skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like I say it's volume down on the Mac keyboard. Why she was interrogating ChatGPT I don't know. I know she started using it to get multi-state reading correlations... then she was talking about get it to excel work.

After that I imagine ChatGPT told her to use the F11 for something and she noticed she didn't have one. I believe at that point she started to try to get ChatGPT to tell her which key was the F11 on a Mac. She told it she was on Mac and didn't have an F11 key. ChatGPT agreed she was on a Mac and didn't have one.

I believe that is far as the conversation went. It was interesting to me becuase it is commonly available information but the answer just couldn't happen.
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Or that Apple is trying to grow market share by offering a higher rate.
95% of what I search for, I can independently confirm once I have it in hand. For the other 5%, I avoid ChatGPT.
On GCC, the memory usage on compiling C++ vs Clang can be night and day.

You can compile large C++ projects in a GB of RAM based netbook with Clang and ZRAM.
You'd still have a disruptive jump between weeks.
This is why the Hugging Face transformer ecosystem is so good, as each of those blocks will roughly have the same unified API.
Sounds like you should be doing the research yourself but are relying on an untrusted source to feed you answers? I don't think we're there yet...
Optimistically, that will mean a higher number of small teams working on more products.

Do we really need more products, though?

Well, we don't need more throwaway trinkets. On the other hand, there are diseases to be cured, environmental problems to be solved, asteroids to mine, universal speech translators to implement....If those are "products," then more teams would be great.

The hard thing as I see it is that the barriers to progress aren't mainly technical right now. They're social, political, tribal, and in some sense spiritual.
Short term TBills are a great place to park money.
I would be a bit cautious about taking teachers' word for what works and what doesn't work. Every critical piece on reading instruction on the US seems to make it pretty clear that teachers have a strong emotional and political attachment to the "whole language" method that might cloud their judgement and motivate their reasoning. See for instance the opening quote of an older article in Time (https://time.com/6205084/phonics-science-of-reading-teachers...):

> The teachers felt like curriculum robots—and pushed back. “This seems dehumanizing, this is colonizing, this is the man telling us what to do,” says Weaver, describing their response to the approach. “So we fought tooth and nail as a teacher group to throw [a phonics-based curriculum] out.” It was replaced in 2015 by a curriculum that emphasized rich literary experiences. “Those who wanted to fight for social justice, they figured that this new progressive way of teaching reading was the way,” he says.
I wrote about this a few years ago, when Wil Wheaton tried to move to Mastodon, and promptly got booted from his instance by a mob.

The "heavy moderation" of IRC days is markedly different than the "heavy moderation" that exists today. Back in the day, the ircops had all the power of the ban hammer. Today, the mob has all the power, and overwhelm the admins.

The mods try to hold onto a semblance of power by pointing to a strict set of rules and codes of conduct, but the reality is the mob gets the final say in who stays or goes, regardless of what the "rules" say.
Sick of GNOME, Snap and Flatpak? You might like Linux Lite, beware rough edges
The article is about the USA, which is a wealthy country. Unless otherwise stated, the discussion is therefore also about the USA.

> I don't know what's right and I'm thankful I don't have to make the decisions.

If you are in the USA, I think you ought to have an opinion on child labour. It's a basic point of labour law.

My vote counts in the UK, where from age 14 children can work for up to five hours on a non-school day, with a one hour break, and only between 7am and 7pm. They cannot work on anything hazardous. We don't have any significant toxic crops, but I think tobacco would count as hazardous. These rules seem to fix all the major problems in the article, while still allowing the "character building" half the commenters seek.
These are not nintendos “content creators” they are a business who use nintendos IP for profit. You can argue it’s fair use or that it’s “good marketting” for Nintendo but as a company they have every right to dispute that.
It really depends. If I want to search coding related stuff, I want this to be personalized as much as possible, with always having the option to extend the search for non-traditional topics.

Or when searching for places to go, it would be nice to get recommendations which consider that I love to ride bicycle.

Then there's DuckDuckGo on Firefox for legacy search if you're paranoid.
And yet HN automatically amputates title patterns that the mods consider clickbait, even if most of the time it just makes the title unintelligible or misleading.
So far each new Apple financial product makes me research and re-evaluate my options. When they announced their credit card, I got into "cash back" (thankful that I did), and ended up always getting good percentages back on every purchase. Apple Card was a jumping off point for further research. (For those curious, I ended up with Bank of America Premium Rewards at Platinum Honors tier + Amazon 5% card, Target 5% card, Lowe's 5% card, Apple 3% card, etc).

Now that they're announcing Savings, I'm thinking to re-evaluate my Ally savings account. Apple's is better, but I'm already seeing mentions of Betterment, Robinhood, and Wealthfront here. What I'm looking for is a no-fee, high yield, good FDIC insurance. I'm also looking to start a long-term investment account for my young kid, and it would probably be convenient if I could do them both with the same bank.

Any recommendations?
Many of us may not realize it here, but desktop is super niche compared to mobile... (edit: if you consider worldwide)
> Dominic Gannaway

Whom React got from InfernoJS
Because it doesn't seem implausible? Apple allowing side-loading is unprecedented, we can't say from experience how companies will respond to the ability to side-load.

The closest analog we have is Android, where side-loading is permitted. Google Play is much more lenient than the App Store, so there's less incentive for companies to make their apps sideload-only than on iOS, yet some companies have already done it. Alternative software stores are also a thing there.

I'm also not against side-loading. I think, as the owner of the device, I should be able to put software on it without Apple's permission. My only point here is that there are ways in which people who don't have to may be forced into side-loading software, meaning "just don't side-load if you don't want" is too simplistic.
Yeah, from that mechanical review purview, yes—a lot is already happening. But I have friends in the industry (not in PH, but friends who went into OF), and there's more that can be done, particularly in the mental health, comment moderation, & community moderation/engagement department.

> But we need to move forward, find better ways and make porn fun for anyone.

+1,000!
I’m sorry but what do you mean by “organics”? …humans? Something makes me deeply sad about that terminology.
The extent to which Apple has hammered the idea that any sort of freedom is unconditionally dangerous and undesirable into its users' heads is legitimately impressive.
Can you show us where?
Of course this is true. There is no free lunch. Seems akin to search engines having more difficulty over time as spam increases.

It's like the entropy / waste-product of algorithmic content production and ingestion, that the landfill of the internet fills up with more trash that has to be sifted through... to find the signal in the noise.

There will always be an environment that has to be adapted to, and an advantage accrued to those that do so better than the rest. This dynamic of more garbage in-garbage out may be a part of a near-term plateau in AI innovation.

Regarding AI art style media generators, there may also be a premium for quality human skill in a world where the democratization of low-effort uncanny valley "art" is so prevalent. Maybe a yearning for some sort of authenticity amongst the sterile mass-produced content.
>I want privacy hostile companies like Facebook to have to comply with the app store rules and respect system settings relating to privacy.

How about you spend 10 minutes looking at what Apple is actually doing and realize they are just as if not more "privacy hostile" as Facebook/Google/etc. They've been on a hiring spree since they announced their "privacy" update in 2020 to build out their own Ad Tech/DSP/Self Service Ad Platform.

Yeah - Apple was pulling a monopolistic move and kneecapping their competition for profits sake. They realized "Hey, we can kneecap these guys and in the near future profit billions like they did with our own ad network".

How is this good for privacy?
> I got similar questions for the French, btw. "Oiseaux"? Really, French?

“Oiseaux” is perfectly regular and involves no exceptions to the baseline rules of French pronunciation, though, AFAIK; if it were pronounced any way other than it is, it would warrant a question...
Fair point that only charging requires a heater but how does that meaningfully address the issue of cold weather operation? A battery requires charging and discharging and being able do to one but no the other won’t cut it, surely? The loss of capacity to heat is significant - often 10-30% capacity but that figure depends.

Also, i’m not sure plenty of power is lost to charging inefficiency. most industrial inverters operate at nearly 90% efficiency. Besides, above ambient isn’t a good metric - lithium chemistries do well around 10-25 C. If ambient is - 5 C, a delta of +5 C doesn’t change my core point.

Even if you are plugged in, lithium batteries aren’t dissipating heat. Not sure what the charger inefficiency has to do with this because that heat often isn’t the batteries themselves.
Your article says "VNAs are very expensive." Does this mean something like the NanoVNA [1] is inadequate for this measurement?

[1] https://nanovna.com
We are programmers after all! We care a lot about things like timezones, fonts, and date formats.
I think we should all stop using the term "phonics".

If you read the whole article I think you will agree that what you call "phonics" is actually just "reading"...

All of the rest, the context, cues, word-recognition, is something on top of seeing the letters, knowing the sound the make individually, knowing the sound they make when put in sequence. Good readers still see all the letters, don't work on guessing context, looking for cues, or seeing words as unified pictures.
> These people belong in gaol.

Luckily in the US, being very wrong about something, even when it's very consequential, is not illegal. We'd have a much less entrepreneurial society, and a lot less open, free debate, if it were.

Lucy Calkins did not force people to follow her methods, she persuaded them through teaching and advocacy.

FWIW I think a lot of affected students would have a reasonable civil case against Teacher's College, and other places where teachers were taught this nonsense, for harms done. If medical doctors were routinely taught something wrong and contrary to the published research at medical schools, we'd probably be thinking about a similar suit. But we don't generally put teachers and doctors in the same bucket; for one thing, teachers don't take a hippocratic oath.
> The Amiga had a litany of custom chips to achieve its incredible performance.

Exactly, and with PC technology rapidly catching up, updating them to a level on par with the latest VGA and sound cards was an enormous effort that didn't kill Commodore (internal mismanagement did) but came too late to save them. First prototypes of the AAA chipset are mentioned and visible in the famous "Deathbed Vigil" video shot by Dave Haynie himself at the C= headquarters in West Chester PA when the company was already belly up. I would highly recommend watching it also to non ex Amiga users, also for interesting vintage technical content, but keep tissues ready in case you were.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaTjwo1ywcI
That's why we call it hallucinating rather than lying. Confusing the two is conceptually unhygienic.
I think they're being inundated with issues and pull requests. So, the dust really has to settle.
As a political blogger and upcoming author, links to sources are damn important for me, for a multitude of reasons:

- they allow me to back up claims with cold, hard facts instead of "pure hearsay"

- they defend me from getting held liable... say someone files a libel suit/C&D order against me. If I have a link to a proper, accepted medium (e.g. a newspaper or a TV station), I can defend my claim by pointing to the original source(s).

However, it is becoming increasingly difficult to link to stuff:

- publishers decide to put interesting content behind paywalls, leading to a constant noise of "can't read, paywall"

- publishers decide to re-launch their website, but not set proper redirects so all my archives are dead now

- German public TV/radio has to take web articles and TV/radio archives offline after a few days or months, because private media got a court decision and then a legal provision forcing them to take down content [1]

- some media absolutely LOVE live tickers, but you can't directly link to posts in these for posteriority

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depublizieren
The author already powers the Pi directly from the battery, and they switch off the inverter when it's not used. (see the image diagram and one of their responses in the comments)
Anyway, you wouldn't need a 'load' port in the charge controller, just put it in parallel with the battery.
> Regulating data privacy isn't Apple's job, if you want that fixed then you should take it up with the government or someone who can actually hold them accountable.

I live in the United States of America, where the government is bought and paid for by companies who dislike privacy for their users.

In the meantime, it may not be Apple's "job," but it's part of their value proposition, and the grumbling from software vendors indicates it's reasonably effective.
Did any innovative product, at its inception, come from a 'product manager'? (especially at google)

They have their place in the org, but I don't see much creativity from them.
I have about 100x as many followers on my biggest twitter account as on my Mastodon, and yet typically get more engagement on Mastodon... Much of it down to the algo, but also, I suspect simply churn: A whole lot of followers who are now longer active. My Mastodon account hasn't had time to accrue many of those so far.
California startup wants to run a private night train between SF and LA
The Switch is the 3rd best selling console of all time, ahead of the PS4 by approx. 5 million units despite coming out 4 years after the release of the PS4. They may be #3 in terms of mindshare, but they have an incredibly dedicated fanbase that enjoy their products in spite of their behaviors towards them on the content creation side.
which essentially means the scrap, as customers have been taught that anything else is low quality garbage
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More low-level camera access would be a nice improvement. Also, the ability to work with raw video data for trimming/editing.
> What do you think '~' stands for?

I think it stands for, you made it up. You still haven't given any citation whatever for that number.

> You gave a figure that is collected directly from the 'servers' page that literally says "Monthly Active Users".

It also literally says right below that, "Data collected by crawling all accessible Mastodon servers on Apr 15, 2023."

Look at the data. It has daily counts. For example, here's the April 15 data that matches with what the page says:

{"period":"2023-04-15","server_count":"9509","user_count":"6641082","active_user_count":"1201004"}

I think it's actually the "Monthly" label there that seems somewhat misleading, unless perhaps it means they update the page once a month.

In any case, as another commenter mentioned, DAU and MAU tend to be relatively close. You don't go from 1.2M monthly users all the way down to 50K daily active users, that's nonsense. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35600846

Do you think Twitter has 6 billion MAU?
> Their stories are of music label hit factories

People who listen to this genre still care about them (the stories).
Apple's margins aren't Goldman's.

https://9to5mac.com/2023/02/16/apple-card-future-goldmans-sa...

> In January, a report indicated that Goldman Sachs had lost over $1 billion through its partnership with Apple for the Apple Card. Despite this, however, the company says that it remains committed to its partnership with Apple and expects it to be lucrative in the long run.
You, and the old people in your life, can simply stick to downloading from the official store. This change doesn't suddenly force you to live your life in a way that you're uncomfortable with.

If applications suddenly drop out of the App Store (horrendously unlikely) and force you to install them via sideloading, don't do it. It's entirely your prerogative.

Plus, I imagine Apple is going to make it quite involved to actually sideload anything. I think the old people in your life (incidentally, I know a lot more tech savvy older people than younger people, but that's neither here nor there) are safe from the nefarious clutches of added freedom.
Hot take, but: the same issue is present in math, with the aggressive deprioritization of rote learning of arithmetic. People need a foundation upon which to build higher concepts; knowing your times tables is necessary to grasp division algorithms.

The emphasis (in reading, and math) on the wider concepts rather than the boring learning is a problem.
We were told it was better to let the teachers teach otherwise kids learn bad habits or don’t engage.

That being said our eldest went to school at 4 1/2 in Australia and they had to learn 100 words in their first year (phonics), and we were a little worried that it seemed so intense, though she ended up learning 200 or so and went on to become a voracious reader. But then we moved to the US and our youngest started school at 5 1/2 and had to learn 20 words in her first year and is now 7 and can barely read. In hindsight it does seem so late, and I agree there is so much of the world and learning and curiosity they miss out on by not being able to read.
I think the real news is where this research is coming from. It is from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi. The arab world has recently been quite behind in tech research, but this is good news overall for the arab world, which will inspire other universities and researchers in the region to one-up their colleagues, which is overall good for the entire world.
> Say Facebook pulls WhatsApp from the app store and makes it only available via side-loading.

Say a meteorite hits the Earth and we all die.

In a completely hypothetical scenario there are much worse things that can happen than Facebook voluntarily pulling WhatsApp from the App store, forcing their users to side-load it, gaining nothing on the permissions side of the bargain while at the same time losing a majority of their users or, even more probably, having users stuck on the last version they could install from the store and never update again.
> when describing the driver who hit the Lyft she called him "young"

> played back the audio of her conversation

Am I reading this right? She gave a verbal statement to a rep, ostensibly to support their internal processes. They turned around and hypercriticized her exact wording, looking for reasons to punish her? If you squint hard enough, you can almost understand why companies want to avoid any possibly-misconstruable language in public posts, regardless of how unreasonable the possible PR blowup would be. But this is the next level.
> Then sprinkle down one 1uF 0402 per part for the small parts, or one per power pin for the big digital chips. Place these at the power pins, no exceptions

How does this work for something like an FPGA ? Generally there will be several power rails (Vdd, Vio, Vpll, maybe Vusb, others) in an area far too tiny to put even 0102's let alone 0204's. Or maybe I'm just rubbish at placement :)

I've been using double-sided placement underneath the FPGA as far as I can, but that also restricts the egress of the signals when you have as many power pins as an FPGA has...

Any hints for power-pin-dense applications ? Enquiring minds want to know :)
Because neither content creators nor content consumers are Youtube's customers. They're Youtube's assets. Brands are Youtube's customers.

Would you sacrifice 0.0000001% of your assets (this guy) to keep a massive customer like Nintendo happy?
For anyone wishing for a VS Code fix, comment on this issue: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/41909#issuecommen...
> Then enable a more limited App Store mode as an opt-in feature.

As on macOS (with SIP, etc.) it'll be the opposite: Users will need to opt-in to this new less-secure mode, as they do the ultra-secure Lockdown Mode.
In 2023, Linux on the desktop is merely death by a hundred papercuts instead of a thousand. Progress!
> These stats seem to suggest that there are well over a million DAU

Please. That is the figures for the MAUs [0] and you're clearly using that to attempt to pass that as a source for the non-existent daily active users metric and you know it.

[0] https://joinmastodon.org/servers
To drive home how far from sane common ARM bootup sequences are, the Raspberry Pi is started by its GPU. You can think of an RPi as a proprietary GPU with an auxiliary ARM CPU.
Yeah, it’s a deeply unsettling and dehumanizing way to say it.
I wonder if you could change the tool to search your browser history, rather than the web. That way, it's more likely to pick up the things you actually read before writing the post.
The Night Shift: Performance Variability of Cloud Serverless Platforms
Your closing sentence made me realize that there are "social contracts" on the Internet, and we're suddenly in a new regime. Our notions of how to operate (and how to monetize) will have to recalibrate to this drastically altered milieu.
'People have been saying for years that their search results are trash'.

Have they? I hear people say this on Hacker news but i've never heard it anywhere else, people seem to be using the internet just fine with Google as there main search engine, what is the alternative? Bing? It's still trash and Bing Chat is like a worse version of ChatGPT, I don't see it replacing Google currently.
You can still have a 12-volt bus, but since you're not plugging directly into the battery you'll suffer some conversion losses (buck converters are generally 80 to 95 percent efficient, depending on the operating conditions and cost)
I think my little language long ago crossed the threshold of composibility far beyond what simple icons can express. The spark to it is that sending a message to someone is itself an act within the game, and so there should be an order type to represent it. I introduced only two new words to the games formal vocabulary: propose and inform. They both have the same syntax. <country name> propose <country name>: <some set of orders>. Since these orders can contain other orders, but also are a type of order, you may in fact nest them to propose plans which involve proposing other plans. All sorts of emergent complexity bursts through after taking just that minor change. You can now gossip, that is compose inform statements which describe a chain of he said she said events. Without introducing it intentionally, you now have a way to ask questions. "I propose you inform me." Despite excess restraint towards changing the language that comes in the box, my "little" language could was eerily general