skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
German speaking. While I see your point on unfair behavior of companies like Apple forcing customers to buy gazillions of adapters, I'm afraid the downsides of those regulations are being downplayed by the EU regulators in kind of an arrogant tone:

- GDPR, e-privacy and such only led to us having to click away cookie banners. Someone should make a study how much of the GDP is wasted because of those micro-interactions maneuvering around dark ui patterns. Still, Big Tech is just collecting the data in different ways and the regulations will never be able to catch up.

- Over time, we saw many smaller companies were put under pressure by some lawyers to also "obey the law". It massively incentivized legal uncertainty for many local companies. We will see the same pattern with generative AI and the obligation to make transparent where the data it's trained on is coming from.

- We have lately seen regulations being misused by some governments to stop things they didn't like (see Italy's government and their take on ChatGPT).

I am not so sure that regulating power plugs isn't just another iteration of stupidity of doing the opposite of what they claim.
There are degrees of failure. WeWork has raised $23B and they’re currently worth $350M.

Losing $22B is a pretty insane failure.
Yeah, they can be quite a time sink. :)

Glad you're enjoying them!
https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/06/06/hppd-and-the-specter-o...
> Programmers speak programming languages. Common men speak human languages.

Thats just a stereotype.

Lawyers speak legalese, managers speak managerial, electricians speak electrical, designers speak design languages, and politicians speak bullshit. And all of those languages can be employed/"translated" by "AI", there is no difference.

Or to put it another way, it all depends on the context. If you don't want to be understood by others you'll just come out as an asshole, and rightly so, whatever your profession.
I have nothing against the Dutch but these two Dutch companies, Shell and Elsevier, are scourge of humanity.
This is is certainly not true for Sony. Ports for PlayStation games to the PC are notorious for running horribly and often never get fixed.
Emphasis being "on paper". When I worked for a research company we got a cheaper Korean company to demo their thermal cameras. They were just way way worse than FLIR and the software was abysmal (FLIR's software is surprisingly good).

Ended up going for the £4k FLIR camera (not my money tbf). On the plus side I didn't even know about the 9fps thing at the time and they didn't ask me about it, but we still got a 25fps camera. Not exactly sure how that happened.
I re-used the 68k engine from an amiga emulator once. I only encountered one bug: the RTD instruction wasn't implemented correctly.
Nice work! Interaction design has been often reduced to a shouting match, and it’s great to see a more considered approach being taken.
Wireless charging by definition has no physical port - if you have to plug it in, it's not wireless.

No manufacturer is going to waste space that could be use for battery and further compromise water/dust proofing to add another port, for a total of 2, even if it's better than USB-C because the opportunity cost is too high.
The Profit* is pretty interesting. It's like the shows where Gordon Ramsay goes into failing restaurants and tries to turn them around, except here the show's host tries to fix all kinds of local businesses. It's not about tech startups per se, but you still see a lot of common issues through the lens of local businesses: founder disputes, poor unit economics, bad marketing, etc. It's a little cheesy, but pretty good overall!

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Profit_(TV_series)
> That is why Apple stopped improving Lighting and developed USB-C

They did not develop USB-C. That was a thing started by Gruber.
This happened because the EU forced them to agree on a single charger/cable standard and it happened to be micro-usb for a while. Before this every mobile manufacturer had their own version of a charging AND data cable, separately..
It looks like VW Group have fallen fowl of trying to combine the transition to BEVs with autonomous driving. There is no reason they should have had to wait on autonomous driving software in order to add more BEVs to their range. I don't believe autonomous driving is a deciding factor in the majority of purchase decisions at the moment, and as people tend to be loyal to a brand it's more important to get a BEV on the market that fits the category of the loyal customers.

VW have a good BEV platform, perfectly satisfactory in car software, and adequate automation. It's ridiculous they haven't got an estate (station wagon) at all yet, or to have expanded those that are available to all of the various brands.

None of that is depended on automation tech.
farmer's daughter, not wife.
German hacktivist Lilith Wittmann was charged for responsibly disclosing a vulnerability in a server of a political party, but charges were dropped after a public outcry.
Fun learning projects are absolutely on-topic for HN.
Tangent: any tips on how to make the M-x line more usable, similar to a command palette?

I just got started with Emacs, and the archaic terminology and inconsistent naming is causing me to have to consult StackOverflow for basic things like “what are the copy and paste commands called?”. (Those were probably both in the tutorial, but I already forgot them a few times.)

I’m aware of “apropos”, but it also uses antiquated terminology, so it’s frequently not useful to me.

I’m sure this problem has been solved :)
I’ve found Language Reactor supports Greek for the limited choices Netflix provided. Also if you haven’t used it, Language Transfer is a phenomenal tool for learning Greek. I’m open to any suggestions you may have!
Depending on the source you read, wireless charging is 75% efficient while wired charging is 85% efficient. MagSafe (the phone kind) should be even more efficient since the magnet focuses charging and so doesn’t create as much heat.

I notice my phone getting hot on normal qi chargers, but not on a MagSafe charger.
The always on always online computer in your pocket changed things for sure - and perhaps it was the Internet finally coming into its own.

Maybe (maybe) ChatGPT will do something similarly transformative (I’m sus as the kids say).
That's not really what I'm looking for, of course. At the time it was feeling a bit like "3 times is enemy action". A person, if I had asked them to play my playlist and they put on "KidzBopz" or other "decidedly not my playlists", they'd be like "Ok, I've pushed this gag far enough."

But seriously, I still haven't plugged that thing back in, it's been over a year. The only reliable way I could get to start my playlists was to use my phone, at which point I might as well just be using a bluetooth speaker, which is what I've been doing the last year.
Because I don’t have to remember to pair my phone with the Bluetooth speaker, then queue up whatever. I just tell my Echo to play my daily briefing, and it does the work. I picked a set that is generally done in 15-20 minutes, so it doubles as a good time for my morning routine.
For paper you'd like the maximum contrast, but screens emit light, and maximum contrast puts additional strain on the eyes. There's a big but, though. This is for people with normal eyesight. As far as I understand, some people require this hurtful (to me) level of contrast just to be able to read. Additionally, you can significantly lower contrast just adjusting your monitor's brightness, but there's a limit on how far can you go in the opposite direction and it doesn't help if there's not enough contrast to begin with.

If you can't solve it with CSS presets, I think it's better to stick with higher contrast for these reasons. For my blog I just use black-on-white, even though for me personally it's too much if it's more than just a couple of paragraphs. I tend to lower my display brightness while checking my own blog. :)

Another nuance I don't see discussed is at least not keeping the empty background around the content div at the maximum value level. It's just emitting pure light around the main content for no use.
A battery powered one would be adequate for what I presume is the primary application, a problem that stretches back millennia. And cheaper than hosting a wake.

https://www.ancientpages.com/2016/02/09/strange-history-of-s...
I went down a rabbit hole writing a blog post about how Lego uses (and arguably abuses) intellectual property laws to protect their bricks and minifigs. And after writing my post I found that someone had written an entire masters thesis on the topic in 2005! Pretty interesting stuff.

If interested my post covers some more recent cases like the 2020 Zuru case: https://bricktoad.com/posts/lego-compatible-alt-bricks/
Your argument makes no sense.

Journal publishers don’t weigh in on tenure or grant decisions. While they provide a conduit for materials that impact such things (the researchers papers), they have no say in anything (including, incidentally, sometimes what gets published)

A publisher provided distribution. That’s it. They aren’t even the chef in this analogy: they’re FOH staff.

Journal editors are faculty at academic institutions. They may or may not be paid a small fee by the publisher for their efforts but it’s typically not significant. Reviewers are unpaid volunteers.

Journal publishers historically charged money because they managed the printing and distribution of print journals. Some also facilitated distribution of drafts. That’s it. The bulk of the intellectual labor was done for free by academics.

As you can imagine, in the age of the internet, this entire process can be replaced by a CMS solution hosted in the cloud.
Sorry but managed Kubernetes is not low maintenance like Faas. I had a kubernetes upgrade fail and it was not fun to stand up a new cluster install newer versions of the ingress that could not longer be upgraded, migrate all the workloads. The k8s cluster is still very much your problem
Stanford Medicine Long Covid Study Blows Up Because of Unmasked Staff
OpenMoko was a company that created, manufactured and sold a mobile phone and developed a complete FLOSS software stack based on GNU/Linux for it. From comparable modern projects there's Purism making both hardware (Librem 5) and software (PureOS, Phosh), or perhaps Pine64's hardware (PinePhone) combined with community-based software projects (like Mobian, postmarketOS, UBports, Plasma Mobile etc.)

This one is a cute DIY hobbyist project that puts a SBC together with an off-the-shelf modem module. Fun stuff, but from an entirely different category of things.
‘This is our drug, we have to chase it’: extreme new sport takes root in SF Bay
Same here, but I want to say some bad things about old thermostats. My first house had propane heating, in a big tank that they would periodically come by and fill, so I had a visceral connection to how much fuel I was using. The previous owner had left the original 1960s mercury thermostats running the place, which meant that barring any initiative on my end the temperature was the same no matter if I was sleeping, at work, or whatever else it is people do. When I finally got around to replacing it with a digital programmable one, it cut my propane bill in half. Do you need to hook it to your smart phone? No, that's dumb. Do you need to choose between bleeding money vs. adjusting everything manually as part of your daily routine, like your grandfather winding the hallway clock? No, also dumb. Local digital is the way to go.
John and Pierre are two of the smartest lisp programmers out there!
I'm pretty sore 100% of all US states mandate that all new construction adhere to the National Electrical Code (NEC). Specifically, NFPA 70. They just delegate the authority as to what's "standard" to that non-governmental body.

Every few years the National Fire Protection Agency (NFPA)--which is a non-governmental nonprofit--publishes an updated standard and then it's up to all the state legislatures to update the laws to require the new standard.

The problem is that the NFPA doesn't just post the NEC for free on the Internet. You have to pay for it (which is ridiculous) and it's copyrighted and as such, illegal to just give away. There was a lawsuit in Georgia that was supposed to determine whether or not that situation was OK (having laws that require expensive fees to view may be unconstitutional since that's like having secret laws). I don't know what the outcome was of that though.
It’s interesting to realize that only a few scant centuries, and even with the skeleton, you might be completely unknown.

Perhaps I should develop a way to tattoo bones in life so that in death you can be known.
scite (where I work) makes understanding reproducibility much easier -- we have access to full text articles with agreements from publishers and are able to show you the statements from papers where each reference was used in text with the textual context, section, and a classification, so you can see if newer research indicated a difference in empirical findings, etc. Might be of interest for you is the only reason I'm bringing it up- https://scite.ai/home
Tucker Carlson and Elon Musk had a conversation about working together in media
> Axios has learned that Carlson and Elon Musk had a conversation about working together, but didn't discuss specifics.

Oh, how easily Elon Musk was radicalized.
The warning is "don't fool around", just provide usb-c without any conditions, don't make "better" and worse cables just because one has to pay the funny MFI.
Recently I noticed I could not turn my Nest thermostat "off" anymore, on the device or on the app. Wait, what??? Any ideas?
Common men are not communicating using AI, but AI is generating plausible-sounding corporate-speak faster and better than common men.
I was told onsite at a major pharm research house in California, that "science publishing in Japan is controlled by their mafia" .. with "Reed-Elsevier" as the Dutch version of that. historical note: the Dutch worked with Japan before many other Western nations, long ago.
To provide early warning in case someone does make it back from the other side?
Sounds a bit like the UK series Troubleshooter from the 90s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubleshooter_(TV_series)
I use that quote similarly. It's about knowing where you stand, where the value is, and of course not chasing the shiny new thing.... Perhaps Its pragmatic humility. That's how I see it.
I have said it before and will say it again:

Google wants to look amateurish for as long as possible to avoid stronger regulation.
I’ve just started playing music on my phone. The iPhone is plenty water resistant now and it’s not going under the shower stream anyway.
I suggest selling inferior grade coppper. Your name will be immortalized!
> Software is $0 in the BOM, so you are treated like shit.

So it's just bad accounting?
Yes, it's definitely something that you (I) need to solve with the own carrier. I do still feel that there is something iffy about that, because Switzerland and Austria being direct neighbors it seems strange that they don't have at least a somewhat reasonable roaming agreement by default.
I was pretty glad I didn't have to deal with Bluemix. Instead I was told we'd be using AWS, had that change after I started, waited four months for a vSphere setup to be rolled out for me, and quit two weeks later.
>WEF plays the conspiracy angle

What, you're saying that's intentional? What's the WEF business model, anyway?
I thought that was politics.
Though, it isn't the screw connector that makes led bulbs a bad fit. It is the AC power delivery. And, yes, hvdc is likely better, but only in recent times with modern equipment. And even then, probably more debatable than makes sense.
In a lot of "traditional" industries, because you "can't touch" or put it into inventory software is not seen as important "it is just there at the end". Furthermore there is a huge disconnect, because they don't understand software... everything "can later be fixed in software", the procurement department is incentivized to buy the cheapest hardware/chips they can get and you as a software developer are never asked if the requirements can be implemented on the hardware they procure leading to delays because you have to fit all the promised features into a shitty 5cent cheaper hardware and if it fails it's the software departments fault (looks like this is a bit the case in CARIAD when reading some german forums/articles).
The most interesting thing for me as an European is looking at the difference in levels between sex and violence according to RSACi. Look at level 1 for instance: on one side we have passionate kisses (with tongue I guess?) and on the other, killing animals already. At Level 2 we are already killing people, while at level 2 clothed sexual touching. Beating someone? Bah, not even contemplated.
> Your explanation grossly exaggerates the complexity.

Where exactly? Could you please show it?
Jekyll

https://github.com/alshedivat/al-folio

Take a look at the ICLR example in that repository. Yann Leclune popularized the open review movement years ago and everything is based on open source
That is how it worked on MS-DOS as well, the enter/leave instruction pairs for x86 had a similar purpose.
I do this when I need “ideas” or “directions” instead of ads and seo optimized bs. Then I can confirm the results with my own research and ping pong between chatgpt and google sometimes.
Unless something drastic has changed in our understanding of diabetes, we don't know enough what causes T2DM to say that it's x% attributable to y amount excess/insufficient consumption of food z. Especially when a lot of the pathways are indirect (e.g. excess calories, visceral fat, fatty liver disease) and so the attribution to specific foods is shaky. Their risk factors literally read like the major calorie source for each region.

Best evidence right now says to maintain a healthy weight, that eating moderately of meats and fats is fine, that we should eat adequately of plant matter, etc. Limit highly processed foods, or foods comprised of large amounts of highly-processed ingredients. Probably because that tends to equate to large amounts of sugar and/or fat.

If your children are really interested and you think it's not going to lead to an obsession then a continuous glucose monitor can lead to fascinating insights about their individual response to specific foods, combinations thereof, the interaction with exercise, etc. If you really want to explore the rabbit hole there's a community of type 1 diabetic hackers; obviously the etiology and hazards are different but as far as collection and analysis of the data there's a lot of prior art there.
Since driving a taxi isn't hard work he should just do 'epic' ten hour shifts every day.
What’s the problem with M1/M2 being great? It’s not a zero-sum game.
Probably, yes. But that will take another 5 to 10 years, so nothing to fear about. It took the EU 9 years from "advocating for a common charger" [1] until they regulated it. There's enough reason to believe that it'll take them a couple of years to adjust the law.

[1] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20210920IP...
Exactly. It's like a friend of mine who said he doesn't want to buy some car brand because they have so many recalls.

I want to buy that car brand because it has so many recalls.

Every system has bugs, and recalls means you're fixing them. Which to me is much better than hiding them.
Is this for AEM frontends?
and is waiting for one of the boat to come back and give him some fish, because he doesn't know how to fish himself and be patient after he spent all those years making business instead
> And current generation language model, without their guardrails, can be a nasty weapon too

Please, elaborate. I'm actually very curious about the dangers of a text model that were non-existent beforehand.

> How likely is it that we'll have two sapient species on earth

We already do. There are multiple animals (crows, monkeys, etc.) that qualify for not just sentience but sapience. It's... really not that different to subjugating other animal species. Except in the case of AI, it's sapience is obviously nonhuman and it's capabilities are only what we ascribe to it.

> The unaligned ones, the ones that can do dangerous things, things we don't want them to do, are smarter!

No. This is a gross misinterpretation of the situation, I think.

Our current benchmark for "smartness" is how few questions these models refuse to answer. You are comparing "unaligned" models to aligned ones, and what you're really talking about is a safety filter that adversely affects the number of answers it can respond to. That does not inherently make it smarter by de-facto, just less selective. You could be comparing unfiltered Vicuna to GPT-4 and be completely wrong in this situation.

> do you think it is possible to create machine-based intelligence

I don't know. Sure. We have little black boxes to spit out text, that's enough for "intelligence" by most standards. It's a very nonscary and almost endearing form of intelligence, but I'd argue we're either already there or never reaching it. I need a better definition of intelligence.

> how hard do you think it is to ensure that creating a new form of superior intelligence will not, at some point down the line, go very badly for humans?

How hard is it to ensure kids aged 3-11 don't choke on Stay-Puft marshmallows?

I also don't know. I do know that it is mostly harmless though, and unless you deliberately try to weaponize it to prove a point that it won't really be that threatening. Current state-of-the-art AI does not really scare me. Even on it's current trajectory, I don't see AI's impact on the planet being that much different from the status quo in a decade.

All this hype is awfully reminiscent of cryptocurrency advocates insisting the world would change once digital currency became popular. And they were right! The world did change, slightly, and now everyone hates cryptocurrency and uses our financial systems to suppress it's usage. If AI becomes a tangible, real threat like that, society will respond in shockingly minor ways to accommodate.
TL;DR anyone? The filing takes an ungodly amount of time to load and the server might croak under HN pressure.
How long it takes me to build new features for my application, fix bugs, and in general get things done.
> My pet hypothesis is this will also why the current/next generation is much more open about sexuality / gender / identity, and I expect this to get only more nuanced as science understands more and as people learn to express more. But that's just something I cooked up. Anyone else feel this way?

I'm not sure if it's true or not, but it's something I hope, certainly.

At the same time I think a lot of people are stuck in cycles of abuse that they inherited, and which they themselves are going to pass down to the next generation. And I think to some extent this reflects the inhospitality of the societies we live in.

Anyways, I also wanted to say that I felt a lot of the same things you did reading this. Thank you for posting. I hope you will feel more peace as you get older.
>I feel like this is just one more thing that Google leadership is failing at.

Apart from increasing ad revenue, there isn't a single thing that Google's leadership has been succeeding.
How teams interact is a function of the team/org, not the software architecture.

What microservices easily provide in this scenario that is far harder to pull off with a monolith is that with microservices the service owners are able to roll out a dedicated service as a deliverable from that dialogue. Whether the new microservice implements a new version of the API or handles a single endpoint, the service owners can deploy the new service as an extension to their service instead of a modification, and thus can do whatever they wish to do with it without risking any impact on their service's stability.
Do you plan to expand to other tests?
Cory Doctorow Explains Why Big Tech Is Making the Internet Terrible