skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But have you thought to ask why that is?

The general mechanism for free software to be developed is for the individual users to make modifications. Not all of them, of course, but the ones who know how to. Someone sees something wrong, fixes it.

Apple interferes with this. If you don't like an app on your iPhone, even if it's open source, you can't just make a minor change because for that you have to pay $100/year and buy a Mac and all of this friction that discourages people from doing it. And then upstream doesn't get the little change (times a thousand individual users with an itch to scratch), and the one-time contributor doesn't become a repeat contributor either.

Not only that, you can't distribute a half-finished app to the public -- even if it's free -- because it wouldn't pass review. But then you can't get any users who might help you to finish it. So the state of open source software on the iPhone is a shambles, because Apple neutered the primary mechanism for free-as-in-speech software to become any good on their platform.

Compare this to Linux on a PC where simple things are about as likely to "just work" as they are on a Mac, more likely to do so than on Windows, and weird and complicated things work better than on either of them because even though they're not always easy they're very nearly always possible.

Which is the perpetual sham of "it just works". Simple things are simple everywhere because they're common and well-supported. Complicated things are often difficult, but some platforms make them prohibitively difficult or simply disallowed, and people confuse this with "easy" because you don't remember spending time to make something work when you can't. But that's not actually an advantage, because you're not obligated to spend time on something that doesn't immediately work, but the option to choose to is valuable when sometimes it's worth it.
The Syncfusion WinUI DataGrid displays and manipulates tabular data. Its rich feature set includes functionalities like data binding, editing, sorting, filtering, and grouping. It has also been optimized to work with millions of records and handle high-frequency, real-time updates.

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In this blog, we’ll see how to bind and populate SQLite data in the Syncfusion WinUI DataGrid, perform CRUD (create, read, update, and delete) actions on the database, and update the changes in the DataGrid.
If you feel like a blog post: https://maxrozen.com/lessons-from-my-third-year-running-a-sa...

In short, started the 200th uptime monitor while working full time, added a bunch of features, did some marketing, added status pages and cron monitoring, and eventually, consistent effort paid off.

I might even let it employ me one day, but I enjoy my full time job at the moment.
These articles are the reason i check hacker news every day. What an amazing find, thanks for sharing - I love these articles, especially since Tom Mahood's website has been kind of dried up (otherhand).
> I only wish I felt like it were safe for my kids to explore on foot.

Why do you feel it's unsafe?
The temp around Elon here is lower than you think. I would say almost the exact opposite of your claim.
well, it would not be Billions of universes, it would basically be infinite number of universes popping up every second. Which while interesting, does not seem possible under any law of conservation of mass?
Pick up artist (I think?), and STAR is a technique for answering interview questions
That’s even better. I do think it’s disturbing and creepy when someone goes through my private data without my knowledge.
It was amusing to see the Duolingo product placement when their entire product is just a prompt in ChatGPT.
It's referring to the whole platform of partially on device, partially in their private cloud -thing.

During the presentation itself, they talked about machine learning, not "AI".
From watching this timestamp (and knowing nothing else), this seems like a power-tripping judge that does not respect his being called-out for not respecting client/attorney privilege.
> Apologies for being critical, but this reads like the author had a conclusion they wanted to reach and worked backward to some flashy graphs to make it work

What you're missing is that they've already published the papers and books with all of the citations, these are accessible articles for the masses reviewing their conclusions.
Addition can be implemented as:

(0 swap - -) $+

Division is much harder, but doable also. Generally Forsp in the camp of minimalist languages so minimizing the number of primitives seemed more interesting.

If you want to play around yourself, it’s trivial to add those operations.
I more or less agree in that regard, I think social media is a terrible place to be putting your professional life in general especially if it's negative.

That's a personal opinion I guess, I'm not a very negative person so I don't mesh well with people who are always complaining.
Having lived in Europe, Asia, North America and Australia, Australia seems to me by far the worst drivers. Incredibly aggressive, insane speeding and road rage, everywhere, all the time. And it’s not just tolerated, it’s completely normal and accepted, even considered cool and encouraged. Just what.
Some share your sentiment. https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/11/02/360479744...
Show HN: Multi Functional AI Chatbots for Website for Forms, Calendars, Files
This is a Chatbot as a Service (CAAS) platform for creating multi-functional chatbots that can do anything from traditional knowledge retrieval to appointment scheduling, data collection and data room management
Pick Up Artist

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickup_artist

Situation Task Action Result

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situation,_task,_action,_res...
What government needs you to have a smartphone from Apple or Google?
The tests they ran were very different from what's usually run, mostly involving perception of usefulness to humans. I don't see what website they would've cited from?
https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2021/10/18/housing-pri...

NIMBYism also isnt something that would grow worse globally without an underlying driver.

That underlying driver is wealth inequality.
Also AI (as promised) will deliver a customized solution to an extent that for a human to even solve the problems in it will need a lot of context. This in itself makes it dependent on humans. Also you have to factor in knowledge redundancy, non-availability of your personnel. So you will always have to account for more people than AI promises.
Same. I emailed him about whether he'd ever met Margaret Mead, John C. Lilly, or Gregory Bateson in the 1960s while researching my book. I got this reply within hours:

"Afraid I never met any of those you mention, though I’ve followed their work for many years.

I’ve never been close to intellectual elite circles, including people I very much admire."

The time stamp for my email was Tuesday, Nov 26, 2019 at 2:19 PM. It was answered by chomsky@mit.edu at Tuesday, Nov 26, 2019 at 9:29 PM. Pretty remarkable.
I learned this in the Cal Academy of Sciences the other day! Apparently we’re about halfway through a region of less interstellar activity.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Bubble
It's so weird that we ended up with a system that converges whether or not the server's name is trustworthy. Who cares about server names? Better would be if you configured your browser to trust data based on which people had signed that data.
I love this.

I also wish that Django would provide native scaffolding a la Laravel and Rails.
Complete destruction of price signals due to the symbiotic relationship between "providers" and "insurance" cooperating to defraud patients. This is backed up by whatever corrupt laws allow "providers" to send arbitrary post-facto bills and even presumably enforce such nonsense "debts", rather than getting prosecuted for said fraud.

Unfortunately most people taking notice of how broken the system is end up get fixated on the large figures on those fraudulent bills, and think single payer can do something to fix at least part of the system. But systematically, at best single payer would be tying the garbage bag off for tidy disposal, when what we actually need is for the sheer majority of medical care to have a functioning market that allows for patient agency.
Don't Be Afraid of Rebasing
Not sure why Taiwan is that much of a wedge, or Ukraine for that matter. Ukraine used to be under effective Russian control anyways up to fairly recent times and Putin being pissed off about the change that's partly behind the war. Naturally now the stakes are higher given the price of the war on all sides. Re: Taiwan China is determined to get it one way or another and it's going to be hard for the US to keep resisting that.

Support of Israel goes back to JFK.

It used to be strategically important during the cold war when the US and the Soviet Union were fighting for influence. Egypt and Syria e.g. were aligned with the soviets. Israel as one example, was testing ground for western weapons against soviet weapons. The US got a lot of information out of Israel about those weapons and how to defeat them.

Weapon technology is still something important today. Israel and the US collaborate on anti-missile systems and share the testing results those systems are getting in the field. That's just one example. Americans follow Israel's tunnel fighting tactics as well. Israel has always had more human intelligence in the area and also shares that with the US.

The middle east is still important today. I guess there's oil. And as we can see shipping. Saudi Arabia that used to align with American interests has been looking in other places, has always been a somewhat questionably ally, and the stability of its regime is always a question. Egypt has been sort trending a little back to Russia but for the time being put in place. It's also not the stablest place given the Muslim Brotherhood had control and the army took over. Turkey is also becoming less US oriented. And that's practically Europe.

The US under Obama has tried to reduce its involvement in the region which indirectly led to the civil war in Syria, to Iraq aligning with Iran, and other movements. Bin Laden was from the region and so is/was ISIS/ISIL. It feels like the US "disconnecting" from the region would be a destabilizing move felt everywhere and other parties like China or Russia would fill in the vacuum.
“OOMs”? Not sure what that means, but I’m guessing you don’t mean out of memory errors.
> configured their sandbox so have dramatically fewer instances

May be a wise thing to do anyway. I would even advocate for the extreme, one instance in sandbox. I've seen quite a variety of bugs that would be easier to detect and debug with one instance — from values accidentally persisted between requests (OP is one example of this very broad class of bugs), to a thundering herd bug catched in staging due to less instances and more worker threads per instance. But can't remember even one "distributed" bug caught in staging.

> they'd also have a dedicated QA person

This is a new feature, and it's user-facing, business-critical and inherently fragile (external service integration, though it broke for another reason). I hope multiple people manually run such things end to end before deploying to prod, even if none of them are dedicated QA?
I’ve never used iCloud since it came out. I can’t think of a single nag. Where do you see it on your iPhone or Mac?
Hands on. Build a house. Serve soup.
That is the reason AWS & Azure are much more successful when it comes to enterprise customers. This is where the real money is.
Amazing paper, thank you for sharing!
Intellectual giant whose shadow will be cast deep into the future. I don't need to review any of his work wrt to CS or linguistics to tell you that his legacy will be massive.

I think Manufacturing Consent should go down as one of the most important books ever written in our culture. He was right about much, but wrong about much also.

His beliefs on Cambodia strain credulity and I still have trouble separating that Chomsky, so bent on drawing an equivalence(however valid) between American actions and the Khmer Rouge that he missed the point entirely, and Chomsky the visionary philosopher who I admire deeply.
There are hundreds of examples throughout history of people being marketed something horribly harmful to themselves and defending their need for it even after being explicitly shown the downsides. Oftentimes, instead of fixing the individual people society chooses to punish the businesses that abuse this lever.

Same shit with the Microsoft Netscape trial, really. People didn't want alternatives because Microsoft went absurdly far out of their way to stop fair competition on their platform. Now we're seeing the same shtick, again, on a different platform.
I thought Ford Prefect was responsible for this one.
If you're being serious, then you're suggesting that it would be perfectly healthy for a person to literally just lie in bed all day and only interact with people virtually.

If you think that isn't healthy, then you are acknowledging that virtual groups are not a replacement for physical interaction, even if you disagree with others on how much physical interaction is required.
Something I was thinking about just today is using a distributed message bus for networking for competitive games (I had NATS in mind, since I've been playing around with that a lot lately), and having non-players running validation and cheat detection on the messages in real time. I think some incentivization could be added to essentially reward "proof of work" for validating games do or do not have cheaters.
Apple TV+ content like Adventure [1] is really compelling as the next generation evolution of video media. The highlining episode is very impressive. Close up views of Faith's face and eyes and expansive views of the mountains and rivers, it really needs to be seen to understand. I really look forward to new content shot with this.

[1] https://tv.apple.com/us/show/adventure/umc.cmc.5al10vz5fkqzx...
Have you tried a Vision Pro? The immersive video was the highlight for me. It makes you feel like you’re really there, on a level I hadn’t experienced with a Quest.
That's probably true with our current technology and understanding of a Mars colony. The idea would be to get to a point where we have (at least) a self-sufficient colony as a backup.

As others have pointed out, it doesn't have to be Mars, it just needs to be not Earth.

Long term we obviously need to escape the solar system too.
It's a metaphor. McDonald's business is fries, as software houses jobs is software. Math is entirely incidental to those, effectively don't matter.

If you wanna get (and keep) a developer job, learn development. Leetcode is just an example, learn algorithms and data structures and patterns and languages. Math is literally the least useful thing to learn in 99.98% of real programming jobs.
AirDrop works with any number of files. I've used it for many hundreds of photos at a time; I don't see any reason why it would fail at 2,000.

And it's fairly easy to select all 2,000 files -- in your camera roll, tap Select at top right, then just start dragging from the first photo. This lets you select a range rather than tapping them individually, and just keep dragging at the bottom and it will keep selecting while scrolling downwards. 2,000 photos might take a minute or two to select, but it's not that bad. Then just AirDrop.

Obviously you'll then need to move them from your Mac's internal drive to your desired SMB share.
> How'd you install those fonts on all your devices?

System Fonts - they come built-in to the OS.
That is not the issue stated here (looking at the comments, not at the article itself which is very unclear).

THe problem is, allegedly, that ad platforms allow displaying on their ad a domain they don't own. For example, you can have ad that displays the link text "mozilla.org" while the link actually directs to "scam-mozilla.org"
> A quick read through of the site shows it's a conservative-leaning group

It's conservative-leaning because...?
LangCSS https://langcss.com

Only one paid customer RN but I am adding features to make it more worthwhile, before I start promoting it proper.
Really? I had better immersion with the first Quest
Starship is not capable of reaching Mars?
Yeah it was close to “infomercial” levels of cheesy.
While true, the gap between "we send your data to our datacenters but we don't look at it" to "we look at it a little bit without telling you" is much smaller than "we leave your data on your device alone" to "we upload data from your device", both on a technical and policy level.

Even if the org has been trustworthy to this point, I think this step makes it more likely (maybe still unlikely, but more likely) that in the future they do look at your data, as less things have to change for that to happen.
Yes, it's not arbitrary at all — they're only offering it on devices with at least 8GB of memory.

The iPhone 15 Pros were the first iPhones with 8GB. All M1+ Macs/iPads have at least 8GB of ram.

LLMs are very memory hungry, so frankly I'm a little surprised they support such low memory requirements (especially knowing that the system is running other tasks, not just ML). Microsoft's Copilot+ program has a 16GB minimum.
The comment is likely being downvoted because it doesn’t seem like a response to its parent comment. The parent was saying that Israel is not facing a well-resourced military but a guerrilla group (Hamas). Its opponents don’t have things like nukes. The parent comment was not saying that Israel doesn’t have nukes. On the other hand, Taiwan is threatened by China (a nuclear power) and South Korea is threatened by North Korea (also a nuclear power).
> should be possible

What makes you think this?
A better expression of this idea is, "No zero days."

Do something every day. Maybe it's getting up on time. Maybe it's exercise. Maybe it's a bug fix.
I just wanted a folding iPhone
Confusing mind produce confusing article.

Apple to kill standard is hard, especially you seems to hear the phrase embrace, extend and extinct … but that is for guy with market share of 80 if not nearly 100%.

For little guy (strange argument but look at market share) it can only innovate and keep on moving so no one just copy you (android) and go cheap. That is the Apple only game play. It never the first mostly (xerox …) but it somehow find the pain point and solve user issues.

The problem of Apple is not many area left (unless we do not know when we are using terminal like device whilst someone invent music) and it may go extinct in the long term, by copycat …
Creativity Has Left the Chat: The Price of Debiasing Language Models
As a consumer I really cannot be made to care why it's the case. This artificial price tiering is stupid and everyone has been calling it a scam for years. Apple clearly knows they're in the wrong, but continues because they know nobody can stop them.
They all do a little bit of everything. Google sells devices too, but they are not predominantly a physical device company.
RAM is literally the cheapest primary component in a laptop at going rate of 1-4usd/GB. I'd say that shipping 8GB base model in 2024 is clearly manipulation by Apple, i.e. planned obsolescence or a way to moat Apple software. Anyone who doesn't see this is just being delusional.

Same way Apple and Samsung ship 128GB of storage when the production price between 128gb and 1tb is like 10$ (on a 1000$ device). Samsung even got rid of micro sd slot. It's so blatant it's actually depressing.
That has been VR for a while, but I think VR experiences are now truly worthwhile pursuing in 2024 and beyond. I think we've been there for a few years now.

It does depend a lot on what you prefer to do with your free time in the first place. But if you happen to be killing time on YouTube or something anyway, watching a VR travel walk for example is actually really worthwhile.

I also find that because it is so immersive, I will consume less content because I am actually satisfied earlier than if I had been killing time on 2D content.
So that’s where all the M4s are going … to Apple’s private inference cloud.
It's sad to see so many discussions on security and so little on privacy. How about solutions that could combine both, such as homomorphic encryption for AI?
I'm interested in how this compares to AWS nitro enclaves, which they mention briefly.

The main difference seems to be verifiability down to the firmware level.

Nitro enclaves does not provide measurements of the firmware[0], or hypervisor, furthermore they state that the hypervisor code can be updated transparently at any time[1].

Apple is going to provide images of the secure enclave processor operating system(sepOS), as well as the bootloader.

It also sounds like they will provide the source code for these components too, although the blog post isn't clear on that.

[0]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/enclaves/latest/user/set-up-atte....

[1]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/pdfs/whitepapers/latest/security...
"No data leaves the device" is such a vague policy that it means nothing.

At a minimum, your app displays some UI containing its data. Bravo, information from the app now leaves the device through the photons emitted by the screen. Same for speakers.

Now consider the clipboard. The user copies some text from your app and pastes it into an online forum. Bravo, information from the app now leaves the device through the clipboard.
I can think of at least one: porn.
Talking absolutes is not accurate either. Not all revenue is equal.

There is reason why NVDIA, TSLA or stocks with growth[1] potential gets the P/E multiple that their peers do not or an blue chip traditional company can only dream of. The core of Apple revenue the biggest % chunk of iPhone sales is stagnant at best falling at worst. Services is their fastest growing revenue segment and already is ~$100 B of the $380B. Ads is a key component of that, 5 years back Ads was less < $1B, that is the important part.

Also margins matter, even at Apple where there is enormous margin for hardware, gross margins for services is going to be higher, that is simple economics of any software service cost of extra user or item is marginal. The $100B is worth lot more than equivalent $100B in iPhone, iPad sales where significant chunk will go to vendors.

Executives are compensated on stock performance, stock valuation depends on expected future growth a lot. Apple's own attempts and the billions invested to get into Auto, Healthcare, or Virtual Reality are a testament to that need to find new streams of revenue.

It would be naive to assume a fast growing business unit does not get outsized influence, any middle manager in a conglomerate would know how true this is.

A Disney theme park executive doing even 5x revenue as say the Disney+ one will not get the same influence, budgets,resources or respect or career paths.

[1] Expected Growth, doesn't have to be real,when it does not materialize then market will correct as is happening to an extent with TSLA.
I too wish we didn’t have to encrypt every communication over the Internet
Good luck. It’s much easier to talk about it. The last open OS I have seen reach a semi-mainstream level of adoption was started in the early 90’s, more than 30 years ago, by some Linus guy.
I understand the sentiment, but it's impractical to live in a trust-less society. If you've ever had dental work done, you've put an awful lot of faith in a stranger pushing a drill into your head. Ditto for riding buses and bus drivers, etc etc.

Trust can be abused, certainly, but it also allows collaboration and specialisation, and without those I doubt we'd have gotten very far.