skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anti-competitive behavior is absolutely bad, no question, but the problem doesn't come across to me as Apple pushing competitors out of the market. It feels like other Smartwatch makers don't care to match the feature set or don't care to do it as well as Apple. When viewing market from an ecosystem point-of-view, there aren't comparable pairings of Android-phone-with-wearOS-Watch to iPhone-with-Apple-Watch. There are similar pairings: Samsung's watch products with Samsung phones, and the Pixel Watch with a Pixel phone. But are either of those comprehensive in their respective ecosystems?

My point is, nobody seems to be fighting for this market except Apple. I could just be naive here, but it doesn't seem like anyone else cares enough for Apple to be anti-competitive.
I'm probably being too cynical. But charge backs and customer support because some kid is falling for predatory IAPs cost apple money. This? Idk
I wrote a package to attach codes to errors via wrapping rather than a shared error type: https://github.com/gregwebs/errcode
A heat pump operates at 2x to 4x the power efficiency as compared to resistive heating. Many places are unfortunately only doing resistive heating because of cheap install cost. If we can replace that with a heat pump that's a big win for everyone.
In my (limited) personal experience, left-wing people blame Tories and right-wing people blame "woke sjw snowflakes" for these authoritarian drifts. Seeing as one of this group has been in power for over a decade and the other hasn't... I'm inclined to agree with the former :)
That's for the Secure Enclave to ensure that the private keys used to identify the device aren't leaked (which would allow a 3rd party to passively track someone).
Let's try it this way, since we're speaking different languages.

Most people have the Polio vaccine, more even than the Covid vaccine. Yet thousands of people aren't regularly dying from polio in the US despite being vaccinated. Same goes for MMR, and the other vaccines we all got.

So the polio vaccine is "Safe and effective". The MMR vaccine is "safe and effective". See the difference?
I found it gruntling.
This is a pretty common thing. I and several other founders I’ve talked to have gotten the same thing, so I would assume it’s automated.

It’s unlikely they will do anything sketchy.
You think suppressing public protests is a reasonable trade-off for speeding motor traffic?
The price doesn't matter much vs the annoyance of them suing you for putting emotions in your show.
The title is about the prompt requesting another device, not about wether they can't use the Apple TV after dismissing the prompt. So factually the title is right.

I'm with you that it's hard to understood at a glance or without context...which is to me a perfect encapsulation of the whole situation, and what makes the discussion so interesting.
not disagreeing with you.

but way things are going, this line of argument will lose in the end. we, people, have chosen that consuming entertainment is more important than the work. we have chosen the path of quantity over quality.

netflix wants to produce a movie every week. let's that sink in for a moment.
Less that 2% of insulation being out of place can waste something like 40% or some ridiculous amount of energy. It's quite nuts how even just a little break in insulation can have a significantly negative effect. A few years after I moved into my first home - a townhouse - I added some R-16 bats to the already existing R-12 insulation in the attic and it more than cut my heating bill in half. It was a three story narrow, townhouse - not that much square footage of ceiling compared to the walls/rest of the house but it made ALL the difference. If I didn't live it, I wouldn't have believed it. And I kind of did it on a whim since I didn't need that many and Lowes was having a sale on insulation. I would have done it the first week I moved in and had a couple far more comfortable winters!
I share this excitement as well.

Currently, designing or changing systems involves quite a bit of careful thought since you have to keep all the constraints in your mind and reason about how the system would work. If tools existed to create implementations based on these designs, that would be pretty amazing.

Additionally: Being able to quickly iterate on designs that translate quickly into working systems will encourage more experimentation among people who might otherwise have been turned off by the amount of technical skills required to implement designs.
That does look nice!
>they've only solved "what you boss thinks software engineering is".

Which is why bosses are excited but engineers are not, because subpar LLMs will be used to justify firing actual engineers and replace them with fresh college grads tasked to work with a code bot, because the bosses fundamentally think that is enough.
In his book Class, Paul Fussel wrote that really rich people don't have dishwashers or many other mechanized conveniences: "Why put up with those noisy things when a silent servant can do everything they do?"
The issue here isn't that FP16 changes speeds during runtime (although it can) but that it changes on different compile targets, so you can write a program that effectively hasn't been tested on the other targets.

Bignums are straightforwardly O(N) based on size - which is different from O(1) and can definitely lead to performance and security bugs - but it is consistent.
I would point out that under capitalism there have been famines even when there has been plenty of surplus food. A lack of famine either acute nor chronic is surely not a defining characteristic of capitalism.
Where your money goes when you buy a ticket from a state-run lottery
System of Names
Thanks fore commenting! The public informative parts of c1.fi are readable without JS. See https://c1.fi/about?lang=en for example.

Registering, account management etc. will require JS - Simply to provide better UX.

There are no 3rd party libraries or references (except on pages handling payments via Stripe) in use and the JS is not minified. No 3rd party trackers either.
The only way they could have kept control of the country was to descend closer to 'hermit kingdom' like North Korea, had the economy produced even at 2/3rds of what the US did on a per capita basis, the Union would still exist as is.

We (the US) were able to trigger an arms race at a time when the Union was least able to afford it, and overwhelm what central planning could deal with.
Not cynical enough.

How about

C suite to fire the senior engineers because a tier-1 consultancy convinces them they can deliver their product utilizing AI tools

Said consultancy knows AI can't deliver it, and uses mostly manual labor for it

All programmers end up at these consultancies

And the world keeps going as it thinks AI is solving everything, but it isn't. It's still Kumar in IT that's ssh'ing into the box.
>sliding down the slippery slope more every year

It was not so long ago that e.g. Fred Hampton was assassinated for being a charismatic and intelligent public speaker and community organizer.
You don't even need a pro - you can get FLIR cameras that attach to cell phones for around $100 and they are more than adequate to show you areas of irregularity and worthy of targeting. I got one years ago mainly as just something to play with but I use it ALL the time for all kinds of things. Having a thermal camera is crazy useful.
If you form an LLC outside the state you run the business, then you’ll also need to register it in your home state where you run the business. This just adds overhead, fees, etc… it’s probably best to form in your home state.

Some choose to register in Delaware to make it easier to convert to a Delaware Corporation in the future. If you live in California, you’d still need to register the LLC in California and may all taxes and fees to California.
>"I don’t relish explaining to my son why he can occasionally catch me absent-mindedly whistling Stephen Foster’s “Shortnin" Bread” but will never, ever hear me sing the lyrics."

This really seems like an odd comment. "Shortnin Bread" is not a Stephen Foster song.
It seems that someone who would take the time to point something like this out would actually know this. Further, the original plantation lyrics were no longer in use in the popular recorded versions of this song at the time Looney Tunes was producing cartoons. Perhaps the author was thinking of Camp Town Races? But again by this time the minstrel show lyric stylings had long been removed in recorded versions and the words in the lyrics themselves are just as silly as they are obscure but not racist in themselves. Both of these songs are basically part of the traditional American folk canon. I mean the Beach Boys recorded a well-known version of "Shortnin Bread."
> When Male Rape Victims Are Accountable for Child Support

> When Shane Seyer was 12, he was sexually exploited by his 16-year-old babysitter Colleen Hermesmann. She became pregnant with Seyer’s child in 1989 and was charged with statutory rape shortly afterward. Instead of being convicted of rape, Hermesmann was declared a juvenile offender under the non-sexual offense of “contributing to child misconduct.” Seyer was subsequently court-ordered to pay child support.

> In 1993, at the age of 15, Seyer appealed this decision to the Kansas Supreme Court, arguing he should not be liable for these payments. He maintained that his babysitter (Hermesmann) took advantage of him sexually when he was too young to give consent.

> The Kansas Supreme Court ruled against him. The judgment stated that because Seyer initially consented to the sexual encounters and never told his parents what was happening, he was responsible for supporting the child.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/talking-about-trauma...
Get back to me when it can navigate my bank chat app to get me to a live agent automatically.
The other day I pasted chatgpt some code that I wanted it to add functionality to and it pointed out a bug in that code first (without me asking it to do that)
I beg to differ with the author’s perception ..in all it’s glory I don’t think L7 or principals or even software managers will have a reasonable chance of surviving. Because it is quite possible that agents built on LLM and AGI will be perfectly capable of not only arguing with each other and weigh on the pros and cons of any given option and arrive at a consensus just like the current Principals or managers do their negotiation, it is also quite possible they will be able to assign task and track the progress as well as take remediation action when needed. All these can be handled by advanced agents to a very large part. It is also possible to see teams of these AI agents working together in a cooperative way and surprising us with the outcome. Good luck !!
I think it's common as we (a fairly small company) got a similar email. Exact same thing, "No DMARC Record found". Almost certainly automated. We just ignored them. We don't have a bug bounty program and this isn't the Red Cross.

The missing DMARC record was on a domain we don't really use anyway.
I would say however if you are managing to stay with a range of lifestyle you are probably gaining from new wealth even though it is not extra wealth which you are accumulating in a bank. You are generating new money and that is new wealth. Every year that 80K is new wealth, I am pretty sure that is how the definition is in this case.

A person in Sudan is averaging around $460 US a year, while in the US it is like $74K, and thus Americans are accumulating wealth at a higher percentage.

Also the comparative lifestyle in regards to goods and services are much different. While it might be more expensive to live in the US the lifestyle is dramatically different. Wealth doesn't always mean accumulation.
Yeah, agreed, I'd say the derailing really started around season 5. They did a great job up through A Storm of Swords. The 4th and 5th books are sorta tougher nuts to crack - absolutely rich with good stuff, but the pacing changes and the scope of the story widens. Those books are a bit difficult to get through on a first read, but _wildly_ amenable to a second reading (in Feastdance order if you really wanna experience it the best way possible).

I'm a big fan of those last two books but can see how they'd be tough to adapt well, especially for a show that exploded in popularity like GoT did.
There's a world where a full-text-search-disabling mastodon content license has legal teeth and the enforcement comes down to employing the justice system. I admit this isn't terribly likely, but it isn't categorically ruled out. I suppose it comes down to where we draw lines on maliciousness and court effectiveness, but there's still interesting things to territorialize in that space.
> Supergluing yourself to the road, pouring some milk on a shop floor, perhaps throwing some paint at a statue

As someone who sympathises with most those causes but agrees that it is all quite silly (and counterproductive), that is still no reason for this draconian law.
Show HN: Group directories first with modified macOS `ls`
I finally got tired of not having directories first on macOS, and something like exa <https://the.exa.website/> seemed overkill.

So I dug into the source code, hunted down the missing BSD-licensed headers, figured out how to work around the APSL headers (reverse engineering is documented in the comments in print.c), and smoothed out some rough edges.

Very much a personal itch-scratching exercise, but I think this is something that bugs a lot of people, so hopefully it's useful!
I believe you! but we need you to understand how such a comment comes across that way anyway. Basically, we have to go not by intent but by effects. Here are some links to past explanations on this point which may (or not) be helpful:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
Over insulation introduces new problems like condensation (which causes mold and other nastiness)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vufih-WN5R4
The crimes in Bucha were corroborated by not only the testimony of the residents there, but also the security cameras left in homes and businesses and even satellite photography. The Russians left corpses laying out in the streets for weeks as they occupied the town.

https://youtu.be/8ek5jt8Ru3o
Adding manual arena memory management seems like a weird choice for a supposedly memory-safe and GC'd language where this is supposed to be an implementation issue.

I mean, you should hear the screams from Rust/Go people about how bad C is, and now you're just going to do it?
lol - it's not a myth. It's physics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vufih-WN5R4
>people misunderstand
and anthropomorphize LLMs

I agree but there is a certain "god of the gaps" process that's happening here.

To me what's been achieved so far is encoding text into natural (and programming) languages. These models can't reason and e.g., can't pass a Turing test. For example, if you play with GPT-3 or ChatGPT enough you can definitely get it to fail on a task a human would succeed at.

When models so far have achieved "reasoning" behavior, usually it's in conjunction with a classical algorithm -- for example AlphaZero used a model to evaluate chess positions but then ran a tree search algorithm to decide what move to play.

I think if LLMs can be combined effectively with some kind of computation process like in AlphaZero or some kind of "chains of thought" [1], then we might see them do things we'd truly call "reasoning".

Some "gaps" have been (1) "(encoding into) images is hard" (2) "(encoding into) natural language is hard" and now (3) "'reasoning' is hard" and afterwards (4) "subjective experience is hard".

Whether to be optimistic or pessimistic about AI depends on the final "gap" -- whether there is an irreplicable/noncomputable/etc. property of human consciousness other than qualia. That is, if "understanding" is hard (e.g., via some voodoo like [2]). If not humans will become obsolete, so I hope the answer is yes.

[1]: https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/05/language-models-perform-re...

[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestrated_objective_reduc...
Chatgpt has been pretty transformative to my programming, probably surpassing the only other thing coming close of really leveraging powerful ides like IntelliJ. It can generate all the scaffolding I need by just inputting a couple of sketches of Plantuml or even just markdown lists. I can build tools, unit tests, test data, fuzz harnesses, admin uis, dashboards, all within a few hours. I can transform a couple of words into very legible documentation. If you seed it with just a couple of lines of your own code and setup, it’s able to usually build stuff that matches the style of the codebase. It’s broken and wrong 80% of the time, but in a way that I can fix within a few minutes.

This leaves me with 4h of high quality thinking and programming time instead of 1. It means I can try out 3 different approaches with full tooling instead of 1. It means I can build a whole terraform for aws and gcp and bare iron in 30 minutes.

The fact that I can build solid tools and a full slurry of unit tests and end up with 4x time in my day is just blowing my mind. The quality of my software has tremendously gone up despite using something that mostly outputs broken code.
Sent you an email. Is there anything you want to discuss that can't be done here publicly?
A large percentage of millionaires are first generation. Also, even if they manage to get rich, often the wealth is gone again by 1-2 generations. But yes, families where wealth has been exant and growing for hundreds of years do exist.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/5-huge-lies-generational-weal...
I am quite befuddled by the claims of the demographic crisis, did Chinese planners not forsee this since population dynamics models are relatively straightforward compared to say, epidemiological or climate models. Chinese Academies are quite good. Is this fear mongering by a spirited cadre of believers who might be most likely wrong or a very likely outcome?
You can't actually brainwash people IRL.

You can convince them of things, but you can do that without drugging them.
Harper Collins. Context: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/p...
I don't understand how this is supposed to be a gotcha. Are you assuming that everyone opposed to Russia's invasion of Ukraine think the USA invasion of Iraq was good? I think in both cases it's very easy to identify which side is in the wrong, and it's the one invading another country.
Yeah, but that answer is wrong. "Novel thoughts" are "based on data you've been trained on". Certainly the expression of them is based on language you've already learned.

Any time anything prints text that hasn't existed before it's had a novel thought. Panpsychism is correct!
My basic suggestion is that the standard library _should_ be useless at supporting multiple languages, because it’s not a goal that can be achieved for almost anyone’s actual use case. You’re going to have to actually design internationalization into your own codebase in a way that makes sense for your application, and a half-measured implementation just doesn’t have a place at the language core.

Format strings, for example- are essentially compile time macros in rust in order to avoid all the fun kinds of string handling bugs that C’s implementation allowed- but that means no runtime customization without also defining were alternate formats live (and how they’re verified, etc). Not supporting multiple languages is a feature, not a bug. If you need multi language support, you need to a library to define those semantics in a way that fits or use case.
One thing to remember is that our guessing how things would work out has always been laughable with [say] 5 insanely complex problems we didn't see coming for every 1 thing turning out much less complicated than anticipated.

How much of what we did just the last 100 years was accurately anticipated and how much of it is down right magical?

In hind sight, how complicated an idea was it really to heat water, get it to expand and do work? I think execution was hard but the idea was kinda obvious.

Most stuff we build is made of stone/rocks? It seems we can dig caves, just ship the front door an we can start our usual hoarding :)
My point was that only a single state is involved which is "inter" not "intra"

The scenarios where multiple states are involved don't matter because that was not the situation being discussed. Nobody was shipping "through" a state in the story
10 years ago the average heat pump had a CoP of 3. Today they are 4 or a bit higher. Some ground source heat pumps have a CoP over 5. I saw one unit with 5.3. Of course, with a ground source heat pump, you can actually get that CoP when the outside air is -50C.
That looks like bi-modal to me.
Yeah, it's a bit strange.

Example: I'm a huge Star Wars fan.

But I don't much like RotJ.

Or Episodes 1-3.

Or Episodes 7-9.

Or a lot of their other properties.

(Clone Wars is amazing, there are major exceptions)

So, if I don't like the majority of the stuff out there, then how am I still identifying as a huge fan?
Author here. I just want to clarify some of the points I've seen repeatedly mentioned in the comments:

AFAIK my brother didn't hand over his iCloud password. That's what the phishing messages were for. Had he not fallen for that (as the article in Spanish explains) the thieves could have only sold the phone for parts. As for how they changed the recovery number, lstamour [1] has what I consider a good guess.

My brother did have a screen lock, but it was a 4-digit numeric code. My guess is that the smudges on the screen revealed quite easily what the code was as AFAIK the thieves didn't ask for it. He chose that code because he often shares the phone with his wife and having to show his face every time was annoying. He didn't know you can have two registered faces, and I don't have the heart to tell him now.

And finally, many of you correctly pointed out that there are steps that could have mitigated this attack. I wanted to share this story mostly [2] because I think it's an interesting example of what iPhone security is like for the type of user who would never set foot in HN. I could have easily followed the steps delineated in this comment [3] from the other thread, but my brother is not that type of user.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34407683

[2] Okay, the main reason I published this story was to find someone who can help (wink wink). But the other reason was definitely in the top 3.

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33602627
I remember all those constraints, but I think for me, it was a really good thing, because it helped me understand the reason for the more complicated features of real programming languages. I knew cramming things into lists or strings was a kludge.

But before I had learned TI-BASIC, I had attempted to learn C and JavaScript. Back in the 90s, I feel like most books on programming in stores were more like language reference manuals than instructional books. It was like, "here is every feature, good luck to you".

After TI-BASIC, I was like, oh, I see why being able to dynamically allocate memory is so great. I see why explicit function parameters are so great. I see why return values are great. Et cetera.

But what really did it for me was learning Z80 assembly. That gave me an understanding of pointers, memory architecture, system calls, build process, toolchain, and so forth.

Between the two very different calculator programming experiences, I was finally primed to be able to learn C.
Faster since you just target the rooms you occupy.
To be fair, the golden compass was an amazing and very loyal adaptation.

Critics: it's too close to the source material and shows no imagination.

Show ran all the way through since it had only 3 seasons but you barely heard of it. Which is a shame, it is so good.
This is a video for the Mr. Cool brand of mini splits. Starting about the 45s mark you'll see how they do it without removing the unit. https://iwae.com/resources/videos/mrcool-care-kit-ductless-m...