skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That and the fact that it isn't being sold to other companies (from what I know of their privacy policy) and can be disabled if you wish.

I don't blindly trust any company, but from what I can tell Apple makes their money from services and hardware. Someone else in this thread has indicated that advertisers are frustrated because they cannot access Apple user data. They recently implemented E2E for all iCloud data. It looks a better offering than trusting every aspect of my online life with a company who makes their $$$ from adverts and data mining.

While I'd love to use a PinePhone running OpenBSD for my mobile needs, having the ability to message my friends is nice. As are online services that Just Work, and if they make their money from me paying and not from selling my data, then we can be content.
Hey, I'm also not doing "that well" in life, if you wanna talk, hit my email, it's on my profile. Wish you the best.
that hat is quite a bit higher than the basic algebra to just solve given equations. that's why I was asking. I think there are vastly different views on what's "basic".

wrt who has failed on them iirc countries like Finland figured how to largely lift the dependency from home, family, parents.
Sure no problem. Appreciate the work you do moderating!
Herzner is way cheaper. But it doesn't have a database service or an S3 analog. Both of those are needed if you want to avoid spending a lot of money on operations staff.
How could anyone take the advice "don't teach your kids" seriously? Are you insane? It makes no sense on any level.

How does NOT teaching your kid to read help them? It's as if people don't have brains anymore.
As much as I commend your position, having just recently bought a Switch with Mario Odyssey and BotW I would say you're missing out on some really good stuff. I've had about a 5 year or so gap in gaming due to adult life getting in the way, but it's been really fun getting back into it. Their behaviour in this regard really does disappoint me though, it's a completely unnecessary way to treat some of your biggest fans.
That's nothing for a meta post with an unpopular announcement, there are quite a few with hundreds of downvotes. But yes, this does likely indicate something about how the active SE users feel about this. It doesn't help that the blog is written in a way that is much more likely to appeal to shareholders than software developers on SO. But ChatGPT has been a quite significant moderation issue, and the blog post doesn't address any of this (it is kinda devoid of content in general beyond "SE will do something with generative AI, updates later this year").
Damn, you're right! My career of StackOverflow question answerer is done!
There are a few cases where people have used ChatGPT to generate SVG[0], with mostly unimpressive results. I'm sure sooner or later models will be developed specifically for creating vector drawings instead of raster, including with the ability to apply textures and gradients.

Also, the resolution of Stable Diffusion's output isn't much of a limitation if you're willing to use other tools to massage the output into something professional-quality. See [1]

[0] For example: https://praeclarum.org/2023/04/03/chatsvg.html

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35592847
Very dubious, given that both have since been superseded by better patent-free alternatives.
Isn't solar power to point of solar panels?

Other benefits are just bonus's of their placement.
https://xkcd.com/567/ comes to mind. :)
Thanks for the link! To summarize the Nassim Taleb guy's criticisms as I understand them, he:

1. Is ignorant of the Lex guy's affiliation with MIT, and speculates about how tenuous the particulars could be.

2. Thinks Lex is misusing said MIT connection in unassociated emails.

3. Points to Lex's book-per-week pacing as indigestible given the material, concluding that Lex's persona is fraudulent, and his advocates are all idiots.

4. Uses Lex's courteous response to criticism, and subsequent choice to block said critic, as evidence that Lex is a "fake." There's allegedly supporting evidence of this regarding Kanye West/Vladimir Putin? (I'm ignorant of the reference.)

Full disclosure -- I don't use Twitter and gradually lost the mental wherewithal to slog through the "discourse" within that thread. Let me know if I missed/misunderstood something important.

I'm frankly more confused now. A popular podcaster apparently likes revisiting mostly high school reading material, is polite online, and leans on their institutional affiliation. Okay? Did he also like...shoot someone's grandma or something? I feel like a restaurant patron eavesdropping on a dysfunctional couple having a meltdown over ordering an appetizer that isn't reaaaally about ordering an appetizer. What the hell did this guy actually do?
It's all trade-offs. I have a pretty weird setup with lots of gear that gets switched in and out according to power availability, and inverters in different spots (two in the garage and one in the attic). I still haven't installed a battery because we - for the moment - have 100% net metering here so it would be a waste of money. TCO is one way to look at things, installation flexibility another and finally of course initial outlay: better to buy the setup you can afford than to drool over a better one that you can't.

I've yet to come across Deye in the wild so nice to have some data points. What I'm really curious about is to what degree the various setpoints are configurable. I have a Growatt here that is giving me a ton of trouble and two Solax units that have been rock solid since first installation (and without any configuration at all). All of them offline.

On the panel side here I have a bunch of AEG branded glass/glass panels (AEG has licensed their brand so these aren't actually made by AEG but they are made in Germany and look to be well constructed and with a 25 year predicted life span I think I'll be long gone before the panels will die).

I'd love to hear how you are faring with all of the stuff that you've done.
> For example: you could use GPT to parse a resume file, pull out work experience and return it as JSON. That would take minutes to setup using the GPT API and it would take weeks to build your own system, but GPT is so expensive that building your own system is totally worth it.

True, but an HR SaaS vendor could use that to put on a compelling demo to a potential customer, stopping them from going to a competitor or otherwise benefiting.

And anyway, without churning the numbers, for volumes of say 1M resumes (at which point you've achieved a lot of success) I can't quite believe it would be cheaper to build something when there is such a powerful solution available. Maybe once you are at 1G resumes... My bet is still no though.
> The loudest, most bombastic engineer states their case with certainty, and that shuts down discussion.

I work with this person and none of the devs here even say anything about strong opinions, whether or not they're weakly held. This (the engineer's in the example) is poor argumentation, not a loosely-held strong opinion.

I can have a strong opinion and simply not voice it. I might change that opinion after gaining a new perspective because I don't identify with the opinion (hold it weakly). Complaints about people who don't introspect aside, this doesn't read as an issue with the "strong opinions" idea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCDIgoSlNXg
And iOS could by an iMessage [0]. OS bugs are OS bugs. On Windows, non-administrator accounts and GPO restrictions are the way to go, in an enterprise environment.

[0] https://citizenlab.ca/2021/09/forcedentry-nso-group-imessage...
I just watched the Leslie Nielson one when it popped up on Tubi for me and hadn't laughed that hard at a movie in a while.
The Weimar Republic didn’t get steamrolled by Nazis, it failed politically, right? It turns out fascist propaganda is unfortunately attractive to some folks. The real steamrolling happened a couple years later, and it went the other way—it turns out fascist propaganda does not magic up a factory that can produce a bomber an hour.
Organized crime, e.g. the Sinaloa Cartel.
Open office vs cubicle?
Me: Do you have a verifiable source for the DAUs?

You: This... https://api.joinmastodon.org/statistics

Me: That is MAUs, Not DAUs. Read this: https://joinmastodon.org/servers "Monthly Active Users"

Do you have a verifiable source for the DAUs? Not MAUs?

You: Errr......

So once again, you come back and have zero verifiable source(s) for the DAUs count for Mastodon.

> I'm actually fine with taking 1.2 million as the assumption for the monthly active user count, but it's still absurd and inexplicable to go from that to a 50K daily active user estimate.

It has always been that source for Mastodon's 'Monthly Active Users' for years and you knowingly used it to prove the numbers for the 'Daily Active Users', then when questioned you blamed the 'label' as 'misleading'.

The "Monthly Active Users" label could not have been more clearer and has been for years. You are free to dismiss my estimate, but once again you have admitted that you don't have any sources to even show me the DAUs.

So again:

"Give a proper source that is verifiable that shows Mastodons DAUs and NOT its MAUs"
> Prashanth Abd al-Rahman (SO CEO)

The name is Prashanth Chandrasekar or am I missing something?
I'm pretty sure a giant concrete channel has a much larger effect on local water cycles
First, I was surprised about the idea that there must be an exact description of dangers before someone can investigate the dangers and consider them. So I was raising the issue of nukes as obviously dangerous, ai less so, we can consider the dangers of AI or anything in the abstract.

I do see AI as very dangerous though. My personal belief is we'll build AGI, every country will have some of their own. Now consider the next war US versus China say or Russia, people will be doing everything possible to win. Eventually we'll make AI controlled robots or weapons that don't have human controls.

There's a less dangerous, but still incredibly destructive problem of AI, propaganda, fake information, photos, etc, becoming ever more capable of making influential damaging fake news. The US is already suffering under this without AI, 1/3 of the people believe things that aren't true about the election, science, etc. Multiply that by 100 and a worse problem occurs.
Sorry for the offtopicness but could you please email me at hn@ycombinator.com?

I want to send you a repost invite for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34556378.
Did you miss where I said: It just takes one, and then it's fixed for everyone?
2023 version with the title '
M. Stonebraker, et al., What Goes Around Comes Around... And Around' is in the works.

See https://15721.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2023/schedule.html
He was trying not to be too much of a propagandist.

Orwell, 1941: "One could not have a better example of the moral and emotional shallowness of our time, than the fact that we are now all more or less pro Stalin. This disgusting murderer is temporarily on our side, and so the purges, etc., are suddenly forgotten."

Hence the scene in "1984" where the orator, upon being handed an update notice, switches mid-speech from supporting Eastasia to Westasia. (Or was it the other way round?)

Orwell is worth reading beyond "1984" because he punctures the delusions of all the sides without descending into nihilism. We need more of that today.
Are there fish or anything in these canals? Could the solar panels have an affect on their habitats?
seems folks are mad because Stack exchange ceo wants to use their own LLM to provide answers on their site. Which is something that other SE sites have banned as answers previously.
https://archive.is/jfRGB
Maybe we are kindred spirits? There are no perfect places to put the desk, just tradeoffs. I solved it by putting my desk on casters, so I can esily roll it (and lock it) as needed or to try things.
So?, does that invalidate the article because he isnt the typical SF leftist?
None of this voids the terms of international copyright agreements and someone on Hacker News should know better than to claim that a robots.txt on a personal site would cover all instances of an image being scraped. I’m not saying that artists will necessarily come out on the winning end of this battle, but it’s also specious to claim that company says what they did is legal, therefore it is.
the use and abuse of the term "community" to mean things convenient to for-profit content aggregators. What could be wrong with the New Digital Feudalism?
Not always. See DBAF (both deviations from DBGT). Yes, later the former authors worked for Sueisha/Toei, as the had lots of experience copying Toriyama's style, but back in the day they were totally legal sales of these mangas.
Full word reading works fine for a subset of kids, but it leaves a sizeable amount behind. Phonics is fundamental for teaching those kids how to read.

This is how the podcast explains what reading research has found about how people learn to read:

- First learn to associate letters with sounds

- By sounding out words, reinforce those associations

- And associate combinations of letters with known words from their spoken language

Our brains aren't wired for written language like they are for spoken language. We have to actively learn. And by associating letters with sounds, our brains are able to loop in the existing language areas of the brain into written language.
> Strong opinions loosely held might be the worst idea in tech

I strongly disagree with this, but if you can make a convincing argument I'll definitely consider it.
>They are both offshoots of Marxism.

As long as YouTube is making our arguments, here's Žižek trolling Peterson about this canard:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Wsz6ijXWS3A
Proton DB makes that case handily, no personal testing required.

I wish people were a bit more sanguine and a bit less thinking wishfully about the real world performance of Proton. It is absolutely impressive, but "Playable" is not good enough of a rating; it's not even table stakes. There are bugs and manual interventions required on "playable" titles on proton DB that would lead to mass outrage and refunds if they behaved that way on their native platform.

"It can literally be played" is such a low bar.
The Future of Rust: characteristics, popularity, and challenges
My partner and I regularly work physically next to each-other, even though we both have separate office spaces. It does help stay focused and it's a great change of pace.

It is an interesting idea to invite friends over to work with! I will have to try it.
Standard disclaimer: Andy Jassy is my skip * 7 manager.

He has said plenty of times in public statements that less than 5% of all cloud spend is on any cloud provider.

https://accelerationeconomy.com/cloud/amazon-shocker-ceo-jas...
Are you saying that the author's not allowed to observe that some demographics engage in particular behaviours more frequently than others?

I thought that we should strive to be rational, meritocratic, observation and data-driven people...
I'm not sure vendors can void warranties in all countries. If you make a product that advertises itself supporting custom firmwares, then your hardware should be capabale of doing so would likely be how it is viewed in my country.
You can always integrate with Mint, and then use that to export all your years worth of data into CSV, etc.
https://archive.is/ctkzo
I actually just got a message from Lyft this week when I was leaving the airport. I opened the app, checked the prices ($38!!), and closed it to catch the train instead ($7).

I quickly received a push notification saying "Save 50 minutes by taking Lyft. If you take transit, you will arrive at 12:36am".

Well, it was already quite late and it would be nice to save 50 minutes. So I booked the Lyft, and proceeded to wait for 40 minutes as over a dozen drivers would be assigned to me, see where I wanted to go (6km away), and cancel my ride. I gave up and cancelled the Lyft and only barely made the last bus. Lyft made my life a whole lot more stressful for no reason.
The paper[1] says there were three blasts, the largest of which was 15 megatons. Another paper[2] estimates 61 megatons.

USGS gives 24 megatons for St Helens 1980 and 70 megatons for Pinatubo 1991.[3][4]

The time period over which energy is integrated is an important distinction here, and sources are not always clear about it. It's also relevant in comparisons with nuclear explosives, which detonate extremely rapidly and achieve far higher peak power than any natural phenomenon on Earth.

My guess is that possibly St Helens and probably Pinatubo achieved higher peak power in the last century.

[1] https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adf5493

[2] https://doi.org/10.1007/s00193-022-01092-4

[3] https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2000/fs036-00/

[4] https://pubs.usgs.gov/pinatubo/tahira/
You can actually just buy GPS+Cellular trackers off Amazon already. And they are far far more discrete than this literal soup can sized tracker that the NYPD would be using.
Strongtowns is cooking the math. Suburbs have existed for more than 100 years, and most do not fall for issues they claim.
Indeed. I didn't notice this on the first read of the article because I didn't notice the "Show more" button - seriously, WTF is this crap news sites tend to pull? I get it on content container / teaser pages, but an article page?!

In any case: nothing stops foreign car makers from coming back to Detroit or whatever and producing cars there. BMW at least has a decent presence in Spartanburg, not sure about the others - but Tesla has shown that this model can work, their first plant in Fremont was a retooled GM/Toyota plant.
Apple's reality distortion field never really faded. Any Action taken by Apple Is Absolutely Righteous. Even if the very same action taken by another company would make them Absolutely Evil. The cognitive dissonance is truly amazing.
Still it didn't kill the play store did it?
No body is forcing you to install it.
They also used the dotnet stack (Windows Server, IIS, MSSQL, dotnet), and optimized the heck out of everything. They're not the typical use case.

(I'm not saying dotnet allowed them to get by on N low digit servers. I'm saying those folks are atypical)
Interesting!

So, for clarity, a `std::unique_ptr` is ordinarily the same size as a raw pointer... unless you give it a custom allocator or deleter (since it has to set aside more memory to store those functions).

BUT, using the (pretty over my head as I tried to read the code snippets on my phone :p) empty base optimization, the unique pointers seem able to store those functions at no extra cost.
It's kind of funny to be talking about expensive pieces of art when jpegs were regularly selling for $100k+ regularly less than a year ago.
I get the reason for preventing evaporation.

> Reading many of the comments it sounds like preventing evaporation is the major reason for this.

That's the important part of the paragraph. I'm not asking about the evaporation, so much as why that's what everyone seems to thing the point of building the solar panels is? I would expect they were going to build them anyways, and the prevention of evaporation seems to be a bonus. But reading the other comments, it would appear that's a wrong assumption.
:)

what a hill to die on
> I'd argue that even AXFR (zone transfers) as a replication mechanism should have been a BIND implementation detail.

AXFR has been valuable for interop, though, and allows you to have diverse implementations of authoritative servers.
>"Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons"

Thats a great book and one i've used with my kids. My only issue with it is the pages are so 'busy' and jammed with content that it's hard for kids to focus, even with parent's guidance pointing at the word segments.
meta forums on SE sites see disagreement a lot more often than the regular answers areas. These are usually longtime SE users with a minimum of site credit to participate. So while these are are not the bulk of SE users their voices should ring louder imo.
I’m sure you’ll still be able to do so with MDM using Configurator.
I was in Google Cloud's partner org for >7 years, managing a team of solution architects pointed at our most strategic partners (Accenture, Deloitte, Infosys, HCL, TCS, etc). I have been saying for nearly the entirety of the time that the way things will pan out for hyperscalers is going to roughly look like this:

AWS = the bazaar of public clouds. A service for nearly everything, but WYSIWYG and quality & consistency will be all over the place, just like amazon.com has become.

Azure = will ultimately own the enterprise. Microsoft is the new IBM and their mature GTM and Professional Services organizations will carry increasing value as cloud services become mostly commoditized. Microsoft has multiple large revenue streams to fund disruptive acquisitions and these will bear fruit through good management. Satya is proving to be an exceptional CEO.

GCP = an also-ran on compute/network/storage, but potentially differentiated on data, analytics & AI if leadership can organize the troops and keep focus on things that matter. Still very rough on the GTM side, and late to the party, making enterprise sales that much harder. Has some unique strengths, but can't rest on its laurels. Execution and focus are key.

Oracle = Making a killing selling an easy-button-to-cloud to existing Oracle on-prem customers, and frankly, this is plenty to keep things moving forward for a while.

IBM = Lots of hopes & dreams associated with RedHat acquisition and GBS/GTS split. It's still a bit early to tell how things will pan out, but IBM isn't playing the same sport as the rest, and has a lot more in common with Oracle than the big three.

My prediction for the next couple of years is that AWS continues to lose market share due to QoS and ultimately being spread too thin (and alienating partners), and all the rest capture it. MSFT is the biggest winner, Google will eventually find a sweet spot (it's already in the "too big to fail" category, and will achieve profitability this year), and ORCL/IBM will see increasing success in their niches but largely avoid direct competition/comparison with the others.
A 2-year waiting list may also indicate a bad local dealer that isn't even trying to sell the car as much as or more than it indicates a popular car. Only getting 8 cars in the last year sounds maybe like a choice to have as low of stock as possible in the dealership as much as it sounds like a supply issue. You may want to consider checking neighboring dealerships if the waiting list is not shrinking on a car that has been out in mass production for as long as the Ioniq 5 has been.
Looking at the Youtube frontpage while logged out is like a sad, morbid, glimpse of the world.
Off-topic, but perhaps someone might appreciate this factoid in a hacker spirit sense (or it makes them check their code at work): Randomly reminds me of a relatively common CJK bug in Qt-based software.

Qt comes with its own string class that supports substitution like this: QString("%1 %2").arg(foo).arg(bar)

This is often naively used by devs to e.g. build filesystem paths (the framework has better APIs for this). With CJK, it often happens that HTML-style percent encoding ends up in strings and filenames somewhere (think %20 for space, etc; a lot of CJK ends up percent-encoded), and then arg() substitutes into the wrong thing and everything breaks.

I've fixed this at least twice in Qt-based music players dealing with song metadata, thanks to a Korean-language music collection and Korean radio/podcast streams.
What I mean is releasing a free service out into the world that allows anyone to effectively pirate an artist’s work. Their intention was obviously to be rewarded by established players for doing this bit of dirty work, forcing artists to accept terms they wouldn’t have otherwise.
Why does my rainbow look different from yours?