skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow this troubles me this stayed on the HN fp for three hours (and counting). It's clearly someone trying to profit off affiliate links using the oldest tricks in the book.
> Microsoft could have designed a processor like what was in the AirPods in 2010? Five years before Apple?

The features that would have been ground-breaking at the time did not require the kinds of advanced processors we have today. Not even close. This stuff isn't all that complex. Yes, it would have taken time and effort to implement, yet none of it was anywhere close to impossible for 2010.

Perhaps you are not a hardware engineer? Like I said, none of what I mentioned was impossible or challenging in 2010. Hard work? Yes, of course.

> by 2010, Apple was already the best in the business at supply chain management

No, not really. Excellent, without a doubt, of course.

> It could barely run Safari by 2011 let alone a full office suite.

Again, context is important here. What would have been disruptive in 2010 had nothing to do with running a full office suite or CAD on your phone in 2010. I had both an iPhone and Windows Phone back then. MS could have provided what I would call next-generation integration with the desktop using the hardware of the day. More than capable.

It wasn't an issue of 2010 technology not being adequate for the implementation of such integration. It was a matter of vision, direction or both. Someone, for whatever reason, simply did not make that decision. The decision MS seemed to make at the time was to try to go head-to-head with the iPhone with a product that, in my opinion, did not offer an attractive-enough value proposition. As a result, it was doomed to go nowhere almost from inception.

> He tried to apply his “low end disruption theory” from the 60s and he was completely wrong about Apple.

I think you missed my point. This is not part of "Innovators Dilema". The erroneous prediction you correctly noted was part of different work by the same author.
The capacity might not be needed, but the political stability may be (or not).
I think this is the go-to approach for most of these kind of projects. You decompile it and then start refactoring it into C-functions and such that make sense. That this game was originally written in assembly probably helped a lot making the disassemby readable.
Was this written by an AI? Or are you a non-native speaker? It sounds weirdly like a spam mail.
I'm guessing a lot of HN users didn't enter their own username, and even if you did, you can still contaminate your data by entering another one.
This seems like the crux of things. Yes, contact information is sent from your phone to the internet. Therefore they need that flag for their app. Seems things are working as intended? The app is still free to tell the user a more nuanced privacy story if they want, right?
Seems to me that stability AI did a pretty shitty thing and runway ran out of patience. Pretty weird to paint runway as the bad guys here.
Not that I support their choice of strategy, but from their point of view they are fighting for the survival of the actual friggin planet. They are not wrong in their panic and they are not wrong in the assessment that we cannot go an as we do.

What they might be wrong about is that gluing themselves to a road in front of commuters is a good strategy to reach their goals. Very few commuters will stop commuting ny car, very many will start to bash those people, while the planet becomes increasingly inhabitable.

Focusing on idiots who make bad choices is not something we can afford now, giving the seriousness of the problem.
> As an independent 3rd party with no interest in the world of Chess, I don't see how Niemann expects to win any damages in this case.

That's not the goal with most of these libel/slander law suits. Consider the most famous one - Billy Mitchell the most infamous professional gamer of all time. The evidence is basically unanimous he cheated but he uses lawsuits to shut down people who can't afford to fight them.

I imagine this is no different. Your only mistake is assuming the court won't throw out such a trashy lawsuit and lawyers exist that actually have some dignity.
This API exists in Android.
Why even allow taxis? Shouldn't the public transport be good enough for everyone? If not, just take it outside the limit and then get taxi for there.
We had large Kubernetes deployments, + Elasticsearch + various databases, + monitoring tools managed by two guys.
SaaS: Sodastream as a Service?
> animal spirits

*mineral spirits

But thanks! "Animal spirits" intrigued me, so I read the entire article. A clusterfuck from top to bottom, particularly the bit about the cracked glass patterns... something better explained by thermal shock of cold water from fire-hoses on hot glass, and not the use of BBQ lighter fluid as an accelerant.

Haunting words: "I almost sent a man to die based on theories that were a load of crap."
Nowhere in my comment was there anything about tolerating mafia-like behavior. It's really not complicated. Of course cops should be reprimanded for bad behavior, as they are.
Probably just shows that the HN reputation model isn't too hard to game. I actually don't know what their defence against Sybil attacks looks like.
> Go is played out at this point.

What do you mean? Go's being used more than ever.
I thought that I was just universally hated by all... xD
When working on open source software and collaborating via public GitHub, you can almost forget that git is a distributed version control system.

But in the restricted corporate setups you describe, git's distributed nature shines.

They can lock down internal GitHub as much as they want to, but that won't keep you from making local commits, or exchanging commits directly with your coworkers while developing.
> ... with a very beautiful looking for classic macOS users.

Huh? this looks like OS X, not Classic Mac OS.
The pleasure centers activated by videogames and pornography are quite radically different; I would not assume that the reactions to simulated sexuality is the same as simulated violence.
>If you constantly watch videos of people eating cheeseburgers, you might want to eat a cheeseburger yourself.

this is retarded, if you watch a movie, play a video game, read a book with crime events then you will become a criminal. We have a ton of shooter games and still no evidence that this caused more gun violence around the world.
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There's a huge monitoring industry lobbying for it.
I was surprised to read a while ago that all known Polynesian peoples are descended from groups that migrated from Taiwan. Apparently the story is not that simple though: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1503205112

(The skull in this article would have belonged to a still earlier occupant of the island, of course.)
I'm sure Taiwan will start rolling out those land acknowledgements.
But the actual question is not how likely it is of those naturally occuring mutations (which also happen to be exactly like the commercial ones used for cutting genomes) to occur at the exact positions you would expect them to be in engineered genomes.

The real question is how probable it is if such a naturally mutated virus actually develops into a pandemic. First it has to spawn from nature and then it also has to be lucky enough to cause a pandemic.

You have to multiply those two probabilities as well. And only then you have a model that can be compared to what happened with the SARS-CoV-2, is it still that likely to be a natural spill over?
It's cool how conservatives who don't really believe in or want universal healthcare can run such a system for a decade and then that system mysteriously stops working. One of those great unknown phenomenons, like black holes, that will just continue to defy explanation.

The same thing happened in my country. Conservatives took power for a while and suddenly free education wasn't viable, healthcare got worse and worse and despite being known as the party of "sound economic management" and "the guys that fix the budget after the other team spends all the money", we are left with a massive budget deficit. They almost succeeded in compromising superannuation so that people can sabotage their own retirement funds to invest in the way-overheated property market too.
Scary stuff.
> Older people are less likely to have to face the long term consequences of their corruption and depravity.

Representatives, whether young or old, never face the consequences of their actions because they exist in a separate system from the rest of society. They have special health care, private schools, and so on.
> Inside a lead acid battery its multiple surfaces, sub-cells.

IIRC, “battery” used to be the technical term for “a bunch of connected power cells”.
sad zoo tycoon never gets as much love :(
Just like how the incredible availability of porn on the internet has led to millennials being the generation that has the most sex ever: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12433236
Of course! It's been great to finally share our experience :)
Yes. A battery of guns isn't usually just one. It's a set word. The singleton would be cell.
Ursula von der Leyen's response to the initial (for europe) covid outbrake in Italy was that it was Italy's problem alone and to not ask for money or any support.

She of course is opposed to waiving patents on covid vaccines.

As Italian I'm ashamed that my country voted against patent waiving, which would have benefitted Cuba and other poorer countries, after we received aid from Cuba.
It's the same everywhere, sadly. Seems like a natural rule at this point for right-wing governments trashing public services. It's the same in my country.
M is not ambiguous at all it stands for mega which is 1e6 (which happens to be a million).

Meters is lowercase m. And nobody uses Roman numerals as a suffix. MM is just unnecessary.
I don't think you have to attribute it to some interest at stake: if it is zoonotic, people see it as the cost of living. Of course, that has to be changed, but it's a boring conclusion, and unlikely to cause a change quickly, because we are slow as molasses. A lab leak is more exciting, should not happen, gives more to discuss, and can be outlawed easier. I think that explains that there's more interest.

I'm still on the fence, BTW.
Under what circumtances should I prefer to use DuckDB over SQLite or PostgreSQL? It is not clear.
Ask HN: What is your balance of obedience with the doctor?
What is your balance between blindly following all the doctor's instructions and carefully studying each prescribed drug with an independent decision on what to take?

For example in my lands it is common for doctors to prescribe a lot of antibiotics if there is even a slight probability of needing them. Also, if you are taking antibiotics, then you may need to protect the body from the side effects of antibiotics, which means a lot of drugs which almost always are not necessary.

Another example, if we have a private clinic in which there is a Very Expensive Device, then often the staff tries to solve all the patient's problems with this device, forgetting about diagnostics. We also have federal hospitals where the provision is poor, but at least the doctors try to listen to everything the patient says.

Last but not least, some doctors feel it is right to prescribe practices that are not considered part of evidence-based medicine. I usually try to get away from such doctors as soon as possible.

Am I the only person who will not take anything until I have studied all the medical literature on my problem that can only be found on torrents? Yes, it's thousands of pages with certain pre requirements and I don't have a medical education. But we even have people who do not read so much and still do not always trust doctors blindly.

Please share your attitude on knowing your body's problems and knowing medicine's abilities for helping your special problems.
getting helmet mounted light charging would be a chore. what if we only keep the other 5 lights? would it be that much less effective?
Not to rain on your parade but Bluetooth has been solving that very problem across every OSes for _many_ years without having to install anything.
Majority of the service workers I encounter are royally pissed at the world so I'm not sure that checks out on my end. And it boggles my mind that someone can truly believe "cops are useless". Go found your own society and see how long you last without law enforcement.
Super Mario Bros for NES is 32 KB
It is not possible to be certain of this. You can't state that as an incontrovertible fact.

Is it beyond reasonable doubt that a virus created as part of a gain-of-function research programme escaped? We simply don't know definitively one way or the other, and it's rather unscientific to make blanket statements about these things one way or the other in the absence of evidence to validate the claim. (I'm an immunologist, by the way.)
I'd rather not. The second M is redundant. M stands for mega (SI suffix) which is equal to 1e6.
Collections: Strategic Airpower 101
There exist societal ideas that thrive on the mere thought of controlling people's lifes to the fullest extent. They cannot imagine a live where there is no authortity that you either are yourself, or that tou can appeal to or believe in. Ironically it is those people who tend to have the most "dirty secrets" because of their suppressed sexuality and authotarian mindset.

They always think everybody is like them and also has those secrets. But because they are ashamed about themselves, they need to prove to the rest of us they don't have any of those well hidden dirty secrets. The best way they see to do that is to go all hard on everybody else while they always feel there should be exceptions for themselves. The kids are just a good pretense for this, they don't give a damn about them.

Source: I grew up in a catholic country, where the right wing province leader had a secret gay relationship while going hard against homosexuality.
I wouldn't say good intentions are involved here. I think the idea here is just to cast the net and collect data about everyone, to then be able to actually use the data against your opponents.
I wonder how long that would work, and when they would start reducing resources to it to save money.

Critical part isn't the monitoring, but availability of enforcement. Having enough units just walking around would probably have similar effect.
Two days ago:
“Nobody has any voting rights except our employees — no billionaires, big funds, governments or anyone else with control of the company or the communities we support. We’re completely independent,” Mostaque told TechCrunch in a previous interview. “We plan to use our compute to accelerate open source, foundational AI.”
Not a motorcyclist and so I have little direct knowledge on this:

Has anyone considered projecting lights from the bike on to the street in order to increase visibility? Something like this product (or at least the image of it):

https://www.amazon.in/Speedwav-Anti-Collision-Motorcycle-Tai...

I am imagining a car-shaped rectangle that projects from the motorcycle on to the road. Maybe it could flash and play a loud siren when another vehicle drives into the lighted space.
It looks like the author is Japanese and learned English quickly. The grammar/style does have a Japanese feel to it, so seems legit - plus photos of the author on his blog - the photos look real enough that the prompt engineering would take too long(?)
Contact picker, but also that requires the READ_CONTACTS permissions.[1]

[1] https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/118400813?pli=1
Apparently it's because of the messed up "responsiveness" with media queries:

@media (min-width:1920px) {
.responsive-width {
width: 1920px;
}
}

Those are defined for multiple common screen widths, without taking the scroll width into account, so at those points the horizontal scrollbar appears.
check out https://zjkmxy.github.io/posts/2021/11/twos-complement-2-adi... for a discussion of some relevant mathematics; cool stuff

there is also a lot of good stuff concerning such computational tricks and their relation with 2-adics in section 7.1.3 (Bitwise Tricks and Techniques) of volume 4A of The Art of Computer Programming: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/fasc1a.ps.gz
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments? It's not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
My balance is very much "Trust, but Verify" when it comes to large interventions better to get a second opinion and/or check the pros and cons of X versus Y when a treatment has alternatives.
Sometimes it's best just to enjoy the fiction and not over think it too much. I think you have to give them some artistic license.
I reckoned as much :/
Or rather: you have many hyenas without fur, and on the skin you can see scars that suggest the skin has been cut at very specific places, places where you'd normally see operation scars. Now all the discussion has come down to is how likely it is that the positional patterns and the type of scar itself could occur in nature. For example whether Hyena bites and scratches make the same scars as human scalpel.
iv. Google shall not offer any monetary/ other incentives to, or enter into any arrangement with, OEMs for ensuring exclusivity for its search services.

That's a threat about $15bn of Apple's revenue...
None of the gain-of-function research has been any help at all in the CoVID pandemic, nor in the SARS outbreaks. I also fail to see how it could have helped. What particularly helpful insight or technique came from that particular lab in Wuhan?
Would it?

I already keep my Cardo helmet speakers charged. Cyclists keep their helmet lights charged.
They don’t. That’s why they came up with a new license that still allows self hosting and viewing the source but doesn’t allow cloud providers to capture their income.
I don't fully agree. My 9-year-old 3rd gen Xeon is still plenty usable, barely slower than a "normal" i5 10th gen for doing Rust dev.

My work PC with a 4th gen i5 has been unusable even for basic tasks for a few years, despite the 16 GB of RAM and SSD drive. Even moving windows around and stuff is sluggish.
This doesn’t work when you get an incoming call, and it’s annoying for outgoing ones too.
I have trouble understanding your point. Do you mean that HN front page should only show articles which are in line with the most common papers?
That's a great idea, thanks! I'll double check to see if we haven't tried that already.
Google Pay was not installed in my android phone. Bought in August 2022.
> Apps are just self-contained, launchable directories you can copy around, no separate installation step

That isn't specific to macOS. It's also a feature of BSD, Linux, and Windows.

But for reasons that escape me, software distributors keep adding an installation step anyway. This is something that's gotten worse since the days of DOS.
I don't think it's all that complicated. Porn delivers a virtual form of variety/novelty, without the risks of real promiscuity.

Going back to your long-term partner is just more of the same monotony vs. the practically infinite supply of different people on pornhub.com.

relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coolidge_effect

"Oh, no, Mr. President, a different hen every time."
JScript was no more or less proprietary than Netscape’s “LiveScript” before Netscape jumped on the Java bandwagon and called it Javascript. It’s not like JS came from a standards body.

Popular programming/markup languages don’t originate from standards bodies; it’s usually one person or a small group to start. Ruby, Python, Lisp, Pascal, Perl, PHP were created by a single person or a small group and (sometimes) would be submitted to a standards body.

Javascript was created for the Netscape Navigator browser in September 1995 and was submitted to Ecma International November 1996 [1] to start the standardization process. That was probably in response to Microsoft reverse engineering Javascript to create JScript in… 1996. Funny that.

So… yes, turns out JScript was significantly more proprietary than JavaScript and was only created to further Microsoft’s dominance of the web--“Best viewed in Internet Explorer”. JScript, like most of Microsoft’s tech at that time, probably relied on features that only existed on Windows and no where else.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript
Whichever you want; who cares if HN says Typescript or Go if you yourself don't want to work with those languages. Look for languages that look interesting to you and which also have some job opportunities.
For once I approve of what my government is doing
I'm pretty sure the way they did science in the 24th century of a fictional TV show is slightly different from how it's done in reality.
700 have already resigned since Musk spoke to everyone in the company in September. I'm guessing there will be need to be a very good share option scheme to keep those that stay, but Twitter isn't a startup - it already has a $44B valuation and lots of expensive debt.

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-exodus-tur...
Before it was about protecting children it was about fighting terrorism. Before that it was about fighting drug lords.
What's the point of downloading it when it'd just stagnate? This isn't like regular software where people can easily put in hard work and sweat to improve it.

LLMs have the unfortunate limitation of being both powerful and lending themselves to centralized control choke-points due to how resource intensive they are to train. Under this paradigm, I fear commercial entities will be able to easily navigate the legal landmines and continually improve while open efforts perpetually lag far behind.

There are many vested interests who want this control for various reasons they justify as: protection from x-risk, keeping it out of the hands of abusers and bullies, economic advantage. Their reasons for want of control are either well intended but wrong-headed or profit-motivated and disingenuous.

Rather than challenging the likes of GPT-3 and Copilot enabling freedom, I fear folks will be forced to send all their videos, pictures, text and code to the servers of Microsoft, Amazon and Google or lose access to advantages as LLMs continue to improve at a rapid clip.
YALM 100B, and that giant codegen model from Salesforce https://huggingface.co/Salesforce
Can you elaborate on the specifics?
I'm genuinely curious, what do you propose to replace them with if anything at all?
Was It A Cat I Saw?
A founder I worked with had both a bone marrow transplant and a lung transplant. He named his company 3dna to commemorate having three sets of DNA in his body
Google generally would have an incentive to not be up in a negative light on Hacker News if they could avoid it, no?
Actual headline: Patients in England at risk as NHS and care 'gridlocked'
Are you suggesting citizen privacy concerns were a factor in Brexit?

edit: typo
> that Google has market dominance.

Having market dominance isn't illegal. Abusing it is. Google only has stipulations that, if you want to call your device a Google or Android device, you need to have the Play store and a few key services. Anyone can fork Android, put in their own app store, all their own apps, whatever.

Indian tech companies need to either fork and come up with their own eco-system or play by the rules. Not lobby their corrupt government to try to force Google into allowing their crapware and do their marketing for them...