skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Notion still does have pretty bad performance, although I believe they’ve recently upgraded the search. It’s quite good at least in my experience.
Do you believe in such accidents? What the explanation for that would be? Something like: "Oh no, we had this enabled by accident, and by accident had configured a high-availability API endpoint to collect such calls on a massive scale. This all got compiled, configured and deployed by accident without our clear intentions to do so. We are sorry."
By all accounts, battery technology sure looks like it's about to hit the fastest-growth portion of the usual "S" adoption curve -- "gradually then suddenly," to paraphrase Hemingway. By implication, demand for fossil fuels sure seems to be at risk of falling, also "gradually then suddenly," in a mirror "Ƨ" curve.
RapidAPI, valued at $1B last year, cuts staff by 50%
That’s a clever way of doing state. For dndinfinity.com, I rendered the game state as natural language (e.g. “the players are engaged in the following quests”) in the prompt, under the theory that it would be able to reason better.

What issues (if any) did you have storing state in json and just plopping that in the context window?
I think the high end stuff was always expensive. Why do you think furniture was passed down from generation to generation? It’s just that globalization and technology have made the low end so cheap, that by comparison it feels like the high end stuff is too expensive. But that is just your preference for lower cost, good enough items coming through!

(This take not backed up by any data, just my opinion.)
I note that there two pervading ethea on HN, both exemplified in the parent comment:

1) Poor management (broadly defined) creates misaligned incentives, busy work, etc. that "gets in the way" of good talent executing well.

2) Management, who "doesn't really do anything," is overpaid relative to the IC's who "Do the work."

These two ideas, though, are in contradiction. Management deserves higher pay exactly because poor management can destroy value so quickly and easily. The problem is identifying, within the "company system," good management from bad management.
I feel like the Venn diagram of HN users and Conan podcast listeners is nearly overlapping circles. :)
You said: "I'll never understand why we've done nothing legally about this."

But nothing you've described is necessarily illegal so I think my point about your misconception stands. It might be anticompetitive (in your opinion) but that does not mean it is actually a violation of the law.
> This is not twitters problem and whether twitter has 10 or 10 million employees, their only responsibility is to respond to legal requests from law enforcement.

That’s not the only responsibility of online services when they know, or reasonably should know, of things like this.

Also, Twitter failed to respond timely to a legal request from law enforcement, so even on that basic level they fell short of their responsibility here.
I doubt this is going to play out as optimistically as the pro-EV crowd thinks.

No personal bias against EVs, but there are still issues with range for towing/hauling, and longer duration "road trip" style commutes that make it impossible to be "pure EV" on the roads any time soon.

Also, the marine and aviation industries don't have viable EV options in the short term (10 years), same with heavy equipment (CAT, Deere, etc.), this will keep at least enough of a market for gas/diesel engine production that they won't go away.
thanks for writing this. I have read about 1/3 to 1/2 so far and it is very nicely written and easy to follow.
I wonder if this will lead to GM going with Tesla's strategy of focusing more on expensive EVs (Cadillac and Hummer) and then follow with less expensive EVs at a larger scale.
AFAICT from the article, the A-GPS download request may (they didn't show any payload analysis of an unencrypted payload...) include:

- Unique ID
- Chipset name
- Chipset serial number
- XTRA software version
- Mobile country code
- Mobile network code (allowing identification of country and wireless operator)
- Type of operating system and version
- Device make and model
- Time since the last boot of the application processor and modem
- List of the software on the device
- IP address

The A-GPS system downloads current satellite orbits (Ephemeris) from Qualcomm instead of waiting for all relevant satellites to transmit all of them on their own. This reduces the time it takes to fix the position.

I would've preferred that they show the actual data transferred, instead of what the policy says they may transfer.
What are you talking about? Notion is clearly not just a bunch of lists like Trello is.
I didn't have any problems with fonts (I don't block Any), middle clicking opened in a new tab, egui supports context menus, just not the browsers (which is what I want from a webapp).
"Stolen and missing Moon rocks" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_and_missing_Moon_rocks
Your self-driving cars are stilll bad. Very bad, far from being a viable vehicle avoiding actual dangers. The cloud it's just rehashed mainframes, every Unix users in the 90's (and Athena) did that. On space, ok, but China it's getting closer daily. Consumer? Europe's food it's far better and cheaper. Silicon? ARM it's starting to create new chips again.

Intel's design it's really bad, stacking layers and layers over 8086. Ditto with AMD64, a modern design but chained to i386's legacies. At least with Pentium IIII and beyond did it right; but further RISC and OpenPower will put Intel/amd64 aside. Even more with the climate change and ultra low-power ARM based servers.

On AI, China has goverment funded project far ahead of the USA. And scarier for civil rights, OFC. But that's another question.

You trully innovated in the 50's, 60's and 70's. You are very far from the innovation of that era. Even the infamous Crispr technology was build upon the basis started from a Spaniard.

Back in the day you had Unix, VMS, Tops 10, Tops 20, and ITS from MIT with C, LISP... with crazy new and cool features which didn't ever exist in any place in the world. Today you are rehashing 90's tech over and over. Such as Go built upon Plan9/Inferno/Alef and plan9's C compilers.

Where's the new cool stuff? The MIT machine with ITS with Emacs and RMS with GNU looked like alien technology from another dimension.

If you were as revolutionary as the 70's, we would heave cheap, reliable desktop and laptop sized machines with Risc-V chips and free software available for any citizen. No, not a laptop for $1200, but much cheaper, making the ideal STEM/creativity machine.
"It makes sense" leads us back to the linked-to essay, which argues that live coding a solution to "arbitrary and unrelated topics like creating a script to handle scores for bowling or something equally irrelevant" do not make sense as a way to

If the evaluation doesn't make sense, then the conditions placed on the evaluation don't really matter.

Similarly, "assimilated the material" only makes sense if the live coding interview really does cover "the material". To use your analogy, measuring a football prospect’s cycling times aren't that good of a test of football playing skills. I mean, yes, there's some overlap, but there are more useful ways.

And one of the example tests was "handle scores for bowling", which is far from most work-related issues.

"consistent process that’s fair for everyone."

The author addressed this idea at several points, including "Any belief that a live coding interview is a consistently reliable way to make an objective assessment represents willful ignorance at best."

Picking a name out of a hat containing potential employee names is also consistent and fair.

Just because it's easy to measure doesn't mean it's an effective predictor.
So is this like taking a chunk of wood out of the piece of wood by cutting a hole in it so you get a window (which is both wooden and, technically, transparent, well, mostly), or like taking a piece of wood and then running it through a chain of chemical reactions ending up with some transparent substance which, in its chemical structure, may not even resemble wood at all?
The average person is not capable of self-hosting software and SaaS is much nicer looking / more fully features 99% of the time. I say this as someone who loves self-hosting and self hosts most of my own stuff.
That source absolutely does not claim that sea levels will rise 230 feet by 2100, or anything remotely close to that.

There’s plenty to be concerned about with climate change without making unfounded breathless claims.
Maybe he doesn’t use Safari because he dislikes it so much? Would explain why he doesn’t know about these options.
And longer hours and a lot less holiday.
One bit of corpo-speak that I have seen cropping up to address this is relabeling "managed by" as "supported by", as in, "team X will be supported by person Y." It may not work overnight, but I would like to see a shift in the culture of a manager "managing" like a king manages his kingdom and the peasants within, to "supporting", like a coordinator. But I fear that we will fall back to the ape mentality of hierarchies and end up twisting the words to fit our predetermined outcomes.
What the hell is payment orchestration?
I have a lot of questions :D

What did the rocket mean to you growing up?

Were you the envy of all your friends at the time?

Do you remember the original trip to scout for parts? How did the plan and execution take part from your point of view & recollection?

Was the rocket always a rocket in your imagination? What else was it if not?

How about for your siblings and friends?

Any other rocket-related anecdotes?

Do you think it influenced your choice of career? Or was that just destiny?

Where, ultimately, do you want to go with your career? Genuine rocket scientist?

I'm agog. Also more than a little envious; my own father's home-built treehouse for me and my brother was little more than a plank in a tree with a rope ladder to get up to it. But that was plenty and, in my imagination, so many other things...
Curse of the security data lake monster
Weird that nobody’s mentioned it yet, but the main value proposition of Notion is that is uses mini-relational databases instead of tables. It’s like Airtable baked inside of a note app.

It has a ton of downsides like being slow, not having offline access, and no E2E encryption, but there are few tools that execute well on the approachable database concept. I wish there were more, because the standard approach of doing bizarre spreadsheet hacks to achieve the same functionality is much less intuitive to me.

The reason there’s an entire weird industry around Notion is not surprising to most people here: relational databases are useful. Unfortunately, most database tools are too unapproachable or cumbersome for most. Notion and Airtable wrapped a good UX around creating semi-primitive rdbs and here we are.
>So if I don't get dividends, can't vote, and am not entitled to a share of the company's assets, what is the actual value in owning stock? Do I just wait for the share price to go up, sell at the peak, and pass my shares on to the greater fool? That's starting to smell a lot like the worst sort of crypto trading.

If they aren't paying dividends (but are profitable), then profits are either going to the balance sheet or into capital and you literally own those things.

It's also difficult to grasp, but share buybacks have the same net effect as dividends (they primarily exist for tax efficiency).

Oracle is a great example here. They have cut their number of share in half [0] over the past decade, while paying a relatively paltry 1.6% dividend yield. So sure, you're not swimming in cash as an owner, but many investors don't want that, they'll gladly take the effective doubling of their ownership of the balance sheet that they've been given instead.

[0]https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/ORCL/oracle/shares....
The firmware may have the capability of doing this (it varies from device to device how much it can do compared to the OS), but the article is 100% incorrect about the source of these requests specifically, they are managed by android itself, they just "couldn't find an explanation", which strikes me as odd when an explanation from 3 years ago is literally the top google result for the OS and the domain name in question.
Never assume anybody knows anything.
> Google relies on duration of stay data from chrome and google analytics to rank search results

Has Google said this? They might infer duration from time between clicks on different search results, but I've never seen evidence they are using data from Chrome and Google Analytics.
What's the go-to Go web framework people are using today for your typical web app?
For a long distance move, it's often cheaper to sell and repurchase than move furniture.
OpenAI previews business plan for ChatGPT, launches new privacy controls
Edge has been passable, Edge gained users, someone at MS suggested they should exploit those users more -- 'they're enjoying it, we can make it shit and exploit them for money instead, go us' is how I imagine that thought went.

If MS stay true to form then give it a year and Edge will be a fetid turd, but they'll add some lock-in from the OS; maybe Office online breaks in all the other browsers. The World will be worse, some middle-manager will get a promotion, shareholders will get a few more cents, so it goes...
It's like Expedit -> Kallax, Ikea's always tweaking/value engineering their products and at some point the dimensions become different enough to warrant rename. I think Kallax shaved 1 cm off the thicker Expedit perimeter pieces to the point where two next to each other perceptually different.
That’s not the point I was making. They are not expert problems either. How often as an expert do you think you encounter precedence issues you were not encountering as a beginner?
The $450 question: Should journals pay peer reviewers?
yes, and instead of gradually retiring superstitious worldviews in favor of cautious, contemplative secularism, far too often we uncritically shift religious faith to technology

this is yet another face of Moloch
Better than StableLM chat, worse than ChatGPT. Seems like the best open-source chatbot?
> U.S family size hit an all-time low (3.13) in 2003

Do you have a reference for this? Would love to see what the metric is based on (e.g. does it assume two parents, meaning 1.13 children).
I started doing this several years ago, the increase in durability is significant.
Lisa may agree
You pay tax on the cash now, you choose when to pay tax on the share price increase.

Money has time value.
I'm also skeptical of MRA simply because I do think they are resistant to many feminist arguments that are actually applicable primarily to the working class. I'm in total agreement, I think working class men often suffer a great deal of the blunt of exploitation, but to say that women in similar economic positions don't have their own struggles is also faulty. Anyone who truly wants to change society should recognize that a social movement must involve the concerns of men AND women, white and black, etc. and not be some sort of cheap identity politics that re-enforces the norms of victimhood ideology, and as far as I can tell MRA does fit into that category--but I could be wrong.
One interesting thing about this is that standoff from direct body heat matters. A layer of space blanket in a jacket is an improvement over nothing but not particularly effective. Purpose-made material like https://fibrotexusa.com/ulcans/ works better but the standoff effect is still noticeable.

The implication of this is that it's easy to conceal a fixed position from thermal sensors, but a lot harder to conceal a person on the move. If that fixed position itself has thermals, it can cause big problems for attackers.
Ask HN: Who are the real pioneers and contrarian visionaries in tech?
From crypto to AI, it feels this industry has more than ever been swayed by hype and herd mentality. I've had so many conversations with PMs, execs, and VCs in the space who have no real interest in understanding the current state of tech or developing their own vision for where we could be headed. Many are just looking to create "value" for their own shameless self-enrichment.

In your specific niches and domains, however big or small, who would say have been real pioneers who've held steadfastly to a vision of the world based on their own unique set of values?
To me that's still a lot. A whole AA battery for a single response. Maybe I'm just built this way.
Firefox nags about getting a Mozilla account, uploading your history to Mozilla servers tagged with your email. Very private. Mozilla’s only step towards privacy is that it opens tabs all the time telling you how much Big Browser care about your privacy.

And don’t get me started on Firefox nagging people to use Mozilla VPN, and their push towards DNS over HTTPS, as in “Trust me dude, I want your logins, your passwords, your DNS and your VPN, and pinky swear I’m just a charity with benevolent intentions, Google just gives us money for… stuff.”
yes, thank you I always get them mixed up
It's likely to keep track of how many black market chips tsmc is producing, and how many times Qualcomm is not getting royalties ...

If one particular vendor has 25% Black market Qualcomm chips inside for which Qualcomm never gets a royalty then I think they would definitely be getting a phone call from Qualcomm pretty soon...
there are loads of cnc hobbyists looking to make some more money. post something on craigslist im sure you'll get some takers.
> How often is your house dunked into seawater?

For people hit by hurricane Sandy the answer is at least once.
It seems to struggle with keeping context between messages, but it's still pretty good!
This is great and all, but still really stupid if you stop and think a lot of EV use is just replacing ICE use that shouldn’t exist in the first place. A lot of daily commute isn’t necessary, or not necessary by car with public transportation, but the economic incentives aren’t there to build cities for that - need to keep selling cars.
It's so very hard to not do that when the tool has become so transformational in your life, not just in one area, but across the board. I am in the same boat of being so ambitious with my personal projects these days, now that the drudgery is gone, that it's hard to communicate to people who haven't tried it how it changes your experience of "almost everything making it on HN."

gwern's page having so much about GPT makes it a prime candidate, and I think there is a link between LLM fascination and wanting to build your own stack and pursuing your own intellectual path. It is a fascinating tool for personal growth, much more so than at a team or industry level.
> my hope is that it leads to more competition so there are at least options

There are already lots of options within the ARM instruction set. The problem is that Qualcomm makes the best modems and the best (non-Apple) processors and uses their wireless patents and chip lead to squash competition.

> Perhaps though, with RISC-V options there could be a real solid open source option (aka a Linux phone)

The issue isn't the ARM instruction set. We have Linux smartphones (beyond Android) that you can buy today. You can buy a PinePhone and run Ubuntu Touch, postmarketOS, Mobil, LuneOS, and more. You can buy a Librem or Volla Phone or Fairphone. If you want out of the duopoly of Apple and Google, there are devices you could have shipped to you today!

The problem isn't the ARM instruction set and getting RISC-V processors wouldn't make much of a difference for Linux (or FOSS in general) on smartphones. The ARM instruction set isn't what is keeping the tech giants in power.
Do you think the shift to EV will affect long style of commute lifestyles? Or, will the combination of long commutes / EVs / remote work combine to fix this?

For marine, it seems that cargo ships could have large solar arrays for energy regeneration, perhaps strapped to their top layer of containers? I think aviation will lean towards hydrogen cells given the need to rapidly refuel and energy density.
I love IKEA but I'd have to disagree with their QA being top notch. I can't keep track of how many times I've had to go back because some piece in the flat pack was damaged.
Humanity would be more than happy to make that effort if there was no risk of getting sued to oblivion for it. There's more than enough distributed storage capacity out there to hold it all. Copyright holders are the ones who are outright hostile to any and all preservation efforts, to the point preservation of culture is an argument for getting rid of copyright.
I didn't realize that people used edge for anything other than talking to bing chat.
Call on the IRS to provide libre tax-filing software
That's the worst thing about IKEA. They have a great selection of real wood stuff, but finding it is time-consuming in or out of store. Price is the best proxy but that isn't flawless or ideal.
> Epic failed spectacularly

That's not what I got from the case texts. Did you read them?
That's funny because the inventor of the lithium battery isn't so impressed with solid state.
Reducing Ada code bases with adareducer
Bed Bath continued to sell hundreds of millions of shares while they were preparing for bankruptcy and retail investors (or meme stock investors) continued to buy them.

That is how markets work. Buyer must match seller. Meme stock investors are only a small % of buyers. Others are funds.
Like treasure. Or even better than treasure -- a talking dinosaur! Who we can all have adventures with!!

https://youtu.be/PNjIWeDnz4E?t=47
Aperture Science
We do what we must
because we can.
For the good of all of us.
"New ways to manage your data in ChatGPT" - https://openai.com/blog/new-ways-to-manage-your-data-in-chat...
This comments relies on a faulty assumption that other people share the same moral framework as the commenter. Unfortunately, people commenting like this don't tend to realize how much of their own moral framework is simply an ill-fitting hand-me-down from previous generations.
Hmm. I haven't seen the latter in OCaml as much. More the opposite; when I first used it, things like list length in the standard library weren't tail recursive. 8-|

Now, Haskell and shudder Scala shudder, on the other hand.
I suppose the carbon intensity of firing people into the sun is too high
Jobs is in my opinion worshipped mostly by artistic types who don't grok much tech, and see in him the successful businessman who did not have to be a techie to sell. Which is exactly what he was, a salesman.
Have they added any way to have multiple root nodes? After using Workflowy for a decade on and off my tree is cluttered with notes and I want to start afresh but not lose them all. Keeping 1500+ nodes hanging around also slows the app down.
Not my opinion - I saw a compelling video of some prof on reddit a few years ago. His argument went something like this: name the richest businessman from the time of Columbus/ Amerigo. Or a very powerful politician/ socialite? Progress is a derivative of us pursuing the unknown. That is why we do what we do.

Disclaimer: I've lost a lot of the language behind the original argument, but as a sceptic it did make a lot of sense to me at that time. And hopefully the meaning behind the original message has not been lost due to my bad phrasing.
I hate to break the news but Chrome does that too. I used similarweb to check my website that only I visited pretty much and it showed “other viewed websites” that only I visited. I tried some other small websites and saw websites such as “pornhub” in other visited websites.
I didn’t have any extensions or anything. I’ve reached out to similarweb and was conveniently ignored.

Just assume that all sites you visit is a publicly available data.
Hugging Face releases its own version of ChatGPT