skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Does Apple have anything as nice as Spotify Connect

It sure doesn't. I generally love Apple Music, but you can really feel the neglect Apple pays to its non-preferred platforms once you attempt to use it on 3rd party hardware.

Listening to Apple Music on the PS5 while playing a videogame is way more kludgy than it needs to be. The little pop-up card in the dashboard never seems to completely match the recently played on my phone, and only provides about a dozen shortcuts to recent plays and albums apparently randomly selected from my library. Launching the full app will often close the game or disconnect it from the internet and send it back to the homescreen. Attempting to use Airplay will, of course, completely exit the game and take over the entire PS5 with Apple TV.

By comparison, the Spotify experience was: Start game. Open spotify, tap Connect. Tap PS5. Play whatever I want, done. This feature was the single biggest factor keeping me on Spotify but after getting an AVR with Atmos support I just couldn't stay on that platform, which seems to get less investment into music related features relative to everything else every year.
> To keep compatibility with current code using postgres.js.

That makes a lot of sense - not needing an additional driver/client package is indeed a good point. Any plans to add a HTTP based API though anyway?
[2005] A lot has happened since then.
Not an app so to speak but a browser addon [1] that redirects to privacy site-specific proxies for Reddit, Youtube, Twitter and several others. Each can be toggled on/off.

[1] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/
Or Australians... or Malaysians... or Japanese...
> Yes, all industries attract bad actors. But the cryptocurrency space seems to be largely run by bad actors. Not everyone, of course, but a disturbingly large percentage.

Source? Seriously. I mean, we have CEX going down with SBF and Molly White posting anti-web3 stuff. I'm sorry, but that isn't the core fundamental technology that we're talking about here.

> I don't actually see a lot of that happening here, though.

Again... media focuses on the failures and not on the successes.

ETH moving to proof-of-stake was a massive technological advancement that only happened after many years of development, and has gone off without a hitch.

While, at the same time literally decimating all of the GPU based proof-of-work mining in a single day. Not only that, but they were able to MVP release the code without even implementing withdraw! People have trusted the developers with 0.40T dollars worth of value [0]. It is not insignificant.

Next up is some really interesting work being done with zero-knowledge proofs, which will enable the scaling phase of blockchain to happen.

Please try to get past the HN trope of 'crypto has zero purpose other than number goes up or down and bitcoin mining is destroying the planet' and look at what is actually happening in the industry.

[0] https://ultrasound.money/
IIRC, new housing is not being approved for construction mainly because the local gov is full of people who own real estate. In a natural situation, supply would be increased to meet demand.
TikTok is superior in rapidly distributing relatively niche information to enormous quantities of interested parties.

I believe the current recommended example is "Go look up France on TikTok vs look up France on Instagram"

Addendum: TikTok is also superior at dynamically generating an advertisable collective that are specifically interested and desiring of the ads they're given. Five million small businesses found their place on TikTok entirely because they found their 2000-person size niche that would be interested in buying their product, and even encouraged them to buy it.
Since the "Used by" is some kind of horrible marquee something, I can't readily tell but it looks like your own Discord is not among the used-by list. Is that true?
I plugged in https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Enzyme_inhibitor. Then asked it if computers can be used to identify if a compound is a enzyme inhibitor. What a surprise.
It's weird that no one has reported this issue yet.
Have you personally tested this in a blind study? I have, and the higher quality made a noticeable difference and I was able to identify it and prefer it across all test cases. The others I tested with did not notice any difference. It could be one of those cilantro things idk. But other accounts are in line with my experience: https://audiophilereview.com/audiophile-music/yes-19224-file...
The composers of some very early jazz standards are literally unknown, or unverifiable!
I'm finding that one of ChatGPT strengths is summarizing fluff-heavy texts.
> … how is the Bay Area housing market artificially inflated?

I shouldn’t have an opinion on this because I don’t live in the Bay Area or closely follow its politics, but the most common refrain I see is that policies (e.g., zoning) prevent building more and higher density housing, thus artificially limiting supply.
Isn't max credit card float closer to 7 weeks? If you buy something the day after statement close, it takes 4 weeksish to issue another statement, and is due in another 3 weeks. Obviously if you bought at the wrong time in the cycle, the day before statement close, your float can be as little as 3 weeks.
Great demo video - I like the focus on being open an flexible, knowing how much will change in the next year.
Can you give some details about the concept of transforming a pdf into a GPT input?
Another great interactive explanation.

I wish physics teachers start using geometric product of vectors, instead of the cross product. This allows forces and torques to be combined into a single concept "Forque". Really, translations are just rotations around infinity and rotations are just composition of two reflections. If we allow the algebra to take care of rotations, physics becomes a lot simpler.
I was thinking the same thing. My understanding was prior to iPhone, phones were purchased outright, typically costing a couple hundred dollars, and there wasn't such a thing as paying off the phone as part of your monthly cell phone bill.

I have always purchased my phones outright, but am curious if there are fees, interest, or a higher total cost of payments via financing (fees and interest on missed payments).

That's the only justification I could use to say "maybe Steve would be good with it".
Thanks! Don't think I'll ever care that much about Pokemon but good to know, and I'll take a look at that list!
Great link. But I assume Apple BNPL is not collecting 300bps extra processing fees from any and all merchants that accept Apple Pay.
When I tried out Tidal a while ago I noticed that it handled the liner notes type stuff much better than Spotify or anyone else.

Very much was able to do the sort of things you're alluding to, noticing you like a drummer on a track then clicking on them and finding out what else they've done. That sort of thing can't be done on Spotify.

There's a lot more potential with that sort of stuff that no one is yet doing.

I'd be delighted to see an Apple Jazz app.
> It’s way easier to look at your monthly take home income and justify $100 per month for 12 months than a 1 time purchase of $1200.

I think you should note that for apple, they are splitting payments into 4 over 6 weeks. So your example wouldn't fit the discussion we're having here.
Yes! But first we want to implement some essential features, like full lambda support and some high priority optimizations. Once HVM is ready to support production software, we'll provide docs on how to best use it as a general compilation target. This will be announced in our Discord server: http://discord.higherorderco.com/
A great book on the science of bicycles is "Bicycling Science" from MIT press. https://www.amazon.com/Bicycling-Science-Press-Gordon-Wilson...
Well, being somewhat homeless is an issue for me as well. While the idea of being a free spirit is nice, I suspect that society will more or less expect me to provide shelter for said children. As I said, there really are multiple problems with the whole idea.
Three dead after dog falls 13 floors (1988)
North Dakota to require cybersecurity education in public schools
Yeah let's chat! My contact info is in my profile.
> Trained using the Chinchilla formula, these models provide the highest accuracy for a given compute budget.

I'm confused as to why 111 million parameter models are trained with the Chinchilla formula. Why not scale up the training data? If you're training smaller models, surely optimizing performance is better than optimizing total compute.

Seems like a silly misunderstanding of the Chinchilla paper, but I'm sure I'm missing something
Zoning and other municipal restrictions along with environmental regulations dampen the supply of housing
I don't understand what an advantage there is if you finance a purchase but have to pay off the installments every 2 weeks.
I doubt that there are so many people getting paid bi-monthly.
The browsers default scroll implementation never feels like scrolling in native apps.
The FBI Has Been Buying Bulk Internet Data from This Florida Company
If anyone wants to play around with an interactive demo of this kind of thing, check out https://textshader.com and select the "bounce" example!
> I feel for Korean culture, split in half by AmeriRussian "interactions".

Germany reunified. Korea might have as well had it not been for North Korea's invasion of South Korea, and China's support of North Korea as a buffer zone.

And why no blame for Japan?

And what "internet principles" are you writing about? Everyone can access everything? This hasn't ever been the case. There have always been access controls.
Me too! I didn’t know about the follow up advert until today actually. I found it while I was looking up my links.

I’m so happy to have a happy ending redemption arc for the lamp… I shed more than a few tears over this advert over the last decade and a bit… it’s a fucking excellent work of how minimal you can be while maximising emotional content… the feeling that it’s not just one simple story of lamp to dumpster is truly the ending the story needs.
How Gen Z is embracing The Smiths on TikTok
Namecheap is buying and holding onto domains you're interested in?
Allow to play Devil's Advocate for a moment: Why should bribery of a foreign official be illegal in the United States?
Friendly reminder that the TikTok ban is actually the Restrict Act, and that is a much larger, more aggressive and powerful piece of legislation that's being pushed through than just a "TikTok Ban":

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/686...
> For admission to Chief, a women’s leadership network, members pay up to $7,900. That gets them executive coaching, big-name speaker sessions, a Rolodex of female executives and, for an extra cost, access to five sleek clubhouses. Chief is essentially an “old boys’ club” — for the ladies. The venture capital-backed company has grown to over 20,000 members and over $1 billion in value since it started in 2019.

So ... can we have the "old boys' clubs" back now, for the other half of the species? Somehow I don't think so.
> with no impact to their credit[4]

> 4. Upon purchase, a user’s Apple Pay Later loan and payment history may be reported to credit bureaus and impact their credit.

What? Doesn't that footnote directly contradict the text that references it?
The way I see it, you have these tech companies that are writing larger and larger checks to their employees. Combine that with limited housing and you start getting bidding wars from folks making $500k, all of a sudden that house that went for $600k is now going for $1.2M. If you work back from that price you see that the prices would not have been able to go that high had all these tech companies not offered massive comp packages.
"The US Government has very little interest in becoming the employer of mines overseas... "

US does this for Oil rather. It isn't so sophisticated in mining. But it has occupied the Syrian oil fields and uses them to supply military bases.

Crickets in the media - because it wouldn't look good.
No current app has come near Rdio in terms of music discovery. IIRC, you could also comment on albums, which was awesome.
Scientists erupt at NASA gutting funding for crucial Venus mission
Just wait until WASM containers become the next big thing (TM).
Dog-fooding!
I had an almost end of life experience and the final moment about to happen was accompanied by a feeling of euphoria and had a vanishing point the single path meander motif pattern was spiralling toward.
It's always good to understand what the policy is on an offer like this, but most credit card intro rates are not like this - it is typically store charge accounts that offer "12 months same as cash" that accrue interest and add it if not repaid during the time offered.
Iceland is too expensive I would imagine.. go Latin America or Southeast Asia, problem is that it's hard to get to stay there long-term unless you go through the bureaucracy.. some expats have speculated for years that America uses its influence overseas to prevent Americans from moving overseas permanently to cheap Nations like the third world
This kind of thing has been on my fantasy wishlist for Nix for a long time. I am so glad to see experiments like this being done at a company that is dedicating resources to the Nix ecosystem with the potential to rapidly follow through if they see something valuable there.

With so many fruitful experiments in the Nix ecosystem being carried out by people who can dedicate more time to Nix than ever, I increasingly feel like I'm wasting my life by not seriously working on or with the Nix ecosystem as my main daily occupation.

I know there are still unresolved difficulties and growing pains, but later seems like such a stupid time to really dive in, for people who already know Nix and are already excited about it.
I hope so, too! I like asdf as a concept but it's just way too slow for daily use.
Small as in 8kb page. A sizable Postgres database would have millions of them.

Lots of stuff on the web. Quick googling found: https://www.upsolver.com/blog/small-file-problem-s3
most of the online places I shop at allow account-less purchasing using PayPal. I know PayPal has some negatives as well, but those rarely impact buyers. Probably 95% of my online shopping passes through PayPal, though I do maintain accounts at a few online shops like B&H or KEH and with them I usually use direct CC/DC purchasing.
I was nitpicking about 0.06 dollars versus 0.06 cents. It's this ancient meme, where a guy records a customer service call with Verizon where they have some back-and-forth about whether these are the same or not.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MShv_74FNWU
Your logic that the cost of a cup of coffee has effectively gone up by $1 because you have voluntarily given a $1 tip which you didn't but could have given prior is completely illogical.
Archive link: https://archive.ph/498OL
I've noticed that soundtracks show up in this Classical music app, so some (not all) of my Tamil songs (which are songs from movies because that's how most pop/commercial music in India is released) are listed there now.
But Apple BNPL applies to all merchants that accept Apple Pay. I cannot imagine that Target/Albertsons/Trader Joes/Costco/etc agreed to pay an extra 3% in payment processing fees if their customer chooses to use Apple BNPL.
No it's *incredibly* trivial. Just have human reviewers.
Or, with proper formatting:

C THE CALLEE
SUBROUTINE X(I)
GO TO I
END
C THE CALLER
ASSIGN 10 TO J
CALL X(J)
C THIS IS NEVER REACHED
STOP
10 WRITE(3,100)
100 FORMAT(8H THIS IS)
END
So it took 48 hours for this prediction to come true rather than '3 ~ 6 months'. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35311735
Yes Agent, this comment right here.
A much worse book on the science of bicycles is "The Third Policeman" from Flann O'Brien.

Some of its wisdom:

“The gross and net result of it is that people who spent most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get their personalities mixed up with the personalities of their bicycle as a result of the interchanging of the atoms of each of them and you would be surprised at the number of people in these parts who are nearly half people and half bicycles...when a man lets things go so far that he is more than half a bicycle, you will not see him so much because he spends a lot of his time leaning with one elbow on walls or standing propped by one foot at kerbstones.”
I see new post from Bartosz, I upvote. Simple as that.
And the company that shouldn't be named on HN, Oracle.
I'm referring to the most recent artificial fluctuations in home prices that were not caused by some noticeable increase in people living in the Bay capable of paying off a 1.2 M loan, rather than referring to the default baseline of high prices.
I know that Python builders do exist out there. Personally, I've found Nushell much more concise than Python et al and quite adequate for the task at hand. But who knows, maybe I should do a whole series :)
They made a better opium that happens to also track and read the minds of users.

Some of us think all social media is trash for the mind and society, and think it's doubleplusungood when a hostile foreign power controls the algo.

You're implying that I root for Instagram. That's not the angle.
How about private link?
But will I get notified?
If they're large enough, they can get away with it, and the bank's insurance just eats the cost.

Experian routinely generates unauthorized credit card charges. The banks know, but they rely too heavily on the credit rating industry to stand up to them.
They've been taking the shotgun approach for a while. Their product isn't any individual component, it's the platform as a whole. Why people want a company that sells:
- Phones

- Computers

- Tablets

- Headphones

- AR headsets

- Cars

- Watches

- Streaming boxes

- Speakers

- Email

- Video streaming subscriptions

- News aggregation

- Fitness routine subscriptions

- Music streaming subscriptions

- Video game subscriptions

- eBooks

- Apps

- Cloud storage

- Credit cards

- BPNL

is completely beyond me. Yes there's stuff in there they haven't announced. Yes there are a lot of accessories and services not listed.

I'm probably a Microsoft shill at this point, but I am a .NET dev running Windows and I have a Microsoft 365 family subscription and bought an Xbox. All of my hardware is from other manufacturers. My finances are not tied to MS. I can't think of another company that has gotten the amount of blind trust that Apple has.
“Users can apply for a loan within Wallet with no impact to their credit.”

Typically what people worry about are the cost of a hard pull when applying for credit. Apple is saying they will not do a hard pull
>"it is not your intention to settle in Iceland"

I assume one can be working remotely and at the same time applying for permanent residence. What is the problem with that?
> However, about two years ago, the first signs of trouble started to appear. The man became very eco-anxious and found refuge with ELIZA, the name given to a chatbot that uses OpenAI's ChatGPT technology, and is designed to generate human-like text and exchanges.

Was ChatGPT available 2 years ago? Probably just a sentence that was not written (or translated) clearly, but which means to say the signs of "eco-anxiety" began two years ago, not the chatting.
I can't imagine a place where both:

1) I require a pocketknife and a handgun immediately upon arrival, and

2) I'd also like to pick up some bottles of fine wine while I'm there.

Sounds like a very interesting vacation, though.
Article is light on details around what the AI said to prompt a suicide. Does anyone have more details around the specific exchanges?

Without that, how can we really know whether it is the AI to blame?
My intention was not to be negative, I apologize.

I have studied Sanskrit literature much more (15+ years with two mentors and on my own) than I have studied Sanskrit formally (3 years in high school). I love Sanskrit literature but not the modern culture of putting Sanskrit on a pedestal.

There is a reason the language has vanished from use and to a large extent not been used for passing on practical knowledge. These are potentially fixable issues, but to fix an issue a community should be able to admit that there exist issues.
This “AI spring” is really snowballing with the crazy nouns and terminology. Alpaca, llama and now chinchilla??
IP Leasing Should Become a Market Standard
The policy of the Asia-Pacific Regional Internet Registry (APNIC) that does not accept IP leasing has been questioned during its recent meeting in conjunction with APRICOT. While each of the five global RIRs has its own policies regarding IP leasing, this opinion piece argues that the APNIC policy is outdated and should be addressed.
What is the impact of this, are images broken?
> First, for the record, any claims that unions make this process harder is a lie designed by a union busting consulting firm.

This is a lie and is peddled by pro union lawyers and activists. It goes both ways. Anyone who’s worked for a union or with one knows that they most certainly make negotiating directly harder. This is one of the main points of a union.
Seeing the spec I thought there is a Zynq but iMX6 looks even better. Can I get this board as an individual hobbyist instead of a company?
Oracle rescued what they cared from Sun, everyone else including IBM, couldn't care less.
I always find it interesting to think about bicycles and just how recently they were invented.

Compare bicycles with steel making, for example. Steel making happened thousands of years ago. The modern bicycle was what - under 200 years ago?

Bikes seem like such a primitive technology, and yet as this article demonstrates, it takes a lot of engineering to design even primitive products.

It makes me wonder how many other simple or primitive products are out there which have yet to be discovered.
Strange story: ELIZA's the name of a crude parody of a chatbot, produced in the 1960s.
I figured he had been given questions like those to ask but simply didn't understand anything he was told.
Belgian Intelligence Puts Huawei on Its Watchlist – Slashdot
Ask HN: How do you know that it's time to shutdown your startup?
I started Bestlist.com around two years ago. It is a search and discovery app that allows users to find the best of anything. The idea came about after I had grown tired of the current state of search, where a query often resulted in SEO-optimized blog posts instead of the desired information.
In a nutshell, Bestlist works by taking the user’s query, scraping the internet for reputable articles and social media posts relating to the query and extracting the mentioned “listings.” To form our ranking, we take many factors into account. We look at occurrences, the listing’s ratings on various sites, sentiment regarding the listing, and a few other things. Our results are not perfect, but we’re improving them on a daily basis.

We launched on Producthunt with lackluster results. After talking with users and getting feedback, the main issue I see is that people all have their own ways of searching and finding what they’re looking for, and Bestlist doesn’t provide enough of an “Aha” moment to stay at the top of mind to form new habits.

I’ve been funding the five person company with revenue from the sell of my first company, but I’m having a hard time stomaching spending more money each month, when we seem to be make little to no progress in winning users over. Add to that, the seemingly overnight onslaught in AI capabilities and the fear that what we’re creating is heading towards obsolescence, and I feel absolutely defeated.

A competitor of our’s raised a $10 million series A recently, so there are clearly some believers in the problem we’re trying to solve.

I'm at a loss. When do you know it’s time to shut your startup down? Any feedback is welcomed.

Thank you, Tyler