skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the author should give more credence to it not being intuitive that people could easily learn to balance on a bicycle. The other examples he gave - horse, canoe - are stable without a rider. If you put a canoe in the water, it will stay upright. Horses, obviously, are stable without a rider. A bicycle without a rider will fall over.

I don't think it's obvious that putting a human on a long, two-wheeled vehicle will make it more stable than that vehicle is on its own. I think it's also not obvious that most humans can quite easily and quickly learn how to balance a bicycle.
The problem with this is that going outside of Apple's walled garden benefits 3rd parties who would prefer to do whatever they want so to use the same apps as before, everyone will have to submit to that risk. Apple's walled garden is a type of regulation.
All currently-unknown real languages that an LLM might decode are languages that are unknown because of a lack of data, due the civilization being dead. An LLM won't necessarily be able to overcome that.

In the book the characters had access to effectively unbounded input since it was a live civilization generating the data, plus they had reference to at least some video, and... something else that would be very useful for decoding language but would constitute probably a medium-grade spoiler if I shared, so there's another relevant difference.

Still, it should also be said it wasn't literally LLMs, it was humans, merely, "affected" in a way that they are basically all idiot savants on the particular topic of language acquisition.
Reminds me of dominate.
Man who was almost sucked off plane among group suing Alaska and Boeing
There's no selection pressure when a monkey bangs their hands on a keyboard. It's just randomness without any consequence. The letters are not interacting with each other or their environment in any significant way.
The government does not want people to have secure devices. Whether or not Apple's are currently secure is not the point; that they are working to make them so is enough to make sure it doesn't happen.
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What your proposing would basically entail countries indefinitely subsidizing a huge fraction of their economies so that everything is made domestically. You would just keep doing it and keep waiting for a war. It would be incredibly inefficient and make things significantly more expensive and your nation would fall behind (see North Korea). More importantly, by eliminating economic interdependence you create a much more dangerous world where demagogues can easily start wars b/c they can be sustained by these independent domestic economies

But even in this horror parallel reality of yours, cutting edge chips would still be very far down the list of things that are important. Can you provide basic sanitation without anything made in China? Transport? Medical care? Can you feed your nation? Can you maintain your nations basic infrastructure?

Having to go back a few generations in chips is just irrelevant at the scale of disaster you're envisioning
> but Android is a real competitor even there

Is it though? On the hardware side sure but on the software side I don't see any competition. Both stores have close to identical practices and do not look like they compete over to get developers onboard. The only pricing change ever made was also made in reaction to an antitrust lawsuit and copied verbatim.

While not a strict monopoly, the lack of competition in this area between the only two players seems obvious.
There is also gumtree that does ast based diffing https://github.com/GumTreeDiff/gumtree
As long as I have to pay Apple a yearly developer fee so that I can load my own software (that no one else will use) on to 'my' phone, it does not belong me. Yes I know you can reload it every week. Not my phone.

I do not understand why Microsoft stepped out of the mobile market.
Apple genuinely deserves this lawsuit.

> By tightly controlling the user experience on iPhones and other devices, Apple has created what critics call an uneven playing field where it grants its products and services access to core features that it denies rivals.

Once I read this I was not shocked. Apple is already pushing people to buy their separate apps that should have came in for free, with the purchase of the Iphone or at least make a bundle Apple users could buy. Disgusting Apple totally deserved.
It's a literal translation of the original Chinese term. This scam has been popular in Asia for years. One can use a euphemisms but it doesn't really help the victims. Also the term "grooming" has a negative connotation itself since some Western media outlets started using it to downplay child gang rape. See the British "grooming gangs".
"until I found myself in situations where direction evaporated."

This is the important part. Most people simply work themselves to death and never find the time to ask these kinds of questions. Or, they did ask themselves these questions at one point and realized working themselves to death was a more pleasant route than struggling with such existential problems.
> I expect them to kill `old.reddit` soon

They have already started to redirect direct image links to the new reddit garbage which has stopped my usage for reddit for entertainment when bored.
Apple, which collects a lot of telemetry, made privacy a tenet of their brand, and they've successfully conflated the two in the mind of a layperson.

Separately, most telemetry would tell stories like, "This project is a failure." Little incentive for people to adopt it. Then again, most OSS is ordered by the mania of its programmer-creators, not product or engineering quality informed by telemetry. Maybe in a Darwinian way, we only have the OSS that can thrive without telemetry and reactive product and engineering decisions.
Automattic are one of the worst offenders when it comes to plugins, a bunch of features that should be in core are in their jetpack plugin that integrates with their proprietary SaaS.
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> Look at how much energy has been put into Passkeys

Yep, this is a huge reason why we are so excited about web tunnels because we are already loving the DX/UX around it. The end-user doesn't need to install anything new and they have access to private sites using just SSH keypairs and a tunnel.

For example, when using any code forge (gitea, github, gitlab, sourcehut, etc.) they require two completely separate authentication mechanisms: one for SSH and one for web.

Now imagine the simplicity of a git code forge that leverages web tunnels to serve its web ui: no separate login and as long as the tunnel is open, you have authenticated access to the web viewer.

So combine web tunnels with autossh and you are forever authenticated to your authenticated sites.
Seriously, what programmer is having a hard time finding " on their keyboard?
Read the Lawsuit Against Apple
Little Boney: James Gillray and Napoleon's Fragile Masculinity
Dude is just looking for a culture war.
I have experience with this (but didn't fall for the scam).

The scammer, whom I met on social media, was extremely convincing. She claimed to be wealthy. She has pictures with celebrities, pictures with her Lamborghini, and so on. She said her stepfather is an executive in the Monetary Authority of Singapore, which gives him access to information that other people cannot have. This information allows her to make currency pair trades that bring guaranteed profits. (This would be insider trading, technically.) She showed me screenshots of trades where she made $250,000 USD to $500,000 USD in a matter of 30 minutes (buys and sells in 30 minutes; timing is based on instructions from her stepfather). Then she encouraged me to make trades with my own money as well.

She asked me to install the Coinbase Wallet app. She asked me to press the Browse button in this app, then type seemingly random characters into the box. (Part of the scam here is that victims may not realize they are actually typing a website URL). The website then displays inside the Coinbase Wallet app, and its function appears to be part of Coinbase Wallet.

She had me create a demo account, and guided me through the steps of making a demo transaction and showed me that I could make a significant profit. Then she asked me to make a real account. By this point I was suspecting a scam so I did not go through.

All this happened over a period of 3 weeks, so the scammer takes her time to "groom" victims. An Asian lady who speaks Mandarin and speaks good English with the help of translation apps. I never met the lady in person (she claimed to be on the other coast of the USA), but I did have a video call with her. She claimed to have been using the website for two years (but in fact, internet records show this site was only created weeks before). I discovered that her phone numbers are Twilio and Google Voice VOIP numbers, and her IP address is Azure, which probably means she is logged in to an Azure VM from another country.

Warning signs: They are always far enough away that you can't meet in person, but promises she will be moving to your city soon. (Or they are from your city, but currently away on business). Wants to switch to WhatsApp or Telegram. They always do video call to show that they are a real person. Shows off their wealth, mansion-like houses, fancy cars, dining at expensive restaurants. Casually mentions investing in crypto as their source of wealth. Then wants to show you how to invest in crypto yourself.

Edit: Here are some pictures the scammer shared with me. She is with celebs (Asian celebs, I don't recognize them), in her new Lamborghini at the dealership and so on:

https://imgur.com/a/uRKaE8g

https://imgur.com/a/HV7v1XF

https://imgur.com/a/vDvifL2

https://imgur.com/a/sI01Upb
If you're over 80 years old and don't do online banking, but are convinced by someone calling "from the FBI" that your account is in danger, Wells Fargo will happily try multiple times to transfer your life's savings to multiple different Bitcoin bank accounts (the first few closed for fraud and funds returned) over more than a week and several visits, then open a new credit card and transfer the maximum cash advance electronically as you read the newly issued password out to someone on the phone in their presence, and never mention there's a danger in doing this or question your decisions, until all your money is gone.

How do I know? If you happen to have been a school teacher for 50 of those years, you keep excellent hand written notes of the events, that make your relatives sick to their stomachs.
One of the most annoying features of the iOS ecosystem is the great lengths they take to prevent easy export of data out of the iOS system to other non-Apple devices. E.g. ever tried exporting Safari bookmarks on iOS to a Linux system running Firefox? A simple JSON file is all it would take, but no, you have to sync with a MacOS computer or some such:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254567613
It looks like Old Reddit, but the content is New Reddit.

It's just a stream of political dreck and virtue signalling. I really don't need to see Trump in every second post and read about people who hate cars, meat, Twitter, Reddit, etc.
Everyone with elderly parents needs to at some point sit down and have “The Talk” with them about online scams and ideally media literacy in general. The scams are getting more sophisticated (technically and socially) and the scammers are getting much more patient and long-term focused since they can rely on not getting shut down. With convincingly articulate LLMs on the horizon, the problem is only going to get worse and more accessible to would be scammers.

Yes, it’s not just the elderly who are victims of these, but a lot of people at that age are too trusting of strangers and of people who sound like authorities. And let’s face it: older people have all the wealth in the world anyway so they’re more likely to be fruitful targets.
It does mention that? Read the whole article.
there's an ongoing flagging tug of war on this post.
In an effort to accelerate the development life-cycle, Google will now release sunset announcements before the product release.
Fan Is a Tool-Using Animal
This is why there needs to be regulation with teeth.

It needs to make business sense to prevent spam/scams by there being penalties for screwing things up, and incentives for doing well. Otherwise you're right, unscrupulous telco companies like to make money by charging scammers to send messages to customers.
“Your honor, my family has to suffer the Green Bubble when chatting with iPhone friends. This has caused us irreparable mental harm and anguish”.
The zipheads were crippled with a weaponized virus that turned them all into autistic savants. The virus was somewhat magnetic, and using MRI like technologies, they could target specific parts of the brain to be affected to lesser or greater degrees. It's been awhile since I've re-read it, but "focused" was the propaganda label for it from the monstrous tyrannical regime that used it to turn people into zombies, no?
How sure are you about that?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/252678/walmarts-net-sale...

It looks like roughly 60% of groceries are sold at Walmart in the US. And unlike phones, where you can choose Android easily, many regions have only Walmart to shop at.
I think the long term game works if you look at it from a Broadcom style prospective. You're not looking to snag many users but rather the few very expensive ones who have built themselves around the product. From the Businesses prospective they'll pay the increased prices to avoid moving completely or in the short term during migrations.

To avoid the short term, providers could "buy time" and keep prices low until the project deviates far enough from forks, making migration much harder, then increase prices.

Either way, long term they can end up with a lot of money from a few companies rather than continuing to support many mixed sized companies.

I don't like it either but I can see it working.
China is deurbanizing and dedensifying. It's a popular myth that Chinese cities are dense. Density peaked a decade ago.

This will spell economic worries someway down the road as maintenance upkeep costs start to kick in.
Thanks for mirroring this! This was only published on an old CD for the '93 Hugo winners, and I had a devil of a time trying to find a copy (inter-library-loan, etc) before realizing someone had archived it on archive.org. It is indeed well worth the time spent if you're a fan of Fire.
>The agent then tells the patient it will report back all this information to her real human doctor.

I don't see this going well. Doctors have enough to do instead of babysitting everything the AI nurse told their patient to do.

I also don't see this going as well as they hope, as physical nurses are still very much a requirement for much of healthcare. AI can't inject drugs, or take blood samples, or assist with a bed transfer lift.
I sent a text to wrong number last week and I'm grateful the recipient let me know it was a wrong number so I wasn't just sitting there waiting for a reply from my friend that was never going to come.
> I wonder why

So much traffic has shifted to mobile that desktop traffic is inherently seen as more suspicious, so the spammers just adapted.
> You do not need millions of dollars of equipment to solder battery cells together.

I have disassembled several. They're all welded, not soldered.

Soldering will damage the cell. Improper welding will poke holes in the cell.

It's not rocket science but as your own comment proves, basic research is required as well as some practice welding it a safe location.
Thanks! Yes inference costs are non-negligible right now but we think this will come down over time
> The Reddits were the "Cell food muffins." "Muffin" is a term of endearment Jessica uses for things like small dogs and two year olds. So that gives you some idea what kind of impression Steve and Alexis made in those days. They had the look of slightly ruffled surprise that baby birds have.

LifeProTip: If the idea you pitch is obviously nonviable, be just so adorable.
> the conditions today are vastly different than they were 20 years ago when there was no AWS to resell your FOSS to the whole world

No, its not. SaaS has existed for more than 20 years and reselling FOSS has been something it has done as long as there has been FOSS to resell.

What's changed recently is people launching venture-funded startups centered on gaining popularity through the appeal of FOSS with initially no clear monetization plan or one centered on selling services that were essentially just the FOSS, hosted. That’s the new thing, and why there is so much energy going into trying to figure out how to retain the marketing appeal of FOSS with the new licenses that lack the value proposition of FOSS.
Well perhaps, but I think it's so overly complex and verbose to the point that learning it and making sure that everyone working on the project is on the same level is hard or near to impossible.

I really tried to learn RxJS, I used a lot of different methods like filter and what not but I still got into a huge amount of issues but honestly a lot of that was because angular was not really fit for the type of application we were trying to build. Especially as we relied heavily on query params for state. There were many strange behaviors of Angular Router that I ran into several times. It has some kind of own internal state and fires updates in an unexpected way. I remember sitting hours just to try to get the query params to update correctly and I was not the only one having these kinds of issues.

Even if I agree useEffect is unnecessary complex, it's still far far away from being as complex as RxJS and Angular. I remember I was trying to add some pipe service or whatever it was called and it was near to impossible to achieve what I wanted to do which would be trivial in any other framework/vanilla JS (unfortunately I don't remember what it was).

Then using third party stuff in Angular is a nightmare as well. You have to deep dive into how it's being built to make sure all the stuff is brought into the build step etc. The configuration is a nightmare if you want to do something special like making use of Angular Elements that's barely documented at all.

I never got to use the Signals feature, because I left the company before it got introduced into Angular.
"I for one wouldn't want an engineer who solves problems like that on the team. "

I guess this is some high-handed attempt at a put-down.

I think you have to consider what game job-hunting/filling is.

IMHO it's essentially quite similar to mating.

In that case, you see all kinds of strategies, tailored to the environment, and other realities.

Have you thought about why you're getting all these applications that clearly don't match?

Is it because people are stupid, or lazy? Or do you think there might be some logic behind a strategy of just sending out semi-customized applications in search of a match, knowing that most are simply ignored anyway?

I mean, someone who thinks through why things are the way they are, and what to do about it, even if they can't get to an answer, is someone I would want on my team.
Steve = spez, right? Not seeing a lot of adulation of him these days.
What is meant by "monopoly" has been evolving, and a majority share acquired through anticompetitive means could be enough to warrant government action.
Father fell prey to one of these scams. He asked me about crypto trading and mining so I talked him through it. He then mentioned he was doing it through a company whose name was big in the forex world.

I got confused because the forex company wasn't involved in crypto so I asked him for the site nor was anything he said related to trading or mining.

Going to the site, i immediately knew it was a scam. I asked him how he got a hold of this and some chinese woman had cold texted him. He's a senior so of course boomers are ripe for the pick since he lived alone. Ended up buying $10k worth of crypto to send to this scam site.

When he tried to withdraw they sent h some nonsense email about tax withholding from the WTO and subsequently "froze" his account until he deposited 75% more.

The worst part of the ordeal was how defensive he got with me about it. He was more concerned with the nonsensical scenario of him losing his PoA than losing $10k to an otherwise obvious scam.

I showed him some of the fun culturally insulting things I've said to indian and Chinese scammers who cold text.

Dad ended up getting a part time job to occupy himself and have some people to talk to. Haven't heard about him day trading or mining crypto either. I said if he wants to get into day trading to do it through some US based company you've heard before and if he wants to mine crypto, then I'll help him find hardware to do it.
The facts were different in the Microsoft case. If they had built in Internet Explorer as a "free" feature in a Windows upgrade it would have been tough to prove anticompetitive behavior. But they originally sold IE as a separate product, like as boxes in retail stores. They only bundled it with Windows later and there was clear evidence during the trial that they made the change specifically to kill Netscape.
It's hard for me to imagine the bravery it takes to sign up for this -- even if you're dying already, something like this is unlikely to result in a peaceful final days on earth (between being a science experiment, the media, optional major traumatic surgery, etc...). The folks undergoing this are incredibly admirable.
You use the term Android like it is a corporation or a brand. Are you comparing iOS to Android OS or Apple to Samsung, Google etc.? I agree that Apple commands a relatively small share of the US mobile ecosystem, but where do the competitors stand?
> This is confusing, because one possible reading of this is that the procedure works only on Black people.

I don't see that being a possible reading.

> Imagine, for the sake of argument, that it happens to be true for zookeepers, and the patient happened to also be a zookeeper. Would they have said "The patient is a zookeeper, and the procedure may have special significance for zookeepers, who suffer high rates of end-stage kidney disease?"

I mean, if one can get beyond the implausibility of your example, maybe? If the authors of the article were aware of it, I can absolutely see them pointing that kind of thing out in other cases. But at the same time, so what?

> Or did an editor see an earlier draft and say something like: "Hey, there isn't a single mention of any race issue in this article. Not cool. So not cool."

Is there some evidence I'm not aware of the the New York Times mentions race issues in every (or even most) articles?
We have think of it differently now, stuff like lead and asbestos were bad, but localized mostly. We’re running the microplastic experiment on everybody simultaneously.
> As much as I appreciate anti-trust law, I think it would be far better if the EU put its efforts and money into supporting a truly viable alternative to Apple and Google in the mobile space.

If it was to a company, this would very likely be treated as illegal state aid under the EU's own rules. If open source projects, that might be more viable; the EU does already fund open source projects to some extent.