skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not strictly true. See https://www.rbcroyalbank.com/mortgages/mortgage-rates.html#p...

While 25-year fixed is uncompetitive (9.75% !!!!!! vs 5.9% on a 3-year fixed), the banks definitely sell them.
Say I drew a lovely picture and hung it outside my house for passers by to look at. I say “sure you can take a copy, no problem”, they then sell a billion prints, and don’t credit me at all.

Legally, not stealing. Ethically? I’d call that stealing.
I think that makes sense b/c they’re basically “doing the sale” similar to how a retailer might advertise a product that they up sell from a wholesale price.
Argh. Typed it on my phone.
Nope, it's just the expected gradual progression to the game-changing result that fusion eventually is going to be.
The first email was marketing. After you ask to be removed, it's abuse.

> After this email I replied, asking Andrios to stop.
> Do not ever email me again.
True. Would they accept Ooma number? Wish I could pay like $5/month for a forward only number that worked everywhere.
...with other Apple products. FTFY

Being Bluetooth, technically the Airpods will connect to say, a Dell laptop, but in practice they will have erratic behavior, which you can solve by buying a mac... and teaching said old folks how to use MacOS instead of Windows.
The reason IRS can't do that is because of lobbying by companies like Intuit.

cc https://www.propublica.org/article/congress-is-about-to-ban-...

https://www.propublica.org/article/turbotax-deliberately-hid...

Also see https://www.reddit.com/r/DecodeInvesting/comments/tcm21m/int...
I'd rather have no exposed antenna, no subscription fees and no separate device.

For emergencies, having to point at the sky isn't a big deal.
Doubt it. Consumers who buy competing smart watches from Garmin / Suunto / Coros / Wahoo do actually use those features. I see their activities posted on Strava and Facebook all the time. Apple is finally trying to compete in the same market.
It's unclear if that is a limitation of the Oceanic app or the sensors. The watch waterproofing is rated to 100m. +40 meters is beyond the limits of recreational diving so it would make sense that the app no longer gives you decompression info beyond that range.

When freediving, 40 meters is not unusually deep. Many divers can get past 30m after a long weekend of training. I'd be disappointed if a different app couldn't track beyond that limit.
I think python is now completely owned by a couple big companies that decide everything.

By this logic they should also block me from running benchmarks on too big lists, because I'm dossing myself.
Actually it depends. In Canada, many rescue services are free (North Shore Vancouver is a well known one here) as well as in the National Parks (the cost is essentially insurance paid for by the park pass fee) and many provincial parks.

There is an argument that pay for rescue causes people to hesitate to call and that can lead to worse outcomes and/or more dangerous rescue scenarios.
Yes, ultimately it's just a really good statistical model.

But it does a really good job, and it's not just matching code it's seen before. You can use any variable name. You can do this in a weird programming language which uses weird symbols for assignment and calls. copilot will probably see though it and give you a good prediction.

You can probably even swap west for not_east in code elsewhere in the file, and it will manage to predict that you also want not_east here. And I guaranteed nobody has written code like that before.
Switzerland is not the only one with a wealth tax; I use it as an example here.
Not for me no, I welcomed eSIM and not having to swap physical SIMs has made travelling around the pacific a little easier.
Yes, I never got the USP of Zig.

There is Go, Nim, and Rust. All pretty modern system programming languages and some of them even close to C performance.
It's a fusion reactor, so how do you get the water into the part with the hot stuff? That's all inside a magnetic field, I think. Also, you have to consider the neutron radiation's effect on the pipes that carry the water into the core, it's going to activate several metals in there, and cause weakening of the pipe wall, which will necessitate inspections and replacements.

It's a way harder engineering problem than you're letting on. Your comment is like a software user saying "How hard could it be just to add feature X?".
The Bose QC35 series 1 headphones are the best, pairing semantics work great with fantastic range. The QC35 II model is a major downgrade.
After reading the article, it looks like spammers believe anything that looks vaguely like an email address, is an email address, and that all email addresses are worth sending crap ads to.

I don't find this satisfying. Spammers must believe other things that motivate them to do such sloppy, harmful things.

My current idea is that spammers don't actually make money, that effectively all email ads get thrown away. Spammers are doing it because they're psychopaths, to cause pain, stress and anger. Money doesn't enter into it.
Billy Mitchell was vindicated by the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Ooh, what a nice feature! Didn't know Zig had this; thanks for the submission. Every build pipeline these days lints for it — might as well put it in the compiler.
In your settings on your phone you can click on Network & Internet, then click on Data Usage. However, there are have been studies literally showing that ads eat anywhere from 48% to 79% of people's data plans. It's hard to manage your data when your data is being used without you having any control over it.
Such ambigious names remind of “Rust”. It’s such an um-actually name (um actually it’s not first and foremost about oxidization it’s about fungi…)
Climate change has inertia so probably not solved by the time we have industrial scale fusion + would not solve the two other main anthropic activity related problems: biodiversity loss and depletion of natural resources
Even more terrible is using a recording service when you're in a meeting with me, not telling me, then complaining the real problem is the service told me
Why not Go or Nim?
I used to think like this, but on closer inspection I realized that you create more waste/polution on every trip to the grocery store, or by driving a car for a week, or eating meat. Yes it's a shame that they are designed not to be repairable but there are so many more low hanging fruit in our everyday lives that we don't think about when it comes to environmental issues.
> How often are persons who self-identify as having the capacity for pregnancy having abortions that a two hour flight to Denver won't do?

Iirc, anyone who knowingly assists this person in getting to Denver for the abortion is exposing themselves to criminal liability via the “community” whistleblower laws.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/workers-abo...

“Texas is front and center in the abortion rights battle, drawing attention last year for a new whistleblower-type law (SB 8) that lets an individual sue anyone who “aids or abets” an abortion and receive a $10,000 reward.”
Riding in a peloton is the most energy efficient locomotion – research (2018)
A much more impressive universal macOS application in my mind is the X Lossless Decoder (XLD), which you can run natively on PowerPC (32), Intel (32/64) and ARM (64). Not only is it a great app if you need to rip CDs or transcode audio, but the fact that it still runs on every Mac architecture is rather impressive.

https://tmkk.undo.jp/xld/index_e.html
I'm still waiting for the revolutionary laptop Macbook Wheel, hopefully it will run the latest IpadOS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA - 2009 video
I think the author of the article makes a few mistakes in his
diagnostic.

You should never use a service where you cannot report a problem or
where the administrators are out of reach. Of course it includes the
"big techs" but they're not alone.

The underlying issue is that most of them delegate their filtering
decisions to third parties. And many of them rely on the same
centralized IP and domain blacklists.

Because of how the filtering is done, the End User generally never
discovers that any filtering is happening. Only the sender may be
notified by his mail relay of the delivery failure.

Of course, the blacklisters are not going to put the IP addresses of the
big Email Vendors into their lists, if they did, millions of people
would be notified of delivery failures with the risk of them discovering
who is responsible.

""" Unfortunately, the computing power required to filter millions of
emails per minute is huge. That's why the email industry has chosen a
shortcut to reduce that cost. """

Even 20 years ago the computing power wasn't a problem. He probably has
this impression because he's been using SpamAssassin. The real reason
for why they are taking the "shortcut" is carelessness toward their
service and users.

The excuse of saying that you should block messages before delivering
them because it takes disk space is also heavily promoted by the
blacklisters. Indeed, if the message was simply delivered to a Spam
folder with the actual reason for which it has been classified as such,
users could discover who is responsible for the filtering.

The good news is that there is some success in getting the big email
services to remove centralized blacklists.

Another problem is that too many administrators of smaller services are
not even aware of their reliance on blacklists. Sometimes this is
because they have used an easy installation script for convenience, or
because they've copy/pasted a configuration. And of course, there are
those who do not understand the ethical implications of doing such a
thing or are just foolish.

""" So, starting today, the MX records of my personal domain no longer
point to the IP of my personal server. They now point to one of the Big
Email Providers. """

This doesn't make any sense. The MX records are for inbound, not
outbound, he could have used a different relay for sending mails yet
still use his own relay for receiving (perhaps he doesn't know that?).
Instead, he switches to a provider that is known for contributing to the
problem. This is... disturbing.
You do have to wonder at what point Apple decides they don't need Verizon, T-Mobile et. al. Maybe it's still a long ways off, but if you've gone through the effort of building relationships, hardware, software, etc to weave together a satellite network, why not just keep going down that path?
I totally see Apple doing that with some type of arrangement between them and the Telco providers.
Exactly, for example if I give it:

hn_example_up = foo.north_garbage_jlakd()
hn_example_right =

it correctly spits out

hn_example_up = foo.north_garbage_jlakd()
hn_example_right = foo.east_garbage_jlakd()
hn_example_down = foo.south_garbage_jlakd()
hn_example_left = foo.west_garbage_jlakd()

Even though those identifiers including random letters are certainly not in the training data. It can do surprisingly good basic reasoning.

Here is another example. I give it:

hn_example_up = foo.x_0_y_1()
hn_example_left = foo.x_neg_1_y_0()

So my function names are like referring to unit distances on the x/y axes. Copilot correctly figures out what I'm doing and completes:

hn_example_up = foo.x_0_y_1()
hn_example_left = foo.x_neg_1_y_0()
hn_example_down = foo.x_0_y_neg_1()
hn_example_right = foo.x_1_y_0()

A few weeks ago I coded a rubik's cube solver that involved some very nuanced and weird spatial reasoning and was blown away by Copilot's ability demonstrate it "understood" concepts such as turning the right side down is identical to turning the left side up when viewed from the back of the cube, or stuff like that.
I never thought of it that way but it's obvious now that you point it out. Physical access -duh! unless you can control both places (eg an office and a second office), but even then break-ins happen.

At least now I feel better about not having an "off-site backup" (I'm a "prosumer", not actually working in the feild).
It's not my area, but I suspect that the heat extraction rate for a fusion reactor must be several orders higher than current fission reactors if we are to run them continuously. Fission reactions can be actively controlled by using reaction moderating material (control rods), which means we can tune the reactor activity to match the amount of heat extraction available.

Fusion plasma must be sustained at a few million Kelvin or it shuts down again, and I'm not sure how finely we can control the operating temperature without either overheating the reactor or shutting down the plasma. I think it will take a lot more than dumb engineering to accomplish this.
Cheap energy means lower costs of manufacturing therefore lower prices for consumer goods, thus increasing quality of life.
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32482356
If they just ask you to spit it out during an interview? I'd move on to the next interview unless desperate. I wouldn't presume about what they know about me, I'd just say, look, my understanding is that personality type factors are not considered appropriate as hiring criteria, and so it wouldn't feel right to answer that.

I know some would give the type that they feel best matches the position, which, I guess they are also desperate for a job in that case.

Unfortunately from what I've seen some hiring teams will give a questionnaire to fill out and a) it's not labeled as any specific type of questionnaire, plus b) you don't get to know your results. One sales company administered a combined IQ test and personality instrument this way. Pretty cringe. They had no certification or corporate permission or anything, just a copy paste test done attitude.

Otherwise there's also the post-hire event in which a trainer offers insights, among which is some personality type sorting and theory, and even one on one coaching. Some of this kind of thing is absolutely worth it depending on the situation. For example you've identified someone you want to work more closely with in future projects, so you want to learn how they see themselves and their contribution.

So it's best to feel it out, see if you can find a good way to respond to the specific circumstances at work without raising the stakes for yourself. Or basically broadcasting your personal relational blind spots as part of a complaint-driven process. :-)
I came here for same bear necessities!
Exactly. I’d also add that climate change is a just a symptom of us reaching the natural carrying capacity of Earth for humans, so adding new ways of generating power doesn’t completely eliminate the issue.
Yep, for the boilerplate alone it's worth the cost for me. Oh you need to create a DTO from an internal object/class? Define the fields, write your `populateFromX()` function signature, maybe you have to type `$this->id = $input->id` and then CoPilot does the rest. And that's only one feature that I love, it does an excellent job most of the time writing the boilerplate for loops and the like based on my function names. Often I have to make few or no changes to it's code.

At a worst it provides a great starting point to jump off from, at best it writes it for me just like I would have (matching style/variable naming/etc).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32750059
The lack of major radioactive waste is a plus, only the pipes and stuff inside the core of the reactor will have radioactive elements due to neutron activation. The only waste from it otherwise is helium (and tritium, which is re-used in the reaction later).
At launch.
I have two versions of Sennheiser Momentum, but I decided to “trial” the AirPods Max by buying them with the intent of return, because they’re over half a grand $$$.

After literally minutes of use, the thought to return them evaporated just as quickly.

Pretty much all because of the seamless connection.

To be fair to the Sennheisers, they are durable: they survived contact with a wall at least twice.
I'm doubtful that the results from the experimental process can be used to draw such generalizing conclusions about the utility of Copilot. The task (implementing a HTTP web server in JS) is already something that would be over-represented in public codebases, this is like asking participants to implement two sum or a sudoku solver, of course the language model would have essentially memorized these types of problems.
It was a mandatory requirement from the governments that issued the spectrum licenses, that's all.
Yes, there are two other countries that have one. And 180 that don't.
It’s business horoscopes. My Myers-Briggs type is Pisces.
Obviously, you have not lost those benefits: reads are satisfied from an in-process database, and, for most applications, most requests are reads.
> People who want taxes to be lower don't want the "pain" of taxes to be hidden. They want people to cringe every time they write a check for tens of thousands of their hard-earned dollars, not just have it magically spirited off to the government.

This argument against automated tax filing seems to make sense to me. But if it’s true, shouldn’t we have manual tax returns for vehicles, real estate, sales, and fuel?
What do you mean by non-native scroll behavior? I'm asking seriously, never noticed anything.
The wider pin is on the neutral not the hot.

Everyone cares about polarity - when you have a 3 prong plug, then the ground forces the orientation of hot vs neutral, and the two prongs are the same size.
Construction of the DEMO plant is currently set to begin in 2040. It is made to follow ITER, so any delay in ITER will propagate to DEMO.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEMOnstration_Power_Plant#Time...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER
I think it's more justifiable to require a prepaid subscription for a dedicated safety device. The difference with a phone is that you're much more likely to have it on you even when you haven't paid for the satellite feature. On the other hand, if you haven't paid your Garmin subscription, you wouldn't take your beacon with you. The iPhone would be great for situations that you don't anticipate such as a breakdown. It seems cruel not to help people in those types of situations just because of a small fee.
Could someone enlighten, why does Canada not have a 30 yr fixed interest rate mortgage like the US?
Our attention span is being robbed
> For much of its lifetime, SQLite wasn't taken seriously

As far as I can recall, it was always well regarded as an embeddable database. What makes you think that it wasn't taken seriously "for much of its lifetime"?
Millions of tons is hyperbole, but my point remains. As convenient as they are, devices like them aren’t good for the world.

They might be a rounding error, but I’m going to call out rampant consumerism and environmental issues where I see them.
You're probably better off filing every year. In countries where you just get told what your taxes are, many people don't really even know how to get deductions made, let alone know what deductions apply to them. Also, I don't think you need to use intuit or anything like that, I think you can fill out the forms yourself if you really want to avoid that kind of thing.
Same for any "personality test" you find in the hiring process. Huge red flag.
The chance of an "Apple Car" is exactly zero. Even actual manufacturers are having huge issues producing enough.

BUT tighter Apple/CarPlay integration with existing brands is most definitely coming.

Soon your iPhone will handle the whole instrument cluster and infotainment for your car as well as functioning as a key.
> However, you shouldn't be passing million-digit numbers around as (decimal) text

This is about numbers that are thousands of digits, not millions. Regardless, why not? What's the alternative that supports easy exchange? If you stick it in some hexified representation, you still have to parse text, and put it into some non-machine-native number container. It's going to be slow no matter what.
Because I'm immediately leaving town. I can grab it, quickly set it up, and know what to expect.
Verizon has bungled up my phone activation horribly every single time I have tried to use eSIM.
Do the phones actually get recycled? (This is a genuine question.)
I got one or two spammer calls a week on TMobile over the course of maybe 8 years.

Six months on Verizon and I get more spam calls a week than those 8 years.
Actually, the more-telling part of the number is the exchange. They'll often match yours, which is dumb as hell.

In the age where most phones are mobile, this whole "scheme" is pitifully ignorant.
Yes I know :) Equally importantly, the Go GC will keep a string alive as long as you have a reference to it, so different objects can hold a pointer to the same string without worrying about who's going to free it or whether one of those pointers might become dangling. Python and Go (and others?) get a lot of mileage out of making strings shared and immutable, but languages with manual or destructor-based memory management don't really have that option.
*AArch64
No it is not. It's way too big and it has a fuse inside the plug because of historical copper shortages during war.

If I were designing a global plug it would not be based on that. I like the layout of Switzerland, but it needs to be smaller - there's no need for that much space around the plug.

Something the size of a US plug, with the Switzerland layout, and shielded prongs instead of a recessed outlet.
Where said internal culture is either "people who'll believe in fortune tellers if they're wearing lab coats" or "people so desperate for employment and/or validation they'll cast aside their values to fit in".
Smoke and mirrors. USA got its first Black senator in 1870, a century before apartheid policies actually ended in USA.
Apple ditches physical SIM cards from all US iPhone 14 models
> That kind of analysis really only works well for people who make a lot of housing purchases, and have cash reserves to cover rising rates.

The VRM has no rising costs: your monthly payments are the same. It's just the amount of principle paid off each month changes:

* if rates rise (like now), less principle is paid off

* if rates drip (the 10 years before this particular moment), more principal is paid off

But what gets taken out of your chequing account would be the same.
Colon cancer. Fuck. RIP. (Reminder to get checked etc)
Rumble Sets New Monthly Active User Record in August Citing Growth Among ‘Gen Z’
For anyone interested in these ideas, I'd highly recommend reading Shannon's original 1948 paper (linked in the article). While technical and precise it is actually quite digestible for someone with a bit of a quantitative background.
The string multiplication is about _joining_ strings, the inverse is about _splitting_ them in several parts. It's only confusing because the * appends the string to itself, the / is actually very clear.
It's a Google-backed project, so I'd wager the probability around "Google will add iMessage and AirTag support to Android" -levels =)
Azure can run Linux VMs just fine...
Are you sure? PostgreSQL/Postgres was started before 1986 as successor to Ingres, while Python was released in February, 1991 (vs Linux in September, 1991), based on the older educational programming language ABC. Moreover, Apache httpd was based on NCSA Mosaic released in 1993, but it isn't clear when development started.
I don't think you are either, but like the rest of that group , I expect that you'll keep using Chrome anyway. Because it's not like uBO will stop working, it'll just be a bit worse.
While they don’t have the excellent UX of Airpods with Apple products when used with non-Apple products, I’ve never experienced this “erratic behavior”. They just work like bluetooth headphones with no weird issues. I regularly use them with my desktop on both Linux and Windows, I’ve used them with my Nintendo Switch, etc… and no erratic behavior