skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, the other downside I should have mentioned is they have no good strategy for what to do when they're left with multiple products after years.

They eventually choose to sunset one, and simplify brands, but in a really haphazard, broken-features way, just like we're seeing here.

But again, the issue isn't that the CEO's not checking up on the details. It's not one of quality control. It's that they don't care. It's not process, it's goals. I can't imagine Sundar wasn't briefed that the migration will involve missing features, and he signed off on that.

Because Google's core values are about trying lots of new things, with a focus on scalability and search and machine learning and metrics. Google's core values are very specifically not about maintaining consistent quality, committing to products, or guaranteeing features -- or being a "user advocate" as you mention.

So this is all just to reiterate. These aren't process failures. These are Google's processes working as intended. The Nest failures here are simply a reflection of Google's actual goals.
> To achieve high-precision measurements from a balloon-borne environment, the SuperBIT gondola – at roughly 3500 lbs – stabilizes its telescope to sub-arcsecond precision (akin to a three degree-of-freedom Steadicam) while sophisticated optics further stabilize the SuperBIT camera to < 50 milliarcseconds.

Amazing.
Exactly. Why?

So you're first instinct is to write a tool to inspect websockets?
A sorry, it's really not that complex. That's just a matter of opinion and depends on what you compare with.

B You say you are less convinced of the "real world" benefit and actually specify the main one: "a lot of that is due to the tooling"... great tooling requires specific typing, this is a only a compile-time pass.
Eventually the bots will need to be given an empathetic backstory so customers can subsidize their existence.

"Hey, Wendy's doesn't pay me enough electricity to stay on night, can you leave a 10% tip, please? I'm studying to add a few billion more parameters so I be a medical AI and its hard to afford the compute."
This is so far outside normal experience that I have to wonder what you are doing wrong. Are you normally only going at restaurant grand opening or something?
Where is the pdf?
Domestic business is called first class in the US for some reason, so that’s where the confusion comes from.
I use at least 9 devices (four laptops, a desktop, watch, two phones, tablet) with Maps on them and very much appreciate having the location data synced serverside.
Former US public HS Math teacher here. The summer before I started teaching I obtained a cell phone signal jammer (from the EU, where they're legally available) and quietly kept it in my desk.

I didn't have to confiscate a single phone over the three years before I walked away from the job. Lots of internal chuckles from me brought on by complaints about the signal quality in my room. Granted, this only worked because we had no student accessible WiFi.

I did worry about students being unable to reach out during an emergency, but cell phones were supposed to be left in their lockers during the day anyways and there was a landline in the classroom.

I wonder if any schools are thinking about legal jammers or even building new classrooms that are effectively large Faraday cages?
This is a ridiculous argument. Google Maps is all but useless with location history turned off. Google offers the illusion of choice because the option makes it sound like they respect your privacy, while they're strongly motivated to convince you to hand over your data.
Lazy journalism.

Lazy coding.
Mandarin, Cantonese, etc. have per-syllable tones. English, German, French and probably many more, have per-partial-sentence tones.
Generative AI and AI Product Moats
Do they though? It seems easy enough to get data on this rather than speculating
Bluesky Frustrations
What percent of HN readers know a Slavic language? It is true, though, in Czech at least his user name is Faithful Black
Funny how "personal responsibility" always applies to the consumer and never to the developers and corporations.
Honestly, that looks like a random string of letters strung together to me. If it is a name, I don’t recognize the provenance.
Google's J2CL (successor to GWT) is also AOT.

https://github.com/google/j2cl
Active shooters?
Interesting, mind sharing the general geographic location? I've never had that experience in ~20 years up and down the east coast
Huh. I remember Henry Spencer from *.space on Usenet back in the early-mid 90's. Had no idea he wrote regex.
This is coming one way or another and is pretty frightening. Mass surveillance is one thing, but also personal interrogation. You can extract the deepest darkest secrets of any one individual.

The thin line of privacy will disintegrate into nothing.
I have a feeling that bans are not the most effective approach long term. Maybe there's a solution where we educate young people on responsible phone use and work with them to design practices that work for everyone. After all, outside of high school people have to actually self regulate their phone use. Whether they do so effectively varies, but maybe it's a skill we need to think about teaching and developing. Just a direction I've been thinking in, I don't have any concrete recommendations.

Of course schools are already way overburdened, but maybe a solution here has large enough positive externalities to be worth it.
That is massive! I feel like I've got a lot when I hit like 28h.
Climatic changes are slow on the scale of human lifetimes, with the exceptions of the effects of volcanic eruptions and asteroid impacts - and in terms of human history, those latter effects are typically transient. E.g. the Pinatubo explosion did lead to a short-term cooling impact in the 1990s, but it only lasted seven years or so (although it was a good experiment test of climate model theory, as the effects of the aerosol injection were predicted with good accuracy, such as a slight reduction in atmospheric water vapor).

Most of the major impacts of climate changes took place over thousands of years, such as the wet period in the Sahara (which once hosted a sizable human population). Both the transition to wet conditions (14-15 kya) and the drying out(5-6 kya) took place over a roughly thousand year period:

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

Given that our modern understanding of the effects of CO2 and other IR-absorbing gases on global temperatures was worked out by 1980 or so, and that the 40-yr period since then has seen a globally averaged deltaT of +0.4 C, it's interesting to see that global fossil fuel production (annual) has doubled since 1980. This has been matched by the increase of atmospheric CO2 from ~1.6 ppm per year (1980) to ~2.4 ppm per year (2020). Humans, it seems, are rather incapable of long-term planning (regardless of ideology, the socialist countries produce fossil fuels at the same rate as the capitalist countries):

https://research.noaa.gov/article/ArtMID/587/ArticleID/2636/...

However, if you ask most people who remember the climate conditions in 1980 if there's been any dramatic world-altering change since then, they might point to more frequent wildfires, droughts, floods etc. but in terms of world-shaking events (e.g. WWII, etc.) it hasn't impacted people's lives to the same degree.

Furthermore, the politicians who've tried to make this an issue in elections have turned out to be the very same politicians who work for the fossil fuel industry to expand production (see Obama and the expansion of domestic fracking of natural gas in the USA 2008-2016 etc.). This makes a mockery of much of political climate activism - and in particular, the claim that 'we need to act now!' is pretty nonsensical. Current rates of warming will proceed for the next 100 years even if we eliminate fossil fuels overnight (and all fossil producers seem to have plans to maintain current levels of production for the next 30 years, so...).

All in all, the current fossil fuel-forced climate transition will place new pressures on human civilizations but whether or not that leads to global war, mass migration, genocidal conflict etc. will depend more on human behavioral choices than on climate science.

Of course, we do have the technology today to replace say 3% of fossil fuel consumption with renewables per year, which would eliminate fossil fuel production in 35 years, but this would make fossil fuel producers (and their economic dependents) very sad... and we'll still have to deal with new climate conditions.
Interesting change, I do wonder if the Mac apps will follow suit.
I'm in favour of keeping phones away from students during school hours - Yondr pouches or storing them in a locker makes sense. It's very unlikely that there will be an emergency that warrants the immediate attention of a school student as it is. Plus, in my high school parents could call in to the school landline to speak to their kids if need be.

Teachers have a difficult job as it is, not to mention that they are already mistreated - they have almost no authority over students since they never have backing from parents or school administrators.

I recently came across a post on Reddit[1] where a student pepper sprayed her teacher because he confiscated her phone during an exam. One of the commenters claimed that the same teacher was previously punched in the face by a different student for taking their phone away after catching them cheating on a test. It is disconcerting to say the least.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/1397n4l/teacher_t...
A friend of mine who is a managing partner at a law firm specializing in IP law once told me that "once a case goes to a jury trial, it's a 50/50 chance that you win--and the odds only go down from there."
Because it's hard to trust that the kids won't be put in a dangerous situation by way of an active shooter. And with some of the incident within the last year it's been clear the school may not notify anyone until hours later.
Your comparison makes no sense. A person is banned from driving drunk because it can result in people getting killed.

There is nothing preventing 15-minute cities from having both pedestrian walkways as well as roads.. as most cities ALREADY do.

And oh, by the way, even a 15-minute city will have to make space for roads for vehicles. When you change houses, you aren't carrying your furniture on foot between houses, are you? or for that matter, when you call emergency (911), the cops and emergency workers are not arriving by foot. Or when you make a house, the construction equipment, material etc are not being carried in by foot either. Also, the shops in your neighbourhood are not been replenished by suppliers carrying in products on their back.

So this idea that you can suddenly replace all roads with pedestrian paths is just completely unworkable.
Depends on how sure you want to be that nobody is listening, it's not necessary for the yellow dot to be overridden, maybe the attacker is using the accelerometer to act as an improvised microphone.
As if there's been a compelling reason to use anything past Photoshop 7, feature-wise...
Computers are more intelligent than us but we still fold our own laundry
This is interesting. They could theoretically use previous transaction data to train the system to optimize what wording to use that is likely to maximize total spend and repeat business (at least in single party states).

I wonder if this will mean that brick and mortar stores will soon have the incentive to record everything they can about their customers such as their car and what they've said, putting them more in line with the digital realm adtech.
I feel like a drama queen, because we (my immediate family) have had two near misses in 3 days. We were at the Allen Outlets and left 5 minutes before the shooting happened. 2 days later there's a school shooting threat at my son's high school.

Nothing physical has happened to _us_. I can't stand up and say, "I lost a family member due to gun violence!". I still feel like things are spiraling out of control and there's nothing I can do about it. How do you stop going outside where other people are for fear of a shooting? How do you send your only child to school knowing what's going on?

I hope I can cope and hope that everything turns out OK.
RPS SDK Tutorial
Where is their infra right now?
“By third parties”.

It sounds like Adobe is sending this out on behalf of Dolby, whose licensing terms were only valid while the version of Photoshop was supported.

It’s a bit ridiculous that the lawyers wrote a licensing agreement like that, but I really wouldn’t worry about this as the end user. Just a bunch of lawyers stepping on each others toes.
Do Covid-19 adenovirus-vector vaccines have beneficial non-specific effects? [pdf]
Most people only define violence as kinetic and physical. Mean words are not violence no matter how often sociologists say it.
There's a stark difference between setting boundaries and treating people like objects.

I've experienced both. Some schools are really good. The private K-12 religious school I went to treated kids like people and still set boundaries. The local public high school did the same. The public grade school was a horror show. College was particularly interesting. Most of the administration did not care about students as people. Everyone else did.
So your position is "buyer beware". A company can make untrue claims about their product, and all of the responsibility rests on the consumer.

I do not want to be a consumer in that world.
And of course ChatGPT 4.0 gets it exactly right.

What's wrong at Google lately?
Right, but that's the tradeoff and it's a good tradeoff for many.

If you only need Final Cut Pro for a 2-month project, it's amazing because you'll save so much money.

And any time you need it again, you just resubscribe. You're never losing access permanently, it's just $5 away.

The point is that the flexibility and ongoing updates are a more beneficial tradeoff.

A lot of people (like myself) simply don't care about owning equity in software, so we have eternal access. It's just a tool, and it loses value over time without updates anyways.
You don’t need to get it. You do you.

Every time you’ve replied to one of my comments in the past, it’s been very binary in terms of workflows and the discussions always devolve.

So this time I’m leaving it as: I explained why it’s a big deal for me. If you have your own workflows or needs, so be it. But it’s irrelevant to why I like it.

I don’t need velocity for a quick idea for example. I just need to get the idea out as quickly as possible. Besides, you can always connect an external midi keyboard or audio interface to an iPad as well.
> The resulting system can manage about 640 queries per second, compared to about 0.01 queries per second for ripgrep.

They are trying to make a point about indexes, but it is overshadowed by the unit mismatch (distributed system QPS vs what sounds like single-machine ripgrep pace)
You can download all of Wikipedia (20 GB for English):

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dump_torrents#English_W...

You can also download Android documentation:

https://androidsdkoffline.blogspot.com/p/android-offline-doc...

You can KINDA download MDN (very YMMV and $$$):

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/plus/docs/features/offli...
Bonus points when it's spread across a bunch of different registrars and they refuse to delegate nameservers because of office politics, making things way more complicated to deploy and maintain.
Doesn't Adobe want people to become familiar with their tools, regardless of legality, so they continue to use them later in the workplace?
Ask HN: Anyone using a locally hosted copilot for work?
I was one of the beta testers for GitHub copilot; it was a boon for my productivity on personal projects. But I wouldn't want to use it for work because I don't want to risk leaking IP to a potential competitor.

Anyone had success using a locally hosted copilot alternative like fauxpilot as a productivity booster at your job?
This will be the one order taker who will not sardonically respond "Sir, this is a Wendy's" when you make a long winded statement evoking a lot of pathos at the drive thru, but rather, will engage you in conversation.
An even better statistic would be: how many children were saved by a smart phone in a school shooting?
Capture the CO2 from the calcination and make diamond out of it?
> a decline into a contrived and pretentious quest where the artist, instead of attempting to make known the divine plan, tries to put himself in the place of God

and 40 years later we have TikTok
why would any floss owe debt to github
If that's how your organization works, leave it.
Credit is the lifeblood of the economy. That's why the Fed changes the prices of credit (interest rates) to speed or slow growth. Sadly, it's not very useful for making investment decisions: credit data tends to be coincident with market moves. If only there was a way to predict credit growth. Well, there is! Yesterday's loan officer survey from the Fed tells us where credit, the economy, and markets are headed. (A 3 min read at https://sunderji.substack.com/p/banks-grow-less-willing-to-l...)
All you have to do is enter the username into Google Translate and it will make sense.
> That's so fundamental to the type system that I think if you want to work around it, you might not fully understand how TypeScript works yet.

I think most engineers who use (and swear by) TypeScript don't fully understand how TypeScript works (or JavaScript for that matter).

I've worked across multiple teams at multiple companies and always run into types I can't trust because they are just plain wrong and inconsistent with the runtime, or data that isn't typed correctly. I also found that everyone writes TS differently, and sometimes the verbose typings and weird non-idiomatic patterns introduced just to please tsc actually make the code harder to read (30-line JS modules become 120-line TS behemoths). I still prefer working with TS on teams (though I prefer JS on solo projects now), but after a while I ask "is this the best we can do?"

/end minirant
It could just be that I'm an antisocial jerk, but the modern Chick-Fil-A drive through experience is awful to me. I preferred the faceless interaction ordering at the speaker box. I don't want an employee walking up to my car fumbling with printed menus and payment processing devices. I don't want to tell them I've already ordered because the several order-takers running up and down the line don't know who has/hasn't ordered.

At one point the nearest location to me set it up such that I had to interact face to face with 3 people before I would get my food - one to take my order, one to take my payment, one to give me a receipt. Then I'd actually get to the window and be handed my food by a fourth person. This slowed things down substantially because the pattern was so far outside what customers expected. Employees frequently had to chase down people because they didn't stop for their receipt...because where the hell did the idea of a receipt pickup station come from anyway?

The end result is I only go to C-F-A anymore if ordering online ahead of time is convenient. At least then I'm back to the single face-to-face interaction at the point of food delivery. I have zero desire to interact with their employees more than that.
This captures my use case pretty well. I’m a hobby photographer and use Lightroom on iPad as my only software step.

I’d like to dabble with video. Now I have an easy avenue to do that. If it goes well and I need more, I can move to the full experience on a Mac.
Microfacet theory for non-uniform heightfields
Because that's what they provide, and that's what they deal in, exclusively. Maternity care centers generally deal with other aspects of pregnancy, though some may also provide abortion services.
If that was the case, they'd be financing this stuff. Afaik they're not. What if you cross-referenced the sony copyrighted catalogue with 1 million traditional/public domain songs? I'd guess a 0.03% would be a rounding error.
When I taught high school English, admin never drew such a hard line. Teachers were additionally told that we would be personally responsible for the replacement cost of a phone should it become damaged/lost if taken from a student. As you would expect, phones were rarely taken off students, and they were a constant frustration.
Step one and two describe how Society currently works in civilized countries. The fishing territorial Waters belong to the nation, and fisherman are licensed to use it.

I don't know what you mean by responsibility here. In the current system fisherman are incentivized to catch fish by the profit* from selling them, which they pay taxes on. You need incentives because picking people and forcing them to be responsible for fishing would be slavery
They wouldn't use a chip like this for anything safety-critical, which is the main reason for using well-established tools and techniques. Fielding new technology in a less critical role is an opportunity to establish new tools as well.
The Amazon Ring camera might be a NSA, GHCQ or even an FBI camera "masquerading as a home surveillance device". They only need to process the images when motion is detected, which makes things a lot simpler.

And Amazon does have a lot of contracts with the government for cloud computing services. They wouldn't want to lose those, would they? So it's a distinct possibility, given what we learned from the Snowden leaks.
Maybe there's a technical solution for this.

Companies could give students a special form of (e)sim card where the school could disable data and block calls that does not go to family, emergency services etc. during class, and then unblock it automatically when there are no classes.

I'm sure it's not as simple as suggested above, otherwise someone would have made it already. But perhaps there is a similar technical solution for this problem, as parents and schools are unable to fix it on their own.
It'd be interesting to see them modify their Apple One tiers.

Split out Premier to a "Premier home" tier (keeping News+ and Fitness+) and a "Pro" tier at the same price that gives you 4TB of iCloud Drive + Logic and Final Cut instead of the 2TB/News/Fitness option.
> The reality of schools and public life in the USA today means my family not being without a way to contact each other immediately, in real time, is a no-go.

You have badly misread the statistics on this, if you're that worried about it.
You might like William Gaddis. The Recognitions and JR are dense and very complex novels with brilliant formal invention and prescient looks at finance, art, and skepticism bleeding into a postmodern mindset. The sheer amount of cultural references on even a single page in The Recognitions is astounding. He was a direct influence on DFW, Pynchon, and DeLillo.
They do it at Tim Hortons Drive Throughs too already, not sure if overseas but definitely someone in a call center taking the order. I'm torn about it, why resist technology and progress. But yeah, I guess root cause is they can't find enough staff on site because they pay too low.
Chatcraft.org: Developer-Focused Open Source ChatGPT
i was kind of expecting Ingrid to spell out the original fyi acronym but Google gets even that wrong:

krya på dig Ingrid - get over it Ingrid
> fossil fuels require much more mining and drilling than clean energy technologies. Today the world mines 8 billion tons of coal every year, whereas the clean energy transition is estimated to require around 3.5 billion tons of minerals in total over the next three decades.

https://citizensclimatelobby.org/blog/blog/are-clean-technol...
Come get some!
Wait, I still have physical CD install disks for Photoshop 6 that I still use on one of my older computers. Is this saying that even if I purchased the software years ago on a physical medium, I can’t use it anymore?
Unit Gradient Fields: What do we mean by “offset”?