skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can read books from Amazon/Kindle on iOS because Apple lost an antitrust price fixing case in US federal court and paid nearly half a billion in damages.

Apple conspired with publishing houses to shut Amazon out of the market through leveraging it's huge device platform. Steve Jobs literally said: "The price will be the same... Publishers are actually withholding their books from Amazon because they are not happy."

If Apple had won their case it is a serious question if you would have Kindle books to read.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Apple_Inc.

All that said - this is reasonable rational behavior for a company. Which is why we also have antitrust laws. ;)
Calling Purgatory from Heaven: Binding to Rust in Haskell
Extract energy from used nuclear fuel, says environmental group
Past threads as compiled by u/dang: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29606518

This gist is notable as it's:

- not in pdf format

- complete (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29597454 is just an excerpt)

- not a 404 dead link like many of the previous post.
Hidden Gems in Downtown Ann Arbor
> Any algorithm which operates in a single pass on a stream of data and has a fixed upper memory usage is O(n).

I think you oversimplified in the other direction? An algorithm can make 1 pass over data (say it's n bits), then flip through all possible states of those n bits, taking exponential time. Or if you consider that to violate having a "fixed" upper bound (not sure this is meaningful in any useful sense, especially given it would probably need at least log(n) bits to know how far it's read its input), consider that it can even loop infinitely if it wants to.
>Jackson MS, one of the most conservative 100k+ cities in the US

Jackson, MS is in Hinds county, which voted 73.4% for Biden in 2020, 71.1% for Clinton in 2016, and 71.5% for Obama in 2012. There hasn't been a single Republican mayor of Jackson in the Post-WW2 period. It's strange to call someone else's comment overly speculative when yours is flat out incorrect.
"Dopaminergic effects" clearly means something along the lines of 'activity of dopamine within the human brain'. I just think we need more than an analogy to reach the conclusion that social media needs to be banned. The sentence "the dopaminergic effects of exercise are not dissimilar to drugs" is equally as true. Clearly dopaminergic effects alone aren't enough to ban something.

When I read that the top comment thought banning social media was clearly necessary I was flabbergasted. I read the comment multiple times looking for a compelling argument. I read the article multiple times looking for a compelling argument too. I'm still struggling on this.

I would really like to read a concise logical argument for why we should ban social media.
The λ-calculus created in the 30s by Alonzo Church, ten years before the era of computers, is a small formal language theoretically allowing to build any algorithm one can think of. As any other language its implementation on a computer supposes an underlying language which itself is built on a lower one until the bare metal of the computer. Web browsers come with a rich set of tools, (HTML, CSS, DOM, JAVASCRIPT,...) on which I have built a small overlay, the lambdaway project, proposing an IDE, lambdatank, and a programming language, lambdatalk.

Using lambdatalk I progressively introduce in a wiki page a small working version of λ-calculus, starting from its simplest definition.
Apple stood up against carrier customisation. No custom firmware, boot logos, or pre-installed bloatware. Upgrades occurred when Apple was ready to release them, not years later than carriers had finished their "testing". This was fairly revolutionary at the time.

This is definitely a backwards step contrary to that vision of career subordination.
Due to the nature of it being a label anyone can take on it can be used by anyone, including state actors, just to rack on a layer of extra plausible deniably when wanted. That doesn't mean the organization itself was ever or always compromised, just that the label could be used by pretty much anyone.
It's a very thin client
A Hacker-libertarian anti-freedom ideology where drug abuse and homelessness are re-criminalized and mass institutionalization of others against their will.
Talking about “actually” learning something feels very “no true Scotsman”. You could replace GPT in your comment with StackOverflow, Google, or a textbook and they’d read like the same criticism, right? Referencing something until you remember it is normal learning?
I’ve been sucked into Wingspan a lot lately. I also like Carcassone (including the Hunters & Gatherers variant) and Azul.

boardgamearena.com is a great way to try out lots of games.
That happens as well, but a little while later the ‘organigram’ under these managers will be the same size or larger as, for some reason, more people under you means more money. And every manager has the same thing, so this happens at every level; I know managers only in title who have 2 persons under them and that entire ‘team’ does exactly nothing outside looking busy and taking pay. That way that ‘manager’ who was supposed to be a leaf in the tree and not a manager, makes more than the people under them, so win for them and the managers above them can boast both more people and more teams, so they get a nicer title and make more. At banks.
What do people do with oscilloscopes that run windows xp? Does it even matter?
Behold: the -25x engineer.
Yes, seriously.

You can either have a system where somebody else is deciding on your behalf how your system is going to be configured, or you can have a system where it's up to you to opt-in to the stuff you want. You can't have both.
Genuinely curious where you experienced this on a regular basis in sf? Do you also live in a business district?
I’ve never seen code look so correct, sort of work but be so strangely crap.

This is my experience of GPT generated code too. It needs refactoring as soon as it's generated for me to be happy with it.

The real question is whether that actually matters though. If an AI tool is writing ugly code that works, and the 'developer' is only interacting with that code through prompts, then what the code looks like is irrevelant. No one will see it. It'd be like worrying about what the inside of a Photoshop file or a Word doc looks like.

I think we're some way off using AI to write and modify code like it's an opaque file, but once we're there it won't matter if that code is ugly and terrible. No one will look.
Jump host, equivalent to using -J with ssh since quux is visible to bar but not visible to the emacs box
> High-end monitors have been thunderbolt for a while now.

How "high end" do we need to go before this is true? My old 32"/4K/60Hz BenQ EW3270U certainly does, but my much newer 32"/4K/144Hz Dell G3223Q[1] doesn't for whatever reason, it's certainly not ubiquitous.

> the main point is that it's something you can leave on your desk with all your desk stuff plugged into it.

Yes, and such a device would be better with a more varied array of connectors. That's what it's for!

I understand premium laptops dropping ports to maintain their looks, and be thin and light, portable and sleek. As an M1 Air owner, I am totally down with that. But then a dock that itself needs more adapters to connect to extremely common interfaces ... that's not a good dock or a 'premium' selling point.

([1] approx 1100USD when it launched last year, I know that's hardly the peak of high-end but it's hardly cheap either)
Player expectations affect emotions after a game. Kingmaking is very annoying to people who expect consistent somewhat rational play from every player in a game like Settlers. Those same people would probably expect to be backstabbed and thwarted in Dip so much ruder moves would be acceptable.
You'll be shocked to learn there's more to sf than soma and the pier. Visit sometime.
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Someone's bot farm just lost a member
You are overestimating how many developers care about this really.
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wow they've done it: they've out-exploited an already monsterably ruthless monopoly!
Basically the tools the agent is using in this repository are like ChatGPT plugins.
My first SWE jobs were remote too, as well as one after 2020, and it worked great. I should have mentioned that earlier. Was just thinking about my main big-tech job where things were/are lackluster.
Is the 186 microcode from a patent as well?
Yes! Ticket To Ride has become our go to.

We also play a lot of Pan-Am recently.
No it did not. Homicides were up in 2020 and 2021 with 2022 flat at 2021's highs.
I have been using the falstad sim for years in the developement of analog synthesizer stuff. There are some circuits that work in practise that do not work in practise (e.g. relaxation oscillators with a schmitt-trigger inverter). The model oscillates, but it is not really controlable.

Outside of that most simpler stuff (e.g. analog math using opamps, discrete stuff) works perfectly fine. I love it for education and quick "sanity check" simulations.
This is TAME compared to some of the other things that have been declassified.
You misunderstand. I'm not talking about manufacturing unearned credit or totally eliminating earned blame, I'm talking about distorting existing, deserved credit/blame to be moderately larger/smaller.
https://community.t-mobile.com/coverage-signal-32/t-mobile-w...
I don’t understand. How is he under arrest if he was able to leave right after?
Just gave Fedora a go on my 2015 MacBook Air. The most frustrating thing was how bad the trackpad suddenly sucked.

I haven't tried https://howchoo.com/linux/the-perfect-almost-touchpad-settin... yet.
Portland is by far less safe than San Francisco. It had double the homicides in 2022 with 2/3rds the population.
Basically all of them, I predict. Cycling in and of itself is extremely safe. It's only when you force cyclists onto busy city streets in the same space as fast-moving cars that cycling becomes dangerous.

Put another way, cars kill people. Bicycles do not.
It might be that it generated both the Thought and Final answer, but my current implementation skips to the end once the final answer is parsed.

So even though there was a thought, I didn't print it
Pro tip: you can “favorite” posts.
My very simple solution is to use a smart plug and config the mainboard to wake on power.
We should focus less on peak speed and more on sustained speed?

Not a dvorak user.

I infected myself with Colemak back in the days when I had time to mess around on such things, somewhat inspired by a programmer of acquaint, that suffered from RSI. I can say after 10+ years I've never suffered from RSI.

It's been a pain when trying to pair program but never really had any substantial regrets. I can't compare it to any previous era where I was a qwerty user as I learned to touchtype with Colemak.

I think anything that allows you to maintain typing speed (ergonomics) and reduces the chance of distraction from errors is worthwhile.
Makes sense though.

He knows how much FSB puts propaganda on the internet and thinks it's successful, potentially overestimating it's reach...?

He probably thinks that every state is doing it ( since US does it), so for him => it can't be trusted.

Never thought of that, but it would explain some things.

To stop this war, his inner circle needs to be addressed in saying they can't win. Currently theirs a rain of money on the table, it's easy to pocket some.

Countries need to focus on actions that will make his inner circle claim they should retreat instead of publicly humiliating Putin.

Eg. Time linear bans on travel during the war for his inner circle.

Starting to confiscate properties ( including their families).

Banning their sons and daughters from our schools. + Their wives and exes from staying here.

Blocking opening a business, blocking circumventions for docking yachts.

...
You gotta have a pretty high opinion of the quality of your own advice to want to do this.

Whatever you impart to the past max not have any relevance anymore once you're dead. Things change and your children will be better adapted to it to make the right decisions.

Except of course if you mean something like "how to maintain this specific grandfather clock I've left you" - which they may just throw out.
Look how rolling his own basically everything, except an OS, seems to work pretty well.

Given time and ability, making what you need almost from scratch may be not just viable, but productive.
Starting a business is hard work, long hours, little pay. Frankly, most never make money, something like 90% won't survive 5 years, half the survivors will be gone in the next 5.

When I started mine pay was erratic, and infrequent, so we lived within 1 income (my wifes).

Fast forward though, we did survive , and my wife "retired" from her job very early.

So, I'd recommend having a financial chat. Cover expectations, sure you want instant sucess, but if you budget within your salary she has time to focus on her business without added stress of family finances.

In essence you are her first investor. Together you are investing her old salary for a long-term return. Framing it like this helps to formalise what you are both sacrificing,and for what outcome.

And if it fails there's no hard feelings. Sometimes investments fail. You're both in. You succeed or fail together.
Pythia: Interpreting Autoregressive Transformers Across Time and Scale
Just the normal bullshit you get with any political argument (cherry-picking, dishonesty, etc), but particularly exaggerated. The subset of people I'm referring to are not interested in fixing the problem - only in using it as evidence of how justified their hatred for their political enemies is. This is obvious - I'm not referring to something subtle or defending the SF government.
Needs a $1.8bn Prime Video adaptation.
> security oriented browser

Is it actually though? Can you name one security vulnerability that Chrome had that Brave did not?
> 2D materials are clearly the future of the industry, with a lot of momentum pushing the field forward.

I've been out of the semiconductor materials and devices game for a while, but I wouldn't be so sure. Just because these materials have a lot of papers about them, doesn't mean they're the future. They get a lot of papers written about them because they're relatively easy to study and because governments are funding research on 2D materials (though I can't really say why they receive so much funding. It's completely disproportional to their promise.)

Even if you could manufacture wafer scale 2D material transistors with high yield (which is a huge if), what does it buy you? Based on my, admittedly out of date, knowledge of 2D semiconductor devices, they're no panacea. Contact resistance is even more of a problem than it is for silicon at leading edge node scales. But even if it could match, or maybe even slightly beat the performance of silicon (another huge if), again, what does it buy you? One extra node, if you're lucky?

No, if my money had to be on a CMOS successor, it would be on nanoscale vacuum switches. Basically a vacuum tube scaled down to modern VLSI dimensions, at which atmospheric pressure is sufficiently low pressure to operate. Their biggest problems are 1) the lack of a complementary switch (so no CMOS equivalent, at least not without MEMS which doesn't scale), and 2) device longevity, which is likely solvable. These devices are far more manufacurable than 2D semiconductor material transistors. All of the process steps already exist, they can be stacked, unlike semiconductors, which must be single crystalline for good performance and therefore cannot be grown on insulators, device characteristics have a much higher ceiling thanks to the full vacuum barrier, and contact resistance is far less of a problem, because all of the junctions are between metals.

My second runner up would be room temperature superconductor switches, but we don't have that technology yet.
Crypto Ancienne 2.2: now supported on AmigaOS and classic macOS/MPW
For some reason I don't see any open positions on your website.. Just me?
With GPT-4, quite often, if you just ask it to review its own result for correctness, it'll spot the issue without further prompting. So you can just always ask that, although then you risk dealing with hallucinated non-bugs.
Pythia: A Suite for Analyzing Large Language Models Across Training and Scaling
Companies are not unaccountable entities. They're headed by people who make and carry out these decisions. And withholding security updates as a means of planned obsolescence is absolutely a consciously directed strategy. In many ways companies act as too much of a shield for bad behavior. When a "company" does something awful, it's not the company - but the executive leadership doing that.
I don’t see the problem with this. What do you find objectionable?

It was the 1940s. This was useful information for basically anyone in Europe.
Imagine if Apple would just add Vulkan support to MacOS - I might actually be able to use my powerful graphics hardware for something
That wouldn’t make sense, Miami’s homicide rate is much higher than San Francisco’s.
Tessellation has been in metal since it’s release or close to I believe.
> High-end monitors have been thunderbolt for a while now.

This is not true. Many high end monitors do not support thunderbolt. Some high end monitors support thunderbolt, but you will have a smaller portion of monitors to select from.

Last year I spent four figures on a monitor that did not include thunderbolt. I'm looking at a new monitor this year, again four figures, and again no thunderbolt support.
>Cars may be environmentally awful, but they’re great in basically every other way

They're not - they take up an inordinate amount of space.
"Nobody cares about WordPress"

Are you sure about this?
Especially considering they were issued over 170,000 times over the last six years.

Though I'm sure you knew that, having read TFA.
Yeah, that's a fair comment. I took "learned" to mean more than maybe the OP meant it to be. I stand by my broader point though - most people will use GPT without using it to expand their knowledge.
(In the following, mathematical uses of terms are given in "quotes".)

So many of the names of mathematical objects are arbitrary and I think that can be harmful. "Real" numbers are just as imaginary as "imaginary" ones! They both have use in physics as models for natural phenomena, but neither are real like an atom. You may still argue that "natural" numbers are real because we really can have n of something, but general real numbers can't be written down or computed or used to divide physical space and time as we understand them now. The names are mostly historical artefacts that serve as mnemonics, nothing more.
Oh brave. Still fast on mobile but every day the cursed triangle of crypto in the corner nudges me a little further away.
Which crime? According to this [1] San Francisco is high for larceny-theft (#2), but #66 for murder and non-negligent manslaughter, #67 for rape, #20 for robbery, #66 for aggravated assault, #55 for burglary, #34 for motor vehicle theft, and #23 for arson.

This is out of the 100 most populous of the cities that have data in the FBI Uniform Crime Reports system.

Here are the top 5 in each of these categories.

Murder etc: St. Louis, Baltimore, Detroit, New Orleans, Baton Rouge

Rape: New Orleans, Anchorage, Cleveland, Minneapolis, Spokane

Robbery: Baltimore, Cleveland, Oakland, St. Louis, Memphis

Aggravate assault: Detroit, Memphis, St. Louis, Kansas City, Milwaukee

Burglary: Cleveland, Memphis, Baton Rouge, Tulsa, Baltimore

Larceny-theft: Spokane, San Francisco, Albuquerque, Memphis, St. Louis

Motor vehicle theft: Albuquerque, Oakland, Detroit, Portland OR, San Bernardino

Arson: Detroit, Buffalo, Baton Rouge, Bakersfield, Stockton

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
It depends on the circuits. Some are highly dependent on certain characteristics of the part that might differ between different series of the actual part.

With time you gain the experience to know which circuits are problematic and which are easy-going.
> Just build your own network.

I did build my own network, and my ability to connect to it was forcibly overridden with no way to opt out.

That is entirely the point.

Edit: rulebreaking removed.
The Dog-Eat-Dog World of Kosher Pet Food at Passover
Please ask for Github Sponsors! However, I do see how broken the financial ecosystem is for open source folks. There are some things that I think open source needs:

- discoverability of open source projects that need funding
- the actual runtime usage of different open source projects
- priority to fix open source bugs with bounty
https://archive.ph/XhMKd
SF in a lot of ways is a microcosm of the US and the broader world which is currently suffering what can only be described as emergent behavior in social networking. Like unintended gradient descent to get everybody maximally polarized by learning what most upsets them and feeding them more of that.
You're right, I've lived and worked in both areas (several times during 2000-2016).

SoMA varies a LOT by exact location (at a per-block level) and changes with time of day, time of year, and has changed in cycles over the years. The area where this incident happened was historically one of the safer parts of SoMA, but not the safest, pre-Covid; I don't know how much worse it's gotten but directionally worse.

When I lived in TL (136 Taylor) I had someone brandish a firearm at me, witnessed two murders (in one incident), a bunch of people fighting other people, public drug use, etc., but SoMA is where more people I know personally were assaulted (partially because they're more likely to be walking around there...). I had a few non-consensual interactions which luckily stopped short of escalating too far, and a few times had to abort trips to an office, store, etc. to avoid stuff.

TL at least had better food.
> An attacker has to know about a vulnerability to use it.

The hacker does, GPZ does not need to know.
As someone who is younger than HN demographic, it is consistently funny to me how many on Hacker News seem to think that 20-30 year olds are teenagers, whenever a YouTube video targeted towards that demographic is posted. Here's a thought that might frighten you: The oldest Zoomers (the first generation where being exposed to Windows XP is optional) are now 26.

I suspect you're not really inferring this from the sophomoric descriptions, as there are plenty of science/engineering documentary films dating back to the 19th century that are aimed at non-researcher adults and use simplified easy-to-understand descriptions, but rather gen Z stylistic choices like using the word "wiggly" to describe the groove of a vinyl record.
yes but we killed off or drove off many of those predators.
What a tragedy. I remember Bob’s code that generates certain numbers: https://www.beust.com/weblog/coding-challenge/. Bob’s code is in Java, yet uses clever backtracking techniques to achieve the best performance among many solutions in all kinds of languanges.