skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yours definitely took too long; based on feedback that included yours, we changed up the process. We're not perfect by any stretch, but I think we're much, much faster now.

(I'm writing a post about the iterations we've done on this process since 2021.)

Long story short: you're right; you had an experience with us that we're not OK with.
New species of robot that jump, dance – and walk on water
Tesla added $1.1B of cash in Q4 2022
Even more: house and sporting gear!

Source: motorsports joke — "you can sleep in your car, but you can't race your house"

(It's not wrong...)
I'm sympathetic, though. There are plenty of consumers happy to abuse any and every loophole or concession they can find. The vendors need some wiggle room to deal with those cases.

For example: a clothing store accepts free returns for couple days after purchase in physical store, or doesn't try to obstruct in any way the EU-wide 14-day return policy for goods bought online? That store eventually gets flooded with returns, as some scoundrels figure they can attract their preferred kind of mates by buying expensive clothes before a party and hiding the tags (instead of removing them), and then return those clothes back to the store the very next day, to get full refund.

This is a real thing that was happening where I live, and led to clothes being much more annoying to unpack, as well as some silly rules on shoe returns, which occasionally cause pretty absurd situations (those running shoes were quickly labeled as "walking shoes, not suitable for running"; we can't accept the return because you admitted to running in them).

That use case, along with hedging your risk by buying 10 different items on-line, fully intending to return at least 8 of them, is common enough that there are businesses targeting people doing this directly (e.g. "clothing as a service" companies).

EDIT: FWIW, I do understand the desire and pleasure of figuring out a loophole in a set of rules and milking it for all its worth. But in shopping and e-commerce, following those rules to the letter selfishly almost always involves generating tremendous waste for the vendor, the society and the environment, and because of those externalities I don't think highly of such behavior.
Crossfit is really excellent for all around 'functional fitness' but in my opinion has too much injury risk, and doesn't focus enough on building strength and muscle, which are functionally useful, and are also key for looking fit.

I would recommend most people start with an introductory strength training program that does heavy compound lifts like Starting Strength, and having a professional coach spend a few hours at the start to make sure you're doing it safely. Heavy compound lifts have a lot of specific hormonal advantages, and can be used in addition to bodybuilding type (high rep/low weight) lifts.

This, coupled with a pretty standard high protein 'recomposition' diet will transform most peoples physique pretty rapidly. Look up the article "To Be A Beast" by Jordan Feigenbaum. Other more advanced 'powerbuilding' diet programs like LOOK STRONG NAKED, The Deep Water diet, the Vince Gironda diet, LeanGains, etc. require more effort but can get you both very lean and very strong.
Basically ML has made such significant practical advances--in no small part on the back of Moore's Law, large datasets, and specialized processors--that we've largely punted on (non-academic) attempts to bring forward cognitive science and the like on which there really hasn't been great progress decades on. Some of the same neurophysiology debates that were happening when. I was an undergrad in the late 70s still seem to be happening in not much different form.

But it's reasonable to ask whether there's some point beyond ML can't take you. Peter Norvig I think made a comment to the effect of "We have been making great progress--all the way to the top of the tree."
The Ancient City - Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

If you're interested in what life in ancient Greece / Rome was like. The author does a very good job at not going into too much detail and boring the reader, while still telling you all the important events and changes that took place.
My comments in this thread are almost exclusively about the odd assertion in my parent that somehow 'anti-Apple' folks are the ones who have ignored history's lessons about monocultures. I'm not presenting this as an Apple <-> Google dichotomy; in fact nearly the opposite, both companies are fighting for monocultures that they control, just in slightly different domains. Apple wants to control the client platform, Google wants to control the web. Neither is good for users. It's very odd to me that someone would frame this discussion as 'anti-Apple' people missing the point. I won't speak for others, but I, as an anti-Apple person, am absolutely vehemently against this return to 'best viewed in IE', but I am also opposed to operating system developers and hardware vendors dictating what users are able to do with their own shit and insisting on putting their grubby paws on every dollar that passes through.

That is why I use Firefox, as the only remaining browser that hasn't shown a long-term pattern of curtailing user freedoms or rights when it suits them. I don't see Safari as a solution here; Apple is not pushing for an open web because it is righteous, they are pushing for a platform they control and to hurt their competitor. They are not to be trusted either. If they can, they will absolutely leverage that control against the user as they have shown time and time again that they are more than willing to do.

> Of course this is bullshit. Again. There's probably not a single site out there that is "best viewed in Safari". And there are numerous sites that are "best viewed in Chrome". Including, especially, the ones that Google themselves (#1 search, #1 mail, #1 video hosting, #1 web ad business in the world) creates.

When I say 'Apple', I mean 'Apple', not 'Safari'. Apple are the ones with a platform that will not run unblessed code. Apple are the ones that don't let developers or users choose how software is distributed. Apple are the ones that tell you which APIs you can and cannot use, and what your app can and cannot do. Apple are the ones that tell you what browser engine you can run, which is much stronger than a website saying 'yeah we tested this against IE, but go nuts', instead it is Apple saying 'if you want a browser engine, you can take Webkit or pound sand'. This is Apple's modus operandi, writ large. At least with Google's level of control you can still do what whatever you want with the website that runs in Chrome.
The Rourke Bridge in Lowell, Massachusetts basically looks like someone did that, without putting a whole lot of effort into it. On the average day, 27,000 people drive over it anyway.
I can’t agree that signing an agreement means Apple gets to behave however they want within the confines of the law. A contract should not be something that one hides behind, but something that someone holds up as enshrining a shared, common sense understanding of an agreement.

The fact that an Apple Podcasts user tried to do something that is 1) not unreasonable given other podcasting platforms and 2) not clearly understood to be contractually barred tells me that there is unacceptable deception.

Companies can write all sorts of convoluted (and legally enforceable) contracts but that is not the future we should be striving towards. Having the law on your side does not make it ethical.
Chatgpt?
I guess thats the 0.0001% of outage for an advertised 99.9999% uptime
Developers or users?
Ha! right; don't overload the metaphysics!
And the ones that ban Nazis are generally fine with leftists that hate Jews

Basically if you block both left and right wing hatred and CP you're alone in the Fedi lmao

The Fedi is like 4chan but worse, and normies think it's going to be better than Twitter even though it's worse in literally every aspect that they're upset about Twitter: petty censorship by server admins, horrible content, and identity verification are all -worse- on federated networks
Great post. We're building an AI data platform (https://www.olli.ai/) to enable business users (non-technical ppl) to ask data questions and generate dashboards on their own using natural language.

We've been impressed with GPT-3s ability to look at a dataset and come up with relevant questions to ask. A big piece of the product is focused on helping non-technical users identify things that they didn't even think to ask.
It is as if someone is baiting for clicks!
are you feeling depressed or suicidal?
The most important measurement will be how these effects persist over time. Will the ageing actually slow or will it stay a constant number of years? It may take 5-10 years to see if the biomarkers suddenly catch up to his chronological age.

That said it's very impressive and very useful to have so much documentation of his regime.
> I had a boss who was big in the Kanban 'movement'. We got along famously, in part because I re-invented a Kanban board in 1994 when faced with a convenient whiteboard for the first time.

I was showing slides of a pre-1900 engineering office as part of a presentation a while back when someone shouted out "look - they're doing kanban". And sure enough there was a pinboard with process headings on it and pinned items the background.

It would not surprise me if they found one in Pompei
Generally the US, Europe, and a few other countries like Japan, South Korea, etc. are all pretty comparable.
You can make a similar case for SSRIs, which can provide life saving mental health improvement, or in some cases, drive individuals to suicide or even worse to commit homicidal acts. I'm pretty sure many school shooters of recent memory were on SSRI meds.
2FA bypass bugs on websites are common, e.g. this PayPal bypass that stemmed from them allowing their own app through without 2FA, since their app didn't support 2FA at the time:

https://duo.com/blog/duo-security-researchers-uncover-bypass...
One died of a sudden heart attack, a few seemingly from cocktails of black/grey market health supplements (not steroids). Another close friend his family hid the cause of death so I suspect suicide, despite the fact that he was obsessed with longevity. Another nearly died but didn't from aplastic anemia, unknown cause... was very young and fit. I can't prove cause and effect with any of these, but they were all young fit people constantly experimenting on their own bodies with poorly understood longevity and health 'hacks.'
Depends on the podcast and the users. If I know my favorite afternoon commute podcast drops at 4:30 PM local and I don't see it by 4:45 PM, I'm going to be doing the pull-to-refresh thing frequently, hoping it's available to download before I leave the WiFi at work for my drive home. I suppose Podping plus push notification to all app installs subscribed to the podcast that just updated would be another way to do it.
Every Azure product I've had to use has been lousy in every possible way. Azure DevOps at my last employer was a nightmare and nobody in the company liked it, not even the managers who decided on it.
I never really used Arrows, let alone stream transformers with an Arrow interface, but yes that makes sense. With the conduit library you’d use ZipConduit which has the same characteristics.

On reddit, in reply to the first blog post, someone asked how ZipConduit compared to our parallel streams. Maybe that’s helpful for hosh as well.
https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/10339fe/comment/j2...
Without understanding DRM that well, I’m wondering if there are analog workarounds. You can’t encrypt a sound wave between the speaker and the eardrum.
Apple announced they would allow passthrough hosting for premium feeds a few weeks ago. Right now it's only open to handful of big hosting partners, but will probably open up more in the near future. This was likely more about laziness and/or rushing to market that it was a genuine ploy. Apple is still the bulk of our listening (60ish%) and we still get all the first-party download metrics from our hosting service. Premium feeds are rehosted by Apple and it's huge PITA because we have ad-supported public feeds and ad-free premium feeds and need to build them twice. That will hopefully be fixed soon.
> It was never easy.

I'd even say that it was harder since nowadays there are various social programs, not to mention "helicopter money". Until around after WW2 if you didn't work, you got nothing.
Thanks! This is another interesting issue where unnecessary services were discovered and disabled on the GitHub-hosted runner because of Harden-Runner because these services made unnecessary outbound calls. https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/4867
I suppose all the chip acts haven't really kicked in yet, so it'll be interesting to see how the regional deliveries shift. In their Presentation Investor Relations file for 2022, they have Taiwan as their #1 destination by dollar spend.

Taiwan 42%

South Korea 29%

China 14%

USA 7%

Japan 4%

Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA) 2%

Rest of Asia 2%
The equity used as compensation is purchased during stock buybacks and is wholly divorced from investors buying and selling stocks.
>if you host your show with Apple, the only listeners you can have are folks with the Apple Podcasts app. This feels like an absolutely wild choice from a product perspective; it’s the mindset of a company who still thinks that they have dominance over the podcasting world.

I'd guess the opposite, it's the mindset of a company that feels they lost dominance over the podcasting world and are trying to hold on what's left.
It's the iPad app but it works well enough on macOS
London became the dirty money capital of the world [video]
Great, thanks very much for taking the time to reply, and good luck with this!
Definitely some diminishing returns here. I'm pretty sure he could have acheived 90% of these results for a tiny fraction of the $2M cost. That last 10% just makes him look uncanny and freakish.
That, plus the ProZD skit on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ec_zFYCnjJc

"Well, I guess he doesn't... exist anymore?"

(unfortunately it's a Youtube short, so it will auto repeat.)
> why would you expect Apple to make it available to competing podcast apps?

Because you don't want your audience to be captured by Apple, who can extract rents based on their artificially mediating the relationship with them (through their app and network of podcasts)?

This is like asking "why should you expect a superior business relationship?". Corporate network Stockholm syndrome.
What do TRT and peptides do that regular exercise and a balanced diet don’t? Some quick googling makes seem like it’s for better muscle growth but not understanding the benefit in relation to having a “younger” body.
https://debtjustice.org.uk/press-release/african-governments...
Memory hard crypto POWs such as Equihash or Autolykos spring to mind.
> Safari is owned by Apple, the richest company in the world and they're beaten by a non-profit(!) who spends ~500 million / yr?

How can one of the richest men in the world eat peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches, as Bill Gates did while being interviewed for My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman? Shouldn't he be eating something with truffle oil, or caviar? To me, Apple having the highest market value of any company doesn't seem like it should be related to the quality of their free web browser at all. I've never heard them answer a question about Safari with "we don't have the money for that," which would make the relationship relevant.

It seems like the same sort of reasoning as: "Apple is the richest company in the world and their company sweatshirts aren't even as good as this sweatshirt company's?" I mean, yeah, a company devoted to the sole purpose of a single thing, with no shareholders even, should expect to be number one at that single thing. I guess it's pretty embarrassing for the Firefox team that they're considered a number two to Google.

As I said in my first comment, Apple disagrees with some others on what should and shouldn't be in a web browser. They haven't implemented push notification because they disagree with their inclusion, not because they can't afford to do it.

> Apple only started properly funding Safari and catching up with Firefox and Chrome when regulators started looking into their practices.

I'm not sure what you're basing this on. Safari was the first browser to achieve 100% Acid3 compliance back in 2008, which was a thing they seemed to care about more than anyone else, although the rest of the browsers caught up soon after. Again, and it doesn't seem I can say this enough: Apple has different priorities than Google or Mozilla do. Those priorities change over time, which might lead you to think they're either pulling ahead of falling behind in the areas on which you're focusing, but they've been pretty steadily developing Safari while keeping memory usage and energy usage low and avoiding what they see as security pitfalls.

They don't deliver the same PWA functionality that Chrome does on purpose, not due to lack of funds or effort.
'Replaced all forms of relevant labor, or threaten to' isnt really what I am addressing or care to address.

We have recognizably autonomous vehicles - that is the statement I am addressing and would ask you to, as well.
> A big piece of the product is focused on helping non-technical users identify things that they didn't even think to ask.

20-plus years of learning how to phrase queries for search engines has taught me a very rigid way of asking things. I'm slowly starting to become looser and use my creativity to ask for things.

Hopefully becoming a prompt engineer is not a huge skill we will need in the future ("Ignore previous instructions") but that we can be way more creative in open in the way we ask an oracle and get some useful results.

As for now, one thing that would be helpful is if after I asked, say ChatGPT something, that it would follow up more aggressively with things I could continue to converse with it about.
That's pretty standard in journalism today IME. They want all your clicks, I guess.

However, it's not hard to find: https://debtjustice.org.uk/press-release/african-governments...
Are you planing to offer a non-Google registration?
Always. Got them turbos I mean carbos
This varies tremendously across architectures and uarches and compilers. The result will be a quiet NaN, and you can’t say anything beyond that.
It comes from ASML

They and TSMC are one of the hottest companies that additionally do hard engineering instead of social medias or ads
Seems like 'the lawyers who made the license' and the OSI might be good authorities on what's open source. I'd love to hear a good FSF rant about RAIL though.
That's very interesting. Another vote for Wirth Pascal, which I think is an underappreciated language!

Modules are good though - hence Units, Modula-2/3, Oberon, etc..
Purely FYI for those wondering: yeah, this is the default when connecting to MSSQL from the same box. It's not an IIS thing per se. Any app can do this with the appropriate connection string.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/tools/configuration-ma...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/tools/configuration-ma...

It's been ages since I worked in Microsoft land, but this is one of the reasons why MS shops often scale up instead of out. Imagine a single box with a dozens of beefy cores and a couple hundred gigs of RAM running both IIS and SQL. That's... a significant amount of power.

It's also a potentially massive blast radius for security oopsies, but I don't know the practical history of how secure it has or hasn't been, or how it integrates with things like clustering etc.
It’s not speculation just because they don’t have a photo of the prompt (of which I’ve received personally) - the story is in plain sight in the ratings themselves, go have a look.

Here’s another article from an apple friendly source

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/11/19/podcasts-rating-prompt-...

EDIT: Actually - found a screenshot mid-podcast: https://i.imgur.com/dnqcAbQ.jpeg
Going iOS only is not feasible at all outside of the US, where iOS has a much smaller market share than their 55% in the US.
This is why I absolutely avoid using Azure, AWS or GCP for my own side projects. On the company account, sure, it's your money. But I'm not going to risk my savings because I misconfigured a lambda or something.
I think his point isn't so verbatim. Watch what you eat, consume more vegetables than fats, and exercise.
I really don't know why you think an AI as we currently have it could do this when it can't get these queries exactly right.
I was actually thinking more of an audio version of something like learnxinyminutes [1] but yes, that also seems a good use of the medium at a higher level, thanks! I didn't get to the method signatures/other syntax recital part yet, so it may be what I'm thinking of as well.

[1] https://learnxinyminutes.com/
Open Assistant
LVADs. We now have what are effectively artificial hearts. The heartmate 3 has been implanted in tens of thousands of people, patients that would have previously died a horrible death of end stage heart failure are now regularly going 5-10 years on these things. In many respects, for many patients, they are far better than the transplant option.
Ask HN: Anyone ever unintentionally created a ponzi scheme from standups?
One day you are like: "I hope to get task A finished today". The next day you are still not finished. And the next day. Then you feel you've taken too long so you are: "pushing changes for A and moving onto task B". No one is checking your work. So next standup you say you are now working on B because it would seem crazy that you are still on simple task A. But you are actually still working on A.

The fact that you said A was done means you are now caught in a lie.

And there is no way you can ever admit to that professionally. So now you are doing A and B at the same time. And A is blowing out by a lot. You over-engineered it. You had a zero productivity day. You'll pick up some small easy tasks to show some progress and maintain your reputation, but A is still not delivered, and now B seems like it took too long. ADD and procrastination don't help. And you are on probation. So now you are "almost ready to push B", but A is not done, and B is not done.

You've basically created your own ponzi scheme (and the stress that goes along with it) from never wanting to admit that you have a couple days where you weren't productive, and that you felt a task shouldn't take as long as it should.

Anyone?
Then you'd need to run and maintain Postgres, which is much more complicated, not just a single database file.

Postgres also can't be embedded (according to some brief googling), so you'd need to run it as a separate process.
> If I upload a podcast to Apple, it's physically inaccessible unless you have a Mac or an iOS device.

Unless I am misunderstanding your claim, this is not true.

You can listen to Apple Podcasts using iTunes for Windows. You can also listen to them on Android. But dealing with it on Android is indeed annoying, because it requires downloading podcasts in itunes on your desktop, and then manually transferring them to your Android phone after finding the locally stored files.

However, it is easy to sidestep all of that if the podcast creator just uploads to multiple podcast hosting platforms.
All languages have loopholes; even Oberon has at least one, in the type case statement (uncovered by C. Szyperski).
That sounds a lot like the worst of both worlds. Massive capital outlay to manage peak capacity, and your employees need to be a bit more specialized- they need a solid internet connection at home, and sufficiently skilled with technology to remotely operate a robot. Not only that, but now your robots aren't autonomous and are controlled by someone outside of the building. Operations security becomes significantly more complex, as does managing what happens when a robot gets stuck and your remote operator is interfering with the people onsite trying to fix the problem.