skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
20 years of wasted time. Woit's alternative to string is to try to approach unification from looking at some of the open questions in the Standard Model, particularly why weak charge is only possessed by left-handed spinors.

But I just don't think he's serious enough about it, and there is the risk that - yes - superstring has dominated the scene for 40 years, yet the "chief defender of objectivity" for half that time has been Woit, who is too elitist to host any blue-skies open debates on short-cuts, anomalies and epicycles in the standard model (yes, its full of them), and how to simplify the mathematical framework to allow physical intuition to grasp new physical approaches. Instead, Woit seems - as a math instructor - to assume the standard model is 100% kosher (apart maybe from chiral electroweak symmetry breaking details). That's precisely where superstring goes wrong. If the correct theory is simply a logical superset which includes the standard model, then progress and unification would have been rapidly achieved 40 years ago. It's clearly more subtle than existing efforts have assumed. It's time to go back to basics and question everything.
I made a website for a small non profit I'm a member of recently, wordpress seemed like the natural fit but wading through the hive of scum and freemium that is wordpress plugins made me feel dirty.

With all the awesome open source self hosted apps these days I'm surprised there's nothing better for generic websites.
Gitlab 16.10 released with semantic versioning in the CI/CD catalog
This weird drive to compel the speech of others is the thing that needs to be discredited.
How's the built in censorship and cultural bias with Lemmy?
Second Anki!

Joining an industry/domain/organization also means learning the language there. The acronyms are vocabulary.
That’s only really true for bicycle with modern rubber wheels. Attempting to ride through the mud or on rough surfaces with wooden wheels would have been much more challenging (not to mention uncomfortable).
WP is still by far the most popular CMS [1] and runs a large part of the internet. So I'm pretty sure it's still relevant.

[1] https://kinsta.com/wordpress-market-share/ or https://trends.builtwith.com/cms
February 2024 RubyGems Updates
My favorite author of all time. 80 years is a good run, but I wish he’d seen another 20.

I would’ve loved to read his reaction to the 2020s. Rainbow’s End is by far the best prediction of what this decade has been like, from 30 years ahead.

I wish we’d gotten to read a few more books from Vinge.
US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones
Inequality exists in the health system, especially for exclusive treatments like supply-limited organ transplants. Pretending it doesn't is ignorant and naive.
They're not the same. The critical difference is people CAN choose not to use Google Search while keeping their same computer/phone, something you can't do with iPhone and the App Store/Wallet/etc laid out in the article. That's the critical difference that takes it from simply creating a superior product to monopoly, when you use your advantage in one space to lock in customers in a related space.
The One Idea That Could Save American Democracy
I think there are probably many parties contributing to the interference in the Eastern Mediterrarnean. Russia and Israel are two of the big ones right now (and both have admitted doing it).

See this report by C4ADS from 2019, about Russian jamming: https://c4ads.org/reports/above-us-only-stars/

Map of Israeli GPS spoofing (which is distinct from jamming, and we haven't talked much about in this discussion): https://twitter.com/lemonodor/status/1717987479255720076
Given iOS doesn’t have a monopoly, even in the US market, this is almost certainly a negotiation move thanks to Apple not being seen to be compliant enough with the US gov wrt privacy and security. Possibly App Store policies differences of opinion as well.
It seems easy to prove to me; anti-trust law is intentionally vague and broad to allow the government to prosecute all kinds of monopoly tactics. Apple had the option to give a warning to users that using an alternative app store may risk security. It doesn't have to block it all-together. Same with Apple Wallet.
This should be illegal. It's amazing how people dwell on made up dangers of AI when they ignore real threats like this. I'm generally pro-capitalism, but we've reached a point where companies want us to just line up and pay them without any effort on their part.
I think Google search and apples ecosystem are extremely different. Google search is trivial to leave, any one can switch to bing by just typing a different address in the URL bar. Switching off of apple products is painful and difficult and it's by design. My wife and I switched from iphone to Android over a year ago and we're still fighting with apple to stop routing some text messages to iMessage when it should be going to our phones over sms.
Stanford Math-Edu Expert Has 'Reckless Disregard for Accuracy' Complaint Alleges
Boaler has drawn praise from many educators for advocating for math instruction that, broadly, emphasizes real-world applications, de-emphasizes memorization, and aims to reduce gender and racial disparities. It is a vision she’s laid out in popular books like Mathematical Mindsets and Limitless Mind, and through Youcubed, a Stanford research center that she co-founded to provide free teaching resources. Education Week recently named her one of the country’s most influential scholars.

The complaint reportedly filed on Wednesday lands as Boaler has drawn criticism for how her stances have affected math education in California and across the nation. For example, she praised San Francisco schools for adopting a policy of not teaching algebra during middle school. A decade later, the district is undoing that policy, following research showing that it did not reduce racial disparities as hoped.
And or access databases.

+7 years ago, heard JPM had +20k of those on their networks. I just shiver thinking about that.
From a legal perspective, monopoly just means holding undue market power. People seem to really focus on the "mono" part, it's irrelevant from a US legal perspective.
There was also this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digg#AACS_encryption_key_contr...
> that apple business practices are building a moat through highly integrated software

To me, this is the crux of modern antitrust, and the EU absolutely got it correct at a high level.

In simplest form -- doing certain things as an almost-monopoly and/or extremely large business should be illegal, while doing them as a smaller company should not be.

The scale of global businesses, in low-competition industries, allows them to engineer moats that are deeply injurious to fair competition, to their own profit and the detriment of everyone else.

> you buy it knowing that.

I think it's debatable whether the average iPhone customer buys it, knowing it allows Apple to heavily tax all AppStore developers.
IIRC from the annotations (it's been a while), Vinge did not intend that Twirlip was right about everything; Twirlip was merely meant to a representation of the weird things you used to get on Usenet. But it worked out fairly well. (On the one hand, this might technically be a spoiler, but on the other, I think in practice even knowing this tidbit won't actually give anything away.)

(I'm glad someone linked to this. I actually bought the annotated edition a while back and was reading it back in the Palm Pilot era, I think, but I've lost it and never quite finished it. So I'm happy to see it and have no qualms for myself about grabbing it.)
why not ship a desktop application at this point with support for a special schema?

i can understand the abuse for server side rendering, but at this poit you pretty much have a bad browser engine. running inside a 2d hack in a browser engine. sigh.
I think shipping good ol' diff as the default makes sense. It's going to be there already on any system you might want to run git on, it's fast, it's tiny, and everyone knows the basics of how to use it.

But I'm glad it's easy to change that default.
Monopoly law needs to be reinterpreted in light of network effects.

It's not merely the integration which is a problem, it's how that + network effects gives apple undue market power to dictate terms to its users, devs, etc.

Being a middleman between users and devs, say, takes on a different character when you're a 2-3T biz at the heart of the economy.
> I understand, however, your lack of empathy for this point, since it counter-acts the war-lust with which you are clearly afflicted.

So an Australian living in Austria keeps gaslighting Eastern Europeans about their experience with russia.

Then keeps telling them to eat russian shit or face consequences.

Then keeps spewing flat-earth level conspiracy shit with extreme conviction, arrogance and aggression.

Completely ignores the plight of current or previous russian atrocities.

Then accuses others of lacking empathy.
> Is Apple even a monopoly though?

Do they have pricing power? You can select any boundaries you want for markets to come up with any market share number you want, but the key empirical test is is there actual substitution effect or does Apple have the ability to charge monopoly rents. One of the major points of walled gardens is to create vendor lock-in and prevent price conpetition, and Apple has been masterful at that.
It's much much worse than that. There no "the woman", there was "a woman" who was hired to play the part. The rest of the operation is call center sweat shop/boiler room. Often the people involved are being held against their will.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-68444058
I'm half-convinced that the Rabbit was an ancient trickster god, and not an AI. Is AI even the correct term? If the Rabbit was a technological non-human intelligence, then surely it was never created (even by accident), and emerged/grew from the computosphere. No governments seemed to be aware of any other government having created it, and two of the nearly-main characters were special operatives tasked with knowing about shit like that and shutting it down before it could result in doomsday scenarios.

I suspect very strongly that had we gotten a followup or two, it would have turned out that the Rabbit had been around for a very long time before even the first transistor.
Here is an archive for research and educational use. https://archive.is/IvO3W
That's the wrong metric. It should be obvious that the US market share of walmart on groceries, merchandise, and health don't conveniently sum to 100%, and that's not how you would present that data. You're looking at the % of WalMart's sales, not market share.

The answer is more like 25%: https://www.axios.com/2023/04/20/most-popular-grocery-stores
> Reddit has hamfistedly broken whatever value it once had as a platform for long form discussion, with the interesting and valuable fringe, hobbyist, and obscure niche forums having been banned or moderated into inane milquetoast. Now, its value seems primarily as a customer support resource for companies outside the US, or as a platform for attracting clicks on other platforms.

It's so sad. They really had a good thing going. I like to believe that it could have been a sustainable marvel of the internet of the likes of Wikipedia, if they had just stuck to reddit gold and non-intrusive ads for the revenue. How much can it cost to keep the servers going? The source code for the old reddit seems pretty stable and not like it requires tons of maintenance or the attention of many devs.
Same old story throughout history. People feel threatened by technology, and they lash out.

It's disappointing here, for sure.
Realtime: I'm actually watching the US Attorney General crying about blue bubbles.

I need a drink.
> I don’t think you can 100% trust an organization

But you have to trust. Because lifespan of human is limited (just about 40 years at most), so you cannot consider to make long term foundation based on any human. And unfortunately none human-free technology at the moment could even get close to human or human based bureaucracy as management force.

And near only known example of private organization in big tech is Dell (Ford Motor company was build as organization by Ford himself, so it was bureaucracy even when Henry Ford was at head). All others are owned at least by some family (like Walmart), and most others are just open Joint-Stock Companies, good if have large share in one human hands (or one family, like Porsche), but in many cases owned by other JSC or by government (or large municipality, like was Volkswagen) and by widely distributed list of tiny shareholders.

I'm agree, organizations are harder to understand from common sense view, but from mathematics view they are more predictable than humans.

And I'm agree, it is possible to intentionally make so much HR chaos that organization will change constantly looking unpredictable way. But in real life, even very non-experienced manager, very fast see how to make organization predictable.

For about your example, Google is very predictable for its owners and its management, even when we don't like what it become.
> wondering if css and svg could be used as abstraction over graphics and UI libraries

There's another project called Sciter that uses CSS to target native graphics libraries: https://sciter.com

> I wonder how hard it was to implement css. I've heard it can be pretty complex.

It was hard, but the biggest barrier is the obscurity of the knowledge.

Text layout is the hardest, because working with glyphs and iterating them in reverse for RTL is brain-breaking. And line wrapping gets really complicated. It's also the most obscure because nobody has written down everything you need to know in one place. After I finished block layout early on, I had to stop for a couple of years (only working a few hours a week though) and learn all of the ins, outs, dos, and don'ts around shaping and itemizing text. A lot of that I learned by reading Pango's [1] source code, and a lot I pieced together from Google searches.

But other than that, the W3C specifications cover almost everything. The CSS2 standard [2] is one of the most beautiful things I've ever read. It's internally consistent, concise, and obviously the result of years of deliberation, trial and error. (CSS3 is great, but CSS2 is the bedrock for everything).

[1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/

[2] https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS22/
I would LOVE a deep dive into the infrastructure necessary to charge this thing. They claim it will charge overnight, napkin math has that at roughly 3/4MW. Them's decidedly not rookie numbers. Extrapolating into the future, I imagine a busy port has some fairly reasonable number of tugboats (hard to find info on this) but for simplicity of the math let's say there are 12 and they have a 2/3 duty cycle, so we have 3MW of power being drawn constantly? I guess in the scheme of a port that might be a nothingburger but would love to know more.
Qualcomm infuses AI support into Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 platform
Apple has about 60% of the smartphone market in the US, and about 25% globally.

This case is about the US marketplace, globally is irrelevant.

And it is about more than just marketshare. Apple's tactics restrict the entire marketplace --- not just Apple captives.

Whole classes of apps are simply not practically possible on Android without paying monetary tribute to Apple.

For example, universal messaging is not possible without paying the Apple gatekeeper. Few people will use a messaging app if it can't communicate with 60% of their friends. And the only to make this happen is to pay Apple.
Dealing with this kind of angst most of my life, I've found great value in this and similar philosophies. However, it should also be noted that Japan has one of the highest suicide rates in the world (not that far ahead of the US though).
There's no evidence that this attack was due to poor UHG developer quality. It appears to have been an infrastructure security vulnerability in the Change Healthcare business unit, which UHG acquired just last year.
Why did you go along with this for weeks. Morbid curiosity? Blinded by greed?
Wow that's a great point. Git repository hosts are perfect use case for this.

One of the challenges of having the ssh key be the identity connecting multiple devices, another challenge is if you lose access to your ssh key, I'm not sure what the "forgot password" flow would be. Especially since you wouldn't even have a signup email address.
At the same time, good moderation is what made reddit what it is, if there weren't mods doing free work for reddit in 2009 it would be flooded with YouTube comments style of content since that's what low friction posting without moderation achieves.
A drop in the bucket compared to how much they normally transact, but it sounds like good PR.
Tesla Hack Earns $200k Award at Pwn2Own 2024
Good idea and concept. I fully support the idea.

Being able to specify a generic part requirement instead of hunting for a specific part is nice sometimes, but any company that makes more than a couple boards already has this covered with a bom management system.

Adding parts via text is nice and fast, but also glosses over many aspects of the part. Say I use a Diodes Inc buck regulator. It has a valid input voltage range it will accept. It has multiple ways it can be wired depending on the application. Wire for buck, septic, etc. PFM on/auto/off, etc. I don't see control over details like that.

Your About Us page is longer and more extensive than your actual product example page.

I see 4-5 very basic designs that I could bang out in Altium in under a day each. Are you selling to people unable to make PCBs? I look for ways to save time because I wear many hats in my job, only 1 of which is doing a board. However, I would not be able to save any time using this tool, because it would produce an inferior result. Additionally, after only 8 months of paying for this product, someone can already afford a full Altium license.

I want to save time on stuff like breaking out and pin swapping IO on a large FPGA. Handle DDR3 routing for me. These are things that actually take time, because you need to understand the device and read through tons of PDFs. However, I think that might also be the most difficult part to add to your product.

Finally, how does it handle physical constraints like non- square board outlines, mounting hole placement, and 3d STEP integration?
> 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.

Not only do they not prevent it, but they facilitate it. https://support.apple.com/en-us/102208

Exported data includes users' bookmarks and Reading List.
Water ice fits the description, but it's hard to see how that would be practical.
Point taken, Mr. Devil. I even agree, up to a point - and I think this might be a major issue in the immediate introduction of a UBI. The reason why is that the incentives will change but there will be many who have learned the system under different conditions and will not so easily adjust.

I've grown up amongst poverty and while I don't particularly like the term (as it tends to be deployed in aid of demagoguery), there really is a element of 'welfare culture' in effect, and having been on welfare myself (and treated like a prince because bizarrely the system was obviously classist: so Ed you're an out of work indie game dev and you're currently learning something called 'Nim'? "well that's just great then have some money". Go in there as a bricklayer and say you are looking but haven't found any work the past few weeks: here are 20 forms). I was always very impressed on the knowledge these working class labourers would have of the welfare system, because in their situation it really made a difference.

Their attidue was: (and who can blame them) fuck the govt they don't give a shit about me, the more I get / the more I can play the system, the better.

UBI from their perspective would be total victory. No more queuing no more forms or interviews, just free money for ever. But what then?

If the UBI was only sufficient for survival / dignity but not enough for luxury I think the psychological topology chances a lot and what could be previously described as 'getting one over on this enemy' now can only be described as your own failure.
It definitely seems to lean left, from my (American) view. That might be because most of the western world would classify as left by my (American) standards?

There have been some right-wing and far-right instances, but they seem to get de-federated by the majority.

Hope that helps.
The user is choosing the Apple ecosystem and is happy to make these rules. They allow games because some people like to spend their battery power on games.
I bet it was far more likely logistics considerations than simple Just-so stories about culture. (and we know Rome's order of battle; Hannibal would have had a much foggier picture)

That said, Hannibal's cavalry commander 𐤌‬𐤄‬𐤓𐤁‬𐤏𐤋 is supposed to have said (and it would be in keeping with the cavalry bias towards action; compare Alexander) the Carthaginian equivalent of "vincere scis, Hannibal; victoria uti nescis" (you know how to win, Hannibal, but not how to exploit victory)
This is a big achievement, congrats! A lot of time must have been put into this I am sure. And you are also making a spreadsheet product AND a PDF (preview?) product? How do you combine it?
> Remember the fuss over Ventilators.

I do. Although they are written with a lower case letter. Just "ventilators".

> People saying "don't put people with weak pulmonary capillaries on these machines" were "trying to kill everyone" then just ignored.

We have people who specialises in respiratory support. Figuring when to put someone on a ventilator, and what type of ventilation they require and for how long are complex questions. There are many many dangers involved which the doctors working with these procedures are very well aware of. These decisions are best made by the patient/patient's legal healthcare proxy in consultation with the healthcare team. Everyone else can be and should be ignored quite honestly.
Standard oil was at 64% when it was broken up in 1911. Absolute market share isn't the only factor that goes into determining monopoly. You also get different numbers from different definitions. Apple controls 100% of the iOS market, or ~80% of the mobile subscription market, etc.
Direct link

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24492020/doj-apple-an...
What happens to other parts from these genetically modified pigs? Can some be used for other transplants? Can rest be eaten?
> No matter how we organize the word, there's always gonna be a line

About one million people die of dysentry each year. I doubt that people got the opportunity to not die of dysentry and rejected it. You can have an ivory-tower argument about this hypothetic line, but in this world of ours, it's going to be hard to claim we're past that line.
In 5 to 10 years we will have likely moved on to the next big model architecture just like it was all about convolutional networks 5 to 10 years ago despite the pivotal paper being published in 2017.
Some laptop manufacturers do that... once you disconnect the voltage from the BMS, the BMS is efectively dead. If you know it, you can use a power supply to keep it energized, if not, tough luck. You can still buy a 3rd party battery to use with that laptop, but the original laptop cannot be "renewed" with new cells anymore.
Curious - what tipped you off to this being a scam? And when you were still believing, why did you think she wanted to share her "inside knowledge" with you?
We should also lead by example by not just exporting our plastic trash to other countries.