skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>What I'd love to see is the top part of the medium wave band

But why? These are only discoverable by people making "small movies Ellie, small moves". It would be much more beneficial to wannabe pirate radio types to just create a channel via internet. You can still be a pirate by not joining Spotify et al, and just have a set of rogue servers that people can connect to pull the stream. The point of pirate radio was to get music to the masses that regular stations wouldn't broadcast. Why? Because that's where the audience was. If there's no audience, why expend the energy? Go to where the audience is.
As I (dimly) recall, at the Google Cinema Club

https://albertcory50.substack.com/p/culture-at-google-part-o...

I ran a poll once for the movie people most wanted to see. The leaders were Solaris and The Big Lebowski. It was very close, but I, um, "encouraged" some people on the fence to vote Solaris.

Accusations of "election fraud" are misplaced! This is called "getting out the vote."
> IMO absolutely any time you have to sniff a browser user agent there's a failure somewhere. If there's a spec the implementation should adhere to the spec.

In this case I would probably add an "if Safari >=16.4 then skip compression streams" check, but that check would probably still be there in a couple of years. Resolving the immediate issue of "the product doesn't work on Safari" gets priority but "let's see if Safari got their shit together" would be a low priority task for me.

There bad (or seemingly incomplete) spec implementations are how you end up with "your browser is not supported" plastered all over web apps. When Blink will inevitably hit iOS, Apple will have to do a better job placating web dev concerns if it doesn't want to lose market share.
None of which gets in the way of actually making a rocket or launching it though, as unlike for example cars or guns everyone builds and launches their own anyway. Well, 99% of the time anyway.
Jina AI's Inference Integration for LangChain
This is the reasoning that is causing problems with Tesla's "auto-pilot," with dangerous results.

My own car includes cameras and can keep me from disaster by applying brakes and correcting steering, but it makes no claims whatsoever to be self-driving.

A Tesla car unfortunately looks like self-driving, walks like self-driving, and quacks like self-driving, but it turns it does matter how much the nitty-gritty details prove the thing is absolutely not actually self-driving, in that encounters with things outside of its training model seem to result in collision or decapitations.

It is the trust people place in their cars that results in disaster when they reach the edge of what the cars can handle. They aren't ready to take over the controls and understand their current situation in a fraction of a second.

Placing too much trust in LLMs could have the same effect. I've run into several situations where I asked Chat-GPT technical questions and it confidently gave me detailed answers that clearly represented absolute failure. Fortunately, I don't trust it blindly, or at all, so I wasn't fooled.

I'd prefer an LLM more like my current car, that didn't try to do too much, but that's just not in the nature of how they operate, so instead we're all one emergency vehicle parked across the street away from a terrible accident.
> Macs are not intended for power users,

The fact that you can make that claim with a straight face in the context of Windows, with zero examples, tells me you have little experience with both.
That's not quite correct.

Long term storage solutions are dominated by capital cost. You can use batteries to store electricity from day to night because you recoup part of your capital investment every day for ten years or so. But if you can only sell electricity once a year, then whatever profit you make it better be good, because you only get that 10 times in 10 years. The alternative is to have dirt cheap capital cost.

Pumped storage works where the lake and dam already exist, because the capital storage is essentially zero.

Everywhere else, nothing works. Batteries don't work, chemical storage (like ammonia or hydrogen) doesn't, compressed air, or molten salt, nothing works.

What will work is a way to "cheat". If you can mimic the day-night cycle of batteries and make a profit every day, you win. The way to do that is by long-distance transportation: you make ammonia in Australia, or Morocco, or Saudi Arabia and sell it in Japan, China or Europe. You may incur round trip losses of 80% or more, but if the price you pay for one kwh is one cent, and you sell for 10 cents, you can still make a profit.
You’ve attached to a superficial explanation that doesn’t explain the magic trick. It sometimes emits text that corresponds to how people reason, but it’s unclear how well its mechanisms generalize because we don’t know what they are.

We should be curious about how it does what it does when it seems to be reasoning.

More: https://skybrian.substack.com/p/dont-settle-for-a-superficia...
thats a weird flex
> I also literally can't use safari if I don't have a Mac.

You should embrace this; this is how the web should be.

I don't mean you need to buy a Mac. Instead, I mean that the web standards effort originally came up out of supporting diversity. There was a wider range of possible clients, on a wider range of "popular" platforms. As developers we had to cater to support diverging capabilities. Progress on API development was slower, but it was more evenly spread out. Today, Chrome lurches ahead of everyone else in terms of API feature count, mostly supporting Google's business aims, and many vocal developers seem to think they should only support one set of capabilities. The slower, broader, way was better, in my opinion.
The first thing I noticed when getting an M1 was that Jira became fast
>The answer in the Javascript console is still a correct answer.

It's wrong in the same way that saying 1/1 = 1.0004 is wrong. It's not a matter of chosen precision in that it doesn't make the answer correct when you increase the number of zeros between 1 and 4.
I suspect the reasoning is getting overwhelmed by the prior data. Try it again, but this time make up nonsense words for the three items.
That would be a competitive OS, you get a good kernel with good hardware support and you can put a decent DE on top of it like KDE.
Recommended watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnVWUIhQ8dE&t=792s

The general discussions about the Gulf Stream is a good example for bad science reporting/documentations. Where oversimplifying and collapsing various different related entities under one term lead to a lot of misinformation, confusions, incorrect interpretation of new research etc.
No. The US does not have high fertility. If the nation does not import labour or perform massive automation it will face a massive problem.

The present phenomenon where unions and local power groups can extract massive rent is coming to an end.

America will fracture unless she accelerates. San Francisco is the earliest example of that.

The old must die or make way and they are not.
> I don't mean to be pedantic.

I'm sorry in advance, but this reply is just to meet pedantry with pedantry.

> A computer will always do what you tell it to do.

This is the Bohr model of computers. It's the kind of thing you tell elementary school students because it's conceptually simple and mostly right, but I think we know better here on HN. Pedantically, computers don't always do what you tell them to, because the don't always hear what you tell them, and what you tell them can be corrupted even when they do hear it.

For instance, random particles from outer space can cause a computer to behave quite randomly: https://www.thegamer.com/how-ionizing-particle-outer-space-h...

why was nobody able to pull it off, even when replicating exactly the inputs that DOTA_Teabag had used? Simple: this glitch requires a phenomenon known as a single-event upset, which is very much out of any player's control.

I don't think we can reasonably say that in this instance, the computer behaved according to what the user told it to do. In fact, it responded to the user and the environment.
Thanks for the detailed reply!

Does any of this calculus change when you're talking about really rural areas, like in the desert of Australia? My guess is that would mean higher cost of sending someone out to fix a pole (point against poles), but also lower likelihood of running into existing infrastructure (point in favor of digging).
> Also, this is a bit off topic but does anyone else feel that relationship quality on a societal level has gone down a lot? I feel that the majority of relationships and marriages say 60-70 years ago were happy and mutually fulfilling, but now anecdotally it seems that most people are not happy whatsoever.

I think this is a symptom, not a cause. Personal and economic atomization is largely outside an individual's control, unless they are making Fat Stacks Of Cash.

I can't speak to Japan, but I can to what I've seen here in the United States. There are people for whom the trends of moving further away from home have significant benefits--and I as a younger man was one of them, both for social and economic reasons. But they, along with the generally increased precariousness of what used to be a "middle class" and increased reliance on the information economy, are strong pressures towards personal atomization. "Both my girlfriend and I need to work to advance in our careers to become less precarious, but one or the other of us might have to move really far away and stop seeing each other" necessarily reduces investment in other people, at least a little bit. (This isn't saying dual-income situations or women with careers are a negative; far from it. The first weirdo to go on about "men were hunter-gatherers so of course their careers matter more" or whatever can get bopped.)

You see the same with friend groups. The friends I primarily knew online are the friends I stay more closely in touch with, because we're still in the same hangouts when one or the other has moved further away. The forces that are out of your control and thus able to pull you away from your social moorings are stronger now than in the past, and the natural coping mechanism for most people is to connect less.

I think it's natural for people who feel less connected and increasingly economically vulnerable to be "not happy whatsoever". It is only in the last few years, where I have managed some level of personal wealth (and not just income), that I've been able to entertain putting down roots, and feel more at ease and happier.
It is not so simple as to say salaries went up so inflation went up. Inflation from decreased supply at the same time as increased Treasury spending through stimuluses, coupled with the workforce shrinking, is what caused salaries to rise.
Apple's products enjoy a halo effect, driving up demand. But their chips don't because the new M2 competes against their own existing products.

I expect Apple will make some more concessions to repairability in order to maximize their ROI after buying out TSMC's leading edge node.
NO SPOILERS!!!

Besides, that was from 2010.
Ask HN: Marketing a horizontal tool is hard, which companies figured it out?
It might have lasted 4 years, but you'll note I said I knew people using them up to 10 years. In fact my 2014 MBP is still in service, a friend of mine uses it. I had a $1k+ Windows laptop that was a few years old in 2007-2009 and I was thoroughly unimpressed in it's build quality and how crappy/slow it was after 2 years. This was all pre-ssd even on macs (or at least the macs I was buying).

I have no doubt that Windows laptop build quality has improved in the last decade, in no small part to chasing after Apple, but at this point I can't imagine going back to Windows so I'll never really know.
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Tangential, but -- it occurs to me, is there any way to apply the methods behind ChatGPT to animal communication, and is there any way we could learn anything about meaning from that?

It seems like AI ought to be able to "autocomplete" birdsong or whale sounds just as well as anything else, given enough training data. Could that then be used to help discover underlying grammars, etc.?
That is waaaay out of date on the Desktop front.
Yes, if they were to move any number of floors at the same time step. But the language model isn't necessarily going to automatically discover those rules for you. Even if it did, the model won't necessarily be able to frame the problem as a BDD and solve it.

At best (and the is a valuable trait) the LLM would be able to reframe your problem in such a way that you could discover the necessary precision in the problem statement. Perhaps it could even encode it in some syntax for another tool.
I've actually had the opposite, I want ZFS to ignore the massive amount of fsync calls things like chromium or regular desktop applications make (without becoming generally unsafe). I've resorted to preloading libeatmydata instead. The disks are PLP and the machine is behind an UPS, things shouldn't/don't have to hit the disk all the time.
>The fact that these people keep updating devices constantly is a testament to Apple's marketing.

Seems apt to post this exceptionally cheesy Mac ad:
https://youtu.be/8kF5x2D3rqo
>>Broadcast AM radio remains a crucial, cost-free source of news, sports, and weather, and, more importantly, is an essential medium for public safety officials

One of these things is not like the others. When has sports been considered crucial? Are we catering to bookies now?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35339668
This is commonly known as "white coat syndrome". Some patients get nervous in medical offices, and some healthcare providers don't follow the recommended measurement protocol of allowing the patient to sit quietly for 5 minutes first. So this leads to some false positive hypertension diagnoses and iatrogenic harm.

Hypertension is common, dangerous, and generally under diagnosed. So primary care doctors have been trained to look for it and treat it aggressively. Overall the healthcare system is probably doing too little about hypertension rather than too much.
I run into people that are thinking the opposite. Maybe they're too contrarian but they think this is the start of a rebalance toward china / brics / non western countries.
PyTorch and OpenXLA: The Path Forward
Thanks for the references, will review.
No, I'm not. I'm not even in the top 10%.

Also, we can be concerned for people less fortunate than us. "You're probably wealthy so why do you care" is such a stupid argument.
If you haven't given the show a chance yet, it really is good. The goal seems to be to produce celebrity interviews that aren't boring, or staged, or overly promotional. It definitely succeeds at that.

In some sense it's also a victim of it's own success. The shift from smaller creators/artists to A-listers is impressive, but can be a little less interesting.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957
Please don't break the site guidelines yourself, or perpetuate flamewars, regardless of how badly someone else is behaving. It only makes everything worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Maybe, but that's a bet I'm willing to take.

Here's the rub: if my competitors are going to realize "massive productivity gains," where are those gains actually coming from?

Are they coming from the time it takes to type? No, because typing is a small portion of the time we spend as programmers.

Are the gains coming from the time spent on design and architecture? Maybe, but that means my software will have better architecture, and I will have better velocity in the long run. (I have real-world experience with this, by the way; it takes me, on average, less than an hour to fix bugs in my bc nowadays. Architecture matters for long-term velocity.)

Are the gains coming from the time squashing bugs? No, this is where AI would decrease productivity because you have to carefully review outputs to ensure there are not any bugs.

In essence, the productivity gains will only happen the less that my competitors actually review and clean up the code from these tools. The less they do that, the lower the quality. The lower the quality, the slower their long-term velocity will be.

"A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept." [1]

[1]: https://gist.github.com/gtallen1187/e83ed02eac6cc8d7e185
Good points.

What I was responding to was the assertion that starlink is ‘too expensive’ at $120/mo, when the normal offering from everyone else is about the same price.

As you note, depending on the area, one will provide better actual service or not. But the pricing isn’t the deciding factor IMO, just service quality.
Surprised to hear the design is divisive. Aside from the rims and Hyundai logo, I think it looks very cool and makes the Model 3 look even more dated.

The 'legacy' manufacturers are killing it with their EV plans lately so I'd be pretty bearish for Tesla if I had skin in the game. I don't expect them to have a new model or redesign any time soon, and even if they did they tend to announce things and then launch them years later while overpromising and underdelivering.
I've added two more examples yesterday (music4.sql and music5.sql): https://github.com/ClickHouse/NoiSQL/blob/main/music4.sql#L1...

ChatGPT helps to overcome the shame of composing melodies by myself.
Where do you think the Habsburg chin came from?
Well trick is, decent iGPUs need better than 128 bit wide DDR5 @ 5200 Mhz. So apple's solution is a small CPU package with ram on board that lets them do 128, 256, 512, and 1024 bit wide memory interfaces. All but the 1024 bit wide are low power enough to be in thin laptops.

Considering even the Ryzen 7950x or Intel I9 for desktops are 128 bit wide that's a pretty huge difference. You have to move up to Epyc, Threadripper, Xeon, or a Workstation CPU to get more than 128 bits, and those aren't available on laptops.

So I'm going to have to disagree with the "Apple sacrificed upgradability in the name of making more money".
Definitely! I mostly use it connected to my 4K display and on a typical day it does not heat over 50C and that happens when you're compiling stuff for minutes. My Intel Mac's fans activated simply because it was connected to a 4K external display.
How WebAssembly is accelerating new web functionality
I actually really like that. Would force a (semi?-)public compatibility layer that allows other competitors to enter the space. If you want to back your iPhone up to Google Drive, you do you.

App Store would also likely end up in Services, which would also open up multi-app store compatibility. It's almost too good of a solution.
2010 was a great movie. I wish more people had seen it, with all the tension between the US and Russia one could hope that the brilliant minds could still work together as they eventually did in the movie.

Scene from your quote [1]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6LbnqzE3Y4 [video][5 mins]
Like Paul Graham, I'm in my 50s. Unlike Paul Graham, I've never been confident that I can identify what a 'smart' person is. The only thing I know for sure is that it rarely has anything to do with what people like to call 'intelligence'.
> only motivation

You fail to understand what “companies” are under capitalism - they exist for profit, only.

> beat the wrangler

For .. fun? That’s not gonna make shareholders happy.

They did it for profit.

engineering decisions in corporations are driven by profit.

Not to be pedantic. But, in my opinion, it’s important to *not humanize corporations* because they are not humans.
Does it a accept only pdf docs at the moment? What's the maximum size of pdf file that I can provide it to analyze without breaking it.
I’ve moved entirely to Polars (which is essentially Pandas written in Rust with new design decisions) with DuckDB as my SQL query engine. Since both are backed by Arrow, there is zero copy and performance on large datasets is super fast (due to vectorization, not just parallelization)

I keep Pandas around for quick plots and legacy code. I will always be grateful for Pandas because there truly was no good dataframe library during its time. It has enabled an entire generation of data scientists to do what they do and built a foundation — a foundation which Polars and DuckDB are now building on and have surpassed.
I probably wouldn't break up Apple myself, but would require lifting the ban on other web browser engines and app stores on all operating systems.

For Alphabet and Meta, I would likely pursue criminal charges for conspiracy to fix prices in online ad auctions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedi_Blue
Not exactly the point but current smartphones are comparable to 90s supercomputers in terms of FLOPs - an iPhone 14 can hit 2 TFLOPs whereas ASCI Red achieved 2.38 TFLOPs in 1999. Now the comparison is muddied by the fact that supercomputer GFLOPs were fp64 while modern GPUs are optimised for fp32 (with machine learning going for fp16 and now fp8), and the iPhone probably can’t maintain 2 TFLOPs before getting thermally throttled. But otherwise matching the 90s is far more impressive than the 70s.
Are you really selling a sign in system?
Probably because my mother was an economist, I've pretty much ignored the subject my entire life. However, your post piqued my curiosity. Some reading later, and I'm scratching my head: are economists really that dumb? The price of some goods must go down if the price of other goods goes up? Only in some simulation of an economy that doesn't include real humans, right?
It's one thing for the Linux kernel to still support 15+ year-old hardware (the Athlon XP was already pretty old by 2008). It's a very different thing for a full desktop OS to still support it in a feature-complete way.

Historically, Apple seems to prefer to drop support for old hardware rather than maintain a long list of caveats about which features cannot run on older machines. Throughout the Intel Mac era, Apple was clearly trying to raise the bar for baseline GPU performance to ensure the graphical effects really would run "perfectly fine" as you put it, though they were stymied by some of Intel's anti-competitive behavior. Their decision to drop support for the 32-bit kernel and firmware was quite reasonable, though the later decision to drop support for 32-bit applications was more of a problem for users.
So?

Are you just mentioning this as a historical curiosity, or are you trying to make some point?