skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The EU mandate that all large messaging platforms be interoperable by mid 2023 ought to widen this gap too.

I wouldn't want to be part of the team having a deadline of March to develop and implement a way for every big messaging app to interoperate, with different user models, privacy concerns (e2e?), data storage models, data durability models, etc.

Yet if it launches late, you have that 10% of revenue fine hanging over you, which is huuuuuuge. And the EU probably won't listen to you when you say "we implemented this API but their API was incompatible with ours".
Oh wow. Why did it get canned? The tech demo looks amazing.

EDIT:
nvm it's in the post
Ironically by pushing Reels so hard Instagram has been TikTok's best promoter. A large portion of reels have a TikTok watermark.
Well, it's more that resource storage allows adaptivity rather than being a shock absorber, per se.

For example, in the fog of war or the early game we don't know if the enemy is teching, econo-expanding, or rushing. In the mid-game we know an attack is coming, but we're uncertain its unit composition. So in the early game we store some resources while we scout. If we see them teching we can dump everything into military expansion since they'll have neither the army nor the production to counter any attack. Same idea for mid-game: knights -> build pikeman, archers -> build knights.

If it were merely about shock absorption we may as well have dumped it all into walls, archers, and castles.
Assuming the Governor signs the bill they will be giving a $1000 tax credit for people who don't own a car. They put an income cap on it though, so I doubt it will have much impact.

https://www.phillytrib.com/california-wants-to-give-resident...
The hardware programing interface should not need to change (xHCI). This is a kind of test for the USB alliance to see how they resist planned obsolescence.
I'm pretty sure more countrys have similar laws. For example every place in Germany has to accept cash.

Except when paying with more then 50 coins
Except when paying with coins over 200€ (bills are fine)
Except when clearly contractually precluded beforehand.
As cringey as that looks, what are other options there? Windows' desktop (and neither Linux's IIRC) doesn't have a built-in "stick-it note" functionality — which is kind of a shame if you really think about it.
No. Source: just did 6 interviews at Neuralink (though I didn't get the job, so I guess there are better sources).
The grid is failing on hot days because of the amount of thermal generation they still use. When it gets hot, thermal plants produce less power because their production capacity is related to the difference in temperature between their steam and the ambient air.

Nuclear plants are thermal plants. They are not magic. They have to abide by the laws of physics.
For average people, iPhones are aspirational, android is what you get if you can’t afford an iPhone. So as soon as you can afford it, you buy one.

Tech people excluded because they have other niche reasons for their smartphone choice.
Will you be okay with prices going up significantly to account for the fact that scheduling is now done "responsively" and thus efficiency is at a much lower capacity? : )
Oops, the PS ? and : actually need to be on the same line. Whiteboard fail. Likewise there shouldn't be a pipe before grep, right? So,

perl -pi -e 's/term/replacement/g' $(grep -rl --include=\*.sh term)

Apples-to-apples, the date conversion with perl is,

perl -pi -e 'use Time::Piece; s/\b(\w+ \d\d?, \d{4})\b/
eval{Time::Piece->strptime($1, "%B %d, %Y")->strftime("%Y-%m-%d")} or $1/eg' \
$(grep -ilE '(ERROR|WARNING)' *.sh)

and the simple replace with PS is

ls *.sh -r -File | %{($_|gc) -replace 'term','replacement' | Out-File $_}

Not Perl terseness, but not 5 lines either (maybe in Visual Basic).
The Wall of Sound (2015)
A lot of what people think as "Silicon Valley" is actually centered around general aviation industry - for example San Mateo County at least in 2015 had majority share if its economy based on aviation, with majority of it being GA
I think Improper Nouns as described here also have a really big upside, especially for the main users of them. That is probably why they have proliferated recently.

These Improper Nouns are quite descriptive and therefore help people who are picking up a field. The diagnosis "Persistent depressive disorder" is, I think, a better name than "Green's Disorder" (presuming the diagnosis was introduced by someone called Green). Once you know an improper noun is an improper noun, and you know the context in which it was coined, then all of a sudden, it becomes much clearer than if it was truly a proper noun.

I think, accidentally, the old tendency of naming things in latin or ancient greek had the effect of marking things as Improper Nouns whilst still allowing people who understand those languages to get the description. Similarly, the "Persistent depressive disorder" name has some marker of being an improper noun: the noun 'disorder'. In that sense the Green building, or a highly sensitive person, are much worse examples. Because they contain no hint of being improper nouns.

Perhaps this 'marker' approach is a nice solution. Coin a whole set of nouns such as disorder, theorem, etc (examples feel hard to come by). Then use improper nouns as this 'base-noun' with a whole bunch of descriptive adjectives. Then any use of the base-noun marks it as part of an improper noun. Within this idea, I think we would need a base-noun for the concept of 'an organization that meets some legal definition'. Similar base-nouns for other things meeting legal definitions might be needed. If I were to dream perhaps you could give a normal noun some suffix to designate that it is not a X, but an X meeting a specific legal definition. If the suffix were -lex then the example of "certified community behavioral health clinic" would become a "certified community behavioral health cliniclex".
People voted no because the same people who ran the Brexit campaign told them not to, with the backing of all the newspapers.

That would have been harder if they'd given a better option, so they didn't.

People should have voted yes, it was the smart best thing to do, but they didn't. Some of them are just idiots, but most were just bamboozled into thinking they would get more money for the NHS by people who hate the NHS.
I self-hosted this for a while but found that I got blocked/severely limited as soon as I tried to do basically anything. I'm sure there were things I could have done to get around the limitations that very quickly got imposed, but it wasn't worth it to me. If you don't like Instagram's UI/tracking/privacy policy/closedness then really the only sustainable solution is to stop using it, in any guise.

Bibliogram was a great project but I think Instagram is too aggressive about trying to protect its walled garden. It's a losing battle. Easier to just realise that, for most people, Instagram doesn't add that much to your life anyway.
Did they actually mandate that? I thought what the EU mandated was mostly about payment services.
> Also Alaska can easily afford basic infrastructure, heck they pay an annual stipend to permanent residents.

The question is not if they can afford it because they obviously can, the question is if this is long-term sustainable - not just from a CO2 emissions point, but you also need pilots, the planes or boats themselves, and all of that to supply cities that don't even manage to get 100 residents [per 1, at least 23 fall below that limit]?!

Maybe just accept for once that there are areas so remote it isn't worth the effort to supply them. We should return these areas to nature.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Alaska
> You can - it's called buying a smaller house?

Not if no one is building (or selling) the smaller houses, possibly because of the reasons you give in your second paragraph.
Every time there's a new USB it comes with a new USB naming and numbering scheme.
> If I recall, I eventually figured out that I had to swipe up a little arrow at the bottom of the screen, but using a mouse. Why?

I think the answer is that windows 10 does it, so it must be copied.
I feel so productive with this 90s type UI, and crisp mouse pointer
As a retiree, I'm older than most here, and can attest to the fact that the freedom of expression in the United States is suppressed to a greater degree than at anytime in my lifetime. And it's only getting worse. To accept censorship on Big Tech platforms, e.g., Facebook & Twitter because they are "private companies", is to ignore revelations over the recent years of working in concert with offices of the federal government. Speech codes, gender identity, climate change, election meddling, excessive government spending, two tiers of justice (compare the treatment of Antifa/BLM with the J6 protestors), et al, all lead to a severe erosion of liberty. And that's the way it's intended.
Or if you want to decide what applications you install on your phone rather than Apple.
> Windows support is pretty stable and almost complete by now.

This isn't really a genuine statement. Currently Crystal Requires a full installation of Visual Studio on Windows:

https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/issues/6170
I don't buy phones on contract anymore.

My 128GB Xiaomi Redmi Note 9S cost me about R5000 in 2020 while a comparable screen sized iPhone with the same capacity would have been R20,000

Easy decision to make when the $$$ is paid upfront - contracts for iPhones here are already like cars heading towards 36 months.
Are you not worried about running into legal trouble with these things? It seems like a gray area.

Also, what platform do you use to sell these things? How do you know the buyer won’t just take the credentials and not send payment? Or how do they know you won’t take payment and refuse to hand over the credentials?
Rural areas are more likely to be recreational plus agricultural, due to proximity of sophisticated clients in big cities.
Pigs and Avocados
So what would happen if you trained this model on frames from movies that were annotated? You could leverage CC descriptions and maybe use a classifier to automate a lot of the annotation. Would it be able to create novel but contiguous predictions for the next frame?
Engaging with this section:

> I expect some of you, confronted with these examples, are getting pissed off that improper nouns are even a thing. For what it's worth, it pisses me off too. I don't think it's deliberate deceptiveness, but I do think it's the rhetorical equivalent of negligent malpractice. It's a pattern of language usage which casts more shadow than light, and, as far as I can tell, has absolutely no upside unless you can find some benefit to causing misunderstanding and confusion.

I think something that causes technical improper nouns to form, is that the common reading and understanding of the phrase is actually imprecise or ambiguous. A field finds the concept useful, and then tries paring down the ambiguity and imprecision to make it even more useful, while also trying to keep -some- form of conciseness, and now you have an improper noun.

The tension is between replacing every instance of "preventative care" with "federally mandated fully insured care".
There is a small minority that refuses to buy Apple products because of ideological causes (at least that is the reason for me- I am not comfortable with supporting a company that locks it's users in a walled garden).
As soon as a better offer lands. You gain nothing by waiting. After some jumps the interval at which better offers come your way, will naturally increase: there are very few jobs that pay well, respect the workers and so on.
Instagram has a monopoly said who exactly?
Tornado is a BitTorrent client written in OCaml
One example for me is iMovie on macOS. They dedicate 50% of the screen to a sort of “project media library” where you put all videos and audio you want to use in your project and that also holds all titles, transitions etc. you can add.

Literally everyone I ever see using this software drags videos directly from the finder onto the timeline, then pick a transition once and then just copy/paste it within the timeline. So 50% of the screen is wasted real estate for a lot of the users.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Code of which the cancelled Black Arrow rocket programme might be the most famous.
This is so cool!

What I would really love is to have multiple prompts. So, for example, prompt 1 is a fast moving description of the action. Prompt 2 is a slow moving fade between artistic style.
> Gmail wastes 10% of your mobile inbox screen real estate

At least that one is easy to disable.
I personally like my jack 3.5 and I like not spending a whole min wage worker salary on a piece of junk that will be trashed in 5 years tops
Can't run root shell or QEMU on recent iDevices. I thought this was HACKER news?
Folk interfaces are a natural consequence of the focus on building applications for millions of users and the dearth of situated software [1]. They're also a clever way of claiming no-code or low-code platforms in unexpected places.

[1]: https://www.gwern.net/docs/technology/2004-03-30-shirky-situ...
You're projecting. I can't afford any phone I want, I use a 5 year old iPhone and my choice has nothing to do with my social status. My next phone is likely to be an iPhone too.
A big difference between figures of speech and improper nouns is that the first are almost universal. Moreover, getting a figure of speach 'wrong' will generally cause quick reaction. Hence they are easy to learn, and there is a self-correcting mechanism. Meanwhile an improper noun can evade detection by those not in the know, and there is no self-correcting mechanism of wide public consciousness to teach those who are not in the know.
No, what I don't understand is why ppl here who are "fighting for privacy" are not explicit/loud about this law.
Xkcd: Universe Price Tiers
Then maybe he shouldn't have said that he wants more than the specified amount of siding:

> [19] On February 10, 2016, Ms. Jenkins emailed Mr. Ginther that she was couriering cedar samples to him and attached a confirmation notice dated February 3, 2016. It showed a revised amount of hemlock (now 6,000 LF), with the stain noted as Cloverdale Messmers Oak Brown; 2,400 LF of cedar siding and specific amounts of cedar for the window trim. The confirmation stated that the stain colour for these last two items was undecided. Later that evening, Mr.

Ginther replied to Ms. Jenkins’ email as follows:

> The cedar siding # we are still sorting out final volume and it could be more than quote. How long is the turnaround time on this product?

> Secondly the 2x4 and 2x8 trim we only discussed and won’t be needing those at this time.

>[20] In response, Ms. Jenkins emailed Mr. Ginther on February 11, 2016 saying that she had deleted the cedar window trim and attaching a revised confirmation, which included the hemlock soffits and the cedar siding, again noting that the cedar stain colour was undecided. Ms. Jenkins also couriered raw cedar samples to Mr. Ginther that day

The whole thing, including invoices that mention the siding stretch over the weeks and it is explicitly noted that only question about the color is undecided (we will tell you later).
I've seen it the other way. When spending $1000 dollars on a phone is no big deal, you get the best phone available regardless of brand.

When you can't afford it, you finance it. A iphone is $30/month. It's a status symbol for the lower class. It doesn't do much for status when you make 6 figures.
Have you thought about the android phones more expensive than the base iPhone ?
Simon's writing has always been crisp and insightful. If I remember correctly, Simon comes out of a newspaper background. I wonder how that's influenced his approach on these sorts of technical topics.
I always wonder why most of UK and US colleges work like boarding schools, with on-site living. Obviously it is expensive! Just like boarding schools.

Most of universities in continental Europe are simply buildings scattered through the city. You can stay with your parents or rent cheaply, and this is the main reason why education costs here were never a problem.
Ask HN: Have you ever taken a large pay cut intentionally?
I’m potentially in a situation where I could continue working at the startup I’m at making very good money, or take a 90k pay cut to work at a nonprofit that I am _extremely_ supportive of, which is devoted to solving a problem I am incredibly passionate about.

While the salary they are offering is still above national average, breaking the golden handcuffs seems a daunting experience.

Have you ever done this, or something similar? Did you regret making the change, or staying? Looking for advice!
> The Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979 requires telecommunications companies to retain a particular set of telecommunications data for at least 2 years.

That looks like metadata (see https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/nat-security/files/dataset.pd..., PDF warning). Which is still private, but doesn't include your private calls and messages.

How long do they keep private calls and messages?
I don't follow, but just FYI, if 5 people die on a project it's usually shut down. This isn't 1930 anymore.
Extinction Rebellion: Climate activists stage protest in Commons chamber
Anyone can buy an iPhone for the same price or less than most Android phones. $399/429.
I too am in favor of nuclear energy to supplement solar and other renewables because we can't afford to pick and choose favorites for net zero at this point, and indeed it will help to bridge windless cloudy days, but this is just off the mark. Solar panels are not so specific, especially not when it's the sun's heat that causes people to use more energy on cooling.
This would not work with plutonium, which is what Philip’s “Nagasaki-like” (Wikipedia) design apparently used. The gun design does not create the critical configuration fast enough to prevent it ‘fizzling’ - the assembly blowing itself apart before the chain reaction has progressed far enough for a nuclear-scale explosion. Instead, you need an implosion device. This is much more challenging, requiring explosive lenses (precisely-shaped charges), multiple precisely-timed detonators, and an initiator that will produce a burst of neutrons just as the explosive’s shock waves reach the center of the fissile assembly.

I am sure you are right, though, that the bill of materials did not include the fissile material.

Anyone surprised by Phillip’s result was perhaps assuming that it would take something like the Manhattan Project to independently design a bomb.
Lockscreen clicks are also incredibly annoying. I'm left handed and often use my mouse left handed with the clicks swapped. If you do this in software on something like Windows/MacOS then it uses the "default" click setup even if you're logged in and the only user on the system. So I will sit there and right click while it's looking for a left click because that's the "default". It's incredibly dumb. Most Linux DEs/login managers are like this too although you have more control over the software so it's possible to swap at boot at a lower level. I've given up swapping clicks in software and now buy more expensive mice that have the option in hardware.
The op definitely defines their social status via their phone. We all know some people just prefer apple for whatever reason.
I switched to Android because I use a lot of Google products: GMail, Google Calendar, Google Fi, Google Maps.

The deeper integration with my phone makes my life easier and, while there used to be a large gap in quality, I find iOS/Android to be similar these days.
> I think one version of Ubuntu GNOME obscured the login screen. I installed it, saw no login screen, clicked everywhere, but nothing happened. Just stared at a desktop wallpaper. If I recall, I eventually figured out that I had to swipe up a little arrow at the bottom of the screen, but using a mouse. Why?

You can press any key to go past that screen.
I feel like many people love iOS, but many also hate it (not open enough, lock in etc.) but they hate the cheapishness and crappiness of Android even more.

Is there any development ongoing for a mobile OS that is not full of crap like Android, but not as restrictive as iOS?

Not sure if Windows Phone or PalmOS were like that, but those are both gone…
One of the things that bothers me about Pipewire, is that the protocol to communicate with it is undocumented -- only the reference C implementation exists.

On top of that, language bindings don't expose a lot of things. Like whether a node is muted or not.

I tried to write a tiny widget to show whether my mic is muted on not on my statusbar -- short of reverse engineering the C implementation, there's no simple way to do it.

What worries me is that we're building so much on top of something undocumented. If the devs decide to move on, what'll happen?
lol...projecting? so you are saying that deep down inside I really want an iphone? LOL...ok, dude...
When you live here you soon realize the politicians and those who bask in the limelight aren't the ones in charge.
I attribute most of this to the simple fact that in Europe, Apple products are around 20% more expensive, because, protectionist EU trade policies.

Unsurprisingly, iPhone has a pretty damn high penetration rate in Japan where it costs about as much as the US, because there's fewer trade barrier there.
The most expensive mistake I made was not properly emphasizing and escalating how important it was to not simply migrate just one of my old kickstart files to automation and use it for everything and to retest the settings each time the OS, BIOS and hardware had changed. I said each role of server needed its own settings and to re-test them each time the OS or hardware changed. Nobody wanted to do this.

I had settings specific to CentOS5+Dell+BIOS versions that controlled CPU power settings. There was a specific need at time time for this. I did communicate this multiple times but I was shrugged off. CentOS 6 brought in a less old kernel that vastly improved intel power management and around the time CentOS 7 was being used the company had grown significantly and there was a team dedicated to doing analytics on power usage and cost. The old kernel settings that had never been updated were costing the company an extra $3 million in power usage per year.
The model behind Stable Difussion works similar to pareidolia[1], recognising "shapes" on random noise following the prompt theme, and refining that "mental image" until it generates something that matches a recognizable image.

In these animations it's easy to see it, as the shape recognition is not very stable. For example, in the last video when the prompt changes from "people" to "bears" you can see a backpack turning into a bear head, which then turns into an open-mouth bear head. And then, the arm of the person carring the backpack is also turned into more bear heads.

The next steps in the evolution of this technique should be in exploring the relation between noise and subjects, so that you can create variations of the same image maintaining the recognizable parts stable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia
Can't say that Google does not deserve "this" defeat (out of many). Google slowly stopped caring about Android: the vision and the concept of a "community-driven" OS but instead went back in the "defensive" mode of caring more about Google: ads, profits, government contracts & "obeying" (without actual motive) draconian surveillance laws, etc. Yes "organizing world's data" was always a core mission of Google, but the fact is that you cannot do that by also fighting over the smallest edges when it comes to competition, not if you want to keep scaling.

Most people have seen this coming as soon as Google fought the concept of letting people switch the search engine, the browser, core defaults on Android. I would say "I can't blame them" but seeing that they want both eating the cake & keeping it, I won't.
If you're comparing to the US: the US has the Fourth Amendment, and your government ignores that too.