition. If apple makes it hard to write cross platform lowest common denominator apps, that is anticompetitive.
How AI is Reshaping Our Reality
Do such policies trigger adverse inference or some similar concept?
They aren't in a dominant position in the market by any normal measure, though.
Thank you! Spot on about challenges with marketing something where you don't have comparable products and defined pain. Please prove me wrong:)
R itself could be considered a test of this hypothesis, too. It’s been said that elegant, powerful Lisp would be more widely adopted if it wasn’t for all those gosh-darned parenthesis.

Well, at its core R is a Lisp (specifically, Scheme) but with a more traditional syntax (infixed operators, function calls, etc). And it’s fair to say the adoption of R has, indeed, been more widespread than that of Lisp.
Neat. Sounds a bit like Patreon.
Virtual coworking with strangers to overcome procrastination
DongleHider+ Packs Up to 3 Dongles and a USB-A into a Framework Expansion Card
Llama.cpp releases now ship with pre-built macOS binaries
In Australia, we have a system for figures under $30,000 which is practically instant. I can send money online from my bank to almost any other Australian bank account number by direct credit.

Figures larger than $30,000 usually have to wait till the night-time batch-processing.

For that reason, the most recent Australian cheque I wrote was about 10 years ago.

Most people use their phones for online banking here. I prefer a nice big 4K TV screen as a monitor which can give me lots of information at a glance. The principle is the same though.

OSKO or PayID: https://www.westpac.com.au/personal-banking/online-banking/m...
Pressure to ditch controversial forced swim test in rodent studies of depression
The father seems to have been engaged in all the irregular business practices and has probably taught classes on what was criminal about their behavior.

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/09/19/ftx-bankruptcy-es...
Angela Chao was drunk when she drove into pond and died, police say
It's the standard used by almost all app stores, save for new entrants trying to buy their way into the market. Steam is 30% and there's nothing stopping you from installing alternatives. Nintendo's eStore is 30% and they control 100% of the mobile console market.
I think it's a lot of both.

Like fighter jets - they're very, very hard to fly and also expensive to build and maintain.
> He clearly presented a dichotomy of choosing between quantity or quality.

Using the context of previous articles by the author, I assumed Bayesian reasoning, so I was thinking about priors and outcomes and probabilities.
Oral Bacterium Migrates to Gut, Helps Colorectal Tumors Grow
Diff a large JSON file - I think it has to do with how large a single structure since I notice it most with static test fixtures.
...but Apple doesn't have dominance. They may have slightly more than half the market, but that's not usually considered antitrust territory.
Google's data interoperability is quite good though (Takeout). That was something Google did right 10+ years ago and I'm glad it hasn't died on the vine (and will probably see more development now, what with all this antitrust in the air).
Title is: Why ASML Matters

As there's been lots of discussion about the news story over the last month:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39615693

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39624651
Remember when medicine was unequipped to deal with COVID because it presented as-yet unforeseen challenges in treatment? It was a crazy time, I remember it well. It took months, but practices and procedures caught up. It wasn’t perfect, and I hope that we’ve learned enough that next time we do better. But medical professionals gave every ounce of their beings and sacrificed their safety, and often their lives, to provide medical care for a novel disease. While I’m sure you sat on your ass remote working from home.
The legacy phone system has a lot of features that aren't present in its replacement, such as freedom to connect with anyone who has a phone number, the ability to move your phone number from carrier to carrier, and the knowledge that as an individual the phone company can't block me from contacting its subscribers entirely for free as long as I pay a fee to my own phone company.

It's way better than being on Whatsapp or iMessage or Slack or Teams or whatever you're proposing to replace it because I have a lot of control over who can contact me and nobody is using my presence on the phone network as a means to drag all of my friends over to the same phone network.
Ah, but I would guess those are low quality users, i.e. they don't vote, they don't comment, they don't post. While that doesn't matter to advertisers, it does matter to the health of your content network. And their features have had zero positive effects on their community health.

You can run an ad on a subway and get more users. That doesn't mean you're doing a good job. The only reason those users have something to see is because of community health.
I’m in favor of adding some horrible in-order, no speculation, no prefetching, 5 stage pipeline architectures 101 core which can be completely verified and bulletproof to chips.

But the presence of this bulletproof core would not solve the problem of running bad code on modern hardware, unless all untrusted code is run on it.
An Improved Clock-Skew Measurement Technique for Revealing Hidden Services [pdf]
The Self-Improvement of Jonah Franks
Blink is the name of the rendering engine, not Chromium.
Direct link to releases: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/releases
NASA is struggling to compete with Bezos, Musk and their 6-figure salaries
Well you're a mod so already you are biased here.

It's not every sub, but any diet related subs are a good example...keto/vegan/carnivore/the one for bryan johnson
Down the Rabbit Hole of Money in Politics
TL'DR: friends..if you can find any.

I'm in the same place. After TED talks and much self guiding/discovery materials. I realize it really comes down to friends or at least someone you can confide in without judgement. Although therapist can help, but that just a guide. You still need to find friendships. I can't lose faith in humanity but omg...it's so *ukin hard. Worse for me as fulltime dad of a toddler where my times are mostly preoccupied so ideally for me. Need someone else who's going through the same.

Ex prgm mgr, coder from FAANGM now triaging my zillion side prj ideas for gold, but same..everyday is a struggle. Can't focus, lack motivation and direction.
> It's in the nature of their moat

On a tangent, what is the deal with the word moat and why is everybody using it all of a sudden? What does it mean?
> Can it be anywhere between "nothing" and "everything"?

Yes, and that won't change because the hardware with it's own buffers behaves the same way.
This came from the depths of memory but I have no idea how it got there, oops. https://helmets.org/history.htm suggests the first standard for bike helmets was in 1970?
> WhatsApp, LINE, WeChat, Telegram

These are not good options to have secure and private communication.

Signal and Threema should be the choices given.
I didn't know you were using that - that's actually a feature of B2 (and S3). IT works as far as I know (it does in S3). Assuming you switched it on on the bucket (not the default in S3! don't know about B2).

The limitation is that it's going to be somewhat more tricky to retrieve a consistent snapshot, because each file is versioned individually - rather like using CVS instead of git.

However S3/B2 versions are still a nice feature because they allow a simple way to provide the property of 'non-fate-sharing' which is a great property to have in backups but is otherwise difficult to arrange without multiple machines. Essentially, two systems fate-share if someone who hacks one can delete both. So Ideally the machine being backed up should not be able to delete the backups, and the machine (or service) hosting the backups should not be able to delete the original. But, dumb storage does not have this property (if you keep it online) and using an online service as dumb storage doesn't either. But if you use a credential which isn't allowed to delete versions in your backup tool, enable versions, and keep your backblaze admin credential elsewhere, then you have non-fate-sharing. So, it's a good idea to enable versioning even if you use restic which does its own versioning (and I don't think this will eat more space, because restic names files by content)

Another limitation of using rclone as a backup tool is that different rclone backends support different metadata (because the underlying systems do). So, it's not suitable to back up the whole of your OS, or something where you care about not losing the metadata. Eg, the b2 backend doesn't support metadata, so
if you back up your OS using it you won't know what file was owned by who.
In fact, reminds me of the time at which they used Blockchain for everything.

Just a bubble right now. It will come back to its natural uses after it. Everyone is doing AI now and I am pretty sure it is to attract investment even if some might know their product will go nowhere.
Google AI could soon use a person's cough to diagnose disease
Some of the articles linked, are basically issues I was already aware of (such as all product review sites are turning into copy-pasta).

I at least have sympathy for the folks at: https://housefresh.com/david-vs-digital-goliaths/

However, mostly Google's included comment is personally hilarious. The weird craziness some people at Google must have to deal with.

> Lily Ray, 'when we told our client, they said "that's literally not going to be possible"'

> Google, 'Genuinely curious, what's impossible in guidance like "discuss benefits and drawbacks based on your own research"'
A lot of commercially available "biodegradable"/"compostable" plastic is already made out of PLA.
The motivation seems to be "many people have transpilers configured wrong" and this seems an extreme solution to fixing people's transpiler configurations. Especially because it will still fail for modules using top-level await (anywhere in their dependency graph), so it is at best a band-aid. Beyond that it does seem to be missing real motivating use cases. What real reason in 2024 is there to use CommonJS at the top level in NPM? How hard is it to rewrite `require()` statements to `await import()` ones, especially when the fix is a transpiler configuration change away?
But these computers are so different… But if Apple does that it would be differently different… /s

I mean, what gp wants is literally just there on the shelves and they don’t want it. But they also want it, but in Apple, because it’s nicer when Apple does[n’t] it. Why would they want it after Apple does it?
Yes I explored the browser extension direction, but the business model & our cost-per-link-preview-generation does not work yet. Making the website owner to pay for it makes the business math work much better.
> It's apparent that you yourself don't notice the problem but that doesn't mean the problem doesn't exist.

Well that's true, but likewise, just because people notice the problem more in their own lives, doesn't mean it's as widespread as some say.

(Neither of these comments are meant to say that this is not a problem - it is - I'm just tired of the crazy-overstated FUD surrounding it all)
I don’t disagree with you. I’m all for perennial reevaluations of how we train professionals to make sure we’re producing the best and brightest. But there is definitely a libertarian strain (especially among these commenters) that shits on formal education, which is dangerous and intellectually lazy.
Factional competition and local media reports on corruption in China
My experience is the consumer side of home/auto/moving/storage with web pages promising online quotes, but are actually just leadgen funnels that hand off phone numbers to traditional high-touch sales processes. I'm sure the sales reps that receive those lists believe the targets actually want to be called, but that's obviously a convenient fiction with the way the web pages are set up.

I've also gotten spam calls that are similar leadgen funnels, where the frontend is obviously robocall spam, and then you're transferred to sales reps at what is likely a different company who clearly expect to be speaking to bona fide interested customers rather than perturbed spam victims just looking to mess with them.

In general I've got to question the impedance mismatch of turning a web form into a phone call regardless of whether it's necessary. To me they're much different head spaces, and just because evening/night me is preliminarily looking into a topic doesn't necessarily mean that daytime me wanted to add it to the in-process run queue. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of your rejection is based on this dynamic where people wanted the interaction/information at the time they requested it, but not later when you're interrupting them doing something else.
Couldn't see the cost anywhere on the website.
I don't see how it could physically fit more than 1 logitech-style dongle internally, but that's still better than 0.
Running LLMs locally always feels so awesome!
You could use https://github.com/vercel/satori which supports Node 16+.
I rarely use it now because of the web front end. Yeah old.reddit.com and plugins to redirect to it help a bit.
Also why on earth would I want to use an app instead of a web browser for a site that lists wen links. Oh yeah they stopped making the site about links and more about internal content.

It really is a pile of shit compared to what it used to be.
Thank you! Curious how did you implementation look like!
I have no problem with investigating them, I suppose, especially given the father's position at the company. But I think it's a bit unhinged to leap straight to: "these parents that helped create a family criminal enterprise need to be brought to justice and serve time in prison right along with their son."
You are grossly misunderstanding what I am saying, and I don't know how better to explain it.
This is it: https://keyvan.me/tsp
Let's talk! keyvankambakhsh@gmail.com
Apple is adopting the Universal profile. If GSMA wants to add E2EE to that profile then they should. I believe that there was some talk of Apple working with GSMA to add or improve encryption on that profile. AFAIK rcs is licensed out to OEMs and so there are a number of different implementations around. In my opinion it would be better for all if there was a secure standard in place - for all to adopt - instead of hoping that everyone works with google to try to get googles proprietary implementation working.
Like I said, Facebook has better tools. Reddit is rock bottom when it comes to their ad product. They should have swallowed Twitter's business when their advertisers started fleeing, but they haven't.
OTOH I can use my credit card to open my door - and this is even advertised as a feature by the manufacturer!
Does enforcing a single rendering engine make things like Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) possible?

(It's not just a link to a web app on the homepage, it can also hold state, receive notifications, and (within reason) take over most of the screen.)

https://web.dev/explore/progressive-web-apps
Yes but what percent of active posters use it? It's going to be much higher and the site will die without new content.
> The world doesn't need most of us

Perfect. It isn't even a matter of being replaceable: it's just that so many people might die, anywhere in the world, and you don't even notice it.
Brin has a post on his FB wall mourning Vinge.
This is something I really want, but I've never been quite sure how to set it up properly. Ideally I'd want to run it in the cloud so I don't have to be on my home network (and don't have to expose my home network in that way). I have a VPS that I use for a variety of things, but it doesn't have enough space for my photos. Syncthing doesn't seem to support S3 as storage.

I suppose I could put it on a machine at home, and expose it to the internet (perhaps using Wireguard), but I have very limited upload bandwidth (25Mbps), and would still want to sync the files to S3 (say with a script that runs nightly). I guess the initial sync would take forever, and then new photos would be relatively quick.

I guess I could also put it on my VPS and use something like Amazon's NFS service as the backing store. But I expect that would be quite a bit more expensive than the lower-cost S3/Glacier tiers I'd prefer to use.
I got a lot of mileage in trying to persuade people (especially those that write) that other people don't read by showing pictures of people ignoring the signs right next to them. Don't sit here. Don't park here. No swimming.

I can't remember the company, but I heard about one that started every meeting with 20 minutes or so of silence for people to read the material that they were supposed to have read before they got to the meeting. That is genius...
There’s a giant difference. The claim is that Apple restricts other companies from providing cloud backup of photos. Google Photos proves this is incorrect.
When i have joined a new project, i have asked for a "safari" from one or a few senior people. Show me "the big five" of your area. Pretty simple to find time and willingness for generally, and it's been a good amount of info to digest at once.
> Saying there is only one browser on iOS is like saying Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge are the same browser because they both use chromium.

This is the correct take, though. They ARE the same web browser, just with different skins.
Relevant: “Containment Control for a Social Network with State-Dependent Connectivity” (2014), Air Force Research Laboratory, Eglin AFB: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.5644.pdf

…a.k.a Reddit's "Most-Addicted City" of 2013: https://web.archive.org/web/20160604042751/http://www.reddit...
I mean, why would you possibly have a hub connected to the switch if it wasn't connected to the laptop? Surely, nobody would ever disconnect their laptop and leave all of the other devices connected waiting and ready for the laptop to be reconnected at a later time. That's such an edge case that it could never have been thought of as a normal thing to test against. Only weirdos take their laptops away from a desk environment. What are they gonna do, use it on their laps?
Looks awesome!

How does it handle taking instruction about things like what stack to use?

E.g. if I'm building a new prototype, I personally would want to build with Tailwind, but lots of people think Tailwind is evil and prefer prototyping with <other_css_thing_they_like>

Also curious to hear what you think of the quality of the output code. My experiences with LLMs doing frontend code has been a pretty mixed bag personally
Media messages from Androids to iPhones are in fact technologically-limited by MMS. That's not an Apple-imposed limitation, it's written in stone in the MMS standard.
In 20 years I've encountered precisely one Access Database that was very well designed, adequately documented, and implemented correctly - meaning people used a single instance on a specific machine, or Remote Desktop Protocol'd into same.

Connecting to an Access database over a network from individual client apps is a recipe for pain as the database file gets locked, so then people start saving "copy of copy of copy USE THIS ONE" versions and you get divergent database backends with no clean way to merge. IME this always happens for business critical Access systems with no backup and documentation at the least convenient time, and suddenly it's IT's problem/fault. Yes you can connect to a SQL Server backend, but then it's IT's problem/fault/responsibility to maintain, and it takes Access out of the "simple enough for business users" domain.

That said, as a rapid app development desktop tool Access can work very well if you know its limitations. It's somewhat surprising MS never made a 365 web-first equivalent, but that's probably because they'd rather charge for Dynamics 365 licenses and Azure SQL hosting.
That's is based on old assumption of neuron function.

Firstly, Kurzweil underestimates the number connections by order of magnitude.

Secondly, dentritic computation changes things. Individual dentrites and the dendritic tree as a whole can do multiple individual computations. logical operations low-pass filtering, coincidence detection, ... One neuronal activation is potentially thousands of operations per neuron.

Single human neuron can be equivalent of thousands of ANN's.
I also saw Arc's previews, and thought the same thing :) Yes we are relying on OpenGraph, Oembed (and scraping in some cases).

I was very happy to see Arc's release, as it brings awareness to this functionality! I wish this translated to Google traffic :)
What is the API to produce SVG?
Apple has removed competitors apps and taken their markets in the past. They are not a neutral party, and the weights of public interest must be to sustain open markets. It is good for everyone, it's unfortunate Apple has to be forced to do it but they only did it to themselves.
Overall, I see a conversion towards mcdonalds-style university management happening world-wide. More or less what you explain, also based mostly on PR.
word diff gets you halfway without that complexity
> macOS has proven for decades that a reasonably proprietary OS can be distributed and kept reasonably secure when apps are installed on it outside of an App Store.

That’s not really true. Despite the dangers of centralized app censorship, the state of security on iOS is far beyond that of macOS.
>Would be rotting in academia

They’d be doing research man
I’ve done exactly this. Can confirm you are correct. Svelte is also much more performant in the client. But react is great in its own ways and I particularly like the way it tends to point developers towards composition of small components.
It's not mentioned anywhere in this blog post, but the project has a website at https://tunnelmole.com/ and a github repo at https://github.com/robbie-cahill/tunnelmole-client

EDIT: And, actually, I don't think this is really an ngrok alternative. Unless I'm mistaken it looks like it only supports HTTP, whereas ngrok is a generic TCP proxy. (Albeit that ngrok does not support TCP half-close because it treats it like a full close).
That would be Amazon in its earlier days.
How much does it cost ?

I'm very interested in this ( although I'd rather have an API), but it's major red flag if I don't know the price