skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you're a Linux user, Intel integrated graphics have always been the most compatible and most well-supported option.

You forgot to add, "worst performing by a mile" to the feature list.
I think you might be understating "minor annoyance". I don't like Amazon but I often buy niche products from them because I'll get them in days instead of months.
But conventionally the word "distributed” is for apps running on multiple servers. Your definition makes every web app "distributed". And I feel like most of HN would disagree with calling Spotify Web a "distributed app"
Or Japan or Korea --two countries that have embraced robotics.
If you falsely yell 'fire' in an occupied building, you are responsible for the resulting damages.
Except when FBI does a sham interview to protect an insider. Then no oath to tell truth and no notes. Makes for an easy white-wash of serious crimes.

https://thehill.com/homenews/286849-fbi-didnt-record-clinton...
Carl Sagan is endlessly quotable! Even though I write about movies, or specifically the life lessons in movies, I've found myself quoting Carl Sagan a number of times:

"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
—Carl Sagan

“It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.”
—Carl Sagan

"Our passion for learning, evident in the behavior of every toddler, is the tool for our survival. […] What distinguishes our species is thought. The cerebral cortex is a liberation. […] We are, each of us, largely responsible for what gets put into our brains, for what, as adults, we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain, we can change ourselves.”
— Carl Sagan, Cosmos, pgs 278-279.
This is a civil trial, not criminal, so families would have to identify harassers first. The FBI or the state can bring criminal charges against the harassers but same thing, the authorities need to track them down first.

Obviously, it's easier for the authorities to act first, then the families can sue.

The whole thing is senseless, the harassers are crazy people who believe that it was all "false flags" (for what? who knows), when these kids did die. Each harasser that is caught need to be shown the photos of these poor dead kids and forced to watch them, it will haunt them forever. As for Jones, he is a billionaire, this tragedy made is filthy rich, that's the only reason he exploited it. He probably never believed himself in these things.
Blatantly copying from Twitter [1], but it's what I believe, also:

> The largest fine paid by a banking executive responsible for the 2008 Financial Crisis was $67.5 million

A few tens of millions would have set straight almost everyone involved, the victims getting their money, Jones having to pay out of his pocket. But $1 billion means Jones will never be able to pay the sum, and, what's more, it will also silence him indefinitely. Which will make lots of his supporters think that was the intention all along, and in so doing making a mockery out of the act of justice.

[1] https://twitter.com/WSBChairman/status/1580289631714947072
Could you comment on any projects within Shopify that are helping Ruby's concurrency story? I'm aware of Ractors (https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/master/ractor_md.html) and Fibers, but it's unclear to how feasible these primitives currently are to build the necessary abstractions on top of them that would make Rails more concurrent.

https://github.com/socketry/falcon is an interesting project, but again, it's not clear how difficult it would be deploying a Rails app on top of this. My experience with these concurrency models in Rails apps is that one single gem could make a blocking IO call (for example) and negate all of the concurrency/performance gains. It would be cool if Ruby could be configured to throw errors for these types of calls to make finding and fixing offending gems easier.

There's a lot of really great projects happening and plenty to be hopeful about, but when that stuff will land or the changes the rest of the community and ecosystem should think about making still isn't clear.
Hm, I'm not sure if that's true or not, but I think a journalist publishing false news stories would be recklessness anyway, not negligence.
> What is the difference to Nike providing kids with flashy shoes when the sole purpose is class and coolness?

Maybe what Nike is doing is just as bad...
Is it close to 18.065 from Prof Strang?
One audience may be courts. A great deal of time, effort, and money goes into high-quality telepresence (at least in my area) for offenders who cannot attend court (due to COVID, the nature of their offense, etc).

As other commenters have mentioned in this thread, there are lots of unconscious (and fully conscious) biases against interaction over video conference, and a key function of the courts is to eliminate bias from the judicial system.

This, obviously, is much less "sexy" than slick co-working and corporate spaces, so Google doesn't advertise it; but I would be surprised if courts weren't one of the early adopters if this technology becomes commercially viable.
That's precisely what this is trying to model, yes. The standard computational way to simulate a binary event with probability p is to call rand() and check if rand(0,1) < p (or > 1-p, what I did). Or as you called it, an unfair coin flip.

This model is built on the assumptions that if candidates are actually totally equally likely to be picked (the null hypothesis for the experiment above), any given candidate has a p=.2 chance of being hired (given an arbitrary but reasonable hire vs interview ratio of 1:5). Which is just a weighted coin flip. This is indeed a binomial distribution, and my point is that results ±3% of the mean (p*M), even at M=1000, are still fairly probable. When comparing two such results, it's almost expected.
Pixels may have what seems to be an unusually high rate of problems over time if you judge things by anecdotes on Reddit. There are many more folks just puttering away on their Pixel oblivious that there are any issues at all (or even posting their own anecdotes in response to the anecdotes about problems telling folks that their Pixel is fine). But they don't generally show up leading the pack in industry reports from the folks repairing phones, at least the ones I've looked at.

Every manufacturer has some level of issues, Google sure seems to be about average. I will say that their insistence on automated (read: poor) support can sometimes exasperate problems (which then leads to more anecdotes being posted).
Trump’s Truth Social now allowed in Google’s Play Store
Of course they targeted the civilian population. That’s the common modus operandi for Russia: they don’t do well against an opponent who can shit back, so they focus on killing civilians. Here’s some data: https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1579977066736680960

But yes, this time orcs also happened to hit parts of the grid. Which is still targeting civilians instead of military targets.
Google AI R&D projects seem to do well. The transformer which Google AI released is the basis of a lot of modern ML projects
I am 100% sure parent meant $200, not $20.

Just for the sake of argument, there are brand new android go phones in amazon. So, if you need a phone you can install apps on, $50-$200 being the base price, you can consider $1000 a luxury.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=android+phone&i=mobile&rh=n%3A707...
This is purely measuring how much extra wage you get as a unionised worker, value from any other benefits is not included.
Something I think which really needs to be discussed. Why do tech companies always put a token black person in their PR videos but yet their hiring doesn't reflect that?
thank you. it's the definition of a middlebrow dismissal
Talking about this stuff would be so much easier if we stopped calling those software "AI".

It is a machine learning algorithm.
It is an electronic Parrot.

thats it. And suddenly no one will wonder "OH MY WHY CANN IT NOT DO MATH< IT SMART?!?!"
Distributed program vs distributed computing. One is anything from MMORPGs to P2P to thin clients. The other is for heavy computations distributed across a network of task processing nodes.
> I’m still surprised that we haven’t seen much larger improvements in Ruby performance over the last decade given the large number of major tech companies using Rails.

Every place I've worked in the last ~5 years has treated Ruby as "legacy" code for better or worse.
I think the point is that you run the unicode validation once on your [u8] array, which gives you a &str (or String for the lossy variants). From then on, you know you have valid unicode and don't need to keep checking.
Why would I need examples in florida, the entire reason I stated I am voting for Desantis is to prevent there being florida examples. What does them being from the same source matter? Are you saying they are invalid? If your chosen media outlet does not cover certain news is it not news?

"I don't follow. Everyone is a potential anti-Semite. If you aren't then the class shouldn't bother you. It's the same as the "shame" exercise. If you have no shame about your actions, why would it bother you?"

Your argument is basically "If you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear"

I assume you are a proponent of stop and frisk. Everyone is a potential criminal, if they have nothing to hide then they should have nothing to fear from getting searched right?

The fact that you would defend being treated like a potential racist or antisemite is strange to me. Whats next? Everyone is a potential pedophile so everyone's web traffic should be monitored? You are on a slippery slope to 1984 but you think the people from the book in control are the good guys.

Banning books? Are there certain books that Desantis has made illegal to possess in Florida? Or are you just spouting nonsense to make removing certain books from schools seem nefarious? Can I stock the local elementary school with penthouse magazines? If you are answering no, then you are banning books. Of course teachers should not be able to teach whatever they want, to argue otherwise is insane. Are you good with teachers teaching the holocaust never happened or the bell curve? There is a curriculum for a reason.

You are parroting talking points you see on social media without exploring the topics any further.
Funny thing is I bet we follow a lot of the same left leaning people on twitter but the things they say have driven me to the right while you agree with them. I think most of the right wing social and traditional media personalities are idiots. My shift to the right has almost entirely been driven by the content of liberal twitter accounts and DEI classes I have had to take.

I have openly stated I think Desantis is a jerk and I disagree with many of his stances. On the points that are driving my vote I agree with him.
1. Not teaching homosexuality and transexuality as an option to school kids. This is not a topic for school.
2. Not treating white people as racist by default.
3. Not discriminating in anything by race
4. Not punishing people for the content of their minds
5. Parents are the ultimate deciders for their kids, the school has no say on what is best for them if it conflicts with the Parents wishes

This thread has gone on far to long, so calling the game. Lets agree, I'll vote however I want and treat everyone as if they are good by default and you vote for whoever you want and treat everyone as if they are suspected racists and anti-semites by default.

All the best to you and yours. I wish you a long and happy life.
On the other-hand, plenty of people will buy a locked phone direct from a carrier. The Moto G you mentioned only costs $35 from tracfone. You can't change carriers, but you still can install arbitrary apps.
https://www.thebyteattic.com/2021/09/engineering-for-purpose...
I'm not a fan of the guy, I think he's a two bit boner pill salesman, but I find it interesting, this is much higher than most SEC, FTC and FCC fines of big multinationals. Even bigger ones, like Purdue pharma, paid over 5 billion, but killed and addicted hundreds of thousands to a few million people, I'd argue that's more than 5x worse than this. Seems the government likes to be soft on their buddies and excessively hard on their critics and this is no exception to that.
Infowars is wildly profitable. Financial records in a previous trial revealed that their revenue was sometimes as much as $800,000/day.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/05/us/alex-jones-finances.ht...
Seeing as they were directly comparing a $20 phone with a $19 cable implying they were the same price, it seems to me like they actually meant $20. ;)
Is that what this is being called?
That was FaceTime, not iMessage, and FaceTime ran into patent issues which Apple lost in court, repeatedly, and so had to be reengineered in way that made it not work as an open protocol.
iPhone SE in India isn't $430, it's $607 at today's exchange rate: https://www.apple.com/in/shop/buy-iphone/iphone-se/4.7-inch-... (still, EMI somewhat easily available)

20k-30k for Android phones seems to be the norm there according to the advertisements everywhere.
> Your own messages appear in a different color, not theirs. At least not on current iOS.

Thanks for the correction! I understood that wrong.

But it still ends up drawing attention to non-iPhone users if they make the iPhone user's message bubbles go green on their ends.

> I distinctly recall Google trying to do the exact same thing when I was an Android user, must have been over a decade ago

I have the same memory.
Is there no one who feels that kids shouldn’t have iPhones until they are 18 and don’t accidentally put information online that leads predators to them?
No but this still establishes a scary new precedent; that any podcaster/videomaker is now legally responsible for any illegal actions that their viewers commit on their own accord. I can imagine how this will result in people being scared to criticize any leader or person in power because their comment/video might inspire some crazy person to harass them for which they will be found legally responsible.
Which no body uses and are extremely limited on purpose.
The social rejection is a result of teens being teens, as pointed out. Adults would use another more inclusive tool, like whatsapp, email, discord, rss, etc.
Punitive damages are a different (forthcoming) hearing.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/10/12/us/alex-jones-verdic...

> This case presented the greatest financial risk to Mr. Jones, because he was found liable of violating Connecticut’s Unfair Trade Practices Act, by using lies about the shooting to sell products on Infowars. There is no cap on punitive damages under that law.

> ...

> The next step will be for the judge to consider punitive damages, which would be in addition to Wednesday’s verdict.

The article How the jury divided $965 million in damages among the plaintiffs in the case. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/12/us/politics/alex-jones-da...

This has a breakdown of the compensatory damages and you get things like:

> Defamation/slander damages, past and future: $60 million

> Emotional distress damages, past and future: $60 million

> Total damages: $120 million

for one defendant. As there were 14 defendants, this can sum up quite quickly.
God, we're already at JDK 20?
Used to happen to push duo. I installed an sms app from fdroid after that.
Well I'm an actual company and according to my survey you're wrong.
> For every product Google kills, it's launched dozens of wildly successful products you've been taking for granted for over a decade in some cases: Gmail, search, Drive, Photos, Chromecast, Chrome, Books, Flights, Scholar, AdSense, Calendar, Docs, Sheets, Keep, Translate, Maps...

More like for every 10 products they kill they maybe let one live... Have you not seen killed by google ?

> Google can and does support dozens of good products, and pretending otherwise is getting tiresome. If your best criticism is, "I dunno if Google will support this long term" that, to me, means you couldn't come up with anything better to say, which means it's a pretty damn cool product.

It's pretty fucking important to know that if you're going to splurge a bunch of money to put it in your offices. You're just being ignorant at that point.
I apologize if this comes off as aggressive, but all four of your points are totally wrong and I am sick of seeing these ideas parroted all over HN.

1. Google does not have a solid track record of killing things. IF you actually go through the list of all the "products" Google has "killed", you find that 95% of them are just consolidated into other areas of the Google product stack. Stadia was a herculean undertaking that involved a capital deployment that, at the time, was unprecedented in the gaming space. Stadia wasn't killed because it didn't grow quickly, it was killed because it didn't grow at all and was losing money, not to mention failing to acquire market share. Would you prefer the product be destroyed to put it on indefinite life support like Amazon has done with Twitch?

2. Google is an absolute giant in corporate communications via G-Suite. Just because their video chat didn't win out doesn't mean they have no competency in the space.

3. Google now does have a strategy for comms tools. Workplace text chat is part of the Gmail end of G-Suite, all video chat is under Meet. This would slip right into their new Meet ecosystem. Unfortunately many of the people who parrot your talking points also were the ones criticizing google for attempting to reign in their comms ecosystem because it was "killing" products, when in reality they were just being re-bundled

4. Google delivers legendary levels of hardware support for their Pixel devices, the absolute best in the Android ecosystem. Not to mention they run the single most compatible smart home ecosystem and have supported Chromecast for a decade.

Can you even name a division that Google could just spinoff in your world? Stadia couldn't sustain itself without the Google Cloud backing it. Really tired of all the HNers essentially making up this narrative about Google when it rally doesn't exist.
Sometimes when a codebase becomes too complex to comprehend, it starts failing in embarrassing ways.

It is time to ask if GHC itself has become too complicated.
Green bubble bullying is worrying.

Interesting to see how widespread this is outside of US. I guess it's heavily correlates with iPhone user share.

In where I'm from most peers adopted Telegram in the past 5 years.
Did Alex Jones order anyone to do anything? Honest question.
Now, suppose that he tries to hide some assets to not pay what he owes. In this case he can be on the hook even after bankruptcy
Interesting and brave take to defend a real scumbag.
Huh? How can you draw that conclusion from that data? Just because people are moving to the best option does not mean that option is not getting worse.
The Constitution had the House grow with increase in population. Congress stopped that growth so now lobbyists have the access.

Two Senators per State worked ok when appointed by State because Senators would get recalled and replaced if they voted against State's interests. Now the people vote on Senators and the lobbyists have the access and control.
Up next, the financial crimes folks get to tell us all about how they hid all their assets so as to limit their actual losses
Current LLMs are "modeling" something according to pretty much any sense of the word "model".

In the technical, computational linguistics sense, LLMs are language models that give a conditional posterior distribution over sentences. Given some (constrained) context, the model tells you the posterior distribution over sentences in or around that context.

In the nontechnical, layman sense of the word, they are a system that is used as an example of language. LLMs imitate language by generating new sentences. They are a "model" in the same way that an architectural model is a model, or in the same way that a statue is a model of a human.

The other point I disagreed with is the characterization that LLMs "just sort of repeat and copy from memory". I went into more detail about that in other replies.
Holy crap you weren't kidding!

The blog post needs to be shelved and redone as every listed reason feels post hoc while the reasons listed at that link ([1] for anyone who dislikes friction) are grounded in reality and show Signal being proactive.

[1]: https://community.signalusers.org/t/signal-blog-removing-sms...
This sound horrible. What a bullying tactic from Apple.
You’re the one that keeps talking about banning things. I’d much prefer efficient and better alternatives were developed, which would convince people to use them.

Ultimately what you think is fun is irrelevant to whether it’s sustainable for us as a species. Just because a small minority of humans insist on having fun destructively doesn’t mean the rest of us shouldn’t be allowed to convince them otherwise.
What 100000 choices?

There are basically 6 Android phones. Of which only one matters - the Samsung Galaxy in it's 2 biggest sizes.

So basically you need to pick between 2 Samsung phones, the major difference being size.
That sounds like a quick path to having people sell them into slavery the first time the economy goes south and people get desperate
It's very similar to that setup. I don't think that was particularly common though and probably the reason prefork went away. Particularly as apache and later nginx were used as the user facing webservers proxying to something else inside (first with fastcgi and latter just http). The preforking advantage then moved to that server inside which is what this is. Nginx or something similar will still be running in front of this with a threading or event model instead of forking. So this is not going back to an old idea as it never really left, it just left apache because no one ran it as an application server and there are better ways to run an http frontend. Preforking is also not what's new here, this is just an optimization over the preforking model in unicorn which is over a decade old.
Yes, lots of research and anecdotal evidence, and easy to find:

https://hbr.org/2018/07/research-the-average-age-of-a-succes...

https://www.businessinsider.com/companies-started-middle-age...

Unless you have physical or mental disabilities brought on by aging, I don't see how your age would have anything to do with it. Either you can build a successful business or you can't. Since prior experience and connections and accumulated skills will play into that, you have some advantages over someone half your age.

I will turn 62 this year, and I'm enjoying the most lucrative and interesting stage of my long career in software. Other than the ham-fisted age discrimination people our age might encounter at job interviews I don't see any impediments.
For what it's worth to reduce surprise/skepticism, a hydrogen atmosphere is already commonly used for annealing electrical steels (eg. motor laminations or magnetic parts).

https://www.tlclam.net/annealing-process/

https://www.vac-met.com/hydrogen-annealing/
The month-day-year format is the standard for 4.23% of the global population, but it's the default in most IT systems, including every globally-deployed cloud system I have ever used.

What's your point?
Because there aren't enough qualified black people to hire, but that doesn't mean that black people don't exist.

Look at some harrowing stats on who takes the AP CS exam: https://www.edweek.org/leadership/still-no-african-americans...