skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like some horrible, horrible mashup of Blade Runner and QVC.
Learning from machines: Know thy context
Do you know a carrier which you have any leverage against? I don't. Better get a physical SIM.

Oh, you do? It's still a single point of failure. Customer support servers down? Should have gotten a physical SIM.

Unbeatable servers? Good luck swapping eSIMs when you want to sell/throw away your phone abroad, out of range of internet. Should have gotten a phyical one.

Never out of range? Wonder what you do when your phone breaks and you have no one to babysit you through the process. Should have gotten physical.

Etc.

That's what an additional sigle point of failure means: less control over your own infrastructure.
Instead of mandating the standard to be used, they should've mandated that phone vendors agree on one standard, with a revision every x years or so.
It usually doesn't even immediately register when you rub your phone or card all over the reader. I'm highly suspicious of these claims.
Interesting that in a era of 100+ Gbit Ethernet we seem to need the offload features working just right to get even 1 Gbit.
As a power fantasy, I heavily relate to this. I would love to be that archetype of writing amazing cathedrals of code with absolutely no tradeoffs with testability, readability, or (amazingly) time spent on development. To be a misunderstood genius whose only limit to delivering infinite value is the incompetence of my employer.

However, this is a fantasy.

>I’m obsessed with making my code readable, even to non-programmers

This is a plainly impossible goal, because programmers themselves don't agree what "readable code" is. The problem is that sufficiently useful code always exists in a context where tradeoffs are inevitable.

When the universe aligns to help us forget this, the success can be intoxicating. Wouldn't it be nice to live in a world where all projects can be like that? Software Craftsmen then get seduced into Software Masturbators.
Not knowingly leaving out. Happy to debate such variables. What's your proposed hypothesis?
Sorry I don’t check comments often — here’s my go to pens:

- pocket pen: Kaweco brass sport <F>. It’s built like a tank, and develops a unique patina.

- daily workhorse: Pilot VP <F>. Great solid pen. The retractable nib is so darn convenient that it’s my go to for anything where I may be intermittently taking notes (e.g. meetings)

- fancy pen for home: Pilot 823 <M>. I got a quite good deal on it, as it’s more than I’m comfortable spending, but it’s one of the best writing pens out there and the vac filler is fun. But it doesn’t leave my desk.

- recent pen: Moonman A1 <EF>. This is a “knockoff” of the Pilot VP, which had its patents expire. Quality is maybe 90% of the Pilot, but I paid <$25 shipped on AliExpress. Trying it out as a note taking pen since I’m a little over protective of my VP.

I also have a TWSBI Eco and a Lamy Safari. I use the eco for basically callouts (circling/adding comments in red) when I review meeting notes. The Safari isn’t really for me… maybe the nib never meshed with my handwriting but I’ve always had issues; however, a lot of folks give it a ton of praise.

[edit: formatting]
We are definitely planning to support GPC. I'm not sure how not supporting contradicts respecting users, considering that neither Chrome, Firefox nor Safari supports it (without enabling experimental flags).

We really want to see GPC succeed, but we haven't prioritized supporting it because it doesn't seem like it's going to benefit many users, yet.
Function shortness is not, in and of itself, a value.

There are many obvious examples where it makes excellent sense to refactor a complex function into several smaller functions. I get frustrated with the spirit of this post because I honestly have never seen anyone challenge this.

However, I frequently see PRs which appear to be breaking a longer but repetitive function into a large number of mostly single line functions, apparently with the single goal of achieving checklist compliance with the folk wisdom. In these cases, we've devolved from a list of (for example) simple name mappings with the occasional downcase() (for the bold!) to having to jump back and forth between multiple points in the file, which has now grown by 80-150% to account for all of the begin/end sigils (language/lint dependent).

If you're converting a JSON string to a dictionary and then mapping a large number of attributes, moving from

object.foo = json["foo"]

to

object.foo = extractFoo(json)

with a matching three line getter you have to scroll 2-3 pages down to read and does the exact same thing is not a win.

TL;DR context matters and general rules only help when you don't treat them like hammers.
More powerful bigger brother

https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/07/14/yd-ch32v307vct6-risc...
As I recall it, this is more or less what Mozilla wanted to do with Persona back in the day. That didn’t take off, but the approach with WebAuthN is perhaps an evolution of it especially in terms of making public key crypto user-friendly. Of course, the challenge is different in a multi-device world when you want your phone, tablet and laptop to all use the same login without using a hardware key.
eSIM is available in France [1] on many brands and devices, including iPhones.

[1] https://assistance.orange.fr/objets-connectes/installer-et-u...
> chaos based failure mode

I studied this in undergrad, but it’s not the same thing the paper is talking about
It's a sore-spot for sure. I've found that Rectangle[0] does a good enough job.

[0] https://rectangleapp.com/
I've travelled across Europe with eSims bought from Mobimatter, and I've also bought local Vodaphone eSim in Italy and some other operator Montenegro. In fact, I'm writing this from a eSim in my iphone while I wait for Airbnb to resolve issues with check-in on Cyprus. What are you talking about?
If the power is out at your destination you're unlikely to be able to operate the gas pumps either.

Who brings emergency gasoline supplies with them on a family trip with young kids? The suggestion is ludicrous. Is your typical vacation, like, traveling to Florida to experience a hurricane making landfall?

If you do a lot of travel to remote locations and camping and hiking and things like that, yes, an EV will probably be a stretch for that use right now. But most people in the US live and travel between major population centers.

Even if you are into the remote/outdoorsy stuff, an EV is a perfectly viable second car.
It is still 2FA. Something you have (passkey on a device) and something you are (LIDAR map of your face and pulse).
Just adding some extra color: Turbo codes did get instant traction in the industry once the academics actually "believed" them to be true. So the friction came from the academics and not the industry. Today, every communication system you are using are relying on Turbo codes in some shape or form.
Maybe penalizing people for lying on their resumes is a good idea.
A very specific example… I live outside DC. I like to visit Canaan Valley WV to go camping. There is no charge infrastructure anywhere nearby. So, it’s a 2 hour detour on the return leg to recharge on what is normally a 2.5-3 hour trip (each direction).

But, from my house, that’s about the only trip I’ve found like this. Any of the beaches are reachable. Most cities within a day or two Drive are reachable.
Gaming, ChatGPT, and Human Use
I've never spent time playing computer games but I have friends
who spend whole days gaming. I spend whole weeks taking online
courses so I guess the addiction is the same, just the topic differs.

As more people are put out of work, more people spend time gaming.

There is a huge opportunity here.

Imagine if game companies could design games to solve problems,
like finding all of the finite simple groups. Imagine a game that takes
the existing theorems, uses chatGPT to make a conjecture, and then
the game is structured to make all known theorems available for solving
the conjecture. Two examples might be the Collatz conjecture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz_conjecture
or the Andrews-Curtis conjecture [0]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrews%E2%80%93Curtis_conjecture

For example, Kevin Buzzard created the "Natural Number Game" for teaching
how to use tactics to solve proofs.
https://www.ma.imperial.ac.uk/~buzzard/xena/natural_number_game/

This idea could be adapted to a more general gaming context. If the "gaming
company" carefully structured the "game" so that it created conjectures that
were "very near" the edge of proven theorems then people, thinking it was a
game, could spend time trying to solve the problem.

The gaming company would hire professional mathematicians to make conjectures.
A "scoreboard" would list people who proved the conjectures.

The computer science curriculum could include a "gaming track". The idea is that
compsci students are taught to create "addictive gaming structures" that focus on
problem solving. The students would use chatGPT as an NPC (non-player character)
who would create "quests" for gamers. The hard parts are figuring out how to re-cast
a problem into an addictive "game" and the engineering required to make chatGPT
focus on a particular area (e.g. proving theorems) when choosing the quest.

Solving the problem of getting gamers to do productive work while "playing" would
let AI take over the world while keeping everyone happy. Win!

So how do we adapt Buzzard's game to change the world?

[0] Baumslag, Gilbert; Buchberger, Bruno; Daly, Timothy The Andrews-Curtis Conjecture
Center for Algorithms and Interactive Scientific Software (CAISS), City College of New York,
June 2005
Well, I converted the image to greyscale and I have to say the additional hints are not particularly subtle. Because I still see the implied depth quite clearly: https://i.imgur.com/SxnZiwq.png It is a little more obvious in colour, but not strikingly. Though I saw it in colour first, so maybe I was primed.
Yes, wanted to share an interesting story of how great ideas can come from folks who are not the most popular names in a field. I feel the same will happen with AI now.
Solid Butter Bot reference!
I agree with the author. I just cancelled Spotify and got YouTube Premium and it was an absolutely brilliant decision. Pretty soon I’m going to cancel Netflix and Prime too and just take out the odd month subscription to a streaming service if there’s something I really want to watch. I’m probably better off watching some informative documentary on YT than I am watching Netflix anyway and if I want entertainment, there are millions of hours of TTRPGs, stand up comedy and web series to watch that are often of a really high quality (e.g Critical Role, Ari Shaffir, Wayne).

It’s an awesome resource and I think Gen Z are at a massive advantage because of it. They can literally leave school and already be professionally competent. I think we’ll see them leapfrogging millennials on the career ladder because they had a youth where they could spend their entire time learning literally everything there is to know about their passion for free. No other generation in history has had such an opportunity. You were limited by your parents bank balance or the resources of your local library.
That's why Windows is beautiful, all APIs are open for developers to use for whatever they want.
The benchmarks show it making plenty of things worse in the non gaming domain on this particular CPU. On a server cpu that is running lower clocks anyway, probably near impossible for it to hurt.
TIL about https://folivora.ai/ (BetterTouchTool). Brilliant.. and it's so refreshing to see an app that I will own and won't be a subscription. I can't stand that.
1.5 More established academics deride, scoff, and do their best to extinguish this new work.
...a Moloch trap - a game theoretic perspective on the common good eroded as competing individual actors seek to survive and/or flourish

It's either amusing or annoying that scenes like Effective Altruism may rediscover Karl Marx' analysis of capitalism in a partial, broken form but will never investigate progressive ideas as they stand.
Going commando (tactics to better manage projects)
What about people with good credit but low income? I get that perhaps it's easy to conflate the two, but they aren't always related.

Personally, I have no strong opinion either way on the issue.
IANAL myself and I'm not sure either how it works, but technically Zaraz doesn't save your data at all, and you can set your website to only be handled by EU servers. We wrote about it here: https://blog.cloudflare.com/keep-analytics-tracking-data-in-...

Again, don't take this as a legal advice or anything like that - this is just to say we're doing everything we can to help users comply.
I do similar with acoustic foam and my computer case. Basically built a case around the case. Now my mics in the audio studio never pick up fan background noise.
It's about the burden of proof. If you try to place the burdenof proof on anything that changes the status quo, it causes two problems:

1. You can't prove a negative.

2. What constitutes a change from the status quo? The status quo is a vague concept in a dynamic world.

So you have to use some judgement. Plastic is really, really safe in small amounts. Same with CO2 emissions. It's only in huge quantities that they are a problem.
FTFY: The fundamental instinctive understanding that everyone has socially as to why certain types of gossip are bad is why privacy on those respects is important.
Tencent owns 5% of reddit.
They sponsor team strips, and then those players get done for dodgy gambling deals, but don’t mention the advertising… it’s almost like there’s some disconnect…
Plus the whole point of touch typing is that seeing the keyboard doesn’t matter…
The article I Have A Dirty Secret. I'm a Software Craftsman. is making the rounds elsewhere right now. https://levelup.gitconnected.com/i-have-a-dirty-secret-im-a-... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35678278

This feels like a very closely related topic. It's reading list at the start looks very promising. Exciting submission here.
But it might not be that simple. Perhaps it's 'faster' because it's doing less error checking.
If the power is out the gas pumps aren't working either, though it's possible some fuel stations have standby generators.

I have never taken extra gas along on a trip in the USA (I don't do long offroad treks or safaris, and neither do 99% of drivers).

The range and charging time issue with EVs are issues regardless of weird one-off events like the power being out for a day.
Digg changed the way comments were threaded meaning there could be no cogent discussion in threads. I am confident that was the mortal wound to Digg.
> Not really, since embedding YouTube and Twitter should work even if the consent for tracking is refused

Should it? I mean, GDPR wise you're sending a subrequest by embedding eg. an iframe - which involves user data that might be used for tracking by yt/tt etc.

Shouldn't it be better - to err on the safe side - to just replace eg. the embedded player with a placeholder (maybe featuring a link to youtube) unless user has given consent to the embedded player?
This is physics misunderstanding. There's no such thing as "equilibrium temperature" between two systems. The zeroth law of thermodynamics is that all you need to know in order to tell whether two systems are at thermodynamic equilibrium with each other is the temperature. If they have the same temperature, they are at equilibrium, period. You don't need to know anything else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeroth_law_of_thermodynamics

In this case, a wall which only allows transfer of heat via radiation (say, two simple thin transparent walls that only stop particles with vacuum gaps between them) is a diathermal wall.

These arguments aren't anything new, there's
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirchhoff%27s_law_of_thermal_r...

Climate arguments with laypeople is usually full of things that go against common sense thermodynamic intuition, and then the funny thing is that when you state the common sense thermodynamic intuition, which doesn't fit the narrative, they object to things which are as basic physics as you can get.

I bet that the confidence in climate change takes a nose dive with understanding of physics. It reaches a stable position somewhere of "well we're doing approximations too so without looking into it, maybe their approximations aren't so bad". If you do go looking into it in detail, you're either too invested to go against it, or you go against it and get cancelled / whatever, and then you're faced with a squad of believers who understand nothing but defend it with absolute confidence, with understanding that sounds more like caloric or phlogiston theory than actual modern physics.

There's a funny social gradient from climate modelers which know exactly how far away from the truth these models are, but still do the best that they can, to their managers, press releases, activists, politicians, where the entire thing looks like a game of broken telephone. And the honest people who say "I'm doing the best I can but I know it's not enough" are probably drowning in the shadow of those with dishonest conviction.

EDIT: to also correct a little simplification, you can prevent heat loss to radiation by reflectivity. But that's not the case with CO2 in the atmosphere, the arguments of greenhouse effect is not about reflectivity. Reflectivity would be the albedo of the surface, which is indeed important. But the atmosphere is completely negligible for reflectivity purposes.
But you agree that all the judgment also recognize that the jury would've edit: been able to recognize the comments as defamatory, and that, factually, in reality, the cases were - black on white - dissmissed on technicalities instead of from an actual judgment of anything scientific?

The whole point is that you bringing this up has nothing to do with the subject of this conversation.

And that you were blatantly wrong and misguiding in saying that he "lost the case" as the case was not argued
> We keep moving parts isolated because the fewer "things" that something does, the less likely it is to break. The less complicated it is.

It doesn't really work if I'm breaking up a function body into a bunch of smaller functions that will never be called from anywhere except the refactored function. I've just moved the complexity from a large function body into a bunch of smaller functions and the calls to them - but it's still the exact same logic, with the same complexity (but perhaps harder to read, due to all the jumping back and forth).
Just like more and more average people does not equal a genius, more and more "good" usually doesn't equal "extremely good".

> Then to say "it's always a balance", a balance between what? Good and bad? Simple and complex? What are you talking about?

A balance of the extent that you follow the rule/principle/pattern. There is a reason we have both WET and DRY.

> Therefore my position is that we should be preaching single-responsibility and small functions more, not less

Fine, but you're preaching to the wrong people here.
I'm not sure if the App Store is the amazing marketing tool that it's sold as. There are millions of apps, nobody is going to find yours.

The biggest problem with Apple's revenue model is that they want the 30% for people that aren't really benefiting from the App Store. Spotify built their brand without Apple, and if you want their app, you just click the link they email you.
I'm working on a little side project, called Bard. It's a "medieval content farm". I have a bullshit "AI" editorial team, reading the news and publishing them as 14th century poetry, on autopilot, every day. Every team member has their own style and personality.

The reason I'm working on this is precisely that LLMs are fantastic bullshit generators.
(This is not criticism, LLMs are useful, just not in the way the Show HN/Product Hunt headlines describe it.)

One of the problems I've had with content generation in the project is that GPT-4 tends to do its job a bit too well.

GPT-3 would produce content that sounded much more funny because of how crappy and simplistic the resulting "poetry" was.

Then, with GPT-4 some of my editors started writing poetry in (relatively correct) Latin. It's a bit like comparing someone in a renaissance fair, or a LARP to reading a quote from a medieval history book, or a manuscript.

You can see a draft of the project here: https://bard-ruddy.vercel.app, it's quite old and different from the final "product", but the general idea is the same. I'll push it to HN on Wednesday.
They do, and they provide some of the most extensive regression testing capabilities provides to kernel development.

But to be fair, this is an old NIC with a hardware bug that requires an odd workaround disabling an otherwise very useful performance feature. Missing that edge case is understandable.
The way that gambling has become so common and open in sports these days is bizarre. It wasn't like that at all before. Fantasy leagues have always been a thing. But constant reminders about betting on every sporting event during broadcasts seems a little dystopian.
Learning to Code Isn't Enough
You can mimic that in part with yabai (https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai). Disabling SIP gets you instant Space switching and creating without animation just like Pop_OS.

But you can get very far to an automated tiling WM and keyboard navigation even without disabling SIP.
The current middle manager is a pipeline to produce the sort of disconnected senior management that only deals with middle managers ... but perhaps that sort of senior role is next for the chopping block.

We can but hope.
Oracle has done them for 20+ years.
you should read the page you linked
> refuses to do what you ask

Even that wording is personification.

We don't know all the details of how the GPT series of models are trained, but what we do know suggests to me that it doesn't refuse to do what you ask, per se, so much as produce an output that looks like refusing to do a task in when the input most resembles examples from its training data where the expected output was something along the lines of, "I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."

But it's exceedingly unlikely that GPT series models have anything like a module that is making a specific decision to do or not do what you ask, unless you count the sort of anti-toxicity wrapper the have in the publicly-available chatbots built around these models.
I wonder if most of the "Serious money" is made from subs, in app purchases, app purchases or ads.

Do lots of people with iPhones buy random apps and sub/pay in them?

I've always wondered if this was an interesting market to get into but the horror stories over the years have kept me from touching it - is it feasible for a relatively competent dev to break into this market without dark methods?
I suspect this is Enfield in Connecticut and not Enfield in Middlesex, UK which is where the Rifle and Motorcycle originated.
Superchargers are normally built in retail areas that are popular enough to be safe.
IEEE 754 is very clear that the infinities are the endpoints of the extended real line (and hence also the extended integers, which matches your assumption).
Talk about headlines that mislead. This is not “we’re making the fees higher for people with higher credit ratings” (a boomer driven invention from the 80s).

This is reducing the overall fee discount people with higher credit ratings, from the article: “ lower-credit buyers will still pay more in LLPA fees than high-credit buyers”

So if you really think this is unfair, go and damage your credit rating. That way this particular penalty won’t impact you, because you won’t be getting the reduced discount anyway, and all your other fees will be higher, and your interest rate will be higher. Sounds like a win to me!
I'd be more concerned about Lego setting up a factory in a country with very poor labour laws compared to most countries in that list, than the stability of Denmark.
What could numeric rounding possibly have to do with MS-DOS? (2003)