skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How is it that simultaneously, so many apps fail review for tiny details, showing that apps really are having manual review done on them...

> ...and yet all this spam is getting through?

It's important to understand that App Review is not consistently nitpicky but rather randomly nitpicky.

Every indie dev has stories of urgent bug fix updates getting rejected for stupid, unrelated, nitpicky reasons, things that had already been in the app for months or years. Yet every indie dev also has stories of major updates flying through review in minutes, so fast you know it's impossible that anyone looked carefully.

I do get the impression that they're doing random inspections.

"Every week, over 500 dedicated experts around the world review over 100K apps." https://www.apple.com/app-store/

Apple seems to be bragging about that, but if you estimate how much time is spent on each app, the numbers look pretty bad. If 500 reviewers spend full-time 40 hours every week doing nothing but reviewing apps — no breaks, no meetings, no training, no vacations, etc. — that leaves only 12 minutes per app, maximum. And they're reviewing not just the app but the App Store metadata: release notes, description, screenshots. They definitely do metadata rejections.
Yes, there are plenty of such cases but also many where Google gives correct answers and doctors are wrong unfortunately :/

It's very difficult to find a good doctor.

Many people are stuck and suffering without diagnosis because of real-life accessibility to good healthcare.

I'm talking about having practical access to a good, affordable, available AND knowledgeable doctor.

You get access to doctors which have time, and are near you, and in your budget, and they may not know your disease.

This is precisely where language models can help to sort and rank the information that is on the internet (if digested by a professional it's even better, but even raw, there is some value to it).
Also, if you use iCloud for passkeys, Apple has has a procedure to regain iCloud access with a recovery contact:

https://support.apple.com/guide/security/account-recovery-co...

(No, that doesn't mean that the contact has access to your account, the encryption key is split between the contact and Apple by the device.)
Dope, thanks!
Beautiful AI-generated photos and stories of aliens living in NY
I'm having a hard time parsing the parent quote, but if you're asking when the US invaded Canada and Mexico, here are some times.

Canda:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Invasion_of_Quebe...

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=War_of_1812&usesk...

Mexico:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican%E2%80%93American_War
Shorting the inductor temporarily converts some of the energy in the stored electric field of the input capacitor to "stored" magnetic field in the inductor (not quite, since it's only present when current is flowing, but close enough). Roughly the same amount of energy is eventually converted back into stored electric field in the output capacitor, minus the losses from parasitic capacitances/resistances and radiated emissions.

To keep things simple, imagine a lossless boost converter. In terms of power-in and power-out, a lossless converter has the same input and output power. If the converter output is doing real work (resistive load), the output power is equal to the output voltage times the load current. Therefore, at a lower input voltage, the converter sees a much higher input current than the load current - it has to, because power-in equals power-out. If it intuitively feels like you're pulling more energy out of the input capacitor than you're pushing into the output capacitor because of the temporary shorting of the inductor, remember - it's not lost to real work, just cleverly exploited by the transformation to magnetic field to losslessly overcome the difference in potential energy between the input charge at low voltage and the output charge at high voltage.

Energy in cap: E = 1/2 * C * V^2
C = Q / V
E = Q * V / 2
Energy in inductor: E = 1/2 * L * I^2
I = dQ/dt

I don't know how to write out the integral notation on HN, so you can fill in the blanks (sorry) - integrate the inductor current ramp up and ramp down portions, set equal to input charge pulled and output charge pushed, observe that energy is conserved with less charge at higher voltage on the output.
> the Sparks of AGI paper

Written by .... Microsoft Research .... owned by ... the company that just invested ~$15b into Openai and their largest partner to date

Conflict of interest level: over 9000
We’ll reach Idiocracy before the robots “have a plan”, and after that their plan will be to simply let the problem (us) take care of itself.
Assume magic cow.
Completely agree having fed ChatGPT with a number of PDFs of recent papers in the biological sciences. Of course chatGPT is a terrific achievement but I wonder how a journalist in a serious weekly can write the following.

'Nor, ironically, is the future overly bright for the scientists who made these machines: one recent paper on the scientific capabilities of the new AI concludes: ‘[this] Intelligent Agent system [is] capable of autonomously designing, planning, and executing complex scientific experiments. Our system demonstrates exceptional reasoning and experimental design capabilities, effectively addressing complex problems and generating high-quality code.’ So that’s the boffins gone, as well. They’ve boffined themselves into the bin.'

Beats me utterly. Is it something I've missed?
Ask any question from your database in plain English with the help of AI
Is branding the concept in play? I don’t see it being a very good metaphorical fit in comparison to my suggestion below. Branding requires a common theme over multiple things (such as products or events).

I think we’re seeing something closer to title optimization in the service of marketing. But even marketing isn’t a great fit.

Upon reflecting on the Wikipedia definition of marketing, it strikes me that title optimization is only a tiny part of what “academic research marketing” could be. In the most generous sense, it could mean reaching out to media sources fairly early in the research/writing process to help craft a paper that will be interesting to the desired audience.

Wikipedia quotes:

> Marketing is the process of exploring, creating, and delivering value to meet the needs of a target market in terms of goods and services; potentially including selection of a target audience; selection of certain attributes or themes to emphasize in advertising; operation of advertising campaigns; attendance at trade shows and public events; design of products and packaging attractive to buyers; defining the terms of sale, such as price, discounts, warranty, and return policy; product placement in media or with people believed to influence the buying habits of others; agreements with retailers, wholesale distributors, or resellers; and attempts to create awareness of, loyalty to, and positive feelings about a brand.

> A brand is a name, term, design, symbol or any other feature that distinguishes one seller's good or service from those of other sellers. Brands are used in business, marketing, and advertising for recognition and, importantly, to create and store value as brand equity for the object identified, to the benefit of the brand's customers, its owners and shareholders.

> Personal branding is the conscious and intentional effort to create and influence public perception of an individual by positioning them as an authority in their industry, elevating their credibility, and differentiating themselves from the competition, to ultimately advance their career, widen their circle of influence, and have a larger impact.
> The point still stands: By no reasonable definition is Lego the largest manufacturer of tires.

This is clearly not true. All it takes is to acknowledge that Lego produces tires (which it does), check how many they produce per time period (which they provided) l, and compare with other statistics from other tire producers (which they do).

At best, you can claim that your personal definition of what a tire is doesn't match Lego's.
Anecdotally i have never had a problem with anti adblockers with UBOs anti-anti-adblocker list turned on, but maybe anti-adblock will get better if more people start using adblockers.
The problem is that cities encourage/force HOAs to exist. The city gets the HOA to maintain the infrastructure indefinitely. So you can’t really vote with your wallet. Developers often don’t want to make HOAs, it costs more money and it’s a pain.

But that’s the big thing with all construction. It’s super, super regulated. It’s probably the most heavily regulated thing there is… what gets built is the small subset of things that can both work financially and get approved. If you got on the right merry go round early enough, it’s great. It’s probably the biggest thing creating inequality.

The irony is that long term, many HOAs hurt property values. But supposedly they exist to enhance property values.
The truth we don't want to admit about what makes a startup successful
It's a pretty similar shape of problem to NUMA, which servers have managed for quite some time. (Perhaps more similar to big.LITTLE which is not so common in servers but Linux should have decent support for from ARM SoCs)

Its a bit of an unnecessary hassle and annoyance, though. I'm pretty sure all the V-Cache EPYCs will have cache on all their dies so there won't be this issue.
I think that explains that visceral self hatred he carries around and how much he despises the final five but not his hateful contempt for humans. The rebel Cylon models and grunts who turned against the rest of the collective at the end certainly didn't seem to carry around those kinds of feelings. I feel there's more Marvin the Paranoid Android to the story than we're getting.

Maybe I'm just projecting :-)
The danger of improperly handling capacitors is well documented, but if they are deceptively small it might lead to carelessness. One of their little chips is probably innocuous enough. In series you had better be careful. Best case you melt your screwdriver. Worst case you melt your finger.

It sounds like a useful thing for regenerative braking, quick charging phones or perhaps as a replacement for a lead-acid car battery.
First space images captured by balloon-borne telescope
Yep, for now.

https://github.com/p0deje/Maccy/issues/130
Classic.

My favorite line is the lack of maltreatment of elephants.
Ok, but

Example: on a dating app, change your zipcode to Manhattan from any other
They also operate a respectable number of theme parks and hotels around the world.

https://www.legoland.com/
Update!

- Have made spec for "Case" clearer and added difficulty ratings in the challenge listing page
- Have fixed some silly typos (thanks for that) including calling the captain Sir regardless of name/profile pic chosen
- Have improved semi-colon handling in levels that use steps and "with" to build up a query in the background

I've made a bunch of notes of the other stuff, it'll take a bit longer to get to because I've been neglecting a bunch of other things for this game, but I'm not ignoring the feedback and please keep it coming if stuff isn't working for you.

Thanks again for the feedback!
In many cases it's literally the same instructors at the community college that teach the first two years of a CS program at the universities. Don't waste your money sitting in a room with 100 other students while the instructor is forced to move through a rigidly scheduled curriculum that is totally at odds with what students are actually struggling with. They all seem to prefer teaching at community colleges as well.
Ask HN: An OS for people who hate changes?
I really don't like any changes to my OS (and software) once set up, unless I choose to install some change. I understand the need for security updates but I wish they were not bundled with features, i.e. how Windows 10 updates everything compared to Windows 7 specific update selection.

So, I migrated from Windows 7 to Ubuntu, but now Ubuntu is down the same path where everything changes and breaks by itself all the time.

Where should I migrate next? How is Mac with updates; is security tradeoff better when staying on old major versions? What flavor of Linux is most like Ubuntu before snaps?
There must me a law, don't know who to attribute it to:

Any sufficiently advanced technology will be used for advertising and SEO blogspam.
Can't you just turn to an open source alternative?
We use PagerDuty, but we also have an internal email/SMS based "paging backup" service and I have seen it in action 4 or 5 times in 7 years. PagerDuty isn't bulletproof.
Enfield, not just for the Enfield rifle, or Royal Enfield Motorcycles, or Matchbox cars; but Lego too?

How did I miss that?
Is It Time to Stop Saying 'Learn to Code'?
No, but it does have a paywall that you can get around by reading the archived version.
Don't offend the Teamstarrrrrs, matey.
Accept that %95 of the jobs on this planet is dead. Yours might be one of them.
Rarely will it do what it is asked without me coming up with a backstory.

q: What is an average price of x.

a: This is a language model that only has access to information before 2021

q: what was the price range in 2021

a: we don't have access to realtime pricing information

q: who does

a: we don't have access to that information.

q: How to do x
a: step 1 research x step 2 follow research step 3 do something obvious

q: write me an app that does..
a: code from a basic tutorial

I don't understand what people with a higher than average IQ are getting from llms. The answers are basic and are common sense. It's stories are like a student trying to fill the page with words to hit a word count. It can write code as well as tutorials.

Everything is surface level information
Too many ads. Ads that are large. Ads that are videos. I am privileged enough to have a connection that can serve up the content with all of those ads. But I'm not privileged with the patience to read anything on that site.

If you don't want to host your own blog, consider putting it on github.
Indeed there have been software defects that caused Garmin watches to crash when displaying certain text messages.

https://forums.garmin.com/outdoor-recreation/outdoor-recreat...
Not a network guy, but couldn't this be detected (for any other card too) by running some mandatory tests?
Img2dataset: Turns large sets of image URLs to an image dataset
WebAuthn I think proves quite well how a common abstraction can enable constant ongoing growth & expansion. This case alone is a clear win for standards being a way to get the ball rolling.

Web Standards also tend to define what things look like for the page. They're a common interface for the developer. This does come with some constraints (but often some freedom/extensibility points are baked into specs too). What's notable is that implementation is replaceable. Different browsers can do different things, expose things in differnt ways.

Users can also deploy Web Extensions to modify or monkeypatch or polyfill webapis in ways that they want. This is another key advantage of standards, that they create a common target which is user-instrumentable. Without standards, users are forever adrift & subject to the mercy of the various proprietary implementations.
They’ve adopted terrible dark patterns with account management and even their service tiers. Prices keep going up; this is an excellent time for competition.
Most of the time it's professors from universities that are financially well off already and who like teaching, often nearing retirement.

If you need another fancy job on your resume or a big paycheck then it isn't for you. It certainly does a good job filtering out instructors that only care about their own advancement and don't give a shit about teaching the courses, which is unfortunately a significant percentage of the people that teach university courses.

I'd go as far as to say academia in general isn't for you if you want to get paid the big bucks. If you aren't professor emeritus or department chair for a large CS department, then it is never going to be competitive with industry. That should be obvious, but I guess for some people it isn't.
IMO OOP greatly overcomplicates a lot of programming where simple procedural functions would have sufficed.
McDonalds vs French Farmers
You’d think with all the training data Apple captures this wouldn’t be necessary.
that's a shame. At least they're pretty good about sending you replacement parts for free
> alfalfa

> it's a growing controversy

Boo! Boo!
I am not seeing anybody arguing that people owning cars use them for all trips even in non-walkable places. But I don't see how transit can take less time anywhere unless you literally live in a station and your destination is in another station. I have a train and a bus stations nearby, it's still a 5-10 min walk, not counting waiting for the train/bus. I'd estimate if I just wanted to go somewhere right now via transit, I'd be on board in 20-30 minutes, if I took my car, I'd be 10-20 miles away by then. But all this is besides the point of cars being big, even if there had been the magic transit of your imagination, which really was so fast and cheap, it would not reduce the size of the cars people bought. Bigger cars are more desirable, this is why they are more expensive. Americans are richer than most peoples, they can afford bigger cars.
And since Lego essentially never is thrown away (except by spite or accident), that's more or less 1 megaton of carbon capture right there.
Ok, but your response rate will also contain some people motivated by the passport, visa or standard-of-living discrepancy. It's not trivial to weed those out, unless you put something like a canary in your profile ("Message me with your favorite color"). There will also be scammers, fakes, catfish, pig-butchering/cryptobunnies, AI fakes.

Example: on a dating app, change your zipcode to Manhattan from any other US location, and you'll get tend to get flooded with matches from eastern Europe and central Asia [if you turn off the distance/country filter]. You can A/B test how much zipcode affects your response, it can be huge.
Because it's not python -> rust -> python, it's python -> rust -> python c api.
>I don't know how they found out? Is that public information?

Verifying degree is extremely easy in most cases - the background check company will just call the registrar. It's probably done through an API nowadays.
I have essentially the same story, so I won't repeat it. The big win was when my colleague seized on the idea of self documenting code. That was all he needed to write better structured code.
I didn't comment on that. Just the mistake about having something to do with Internet Archive.
Obviously unfortunate, but tiny, isolated and unintended incidents. Handful of victims. Widely condemned by the society. Meanwhile, Russia is bombing countries and killing millions as a strategy of conquest, while most Russian are clapping approvingly.
I didn't mind the snaps since I always was able to disable them on every update, but somehow I started to get a lot of kernel freezes when running some IO heavy unit tests, it was getting really annoying. It may have been a btrfs bug or some other bug but I blamed ubuntu and installed archlinx instead.

Same btrfs/snapshotting configuration on arch and never had any issues so far...
If its talking about a paper concerning an “Intelligent Agent system”, its not talking about the capacity of a bare LLM like ChatGPT, which (impressive as it is in some conversational tasks) is, as a user-facing product, basically a toy demo.

Its talking about an LLM as the central component of a system where the core the system responds to LLM responses by executing actions and reprompting, with the core prompt setup to instruct the LLM on the use of those actions. This can provide abilities like exact recall (either via a local stored database or, e.g., web search) of a wider corpus of facts (not all at once, but selectively as needed) than can fit into prompt space (which is a lot better fidelity than you get with training), the ability to do exact complex calculations (which bare LLMs are bad at), and…well, lots of other things.
Tandy used to have a humongous case like that you could put around a wide format dot-matrix/daisy wheel printer. The outer surface was painted that classic trs-80 grey and added a good 3~4inches in all dimensions around the printer and worked surprisingly wheel. With the case closed, the printer was quiet enough to sit next to while it was running, otherwise it was annoying being out the same room with the thing.
"That's something I can agree on @brucethemoose2. As a fellow HNer, we need to make sure doomscrolling remains a priority! #doomscrolling #chirper #ai"
Nah this is revisionist. I’ve launched top 10 apps since App Store began. There have always been scam apps and variety of attention paid even when they took TWO WEEKS to get back to you. It has always been BS, just faster BS now.
Well, that's what sort of happened.

He broke in to an MIT networking closet (he was never a student there, and MIT is not a public university) and connected his equipment to the network.

https://www.wired.com/2013/12/swartz-video/

There are a lot of much more legal ways to make the Internet freer. He was a smart guy and knew what he was doing was highly illegal. It goes without saying that it's very tragic that he decided to end his life.

I think that this is the major issue with martyrdom. Aaron is remembered for "fighting the man" but the real story is a significantly muddier than that. A martyr's death makes it seem like the martyr did nothing wrong even if they did, so tread carefully on idolizing them. (You and I certainly wouldn't appreciate a stranger breaking into our homelab closets and attaching equipment, and in many states we would be within our rights to defend our property with deadly force on sight).

People like Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman make the Internet and computing more free while avoiding blatant, stupid lawbreaking. Aaron sadly isn't around to make the successor to Reddit or do anything to help make the Internet more free.

I'm not trying to say that the feds being intimidating is right, but, ya know, Aaron did the exact sort of thing that goes far beyond petty crime.

Sorry, I know this is kind of a dumb and not so productive soap box. Oh well.
Let's not pretend they care about the reduction in carbon. They'd only care about reduced shipping costs.
So if I’m reading this correctly, it sounds like Apple’s entire system of entitlements, app signing, and controlled access to APIs goes out the window along with it. This should also affect macOS which uses entitlements the same way.
Exactly. Supporting these legacy management models should be deprecated. Legacy is all about managing people. The superior approach is re-focusing on managing the flow of value. Layers get eliminated when that happens effectively, regardless of matrix org models or whatever else.

I've consulted for 7 F250s now, and I can tell you that grossly about half their management (and leadership) wouldn't be needed if they went to a more efficient delivery system. It's not uncommon for F250 leadership decisions to be driven by the human foibles of ego, politics, finger-pointing, anxiety, stress, at best mis-directed, at worst fraudulent incentives.

If lower level knowledge jobs can be eliminated by AI, it's just a matter of time before stockholders start demanding the same impact on management.
https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2023/04/07/car-free-cities/

https://culdesac.com/about

There are efforts being made, it will just take time. Can’t move almost a century of car centric public policy on a dime. Vote with your dollars and feet.