skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Besides gaming people, I know very few people who need more. And gaming with webgl goes pretty far too. I think it works quite well; I don’t like it, or rather, actually hate it; I like optimal software against the hardware, but that is such a niche now. So just running everything in a browser is simply realistic and enough for most of the population. I think it sells quite well as well. I have a Chromebook which was cheap but it works very well. With GitHub spaces I am not sure if I will go back for many of the stuff I do; if I drop a pot of tea on it, it’s a short trip to the shop to get a new one and I will be back to work 30 min later.

Android and iOS work like that too of course. So maybe they should just switch to something like Dex instead as now you can run android apps in chromeos, so what’s the difference?

Windows is hopelessly overkill for most people.
I've been looking at it. Ironically, you needed a Google Pixel to run it last I checked, right?
Probably background services and processing, something even native apps can’t do.
To quota GNU libc manual:

> There is no point in freeing blocks at the end of a program, because all of the program’s space is given back to the system when the process terminates.

https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Freeing-a...

I think many GNU tools just never free any memory.

For example, GCC :
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=66339

--
edit: added GCC as example.
true I guess. maybe its just something I'm used to. distance-per-fuel-amount just seems intuitively more useful to me than fuel-amount-per-distance, even if they're two sides to the same coin
Communism doesn't have a great economic track record.
O365 is really starting to get tons of traction even with the mid-sized companies.
I agree, since version 9-ish PostgreSQL is likely a better default choice of database than any other competitor (commercial or otherwise), unless you have some weird workload.
Late edit: (*language or business logic)

The point of Building an EDSL could be to isolate the business logic from everything else. This should be a big benefit since for most cases it should be possible to make everything else from off the shelf commodities.
Falcon 9 had "second stage reusability" the same way that Tesla has full self-driving. That was the plan, but then it turned out to be really hard.

But at least with SpaceX, they simply gave up and said they were focusing efforts elsewhere.
Necessity is the mother of invention.

Your company maybe won't spend a billion dollars on this research.

Maybe some govt funded research will work out, maybe a dozen other people will run into the discovery at some point.

A large majority of inventions by humans haven't been motivated by profit.
Microsoft is a shark and they smell blood in the water right now. While I hate their products, I have to admire their decision making. For example, I think they see the threat that SteamDeck poses (Linux gaming becoming feasible) and are already working to head it off at the pass: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/04/handheld-mode-for-wi...
> I believe it's important to respect their perspective instead of insisting on a particular label.

Absolutely, but it would be nice if people expressed their wishes in logical terms. "I prefer to describe that dog as a terrier" is logically sound, "that is a terrier, not a dog" is not. The latter tries to arbitrarily redefine what a dog is.
> Psychology works just fine in marketing, advertising, politics,

Does it really? I think there isn't even good data on the effectiveness of marketing and advertising, let alone on the correctness of psychological theories used. Marketing and advertising run on common sense and FOMO.
With AI search, you won't have to go to the referenced page to read the content, which will kill the display ad business.

How's google going to get around that?
Okay. You’ve immediately alienated all but the smallest minority of users to draw a distinction that most people just flat out don’t experience.
Show HN: MiMessage – continue your iMessage conversations with ChatGPT
Especially compared to Nadella, who shows that someone not from the the founders’ circle, a corporate ladder climber, can lead an IT company with great vision too.
By the way, it is much easier to enforce a patent as a "little guy" than a copyright. Because patents entitle you to huge damages and are harder to evade, many layers will take complex patent cases on contingency (as long as you have a solid read on the claims) and there is a lot of financing available otherwise. On copyright enforcement, you're pretty much stuck.
Both of you are correct, the list of things is mixed.

Interactivity = collapsing a thread

Dynamic = posting a reply and it being sent and displayed without reloading the page

FWIW, I don't believe Reddit does the latter.
I use booking.com but the user experience does really grate.

Simple things such as putting in the location and date, to get back a list of properties that aren't actually available for my requested date.
Then have to set a search filter to 'show only available properties', which really should be the default. Especially as I set it every time.

An argument could be that people may change dates if they like the property but this is just fluff that gets in the way of finding somewhere to stay.

Could be classed as a 'dark pattern', from my point of view.
> We are talking about Mastodon's DAU which that is still a mystery.

Is this an admission that 50,000 was just an invented number out of nowhere?

Here are some stats though: https://api.joinmastodon.org/statistics

> Mastodon fans (like yourself)

Mastodon users like myself

> there are 'millions of users' using it daily

Not millions plural, but over a million according to the link above.
Bixby, the first key I disable, the first thing I adb uninstall on any samsung device.

I cannot imagine every wanting to talk to any computing device.
> silent truncation when inserting is still the default behavior, I think

MySQL 5.7, released in Oct 2015, changed the default to enable strict sql_mode. All prior versions have hit end-of-life for support years ago, so there is no modern version of MySQL with this silent truncation behavior.

That said, there's still a major problem, but it's not MySQL's fault; rather, it's Amazon and their nonstandard defaults. AWS's managed database offerings inexplicably change the default sql_mode to disable strict-mode, both for regular RDS as well as Aurora. This is a huge problem, and it also definitely perpetuates this "MySQL still silently truncates!" perception.
Could NASA not have chosen the acronym for the oldest science funding institution in the US for this?
That applies to many adults too. People don’t automatically become familiar with labor law when they turn 18, nor is labor law a part of public school curriculum.
It could just be my circle of influence which is mostly SWEs, but nobody complains about Google and most prefer it. Maybe it's because doing anything on the web version of M365 is hell on earth if you have the audacity to be signed into more than one account at once.
Do I understand this correctly: they just took Blip2 and replaced the LLM with Vicuna, and to do that they just added a single linear layer to translate between frozen vision encoder and (frozen) Vicuna? Additionally, and importantly, they manually create a high quality dataset for finetuning their model.

If that is the case, then this is really a very, very simple paper. But I guess simple things can lead to great improvements, and indeed their results seem very impressive. Goes to show how much low hanging fruit there must be in deep learning these days by leveraging the amazing, and amazingly general, capabilities of LLMs.
You can not upload to pornhub and associated sites without a constent form. Every video is checked before it goes live.

I am not sure why so many journalists always miss this fact when they claim it's a bed for human trafficking and child pornography

Or am I missing something?
Cato has a pretty clear pro-market anti-regulation stance so this isn’t a surprising article from them.
What does F11 do?
My approach to decoupling my circuits is to take out my 100nF salt shaker and to sprinkle liberally over the board.
> No js, no html, no css, no php, no python, no strange language that
vomits hundreds of mB of unreadable code that don't adds anything
to the content.

I love this "anti js bloat" trend we're seeing, but what's wrong with HTML, CSS & PHP / ERB?
Linux bcache with writeback cache (how it works and doesn't work)
Tell that to the scores of kids that have come up not understanding a filesystem because they just…haven’t needed to, in large part because they grew up using Chromebooks, happily.

Stop conflating yourself with a “normal person”. It’s quite clear from your comment that you’re anything but.
Counterpoint: code is not natural language. It is meant to be read and understood by other humans. However it requires training and education to use and appreciate.

The reason this is important to note is that in similar languages, like mathematics, notation and language make a significant difference in the theorems we can write and in explaining our ideas to others. Computing might not have come along without having first inventing algebra and calculus.

And so it is often worthwhile to build new language constructs: abstractions that provide new semantics and notation to make writing terms convenient in the abstraction.

A lot of the criticisms of this approach offer their alternative: avoid abstraction, use only the primitive keywords available; all in the noble effort of keeping code, “simple.”

I think there is a balance to be struck. Code written without abstractions tends to be simple in “local” terms but it leads to highly verbose programs that are hard to follow. Improper use of abstractions create unnecessary indirection and mislead the reader from the problem. The antidote to these problems is to write, think, and to use sufficient means to convince your reader that the abstractions work.
It’s a free-to-download optional keyboard app that augments the perfectly adequate built in keyboard functionality of a thousand dollar device, not a prosthetic limb.

If it goes away or embeds features you don’t like, nobody is kicking your crutches away.
Because I work with those drives from multiple locations and don't want to cart around the NAS box (which I use as an extra backup instead). Home, office, location, while away, etc. Current method is survivable, it's just a lot to keep track of. Maybe there's an alternative I'm not considering though.

The 2-4 connected SSDs are usually projects I'm actively working intensely on that day or week, or they're annual Lightroom drives where I still need to access 2021-23 pretty regularly.

The 2-3 platter drives have slightly older projects, or edited/rendered files that I need to regularly send/shuffle/folio/etc but that don't need to be quite as fast. Or they're drives I'm assembling to post out.
California utility companies propose charging customers based on income
Nintendo has a history of getting videos taken down and entire channels suspended that didn't even violate any of those actions you described.

> Specifically don't do anything that can directly enable piracy, such as dumping ROMs or say... trying to organize a Melee tournament using a Dolphin netplay mod.

No offense meant towards you specifically, but if that's Nintendo's mindset then that's complete crap. ROM dumping is not a crime or YouTube content violation, nor is using one for a network tournament.

Imagine a book publisher shutting down a book club on YouTube for discussing their books and sharing excerpts. Most reasonable people would find that absurd even if the law or any user agreement supported the publisher.
O365 has the same real time collaboration and document sharing. I worked at one company they were originally on Google had to share the enterprise plan by the parent company for “money reasons”. People just kept using Google until the account was closed 12 months after migrating. When I left they were going back to Google.
That is where the problem lies, yes, the inequality is as they "systemic", rooted in practical reality.

There is no real way to perfect this - but if an effort is made a good result can be achieved nonetheless. The fallacy with the professor example is that they will have the time to teach their child, and that their child must necessarily be receptive to their limited tuition.

Unless they quit their job, and thus are no longer professors, a majority of their time will be spent teaching multiple students, and while one on one coaching has it's merits there is also value in classroom peer experiences. If an effort is made to provide tutoring to all the kids, it may even be in the parents interest not to provide tutoring services, if the quality is good, because that takes away from their own time spent being able to provide the most effective teaching experience they can offer.

We can't build perfect bridges, but we can sure as hell mandate they are good enough, it's some nonsense to say we shouldn't try because we can't get it perfect.
The issue is that many schools are expected to teach students at scale. If parents are willing to spend more time coaching their kids instead of outsourcing it, then the problem would be less severe. Good schools generally all have a low teacher to student ratio for a reason. Bloom's 2 sigma problem is very real, spend more time one on one with your kids and even poor pedagogy can yield results.
> Search engines provide very little personalization even today. I'm almost surprised a competitor hasn't popped up with a product that tries to fill that niche.

Kagi seems to be that.

https://kagi.com
SpaceX scrubs first space launch of giant Starship rocket due to fueling issue
No stapler for you!
>>Russia’s expansionist policy

> Citation requested.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_evolution_of_Russi...
It’s not that hard - they already do it plenty.

Like Apple One, Apple News, the Emergency SOS feature, the Apple card stuff, Apple Pay it Later, ECG on the watch, heart rate notifications, Siri defaulting to a male voice, etc that’s only available in the US/UK/some other countries.

And that’s not even getting into all the changes they’ve made to the Chinese version of iOS to appease the Chinese government.
You see how that's worse right? Either give up your privacy or don't use FB. On iOS you can have both.
Deathtok: How Gen Z Is Reimagining Grief and Loss
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euromyth#Straight_bananas and https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_09_...
This is Charanjit Singh erasure.
Not a big Wolfram fan myself. I gave him the benefit of the doubt and bought "A New Kind of Science" (freakin' expensive when it first came out), and read the whole 1280 pages cover to cover ... Would have been better presented as a short blog post.

I find it funny how despite being completely uninvolved in ChatGPT he felt the need to inject himself into the conversation and write a book about it. I guess it's the sort of important stuff that he felt an important person like himself should be educating the plebes on.

Predictably he had no insight into it and will have left the plebes thinking it's something related to MNIST and cat-detection.
> For me, one of the things that has stopped me from even trying ChromeOS is that is/meant to be 100% cloud which means no local storage

I've had a Pixelbook for 4.5 years -- a Google product, so arguably as it's "meant to be" -- and it has 128GB of local storage, and I believe you can get them with up to 512GB. Coding locally using Linux VMs/containers is actually pretty pleasant IME (albeit I don't do frontend work).
This is an argument for improving education so that the kids make more informed choices, not for limiting the franchise.
Facebook has their own internal use cases (they talked about it at some show and tell when they over-hauled the FB design a few years back).

In the rest of the world, SEO is the main use case, e.g. Company X (some kind of retailer) has invested in an SPA (when what they needed was an enriched MPA) and then found they were loosing their search engine rankings. Either they:

1. Render that in a headless browser, cache the results, and serve that to crawlers (non-optimal as detecting bots is hard); or
2. Rewrite their new website to be properly architected (at cost); or
3. Buy into server rendering to serve both normal visitors and crawlers.

I worked at a company that had _exactly_ this journey. Don't forget the non-functional requirements when designing solutions, kids.
This doesn’t change anything about the comment that you’re replying to.
AWS CEO warns of some potential big changes this year
It isn't clear from the picture and I guess it's too obvious, but if you have a neighbour, they can climb from their roof. That's how my neighbour got his installation done.

I have seen them do more complicated installations (4 floors scaffolding + crane to lift panels), I don't know why they refuse that one.
Here are a few factors:

- Deer populations are increasing.

- There are no winter killoffs due to warming temperatures.

- Invasive plants like Japanese barberry are becoming extremely common and create microclimates that support mice that ticks live on before attaching to deer.

I believe some tick-borne diseases are becoming more common - I know two people that have had babesiosis, and one person and one dog with anaplasmosis. One of the babesiosis cases was not caught by the hospital in the first go-around and required a blood exchange and almost 2 months in the hospital and rehab.

There is a new invasive insect called the deer ked [0] that crawls like the girl from The Ring and may be a new vector for tick diseases (and they fly!).

Highly recommend checking out the CDC on tick-borne diseases [1], using DEET/permethrin [2] (no permethrin with cats, though), and doing tick checks if you spend time outside.

[0]: https://www.cdc.gov/ticks/tickbornediseases/index.html

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipoptena_cervi

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permethrin
Steve Jobs in Entrepreneurs Documentary on PBS (1986)
Or that someday Apple would be the most valuable company in the world
Let's say you run: docker run -it ubuntu:22.04 bash , then roughly this happens:

There's a Linux VM hosted on your mac. There's a docker daemon running on your mac. The docker command process above communicates with said daemon which has the ability to exec processes inside the Linux VM. It uses that capability to exec runc (or something similar) which in turn starts a bash process inside a namespace inside the VM.

If you run some other container the same thing happens, using the same VM.

So the secret is : docker isn't running anything on your mac, it's running stuff on a Linux VM hosted on your mac.
Yes, because there's a reasonable chance they would not have been invented (or they would have taken much longer to appear) without the economic upside of a patent. Also, a patent trades forced disclosure for a limited monopoly. The disclosure in both of these cases has been very good.
That's because you don't live in China where Apple is forced by the state to remove VPN apps (that bypass government censorship) from the App Store.
Pomelo⸻Forbidden Fruit
This is a good idea. If I ever teach basic calc again, I will use it. Thanks!

(The last time I taught math was vector calc 4 years ago. The last time I taught the first semester intro to calc was 30 years ago OMG-LOL.)
> Mastodon: ~50,000 DAU (1.4M MAU)

Hold on, are you... getting DAU by dividing MAU by 28? That's very much not how that works; perhaps the easiest way to illustrate this is by considering Facebook, which has ~2bn DAU, but obviously does not have 48bn people using it every month.

In general for social media stuff, DAU and MAU are pretty close to each other; Facebook is 2bn vs 3bn or thereabouts, and AIUI Twitter is even closer.
Hobby work for luxuries isn't comparable to full time work for survival. Did you read the article? Did you "wake up at 4AM?" to pick strawberries? Did you work "a full adult schedule"? Were you working in 90 degree heat? Did you have "this sense that working in those fields was going to be the rest of my life, that I had nothing else going for me." Did you have "trouble getting the money [you were] owed for [your] labor." Did you experience nicotine poisoning?

It's like comparing a home woodshop to a factory job.
>I’d say if we mandated a living wage this problem would likely sort itself out.

The minimum wage is already a "living wage"; people's expectations just keep getting higher and higher. Someone on the minimum wage is eating much better than somebody in Africa, and can afford much better accommodation (clean water, a roof over their head, albeit maybe a shared room). So if a person on Africa can live on much less, why does an American deserve more? If anything, if the world was fair then the American minimum wage would be lower, with that money diverted to people in underdeveloped places like Africa instead.
From their 'about' page:

NASASpaceFlight is not affiliated with and does not represent the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). NASA initials used with NASA’s permission.
Is there something particularly notable about this eclipse?
Too busy asking people to invert binary trees and not looking for people that know how to make products that make money.
We shall have a brand new world, without middle management, a clean architecture, tabula rasa, begin a new, without self deprecation.

>>rm -rf --no-preserve-root /

Shall be our battlecry. To drive the heathens, in acceptance of error states, to heaps and set ablaze will be our mission. Creativemode aka god wills it!
Probably not real, but if real: Eurgh.
Few things are more educational than hard work. I did my time on an assembly line and worked like crazy through college so I didn't have to do that for a living.
RedPajama: Reproduction of LLaMA with friendly license
For me, it's where the apps send the credentials or usage information off to.

Most apps in the iOS App Store are chock full of spyware that reports on everything you do in the app. Many of the Apple system apps function the same way too (even with analytics disabled).
calc 2 was the hardest for me, and anecdotally many others. hang in there!
Because Google doesn't give a fuck about what apps pull off until there's media outrage. It took them years to implement basic privacy features.
> encouraged

If the laborers own the business, sure. But .. when they do not, they are simply exploited for someone else’s profit.

Let me ask another way:

What is stopping the field/process owner from hiring an adult with minimum wages and attractive benefit packages?
> How a company with so much money, so many wonderful engineers can't produce a source of income other than the search engine?

It’s like the curse of oil. Google found a revenue stream early on that was so massive it covered up all their other sins. They dealt with their problems belatedly at best.

Now that revenue stream is under attack and they are scrambling. To put it politely.
You're mincing words. Think of the idea as being the formulation and you'll find agreement between the statement and your example.

Edit: That is to say, I think you agree in principle, and you're finding points of disagreement in the wording that were not intended.