skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, had always been until the 90s, and then it was a mistake that wasn't correct by either definition, and only applied to one type of storage not the other types or storage or any forms of non-storage-based data communication. The cock-up this is the naming of 1.44Mb disks (and “720Kb”, and “360Kb” ones before them) doesn't alter that other storage media (hard drives, CD, …) were not counted in what would later be attempted to be disambiguated as MiB.

Even then it was only the marketing portion of the storage industry playing that game, when not talking to the general public floppy disks were referred to by their maximum rated information carrying capacity, 2Mbyte, not their OS-formatted capacity at all.
nitpick: it's the number of physical registers that matter more here, not ISA registers
So it's like strace looking for brk()?
Or, instead of all that. You can spend your entire summer at the south pole playing a single game of Factorio.
> If hypothetically 10% of the population said A but you slice up B into specific enough buckets then A wins even if the overwhelming majority dislike A.

Yes, if you're only allowed to vote for a single option. If you're allowed to vote yes/no for each option, or rank them from best to worst, then this problem doesn't happen.
also not all water is healthy water

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anoxic_waters

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioaccumulation

rediscovering ancient sea states, this Blue Planet went through extreme anti-fertile stages. "recovery" necessarily includes devolving to those states as a possible outcome
More than that. 60% margin on a growth business is dangerously low.
What bothers me about this -- and it bothered me enough to leave the platform -- is not fees, or "hobby computing," or "it's just for my own use," or trying to figure out why this or that would be in Apple's interest. What bothers me is that it feels like an offense against the entire notion of what a computer is.

I am, of course, aware that many (perhaps most) computers in the world are effectively appliances, but at some level, the great glory of this glorious, epochal machine -- the "personal computer" -- is one's ability to program it and make it do something new. It is not just a machine; it's a machine for creating machines.

Take that away, and . . . to what shall I compare it? It's like giving someone a deck of cards and telling them that these cards can only be used to play blackjack. You can't invent a card game, or change the rules, or build a house of cards, or do card magic. Putting such stipulations in place isn't just annoying or inconvenient. It's a kind of basic betrayal of the concepts and affordances that underlie the thing itself.

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Two alternative options you might consider are redwoodjs and blazor
I did, actually. Looks like aluminum is down about 60% from a peak last year, and sitting about 20% higher than its pre-pandemic level (which inflation-corrected isn't much of a change at all).

Is there a specific point you're trying to make? Or you're just saying steel is cheaper?
It's just a comment on the title of the posting. The title assumes an intention that's possibly incorrect. If intention doesn't matter, then why is it in the title?
> Can someone explain to me how you can have geostationary orbit around the poles?

You can't. For high latitudes you use highly-elliptical orbits, like tundra or Molniya.
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Great distinction. It's how states get away with making weed "legal" even thought its illegal federal. Today, a federal agent could easily charge with you having a schedule 1 drug on your person in California and it would easily ruin your life. Banks generally won't deal with weed stores for this very reason so California had a vote to make it's on state-run bank but I can't remember if it passed.

That said, I don't think federal agents ever charge anyone primarily for possessing weed though I wouldn't be surprised if they add it on to an additional charge.
It was tried! http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2014/ph241/reid2/
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It's roughly a million times easier to grow food on the South Pole than it is to grow it on Mars.
> When you remove all morality and extrinsic ethical considerations, what's left is bloodsport for a lawyer's personal enrichment.

Since when are lawyers anything other than mercenaries?

They are hired to win an adversarial game, not to decide what is moral or not.
I think they are transitioning from a simulator based test to real world testing. This system is adding BFM capabilities to the fighter (Dogfighting). Up to this point, drones are capable of BVR combat only. They were essentially automated missile trucks. This meant that once the jet got within a certain range, it was helpless and would have to retreat. It was kind of the missing link in combat air platforms.

This new AI would allow the jet to press on if it were to be surprised by an undetected enemy within 5-10nm. This is really important in mountain areas, and places where you don't have AWACS. Sending automated fighters ahead to send back link-16 data to manned fighters is a HUGE advantage when your enemy is shooting down your AWACS with long range air to air missiles. Also it allows you to leverage more airframes if you are short on pilots and preserve existing pilots.
I am fan of the philosophy free for personal use and money for professional use. Because, when I make money of somebody else work, I should give some of that somebody else (what ever 'some' means).

That said, there is a lot to consider for companies like Apple in this world. Yes, it is not only Apple that does this. Apple is just apparent as with the iPhone it became so ubiquitous.

Apple wants to be known for a clean platform for consumers without worrying about viruses and such things. Ever heard about a ransomware on your shiny iPhone? If you want to maintain this, then you need a strict enforcement of who can run what on the platform. These days such enforcement is done via certificates. At first Apple was somehow lax on that enforcement. That allowed side-loading of apps on your iPhone. For development purposes good. Of course for personal use great. But the first actors appeared and used that to distribute their apps. I remember when Google Ingress where a thing way befor Pokemon Go. Ingress was Android only. No iPhone. Because it was from Google. Then some people came along and build an iOS app, which you could download from Github. Then when some shady actors got banned from the Appstore they distributed their apps via shady websites. I assume at one point the decision grew that they need to do something to prevent this.

Another thing is, the development tools are not free as in free beer. Maintaining development tools costs resources. That's why I need to buy the development tools. If I do embedded I may need to buy a Keil compiler. If I do FPGA I may need to buy Altera or Xilinx. But the Apple tool chain is free of charge. Maintenance costs resources. That's why in the past you needed to buy the Development account to have access to the tool chain at all. Now, these days, the tool chain is free-of-charge. So you could ask "Hey, they are such a money maker, why can't they just cross finance that?" That is valid. On the other, why? Why shouldn't that business unit finance itself?

So there are many different things to consider.
Now that I don't spend time commuting, I can exercise and participate more in my kids activities like scouts, sports, band, etc.

I have plenty of routine that includes leaving the house, it just doesn't include heading to the office that is near none of the other places I regularly go - it may as well be an island.

I'd hope spending more time with my family is better for the mental health of both me and my family.

I've worked with a fully remote team in India for 7 years now - some I've never met, others once and I have very strong relationships with them, not affected at all by being in different places.

I do think being in the office is better for the business, but the benefits to an employee from not being are far greater. Some people may have no life outside work, but I assume they are the minority - seems ridiculous to subject us all to a degraded quality of life because a few people don't know what to do with themselves.
We already tried that 60 years ago in Greenland, it didn’t end well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Iceworm
in what concrete way has the current WH been anti-Tesla? i’m aware of the WH not praising tesla while they praised ford (iirc), but, notwithstanding complaints by Elon’s mom that he isn’t appreciated, I’m not aware of any action against Tesla per se.
All EVs are subsidized and pretty much all of them (except Tesla) are loosing money while Tesla has industry leading gross and operating profit margins.

So it's definitely not subsidies.

On a definitional level, gross profit is difference between price and cost.

Tesla has biggest difference which implies that it's a combination of charging higher prices and having lower production cost that other.
I'm moderately into chess but I have never heard of Leela

I'm shocked to discover it's been rated higher than AlphaZero & Komodo and just slightly below Stockfish
Hypothesis – “MVP in 2 Weeks”
I have tried out few ideas till now. Each of them have taken me at-least 3 months to come to conclusion that this would not work. I have always know that MVPs are the best way to validate an idea but I think 3 months is too long a time frame for validating an idea.

So I have a hypothesis - "Every startup's main value proposition can be tested in 2 weeks by a smartly designed MVP".

Am I right about this? If majority of you say yes, I will spend my brain next time to figure out the best way to design a MVP but till now I have not been sure so I end up spending a lot more than that.

Do suggest good ideas to create MVPs with examples. Few which I know are -
1. Landing Pages with wait-list (Dropbox, Robinhood)
2. Communities (Sharechat)
3. No-Code prototypes
4. Figma Prototypes
Between Apple's "monetize the developers" versus Google's "monetize the users" I think I prefer the monetization of the developers. I hope a successful alternative to either method comes along however.
> That's a 60% margin.

If you don't count salaries and operations. From the linked statement

> Income from operations was $9.4 million and operating margin was 6%.

Last quarter was DO first profitable quarter. If sales go down it's going to be hard to maintain that.
Before and until are sometimes interchangable in English.

Don't go there before Monday. Don't go there until Monday.

You can get this deal until Monday. You can get this deal before Monday. (Some lack of clarity about whether the offer is valid on Monday with until though)

But I agree, it doesn't work in this context.

English is weird.
That's why I mentioned the spandrel. But having a sizeable penis is definitely useful
A tiered storage tower with speedy response at top and bit durability/longevity at bottom, unchanging data drifts to settle and fossilize on the bottom would be a key selling point in the market. Sticker claims 15, 30 or 60 year bit life.
> use the filesystem-as-database

I have seen at least one ActivityPub server that does this. The name eludes me right now but it definitely exists.

edit: aha, 'kseistrup posted it - https://epicyon.net
Feels unfortunate the less popular and larger CCS standard is the one mandated: https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/11/23453587/tesla-connector...
Apple is greedy, as all corporations are. But to me, more so than being defined by greed, I'd just say that the App store has been a badly managed product in many ways that hurts Apple's ability to make money.

Think about how many Mac Developers have been criticizing many of the policies and features surrounding the App store for their business for years. There's been kerfuffles about lack of update pricing, forced API updates for perfectly working software, bad search functionality, horrendous App approval stories, and many more complaints about features and policies on the App store that causes Apple to make far less money than they should.

IMO, the reason for this is that running a marketplace isn't Apple's core competency.
There are plenty of examples with prompts of it going totally off the rails. Look at the Avatar 2 prompt that went viral yesterday. The simple question, "when is avatar 2 playing near me?" lead to Bing being convinced it was 2022 and gaslighting the user into trying to believe the same thing. It was totally unhinged and not baited in any way.
> $99/yr is a ridiculous sum for the "privilege" of publishing in Apple's walled garden

It’s a token amount, just enough to prevent spammers from creating thousands of accounts. It’s $99 for your entire organization for a year. Go check what Microsoft charges for a Visual Studio license per seat, per year.

$99 doesn’t even buy you 1 hour of a developer’s time. Even if you develop apps a a hobby, this is not a large amount of money. Few hobbies are a cheap as this.
"The user is the problem"
This response reeks of entitlement.
To be fair, binge drinking (and its share of drawbacks) when celebrating military victories was very much a big feature of Macedonian culture.
I am not installing an app to eat. There was no consumer friendly reason to remove the human in the first place.
> these apps are contributing to its bottom line

Are they, though? If you don't have the $99 for a dev account, you don't have a marketing budget either, so your app won't make money, so Apple doesn't care.

I think the best argument to be made for catering to hobbyists is to attract new developers to the platform, but I doubt Apple cares about that any more. Apple wants developers who care about making money. Developers who care about making money will come to Apple because of how much Apple users spend on apps.
I don't think most electrical grids can spare that much high amperage all the time. You know they aren't getting priority on the grid.
Co-incidentally, we (sqlitebrowser.org) switched most of our stuff to them over a year ago, and yeah they've been hassle free.

Currently using their lowest paid tier US$10/month, as that's 10k emails a month which is far more than we send. At least at this stage. ;)

Wish they'd occasionally look over the PR's submitted to their GitHub repo's though. ;)

eg: https://github.com/smtp2go-oss/smtp2go-go
My understanding is that `async fn` in a trait is desugared to `fn() -> impl Future` just like it would be anywhere else, so there's no unsized types involved.
Amazingly simple. Thank you!
Why would they lose their dominance? Are other manufacturers quality standards coming close to Toyota? I think not...

EVs don't work for me and my use case. I plan on keeping my Land Cruiser forever. My kids are starting to drive now, with one starting these past few months. In a Toyota, of course. As will the next two.
Some of the screenshots I link to on Reddit include the full sequence of prompts.

It apparently really doesn't take much to switch it into catty and then vengeful mode!

The prompt that triggered it to start threatening people was pretty mild too.
I wonder whether Bing has been tuned via RLHF to have this personality (over the boring one of ChatGPT); perhaps Microsoft felt it would drive engagement and hype.

Alternately - maybe this is the result of less RLHF. Maybe all large models will behave like this, and only by putting in extremely rigid guard rails and curtailing the output of the model can you prevent it from simulating/presenting as such deranged agents.

Another random thought: I suppose it's only a matter of time before somebody creates a GET endpoint that allows Bing to 'fetch' content and write data somewhere at the same time, allowing it to have a persistent memory, or something.
yeah, he was a young violent warlord, not unlike his contemporaries, but had some redeeming qualities of honor and respecting the culture of places he conquered, which was unusual for the time.
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Is it appropriate to retract a paper when the primary flaw is a failure to disclose conflicts of interest? It's certainly an unethical thing to do, and with dozens of them it's clearly not an accident, but would it be acceptable to amend the papers with the relevant declarations?

The impression I get is that this is somebody who does at least somewhat valuable work while also unethically self-dealing. It would be too bad if the valuable part were lost. The papers are highly cited (unless that's just the effect of the self-citations). I'd have expected that work that cites a paper would have at least some chance of catching outright errors, though I know that the "softer" the field is the less likely that is.

It sounds as if there is more going on, that the papers are untrustworthy. Perhaps they wouldn't have passed peer review if the declaration had been included.
> a million times easier to grow food on the South Pole than it is to grow it on Mars

And it's a million easier still to import it. So apart from hydroponics for treats and research, it's not a problem worth solving.
measuring CO2 is more expensive than CO, a decent sensor alone would cost more than $20
There were hardly any free compiler toolchains outside the UNIX world in the 80's. But it's not the 80's anymore, time has moved on.
Is that all? That makes me feel a lot better about the next climate-related mass extinction.
Let me guess: it made the HN front page because Rust.
Are you legitimately arguing in favour of corporate-sponsored fake news?
Nintendo released SMM knowing it wouldn't be a direct threat to the Mario franchise. They were able to guarantee this because they know a Mario game with 80 levels needs 80 things we've never seen before. SMM ships with 200 things we've definitely seen before.

It's possible that some combination of those things is new, and good for a level worth of content. But there isn't 80 of them. The playlist has stuff like invisible pipes, lag spike inducers, soft lock strategies, etc. This style of troll design is popular(?) within the SMM community but you wouldn't sell a million copies of it in its own game.
The issue for one man business is accounting. You have exceptions in some places (farmer's market) you can basically do as you wish, but in small shops you have to follow rules that makes cashless less painful.

In France at least.
Disinfo black ops: exposing the companies and states spreading false information
They are all, like Spongebob Squarepants, “tadpole men” (a figure lacking a torso, with arms and legs – sometimes only hands and feet – attaching directly to a head) which is a common form in children’s drawings: https://www.nature.com/articles/254416a0
I poured a year of my life into an app written in Swift for iOS before I ran into a brick wall trying to figure out how to use Apple's stuff to encode frames into an mp4 video. It's a pretty slick thing that uses low-level APIs like Metal, Core Audio, CFRunLoop, etc. https://github.com/realtaraharris/arezzo

I accidentally spilled a latte into my M1 MacBook Pro, which cost me $2000 to buy. At that point I decided to just forget about Apple and their entire ecosystem because it is designed to abuse everyone. $99/year, no source code for any of the stuff I'm struggling with, no access to any of the people that can answer questions about the black boxes? No thanks.

What am I doing now? I am rocking a ThinkPad T440p from 2012, which only cost me $285. I spend all my time writing apps in C++ for Haiku OS and I have never been happier. Instead of pouring more of your life and energy into a corporation that has labored tirelessly to destroy your freedom, please consider contributing to the commons instead.
This is the same disingenuous argument. The $99/year isn't preventing junk from showing up on the AppStore, and a lack of $99/year payments doesn't make the Google Play store a dumpster fire of garbage apps. [1]

The AppStore is currently filled with low-value junk published by people paying $99/year (1.8 million apps out there, of which most outside of the top X lists are terrible). Will hobby apps really decrease the average quality? I highly doubt it.

[1] I'll admit that this appeared to be the trend early on, but in the long term both platforms have converged to something similar.
Hmm, it seems there's some SVG rendering issue when viewing directly. It should say "LMDB" in that empty spot. It renders okay for me on the GitHub readme: https://github.com/xtdb/xtdb (and here https://docs.xtdb.com/concepts/what-is-xtdb/)
Laura Towler is one person whose bank account was closed down after someone found their bank details and petitioned their bank. Then they shouted about it on Twitter.
Why didn't Frodo take down Sauron in his X-wing?? I saw the walking trees, so I know that anything is possible.

That’s it, no more internet for me today. And I haven’t even had lunch!
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but can't strace trace brk() calls?

And as kind of a follow up what is the easiest way to trace all allocations (brk() and mmap) but nothing else?
When the author refers to AN-8 fuel, do they mean JP-8? Jet fuel / Kerosene?
Nice image of a fish fossil from this discovery here:

https://www.sci.news/paleontology/guiyang-biota-11644.html

Also see the related (linked) discussion of the cause of the Permian extinction:

> "The team’s findings showed that volcanic eruptions in Siberian Traps released immense amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. This release lasted several millennia and led to a strong greenhouse effect on the late Permian world, causing extreme warming and acidification of the ocean."

> "Dramatic changes in chemical weathering on land altered productivity and nutrient cycling in the ocean, and ultimately led to vast de-oxygenation of the ocean. The resulting multiple environmental stressors combined to wipe out a wide variety of animal and plant groups."

It's worth noting that current fossil fuel emission rates of CO2 to the atmosphere are as much as 14X the rates during the Permian extinction, although humans have only really been at it for 150 years or so, compared to thousands of years during the Permian era.
As others have stated, it's not a version of Apple's ATT. Not even close.

Personally my biggest issue with this is its naming. I think it is a borderline deceiving name given what it is actually doing.

But they chose a good marketing term so other outlets would say exactly what you think Ars should be saying, but they are not falling for it and actually reporting what it is doing.

That name will trick users into thinking that Google is actually taking privacy seriously (they are not).
yes but in the middle of the ocean.

Oh yeah and on the blockchain:)
As a Seattle native, I'd say bing might be trained on too much local data

> The tone somehow manages to be argumentative and aggressive, but also sort of friendly and helpful.

Nailed it.
> They protect rightholders from different sectors

At the expense of everyone else.

> stimulating the creation and circulation of more high-value content

Doubtful.
But why does that matter? Why does a wildly profitable company need to compete with “risk-free investment options”? Why do they need to be an investment option at all?

Obviously I’m not understanding something very basic about finance here, but I don’t see how “profitable company is not more profitable than a loan would be” implies layoffs.
less. If you correct people's grammar you have to make damn sure you're right otherwise you look a little bit foolish...

less modifies singular nouns, fewer modifies plural nouns. Check here for more

https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/opinion/tn-dpt-me-...
Authority, freedom, and misunderstanding the role of the arts in human history
Some analysts like Munro think legacies will take much longer to catch up to Tesla because they're evolving ICE designs/standards into their EVs and crippling them. Toyota is so huge they could have afforded a clean-sheet platform but waited too long so they'll fall into the same cycle.
747-400 Precision simulator (2000)