skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One needs an adaptor but hardly impossible.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/iphone/iph95baac91f/io...

It never occurred to me to do that but it's nice to have the option.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/searchpage.jsp?id=pcat17071&st=...
This article is a disappointment, not 5G. Cellular speeds have been increasing at an increasing rate over the last few years. Things have been getting much better for consumers. The article cites the lack of mmWave as the reason 5G is getting "slower" but then kills its own argument by explaining how mmWave has almost zero range.

What is this article even trying to accomplish?
The article is referring to metabolic efficiency:

female astronauts have lower water requirements for hydration, total energy expenditure, oxygen (O2) consumption, carbon dioxide (CO2) and metabolic heat production during space exploration missions compared to their male counterparts.
> still has the ability to fool people into thinking she is something else

I recommend you sit back and review how you arrived at this conclusion. I have personally never interacted with Elizabeth Holmes and everything I know about this person has come through the lens of first media, then courts, and then media again.

It is the media, including the New York Times, that is creating this impression, is that not the case?

So, correctly your sentence would read “still has the ability to fool the handful of people who interact with her directly and then share accounts with us”.

So now, having established the actual state of affair in this ‘information graph’, the next question naturally is: “are these people really fooled or are they fooling me?” I.e. Do we have gullible people in positions that require inquisitive and thorough mindsets, or, even more “actors” pretending to being journalists, a sort of “dissociative [professional] identity disorder”.
Yes, but:

The most recent research suggests partisanship, esp negative partisanship, is rooted in identity. Which is to say facts, beliefs, positions are besides the point.

There have been many more recent follow ups, but the two books I read were Democracy for Realists by Achen and Bartels, and Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein.

As a recovering activist, this has been very hard for me to accept and adjust to. What hope is there if discourse and persuasion don't, can't work? I have no clue.

So I just focus on the work.

YMMV.
Apple want to stick to lightning forever? And they have no reason to switch unless a government entity forced them? Ha.

Apples own customers complain quite loudly about the inconvenience about USB-C and Lightning, dongles etc. The inability to charge their phone with the same cable as their MacBook or iPads... they are providing a very un-Apple experience.

They have an enormous customer base, using a legacy connector (which predates USB-C), to switch over as seamlessly as possible (in their own sweet time)
Or what if a company buys a set of previously-used-in-Belgium IP addresses and now uses them in France?

Something like this happened on the cloud when they were running low on IPv4 addresses.
I believe it's because of the top-down approach to software development. The amount of waterfall in those projects is insane and individual developers are just small cogs in the org and their input is not regarded as important. In German companies one has to be at least a PhD (preferably Privatdozent) to be taken seriously even if their PhD is completely outdated and they never wrote a line of code in their life.
I found his efforts on the show to be relatively bland and repetitive. I think this role could have been cast in a better way.
A core OS service in my books is an API that can be used by any app, can be adopted in a backwards compatible way and which is used by the in-house apps too. The App Store isn't an API or service, it can't be used by every app and the built-in macOS apps aren't necessarily store apps. Yes, it's Apple's strategy but I maintain that from a tech perspective it's a very weak one.

Cryptography DX is always terrible on every platform, I don't know why, it seems to be an unwritten rule that crypto tools must have as many sharp edges as possible. But as far as these things go, Apple's infrastructure actually is effective and flexible. Notarization got a lot faster lately and is certainly way better for both devs and end users than client side virus scanners.

Swift is a good upgrade, but not exactly a high level managed language. Most of those languages have very fast or non-existent compile times as well as GC, they tend to be simple-ish, perhaps they have optional types. The Swift DX is quite different to a C# or a Java for example.
I've had that experience a few times a few years ago, but these days I don't even enable the "make a backup" checkbox when I upgrade HA.

Things seem to break more if you pull in external software repositories (HACS) but that's to be expected.
Abduction Is Not Induction
EU changes rules constantly
At least in prior Google Analytics versions, a third party cookie was used, giving the possibility to link you to every site that implements Google Analytics. But Google explicitly states not to do this, so you are correct in calling me out here.
Shorts are displayed on one single line of the home and subscriptions tab. They’re trivially easy to avoid.
This is naive but has at least one small improvement. I'll call this "level 1.5" roleplaying.

- Level 0 is just using chat.openai.com.

- Level 1 is just putting character description in the system prompt

- Level 2 is doing third person prompts, like "you are writing dialog for the character ..."

- Level 3 is letting GPT specify character internal state. Samantha is an example of this: https://www.meetsamantha.ai/ (though it's actually missing the level 2 feature)

- I'm not sure yet what level 4 is. Probably Level 3 deserves to be blown out into several features, as there's different ways to model internal state (emotions, goals, environment), and we don't yet understand the effect of all these or the best way to implement them.

- Level 5 is maybe long-term memory

- Level 6 is reflection as in "Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior" https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03442v1

I'm making up these levels and the order. But it's my current estimate at how I think someone should approach improvements.

This demo specifically prefixes all human input with "Player: text" and all character output with "[character name]: text", a small change that still _almost_ gets it to level 2. (Note the interface strips these prefixes, but they are sent to GPT.)

So if I ask Seaman who its favorite person is it responds "Seaman: My favorite person is me, of course. I mean, who wouldn't love this handsome fishy face? But I suppose if I had to pick someone else, it would be anyone who brings me delicious food and keeps my tank clean. Those are the real heroes in my life." – and avoids the notion that AI models don't have preferences because it's being clear that it's talking as Seaman and not as "GPT".

OTOH if I ask it to solve an equation it will sometimes reject it and sometimes comply. Second time I tried: "Seaman: Don't try to distract me with your mundane human problems! But since we're here, let me see... If we subtract 8 from both sides, we get 2x = 22. Then, dividing both sides by 2, we find x = 11. There, your math problem is solved. Now, back to insulting you."

(Asking characters to inappropriately solve equations is my exceedingly innocent hack-du-jour.)

But this isn't really Level 2 because the system prompt still asks GPT to "be" the character instead of "play" the character. Full level 2 asks GPT to model the dialog of the character instead of being the character. This solves a large number of problems!

Surprisingly in my experience Level 3 also helps a bit with "as an AI model" because it creates a parallel character narrative that allows GPT to self-justify some responses that might otherwise cause the fault.
Class actions don't need a huge number of people to lead the charge. That's the point: most people can do nothing, while their interests are represented.

I think it would be best if wrongdoers had to make consumers whole and also pay the costs of holding them accountable. But our system currently doesn't work that way, and in that context, it's still worthwhile to have lawyers motivated to raising the cost of wrongdoing.
Traditional car companies have always been terrible at softwAre development. It also doesn’t help that auto is a low margin business
Apple is anything but "rapid iteration", they are stuck with lightning for years, market moved, Apple stayed.
The Lenovo ThinkSmart View, Rebooted
Not a doctor but it's because when you are diabetic the angiotensin system gets out of whack. Angiotensin is what is part of what regulates sodium and potassium in your kidneys which is what controls blood pressure.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renin%E2%80%93angiotensin_sy...

I think the salt consumption is a bit of a red herring and it's better to fix the metabolic syndrome.
If you enjoyed that, take a look at the beautifully digitized David Rumsey Historical Map Collection... not just maps! Lots of related documents and tons of gorgeous victorian, and earlier, etchings and other illustrations.

http://www.davidrumsey.com
Of course. Regulators know this and like this. It moves innovation from companies/entrepreneurs to them.
If mmWave is also known as 5gUW, I have been very underwhelmed and I would prefer that I could turn it off in favor of traditional 5g.

The push for 5g in general has been a bit of a head scratcher for me. I don't think consumers have been clamoring for multi gigabit wireless en mass. If they're like me, they would prefer consistency and reliability.

Speed is less important when you can use WIFI at home and in many places, which is going to be faster and more reliable. I always suspected something else was pushing the massive investment and marketing of 5g. Maybe cost massive savings on new spectrum leases?

I don't know for sure, but when the I saw a commercial that said 5g would help doctors at a hospital diagnose illness faster (using networked equipment) I was like why the hell would hospitals even want to use 5g?

Ethernet, Fiber, maybe wifi. But 5g?? Craziness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpzF2JOgiwE

Everything this guy talks about can be accomplished by traditional wifi and ethernet.
Indian Citizenship Act of 1924
A micro magsafe connector that doesn't wear down the phone port would be nice.
I only managed to stay afloat because I could still work retail, but mentally I was completely checked out for over a year. My physical 'candle' was the only thing I had left to burn, but as a disabled person, doing this sucks sometimes.

It's this or homelessness and no treatment, though.
I agree that this is true for BuzzFeed, but it doesn't really ring true for Vice. Vice started off by doing some fairly serious and gonzo reporting on stories no one else was interested in. This got them noticed and some of it got at least begrudgingly taken seriously by more serious journalists. Say what you want, but Vice won real awards for their reporting. Then they more or less gave up on all of that and put all their energy into running a listicle site.
> I gut check things with Google when I feel like it might be hallucinating but generally it does really well ~ 90% of the time. Saves lots of time compared to going to Google first.

I was asking chatGPT give me boilerplate for Fabricjs Object today and it added a random object property which was nowhere to be found on official docs. At first I thought it was amazing to get a real looking code but upon testing I was confused how to take this.
That is the TP-Link router, right? I had one of those, recently replaced it with a used Ruckus R610, and oddly enough, the coverage of a single R610 seems to beat the coverage of 4 of the Google WiFi points.
Ariel and William James Durant, authors of "The Lessons of History", where the quote appears on page 12, itself a quote of their earlier volume 6 from "The Story of Civilization", specifically "The Reformation", page viii.
It could be from training if more to be safer.
This was noted by Microsoft early on with GPT-4.
Specifically, when looking at the tikz unicorn qualitative benchmark, the unicorn got better with more epochs, which is obviously expected.

However, very interestingly, the unicorn image got far worse when they trained the model to be safer by trying to correct discrimination against various demographics.

This isn't very intuitive to me why that may occur, and seems to conflict with what has been shown in ROME, etc. So I'm surprised it hasn't been commented upon more. It's certainly one of the best examples of how we don't understand what's going on with these models, and it causes very unexpected outcomes.
Soul of a New Machine is one of the best books chronicling product development. (Showstopper about Windows NT is another good one.)

There were a lot of parallel threads in the early 80s that didn't really intersect a lot. You had the PC/BBS world, the ARPANET/Internet, and the minicomputer & mainframe worlds.

I knew a lot of the people in Soul of a New Machine and actually dotted-lined into Tom West for a while. (Later on when Data General was coming out with big Unix servers.)

I don't think I quite made it to the end of HaCF as it's not available (legally) on non-premium subscriptions. I'll have to hunt it down.
Yeah same here. Much more fun than patching other people (or your own) work. But different personalities, gross of the proffesional pro work is not greendfield sadly!
Hmm, https://hq.git.ht returns an error.
Well it really depends on what you have to sacrifice for it. I decided that at 1.5x the median income, I'd stop caring. I stopped caring much sooner.
Show HN: Harmonize – a macOS spotlight-like app to control your Spotify music
Hi HN, I love manually changing songs rather than letting it play the next song in the playlist, so I created Harmonize that allows you to do that.

Fire with cmd + shift + space shortcut, you can summon Harmonize and search for songs, albums, or artists without leaving your current window.

It's a spotlight-like app that makes controlling your Spotify music effortless and efficient.

Let me know what you think.
I don't hate KDE, I love many many things about it.

But have they ever considered moving their software beyond alpha quality before releasing a new major version? A major reason I'm not putting any more time into KDE is the expectation that it'll never be stable.
Apple can include both usbc and that superior port and let people choose))) truth is usbc is already superior, it has been for years and I don't really understand frp what you'll need in a phone a port that should do more than 240w of energy transfer and ~40gbs of data transfer. And at last, the eu law can be adapted if industry agrees to a new port...
In Europe the intent of the law can after a whole lot more
The reason scientists submit to these journals is that your career depends on which journal you published at. It is collective action problem.

And elsevier has massive profit margins. It earns way more then needed to pay emplyees.

The reason HN dislikes then is that HN has many members who work or worked in academia.
I'm 100% convinced this is why Apple basically gave their Magsafe charging scheme to the Qi consortium. Magsafe and the next Qi standard which uses magnets are intercompatible.
You'll find the answers to most of your questions here https://ec.europa.eu/docsroom/documents/46755/attachments/3/...
Since 2006? That’s a long time to not be profitable, right?
Phones are locked down. All you need is a vendor to refuse further software updates after 5 years, after releasing a more resource-draining updates prior to this, and it doesn’t matter how good the old hardware is. People won’t be able to use it
But the inverse seemingly works with regards to GDPR?

If a Belgian citizen in Belgium hacks my US server they are not protected by this Belgian law.

Yet if a Belgian citizen in Belgium visits my US server they are protected by GDPR?

How does that work then?
I don't let myself burnout anymore. And I'd still say I work hard afterhours. I think what happened for me was disconnection from my sense of purpose mixed with being overworked leading to a "what's the point" vibe.

1. It probably took me 3-4 years in my late 20s, early 30s to recover. I just worked 9-5 then.

2. For me "work-life" balance as a concept was even causing me stress.
It conflicted with my sense of purpose. My advice is to actively prune and reject advice/suggestions that weigh on you and disconnect you from who you are.

3. Jiro dreams of sushi as a movie saved me. It reminded me of who I wanted to be and what I want to do with my life. This 90 year old is a sushi making expert works day in and day out at his craft. How does he have that energy? This isn't about hustle it's about motivation, inspiration and deeper purpose. So I recommend finding yours or reconnecting with it!

Ya def take a break, but I think there's often a deeper issue that's being exacerbated by being over worked. For me, I feel stronger than ever, but as others have shared, I feel like a different person. There's definitely pre-post self.
This whole thing is so silly. It also drastically reduces my confidence that I keep reading about "chargers". Nobody needs a separate charger. All that's needed is a cable that has a lightning tip. It doesn't even have to be a dedicated cable, it can be one with interchangeable tips or a separate adapter. If anyone is really concerned about wasteful production of chargers then ban selling chargers and maybe even cables bundled with devices. I know I have way more actual chargers than I need because they constantly come with new devices, not just phones. What's won by me now getting additional, superfluous USB-C cables instead of additional, superfluous lightning cables?

In the 90s everyone in Europe was upset about the EU regulating bananas curvature. That regulating had been requested by the banana industry as a requirement for a shared market. So it somewhat (I'd still have preferred the market to figure this out itself) made sense. This "Lightning charger" stuff is the true bananas curvature.
I have to ask: when posting a question like this, what kind of response are you hoping to get?
https://atproto.com/guides/overview is a good start, but bit overwhelming when you get started.

https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto-ecosystem provides a good overview of the current ecosystem. If you wanna see how something is done, best to find another project already doing it and get inspired from them.
Does anyone know if you could target the JVM without having to use UTF-16 for string encoding?

Probably not justified, but that’s a hassle I’d want to avoid if I had any plans to support Unicode.
They have 25% of the market. Just split them in five, mandate that no entity can have more than five percent of the market and watch their margins shrink.

Maybe there is a less brutal way to do it, e.g., raise corporate tax in proportion to market share.

The point is that the market system we currently have does not prevent oligopoly power and that is creating all sorts of problems.
I wonder how well this would work with SPC as the devil key.
The supply of engineers has also massively increased compared to the supply of high paying tech jobs.

Your salary is capped by what you produce for your employer but your salary is determined by how hard it is to replace you. In the Bay with more companies than you could count, they had to fight tooth and nail for these incredibly productive workers, pushing wages higher and higher - capturing the value the workers create. Add in ZIRP and all the startups that creates and you’re looking at a cage fight between employers over workers.

With remote work and the end of ZIRP, suddenly the bay has less startups and the Googles of the world can more seamless employ workers in Cleveland or Bangalore. What does a Bay Area worker gain from this, access to tech jobs in Cleveland?
International shipping of individual books has become very expensive. Within the US, media mail provides an inexpensive option for authors.
The article states that the purpose of this new "structural software" was to enable level 4 autonomy in the future.
That's not what the endocrinologist behind Sugar The Bitter Truth video tells us:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM&t=18m46s
I do play guitar and can most certainly play any kind of scale. I was a professional bass player (electric and double bass) and studied to postgrad level. I also play “composer’s piano”. The guitarist in question was an undergrad classical guitarist studying at one of the top London conservatoires. He wasn’t someone who learned by ear.
Qualifying the Parental Investment Model
The notion that “we don't adapt”, though, is really a euphemism for “people, who otherwise might not, are surviving to reproduce and are therefore not selected out”. But the truth is that death is still inevitable and people are still being selected out, and we are still, therefore adapting. The only thing that has changed is what environment we are being selected for: Earth in the Anthropocene.
It's not the EU's fault your/our government sucks.
That might be a side effect of destroying competition and vc exit strategy through acquisition.

YouTube, instagram, Slack, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, etc. all second generation software that companies that were acquired by bigger companies as exits, or to squelch competition.
Also available via internet archive: https://archive.org/details/david-rumsey-map-collection
Something about Google's incentive structure is eating them alive.

For instance, there's an alarm setting on Android (Pixel) for "Night Mode: Very dim display (for dark rooms)".

Which I interpret as a Googler's way of saying: "my bonus is tied to minutes of display visibility while charging, so F users there's no way to turn the display off."
Worth noting a year ago VW AG CEO Herbert Diess was let go: https://dailykanban.com/2022/07/24/volkswagens-hallwayradio-...

Some further opinions from last year: https://twitter.com/BertelSchmitt/status/1550859623670095879

And another tweet I remember about cariad and rumors around it: https://twitter.com/itskyleconner/status/1549432590553288706
I've been hoping to have WASM/WASI as an official AWS Lambda runtime for a long time. Ideally, it would be an evergreen platform that runs code forever once deployed. I'm pretty bored with updating Node.js versions every year or two to hundreds of Lambdas.
Reminds me of god-mode: https://github.com/emacsorphanage/god-mode. Although I use Evil, it still comes in handy on occasion when I need to type something without an Evil keybind. Alas, it’s been abandoned, though it still seems to work for me on the rare occasions I need it.
In China it is about SA only now, maybe since 2022 if I remember it correctly, all cell phone that support SA can only be allowed to enter the market. and all base station shall support SA too.
How to be vulnerable at work without spilling everything, from Brené Brown
The big issue, in addition to speed, I had with UBT was how difficult it was to debug when it did the wrong thing. Often this was when having to adopt new Xcode versions, where CMake gave a lot of escape hatches to adapt it whereas UBT required spelunking.

At some points, there’s multiple layers of historic cruft that just seem arcane.

Last year, epic released a video where an engineer went through it and even they hit points where they said: “I have no idea what this area of code does”