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Are they actively working against PWAs, or are they refusing to spend resources supporting another technology?
What difference does it make? I'm hardly surprised that they won't dedicate engineering resources to tech that threatens their bottom line. But it is a choice, and it's to the detriment of their users and I. For that, it deserves criticism.
We don't actually disagree, our definitions of 'web app' and 'browser' just differ. Personally, I find it absurd to say that PWAs (progressive WEB APPs) cease being web apps when installed, but whatevs.
The important point is that how OSs should (with user consent) grant installed PWAs access to system APIs like notifications. I'm just trying to condemn Apple's preferential treatment of native apps in this regard.
Wow I had no idea, thank you for your well-reasoned critique! I can tell you're very capable of evaluating the merits of complex socio-technological systems. Your wisdom is unparalleled; now I see we all should just keep using X and GitHub.
Installed PWAs still run in a browser, they just don't show you the address bar so it looks and feels like a native app. (UX)
To all your points about a 3rd party intermediary, fair! Such an intermediary can be valuable. But whether we go through an intermediary is orthogonal to whether our app is running in a browser. Native apps can be installed without intermediaries (if your OS isn't evil) and there's no reason you couldn't build an intermediary for web apps.
As for your ProtonMail example... you got pwned. They just handed you some new code to run and you ran it. You could have ran the old code instead. You could have gotten a message saying "would you like to update?". You could compare the hash of content you received with others, tipping you off if you're being targeted.
To that, I imagine you say "but there's no reasonable way to do that stuff!"
And you'd be right. None of that is practical. Why is that? Is it some inherent difference between native code and code running in a sandbox? I think not.
If you do it like this, then I count it as a mobile app, not a webapp.
This is pretty funny distinction to make. It's hardly a surprise you find web apps inferior if you define them so.
Whether through a store or browser, your computer is downloading code from the internet and executing it. A browser adds cross-platform ease for devs and a sandbox for security at a slight performance cost. A store adds gatekeeping (for better or worse) and a 30% tax. The other differences are UX choices from browser makers and OS designers, nothing more.
Why?
There are many reasons to prefer an app, most of which are ways OS makers have crippled web apps for reasons that TOTALLY HAVE NOTHING TO DO with the fact that they get a 30% cut if the user chooses the native app.
Is there a relevant recent HN discussion or is this comment just in bad faith?
Not saying you're wrong, but I'll note why inference might dominate despite everything you mentioned.
A given model is trained once but applied N times. A large enough N will dominate training, no matter how complex and costly it was.
But how long is a model useful for? How often will labs need to train new models? Time will tell.
Huh. What are the odds two chess-themed roguelikes launch the same day?
I haven't played either yet, but I assumed this was about Gambonanza when I read the title. (https://store.steampowered.com/app/3509230/Gambonanza/)
I just might have to give both a shot.
sifa.id aspires to that.
Wishing Guido (gui.do) the best.
Seems like the solution is to either not incriminate yourself online or get plausible deniability with a pseudonym.
Personally, I really like that my feeds aren't getting that level of granular detail. I prefer the explicit control I have with 'Show more like this' and 'Show less like this'.
You're describing Liquid Democracy[1]. Seems challenging to implement but definitely an interesting idea.
Trust is subjective! Let's establish trust in each other rather than rely on one-size-fits-all solutions.
Personally, I trust my friends, family, and some public figures and institutions to varying degrees. I want to see social experiences that reflect that.
It's X, not twitter. That system is directly controlled by a single man for his own benefit; we should use the name that reminds us of that.
He openly promotes himself and those that pay him. If you think Musk doesn't have an admin dashboard where he can demote accounts he dislikes and promote his friends, I have some... unkind words for you.
It's about control. Control over your information intake is partial control over you.
We can do so much better than ceding that power to the highest bidder.
We're not sinister, we just have these metrics that we prioritize at all costs, up to and including child well-being!
There are trust issues all the way down.
Nonetheless, we must somehow build trust in others and denounce the undeserving. Some humans deserve trust. Will these AI models?
That's unbelievably stupid. But then again, so is not renting out the space at the market rate so you can pretend it's worth more than it really is. So... good luck, I guess?
If someone generates a massive essay with AI, you don't have a moral obligation to do anything.
If you want to argue that the reasoning in the essay is incorrect, I do expect you to refute the reasoning instead of merely attacking the source.
Even if the conclusion is broadly correct, that doesn't mean the reasoning used to get there is consistent.
This is the conclusion of a reply that focused entirely on critiquing OP's style/AI use instead of their reasoning? Ironic.
I strongly suspect it's the latter, though someone please chime in if I'm wrong.
Even so, this is a real advancement. It's impressive to see existing techniques combined to meaningfully improve on SOTA image generation.
It's funny, this release comes right after the Gemini 3 release that coincided with day 1 of Microsoft's Ignite conference.
Are you religious? If not, you should assume that your cognition is a product of your body, a magnificent machine.
I don't think LLMs are sapient, but your argument implies that creativity is something unique to humans and therefore no machine can ever have it. If the human body IS a machine, this is a contradiction.
Now, there's a very reasonable argument to be made concerning the purpose of copyright law, but "machines can't be creative" isn't it.
Time to invent a type of plastic that's poisonous to these bacteria!
Is it harmful to humans?
Not at all! You can definitely trust that my company has studied this in depth. I'm sure it isn't going to make it into everyone's bloodstreams before we learn it's actually terrible.
Dart/Flutter, custom engine. I've been very satisfied with it; does everything I need for a 2d game. Once it can natively use shaders/GPU on web it'll be perfect.
This seems like the time to mention my unreleased board/video game, Star Gambit!
It's a turn-based abstract space fleet battle coming to your browser in 2026. It's already playable over the internet w/ time controls and ratings. If that interests you, join the discord for updates and playtest invites!
You're right, Bluesky moderation is centralized. Unless content is served p2p, some moderation has to be centralized. At the end of the day, there's a server serving content and that server operator is legally obligated to remove illegal material.
Hopefully, atproto + community will provide alternatives for moderation services. Work is being done on this, we'll see what we end up getting. I feel that a competitive ecosystem of moderation services is probably the best answer we can hope for to that inherently messy problem.
It's all about trust. How do we help machines (and humans) know what to trust?
Imagine if they later update these links to actually phish people. That'd be pretty funny.