skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aye captain, I can see that.

My premise is that watches failed (even though they sell millions of units) as the bar for success is higher for Apple, and they left a lot on the table by just putting a mini phone on your wrist.

So I think screens on wrists is a dumb use of compute. Then I went in a roundabout way to say, a dumb use of calories / sugar is Coke. Sugar and Compute have better uses, so their lost potential is taking issue with how their creators made the goods to be consumed.

The watch is the coke of computing - completely unnecessary for 9/10ths of the use cases and leads to bad habits. Just as a beverage can be crafted to be like Athletic Greens, so could the watch be crafted to use the wrist compute context better.

To provide some example, watch should have gone screenless and used haptics to communicate with us in new ways; and explain when it was important to move to a screen context (which is technically all it does now too) - with this view, it becomes one strata closer to excellence.
I'm like 90% sure Stripe started on MongoDB (may still be using Mongo?). That might have something to do with it.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/17/23727750/montana-bans-tel...
I love them. I often just swipe through memories in pictures, and it takes me back to the moment with the audio and quick movement before the shot was taken.
Goldsmith got implicit permission from Prince, so she's in the clear.

Warhol didn't get permission from Goldsmith. Were Prince still alive, though, he might have made himself a plaintiff in this case -- we're talking about the man who had his lawyers send Weird Al Yankovic a threatening letter forbidding him from even looking at him.
Unfortunately, in the U.S. this is not true.
The political issue I've seen is that the people who are even part of the conversation about reducing car use, tend to be somewhat over-the-top about it. Most people are just apathetic about it, or consider bike traffic to be an annoying indulgence.
This is the problem with induction.

If you're asking the wrong questions, the answers are going to be pointless no matter how much time or money is invested.

The problem for Meta is all of the questions asked were never congruent with reality and organizationally there's no incentive to work on coherent ideas because of politics. These layoffs are not a surprise to any realist.
Thanks! I’ll try and swing by Tuesday.
I believe most of the source was available but maybe some stuff was missing. Same with the N900 which was also nearly unusable. I frankly liked the Blackberry style Nokias better (E63 etc.) and source for those would have been great.
Zig is plenty fast for a compiled language with optimizations. The Go compiler has no debug/release profiles and the generated machine code isn’t as optimized as say a language using llvm. If you compare it to C++ or Rust, Zig actually has better compile times, and it keeps improving.
Why isn't there an app that pays me to upload five seconds of audio from whatever bar I'm sitting at?
Again, even taking your opinion regarding "there is no such thing as too much power, or too much wealth" 100% at face value (which I also happen to pretty much agree with): The richest segments of global society have grown much richer and more powerful for nearly half a century. If your goal is to grow your wealth and power pretty much at all costs, again, the "current world order" is working great for the elites - why would they risk f'ing that up?
While not a source I would wager that the LEDs are already driven close to the bandgap (for efficiency's sake) and meaningfully lower voltages would cease to produce any light output - necessitating PWM to control brightness.

I could plausibly see some color shift at close to bandgap voltage if there isn't a perfect uniformity in bandgap across a diode, inconsistent or even just gaussian distributed doping would result in some holes being preferentially excited if there isn't a sufficient surplus V?
"But despite my best intentions I have not mastered it - in fact I barely feel like I understand it. When I remember to update it a couple times a week everything is pretty smooth. Go much longer than that and all bets are off. ... I just don't have the discipline to keep up."

You are so close to enlightenment! When you can repair a broken Gentoo box (which is its default state), whilst still providing service, you are a man my son (pronoun assumption - soz!)

I do run Arch on all my personal stuff these days (DebIan n Ubuntu at work and others as required) but Gentoo was my first real love and it taught me to never fear a completely broken Linux box. Provided the broken bit is not screwed hardware then Gentoo can survive nearly anything.

I have a box - a VM running on esxi in my attic that got a bit behind. By bit, I mean 2013ish - I've just checked out /etc/kernels to get an idea. You can use git to make /usr/portage go back in time and then gradually update your box to now. It's not something that I recommend for the impatient but you can do it. The worst bit was dealing with things like Let's Encrypt CA changes and finding old packages. I often had to download them manually and slap them in the right place.

You complain about compilation times but back in the day I had a laptop that I left running on a glass table for over a week (worried about heat) cranking through what would eventually become @world. From memory, it was for the GCC 3 -> 4 upgrade and the advice at the time was compile everything until your eyes bleed and then do it again. Nowadays an ABI change is handled rather better and with better advice.

The Gentoo wiki is a very decent repository of info (I wrote some of it, and probably ought to revisit and update my offerings).

The contrast with other approaches to software is striking when it comes to docs n that. I've recently "solved" an MS Outlook MAPI to Exchange snag that might have been easier to diagnose if I had access to the source or logs that weren't solely designed for people with access to source code.

Do stick with it and do ask for help. You are very close ...
The YouTube channel Not Just Bikes has a 4 minute video on grocery shopping in Amsterdam, compared to when he lived in London, Ontario:

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

(In response to now flagged comment below about grocery shopping 'requiring' moving big stuff)
Pretty sure there have been changes in the technology to record (and more accurately) more events.

Given that classification is therefore perhaps not consistent, lets see the numbers of big tornados... https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/an-historical-look-at-f5-e...
> companies are not immune to "fake it until you make it" and many pour billions into status-buildings that are perhaps not technically necessary.

Cities too. My city government offices are located on some of the best real-estate in the city and in elegantly refurbished turn of the century buildings.

Government offices should be pre-fab cheap as possible in brownfields or on other low-value land. High value land should be used for at minimum something that will generate property tax revenue.
"pregnant people"

It's hard to get past how much identity politics has infected what should be normal reporting. And if you know something has had a political advisor read over it, Soviet style, how can you belive anything else in it.
I would highly agree with this. I always wanted something slightly better than Preview, but not Photoshop (and all that encumbrance). Pixelmator is pretty amazing for quick edits and adjustments.
It would be a contest with cats, whom we scoop up poop for.
I actually think there are no major issues apart from the enormous costs. But costs don't always get outweighed by higher performance. The reason why OLED-Displays were (and are) so successful wasn't just that they had better contrast than LCDs, it was also that they were not massively more expensive.

Compare that to Intel's Optane, the elusive PCM memory technology which finally arrived to take out NAND Flash. Sure, it was faster than Flash, but it was also massively more expensive. It wasn't worth it for most people. So Intel recently discontinued it.

The same could happen for Micro LEDs. It isn't clear whether their quality advantage over OLED is worth a much higher price. Their main advantage over OLEDs (higher max brightness) doesn't seem too relevant anyway.
I have fiber, 1Gb, in Uk, and wouldnt trade it for anything else.
mIRC has its own language, "mrc", not tcl. But yeah, those were fun times with the eggdrop botnets!

Eggdrop could be so stable.. pretty much industrial grade.
https://fortran-lang.org/en/learn/quickstart/
I don't think it's grey at all, what other productive effort do people only do on the grounds that it will enrich their heirs? Maybe that's what it takes to encourage knocking off a king, if that's something you want to encourage, but I can hardly think of anything else.

Still that cuts in both directions, in that you could use it to argue that other properties don't necessarily need to be heritable.

Either way it's pretty clear the "limited times" they were imagining were a portion of a lifespan, not multiple lifespans. It's pretty ridiculous that as the world moves faster these durations are increasing rather than decreasing.
No, but instead means that GPT can't be smarter than the people who are writing the published content on the web (generally, the very smartest humans if you're considering high quality published works alone).

If you could do a perfect job of training a GPT on the entirety of published academic literature, the total of what that GPT could spit out would be limited by the knowledge contained in academic literature. At the same time, you'd have created a tool that is cheap and does a good job of synthesizing knowledge/answering questions across all disciplines. The model will never replace the scientists who are working at the very bounds of their fields, but it doesn't have to in order to be extremely useful, even useful enough to replace a majority of knowledge workers.

Just because GPTs can't be smarter than the smartest humans doesn't mean they can't be smarter than most humans.
Freedom? Cars as freedom is such a misconception. They are highly regulated. They take up so much space that they are difficult to store and require subsidized storage everywhere one goes. They create massive amounts of pollution both in particulates and noise, causing health problems to those that have to live near them. Cities are not noisy--cars are noisy. They certainly have their use but the negative externalities are exceptional and are not paid for by the users of the cars.
I lived in London. You have streets everywhere exactly for that odd moment when any of those services need access.
This is the big distinction. The "transformation" of the soup can is just one of the four factors in the fair use analysis, and I might argue one that weighs against Warhol compared to Campbell's own marketing material.
> By pointing to the current system they are addressing the possibility that there could be a better system.

I think a big problem with the current system, is that (on the whole) it adopts fundamentally the same rules for completely different categories of things – such as novels and computer software.

The term of "life of author plus 70 years" was justified with reference to authors of literature, music, etc. Whether or not it is justified in that context, that was the context used to justify it. It is very questionable whether it makes sense when applied to software.

A good place to start might be with changing the rules just for software. I'd say a reasonable copyright term for software should be a small number of decades (10 or 20 or 30). Source code escrow should be mandatory, with the escrowed source code being automatically released to the public upon copyright expiration. Publication of the source code should be allowed as an alternative to escrow, so open source projects aren't burdened with it.

> No abolishing it has a better chance of killing it going forward

Radical proposals rarely succeed. Proposals for incremental reforms face an uphill battle against powerful vested interests, but the odds against radical proposals are a lot higher.
I am always more than happy to see Permacomputing mentioned. I really think it is a wave of the future that will not be fully realized for another decade or so. Similar to Solar punk, it is still trying to find its feet and a lot of the most optimistic propositions will look silly in retrospect but the potential is there.

It also kind of drives me up the wall when you see what was being done on computers in the 80's and 90's on sub 100Mhz processors and realizing just how much efficiency has been lost in the name of ease. Excel shouldn't need to use all 12 threads of my CPU and visibly take time to sort less than a 1MB of data but here we are.

I have been working on an essay regarding Permacomputing for the last few weeks and it can be kind of difficult to summarize at times. The closest I can get is that it is part retrospective about want worked in the past but with the direct goal of implementing the goals long term sustainable systems that do not require large external inputs.
Billionaires and vacant apartments cause issues, but they at least pay taxes. An office building with no tenants will face plummeting property values and a corresponding dive in tax bills.

* Note: residential property taxation in NYC is in dire need of reform but the point still stands
I would think that’s the coolest thing ever. I’m also not spending $4000 on it.
What I don't understand is that you can keep the car-centric cities we have and still improve some zones. You could create pedestrian streets, for example. And you could allow shops and commerces to open fronts on more than just a few blocks in a commercial street. Yet US cities refuse to do both. Here in SF we got slow streets, which nobody asked, and basically did not change anything about the topology of the streets. Not a single pedestrian street was created during covid, and restaurants had to fight to turn parking space in parklet. Parklets are being removed everywhere now.
> though it might be good for apple's bottom line, I don't think it's better for customers

The M1 MacBook Pro is the best laptop I’ve ever used.
per year. e.g. 1000 sq ft office at $72 sqft = $72,000 / year or $6000/month.

It's no chump change, but most Manhattan 1000 sq ft apartment with 2 bedroom will cost more than that, especially with common charge.
Literally exactly the same place I was. I needed more that just resizing and minor/basic edits in Preview but I couldn't stomach $21+/mo for something I used 1-2 times a week at most and sometimes go months without using.
Never used Arch, but I'd be surprised if Arch doesn't support it. How any modern distribution can survive without some semblance of slotting befuddles me.
Hell no. His paintings were fantastic free marketing. Reportedly, they did consider it, but didn't go forward with it.
Not available in Taiwan... why?
I recall using Prodigy on an IBM PS/2 and playing games online as well as on an Apple IIgs. AOL and MUDs/MOOs/Gopher/Freenet came a bit later. I made games in QBASIC typing them out of library books (I fiddled a little with Borland Turbo C++ but that was a bit over my head at this point) and later made my first webpage on Geocities to celebrate Steve Jobs’ return to Apple and Amelio’s resignation at a summer computer camp (where I played with HyperCard a bit) by which time I had a PowerBook at home. The most we really did at the school gifted program was the Apple II software HRW published for Voyage of the Mimi (which I got in trouble for swiping to take home because I was addicted). LOGO was a bit before my time (my school had just phased it out ca. 1992)
The Founder – Disrupt the World
It’s the animated photos from Harry Potter.

It’s a fun gimmick especially with kids as 2 seconds goes from not seeing you to noticing and lighting up with a smile.
The reason these people are homeless a lot of the times is because they lack housing. Drug usage and crime are a side-effect of this [1].

Denser housing -> Better (frequent, reliable) public transport -> more people use it -> More people want to live in denser housing -> More denser housing is developed -> less homeless.

This is the formula for how Manhattan, brooklyn, and queens were developed by real estate companies. Builders wanted to be near public transport because they knew they could build large apartment buildings and get a bunch of money in rent because a bunch of people wanted to live near public transport so they could get places quickly and reliably.

[1]: Also if we legalized all drugs people wouldn't be forced to turn to criminal organizations. We already do this with alcohol.
Why is HTTP/2 corporate?

Why use HTTP if interoperability with browsers isn't a concern?
> There's no indication it was ever planned to compete with Search or that they had a clear plan for it before OpenAI walked that path.

Google Voice Search cannibalized search since forever, without being monetizable. Google realized the importance of ML/AI early, and has had a coherent AI strategy that predates most AI companies - I would argue Google's strategy precipitated the existence of those companies by performing and publishing foundational research in the field.

Pixel phones are a masterclass of applied ML in a very humane way one might expect from Apple- e.g. call screening with realtime transcription.
> Your job isn’t dictating your relationships - it’s giving you an opportunity at making some.

This is abuser level rewording. Are you a manager?

Seriously though, if 'work is giving you opportunities to make relationships' to the point where it's a significant downside to get rid of it in some capacity, then we should consider that we're in a live-to-work system, which is dystopic.
The shift to trains/bikes is harder, but the shift to buses is not as bad from what I've seen, because it re-uses car infrastructure well, and can be improved with minimal construction (often, just signage making a lane bus-only or similar).
Partner went to a top10 MBA program. This was not the takeaway or remotely close to the summary. Very popular meme though.
Magic is a garbage explanation for the function of a system, but the original context was some one expressing dismay at people being impressed and 'the thing resembles magic' is a great explanation for that.
Fair. Any alternatives to distrowatch? Google Trends isn't that great either.
Owning property in a place where all the money is leaving is a poor investment.
> does not move us to protest the obvious failure of ambition.

Speaking of protest...

After the events of the past few years, I think about protest when I think about public transportation infrastructure.

Seeing people chain themselves together across roadways, railways, and entrances to other infrastructure - it honestly made me more supportive of automobiles.

Less susceptible to be corralled by government or interest groups if we all have personal transportation.
Lightroom is optimized in a workflow sense for photographers, and is tightly integrated with its own digital asset management system (the photo “library”).
I have found that GPT-4 can write bash scripts for me pretty well.
This is under the assumption that anything electronic that is created by a country can be remotely bricked by it's creator. This logic doesn't make sense. Everyone would be doing it with everything; cellphones, tanks, tvs, airplanes, microwaves. The list of things you could theoretically brick is endless.
Is it really a signal boost if the only way to know what that ad is for is to have seen it? I certainly don't have a clue what is being sold.
More "if" rather than "when". It's far from obvious whether they will be successful. They just have a higher maximum brightness, and a large cost cut is not guaranteed.
It's easy to make a hole. Making a hole underground without making a hole aboveground is harder.
Eventually I wonder if the TypeScript team will revert their stance on not allowing compiler plugins. It seems like such a waste not to have a standard package interface. All this is doing is exposing the already provided compiler tools, its not using Babel or anything, its just a nicer API over the raw TS compiler API.

Arguably, the TypeScript team should be supplying that nicer API. Its the only thing missing to me from TypeScript that it really needs.
>There are plenty of secular arguments for flat earth. It's not about the number of arguments, but about their validity. There are no secular arguments that don't depend on logical fallacies or invalid assumptions.

This is a false equivalency. Flat earth is a matter of facts, not ethics. Further, you are taking the least charitable interpretation of my words. Of course I meant that there are plenty of _valid_ secular arguments.

>And similarly when talking about forcing someone to donate their blood, or part of liver for transplant we'd need to balance the rights of the forced donor and the rights of the prospective transplant receiver, right?

Yes, this is a common counter-argument. I first encountered this in A Defense of Abortion in the form of the "unconscious violinist". A more whimsical version can be found in Rick and Morty's second Interdimensional Cable. A common counter-counter-argument is that this situation differs from abortion in that the mother bears partial responsibility for the creation of the fetus, and thus owes it more than she would owe another random person. This is one of the reasons people get more outraged about restriction of abortion rights in cases of rape, as the mother had no volition and thus (by this logic) owes her fetus nothing more than she would owe a stranger.

Regardless, you may find that the right of the mother to bodily autonomy outweighs the right of the fetus to life, but not everyone will weigh the situation the same. We often agree as a society that one must help others if the cost to oneself is considerably lower than the value provided to others. For example, you are obligated (in an ethical sense) to provide water to a man dying of thirst as long as you have plenty. Or perhaps (more controversially), you are obligated to jump into a cold swimming pool to save a drowning child (if you can swim). Some argue that the temporary albeit serious inconvenience to the mother outweighs the life-long value to the unborn child in a similar manner.

>It's not only not one of the challenging ones, it's not a serious question at all. Modern ethics is pretty clear on reproductive rights.

The funny thing is that each side seems to think this, and that the other side is insane, naive, or misguided for disagreeing. FWIW, I am personally pro-choice, but I also think that if you cannot understand the other side's arguments, that is a weakness of your own mental model, not a sign that they are crazy or bad arguments.

I'm happy to talk more about this, as I think it is a genuinely interesting and challenging issue that remains unresolved, unlike many things that our society argues about. Another interesting unresolved issue is the ethics of punishment - I have come to believe that government punishment is generally unethical, but that's another post.
You pick where you live but it's not a matter of having a free choice. You can only live so far from where you work or where employment is. There are constraints on your choice. I live in a place I can afford within reasonable commute to my employer as does nearly anyone else.
They’re talking about Vespas not Razors.
Stop Saying C/C++