skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might be more prudent to write some unit tests to enforce the desired behavior, in particular any edge cases the current solution supports that past solutions didn’t support.

Then when working on refactoring you have the tests as a reminder of what cases need to be supported.
Selling to retail is a long con.

Once you manage to get VC money, there are endless way to loot it. The stupider the VC, the easier it is.

You can pay yourself, you can sell stock on the secondary market, you can do non-arm's-length deals, and so on.

Adam Neumann became a billionaire without selling to retail investors.
This seems like a pretty pedantic reply. Yeah they have a vague CYA after the click bait headline. The OP is clearly responding to the fact that the original click bait headline and the tenor of the article intimates a much higher certainty than an unqualified 'slight indication' might convey. It's like GPT Chat where the syntax is flawless and the writing is authoritative regardless of its relation to reality. There is maybe a reason that a bunch of upper crust people in London, who are really interested in finance, weren't able to get high paying jobs in working in finance.
That too suggests a conspiracy though.

Since the 1% are unlikely to be the ones writing the actual articles, you're going to have to have co-conspirator reporters, writers, editors, publishers. Being coerced by the 1% would in itself be quite a story, ha ha.

Perhaps though you can imagine though a more subtle, undetectable way in which the 1% are able to project their viewpoint via the media that doesn't involve co-conspirators.

Like the person you replied to though, I think Occam's razor suggests instead that these articles get clicks.
Does anyone know whether there's any implication for Signal? Will they have to comply as well and make their app interoperable with other messaging apps?
Yesterday, I got commented x86_64_avx assembly code instead of that horrible c++ code for a vectorized quicksort for numbers.

(Somebody did that for me, as access to chatgpt is hostile to noscript/basic (x)html browsers).

It seems "it" is kind of good at sketching assembly from high level languages.
There are two lessons in the boy who cried wolf.

Every day the boy would cry wolf and eventually the towns people stopped believing him. Then a wolf came and the boy had already lost his credibility so nobody believed him. Then the wolf ate all the sheep.

The first lesson is the boy’s, don’t burn trust by crying wolf.

The second lesson is the town’s. They let the boy desensitize them to wolves and now all their sheep are dead.
>I've never met anyone of any age who doesn't have it.

Now you have.
> It would be fun if the social credit score could be manipulated by the chat.

This would be a fun idea, and I'd be happy to implement this if somebody wants to support this project with an OpenAI API key that has like $120 credits.

When I constrain all users to only 5 "social credits", that helps me reduce my OpenAI bill.
> Side note: Interestingly, teen loneliness briefly went way down from about 1996 to about 2006. That’s consistent with the idea that the old computer-based internet was a complement to in-person interaction

That’s been my experience too. In the early year, I remember having long conversations with different friends every night on AIM. Even some casual acquaintances ended up being good friends because of the conversation we had. I kept up with people all over the world with personal e-mail, sometimes for years.

It does seems that between 2010-14 or so, people disappeared en masse from AIM. People stopped writing back to personal e-mail. Everyone migrated to social media, even though social media wasn’t a replacement. Every thing was public, good friend and strangers being in the same bucket. Long form conversations between two people disappeared. Someone would through out something to everyone they were connected to, and you could comment or ignore it. Communication just became very public, impersonal, and shallow.
Oof, this makes me sad. Sure it's always good to have the facts at hand if actually necessary, but open discussion is great and sorely missing from a lot of modern interactions.
Some days I feel highly productive, some days I feel like a dumbass.

There was one day I felt like I was struggling to do very simple things, but then when we had a status meeting and wrote a paragraph about what I did that week and I seemed like an action hero out of a movie.
It's sad how much of this sounded like pure sci-fi to me. And that's not to be critical - I'm in a world where observability means snmp and frequently modbus. So much of this hit home that I'm in the wrong century.
I definitely admire your optimism, I gotta say. It is very cool and is certainly able to produce some mind blowing artifacts, but it feels like it's going to absolutely obliterate some jobs and not really create too much new stuff. It will increase productivity in a handful of fields though. My predictions:

Obliterate: Copywriters

Increase Productivity: Programmers, Lawyers

Create: ???
Being able to handle arbitrarily polygons isn't insane complexity, it's actually the minimum viable complexity needed to handle any basic shape a user might want to use.

Limiting them to a handful of precomputed ones is the kind of limitation only a software developer can live with and love.

And once you can handle arbitrary polygons, writing and maintaining special case code has to be justified with evidence that your code is spending enough time on area calculations that it's worth optimizing and maintaining extra lines of code for.
A couple other thoughts for people who are looking around.

- I had a consumer M-Audio interface that was always a bit weird. One day well outside the warranty period I popped the lid off and discovered a tombstoned resistor and two bodge wires on the PCB. I reached out to M-Audio on Twitter and the best they could do was offer me a $20 discount on another interface. Very unimpressed.

- I replaced it with a Behringer UMC404HD and the very first thing I did when it arrived was pop the cover off. I'm an EE by trade and I was very impressed by the design. The board layout etc was nice, but the part that really surprised me was the pre-amps for the mic inputs. Maybe I'm weird for feeling this way, but the folks who designed it have taste. The pre-amps are designed around some NJR op-amps; NJR parts are notorious for being slew-rate-limited for a lot of applications, but to my ears they sound absolutely buttery smooth. The fact that the designers used those parts instead of some jelly-bean "flat" op-amps really made me appreciate the consideration that went into the design.

Edit: and yes, I know Behringer has a bit of a reputation for being "kinda cheap and kinda crappy" but I have zero complaints and I've had this unit for a few years now.
In this space - Iive been using (on-and-off) logseq and enjoying it
https://logseq.com
Heat mostly travels through air, air gets hot from being in contact with hot things. The heat will be reflected back to space.
> And I have no idea why people might want that

If you can anticipate the market movements, you can profit from that (and vice versa). So maybe those investors have placed big bets on a recession but it isn't happening — and they just desperately want it to happen anyway.
> C++ has no analogue of the Crater Run as of yet...

It does in the form of large organizations with large codebases that try out candidate releases and file bug reports.

It's not managed by a central "C++ team" as such if that's what you mean, but there are N independent C++ implementations. At some point we're comparing organizational structure and not technology outcomes.
Microsoft Excel will be the first to implement it.

"That's a nice looking number you got there... wouldn't it be a shame if I were to convert it to MOON TIME!"
Give it 6 months. Maybe less -- the proof of concept was already pretty good.

Gotta make it a little more subtle.
> That's kind of irrelevant because they are currently developing a lot of apps to replace the functionality they'd get in Android for free.

This is not true. They are stuck with hardware-specific things like power management, camera, and LTE calls. "Calls" application itself was developed very quickly, for example.
The solution I use to minimise this is Element One (https://element.io/element-one). This is a paid for service that operates bridges from Matrix to Signal, WhatsApp and Telegram. I then get to communicate with all those contacts in one place (I'm on Android so iMessage not a problem).

I signed up the moment it came out and they had some teething reliability problems for a while, but it's been great for months now. Element is a much better web client than any of the others and it's nice to not have to worry about which computer or platform I'm on when I want to write a message.
Well, people seem to be enjoying it. I wouldn't go as far as calling it useless.
I honestly think the Subject line was the death of email.
I doubt it.

ChatGPT is an amazing innovation. But it won't be long before a company gets blowback because of something their ChatGPT customer service said.
It's worth a shot, thanks.
I liked some of the crossover rap metal stuff it generated, reminds me of the early 2000s ;)
To me it's not about what I have to do, but the fact that someone else is serving me for probably a pitiful wage. I'd rather they get paid well, but they don't. So I tip. Even if they do a bad job because I know everyone has bad days.
I don't think I can upvote this hard enough. Getting people to think and talk about what they do in context provides a lot of great insight in how to use tech (or not use it) to solve their problems.
No, apple hardware is better. And now software will be better too.
I've been using Android for years and I rarely receive any spam via SMS or Whatsapp. Maybe once or twice a year.
100% true. People will always find an addiction if they don't watch themselves. TV, social networks, gaming, it doesn't matter.

They answer is to be able to control yourself, and be moderate, no matter what the temptation is.
I suppose the default among free e-mail providers is to devotedly archive everything. So, when an AI that mines your email can generate adult replies, we should blame that kneejerk archiving of spam.
It seems to be a kind of common knowledge that a bit of blue makes a white look whiter. I wonder if there's any studies done on this tho.
Thanks! probably a consequence of hanging out on HN :P
It's not the engineers fault that the product they created is bad. It might simply be because there's no place for such product in the first place independent of execution.
> Meanwhile WhatsApp installs only on one device (phone OR tablet, not both).

You can link a device (but I haven't checked it)

https://faq.whatsapp.com/1317564962315842/

https://faq.whatsapp.com/378279804439436

WhatsApp companion mode lets you use the same account on multiple phones
https://mashable.com/article/whatsapp-companion-mode-multipl...
I think it's purely FCC like regulation/certification, at least from what I've read in the device description. Also, they have an "asset tracking device" that claims to have world coverage.

Swarm provide global coverage over all regions, but there are regulatory restrictions for specific countries.

The current list of approved countries / regions for the M138 Modem is: USA, Antarctica, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, Georgia, Germany, Greenland, Iceland, Ireland, New Zealand, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom and International Waters (12 nautical miles offshore).

Swarm continues to grow this list of approved countries as quickly as possible. Customers will receive regular updates on approved regions through the Swarm newsletter.
And more specifically means that Apple can't prevent you using other Web Browsers etc.
> It would be near-impossible to make an analog clock, for example,

Why would that be an issue? You still have the hours hand make a full rotation in one period, and you make markings at each hour. You just have separate markings at 24 o'clock and 0 o'clock.
>Yeah. Just look what they got from that.

An absolute great OS?

>hardly any upstream contribution (Apple, Sony, etc)

Sony paid FreeBSD dev's, and the Apple kernel and coreutils are opensource, it's just they have not done anything FreeBSD is interested in, not like for example Netflix with in-kernel tls.

>At this rate BSDs will be deader than dead within a few years.

Yes yes you said that already 20 years ago, it's probably time to overthink it.
There was a brief period of time where I was able to use IRC, Facebook and MSN from the same client: Pidgin

https://pidgin.im/
Absolutely, the only thing we need is a way to get rid of the excess hominid biomass.

Productivity is definitely going through the roof though. Can't wait to see the NYSE ticker results.
Sure, but you didn't require Nikes to be kept in the loop with socializing with most of your peers. You could find plenty of people to hang out with that didn't require your wear Nikes. But there aren't a lot of people who are into the idea of limiting themselves to a small subset of available communication methods. All your friends are in a group chat and that's where the conversation is happening most of the time.

Not to mention the classic style of dating doesn't really exist any more. Now it requires a bunch of getting to know each other outside of dates through texting. Maybe you can find someone who isn't into that, but good luck. You've cut out most of your options, not to mention - where are you supposed to find this person? An online community for people who don't go online as much?
What is your use case? Or, why do you want or need such extreme privacy with your notes?
Basically a Black Mirror episode at this point
* I absolutely agree that publicly funded research should not be behind paywalls, but right now with MNRAS it is not. Pretty much everyone puts paper on arxiv and people in the UK had to deposit papers into university repositories anyway where it is available for free. (This may not apply in all fields, but it is certainly true in astronomy)

* I have just applied for a UKRI grant this week and we are not allowed to put in page charges there full stop. (I am also lucky to be in Scotland where there is a special deal with MNRAS where we don't have to pay)

* I agree waivers are good, but there are plenty of people without external funding even in 'rich' countries like UK/USA etc. It's enough to see the success rates for grants to realise that many people don't have them.
If you're looking to detox, but don't want to regress all the way to a dumbphone, Unihertz has some great tiny Android phones: https://www.unihertz.com/

Everything works (Maps, Uber, etc) but the screen is so small you won't want to use it very much.
The WhatsApp desktop beta for macOS is built using Catalyst, and it's pretty nice. Catalyst is when an iOS and macOS app share one codebase, but can have different interfaces. I've been using it for a few weeks and no complaints so far. I believe the stable version app is Electron (or some web technology). The beta is full on native now!
I am also curious about the liability bit and whether its just a high level talking point or tied to an executive order. The PDF [1] does not really give more context or details. Now I have more questions than answers. Many of the things they mention would require cooperation from most countries or building a great-firewall or potentially requiring all packets to be government authenticated.

[1] - https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Nation...
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What Id say is that today anyone who wants to sell a “smart” product has to write a proper clean iOS app that gets reviewed.

Tomorrow I can guarantee they will immediately cut costs and ship out piles of sideloaded garbage

Sure, it’s up to the consumer to choose, but they’re not going to write that on the package
> There are also technical issues to consider. Clocks run faster on the moon than on Earth, gaining about 56 microseconds each day, the space agency said. Further complicating matters, ticking occurs differently on the lunar surface than in lunar orbit.

At first this sounded like they were describing a mechanical issue with analog clocks, but they're not: time on the moon actually moves this much faster relative to Earth because Earth's gravity warps time more than the moon's does.
The US has had consecutive quarters of GDP decline in 2022, historically a very strong correlate with a declared recession.

The National Bureau of Economic Research has not declared that the U.S. economy is in a recession, so officially/definitionally the US is not determined to be in a recession.
Cars are too dangerous for them to be quiet, which might increase accidents.

I want a quieter environment too, but one with dramatically less cars.
I do not know what may or may not happen as if I knew, I’d become very rich. My point here is that the article from 2000 indicates soft landing when the landing definitely was not soft at that time. Just wanted to show the value of such articles.
Setting up Knot DNS – DNSSEC, GeoDNS, RFC2136, authenticated zonefile sync
OTOH, it's far easier to do basic maintenance on an EV than it is on an ICE, mostly because there's so much less to do. You can get away with just doing tires & windshield wipers, but you should also occasionally lube the brakes, test the brake fluid for water and change the cabin air filter.
A lot of companies grew a lot, there's a lot of economic stress/caution, budgets are tight for things like travel, a lot of scrutiny around goals/performance measurement/financial metrics/etc. While there are certainly pockets of interesting activity, I see larger companies certainly battening down hatches. Was talking to someone just last night who is counting down the days to their next vest then they're out. I have to believe a lot of employee survey results at the moment are a train wreck.
It's not the ebikes that he's saying are dangerous, it's the couriers. I got hit by a Getir rider in Brookline (probably near the parent) who zipped the wrong way out of a one-way street into the crosswalk I was using. Any vehicle driven by someone who isn't following the general rules/flow/expectations of everyone around them is dangerous.

And large vehicles are dangerous too. But that's orthogonal.
Cool, now I can by hundreds of things that cost $3.40 and only pay once.
Is FreeBSD bringing anything special and mention-worthy to the table here or is this just a post in the realm of "Hey, FreeBSD can do this, too!"? Not a rant (I'm working with OpenBSD and/or FreeBSD almost daily) but more of a question if I have missed anything.
For a second I wanted to argue with your claim that looking up stuff destroys the ability to remember, but then I realized that since Google Maps exists, I can't reliably circle a block without my phone and not get lost in the process.
> I genuinely don't understand the angry and bullying tone coming across in these type of articles lately.

Uh, it's literally in the second paragraph:

'I’m mad because I’ve been hearing this line of thinking for years from many different sources, and—just like Alex—I feel in the strongest possible terms that it’s “astonishingly, gobsmackingly effective bullshit.”'

This is a theme that's threaded throughout the piece. For example:

'I kid you not, I was emphatically informed that my skills as a Ruby on Rails web developer were no longer relevant to “modern” developer practice.'

The point is: The author feels like they are the ones that have been bullied, for years, by folks pushing the SPA hype cycle, and 'ridiculed ... for [their] choice of technology stack/language/etc'.

And I can't really blame them.
From what I recall, only HomePods support multiple timers... it's aggravating.
Even their marketing seems to give this impression. They seem more focussed on the fact that it is encrypted than the actual product itself.
> Things started getting worse around 2012 or 2013

During 2012-2013 all Symbian[0] smartphones got last updates and then was abandoned by Nokia.[1,2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian

[1] https://www.phonearena.com/news/The-last-Symbian-update-FP2-...

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2013/06/13/rip-symbian/
Hi, greetings from Uithoorn. Please to meet you.

I uninstalled WhatsApp when they updated their policy.
Most of my friends don't frequently read their emails and have such bad inbox hygiene that I would expect them to miss half of my emails.
TypeScript Magic
As an avid cyclist it really bothers me when any cyclist, e-bike or not, violates the rules of the road. It's so important we follow them. Much of the hatred received is because of bikers doing things they are not supposed to giving us a bad reputation.
If you're a strong SWE, feel free to apply regardless. We have multiple postings, but internally roles are very flexible.
This only applies to the very biggest companies. It is about preventing companies using their scale and dominance to prevent innovation in OTHERS. It opens UP the market.
1. Batteries with enough amp hours capacity in a small enough size are still many decades if not a hundred years out.

2. Motors and actuators have to get a lot more powerful and a lot smaller, also decades out.

3. Pressure sensors need a lot of work and miniaturization.

4. The AI needed to make it all work needs a shitload of data consisting of real world interactions using the above hardware so we will need to spend a long time training these robots but even after we have a working model the hardware required to run it might not fit in the robot itself so we'll have to solve the network problems with transmitting all the sensory data and individual commands for all the micro-actuators.

This is all assuming you want a robot with human level dexterity, speed and abilities. Clumsier ones that can't do all the jobs that humans can will obviously arrive sooner but that doesn't solve the problem of eliminating all manual labour.
By what definition? GDP growth was around 3% for Q3 and Q4
It should have 2022 in the title.
>>No, that's exactly what Qualcomm demanded. The fact that they have changed their demands over time after various court losses does not change the past.

Sure, that's a fig of your imagination. You simply don't know how Qualcomm's, or the industry's, licensing model works. I also suspect that you didn't even bother to read the court case you cited, the Motorola case.

Let me just say again for one last time: Apple lost or settled every lawsuit involving wireless patent royalty basis claim. If Apple ever prevailed in one case cracking the industry's per-device royalty-basis model, they wouldn't have bought Intel's failing wireless business out of desperation after losing the last legal battle with Qualcomm in 2019, which Apple settled just one day after the trial started.
Check out the documentary The Secret Lives of Trees. Blew my mind.