skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And we're just asking this question now? What about corporate control of one of the most basic tools of modern society: the smartphone. Just two companies control the two respective software stacks.

I would much prefer a new law that forbids the use of AI completely, at least commercially. That is: it should be illegal to sell AI services and sell products that were made with AI services.

We have a severely broken society when we cannot even decide NOT to use technology, and the only way forward is further innovation which is fundamentally unsustainable (more AI -> faster computers -> more mining -> more destruction).
"Find my".app (for lack of a better designator) doesn't use the location information in the background. Weather.app does use location services in the background. Weather (like all user space apps) can also be restricted to only getting the approximate location rather than exact location.

Find my system is part of the operating system itself - not an application running in user space. It can be disabled in the "Share My Location" settings in Location services in settings and in System Services "Find My iPhone" because that part of is not a user space app running but rather part of the kernel.
that's hilarious you think that every major platform doesn't have the same amount of bot activity.
this is correct. Its simply logging the connection so I can see server load/usage stats. There is other code that logs the NodeJS version and OS, this is so I can make better decisions on which NodeJS version I should get TypeScript compile to. The second log can be turned off however, instructions are in the README.
So is Reddit going public to raise money for infrastructure expansion or other business growth? Or is it mostly for a payday for the various owners?
What an asinine comment. What you are basically saying is to buy an iPhone to use with friends that use iPhone and then buy an Android to use with friends that have an Android phone or that you pick your friends based on their phone.

Because you cannot have only one of them and not either have a problem or cause a problem for others. So which of those are you? The one that cause problems?
Absolutely true. Reddit's true success started when Digg failed (remember MrBabyMan??)
Another good reason to not use a smartphone.
Thoughts about Les Pas?

https://github.com/scubajeff/lespas - comes with built-in two-way sync with Nextcloud server

(no affiliation, just a curious Nextcloud user)
U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly | Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39778999
If a site has an API, it has bots. They call that common sense.
TFA article mentions 5 use cases that are supposedly "within the coming decade" and uses terms such as "few million qubits" "more qubits than are currently available" and "within reach", basically implying that there aren't any use cases possible now. This seems to reinforce skepticism[1] expressed by other researchers that practical uses of quantum computing will very likely be different from what we thought possible before, quote - "big compute" problems on small data, not big data problems.

As a newbie I seriously would like to know - are there ANY known real world applications of quantum computing that are possible today?

[1] https://cacm.acm.org/research/disentangling-hype-from-practi...
McCarthy was roundly discredited by about '56. He was out of office by '57. By the early 60s he was largely viewed as an extremist.

The election of 1964 (LBJ vs Goldwater) was very conclusive: Goldwater was easy to paint as an extremist - he only got 38% of the vote, it was a landslide for LBJ. (In reality, Goldwater, or at least the Goldwater he evolved into, was nowhere near as extreme as many in his party today - he was more of a libertarian and warned against having religious extremists control the party - the GOP did not heed his warnings)
Opera switched from Presto to Blink, too.

Very fun project! Did you ever consider integrating with web-platform-tests? It's shared between all the common browser vendors, and we're always interested in more contributors :-)
Whole Android ecosystem is a mess.
This is a good chance to ask something I've wondered for a while, why isn't cellophane more commonly used as an alternative to plastic film? Is it coatings on cellophane that make it just as bad as plastic? Or does the environmental impact of producing cellophane outweigh the fact that it's biodegradable?
> It wasn't a very common practice in earlier generations, it became an increasingly common practice in newer generations

...followed by...

> I mean, I can't speak for what was unmentionably hot in the 19th century or whatever

...seems to indicate you should not have been so confident in your initial assertion. A great number of things were likely less mention-able in prior generations, including the act of hetero-normative sex; I suspect people had plenty of sex then, considering we exist at all.
CEO editing comments has what to do with fraud?
>> What's interesting to me is how quickly AI generated art came to be expected, unexceptional. Every random blog post has a couple AI generated images now, they are completely unremarkable and uninteresting. The novelty wore off basically instantaneously. They're just the new corporate art style.

> It’s only been a year. As SORA shows, state of the art images and videos will soon be undetectable by human eye and it’s very soon coming to proliferate every “content” you interact with.

Even if the "AI" generated images will be "undetectable by human eye," they'll still be at least "completely unremarkable and uninteresting" and more likely crappy and stupid (even if all the people have the right number of fingers now).

I predict the floodgate of that "AI" generated stuff will reduce the production of actually good and creative art and images and make what is produced harder to find.
It shows belonging, at the very least. The quote from Jim Salter was "The project belonged to Mason, not to his employer" (emphasis added). The copyright line demonstrably and incontestably refutes this claim. btrfs belongs to Oracle.
TCP is something i'm thinking about. It is possible with sockets and different port numbers opening/closing on the server side, it will take some work however. Perhaps you might be interested in contributing?
There's no reference. It's just a bad joke. What they did was actually very good.
This is probably the case with youtube “experts” as well. They make some plausible business plans sound do-able, show numbers and talk at about puddle depth of things to do. This is for real estate, starting a business, option trading, etsy stores, making youtube channels, etc.

These people are good at generating content in categories where the ads pay highest. I don’t know if tiktok has ads but that is the case on youtube.
The web was better when there was a barrier to entry. You must be at least this smart to host a website turned into "post on social media platform xxxx".

Development was better when you must be at least this skilled to build software.

I read a post yesterday where someone was so proud of their bad permissions system... Well someone was unaware of how linux permissions and groups work and what a group even is was (and how it might be represented in a directory to be managed).

As for "web scale" well, all of that autoscaling is just auto-spending. "Cattle not pets" would be a great metaphor but cattle are valuable, most people are leased on chicken farming and own nothing. (If that analogy is lost on you, do your home work and be appalled, but it is on point).

Remember kids, its called a container for a reason, its how we isolate your shitty application from bringing down the rest of the system or the hardware that you dont understand!
I understand now that you are the developer of this app.

I'm sure it doesn't feel very good to have someone criticize it, I get that. But, this person cared enough about the thing you made to use it, troubleshoot it, and post a comment about it on HN.

At the end of the day, it's valuable user feedback :)
What group of people?
Why? My doctor's job is to give me health advice and treatment not moral advice. And it's none of society's business so really they shouldn't be chiming in anyway.
> Sure, as long as you can't force everyone to follow you.

What about the fact that many people are FORCED to develop new technology as a job because that is pretty much the only job that has existed? What about the species that were FORCED into extinction because you can have your technology. You speak of FORCING, but modern society has FORCED indigenous people out of their way of life, forced poor people from their lands for resources.

None of us has ANY RIGHT to destroy the ecosystem and ruin lives and exterminate wild species for technological development. It's immoral and thus I believe anyone who does not wish to give up their technology has already forfeited their right to keep it.

What you are oblivious to is that technological development forces people into a way of life and forces this world into a way of being that many people simply do not want.
I just retired some 3com 1900 series 1gbps switches for my home lab. Only problems I've had with them were those dell docks I mentioned corrupting arp tables requiring a full network reboot to resolve but it also could be reproduced on Cisco and Dell switches so there's that. HP still fully warranties the damn things to this day.
How else do you explain people who still post on /r/politics or /r/whitepeopletwitter?
> Pretty much anything and everything their army of devs have built over the past 5+ years has been anti user.

That's because you're a power user.

Reddit owners figured out that even though the service gained popularity as a middle ground between 4chan and Facebook, they can make most money if they kick out weirdos and cater to general audience, so they're consistently making changes to make it appealing to average Joe. You can clearly notice how they're slowly but surely removing controversial content and promoting userbase growth over everything else.

My prediction is that Reddit will keep growing, but it's simply going to be "Facebook, but for people 15 years younger".
I had the same experience with NFC hotel card failing after being in my pocket (next to other cards and a phone). It had to be re-programmed at the hotel's desk to work again. Puzzled me enough to search net for the answers, but to no avail.
As of last year we're up to doing rat kidneys. They're "heavily" damaged but they recover within a few weeks. To be sure, there's a long way from that to near-perfectly preserving a human brain, let alone a whole body.

https://www.statnews.com/2023/06/21/cryogenic-organ-preserva...
Mh...

1. err, firing up an editor, type the message, save and quit is not quicker...

2. on my keyboard they are on a single key (I have inverted number/symbol row), my environment (Emacs/EXWM for some things my QMK firmware) automatically pair relevant symbols)...

5. various shells have history, easy navigation etc, so well... Not that hard...

6. I hardly imaging putting special chars in a commit message...

To me the main reasons might be: commit messages should often have a short line title THAN a more broad prose, witch is a good reason to use an editor. If your editor is not nano but something more featuresful you might like templates and so on. The rest seems to be a bit... Considerations by someone who not use much a shell, so it's not comfortable with it.
These can work but all take a bit more work however than running a single command, including Cloudflare tunnels which according to their docs, requires you to make a DNS record on your domain. I use SSH reverse tunnels for some things where I need tighter security.
I think this is relevant; but does anyone know of any software that is able to tag photos based on quality- like blur, framing, composition. We have too many photos. So many duplicates from the same day. I’ve dreamed of something that would tag or prune based on the best of from any given set of photos. It would turn our library of 80000 random photos into a set of photos I can put on a frame and see the “good ones”.
None? This sounds more theoretical. Options aren't available right away for new stocks. He'll have to wait a few days, if not weeks.
This is not what the historical record says at all, actually hilariously quite the opposite and this assumption is quite modern and common especially in the West.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-08-03/young-ad...

For one, quite famous historical example see the Kama Sutra. It does not take more than a quick Google search to find a million other examples, eg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotic_art_in_Pompeii_and_He...

Check out this AskHistorians thread. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/17zztg/how_c...
You are misquoting. It says the generators are for emergency use, allowing it to travel longer at slower speeds.

No where does it say it uses it for extended range tasks.

The way it reads to me is "in emergencies, the speed is reduced but range is increased"

Not "we use it for everyday long range tasks"
How do these compare to https://github.com/moonrepo/proto ?
I tried to test this out. But got blocked when I visited my Public URL by some security warning page around phishing? Which is fair enough, but it wasn't clear to me how I could remove that and get the URL to point to my local server like I wanted. Also, their GitHub project has not been maintained for some time.
> In the same way technological advancements in radar and signals brought aerial superiority, the first-mover in PQC will bring both technical and cybersecurity superiority.

I wish humanity would not be so obsessed with superiority. It's disgusting.
I’m a big fan of https://immich.app/ and I use it every day for thousands of assets
It uses very complex hand optimized SQL queries to do everything in a single database query. The database is also structured in a way to support this.

The result: each request overall only takes a few milliseconds for the hardest part, the rest of the optimization is a game of caching.
"In December 2023, a US senator revealed that Apple had received sealed court orders that forced it to secretly share push notification data with law enforcement agencies in the US and foreign countries."

...

"Apple did not take even minimum precautions to protect users’ privacy, such as requiring a court order before disclosing push notifications."

I'm confused, did they or did they not disclose push notifications without a court order? It's unclear from the article if they simply updated the privacy policy to reflect their internal process or not.
Change the cylinder. Put the old one back, when your rental period ends. Takes 10 mins to replace the cylinder.
Or, y'know, just open a reverse tunnel using autossh.
Thank you so much! Yes, this is a great application of AI. We'll be adding that functionality in soon, but in the meantime you might be interested to learn about the work that Izotope is doing with Ozone: https://www.izotope.com/en/learn/ai-mastering.html
Not sure why you are getting downvoted.

I also want alternate web tech, WebAssembly, Javascript implementations.

And as a developer, to be able to create tools that use the memory allocation/permissions API for JIT compilation.
Such a loss! He fused good-hearted optimism and mindbending data-architecture (and mind-architecture) into ripping plots.

And +1 for Marooned in Realtime. The awesome scale reminds me of Greg Egan, but it highlights Vinge's particular genius for imagining side-effects of the technological premise.
I like xylitol mouthwash. Xyloburst is good
> MacOS applications are more like services,

That's all well and good, but when I've closed the interfaces with which I'm interacting with the Chrome "service", isn't it pretty clear that the intent is that "I'm done with the service"? "Chrome team chose to build it like that" -- I guess the question here is "why is this even an option at the OS level?" and "shouldn't we expect window and application behavior to be consistent?". Davinci Resolve on macOS, for example, exits when I close its window while Chrome does not. Do you not think that even having this option to create an inconsistent application interaction seems like bad design? Sometimes the app exits when I close all windows, sometimes it doesn't.

My issue with the menu bar is purely from an ergonomics and usability perspective, especially with high resolution monitors. If I have a window at the bottom right corner of the monitor, I need to move my mouse all the ways to the top left of the monitor to interact with the menu bar. If you always full screen everything, it makes total sense. But I would make the case that macOS has done a very poor job of adapting to changes in monitor resolutions. Consider ultra-wide screen monitors where I have apps side-by-side or I have 4 windows tiled. The accessibility of the menu bar becomes quite low for three out of the 4 windows.

The key stroke to access the menu bar is (do you know it?) CTRL+F2. Try that stroke yourself and see how it feels. It's not at all obvious that this allows you to access the menu bar with the keyboard.

By attaching the menu bar to the application window, the spatial locality increases usability, especially for modern ultra-wide monitors don't you agree?
Mastodon instead of Bluesky and you've got it, I think. (Bluesky has its own protocol.)
techrxiv.org/doi/full/10.36227/techrxiv.170629872.29614231/v1
Yes, historically the Sherman Antitrust Act (1890) and the Clayton Act (1914) define the roll of "regulated capitalism" rather than simply "free market capitalism". There has been a continuous battle between people who wanted to get infinitely wealthy by exploiting their dominance and the Government ever since.

I've had some great conversations with folks about why this form of "American Capitalism" is the most efficient economic engine with regard to an industrial economy. As a system, this, and a graduated taxation that provides a damping function on "infinite wealth" and feeds it into government services has the potential to create an economy where everyone has a chance to get rich, and everyone's basic needs are met. That combination maximizes participation in the economy and thus GDP.

The macroeconomics class I took spent several weeks on this relationship and the "Great Courses" economics class also talks about it.

The challenge is that rich men (typically its men) don't like being told they can't do something, or told they have to do something which will reduce their total wealth, and they respond by corrupting legislators into changing the rules.

It isn't "good" or "bad" per se, some people always eat all the cookies if they think they can get away with it. As a systems analyst though the system is an excellent study in 'tuning.' In theory, as a government maximizing GDP is a goal because the more GDP the more gets done the happier people are, etc etc. Technology strongly affected the rate of change of wealth, people who were middle class at a startup suddenly being in the top 10% in terms of wealth over the course of a few years, rather than a life time of work and savings. Others leveraging their wealth in technology startups having it rocket them into the 1%.[1] Something that the US system of laws does not do well is respond to changes "quickly" (my lawyer friends tell me that is a design feature not a bug). But as we saw with Microsoft's antitrust case they do respond eventually.

[1] Back in the dot com days there was an article in Wired about the "Billionaire Boys Club" which talked about members of the several VC firms whose net worth had ballooned to over a billion dollars.
In the early days there where several attempts to use Tunnelmole for phishing.

When you think about it, a service that hides your IP under a domain that is not yours means you can do whatever you want without risking your own server or domain being taken down for abuse, instead risking my server.

So I added code to forward an X-Forwarded-For header, which contains the real IP address of the client. Also random URLs have the ip address added to them.
None of those negatives you mentioned apply to Immich.
> One thing Prawn is not, and will never be, is an HTML to PDF generator
This is a well written and interesting introductory article to learn about the context behind semiconductor manufacturing. It's good!

Sadly I cringed a bit too hard at the Dune analogy haha
I believe Google Photos visibly downgrades the quality of your images, so it is not a viable option if you care about preserving the originals.
This one has been on my mind for a long time. A good start would be blurred photos, duplicate identification and finding a generically "good" photo given a set (e.g. photos from a single location)
digiKam might have this or similar, or there might be a plugin for it. It's gotten so many features that I hardly know what's going on anymore.
Multi-platform licenses from a single purchase exist, yes.

On Apple platforms as well. For instance, you can buy one license for all Affinity programs and use them on macOS, Windows, and iPadOS. https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/affinity-pricing/

Steam could do the same thing if they wanted.
had a relatable but almost opposite experience (no obvious infection, but it was winter 20/21), where I noticed that objects in my visual field seemed to be differentiating themselves away from the background and “competing” for my attention when previously I had to go hunt for them.
They 100% control the food sold inside their theatres! It’s their shop, they can decide what’s sold in it.

People have a choice: it’s called Android.

I don’t see why a private company that isn’t a monopoly should be forced to open up their proprietary products to direct competitors.

This is a very slippery slope and the people advocating for it in the case of Apple will be screaming about how unfair it is for the government to get involved when it happens to them.

Let’s say you have a successful startup selling something like an API marketplace.

One day the government says:
It’s unfair to MalwareAPI Co that you lock them out of the market and require a fee. You now have to let them sell their viruses to your customers and you don’t even get a cut.

Would you make the same arguments? Why not?
You can do that, also `npx tmole` works because of the wrapper package I added to NPM.
I’ve felt it too. I can’t fight the feeling that it happens to attract a certain kind of mentally ill person. Specifically, the preponderance of anxious, neurotic persons, often with a persecution complex and a militant ideology, is enormous. The result is a climate of unbridled vitriol and outright hate for whatever group they hold responsible for their woes.

It increasingly feels like Reddit is a breeding ground for various types of extremism (usually left-leaning, with some notable exceptions).
2.6 billion WhatsApp users exist. All switched from native SMS to a third-party app (WhatsApp). Clearly this expectation is fine.