skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tech seems like a small world.

> That same year, Ms. Hall, who had been working for Silicon Valley ventures like OpenAI (which was responsible for the language model ChatGPT), met her future co-founder Patrick Mellor at a climate tech conference. Mr. Mellor was researching whether trees could be engineered to produce decay-resistant wood.
I skimmed the entire thing and have no idea what point he was trying to make. It felt like he's trying to sell me a self-help course.
You can say things in a value neutral way and have them still be true.
I realize that, but it seems that a wildly successful older game would probably be able to amortize that cost over quite a few people still buying it at $3, $5, or $10.
Nobody seems to blame the LLM itself here.
I get the complete opposite impression - they did more of that than others, compromising the product (in one sense) to accomodate for bad actors, resulting in 'bugs' like this.
There was huge attrition when Amazon announced the acquisition. Lots of high level talent out the door
The "Top Paid" category isn't really the whole story, since there's no official "free demo" system in the app store. Instead, games are set up as a "free + microtransactions" and then the only in app purchase is "buy the whole game." But unless you look closely down at the bottom of the store page, you can't distinguish games like this from the microtransaction trash.

PinOut comes to mind as an example, I'm sure there are many others: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pinout/id1108417718

In-App Purchases
PinOut Premium $2.99
I don't think anyone is blaming OpenAI, they're blaming the administrators. People would be upset if the administrators had sent a message generated by anything that can't comprehend the magnitude of this particular situation. It's the commoditization of emotion that's the problem here: a delicate situation was pumped through a system to require the least effort by a human possible in a time of great tragedy.
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The OpenJDK project releases all Java code under a GPL license. You can make use of Java 19 without having any kind of relation with Oracle.
AMD had the Ryzen 4800u shipping with a similar power envelope and higher multicore scores. Battery life was a good few hours shorter than the M1, but it was also manufactured on 7nm versus the Apple's 5nm. Performance tends to favor people on the denser node, so it's impressive to see x86 still competitive by modern standards.

If you need further evidence of this pattern, look at Nvidia's ridiculous 40-series cards. More expensive than a used car, but they were able to secure TSMC's 4nm node and annihilate everyone else. Apple did the same thing with M1, and it looks like that's what they're gearing up for with M3.
Docker snap is basically broken out of the box and you need to uninstall it and install a Docker deb from Docker itself to get a working Docker installation. (Insert facepalm)
It's easier for pedestrians to notice a car maneuvering into a parking spot than a car starting to move out of a spot.
If we're in a place where we no longer need to waste 6 figure salaries on administrators and provosts so they can churn out boilerplate by hand, why even hire them in the first place?
It's a shame you can't share one air tag between multiple people. Like: car keys. Why can't me and my wife have access to the one air tag attached to our family car's keys? Why is this something someone at Apple hadn't thought of?
> If you're not home, you can only create accounts protected by the keys in your person

I'm not often creating many accounts away from home, and I'm not often then away from home for long periods of time where this matters. I'm also just not often creating that many accounts.

If I'm out someplace and I need to create an account but don't have all my authenticators, I'll either just go without 2FA for that brief period of time or just go with the authenticators I have with me. Then when I'm home (probably within a few hours) I'll add those extra authenticators.
You can play chess and go with one finger...
This happens to me on car rides as well. I’ve made my friends pull over so I could check that I indeed packed the backpack with my AirPods.
GoDaddy joins the dots and realizes it's been under attack for three years
This is the worst version of the robot voice "thanking me for my patience."

Human tragedy requires human response.
Sure it is. US isn't lying about China either. Where and what are you even talking about?

I already gave multiple examples about China and it's 'failed infrastructure' and you didn't refute 1. Just praising it without examples.

Here are some more:

- Their sea and neighboors: https://www.cfr.org/chinas-maritime-disputes/#!/chinas-marit...

- Violations with Taiwan airspace: https://www.ft.com/content/023764a2-6af2-4fbb-b75d-dd607c907... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-61642217

- Australia former PM accussed the West to be to friendly with China against Beijing ‘bullying’ - https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/feb/16/forme... ( another Chinese neighboor)

- China taking global fish supplies with their army of fisherman - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/26/world/asia/ch...

- Chinese "little blue men", like "little green men" during its 2014 annexation of Crimea.[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Armed_Forces_Mariti...

> The armed fishing fleet are part of China's power projection,[1] and are deployed to seize territory and to target anyone who challenges China's claims to the entire South China Sea. In 2016, 230 fishing boats swarmed the same islands

Here some more of their multiple "small" provocations since 1950 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_salami_slicing_strateg... ( notice the same "grey zone tactic as Russia did in Crimea - Ukraine)

And last but not least. If you think it's a coincidence that Russia waited to invade Ukraine (and wait for melting snow/ice) just after the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, you're naive :)

Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics ended on 20/02/2022.

Russia invaded Ukraine on 24/02/2022.

F*k China and F*k Russia. China is just using Russia as a proxy state, friends with "no limits"...

Fyi, I'm from Europe. We should get China out of Europe asap, similar to how we're not allowed to do business there.
I see two points: 1. scientific curiosity, and 2. people might enjoy seeing these animals.

Also, humans are terraforming this planet anyway so I don’t see a reason not to do it in a way to make room for previously extinct species.

Some other discussion could be if those animals would be happy living. Maybe we will have to ask whether we de-extinct Homo Erectus. Apparently, we're not even asking this for animals we eat…
Yeah, apple surely could've negotiated price discounts and I'm not sure what the bill of materials cost of the Toshiba hard drives were, but the larger IBM Microdrives were released in late 2000 and were $499 for the 1GB version (https://www.zdnet.com/article/ibm-1-gb-microdrive/). Even if that's a 100% markup, you're talking about $250 for 1GB.

Hard to build a consumer device with a MSRP of $399 if one of the components is over 60% of that cost. Competing firms estimated the total BOM for the original iPod at more like $200.

They were also surely looking at the potential trajectory of storage improvements too -- by the time the 4gb microdrives had been released in 2004, Apple was already shipping 40gb iPods and selling them for $499.
Tech jobs that do not require coding skills
I think my dog prefers her swimming pool and heart worm medication so she can live more than a few years. Humans have a negative effect on some ecosystems but it seems inevitable that viruses,fungi,etc will eventually take over without our intervention.
I think families _do_ have an option and it's listed in the article. The author just didn't want to take that route as it's more merging of accounts than they are comfortable with.

I'd frame it more like Apple doesn't support the idea of shared resources except in a family account setting. A good example could be roommates living in a house and sharing a dog. A family account makes no sense here and the systems in place don't support sharing an AirTag for them.
I agree that there should be a family sharing system for AirTags, but I'll also note that Apple specifically tells you not to use AirTags for pets.
this is unnecessary, of course I know this. It's the reason Americans are now engaging in 'health tourism' a.k.a. going anywhere else in the world to get health care, specially when they know the specific procedure they need.

throwing a capitalistic-optimizing 'machine' into health services has been a huge mistake which is seemingly impossible to fix... this is how systems collapse; when the system is so resistant to fixing its 'problems' that only changing the entirety (or a significantly larger chunk) of the system fixes the problems; but the problems have to be 'life or death' (or 'do-or-die') level for this to kick in.

the biggest issue is that for a level of the system there is no problem, people die anyways. but for another level of the system (the human individual perspective) this IS a problem. if/when the system ignores a level of itself it becomes unstable like it's happening now.
I get notifications that my AirPods are 'left behind' at the gym when I'm driving home, even though... I'm wearing them in the car and the case is in my pocket.

Yet... the one time I actually forgot the case in my gym locker, and got to the car... nothing.

Happens sometimes when I leave the office too; half a mile from the office I get an alert that I've left my AirPods at the office even though - again - I'm wearing them, they're connected to the phone I'm holding which is also with me (and moving) and the case is with me too.

This will become a 'boy who cried wolf' situation soon, if it's not already there.
Don't forget humans in that list
Yes, they have the same cores but the memory bandwidth is double the speed: “M2 Pro’s memory maxes out at 32GB, but the M2 Max can handle as much as 96GB. And memory bandwidth on the M2 Max is double that on the M2 Pro”.

You can see here the M2 Pro got an 80 benchmark and the M2 Max, the line above the commit, got a 72 (arbitrary numbers, for sure, but a real difference!):

https://github.com/devMEremenko/XcodeBenchmark/pull/393/comm...
If you removed it and then re-list essentially the same game under a different name first then all the people who already own it will have to re-buy it next time they update their phone. If you just raise the price then those people who already bought it will get to keep playing for free, and that's just leaving money on the table.
Ah, cool. I had thought it was just paired with my phone, and was somehow sad that it could not see it for a while. Your explanation makes more sense.
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They do, just not if they're using python. In Julia they absolutely do. Here's a matmul and LU respectively that are SOTA (especially for small matrices) https://github.com/JuliaLinearAlgebra/Octavian.jl and https://github.com/JuliaLinearAlgebra/RecursiveFactorization...
I think that’s similar to what Dave Thomas talks about here https://youtu.be/a-BOSpxYJ9M
This is technically correct, but I think this misses the point. Unhabitable future Earth with molten icebergs and polluted gray sky may, technically, be a "natural change" and a consequence of "natural" human actions.

But we, humans, want to avoid this future. The same goes for causing extinction of most wild animal species.

Edit: to expand on GP's point: imagine your house burned down, and somebody said "> Your property wasn't destroyed nor hurt in anyway. It just changed". Yeah, all the atoms are still there, but it changed in a way we find undesirable.
> What if a gas station finds that people keep fueling up and then driving off

I'd assume the price of gas would go up once they found it wasn't being subsidized by other sales.
Apple buying TSMC doesn't necessarily mean that they are restricting the supply of their competitors. I think you're confused about what anti-trust is or how it works.

A TSMC acquisition would only be subject to anti-trust if Apple restricted access to supplies that their competitors currently have access to. Buying/owning the means of supply for your competitors isn't subject to anti-trust. Apple would gladly continue supplying chips with TSMC. Their are fabs created for older features that Apple doesn't use that are core to TSMC's profitability. They're not going to cut that overnight. Especially under a COO-CEO like Cook.

The monopolistic practice of acquisition would be to hamstring your competition. In this case, the acquisition would be based on synergy.

Samsung, a phone competitor and also screen supplier to Apple, controls the OLED market. They are not subject to anti-trust because they supply a fair market.

A more current example would be the Microsoft Activision acquisition. Microsofts defense in that is that they will continue supplying Call Of Duty (and similar high profile games) to competitors.
Programming was my Plan B, too.

(Funny that it was for so many others.)

I tried startups for a while, 3x as a founder and 2x as a first engineer. I found I liked engineering more than business, design, and other roles.

I then joined a big company and fell in love with the work. Engineering with lots of resources and more hard problems than you have time for, in an environment that rewards EQ, is so much fun. I never expected it’s what I’d be doing.
(I am sorry, I posted on a wrong article)
Games could still do this (via a single one-time "microtransaction"), and some do this. But standard microtransactions are stupidly profitable, enough to tempt most devs.

And, frankly, the gaming industry at large has proven that paying up front does not prevent microtransactions. Even in mobile games.
It's about conveying atmosphere and mood, not conveying plot-points as rapidly as possible.

Same reason a book might spend two pages describing a lazy dog laying on a porch swatting flies with his tail, instead of cutting straight to who said/did what.
That feature disables the airtag. The airtag then no longer functions as an airtag.
Thanks! Yes! The renderer completely relies on multi_draw_indexed_indirect_count to batch everything, but I don't think it's available on the web spec yet. Without it, GPU culling and LOD-ing are a lot more toothless as we need to download the results from the GPU to the CPU.
Well, I find the arrogance in trying to undo Natural Selection quite cute. She'll win. Big time.
I think the problem is many employers focus on a one way, top-down relationship where the company has the power and the company/bosses word is all that matters.

Instead it should be a conversation around the two way relationship where both sides at least have the power to exit the relationship. Both sides should approach it as a conversation about the relationship and things that work / don't work from both sides.
Just speculating, but if the last Find My ping of the laptop happened at the origin airport, and you're disabling airplane mode on your phone at the destination, the Find My network could well believe your laptop is still at the origin airport until the laptop pings again.
PBT: Property-based testing
Google and Apple aggressively push developers to use IAPs rather than up-front paid games, and often won't feature games & apps costing more than 99c. They incentivized the current market.
I dunno, putting exclusive clubs at chargers sounds like a good way to build premium brand image. China is big. Building a cult in China sounds like good business. Until the CCP steps on you, I suppose?
Even just fix-ups can work out well, as my wife and I can attest nearly 40 years after we were fixed up by mutual friends.
A better way to show the need for a family sharing would be examples like shared car keys, and luggage.
I had added this paragraph before you posted but probably after you saw my comment:

>> Maybe Apple would have slightly higher storage capacities, but... we're talking about a relatively marginal difference compared to the gulf in storage capacity between these microdrive MP3 players and the flash based MP3 players of the time. An advantage, but not a revolution.

Regardless, it turns out that it wasn't even a capacity advantage, since the Personal Jukebox[0][1] was released in 1999 and offered 4.8GB of storage in a package that weighed 300g instead of the 185g of the 2001 iPod. A difference in weight, sure, but... modern smartphones are often between those two weights, so a few extra grams would have been fine and the Personal Jukebox would have flown off shelves, if storage capacity was the defining feature.

Just telling a compelling anecdote doesn't make it accurate. Apple had other advantages at the time, including the scroll wheel and iTunes, as well as brand recognition. Based on the evidence of what existed at the time, I do not think storage was the compelling thing that made iPod more of a success than the Personal Jukebox.

[0]: https://www.pcworld.com/article/520590/evolution_of_the_mp3_...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Jukebox
Just the end of the new software lifecycle: company revokes access and it disappears forever.
Because in the end, that's really it. Even if it's due to human intervention and even if that makes us feel sad.

At some point, a new habitat will reach a new balance with our introduced species and there's no going back.

And yes, there may be less diversity in species all over the world (for the time being) thanks to that. But once the new species learn to reproduce and survive in a new place, then that is the "new" state of the habitat.

I agree we should strive to not fuck up our place on the planet. But habitats will change whether we like it or not.

Maybe in a million years feral cats in Australia will differentiate themselves with the ones in Europe.
And me thinking it was about ML the language.
Because they hire themselves. There is just no way you can remove middling beauracracy without a full purge of the entire system. Which academia is ripe to have IMO.
No, you’re right, the invisible metatags do not exist, not even in a spiritual plane. Nevertheless, most people believe they do exist, although they would not use the phrase “invisible metatags”.

To put the “respect their consensus reality” claim into a different format: every computer’s implementation of == will return true for the two strings, but most human brain implementations of == will return false - i.e. the difference isn’t in the string, it’s in the comparator function. The human brain implementation is obviously bugged, but the maintainer (whether God or evolution) isn’t accepting pull requests, so the bug is unlikely to ever be fixed. If you have to interface with the human implementation anyway, you simply have to account for this oddity. It’s like supporting Internet Explorer on your website.
Being logical is helpful in many fields!
What's up with the tons of fresh accounts (all created 3 days ago) posting plagiarized snippets in the comments? Various snippets from news articles, Quora, etc.

Sample of accounts:
ChillNilly, LadyXaga, NerdAlerts, SuperDud, QueenBean, Moonshining, LetFree, FoxyFox22, TurkeyTurtle, LovableLily, BeingBean, CandyRandy, AdorableLama, WiseWolfie, WoozyWarrior, PenguinPeace, SunnyHorsey, SunnyMaylor, WiseSnail, ZappyHippo, FriendlyFlame, PudgyPanda, FriendlyFlame
If you’re in the same icloud family, this isn’t a problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34897040
Sure, and of course this is the essence of printf-debugging. You probably have a rough idea where the problem is, so throw in some printf statements to narrow it down, then maybe a 2nd set/etc to further narrow it as needed.

A brute force (non-targetted) binary search may always be an option if you have a problem where you don't even know where to look.
So I can walk around and disable every airtag in sight? Some important information must be missing here...
True, but what I'm saying is that the same overall approach - at least in my case - worked well in the US, even though things were harder at first (some tweaks were needed indeed). I bet things would be different in India or Saudi Arabia, however we're talking about the US here. I'm saying that if young American men had the opportunity to learn how to court women, they would have no problems finding mates.
> Accordingly, Disney will even restrict the availability of their old movies on DVD.

I don't know if this applies to Disney given they just launched a massive streaming service containing almost all of their back catalogue.
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34886629 (> 60 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34855265 (> 80 comments)
I'm right up there with you.

I will admit that paying like $15 four years ago for Stardew Valley on iOS felt a bit weird, but $15 is pretty cheap considering that it's the full game. It doesn't make you buy gems every twenty minutes, or watch an ad every time you plant six crops, or spam your friend to share your status for some extra gold.

It's a full game, and you pay a nominally-high-but-ultimately-reasonable price for it.

Similarly, The Binding of Isaac is also a pretty good iOS game. I don't remember how much I paid, but it was slightly higher than average, but it doesn't spam me with any microtransaction crap.
It’s hard to get people to pay for anything anymore.

For instance, Soul Caliber was ported to iOS and it costs $10. I think I might have been one of the few people who bought it.

It seems like the only way that you can make non scammy games make sense is via subscriptions like with Apple Arcade and even then it’s probably a loss leader for Apple and they subsidize game makers.

This is partially the fault of the App Store model that doesn’t allow upgrade pricing.
I have this crazy idea of using software 2.0 to write software 1.0.
I’m not sure if I follow. Do you mean no one is smart enough to be an engineer?
I’ve heard similar reports, but I keep air tags in my kid’s backpacks and the tags never seem to make noises in them.

Maybe because they are in predictable contact with me / predictable routes.
Fuzzy logic is not approximate, and definitely not high performance.
Is there someone on HN who can speak to how fast gene editing technology is improving? I was a bit skeptical of the author's claim that construction of a mammoth genome would require 5000 years, but I couldn't find any information in a cursory search on what the technology improvement speed is.
For 'actual undefined behaviour' Clang's UBSAN is the better choice though (and for completeness: -Wall, -Wextra, --analyze or better clang-tidy and finally ASAN and TSAN).
>> half of the rust stuff needs to use the 'unsafe' keyword.

If this is true for the Rust code you are writing, either you are doing it wrong or perhaps you are writing lots of low-level embedded / drivers code?

Having written C and C++ for years and now learning Rust, I much prefer the safety and nice features of Rust. Coding in C and C++ now feels like driving in a car without a seatbelt: you can do it if you don't have other options, but if you do have the choice, why wouldn't you?
Are you an ecologist?
One thing you learn from reading many books, even at 2x, is that many people prefer lots of things differently, and that that works well for them. If listening at 2x is not your thing, I suggest you find another way to learn that lesson. Based on your comment, you still have to learn that.