skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Still strange that apps that work fully locally and thus don't entail any running costs are a subscription. Adobe did it first but they at least threw in some cloud stuff (that no one uses) to try to justify the subscription.
Given that SLS works and Starship has failed pretty spectacularly so far (engines failing off the gate and in flight, launch site damage, failed to detonate on demand), I think it's about time to stop saying SLS is just pork.
Well for other users they might wonder WHY their data is no longer being backed up. Hell they may not even know they hit capacity until the alert.

Should users be able to dismiss the alert? Yes. Should the alert pop back up at a later time to remind the user that their data is still not being backed up? Yes.
Until your screen is wet from the rain or you have gloves on.
How did China lift their space station?
With nearly 23K cryptocurrencies worth over a trillion US dollars in total in circulation, the temptation to phish them must be irresistible. This week, we’ll discover how they work, how they’re scammed, and how we can stay safe.
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2022/06/16/which-m...

I haven't scrutinized this heavily, but, at a glance, it appears that the best recovery for "Work Trips" is still down 13.2%, New York is down 26%, and the worst, SF, is down 32.7%. In no way do I see these numbers as booming - they all make me question how the cities are going to balance their books as commercial real estate gets devalued and undermines taxation.

Is that the wrong way to be looking at things?

(EDIT: these numbers are old, my bad!)
Lane assist done poorly (seen on my latest Toyota Corolla rental) is distracting and made me want to turn it off.

Any advanced features that are rushed or poorly thought out - can turn into liabilities instead of assets.
Well, BT introduces additional delay and jitter. It's fine for listening to music because you can "cache" segments. That's totally not going to working real-time audio.

Apple doesn't support aptX HD, aptX Lossless, LDAC for Bluetooth devices. IIRC they use AAC 256 kbps for their wireless audio.

Once again, totally fine for listening Spotify and apply music, but I imagine suboptimal for DAW.
Because it is an infrared telescope, and in earth orbit there are three very bright infrared sources that would mess up the instruments or heat up the telescope too much if they ever shone on the sensitive parts. (Sun, Moon and Earth.) When the telescope is placed in the Sun-Earth L2, all three sources are always very close to each other in the sky, and you can shield against all three with a single directional sunshield.
>such as the wheel and buttons on their watches

But not on their phones.
I'm in the UK and the max dosage I can get for Vitamin D in my local supermarket pharmacy is 1000 IU
Reflexive Reinforcement Learning would be better use of words.

As a side note there are tons of different sources of data, ie. for programming languages you can simply run code through interpreter/compiler and possibly run the code itself to see its output as data for reinforcement learning.

The main point is removing humans from the equation.
Doesn't Starbucks and airlines in essence have their own digital currency which they frequently devalue?
Not sure if it's the case here but typically a low o2 underwater environment means a high concentration of Hydrogen Sulfide. This can have corrosive effects on some scuba gear and generally makes visibility very poor. I've crossed through a H2S layer in a Mexican Cenote (fresh water on top, H2S in middle, Salt on bottom) it was only a few feet thick, it's not something I'd want to spend a lot of time in though. Even though you are on SCUBA you can still smell and taste it and it's not pleasant.
Are the bad ones exceptional though?
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I'm a parent, and no that's not true at all. How would that even help?
As a daily user of kdb+/q, I can say that at least for me, it's one of the "best feeling" and most ergonomic tools i've ever used.

I can actually query and understand tables in a very fast REPL in a way that would require 20-30 lines of SQL, nested subqueries, etc.

Even things like the way "left joins" work in KDB feels more natural than left joins in other SQL databases. https://code.kx.com/q/ref/lj/
Maybe not, but if office rents are really going to be way down, it's possible to give developers private offices again.
> There aren't many people who would pay $5k/m for effectively the same service as they can get for $20/m.

But as you said, you completely made up that number. You could just as easily have made up the number $20.01.
Or if you can convince around 3 businesses that you're their go-to person for all tech needs, you're there.

You decide what's easier -- acquiring 170 customers or 3.
One other reason I've discovered, is regulatory. The amount of mandatory "features" required nowadays by government regulation is incredible, and the only economical way to meet many of those is with software implementations. The big automakers certainly aren't complaining because it justifies higher price tags and has a major stifling effect on upstarts and other competition, and they've got the machinery (literal and figurative) to navigate the requirements. Hell they write a lot of them.
the San Francisco standing committee failed to retain respect for its sovereignty and territorial unity
You can certainly argue that Apple isn't good at cloud or infra in the same way Google and Amazon are (which would still be a weird argument), but it seems undeniable that cloud and cloud infra is a fundamental part of their product offering. Things like universal sync, iCloud, email, etc are important parts of the value prop for Apple devices.
honestly the only way to get most of the other ones is to go "okay if I get a MIDI controller with a free copy of the entry level version, then I can bump that up to the REAL entry level version for cheap, and then when they release the next version I can bump that up to the intermediate version during a sale, and then a year later I can probably get the REAL version as a black Friday upgrade."

Yay!
I disagree, I like a lot of that music that you don't like.

Gosh, that was easy to refute. ; )

Not necessarily trying to be flip, just underlining that it's not reasonable to talk about matters of taste in the way that you are.
What do you mean how? You will not die from climate change that's how. There is no data that accurately predicts an end to the human race due to climate change. It's an issue that deserves attention, but the likelihood that'll it wipe you out or anyone in the near future is pure bullshit.

Things are improving, humans will adapt etc.

You were far more likely to die from a number of natural things before modern inventions (yes the ones that are now causing climate change) helped keep you well fed, warm, etc.
I see the developer toolbars as part of the browser as a whole, whether or not most users are aware of them.
Frankly even that 1% will start to feel squeezed out by AI. Why hire a famous DM to write the next D&D campaign book(s) if you can get AI to do it? That's one more income stream lost, plus the opportunity for that writer to make money signing books and the like. Why wait for John Scalzi to produce another sf book when he already has many books out and you can train a chatgpt to make more of his style? Brandon Sanderson? Any number of beloved authors. Then, how will they build hype about their work, competing with themselves?

How will authors survive if ghost writing as an industry collapses into chatgpt? And also writing for IP? And also copyediting? And also... and also...

Writers aren't exactly a hoity toity class of people broadly. They usually make money through multiple streams of freelancing as well as sales, both of IP/ghostwriting and works under their name originally. This is especially because book advances are often so small an author cannot possibly live on them and don't get royalties until the advances finishes paying out, a process that can take over a year. Any slice chatgpt can take up is a slice removed from that revenue for authors.
I frequently find myself picking up my phone in motion because their dial knob is utterly useless with navigating the music app and maps often as well.
In terms of offloading costs, the surrounding neighbourhoods are arguably offloading the cost of their free/cheap street parking on to people moving to the city.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/6lvwh4/im_an_ar... is a fantastic thread discussing just how expensive it is to add parking to condos, and how it results in fewer homes getting built.
I have heard rumors that the figures are often exaggerated, far in excess of what they really are... It was a long time ago, trying to find a source for this....

I wouldn't be surprised to hear that the bulk of the CSAM material is (supposedly consensual) sexting between teenagers.

By the way I am scared to search Google for statistics on child pornography. Once I got a warning message from Google for a perfectly legal and reasonable search term regarding incidence rates of Japanese cartoon pornography.

It absolutely chilled me to the bone when I saw that pop up, knowing well that my IP address was likely logged. My God, Orwell's 1984 nightmare, complete with thought crimes, but 39 years later. Welcome to the Police State. It's no longer fiction, but for real this time.
If you’re not being strongly compelled from within by an idea, then I wouldn’t pursue it. I don’t think it has to be weird necessarily.

I’ve been working on a side project and there are so many little problems that creep up that it really feels like you’re running an ultramarathon or climbing Everest.

If you don’t have that very strong and deep calling from within I don’t think many will make it through that, and so you’ll just end up burning a lot of mental/physical/emotional energy on something that doesn’t pan out.
Exactly; the tech companies in SF didn't have the backbone to require RTO like the finance firms in NYC did.

The cities' respective recoveries show that the finance firms made the right call.
From a user perspective, Apple had a rough time with "cloud" for a long time (iTools, .Mac, MobileMe) and the recent era of iCloud feels like they've finally gotten their cloud services in a good direction. It does what I need it to.
Evolving Django-multitenant to build scalable SaaS apps on Postgres
How does data removal from GPT *work
OpenAI has a form where you can request that your data is “removed” from their models https://share.hsforms.com/1UPy6xqxZSEqTrGDh4ywo_g4sk30 , but how does that actually work? How does one untrain a model? Are they planning to just retrain the entire model without your data? My understanding of LLMs is mostly theoretical so maybe I’m missing something here but my understanding is that once a model is trained you can’t exactly untrain it. It’s not like you can just move the weights a gradient step in the opposite direction or something. Idk what OpenAI plans to do with data removal requests and how effective it will actually be.
It is understandable that you need to iterate quickly, but that should not be an excuse to not spend just 5 minutes to think through the potential scenarios.
Also, you can have a function to query an end point to find latest version available as a string, compare that to a const string inside the build, if they are different then invoke the auto-updater. Simple and light weight.
Am I the only person who hates the idea of "alignment"?
Substack has actually good writers who post content regularly. Lots of people from the blogsphere migrated there.
This problem is not at all unique to SF. According to Cushman & Wakefield, Austin has 23% vacant offices, Manhattan has 23%, Brooklyn 24%, and SF has 25%, same as Minneapolis and Chicago, while Houston has 26% vacant.

https://www.cushmanwakefield.com/en/united-states/insights/u...
Agreed, but for the people with broken pancreases I bet they're thankful for the safety net.
Black Hole Sun? There was a camera that "suffered" this problem, but can't remember the model to look it up.
The majority of people with T2D who are also overweight would be asymptomatic if they lost weight. So there’s a free treatment available to a large subset of these people.
Yeah, but you didn't know that when you wrote that comment.
This is a great argument for making street parking more expensive - it really should cost more than the garage, since it's the most conveniently placed. A parking benefit district can capture that revenue to improve the area.
Down 22.7% in Work Trips to its metro area compared to SF's 32%. It's possible that it's less dependent on the foot traffic, though.
After just moving from a 2009 to a 2023 vehicle (both Ford), I agree. I’m overall happy
with the tech improvements, despite the occasional bond-headed software implementation.

I say this as someone who used to be a “stick-driving don’t put a computer if it’s not required” card carrying member. Maybe I’m just getting soft.
Hetzner dedicated servers alternative in US
At present we are using Hetzner AX101/AX102 dedicated servers. They are of great value for money. What provider would you recommend in the US? I understand it may not be as good value for money as Hetzner but hopefully as reliable and performant.
I've learned that I prefer mini-metro areas with population on the order of 250k people... you get most of the upsides of a city without many of the downsides, while also retaining advantages of smaller areas like more green spaces and lower cost of living.
Resume worked fine on VHS.
Ah yes, the famous centrally planned economy of San Francisco, California, USA.
thats an insult to socialists, China’s top income tax rate is far below California’s combined max income tax rate.
Maybe. Some studies have shown people in sunnier areas have less risk of certain types of cancer.
May dhcp client/servers are using raw sockets and will thus bypass incorrect firewall config/martian packet filtering.
The point the parent comment was attempting to make was that there is a perception, perhaps true (or not), that left-wing policies are driving out conservative or moderate voters.

COL is high and political stunts like this do little to remedy the issues faced by the average person in CA.
You can now buy physical products in games and apps with Amazon Anywhere
The problem everyone seems to miss is that SF is one of the few places that had a recession due to COVID (not necessarily a GDP recessions, but definitely a weak businesses closed en masse recession) and a lot of other places (illogically) boomed during COVID.

Given recent history (Phoenix MSA’s 2011 GDP was lower than 2007 GDP, whereas SF never went below 2007 levels), it’s not unreasonable to think that other cities are simply in artificial bubbles from the $3tn that was given to consumers over the past 3 years.
The part where they're not available on mobile? Incredibly so.

The fact that there's no AU on Windows? Less so.
In the quest to placate shareholders, one of the failing FAANGs will make a panicked announcement they have partnered with Boston Dynamics, to ensure AI is democratized and equitable for all (technically true when we're all on the run).
Palantir Sees Record Demand for Its New AI Tool
What makes you think it'll make that turn?

Unless Medium is printing money from their terrible UX, I cant imagine a company would want to replicate it.
San Diego perhaps?
> You might think that the best conversationalists wait patiently for their partners to finish talking before they start concocting a response in their head. It turns out that we like people the best when they respond to us the fastest––so fast (mere milliseconds!) that they must be formulating their reply long before we finish our turn. Abundant affordances allow for this rapid-fire rapport, each utterance offering an obvious opportunity to respond.

I agree with the general thrust of the essay. But, I'm not sure how this part — especially the last sentence — works in practice: yes, abundant affordances provide many opportunities to respond, but if you stop listening before the other person finishes, in order to formulate your response, you miss most of what they said. That seems like a transactional way of communicating. You'll have something to say on your 'turn', but you won't actually be discussing much. Careful listening and actual curiosity about the other person are the keys to conversation, in my experience.
This type of comment does not belong on hn. Take your frustrations elsewhere or discuss your point.
5 Injured by lithium-ion battery fire in San Francisco high-rise
the "mystery" is part of it

it creates a curiosity, which has a softkind of drawing gravitational pull. I know I'm vulnerable to this.

The mystery drives motivation, hence the connection to energy (the capacity to do work). the curiosity propels my own motivation (willingness to spend my energy) to investigate these things, and others like it.

edit: I am sorry that what I have had to think to make my own sense of this complex reality upsets some people.
Yes, I should have clarified the more general "tinder-style" or "gamification-style" app!
The politicians benefit, and run on a platform of deflection. "Just imagine how much worse it would be if the government helped you."
I wanted to go iPad only for live music for a while, but found the supporting hardware to be lacking. (This was like five years ago.)

I spent money on a dock that would allow me two audio inputs (microphone and guitar for example) and a USB jack for plugging in an external MIDI keyboard. The experience was somewhat janky and unreliable. I wonder if that has changed.
> "This work is part of the third pillar of our approach to alignment research: we want to automate the alignment research work itself."

I feel like this isn't a Yud-approved approach to AI alignment.
Living in big cities within "red" states is not like living in the state itself outside the city, other than you are all affected by the same state laws (unless the latter is the main concern).

Atlanta GA, Austin TX, etc. are all "blue in a sea of red" as they say. Lived in the former myself for many years. Yes you're affected by state laws, but most of the folks in large cities are going to be less like the stereotype associated with the state.
Using the chest freezer as the tub is ideal because it's already insulated. It takes a couple days to get the water temperature down from room temperature to ice bath levels. But once it's cold, it stays cold. In my setup, the freezer only kicks in once or twice a day to keep the temperature at 45 degrees F.
And I feel like cars should never crash and there should be no wars famines or tsunamis.

We live in the real world, plan accordingly. Your feelings about it don't matter.
If you remove "random", that's a pretty fair representation of any law, lol.
Amusingly, there were two different ways of running Java in the browser when it came out in the late 90s. One was Applet style where Java takes over a part of the canvas of the page and has to implement everything, like Flash or ActiveX. The other was headless and you had access to the DOM. Why no one built interesting applications with the latter is beyond me.

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/deployment/applet/ma...

Now we are doing it all over again with WASM when it already existed and just wasn't used.
I was used to this too and got pulled over in Utah and ticketed because Utah can’t do that, my insurance card is in an app not saved to my phone, and we were in a desert with no signal.

That Utah cop was a jerk. Now I have a pdf on my phone’s drive and a print out in the glovebox.
Novavax to Cut 25% of Global Workforce
Plant-based D3 exists, extracted from seaweed.
Are you planning on owning commercial real estate? If not, why does this one particular metric matter?

NYC is booming in all senses of the word that apply to the daily experience of your typical person living here. The streets are PACKED with people out and about having a good time at all hours of day and night, and rents are at record highs because so many people want to live here. So what if not everyone is commuting into the office 5 days a week anymore? Don't buy an office building and you'll be good.
Just a side comment to the article, it's great to see so many substacks referenced on HN. It reminds me of the geocities of the 90s, people free to post into the world as they please. Hopefully the substack pricing model doesn't change to affect the input.
A quick Google turned up two candidates:

https://meetfamilies.com

https://www.matchfamilies.com
>Isn't most content like this though?

No.

Next?

> there are a handful of people creating truly new

A handful that you bothered to find out about.

>99% of everything is garbage

Only if you are choosing to consume it.

>the fight now seems to be who will produce the garbage.

No. The fight is about people accepting the garbage, like the AI-produced articles, AI-autocompleted sentences in their emails, AI-autocompleted code.

Which is the point of the article we are discussing.
Tangential, but how is retail ft² doing? There was a report in 2018 that the US had 23.5ft² of retail space per person, followed by Canada at 16.8ft² and Australia at 11.2ft². Every other country polled had 4.5ft² or less. When covid hit, people used this report to claim that the US would see a retail collapse. Did any of this come to pass? All my searches just come up with alarmist articles from 2019-2020.
'Rip and Replace': The Tech Cold War Is Upending Wireless Carriers
Once again, Facebook tries to have their cake and eat it too. This model is not open source, despite the claim.

https://github.com/facebookresearch/ImageBind/blob/main/LICE...

The source is available to view and use under a non-commercial license. It's extremely frustrating that major AI players are trying to shoehorn a redefinition of a term that's well-understood, just to further their reputation.
I was hoping this was somebody with network equipment in NASA, seeing actual DSN traffic over their network...
Patent for attention-based sequence transduction neural networks (2019)
Or when Apple decides to completely cancel the product across all devices?

I know Apple is growing towards being a service provider, but they have a long history of dropping support for older soft- and hardware.

Staying at an older OS or old hardware or running unsupported software isn’t ideal, but with a SaaS offering, the provider can cut access overnight.
"The _only_ measure of your output is the results you deliver and the time it takes"

That may be true at junior levels, but as you become more senior your output is judged on a whole bunch of other things:

- Do you elevate the rest of your team? Through mentoring, teaching, documentation etc.

- Do you participate productively in higher level strategic planning? Helping the company decide what to build next for example - senior engineers should participate in planning, in order to help the company understand how features can best be built, when to pay down technical debt etc.

- Do other people look forward to working with you, or do they avoid it? This can have a major impact on your ability to deliver value.

Plenty more things like that.
Those numbers are almost a year old; NYC is expecting a significant rise in tourists[1] and for business travel numbers to return to pre-pandemic levels[2].

To my annoyance, rent has continued to rise as well.

[1]: https://www.thrillist.com/news/new-york/nyc-expects-61-milli...

[2]: https://www.cityguideny.com/article/summer-tourism-data-nyc-...
I can only speak for myself but I would never work non-remote again, even if I had my own private office.
For live performances you can do a lot of this stuff with AUM. It’s awesome for chaining plug-ins in novel ways. Has midi support as well. It’s the main way I use plugins on iPad.
Looks like cpython does the same thing if for small n.

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/a9c6e0618f26270e2591b...