skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author is a little loosey-goosey with some strong claims, eg that Jobs saying the iPhone ran OS X was a lie. How truthful that was at the time seems pretty unknowable from the outside in 2021, given that the iPhone OS has been rebranded at least twice since, and has had ample time not just to diverge but to reinfluence macOS née OS X.

A somewhat unlikely best case is this was an incomplete truth—ie the original iPhone OS was stock OS X with only additive stuff at the app level to support iPhone use cases. Unlikely because it’s hard to imagine the core OS being totally able to support that without modification.

At worst, the fib was an overgeneralization of Darwin, but I think this is unsupportable. There’s too much in common between the OSes even today, and anyone with an iPad and a keyboard can discover just how much macOS is still present even if it’s not visible. Or anyone with a Mac can fire up iOS Simulator and do the same.

More likely it was shorthand for saying that what eventually became iOS was a mainline part of the core OS project, whatever its divergence from there—ie it shared everything or nearly everything below WindowServer, and quite a lot of what sits above WS, and divergence was primarily oriented around hardware and UX. The former has since mostly converged, and the latter has been gradually percolating up to the mainline OS.

At the time, the iPhone was a gamble and likely to be seen as a reckless one. Apple had failed to deliver on several prior OS efforts; signaling that this was building on their success was important. Now iOS is their main profit center, and investments in old guard Macs really have to shine. Most of that shine has been making Macs more like the iPhone.

I think a more complete convergence is pretty likely, but I think it’s also likely to be more radical than “put macOS on iPads you cowards”: they’ll merge macOS into main. Not in the sense of haplessly shoving iOS UX onto Macs, but in the sense that iOS is fundamentally the core OS now and it’s macOS that’s diverged from that. Whatever the unification looks like, it’ll go that direction.
Is it really a paradox? If intolerant [1] societies become tolerant despite not only letting the intolerant speak, but with intolerance the dominant ideology, then surely a tolerant society can remain tolerant while allowing intolerant speech, because the arguments in favor of tolerance are so much more persuasive.

In clearer terms, if society has progressed from state A to state B while X was allowed, how can the paradox of tolerance then claim that, unless X is banned, society will inevitably go back from state B to state A? If X was such a strong driver towards state A, state B never would have been reached in the first place.

Unless of course this is cover for those that get to define what is intolerant [2] to act as censors and push the Overton window in whatever direction they please.

[1] 'Tolerant' or 'intolerant' on whatever axis you want.

[2] Is it intolerant to be inconsiderate of other religions? Or are those religions intolerant for insisting their taboos be upheld by others? What about describing other religions in terms that may lead to 'hate'? What if those descriptions are factual? When are you drawing attention to legitimate intersectional privilege that enables abuse and oppression, and when are you unfairly targeting a group based on protected characteristics?
I was expecting a discussion on the Pauli exclusion principle.
I've been trying to get ChatGPT to solve pretty basic calculus questions and it is often either totally wrong or wrong in some tiny detail. I got into an argument over dimensional analysis a few weeks ago where it felt like it was gaslighting me.
Being nice takes up a lot of space. Straight and to the point without the judgment would be a good compromise.
Most are "facilitators", working out communication and coordination issues. Very rarely do they contribute to the actual product. Often they simply don't have time, because there are too many meetings.

Earlier in my career, the engineering managers were more hands on, more of a tech lead + people manager hybrid. They would work on the spec, understand the product, and do some coding that was out of the critical path. You still find those types in some companies, but it's become rarer (at least for me.)
Nothing more than here. If you need $200k from angels, you don't have $200k to give out angel investing yourself.
social network for dogs

they are man's best friend, therefore anything else should take a back seat
That's from the Harvard Business School. Perhaps they can start by reducing Harvard's count of 7,024 full time administrators.

[1] https://www.schoolinfosystem.org/2022/12/02/harvard-employs-...
https://marcolabarile.me
Thomann Stompenberg FX

https://www.thomann.de/gb/guitar_and_bass_effects.html
This might even work, but see how much poison Elon Musk got out of his attempt?

For this guild these careers are their lifeblood, and the process of minting these (I.e. ensuring the pathway for leeching from fortune500 profits exists for eternity) is a sacred, maybe even inherited, secret. Any interruption of this dynamic is sacrilege and they will fight tooth and nail to discourage anyone who tries.

There needs something to be done here, but it won't be easy. Those who will approach this lightly will perish.
Why did you buy one then? If only there was a way to signal to Apple that you do not like artificial limitations being imposed on you.
Do we have to hire a lawyer to use Qt now?
The internet favors specific kinds of monopolies that are different from the physical world. Small towns only need one laundromat, car wash, gas station etc until they reach sufficient size. The logistics of traveling in the real world ends up creating lots of monopolies from tiny coffee shops to massive cable companies. The online equivalent is up middlemen of various stripes where people just aren’t willing to comparison shop vs just buying from Amazon.

Content creators on the other hand end up with a really long tail. They obviously benefit from a vastly wider reach and the ability to thrive with tiny niche followings. But the then need to compete with everyone else in the world.
Which linked article?
> Winter has almost been a total dud in western NY

What about the blizzard that dropped 4 feet of snow on Buffalo at the end of December?

"Buffalo is significantly outpacing its typical seasonal snowfall. It has recorded over 100 inches so far this season, nearly 70 inches more than the normal amount for this time of year and several inches more than what it averages the entire season."

https://abcnews.go.com/US/buffalos-deadly-blizzard-numbers-m...
Venture capital is only a small part of PE.
I submitted a bug report to WebKit last year and was fully expecting it to sit uncommented and then closed eventually for "no activity" or any of the other outcomes that seem common with large open-source projects supported by any of the Big 5.

This was on a Wednesday. I rolled up my sleeves to start learning WebKit development myself, but they had a patch submitted, reviewed, and accepted by the next day :-)
You could have upgraded to an Amiga 2000 and put a Bridgeboard in it or a third-party one with a 486 on it. You could even upgrade it to a Pentium Overdrive processor.

The Amiga was also able to run Mac OS as a task on it's own "screen" alongside Workbench and other Amiga apps, so you could run Amiga, Mac and IBM PC software all at the same time at full speed.
In the words of The Cat, "So, what is it?"
Bad for business?

I think worse for business is not maintained software. When you move devs to another project after 6 months they lose connection with old code. Fixing anything non-trivial becomes 10x more expensive.

When you have team constantly working on code it is a lot easier to have stuff fixed.

IMO that is why we see everything moving to a SaaS model.

Where SaaS model allows multiple companies to get some software running in perpetuity by essentially sharing cost by paying subscription.
On my S21 Ultra the viewfinder will sometimes show a brightened image, to what I would prefer.

A long hold on the focus point brings up an exposure slider, which lets you easily darken the image. It works really well, but the Samsung doesn't quite have the "flatten everything" feature that Marques talked about though (https://youtu.be/88kd9tVwkH8 - recommend watching this).

Also the stronger AI enhancements (auto scene detect) can be turned off with a single toggle; it's useful having the control.

And if that's not enough, there's the Pro mode - everything can be made manual.

I'm ashamed to say I'm generally getting better photos with my S21U than my old full frame D70s, with decent fixed lenses (35+50). Mainly it's down to the sensor; I often go for the hand held, low light kind of look, and the Samsung results are more often than not simply excellent.

I intend to get a mirrorless Nikon Z6II body and a lens adapter this year (my lenses still have decent value), but nonetheless, taking the time to fully explore the tool in your hand is probably one of the best things you can do.
GPT-3 API experiencing issues and many AI chatbots are down
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This post solves all of the easy problems (i.e. make simple stuff go fast) and none of the hard problems (i.e. build a system that still works when other stuff breaks).

This post is perfect world thinking. We don't live in a perfect world.
I donate to FIRE and support most of what they do but I disagree with their position here. I don't like that the professor got fired for this but as a private institution, Hamlin has their own right to mediate speech as they see fit. Go ahead and heap bad press on them and let the market sort it out.
You can't do them well if you're incompetent.
Overproduction of elites is a very real phenomenon.
Ah you're right, I got distracted and only read up through the part where he sat back down to keep playing. No idea how one would launch a yoga ball then.
I found building the board was easier/quicker than laying out and fitting it into an enclosure.

Detailing the enclosure is a whole other level on top of that.

This is the source I use for most builds.

https://tagboardeffects.blogspot.com/?m=1
>Sure, I can't prove that their approach is doing immense damage

>that kind of behavior is shitty and makes them poor stewards of the project.

This is a perfect example of a useless, substance-free criticism. You can't prove what you're saying, you admit you don't really know what you're talking about, but you're happy to say they're shitty. It's like if you randomly walked into stores and said to the clerk "I can't prove it but you're a shitty person who's bad at your job" and then walked out. That would be like, ok? Do you think anyone is actually going to be motivated by that? Now just imagine you have a little website with your friends for your hobby and someone you don't know does this to you. They come along saying you're shit for not making everything exactly to their personal opinions. Can't you see how this is an awful way to participate in a supportive community?

Really now. Repeatedly making the same nonsensical requests and criticisms isn't going to help anyone. If you seriously expect them to improve their project then you should take the same advice: improve your own criticism. Make it so good and so respectful and so helpful they can't ignore your suggestions anymore. Avoid the personal attacks telling someone they're shitty and bad, instead think about how you can support that person and build them up to be better to accomplish great things.
So I guess by the end of the year we know if we are either in the next AI winter, or in the singularity.
Is this allowed per the ChatGPT terms of service? What happens if someone discovers they received support from a computer?
Biggest problem with this is the lack of considering analytics.twitter.com and ads.twitter.com. Twitter stores event data about everything that happens to a tweet, and lets you target ads with a lot of precision.

While some of those writes may well be acceptable to lose, letting you write to caches, effectively you need to assume there are more analytics events triggering writes to something than there are tweet views.
I watched that video when this was going around on reddit recently. That "white supremacists on my premises" hook is one of the slickest rhymes I've heard in a while.
The benefit of web searches, and trouble with LLMs, is you can see the site that an answer is on and judge the credibility based on that. If I see that the answer is on Reddit ELI5, then I know that there's no assurance about how accurate the answer is. If it takes me to a page for a university engineering or math department, or the blog of a dude who built a receiver, then I can be a lot more confident that the answer is correct, though it might be technically over my head.
Not only API but world is moving and any non trivial app seems like would need to be updated at least once a year or twice. Because waiting too long might make future updates harder or even not possible.
The challenge here is that while most businesses assume software is just "produced" once and then earns them money indefinitely, the reality is that there is some amount of "production" that needs to happen afterwards. Most dichotomies between ops and dev also come from the same gap, which is fundamentally not a "skills gap" - it is more of a "software developers are expensive, can we have 1 less expensive ops person supporting 10 services than the original 10 developers tied down in maintenance?". Businesses which are smart and understand software well know that regardless of how well you play it, there will be ongoing development after the initial release is done. Modern software which runs evergreen and gets worked on continuously is even less menable to the idea of "maintenance".

The issue is creating a shared understanding that "software is never done-done". The decaying corpses of marketing iPad apps from 2010 show the only area where this is not the case - there is one very specific period when the app is relevant, and everyone knows that after nobody cares about the software even if some users would.

What can help against the "maintenance trap" if the business is listening:

* "Legacy" is a taboo word. Replace all instances of "legacy" with "this pays our salaries"
* When you build a system, stay cognizant of when you want to put it to rest. If the system outlives that horizon - which often does happen esp. if it does pay your salaries - examine and extend that horizon.
* Be very, very alert about people let into the organisation who pitch a "full rework to get rid of all the maintenance", and - if the system already in place is not absolute shite - just give those people a pass.

The topic is very, very underresearched and the only article I saw about it which was truly astounding was https://apenwarr.ca/log/20171213
rsync is way better than Dropbox for large volumes / high speed file transfers . So, yes.
Ask HN: Anyone in Melbourne willing to lend me an RTX 4090/4080 for one day?
I know this is a long shot, but is there anyone in Melbourne, Australia willing to lend me an RTX 4080 or RTX 4090 for a day so I can test my software with it?

I don't know how you'd address the question of trust - i.e. me not running off with your card, but I'm open to any ideas for solving to that.

No doubt you know an RTX 4090/4080 costs > $2,500 and I just don't have the money to be buying cards to test on, so hoping to find someone kind enough to help out.

Email address is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=andrewstuart
That's a myth. We can easily produce food for 20-30 billions of people using our current farming methods (and that includes meat production). The reason people are starving in Africa is because they do not have enough money to buy food (for various political reasons), not our inability to produce enough of it.
In fact, Power ISA is probably the last architecture where both modes still have notable importance: AIX, IBM i and OpenBSD still run Power big, FreeBSD runs it big but work exists to run it little, and most Linux distros run it little (not counting 32-bit PowerPC, which pretty much always ran big).

Most of the other notionally bi-endian architectures nowadays have settled on one. For example, SPARC is just about exclusively big; conversely, ARM64 got rid of their big-endian mode.
C-SPAN unleashes its inner Scorsese
The part quoted is explicitly about the QT commercial license. Apparently, you can't use QT commercial with non-qt commercial (and Qt Studio non-commercial).

And probably this is done to be able to sell the IDEs, maybe based on n. of users, etc. Never bought Qt so I don't know how they license "users".
Okay, but... we're spit balling database sizes. None of this is safety critical, or even in the general neighborhood of things where it's important enough to go and mathematically prove that our numbers are perfect.
At this point, "blah blah crypto scam blah blah pyramid scheme blah blah billions lost" seems to be all of crypto. Not that my stock looks any better right now.
The Untold Story of New Year’s Novelty Glasses
My middle school and high school required Cornell notes, and they were a huge pain in the ass. Never used them since.
I don't even understand why Google doesn't allow blocking some sites in search results. Paid ads, I understand, these generate profits. Although Facebook still allow me to remove some ads that I don't want to see. But unpaid SEO rubbish, how does it benefit Google at all? If anything these parasites bogs down the quality of search results
I can venture a guess, but gonna wait until I know what I'm talking about.

Over here it decodes a js animated SVG https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS8rcjhgg/ but made a few slight mistakes.
The flu vaccine is always expected to be effective. But actual effectiveness can only be calculated in retrospect.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/past-seasons-estimates...
As a M3 driver I both love and hate the touchscreen. Everything is easy except when you are driving in traffic, being an older 60+ person with the car bouncing up and down at 100KMH, I find myself not being safely able to use the touchscreen at all in these situations I ask the passenger if there is one or use the voice control, though getting the correct wording for this takes a little bit of training and things like directing the air vents I have no clue how to do.

Maybe a senior mode with big touch buttons and text and less of the bling would work for me or as someone else suggested some sort of USB add on with physical switches which integrated with the bottom of the touchscreen. Im not holding out much hope for either though.
The Science of Insecurity (28c3, 2011)
Network manager, with nmtui and nm-applet.
Big assumption that anyone’s reasoning carries any weight if a chat bot trained on billions of our interactions shows no signs of doing it
I'm disappointed that this question is downvoted, because I would also like to know the answer. I would guess it's "because even an artifically limited iPad is still better than every alternative," (which is fair. It's a personal preference, and those are all equally valid IMHO), but I've been trying to understand why people who dislike Apple's philosophy still buy so much Apple stuff.
I used these in my first job, remember them fondly.

I wish I'd had todays programming skills back then it would have been fun to push the limits of its graphics.
Actually, I use it for running AIX X clients on a Fedora ppc64le. Screenshot: https://www.talospace.com/2023/01/your-x-server-may-no-longe...
Why not use something like vast.ai?
Interesting how two camps are emerging for LLMs. This one is about how GPT actually learns something, the other one represented by Chomsky and Gary Marcus represent how GPT has learned nothing (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34278243)

I think the difference is what "learned" means. This paper basically says that any finite amount of knowledge compression is learning, whereas the other camp defines learning as some kind of infinite information compression like being able to add any two numbers no matter how large, which is something no language model will ever be able to do.

Personally, I think both sides are right, GPT3 has compressed language patterns across the internet, but its undeniable that GPT3 makes up stuff frequently. Overall, the point still stands that these language models are valuable in some specific contexts, but its not clear how far they can go.
And a js animated SVG https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS8rcjhgg
Sounds like it's ready to be promoted to architect.
New University of Austin is constructing a different model of excellence
Microsoft subdomain takeover
Word! Stuff from 20 years ago 20 years ago was hella better than stuff from 20 years ago today, amiright?
One model that I picked up somewhere (but I don't remember where), which I teach to anyone willing to listen, is that there's four kinds of dates:

- Estimates (I think it will take X long)

- Targets (I would like to have it done by X)

- Soft deadlines (with low consequences for missing)

- Hard deadlines (with high, usually external, consequences for missing)

and that understanding the model and using those words solves quite a bit of confusion around dates. Of course sometimes targets become soft (or even hard) deadlines because humans are messy, but being able to distinguish those things is a step in the right direction.
> All i3-gaps features will become available with i3 4.22 (not released yet at the time of writing this).

When was the time this was written? I don't see a published date on the announcement.
I've often told people "There is only one program: Hello, world! Everything afterwards is maintenance."
Why not use AWS, they don't have 4090, but they have beefy and recent cards.
By inserting "enjoy an ice cold refreshing cocktail cola" in the middle of the output?
The free market is good for a lot of things, but it cannot solve large, society-wide problems, problems that require collective, coordinated action from people, or problems that take more than a quarter to finish.
Yes but back then you could compile C with a C++ compiler and get the same type checking as in actual C++. There were a few pitfalls but a shared "Clean C" coding style was viable and that's what most of the rewriting effort was focused on.

C++ did add stronger modularity with its public and private member specifiers, namespacing etc. but that was mostly useful on larger projects.
I have some servers in production with https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/networking/ethernet/connectx-6/
There is a an AUX card to load PCI lanes properly, like on this picture

https://lenovopress.lenovo.com/assets/images/LP1195/Mellanox...
Maybe iwctl would work for you?
I feel like people writing posts like this never worked in a big team at a big company on a big project. It is so obviously impossible to do this and Twitter has so many more features users will never even see, but sure, re-implement it in a couple hundred lines of Rust and Twitter will be saved...
Not to sound like a Ted Kazinsky but I’m pretty sure large language model technology will be unsuccessful at filling the emotional, physical, chemical, or spiritual void a human being with mental health issues is feeling.
Too bad. It was outstanding.
The image of the kids drawings next to the door being broken in is quite shocking. This undoubtedly happens to people who don't have the means or the reach to record and put a video out for millions to see. What's a shame is that if Afroman is ultimately successful in getting compensated for what appears to be a pretty meaningless raid, it won't come from the police but from "low hanging fruit" like local libraries or similar :(
Delphi was a little higher learning curve but not much and worth it for the fast dependency free exe at the end, I think nothing can beat the ease of Basic for beginners
I think they probably mean that there are potentially bigger problems to solve in the world of micro-plastics.