skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obviously, this opinion has aged like milk. In the author's defense, Apple had, at the time, a remarkable history of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Remember it had only been a decade since Microsoft bailed out Apple with $150M. Apple is only a juggernaut in hindsight.

By 2008, Apple had built some really nice computers that had brought them back from the edge of death, and the iPod was obviously a big hit, but neither of those would necessarily lead one to believe that they could make such a big splash in the cell phone industry. Most people who believed that the iPhone would be huge at the time were Apple true-believers.
> Your absolute take on this is a deflection to avoid any change

I have never said we shouldn't improve things. That's very much a strawman.
I think its nice for consumers that NY Times gets to operate this way, because its a side project they choose to subsidize.

I don’t think this is a bragging point though. They’re bragging that a human is unnecessarily involved in a curation process, to give warm fuzzies to …. who? Something we’ll never be able to verify when it changes.

They’re bragging that engagement isn’t a priority because…. they’re wasting money in a way that people passionate about making games can’t afford to.

Should have just kept this one in drafts.
Maybe that's how cash will go out - not with a ban, but a whimper. Once a cheeseburger hits $100, people will probably collectively decide that dealing with bands of cash for small purchases is more trouble than it's worth.
Yeah, no. Absolutely not. Some jerk in my historic district reported my home to the City of Phoenix because among battling various other renovation challenges and taking care of family, our grass had grown past city ordinance height.

You know what the punitive fine was? $1,000/day.

I don't even live in an HOA, thank heavens.
This looks like too much javascript and bling. I'd like to get better at SQL and some challenge exercises would be great for that. Why not just give those, and chuck the game? It took much clicking around pretty pictures and the "why do this" intro to even get to anything SQL related.
I always thought this was a genius move. Remember, at the time, Apple had no product in the space. The market was highly fragmented, and cell phones were becoming commodity devices. Here's Apple wading into a sea of competitors, with a product that was priced outside of the normal range and needing to differentiate itself. With the AT&T deal, Apple accomplished several things:

1. It put the marketing might of one of the largest corporations behind its brand-new, niche product. The deal created an incentive for this corporation to market the product on Apple's behalf.

2. It created a forced scarcity. Only /some/ people (those on AT&T) could get the iPhone, which immediately created a brand distinction necessary for a luxury product. On day 1, there were haves and have-nots.

3. It provided an out for Apple not ramping up production too fast (whether they could or not). If the iPhone failed, they wouldn't have product everywhere. If Apple couldn't make iPhones fast enough, they would only be affecting a subset of the market.

4. It limited Apple's engineering requirements. They only had to support AT&T's network on day 1, and not the network technologies of the other carriers. Limiting exclusivity to AT&T meant that they could focus on the product while delaying the technical challenges of supporting multiple cellular networks.
I'm at about that level for both French and Spanish. The French I learned in high school, the Spanish on Duolingo. And honestly, the methodology for both was similar too, except Duolingo is more fun.

It's useful enough. I can read the signs to not get lost and navigate the supermarket, and it's a good base for if I ever wanted to properly learn the language with an actual course and immersion.
This article reminds me of a conversation I had in 1995. We were using Astound on Windows 3.1 - a PowerPoint like product. Once Windows 95 came out, we quickly upgraded to it, but Astound didn't run well on it.

So I called their tech support asking when the Windows 95 version is coming. They told me they didn't think Windows 95 will be popular. Instead they were working on a version for OS/2 Warp. I tried to tell them otherwise, but they were 110% sure.

It was patently obvious to me, after one day spent using it, that Windows 95 would be hugely successful. I had the same feeling after Steve Jobs' presentation of the iPhone.

I am always stunned how things that are obvious to most people completely escape others.
"A Man Known as Cameron Hardy”
Ask HN: Working remote US job from random countries?
Does anyone have experience working a remote US job while going around and living in various countries? My girlfriend and I are interested in trying this lifestyle for 3-6 months after our current lease runs out. We are mainly sick of the car culture in the US and enjoy living in places built for humans.

We are early-mid 30s with no kids, no house, no pets, and no real obligations besides my remote job based in the US.

Are there legal implications with work, visas, etc. or any interesting loopholes to consider? Would really appreciate any insight or even reasons why this might be a dumb idea.
USDC almost lost a good chunk of its reserve backing when SVB went bust. It was only the bailout that saved it. They had $3 billion of their reserves there.

When you use regular Eurodollars you only need to trust your bank and you may have deposit insurance. With USDC you need to trust:

* Circle

* Your exchange

* Your own security

The latter generally isn't a factor with fiat, as transactions are reversible
Obligatory Far Side (meme repo before xkcd was invented): https://img.allw.mn/content/tq/r9/sqxpfzc1_554x608.jpg
Sure, and when there's no possibility of confusion, I'm all for it. It can be lovely and poetic. Here, though, I think it's dangerous.
They may well have had a good small scale success already, it seems like/perhaps, but still seems quite solid.
I imagine moving the wafers means just that, the wafers don't stop or they become trash.
The video link in the article works in Chrome but not Firefox mobile (for some reason I can't comprehend).

Working link in case you are interested:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujjkbLZETHs
Yes. Except twice a day when I drive by the city dump.
We have reliable measurements of Arctic snow cover that date back to the late 1960s when satellite observations of the Earth's surface began. The earliest satellite used for snow cover monitoring was the Television Infrared Observation Satellite (TIROS) series, which was launched by the United States in 1960.

In the early 1970s, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) launched the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) sensor, which provided more detailed and accurate measurements of snow cover extent and duration in the Arctic.

The extent of Arctic snow cover has varied considerably from year to year, but in general, there has been a decreasing trend in snow cover extent and duration since the late 1960s. According to data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), the Arctic snow cover extent has decreased at a rate of approximately 4% per decade since the late 1960s.

In recent years, there have been some variations in snow cover extent, with some years showing slightly more snow cover than others. However, the overall trend has been towards less snow cover and a shorter snow cover season.

The decrease in Arctic snow cover is thought to be due to a combination of factors, including rising temperatures, changes in precipitation patterns, and changes in the Arctic's sea ice cover. The loss of snow cover has significant impacts on the Arctic ecosystem and can contribute to further warming and changes in the region.

[0] ChatGPT

The glaciers all around the world are melting. Polar bears are drowning. While world is 1-1.5C warmer, in polar areas it's 5C and more.

There were many papers claiming that smoking doesn't cause any harm. 97% of scientists agree that climate change/crisis is human made and bad. The scientific consensus is what matters.
There is still an order of magnitude more organic text. Ilya Sutskever recently said it was still ok. After that, we got to use reinforcement learning (agent GPTs with tools) to generate and self-validate more examples.

One "simple" application would be to build a full index of facts in the whole training corpus. Just pass each document to GPT and ask it to extract the facts. Then create an inverted index, with each fact and its references. This will allow us to generate a wikipedia-like corpus of exhaustive fact research. We can say if a fact is known or not, we can tell if it is settled or controversial, and if it is a preference we can tell what is the distribution. This has got to help with factuality and generate lots of text to feed the model. Basically only costs electricity and GPU. It nicely side-steps the problem of truth by simply modelling the empirical distribution in an explicit way. At least the model won't hallucinate outside the known facts.
It links to that Wikipedia entry at the top of this page.
Would negative mass make time contraction and length dilation possible?
I would argue that the first iPhone is in a different device category than its successors. It had only a 2G modem (very slow even in 2007) and (at launch) no third-party app support. It was essentially a dumb phone with a gimmicky interface that could be also used for surfing the web while on WiFi. The iPhone 3G was the first true smartphone from Apple. I therefore find it not surprising that many journalists where not impressed by the first iPhone.
Maybe should be called Prompt Science or Prompt Discovery or even Prompt Craft.

I have a 40 million BERT-embedding spotify-annoy index that I keep experimenting with to make a better query vector.

One way that I’m doing is getting only the token vectors with the highest sum of the whole vector and averaging the top vectors to use as the query vector.

Another way is zeroing many dimensions randomly on the query vector to introduce diversity.

But after experimenting with “prompt engineering” I found out that prefixing the sentences for the query vectors with “prompts” yield very interesting results.

But I don’t see much engineering. It’s more trial, feedback and trying again. Maybe even Prompt Art. Just like on chatGPT.
A replacement for a cracked laptop case isn't going to cost $4 regardless of how it's manufactured.
A Radical Experiment in Mental Health Care, Tested over Centuries
That’s a complete straw man. Microsoft, Meta and others managed to pull off safely laying off employees while still treating them respectfully and allowing them to say goodbye.
> Iterated "Well, sure, the other team's guy is going to abuse the hell out of that power, but my team's guy will only use it to do the best, most right, wonderful things ever!" dilemma

It used to be that you had to wait for decades to be able to say “told you so.” These days the flip flops are happening so fast it gives me whiplash. People cheering for nationwide injunctions against the Trump administration have turned on a dime and are decrying the idea that one random judge in a forum shopped district can overturn federal policy in all 50 states.
https://archive.ph/GUx41
I worked at Windows Phone leading up to the WP7 launch all the way through the last version. The carriers had two things that every device maker, including Apple (initially) needed

1) distribution - Americans went to the carrier store and not Best Buy for their new phone

2) financing infrastructure- they could finance, subsidize and generally hide the up front price of these devices. The market expected a $0-200 phone with contract.

So, you needed AT&T and their contract prices already assumed they were subsidizing the phone so it was no point selling unlocked, full price.

Samsung was paying mobile store reps (at AT&T, TMO etc) $50-100 PER PHONE to push Samsung ($9B marketing budget).
I guess I totally don’t get your point. Some organizations have resources to create side efforts that people like. And the Times has a game subscription so it’s not that much of a loss leader.

Personally I thought it an interesting view into how they go about developing a game.
Anthony Bourdain... recently started watching his show from time to time. Really a bummer that he's gone.
I don't recall him mentioning this when he was stumping.
That account exists purely to promote actions that would result in the destruction of the platform on which it exists. Expecting a platform to host that kind of content is unrealistic.
What sad ideologically-fixated smallness.

Texas is going to have a hard time keeping it's colleges staffed with good people. I can't think of anything other than petty small spite that would cause a state to make such a vicious self-harm.
This is what happens when you judge a product without using it first.
It's called empathy. Maybe you should surround yourself with people who actually posses empathy so you don't need to waste your time ruminating over people who just don't care to take care of themselves.

Also, I would recommend avoiding shallow arguments.
Last I checked Vienna is run by a government.
Maybe I’m feeling especially cynical today
In college while working at the library, I overheard a young woman saying to her friend "just once I would like to hear him say that he was wrong and that I was right"

Well I can't claim to be a champion at relationships, I do believe this has served me well over the years.
Quite well remember them and the Give 1 Get 1 program. Mine still boots and I still love being able to use it outside with bright sunlight.

I believe (but could be wrong) it was Richard Smith of the project who made the comment (paraphrased) "perhaps the warranty should be void until you've the XO-1."

I last booted mine a week ago in anticipation of summer.
Their API TOS basically forbid it. Simple as that.
Well, you're right, it's a cynical take, but people have motives and then make their own excuses to satisfy others and themselves, e.g. some people not liking Obama and creating all sorts of narratives to not admit that "actually, it's just because I'm racist!" (I say some people and not all, some others may be non-racist and have legitimate reasons to not like Obama).

> "I am actively rooting for the downfall of twitter," @dril tells me. "I hope to sabotage their efforts to become profitable, no matter how futile, in the hopes that they will eventually close up shop and release us all from this toilet."

> "absolutely block on sight," @dril tweeted(opens in a new tab) back in November, when Musk's Twitter Blue first launched.

Did he know it would be used for garbage content back then? Or, does the first quote sound like he has some other agenda? I mean, I'm on his side regarding the downfall, but if I read your other comment about this subject, it sounds like these Anti-Paid-Blue people are there because they want to fight for the survival of high quality content on Twitter, which is a bit obsessive, from my point of view.
>because they haven't tried to approach the low cost market at all.

There's a reasonable argument to be made (and that has recently been getting some discussion, could swear there was a big HN thread on it but can't find the right search terms) that actually in a sneaky way this isn't quite true. Yes, for brand new devices Apple has maintained a high MSRP. But the current iOS also supports phones going back 6 years now, and iOS 15 is still getting security updates (last one less than a month ago [0]), pushing support all the way back to the iPhone 6S from 2015. And the rate of phone improvements has been steadily flattening, same as in standard computers before it. As a result, the "low cost market" arguably is getting addressed to some degree by robust support for high end but now older iPhones. An entry iPhone 11 can be had for around $250 or less, SE 2nd gen even lower. That's still a solid device, is still 2 gens newer than the last fully supported iPhone, and 4 gens newer than currently security supported. And Apple can still make some revenue on these via app sales and services.

If this is a conscious strategy it seems like a very good answer to the conundrum of what they do as updates become less utterly compelling and more and more people stretch out lifetimes. They can focus on producing mid to high end top tier devices, which brings better economies of scale, logistics, etc, but then by supporting them well those same devices will still be competitive with new low end devices a few years later.

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0: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213673
I mostly agree, but I don't think we actually love it exactly. I think, like alcohol, overconsumption is a response to stress and trauma.
Ranking Fields by P-Value Suspiciousness
> It’s unreasonable because increased supply reduces price almost always.

Except that it doesn't because of the nature of the financing agreements on these kinds of apartment complexes.

"Missing rent" can be tacked onto the end of the financial agreement. "Lower rent" requires you to recapitalize your financing--which is absolutely NEVER going to happen with the interest rates having gone up.

Therefore, apartments will sit empty for years rather than allow rent to go down. That benefits nobody.

Lots of various places would need to implement a "lack of occupancy tax" in order to force the rents to come down.
Campaigns are starting. I can feel the elections from a year away.
> SEC has been clear about how to treat and tax crypto

The SEC has no authority over how crypto is taxed.
I mulch my beds with my clippings. Composts and retains moisture
What are the conflicting views?
"Why are you not listening to the experts"
Here we're commenting on a specific article. The case it makes against the 2008 iPhone:

* The upcoming LG Voyager phone

* The fact that Windows Mobile 7 allows you to use touch gestures to rotate the view in any app, not just in Safari and when viewing images.

* Windows Media 7 supports an ambient light sensor to determine screen brightness and ringer volume.

That's it, that's the argument. Counterpoint: the iPhone is the most successful electronic product launch of all time.

Apple iPhone. Enjoy the limelight because it won't last long.
> zfs is way simpler to manage than btrfs

Not sure I agree. On ZFS I have to worry about an out of tree kernel module and all the implications of that, extra things like setting the correct ashift, making sure the recordsize is tuned individually in datasets to not destroy performance for specific worksets, ensuring ARC doesn't cause OOM behavior with applications which allocate a lot of memory at once (since it doesn't use the page cache), etc etc.

With BTRFS however off the top of my head the only thing I remember doing was making sure nodatacow was set for subvolumes containing databases and VM disks.

You are absolutely correct about the ZFS ecosystem containing superior tooling however.
So, your argument is that busy libraries in big cities have always been "more illegal" than less-visited libraries where the books sit on the shelves more?
One that comes to mind is the WASM port of FFmpeg:

https://github.com/ffmpegwasm/ffmpeg.wasm

Another is the SQLite WASM project:

https://sqlite.org/wasm/doc/trunk/index.md

Also v86 for x86 machine virtualization in the web browser:

https://github.com/copy/v86

A fun project is WASM-4, for building retro-style games:

https://wasm4.org/

Possibly more interesting projects to be found here:

https://github.com/topics/wasm

https://github.com/mbasso/awesome-wasm
Yes, that is exactly what I'm saying, because the context for your analogy statement is an entire website of my peers (although almost none with as much experience as me) saying that the talking dog can make a perfect risotto, that it's C++ code will replace all programmers, and we'd also better watch out for the global domination of the talking dog's future puppies.
> We seem to have a very authoritarian government in place. I don't understand how we've gotten here, or why people aren't more concerned.

It's the natural tendency of governments. The founders of the USA understood this and tried to create a system of government that was very weak centrally. This has been slowly eroded over the past 250 years, and especially since WWII and the cold war.
Many Older Americans Haven’t Saved Anything for Retirement
Ah the ole inverse Cramer.
His videos definitely helped demystify my prior assumptions about how to incorporate ESP32s or STM32 in my own custom PCB designs (and not deal with external programmers, castellated edge ICs etc or resort to devkits adding quite some vertical space requirements and coming with issues of their own).

Highly recommended channel.
I could see an argument either way.

Particularly since the data on the floppy isn't directly addressable, so it's not really shadowing another region.
Nowadays you can pretty easily find switchers with sub-100nA quiescent current + leakage, e.g. TPS62840 (of course, that's assuming you're at room temperature... FETs at high temperature are all crap for leakage). I note you get 80% efficiency at 1uA out on this device with a 3.6V to 1.8V stepdown config; beats the LDO by a lot, particularly if you spend a lot of your time at uA load currents.

But spin-up time... Yeah that still sucks :)
Er, what?

Why do you think that people who are passionate about making games are in poverty?
Thanks, I hadn't seen that. And yes, nobody should get into that game until prices stabilize such that the rideshare companies are profitable. When the game is setting money on fire in pursuit of a monopoly, you can't compete with Uber.
Again, this is in effect what property tax does. You effectively lease the land from the government because the second you can’t or won’t pay your property tax they will take your land and sell it.

Private ownership of land is actually in the governments best interest. Private individuals will improve land creating further tax. And buildings and people are the 2 things of value a government has. With private ownership the people are truly invested in the government and the government with the people.
Not, it's not. systemd just stands for system daemon.
It seems like they never really end.
I like "prompt injection", personally. It's not as pretentious as "prompt engineering".
https://archive.is/6Zrcl
One can purchase $0.15 TI parts have <0.4mA quiescent current and output 3A. These things draw so little under no/low load circumstances that my cheaper 4-digit readout benchtop supplies cannot detect any draw.

https://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/tps563201.pdf
From the paper

> We also found that blue-eyed people have a stronger pupil response than brown-eyed people when they view a picture that causes pupil dilation or constriction. To be more precise, with respect to the total range of response from the smallest pupil size to the largest the range is greater for blue-eyed people than it is for brown-eyed people. (This statement applies, of course, only to changes in pupil size resulting from emotions or attitudes.)

> It is of course easier to see a pupil surrounded by a blue iris than it is to see one surrounded by a brown iris.
That's pretty unsatisfactory, for the burden of heap allocation your reward is now "null" Positions exist instead of the useless default :/
Prompt wrangling, prompt whispering?
This is very common in recreational polydrug users, particularly in users of dissociative anesthetic drugs and psychedelics. So if you do those, stop for good. The effect will slowly mitigate.