skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At a trivial level it is still a hypothesis that each deviation from newtons laws (as in on a per galaxy basis) we observe has a common cause. But let's say that's quite trivial and it's an extremely easy hypothesis to accept.

Even this isn't commonly accepted hypothesis that explains the problem named Dark Matter. MOND postulates that while most of the observed effects have the same cause, that gravity works differently, it also states that smaller effects observed might have another source.

She's lumping all those observations because they are lumped by most physicists because they might potentially have a single cause and thus might be parts of singular problem. Maybe at some point Dark Matter problem will have to be split into several but we are not at that point of knowledge yet.

Physicists have always searched for theories of everything and I haven't seen where the friction introduced by that search prevented them from finding out how parts like quantum mechanics or gravity work even if they don't have any underlying common mechanism. On the contrary, idea that vastly different phenonmenons might have a single cause led to deep advancements and insights like in the case of Newtonian gravity.

Philosophy is BS. It doesn't matter. What matters if there's data available. Until there is, everything is open to ridicule because all ideas are ridiculous until some of them are shown to be true. Then the next generation learns about them at schools, integrates them into their intuition and they no longer see how ridiculous they are.
Definitely not just Medium. It's everywhere.

I have noticed that someone immediately calls out pretty much every bit of content as AI generated, whether it obviously is or not. I guess this is a best case scenario.

I do wonder what will spring up next to allow high quality content to be found.
I love the concept of translating at user level for learning.

I'm building a directory of language learning tools, let's connect, please.

wordpad@gmail.com
When I used Maven, extensions had to be published to and pulled from a public repo. We couldn't even use the private repo that we used for the rest of our libraries, because the extension had to be loaded before Maven read the file where our private repo was configured.

Whereas a Gradle build can read Groovy files straight from disk.
The displays on these iMacs are so crisp, but disappointing that 24" only. Happy that the base RAM is increased, perhaps trying to pander to AI audience. But, who buys these at costs almost at Macbook Pros? Isn't this just a monitor?
> Sorry. Trump lies incessantly. At this point the correct approach is to assume what Trump says is a lie and see

I agree that most of his statements are lies, but his claim that big corporation CEOs called him is far more plausible than his lie about Haitians eating cats and dogs.

Again, why haven't the CEOs debunked his claims? If anyone else with a similar megaphone to Trump made such false claims, they would immediately release a statement to the contrary. Their lack of rebuttal of his supposedly false claim is incredible telling of how much they hope to gain from him if elected.

> As far as what customers may be willing to do, do you think Bud Light drinkers stopped drinking beer?

Please explain what is the serious non Bigtech option for your next smartphone, or the serious retail alternative to Amazon or Walmart (without trading off convenience - which most consumers will not do).

In contrast, there are a ton of cheap beer alternatives to Bud Light, like Coors, Pabst, etc.
Samsamelo
https://g8way.io/WazWieKElugDkoQhDrpUfqK4P-hEFoxTmPVqSnU49Nc

Inspired by three people, so I tried to find three fitting ways to let people know this story exists. 1: On a website currently showing deep-fake propaganda to support a fascist (felt a bit icky posting there). 2: On a dapp/chain that is the premiere place to lose money on sh*coins (as a sh*coin itself, but at least I'm not going to call it collateral as a pretense for fraud). 3: Here, where they actually managed to get rid of someone (who later proved himself un-rid-able elsewhere).
The question that section 230, and the Communications Indecency Act in general, is the same one that plagued the court cases leading up to it, is to what degree the voluntary removal of some content implies an endorsement of other content.

Some material you can be required to remove by law, or required to suspend pending review for various MDCA safe harbor provisions. But when you remove content in excess of that, where does the liability end?

If you have a cat forum and you remove dog posts, are you also required to remove defamatory posts in general? If you have a new forum and you remove misinformation, does that removal constitute an actionable defamation against the poster?

I generally dislike section 230, as I feel like blanket immunity is too strong -- I'd prefer that judges and juries make this decision on a case-by-case basis. But the cost of litigating these cases could be prohibitive, especially for small or growing companies. It seems like this would lead to an equilibrium where there was no content moderation at all, or one where you could only act on user reports. Maybe this wouldn't even be so bad.
Because nothing brightens an engineer's day like putting rocketship emojis in commit messages
The “better mousetrap” of visual programming is inventing a diff tool that works decently. If you can do that, the world will beat that path to your doorstep.
it kinda seems to me like teenagers are abstaining from behaviors altogether, not just risky ones. possible explanations that come to mind are widespread anhedonia (depression) and the the fact that suburban kids who are too young to drive can't leave their homes without their parents.
Spam is close enough.
This whole saga is just so bizarre
Fast and wrong is easy!
A lot of the time, AI slop is difficult to discern from authentic content until you’re somewhere in the middle, at which point something starts to feel off about it. At least, that’s been my experience coming across AI-written Blender tutorials on YouTube. All this makes it difficult to quickly report as spam. There’s also a lot of plausible deniability since a lot of people have developed a hair-trigger response to writing they don’t like or find compelling and just immediately go “It’s AI!” even when it isn’t.

> why doesn't HN have this problem?

HN comments aren’t easily monetizable.
Well, not many index funds succeed, in that same proportionate rate.
I think it’s “provably secure” in the same sense that end to end chat apps can be provably secure. You can compare codes in the apps to prove that your conversation are noting man-in-the-middles. You still have to trust the software running on both ends to be doing the right thing.

Apple goes further than standard end-to-end encryption messaging by adding a software attestation component to the hand shake. And they say they will publish the server side software for researchers to poke at. And there is a certificate security style log so you can be sure that the server side software is published.

I’m not saying the system is good or works, I’m just saying don’t totally discount the idea of designing a system that has provable security properties.
It is in a weird middle ground. It is much worse ram and much slower hardware (factor 4 or so IIRC) and only an option if you need more than 24 but less than 200. Also, only if you think that 9000€ is pocket change but 20000€ is cost prohibitive. Also, you need all that power but no server, no ECC,... And you only ever want to do inference but no training or tuning.

If you want a Mac anyway, sure. But if you don't care, this seems like a very, very specific Venn diagram.
Are you sure about the keyboard? Mine disconnects from BT when it's plugged in (and continues to work)
"(why doesn't HN have this problem?)"

I've seen a few comments on HN that looked likely to have been generated by LLMs, but they tend not to get any replies or up-votes so there's not much incentive for people to keep on trying to post them.
You know what else happened at that venue?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqsikkkyy_s
No, because without tones it can be ambiguous even for native speakers.

If you still don't believe me--or those Wikipedia links I already provided--you test it yourself by finding a native Mandarin speaker. Ask them to decisively determine the meaning and pronunciation of certain Chinese words only from their pinyin with the accents stripped out, such as ma or hua.

There's a store with snacks and produce. Do you want to eat lizi, or do you want to eat lizi? (Don't bother squinting, it's the same letters.)
Spam or misleading is the category to use. It's misleading people into thinking humans wrote it, and being AI tripe, it's always spam.
>app rating popup

If I see an app rating popup, I will rate the app 1 stars for annoying me with popups.

I'm sick of rating things. I can't write an email to a company, without getting a follow-up email to rate my interaction with them. Same for telephone calls. Every time I charge my car on a public charger, the app will ask me to rate my charging experience. If I order a pizza, I get asked to rate it. Just... fuck off. I'll rate/review things if I feel strongly enough either way about it, but just stop pestering me about it.

Remember to please rate this comment!
I think they can be associated with numbing oneself, but aren't necessarily.
I would also associate most of those things with vivacity, exploration, spontaneity, and risk taking.

Perhaps there is also a shift in the dominant narrative of associated with these activities.

Studies seem to show the youth mental health is at an all time low. I wont go as far as to claim that lack of drinking and fucking is the cause, but I do think they are related, perhaps as the result of a third factor.

I don't have data to support this, but my gut tells me the root may be more reserved and cautious approach to life in general.
A very large part of WordPress ecosystem is just incessant upsells for plugins and borderline scams.
> I don't like Section 230 because "actual knowledge" no longer matters, as tech companies willfully blind themselves to the activities on their platforms.

This is misleading. It seems like you're predicating your entire argument on the idea that there is a version of Section 230 that would require platforms to act on user reports of discrimination. But you're fundamentally misunderstanding the law's purpose: to protect platforms from liability for user content while preserving their right to moderate that content as they choose.

Section 230 immunity doesn't depend on "actual knowledge." The law specifically provides immunity regardless of whether a platform has knowledge of illegal content. Providers can't be treated as publishers of third-party content, period.

It's not that "'actual knowledge' no longer matters," it's that it never mattered. Anti-discrimination law is usually for things like public accommodations, not online forums.
This is posited as a "next generation" magnetic memory, but lets imagine this effect (chirality control and sensing of tiny magnetic cells) ends up working perfectly, ie the sensor is cheap/trivial, and so is flipping the chirality.

Doesn't this still leave us with just slightly more dense hard drives? Aren't they still abysmally slow and have long seek times? That seems more like a minor progression rather than a generational improvement.
Looks super interesting. Any positioning thoughts on this vs https://jitsu.com ?
> I’ve officially left the WordPress project after 14+ years of contributing including:

Sorry to be an asshole but this is a good lesson on not to over index your life on a single idea.
Very cool, I wish you the best of luck. Fuck Trilobio
Dunno. My wife was reeeeally tryhard with our first child feeding him only home made food from the age of 1 to 2.

He though industrial food was awesome as soon as he was exposed to it.

(Obviously bad sample size)

I think it is something about the perfect homogeneous product they like. Or how the taste even out between different ingredients on the shelf.
Yeah… I gotta work on my comedic delivery.
The downvotes you experience from making a super obvious connection is indicative of why democrats have a real risk of losing this election.

The inability to sense the collapse in support for democrats among young men of all types (especially strong among black/latino young men) is why democrats seem to be structurally unable to win over any kind of non traditional voting groups en mass.

Left leaning folks have also been sticking their head in the sand about the rapid evangalization/anti-catholic reaction that is sweeping through American latino communities right now. I am witnessing this both among personal friends and again and again in the news/sociological articles. Democrats are reacting to this by trying to move to the right on immigration. It's not working, and we are doomed as a result.
95% can absolutely be done by someone with far less training than a medical doctor, but the real job of being a doctor is having the expertise and experience to spot the other 5% and sometimes to respond quickly enough with extreme skill to prevent medical catastrophe.

I want to see far more involvement in direct patient interaction happen with nurse practitioners and physician assistants, with doctors supervising cases to ensure no one falls through the cracks. I'd love to see more specialization of NPs and PAs to handle cases that are complex but routine within a speciality.

The problem is a lack of respect for NPs and PAs, with many patients only wanting to see a doctor. We need to promote these occupations as the highly trained and licensed professionals that they are and make sure they get the respect they deserve.
I actually had this problem recently and I just sorted by absolute numbers of positive ratings and it worked pretty well. (You could only rate thumbs up/thumbs down). Nice to see a more mathy solution tho
>just put up some initial capital in exchange for even more money back, is always a scam. some people might come out ahead sometimes, but more people will lose than win.

How so? My all-world index funds are doing pretty well. For more risk averse, almost every buyer of USA governmental bonds gets "even more money back" in exchange for the initial capital. I don't think that's a scam either.
The Samsung is usually between $800-950 at Amazon, shooting up to $1600 about 10% of the time.

I've often it seen it in the $900 neighborhood at Best Buy and B & H. It's $1600 right now at both of them but I don't know if that is just one of those full price spikes like Amazon has or if they too are like Amazon.
Recycling electronics basically means crushing them and extracting some of the minerals inside. A lot of them can't really be recovered, and of course all the electricity that was used to create it is still gone and the water used is still tainted.

If you make electronics you should be forced to do everything humanly possible to extend its useful life.
Or, the "always there" nature of screen activities makes it very easy to never do anything else.

When I was a kid we had no mobile phones, nor did we have computers or internet. if you wanted to talk with your friends you had to go meet up with them in person. So hanging out at the mall or at a park or an arcade was pretty common. So were after-school activities, sports, band, clubs, etc. A lot of this stuff, being away from home, was marginally or totally unsupervised, so there was a lot more opportunity to try "illegal" things.
I'm working on a JavaScript library for drawing on web maps called Terra Draw - it uses an adapter pattern so aims to work with a bunch of different mapping libraries such as Leaflet, Google Maps, MapBox and MapLibre. You can see it at: https://github.com/JamesLMilner/terra-draw
We're forking Flutter
That's more a consequence of "AI" becoming a synonym for "always bad" in creative spaces (and inversely "if it's bad, it must be AI-generated"), despite the fact that there's some nuance there.
> Nobody knows your friend’s dad.

What an astute observation. Almost as if you got my point. Some writers are unknown to the whole world.

> How are we supposed to guess if he ended up happy?

I didn't ask if he did. I asked if what I described counts as "ended up happy"?

> It doesn’t help your comment much to start off talking about amorphous constraints when you conclude with something even more amorphous.

Perhaps if you give it an other read you will realise that what I'm doing is unpacking what I find amorphous about the question. Who is a writer? Who can we truly say that they have ended up happy? So yes, of course you will find much ambiguity in my answer.

But if you can't handle it imagine that all I said: Victor Hugo, Terry Pratchett.
I've seen this on Substack as well. For example, I ran across this account on Substack is posting a lot of ChatGPT-generated articles to reddit. This is clearly ChatGPT-generated based on a very simple prompt:

https://theglobalistperspective.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-i...
I disagree. It takes me 30 mins to do a week of homemade lunches and dinner mostly cooks itself after a few mins of prep.
There is the context of how a work was originally composed vs. the context of how it is regularly consumed. Time passes, and the number of people who have encountered Great Expectations or Anna Karenina in a serialized format is totally outstripped by the number of people who read them as "novels." The fact that both of those works were originally serialized becomes a trivia fact. Maybe this is a bad thing, and you lose something by erasing their origins, like trying to watch a network sitcom without understanding what a commercial break is. Or maybe it's not a huge deal, and those books have transcended the publishing trends of their day. I don't know.

What I do know is that comics fans are especially fixated on the distinction and it has little to do with those kinds of technicalities. It's about prestige.
Yep, I analyzed bot activity recently on PH. [0] I think it's only going to get more common.

[0] https://wakatime.com/blog/67-bots-so-many-bots
WordPress has been a terrible tool for 10+ years. Good riddance.
I've actually really been wanting it to make more sense to ship like a footlocker from my home to my destination and expect it to be at my hotel when I arrive versus having to lug it throughout my regular transport. Even a few days in advance is fine by me. Pack the bulk of my week long trip, be able to pack even bulky items like snow gear and what not without worry, and have it just be there when I arrive sounds like a dream than carrying 100lbs of stuff through an airport and a cab/rental car and all that jazz.
Ignore the downvotes - you raise a point worth discussing.

Apple spent a good amount of time and money putting out marketing to convince people that their brand emphasizes privacy. This was part of a brand recovery effort after quite a few folks' intimate photos were leaked out of iCloud.

But it's become evident, as in the post you replied to, that they aren't as privacy-friendly as their marketers want you to believe. You should consider alternatives for your computing needs - specifically, open-source software which is not in control of large corporations.
> Our dear friends at Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) have filed an important brief with the European Commission

I think they used the wrong link here. They linked to a document submitted to the CJEU defending the European Commission against Apple in an Apple v. EC case last month [1], which is actually the more recent news here.

The documents that the FSFE submitted to the EC (in April) regarding Apple's non-compliance can be found here (per [2]): [3], [4].

[1] Yes, apparently Apple's still pursuing a legal case against the DMA: https://curia.europa.eu/juris/fiche.jsf?id=T%3B1080%3B23%3BR...

[2] https://fsfe.org/news/2024/news-20240627-01.en.html

[3] https://edri.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Joint-submission...

[4] https://download.fsfe.org/device-neutrality/202404-FSFE-appl...
what the heck did I just read?
I’m sure that the difficulty the New York Times editors have about summarizing laws related to online publishing shouldn’t make you wonder about what glaring mistakes are in their other reports about topics the newspaper wouldn’t be expected to know as deeply.
This is related to the distribution of CPython itself, the key verification for those artifacts does work and has worked forever. The packaging referred to by the article is about packaging Python itself by upstream distributions.

Python packages developed by third party developers and uploaded to PyPi are indeed not verifiable due to the key issues you mentioned, and is a minor note in the article.
No, it is not justified. It is part of how the world works. They deal with the same crap coming from the USA, they will do it too. Just deal with it.
Syllabaries are great if the language has relatively simple phonotactics. Once you start having things like triple consonant clusters or a dozen different vowels, it breaks down pretty quickly.

The other thing that makes alphabets more popular in the long run is that they spread easier because they're easier to adapt to different languages compared to syllabaries (indeed, it's not uncommon for a syllabary to become semi-alphabetic as part of such adoption).
From earlier this year in fact https://www.apple.com/ca/newsroom/2024/03/apples-restore-fun...
corroborating packages between fedora and debian, but for off-line usage.
> Of course, my company does have an affiliation with WP Engine. We use their service to host our website

Does no one understand what "affiliation" means anymore? Just because I bought something from Amazon doesn't mean I'm now affiliated with Amazon. "Affiliation" (usually) means something like a formal association, partnership, or close connection, not that you're just a customer.

Besides that, dump Wordpress regardless, clearly they've lost focus from the actual users and Matt seems to be fighting some war others can't even see the reason for.
People still use Medium? Garbage platform for ages.
Wordpress saga is spicy in itself but really this is also a wake up call for any programmer like me who is overly dependent on a single technology such as dotnet or java. However, what else can we do? There are only so many hours in a day. What reasonable alternative do I have?
Does merely hosting a website on WP Engine constitute an affiliation? I wouldn’t consider myself affiliated with Apple, Microsoft, or Volkswagen, just because I use their products and services.
Not really sure why anyone use WP in 2024 tbh.
> And I'm going to ignore it.

Sure, and you might forget the mouse at home. Or the cord!

They can't solve every problem.
I agree, but in my very walkable european neighbourhood I don't see any vending machines either (except on the train stations, in waiting rooms, etc). Granted, there are small shops every corner, so vending machines don't feel necessary, but sometimes it would be useful to have some.
In order for Apple to be negligent by not tending to a matter they'd first have to have the responsibility of tending to it to begin with.

It is not my understanding that Apple has any responsibility for ensuring equal access and capabilities for third-party accessories on their own weird, proprietary, invented-in-house computing systems.

Therefore, it is also not my understanding that they can be negligent on these matters.
It was declining before covid hit, and from what I've seen reported (sales etc.) use increased at the start of covid then trended back to normal (declining) rates.
> CEO Tony Stubblebine says it “doesn’t matter” as long as nobody reads it.

It seems like the leaders of all of these online platforms are going to just bury their heads in the sand and pretend that this massive problem isn't one.

This AI trend is absolutely going to destroy many (most?) of these companies. For better or worse, the new age of the internet is already here.