skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me it is a lot about changing expectations. I used to use ecco pro for my notetaking. I loved it, it was very powerful and focused and it let me capture my ideas very effectively. Today I use onenote, which as an outliner sort of sucks.

Why did I move from ecco pro to onenote? Because I want something that automatically syncs to all my devices, easily searches across a decade of notes and lets me get things done from my phone. Onenote’s low quality outline authoring experience is trumped by its networking features.

This for me is the key: we expect tools to live on the network. All those apps of old, they were based around files, their business models were based around buying files, and they targeted one form factor and often only one OS. We need tools based around networks, not files, that target every form factor and every OS, but doing that costs a lot of money to rent servers and build frontends, and that means we get locked in saas products. Tons of saas products, all solving the same set of problems on the network but doing it through a web interface because it allows them to write once and run everywhere.

What would really help is a free substrate for networked open source products. If you could deploy something cloud-native without having to pay for servers, you’d see more community and native apps and less web saas in the productivity tools space.
The amount of work & installs you have to do for all that is laughable though.. assuming you can get a jailbroken iPhone.. the terminal app is easy to install.. small install & full on posix compliant terminal is right there w/ a more normal pkg manager to boot. I dunno shortcuts & a jailbroken iPhone is equally powerful & there’s far less tinkering involved imo. But I’m sure you’ve not used an iPhone enough to realize that.
Facing pressure at home, Chinese tech giants expand in Singapore
The intrinsic dimension idea seemed interesting, but I didn't follow this bit:

>By searching through the value of d=1,2,…,D, the corresponding d when the solution emerges is defined as the intrinsic dimension.

Is the idea to increase the "intrinsic dimension" until the network is able to learn? I'm not sure I buy the part of the argument where because the network is able to learn when the "intrinsic dimension" is kept low, it therefore follows that the "intrinsic dimension" is also low even when we aren't forcing it to be low. It seems a bit like saying "because we can obtain 90% accuracy on MNIST with a 10-parameter model, it therefore follows that a 1000-parameter model for MNIST only has 10 'intrinsic' parameters". Seems like a dubious / handwavey argument to me.
A bit less blak-or-white please. Demand has stayed the same, if anything. There were just restrictions put in place that prevent or at least discourage public transport use. Where I live I know people who use the bus now since their usual car sharing buddy is not driving in to work these days.
Presumably you're being intentionally obtuse, but whatever. France (and Germany) initially said the recommendation for those groups was pending additional data on efficacy in those age groups, which was lacking in the phase 3 trials. This data has since been submitted and the recommendation extended to elderly people.
Svelte and feathersjs.

Feathersjs seems to be just the right amount of magic: choose a backend store with a model, and it creates REST CRUD endpoints for you.

You can drop down to middleware or ideally use "hooks" that activate before (e.g. permissions) or after (post processing) each CRUD call. A new endpoint is a breeze to set up.
They do now. We have all became acutely aware of Google and Apple having too much power over the mobile ecosystem. Windows Phone 8+ didn't offer any differentiation other than UI design and they were charging for Windows mobile at first. Windows never got the critical mass of apps. It wasn't open source. Microsoft is just another tech giant. But if they piggy backed off the TV market success of WebOS they could have a truly open source alternative to Android that other organizations could have more influence over.
The real question is whether full autonomous driving is even feasible with the current "AI" or are we some breakthroughs away, or even completely off the track.

The problem here is obvious, if the automatous system is incapable of handling 10% (or less) of some niche scenarios on the street due to some intelligence limitation/blind spot when contrasted with that of the average driver, then automatous driving will never get approved.

And given that the current machine learning is nothing more than overhyped statistical algorithms with fast processors and lots of data. Then, we can say it is highly probable that what Elon Musk promising is....vaporware.

And knowing Elon Musk from twitter and his gambling tendency with sci-fi trends, we can also be sure he knew that, he used the AI hype to sell his cars, a great marketing guy, I actually like really him, I'll side with him over many politicians, but he will surely blame it on the regulators afterward.
My personal phone is a Nokia and I just received a Samsung for work. I use MS Launcher on both.

I did try the Samsung phone app but didn't like it and have installed the Google one. I've only done one settings search and it was really slow too.
Not at all. I realize WebOS started as a mobile project but I want to see it come full circle back to mobile.
Sure - sorry. I’m not really following your reasoning from some of your posts above on the topic.
It is not video, but I have worked on image compression using neural networks on my master thesis.

It was an improvement over an existing method, so there is quite a bit of research going on in this area.

Briefly, the idea was to use an auto-encoder to transform the image, then quantize and encode the transform coefficients. So, you can actually “teach” the network to be resilient against quantization operation. Very similar to what the author describes.
Introduced by Nokia in Symbian but I forgot when, maybe around 2008? I have to assume Nokia patented the feature as it's super useful but was missing from all non-Nokia phones for the longest time.
Without any data or published results your comment provides nothing to back its claims.
I love this combo! Since the NC31E were pack-in earbuds, they were dirt cheap on the grey market. I purchased my pair for ~20CAD just before Covid. They work well with my XZ1 compact. After the XZ1, they removed the special 5 pole jack so new Xperias lack the feature.

The implementation is clever too. The wired-noise cancelling doesn't require extra chips. Sony used the built in noise-cancelling feature on the Qualcomm audio chips.
The chips also support a "transparency mode" like feature, but there is no convenient way to use it in software.

> Sony phones too seem to be quite underappreciated.

Their phones are excellent, but their not available at all in many marks (they left Canada recently). Xperias are very expensive. For example, the Xperia 10ii costs twice as much as the Moto G8. Both phones have the same SDM665 SoC and budget eMMC storage. On paper, many people would cross shop them.

Since I've owned my XZ1c, I've come to appreciate the durability of Sony phones. I've dropped it, caked it in grease and batter, and generally abused it with no case. It works fine, just some chips in the paint. Based on this I would recommend Sony. They use thick Gorilla Glass 6 and even the cheaper models are IP68 rated. Cell phone durability doesn't translate well to a spec sheet or tv ad very well though.
Ask HN: Do you know why new high-capacity WD drives make this weird noise?
I recently bought two 8TB WD Gold drives, and they happen to be the noisiest drives I've heard in about 20 years. However the weirdest aspect of it is that they make a sound like a floppy drive regularly when not under load. There's a huge thread on the WD forum with other people experiencing this across multiple ranges and sizes: https://community.wd.com/t/strange-noise-coming-from-10tb-drives-wd100efax/226467/240

This audio clip captures the type of sound: https://clyp.it/ltzgugcu

~260 posts and 2 years in, nobody has a clue what it is and WD won't explain it either. The common factors seem to be running them in a software RAID on home servers. It's weird and it's quite irritating, so does anyone on HN have any ideas?

I bought Gold drives so I wasn't expecting silence, but this seems to be prevalent across the Red Pro and Red range too.
I'm migrating a side-project that was served by a Django-based server running on Heroku.

Here's the new version (WIP):

https://www.blockstudio3.net

It's written in Haxe (transpiled to js), runs on a single VPS with all of its data in SQLite, and is cached behind a CDN, making it pretty snappy.
TouchWiz bears minimal resemblance to Samsung's newer UIs, to be fair. Most seem to find the newer OneUI iterations to be significant improvements because they make for a far more full-featured device than stock Android with a more consistent UI experience and without the slowdowns that people complained about with TouchWiz. I'm curious how you'd find it as someone who preferred TouchWiz.
The issue is not that HN users have different preferences or that they signal those preferences. The issue is when they are surprised and annoyed that the ordinary folks in the real world don't make the same superior choices that they do. Why do they keep buying iPhones instead of Fairphones? Why do they keep using ad supported services instead of paying for it? Why do hundreds of millions of them eat at McDonald's?!

This lack of understanding of the general population is the issue.
The tone of these particular tweets should be parsed in context.

If you think that someone has been operating in bad faith towards you for years, eventually you lose interest in engaging and choose the "block" option, which is what Roser did today.

Also, Hickel himself has engaged in uncivil rhetoric previously, e.g an unprovoked accusation of "mansplaining" in 2019.
You don't have to be smart, you just have to surround yourself with people smarter than yourself. The rest will happen automatically.

Have you tried joining one of these projects you mentioned as open source contributor? I know at least some of them are always happy to get more people to join and help. And not just with code contributions. They also have (CRUD) websites that need maintenance, docs to be written, events to be organized, and training/marketing material to be produced. You might be surprised, how these seemingly smarter people end up being super happy about your contribution, as usually what is easy for you will be hard for them, just as you might see it the other way around.

And because you said you have wife+kids, your time might be limited: there are also ways to get paid to participate, at least around the bigger projects.
Ouch! I thought I was being clever with that mnenomic. I'm torn about whether to delete in order to prevent confusing others, or leave it up as a monument to my own error.
> Dear IMGUI is like the React of game dev/graphics demo UI. Shows up everywhere now

I'm not saw any real example of Dear IMGUI usable under OpenGL 1.x yet.[0]

SDL 1.x is much better in case for portability & wide range of platforms support.[1]

(SDL2 lost a lot of platforms supported by SDL 1.x)

[0] https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/1006

[1] https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1282469039537889285
Start by doing the easiest thing: nuke all caches whenever anything changes! It's guaranteed to avoid all invalidation edge cases, and it's "good enough" performance-wise for many applications. If and when that proves insufficient, start implementing more fine-grained invalidation. Doing otherwise is just premature optimisation.
Another one, though not sure if it stalled, outerra
Headline is typical clickbait, but the article is more nuanced and interesting
> the only reason to make such a requirement is that we want to use main memory as a mechanism to communicate between cores.

For a very liberal definition of "communicate" that statement is true. The only reason for multiple threads to be sharing an address space is if they mutually depend on how the others are interacting with the data in there.

The reason for cross-core cache invalidation is that otherwise it becomes impossible to reason about behavior of any data structures written and read by different threads. Imagine trying to build multiple consumer queue without any cache coherence protocols.
He is an "idea guy." At this point most companies shove the founder off to be Chief Innovation Officer or something and let them keep coming up with ideas, but bring in an adult to run things day-to-day.

SpaceX has been wildly successful despite Elon because of that adult leadership, with actual rocket engineers and doers in management. Additionally SpaceX has military contracts that bring with them actual real enforcement of penalties, like 5 years in prison just for making a single false statement.
Ford.. the company that can’t figure out how to not blare the AM/FM radio at me when my smartphone doesn’t connect via Bluetooth making Bluetooth unusable in my car is going to opine on what Tesla can or cannot do? People are idiots.
This doesn’t make sense. How would python be slower? Bash is indeed the prototypical do what each line says. And there is absolutely no optimizations here.

Python while not the fastest thing out there, basically every implementation does a quick parse phase and run some optimized form.
i just feel really bad for kids whose parents are not tech savvy or rich enough to afford proper broadband and ipads

by the end of this mess some kids are gonna be left so far behind i don't even know if they can ever catch up
"But fewer people may also mean fewer new ideas". May. Or may not. My bet is fewer people mean fewer hours spent watching shit @Netflix and similar.
Wait, what? Are you trying to say Xiaomi is rebranded subset of Huawei?
Probably here but you have to pay: https://raidforums.com/Thread-CSV-Facebook-370-Million-db-re...

I don't know of anywhere that has leaks for free, but I'm not really involved in that world so maybe it exists.
I spent an evening reading this, it was enjoyable. It was more enjoyable than an "average" pre-covid entertainment I could get for $19. So I sent $19 for the author, all for a very enjoyable evening.

My favourites:

1. https://practicaltypography.com/system-fonts.html strong thoughts on Arial font.

2. https://practicaltypography.com/the-cowardice-of-brave.html very strong thoughts on Brave browser.

3. https://practicaltypography.com/websites.html author bashing hamburger menu (and some other current-day fashions). Although I disagree with custom fonts for websites -- fonts for that page alone are a whopping 713KB compressed. See https://danluu.com/web-bloat/

4. https://practicaltypography.com/why-you-should-pay.html meta: about paying for a free book.

There is also good educated advice on font recommendations. I also like his fonts, but don't have a use for them yet.
Phones that do fast charging properly (e.g. heat generating components in the charger not in the phone) like Oneplus phones, will experience fat less battery degredation than an iphone or samsung phone.

Not as important these days.
Agreed, we actually have a Lua-5.2 frontend underway. We may officially support Lua in the future, but for now, we need to support full r7rs in Scheme.
I was just exploring this the other day. There are so so many ...

http://lumtest.com/myip
http://lumtest.com/myip.json
http://ip.oxylabs.io
http://ip-api.com
http://api.ipify.org
http://ipinfo.io
http://icanhazip.com
http://ipaddressm.com
https://api.myip.com
http://httpbin.org/ip
http://bot.whatismyipaddress.com
https://ipapi.co/json
http://ifconfig.io
http://ifconfig.pro
http://ipfinfo.fun
http://checkip.amazonaws.com
http://eth0.me
http://ident.me
http://ipaddress.sh
http://ipfree.info
https://iphorse.com/json
http://myexternalip.com/json
http://wgetip.com
http://ip.jsontest.com
http://thisip.com
http://l2.io/ip
https://wtfismyip.com/json
http://ipecho.net/plain
http://ipgrab.io
http://whatismyip.akamai.com
http://curlmyip.net
http://myip.ipip.net
http://checkip.dyndns.com
http://ip.anysrc.net
https://ip.seeip.org
http://ipcalf.com

I guess you can count on the proxy networks, the big companies, and the aged ones. Otherwise take your pick based on what's memorable or short.
Read somewhere "Good product with great marketing beats amazing product with no marketing."
I'm really looking forward to Hyperscript growing more capabilities. I love that it's very natural-language-oriented. I'm really interested in frameworks like this that could make HTML website creation more accessible for regular people. Watching a friend try to build a website with SquareSpace I was thinking... for the amount of effort she put into learning SS's tools and quirks, she could almost have just learned HTML.
Car usage is obviously directly tied to road usage. High road usage leads to congestion. In a sense, you want there to be a limit of the number of cars on the road: Just under what would start causing significant slowdown.

The fixed costs of owning a car are expensive, but typical city/suburban usage ignoring work commute easily makes the costs worth it. The time expense of using public transit or the dollar expense of relying on lyft/uber are simply too high.

Self driving cars have some advantages:

They reduce the cost of sporadic non-peak usage. For some this will make the work commute on public transit a dollars+time net savings. This pressure will be especially high on 2+ car households, where the economics of a second car will be abysmal.

Self driving cars can act as a much more efficient feeder to public transit. At any given time, especially during peak usage, there are a bunch of people going from approximately where you are to approximately where you're going.

We aren't taking advantage of this today because of two problems: Coordination is hard and requires a critical mass. Any time stopped just kills average speed, greatly increasing time to get to a destination (this is why busses are soooo sloooow.)

Self driving cars can take people from their houses in suburban neighborhoods to coordination locations. Hop in a small bus/shuttle with a few others. Wait no more than a minute or two as cars arrive. Then the shuttle takes everyone to their destination (if it's a high density city where the destination is within a block), or the reverse of a feeder, where single person taxis are already there waiting to take you, with a pause as long as it takes to get out of a vehicle, walk a few feed, and get in another.
Exactly, the original comment I was replying to was suggesting we'd have "full self driving" where the autonomous vehicles were on completely seperate roads that humans didn't use.

If a robot can't deal with a human cyclist or someone crossing the street the that is not remotely self driving.
Indeed, people assume haveibeenpwned is trustworthy when it seems to be a centralised place of valid emails from people that care about security and thus might have or control something of value?
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Youtube, TikTok and countless other apps. They will literally create videos asking each other to rate phone brands and what not.
I have a Spigen case too, but for my iPhone. It's this really simple black case, and I haven't been able to discover a single disadvantage. It's sturdy but not too thick, it wraps tight but not overly, etc.

I'd like to get a new case, just for variety's sake, but they're bound to be worse -- so I don't.
Compression is a necessary but not sufficient condition for 'comprehension'. The whole 'compression' idea here is a bit of a misdirection; it will be a side effect of any success.

The data fed into these systems is just measurements of target systems (eg., of light for photographs). This data is radically incomplete, so no compression of it will be an accurate (eg., 3d) model.

To reconstruct the world you need to measure the measuring device (ie., the body) as it interacts with the target system. In most cases you need, also, the hypothesis behind the action to resolve ambiguity in the measurement data.

Eg., you need to know you moved your hand to touch the fireplace to properly interpret what 'finger pain' means.

It is for reasons of this kind that 'comprehension' is an engineering problem, not a programme for a universal turing machine (which has no device boundaries).

It is engineering in the sense that 'compression' has to occur under the right measurement procedures, with hypothesis-laden action, etc.

Focusing on mathematical abstracta completely misses the problem.

All deep systems do
is compress their training data to form archetypes and compare novel input to compressed archetypes. Since the data itself is necessarily profoundly ambiguous there is only a trivial sense of 'generalisation' achievd.
Or configured to a different (your own) endpoint
So, parks?
You could use this as a starting point:

Since you have to validate on the server side for security reasons anyway, you're duplicating logic in javascript.

But the real argument comes down to vanill-js vs bloat. Since I use vanilla-ja, the amount of js will always be minimal.
Playwright-test – cross-browser end-to-end test suite with Playwright
Thanks, but you've listed where those companies are headquartered, not where their devices are manufactured or where their main suppliers are located.

I wasn't able to track down the country of origin for many of them, but at least Fairphone is open about it, and 75% of its components are manufactured in China[1].

Apple devices are still mostly produced in China, with some smaller scale operations in India[2].

I would like to see Fairphone levels of transparency from all manufacturers, but until then it's safe to assume that any electronics are partially sourced from countries with existing manufacturing facilities and cheap labor such as China. It's a cost cutting measure that makes it unfeasible to move production elsewhere, even for giants like Apple, and downright impossible for smaller companies.

[1]: https://www.fairphone.com/en/impact/source-map-transparency/

[2]: https://fortune.com/2019/06/13/apple-iphone-china-production...
Pets are a privilege? Granted by whom? Am I seriously not free in society to own an animal without the express permission of whatever entity you look to in order to function? I don't need a coffee table to survive. Is that a privilege? Carpeted floors?I mean, indoor plumbing's kind of a modern frivolity if you think about it.
I'm doing the same old skool thing (first 4 points) for a large app, except the last 2 points are:

- using MySQL and Redis

- using Perl and the awesome CGI::FormBuilder module