skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find this section on the elimination of plastic from their packaging interesting as well:

> The development of fiber alternatives for packaging components like screen films, wraps, and foam cushioning has kept Apple on track toward this ambitious goal. To address the remaining 4 percent plastic in the company’s packaging footprint, Apple is innovating to replace labels, lamination, and other small uses. In the last year, Apple developed a custom printer to introduce digital printing directly onto the boxes of iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro, eliminating the need for most labels. And a new overprint varnish found in iPad Air, iPad Pro, and Apple Watch Series 8 packaging replaces the polypropylene plastic lamination found on boxes and packaging components.
I have used it and copilot both and it is a bit behind copilot.

First, Copilot supports a lot more languages (which is a big utility of such tools, that you are writing code in a different language much more quickly.)

Second, it fails more often with incorrect suggestions, and on non trivial things tends often to go line by line.
The origin of the German discourse about nuclear power is linked to a) nuclear proliferation and b) Chernobyl

The generation born after WWII developed a deep desire to not repeat the slaughter of WWII and many felt that their parents essentially lied to them about their experiences during the Nazi era and their responsibility for it. This mistrust transferred to government policies that would rebuilt the German armed forces, join NATO and by extension come under the "nuclear umbrella" of the US. Nuclear power was seen by many of these people as a bridge technology into nuclear weapons.

Regarding Chernobyl, it might be difficult for Americans to understand how scary and personal that crisis felt for many Germans. I personally can't remember the incident, but our parents shaved our heads and kept us indoors for days and weeks out of fear of potential nuclear fallout. It is comparable to the psychological impact of the COVID-epidemic for many of that generation. My wife is from Eastern Bavaria and forest mushrooms and wild boars over there still have elevated radiation levels and are not recommended to be eaten in many cases.

The phaseout of the last nuclear power plants was essentially decided more than two decades ago under a green-left government. A bit more than ten years ago, a center-liberal government came to power and would have been able to reverse the decision (many politicians in the two parties would have liked to) but Fukushima happened and this became politically untenable. To remove the topic from the political discourse, Angela Merkel pushed through an acceleration of the phaseout schedule.

Today, even the companies running the power plants have lost interest. Re-certification was not done in recent years and would take the remaining power stations offline for months or years, anyway. All of them are many decades old now, beyond their original life span.

So is all of this "rational"? Maybe not in hindsight, but I would argue it was for many people at the time and given that nuclear power never contributed more than roughly 25% to Germanys power production (I think), renewables are growing rapidly and no nuclear power station has been built without massive government subsidies, I personally think that re-entering the nuclear arena does not make any sense for Germany at the moment.
> The whole point of a humanities college degree is to show a potential employer that you showed up someplace four years in a row, completed a series of tasks reasonably well, and on time.

Lets be honest here, some degrees show proficiency in some field. Other degrees, which are far more popular, show that you showed up on time, four years in a row.

The value an EE graduate or an MD graduate has is not the same as the value of someone who could have coasted through university with minimal effort.
They used to have “google labs” but stopped it (haha) with some stupid explanation that it wasn’t needed any more because everything is a lab, or something like that.

And of course gmail was in beta for many years.
Someone forgot that the platypus exists.
> During the pandemic they gutted the new digital cash R&D division because physical cash was booming and they didn’t want their customers to switch to digital cash and spoil the gravy train… oops I guess

I'm surprised that the pandemic caused physical cash to boom, given it's the most germ-prone way to make a payment. Personally I recall seeing a lot more adoption of contactless credit card payments at that time.
Human students also get to see those sample questions.

Is the Bar exam a bad test? Maybe. But it's how we judge the merit of new lawyers.
I'm not convinced that if you took away all sensory input (literally all, including internal, not just a deprivation tank) that humans would have the ability to experience the passage of time. I'm certainly not convinced that this is so thoroughly proven we can use its measurable absence in LLMs to determine that any intelligence using an LLM as a primary cognitive component can't be conscious.
This.

The cpu magic doesn't do things you didn't ask for, or can't figure out how to ask for through a bunch of indirection.

All the cpu magic means is that you don't know how it did exactly what you expected. It still produced exactly and only the expected output from the given input.

High level language magic means it does things you didn't expect, and that you can have a hard time figuring out how to get it to do something you want if that doesn't happen to be one of the things the language designers predicted and decided for you that you should ever need to do.
Highly recommend this book. I read this book skeptically years ago when I noticed it mentioned a lot on hacker news. It fixed a lot of my issues, and started my journey of appreciating how little we know about the mind/body connection.
Or, uncharitably, people being paid to minimize negative press and stymying discussions.

Oh, wait, you already mentioned Google employees. My bad.
This is called extensive progress, no intensive developing since 2012

This is a word salad that means nothing. Where did you even get these ideas?

You are completely wrong about frequency (no increase since Haswell's 4Ghz)

Why would you say something that is so obviously wrong and easy to disprove? Most current AMD cpus have base clocks that are higher than 4ghz, let alone their boost clocks.

https://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-9-7950x-cpu-5-85-ghz-peak-5-1...
Probably. But also mixed in are some progressive policies. For example recent changes that allow Balkonkraftwerke.

But what we know for sure is that history already now points at Germany on how to not store Nuclear waste.
You’ve been misled and misinformed. The majority of Nuclear “waste” can be reprocessed and reused and the lifespan is not “hundreds of thousands of years.” Ironically the biggest issue ends up being the radioactive reactor components that you end up having to deal with when decommissioning.
Yes, have used it every day for three and a half years (on Windows, MacOS, and Linux). Not any real huge benefits over using Chrome, but I was the only guy who would spot FF bugs on our site during review.

I have to use Chrome for Google Meet on my new work machine though. There's just a ton of problems. Not sure if that's 100% FireFox's fault though.

> I can't even show my bookmark bar.

I just right clicked on the empty space to either side of the address bar and there was an option to always show it.
I'd encourage you to pick up the book Cracking the Coding Interview.

It's got plenty of practice questions, plus great guides on the type of questions interviewers ask and the answers that they're looking for.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Coding-Interview-Programming...
Some of us appreciate that the internet effectively allows for discussion that is less popular in their own country.
> Is the risk vector here the USB stack itself?

Yes, exactly. There are some comments here in the thread that discuss this in detail.
Apple is a public company too..
Amazon Bedrock generative AI service to build on Foundational Models
Yeah, I was misremembering. Our issues were related to NaNs, which we ended up encoding as nulls. I don't think we've had issues with dates yet.
Yeah, but not live at runtime. It's still a pre-process that needs to be applied per game. Maybe just dropping the DLL into the game folder will upgrade the lighting automatically, in the rare cases these older games used real-time lighting. But real-time lighting, as far as I remember, was a pretty rare technique, opting instead to bake lighting into textures during asset compilation.
assuming this is a cr2025 then most likely 20mm diameter and 2.5mm thick => 2025
OP Lansburg is famous for his heterodox views on economics.
Keeping CALM: When Distributed Consistency Is Easy (2019)
Those 3 for the most part don't have to work together. They need to run on the same CPU without taking more than their allowed portion of the CPU.

If they have to work together the communication protocol is clearly defined well in advanced and limited to exactly what they need to say. Thus we are reasonably sure if any one combination works all possible combinations will work. Even then there is typically higher level control to only release combinations that are tested to work together.
Same with aromatherapy. I know it's crap, my partner knows it's crap, but hell if I don't sleep like a baby if she sprays our pillows with a Lavender scent before going to bed; I sometimes take a bottle with me when I travel, and it knocks me out better than any amount of melatonin or sleep medication could achieve. I'm sure it's just association by now, but it works.
Hello, thank you for sharing this project. I saw this entry on HN this morning and thought I could try it for one day. I have been a professional google user for the last 6 years so my search queries are biased, I tend to search for keywords exclusively in english. It's been refreshing to be able to talk in my native language and to explain clearly what my problem is instead of searching for broad keywords and narrow it down manually as I am used to.

One thing I found annoying was that I cannot copy paste part of the prompt while it is being generated because I cannot select it, the selection gets canceled.
The fact people are having to revert to more complex prompts is telling. They are not getting what they want out of simpler prompts.

Which should be obvious because a picture paints a thousand words…
How is it an accounting trick? Are you saying there would be no change in the amount of cobalt mined annually if Apple instead said they would use only newly mined cobalt?
Hmm…

> 232 million iPhones, 61 million iPads and 26 million Mac and MacBook…

- (last year) https://www.businessofapps.com/data/apple-statistics/

I'll assume the batteries are 8 Wh for iPhone, 30 Wh for iPad, 52 Wh for the Macs[0]:

= (232 * 8) + (61 * 30) + (26 * 52) = 5038 MWh = 5 GWh

Which is more than I was expecting, but at the same time Tesla is on track for 1.8 million cars this year at a minimum of 54 kWh each = 97.2 GWh

So, yeah; good on Apple, more of this please from other electronics companies, still tiny compared to automotive.

[0] plausible guesses only because I don't have a breakdown of sales by model and I don't care enough to go looking
I think that's a little harsh on RIAA/MPAA exexs. Their comfortable way of living gets validation from how enthusiastically property laws are enforced. That leaves plenty of room for them to believe they're doing the Right Thing™.

Even though, as an article of basic critical thinking, they certainly aren't.
> Azure doesn’t get the grief GCP does because MS service growth is driven by really complicated deals

The kind crafted by competent sales teams in it for the long haul. Not the rotating cast of characters at Google.
Agreed but the point is humans are terrible drivers and we need to solve that. We basically accepted a covid level death toll on the roads each year. It will be tough to do when seemingly every major media company has set the bar for robotaxis at “perfect from day 1” when humans themselves are absolutely atrocious at driving
To be fair, if you are dealing a lot with indexes and word tokenization/lemmatization, as Google engineers presumably are, then this seems to be a relatively "real world" problem.
Everything never comes from a single vendor. Even microcontrollers the hardware abstraction layer is hiding peripheral support packages for all the i2c and spi things it talks to, each from a different vendor potentially.

I'm not saying we should be running k8 on an 8051 or even a cortex m33, but on an arm7? Maybe.

Cult of Ferris time, static linking in rust means your binary is your container, particularly if you statically link in musl.
Humans are relatively unique when it comes to sexual relationships. We’re very developed and our social roles are hugely important. It’s not crazy to think that there are aspects of our sexual identities that don’t appear in other animals. We’re not unique in being unique. Consider our relatively close relative, the bonobos, in which they’re all bisexual sluts.

Gender is sort of a natural thing in human identities, even if it is a social construct. Intersex individuals are a pretty good piece of evidence of this. People born with ambiguous genitalia. Doctors often pick which one to go with and will do surgery to make it so. They often “get it wrong” and the individual will later feel they are the wrong gender WITHOUT necessarily knowing they were intersex at birth.

Gender can be a social construct and still have biological intrinsic factors behind it. It doesn’t need to arise from a purpose per se. it doesn’t NEED to have biological intrinsic factors either.
Thanks! When I get more progress then I'll probably increase the price but in all honesty it makes enough money to cover the production cost and that's good enough for me. Regional pricing is a good idea!
I think about it more as - why would I use a card?

There are multiple middlemen involved in any transaction, value is extracted _and_ data

Everything I do is linked to my identity

The lack of physical interaction more easily results in overspending

I can't actually pay a person unless they invest in hardware (which 99.99% of people do not have), cards produce a hierarchy of "businesses" and "consumers"
>Aside from reproduction, I don't see how gender would really influence anything.

In a modern society where food comes prepackaged in supermarkets (or delivered), there is police on tap, and the most hostile thing is perhaps somebody swearing at you from road rage, maybe not.

In historical societies up to very recently it played a huge role in lots of post-reproduction things, considering how raw physical force, stamina, stature, etc. is a huge advantage in battle, hunting, threat avoidance outside the house, law enforcement, demanding manual labor, etc.

This means that sex automatically leaks into societal roles. Doesn't matter is some societies, out of some historical peculiarity or out of necessity used women instead, or both men and women, for some of these roles, as the physiological tendency pushed towards the conventional setup as having an advantage (an army of women would be trivially defeated in hand battle by an army of men, for example), and so the general trends seen globally, in thousands of unrelated cultures followed it.
Banning or replacing words is bad enough but at least doable without (usually) too many bad side effects. BUT it requires among other things that you know the input language. I know a lot of very normal swedish words that are very dirty english words.

Banning or censoring subsections of words though as in "Scunthorpe" is basically not possible to do correctly even in theory. I have no idea why it's even tried.
While there are dangers to bad top-down management, the criticisms laid out in this thread can still apply to the CPC and Chinese mainland society today, but they don't suffer from famines on the same level anymore.

I don't think they disagree with the goal and intent of rapidly industrializing China from peasant-based into urban workers. They will still uphold Mao's legacy even if they disagreed with his excesses and failures. They are about economic development because it is a required stage for their goal of achieving socialism and communism. Economic development is their longterm planning and "working science."
At the end of the day how much work can be reduced doesn't matter as long as the people that we end up are the type that would bring the universe to an early heat death just so they could say they had one more dollar than another person.

Not solving greed before creating AI might be humanities final mistake.
Please stop using the "that's a talking point of the enemy" dismissal tactic. It's lazy and harmful to actual discussion.
Another point is that germany is decentralised whereas france is centralised. France can formulate a policy and stick to it, but in germany usually every level of government is involved. And nobody wants to have a nuclear power plants near you. Ignoring local decisions for the greater good is very hard in germany. So I think a there's also naturally a greater pushback in germany than france and then came Chernobyl, which (if I remember correclty) affected germany way more than france. You can still find traces if you analyse wild deer shot from certain areas.

You can also see this in the rail networks, if you ignore that france invested more into it's rail there's also a different philosophy. France not only connected major population centres, it is also quite focused on paris. Exactly as some planners, sitting in paris and planning top-down would devise them. Germany tries to interconnect as much as possible, benefitting as many as possible.
4 years after smartphones became a thing. It’s a bit too late and no one really bought their chips in the high end phones.
Its not just software though, even the lights on your cars now are not easily user serviceable anymore. New cars with LED lights built in have core charges/deposits attached to them, they cost multiple hundreds of dollars and if you want to get your core deposit refund you must return the light. Compared to 15+ years ago, you go to your local store, buy a new light for $10-30, replace it and you're on your way.

Ford apparently ended the core charge program for lighting in 2020, but other manufactures continue, and that is just one thing that was common for users to service themselves in the past. It's not going to get better.
Is accusing others of having mental health problems less so, I wonder?
Maybe stop making a throw away phone first if you're actually interested in being "green".
If all you want is "send and receive files across a local network" then I can recommend Magic Wormhole and Magic Wormhole William (depending on which app store you use; e.g. Google Play Store, F-Droid, Homebrew, Debian/Ubuntu APT repos, etc). It will attempt to use LAN if it can and uses PAKE for auth.
I don't find the idea absurd, especially for the entertainment system:

* it makes it easy to separately update different apps that are shown on the same screen

* it unifies the update process

* you can download the update in background while the app is running, easily roll back to an old version

* it's familiar technology to many engineers (you could call that lazy, but it also reduces risk)

* it's easier to use an existing networking implementation than having separate chips for each task, and then having to connect them through busses

* allows for pretty good resource sharing (RAM/CPU)

* pretty good isolation out of the box

I wouldn't want that for my engine controls, but navigation/radio/camera/climate control, why not?
Back in the 1990s on IRC I was kicked when asking for help with my Matsushita CD drive.
Where does it mention locker rooms or "the trans community is the strongest supporter of traditional gender roles?" Did you read the article?
The district court of Hamburg is so notorious that when I read "a German court ruled in favour of $some_type_of_copyright holder" I instantly assume that it was Hamburg.
A medical doctor or an architect would disagree with that statement.
I generally just keep multiple cards from multiple providers. I have a Visa, MasterCard, and Amex, no two from the same bank. I even have a card from a foreign bank. This doesn't solve problems with local infrastructure (e.g., vendor's payment system is down), but it does solve most other issues.
Does Janet have a language server yet? That would go a long way, but last time I checked it did not
aside from the privacy thing and practical use, cash does have the following major advantage/function:

It's the one thing that stands in the way of governments (or supranational unions) pushing negative interest rates or even harder means to surreptitiously or openly disown citizens via the money itself e.g. as an easy way to reduce the state debt in times of state debt crisis.

Of course there are other ways for states to do that (e.g. inflation)… but those come with much bigger other problems and obstacles for any politician who would want to use them.
How is it "stealing" to access a service you already have access to for free?

Go to twitter.com in a browser.

This is just a different type of browser.

Physical analogies never work right with digital data.
I hope this puts pressure on openai to improve their SLAs.
> It shouldn't have a notable impact on battery health.

Is that actually true? Lithium batteries seem kind of fussy.
> Our biggest hit for a question that followed this for an SRE type role: we had a cron job that was legacy and buggy and caused a couple of issues over 6 months. We went back and created a very similar script with very similar bugs, added some similar data and re-seeding scripts, and told the candidates "customers say that feature $x is not working, and that is ran by this script. Here is how to run it, here is the user's id that can be found in the data seed." We added some other data validation problems. After they fixed it, we asked them what they would do to make this more production safe and dig in on what they have and have not done for improving existing systems. We expected discussions on structured logging, metrics, alerting, testing, code layout, etc.

No wonder it is a hit. It is an actual problem that makes me want to go for it - I want to take an interview like this, instead of the usual of dreading interviews! Keep it up.
Xylazine (“Tranq”): The potential for loss of life and limb
You can use the `htmx:beforeSwap` event to transform responses if you'd like:

<button hx-get="/example"
hx-on="htmx:beforeSwap: event.detail.serverResponse = transformResponse(event.detail.serverResponse)">
Example
</button>

In general, htmx is going to lean on events for integrating scripting into the hypermedia flow.
Random nitpick but Node.js is not really a programming language
It's starting to look like German laws and authorities are starting to interfere with the global Internet/WWW, or to more generalize, regional legal differences are starting to become pronounced as Internet usage expands globally.

It's not that German laws are particularly "bad"; it's built on different social norms and standards, so some things legal in not-Germany might be not in Germany, AND vice versa. The Internet has to evolve to adapt to this reality.
FM = Foundational Model. Titan is the model, Bedrock is the service.