skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
God I wish iPad OS was a better developer experience. Github's Codespaces feature is awesome, but as a front-end dev there is no way I could use iPad/iOS to build a website. There is no dev tools. The OS keeps trying to suspend apps/tabs in the background when I switch between them. I use the Vim extension in the VS Code remote editor but certain key combos on iOS straight up didn't register. Maybe I'm asking for too much.
Mr. Perlis died in 1990 unfortunately [1] [2], could just as well been in the prehistoric times. Of course, LLMs will not be able to give alone such a programming language, call it JUST, just say what you wish, but 5 or 6 more quantum leaps at the same level as the transformer architecture? I just can't see how it doesn't go that way.

AlexNet [3] was just 10 years, 9 months and 17 days ago, September 2012. The same time from now it would be the year 2034, February. Can anyone really dare to say we won't have the JUST language by 2034? I'll raise you even one further: in 30-40, hopefully 20, years we will have a JUST anatomical compiler and we will say programatically to the cells of various bodies: just build an eye here [4].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Perlis

[2] The lolliquote is from 1982, Epigrams on Programming, epigram 93, http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlexNet some prior work was 2011, Dan C. Cireșan et al., "High-Performance Neural Networks for Visual Object Classification", also quoted in the AlexNet paper. Both papers relied on "Convolutional Neural Networks designs introduced by Yann LeCun et al. (1989)". Curious if Mr. Perlis knew about Mr. LeCun's work. Here is Jürgen Schmidhuber giving a talk about the paper in October 2011, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkCNbi26Hds The 10-year-old YouTube comment "I was still under the impression neural networks were rarely used any longer." is particularly funny.

[4] "The Collective Intelligence of Cells During Morphogenesis with Dr. Michael Levin", https://youtu.be/p4Fm7jLNrpg?t=3898 from 1:04:58 to 1:07:30, but the entire presentation is showing the future that is to come, in biology, in programming, in bio-programming.
Places where you can walk everywhere are expensive because demand for them is higher than supply. The argument of anti-car people is that we should stop artificially limiting supply of mid-density housing by allowing NIMBYs to block development of it.
You're right, but it's still weird.

It's asking the outside people to shoulder the responsibility of avoiding the killer machine. I'd rather have quiet cars and much harsher crackdowns on drivers that use them in ways that jeopardy the lives of others. There are many things drivers can do to reduce the hazard, such as slowing down, buying smaller vehicles, using cars that don't isolate outside noise, only driving when in good mental condition, etc.

It's crazy to me that we allow cars that isolate their cockpit more and more from their surroundings (quiet, small windows, high up from the ground) and instead ask the surroundings to avoid the danger.

I know, ultimately it is each person's own responsibility to avoid death, and it might make sense for the legal system to reflect that. But we don't have these laws with other dangerous things ("it's okay to practise throwing molotov cocktails in public squares, as long as you wear bright clothing so people know to keep their distance"), so cars are sort of an outlier.
you don't go to a mall for regular food shopping. You go once in a while to buy less common items.
If you read the GPT-4 paper, they claim that the base model was well calibrated but the calibration was completely broken by RLHF
> Trucks and buses going over speed bumps, now that's much more annoying road noise (when there's a speed bump on a moderately busy road just outside your bedroom window)

This gives me nightmares about my last apartment. Not even the same situation, but the specific nature of this reminds me that you don't even know what's going to be a bad situation until it happens. I lived next to a road that did not appear to be busy and had a 35 mph speed limit when visiting. That road turned into a major artery for people going to and from work during morning and afternoon rush hour, with most drivers going closer to 45 - 50 mph. My window didn't even face the road, but the constant doppler shift sounds of the cars echoed down the alleyway into my bedroom window. I started to hate that sound.

Pedestrians also crossed that street frequently, and I'd occasionally hear car crashes if I was working from home. It always happened from someone stopping short to avoid killing a pedestrian, and the car behind that car rearending it.

I thought I'd learned my lesson after living directly on a busy street. That was even worse. People would constantly honk in the right lane because the car at the front of that lane would be turning right, but might have to wait for a pedestrian. It was infuriating. They're several cars back in the right lane and can't see what's going on so they have to assume the person at the front of the lane must be asleep at the wheel, so they honk. I wanted to get out there are inflict corporal punishment on anyone who honked.
Meh, I switched that commute time reading (that I really missed) to listening to audiobooks at the gym. So I get the same reading but better health impact.
This is an anecdote, but worth mentioning.

I ride a bike. I don’t ride a loud bike: it’s still within Australian limits for sale, but it has some volume, and a little bit of lower end thump.

Two bikes before that I rode a 250cc four cylinder bike, that did up to 18,000 RPM. It, again, was within Australian limits, although honestly not by much.

In the middle of those two, I rode a 600cc bike that was significantly quieter than either of those.

My riding remained mostly the same, but one of the three I had significantly more people changing lanes while I was quite literally right beside them.

I don’t believe that ridiculous straight through drag pipes on high displacement twin engines are necessary, but being as loud as another car absolutely saves lives.
Every conspiracy contains a simple (but wrong) solution to a complex emotional issue. They’re like a “doctors hate this one trick” for politics and science.
Nope, it’s not the same. I had both. The only thing that still works is moving the cursor, selection is completely broken. Will it move the left side of the selection? The right side? Nobody knows. It seems it depends how much you selected. I don’t even know actually.
This wouldn't be one-for-one; most would be stymied by the higher barrier to entry or would already be using a VPN for other reasons.
> PM2.5 levels in Tokyo yesterday were like 6x WHO limits and absolutely no one on the local news was talking about it.

According to [1], yesterday's peak of PM2.5 (not the 24 hour average) in Tokyo was at 22 µg/m3, whereas according to [2], the WHO's (extremely strict) limit for 24 hour average is set at 15 µg/m3. Where did you get your data from?

[1] https://www.aqi.in/dashboard/Japan/tokyo

[2] https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/ambient-(ou...
> Arabs were open to other ethnicities and didn’t try to arabize them. This is apparent in Persia, Turkic countries, etc.

Lol tell it to the 20th century, bud. They were fine with not executing a cultural genocide only as long as they could hold it over other groups that "we brought you Islam". Once Islamic empire stops being the unifying political force, all of a sudden you get pan-Arabism: Kurds and Imazighen have their languages banned, Jews are thrown out of the country, etc.
> There’s never been any hint that the funds were spent on the wrong items.

How would we ever know, if they can be incorrectly accounted for and no-one cares?

> Indeed, if this were evidence of a crime I think the politician in question would have lead with that, rather than pointing it out as an example of government waste (which is bad but not generally criminal).

Proving intent is a lot harder. If the government is overpaying its contractors... there's probably crime going on there too, but it'll be the nudge-wink kind that's very hard to prove. You funnel an overlarge contract to them, then a few years later after you've gone around the revolving door they funnel an overlarge contract to you. That's a crime, but it doesn't leave any evidence except, well, overly large expenditures in the accounts.
Getting your app on more phones means more access to data. Not sure if that explanation is good-faith, but that’s the explanation. Same reason all sorts of websites try to force their apps on you
I mean they're getting (some of) what they pay for. Europe benefits vastly from international trade being pretty safe, something the US makes a massively outside contribution to. Your underlying premise seems to be that "if the US isn't fully altruistic then no one else is benefitting", which seems to set the US's moral bar through the ceiling, and everyone else's below the floor. I think you need to have a more equal expectation of all sides.
Phones are pure consumption devices. You can't make apps for phones on phones.
I think the first thing that would happen is TikTok starting to develop a good PWA with native feeling which you can easily add to your Home Screen.
When I find a paper I'm interested in I usually follow the cites.

The last time I was interested in a topic (tree segmentation) I used elicit.org * and I found it really nice to find new papers.

* From the FAQ:

If you ask a question, Elicit will show relevant papers and summaries of key information about those papers in an easy-to-use table.
I worked in a downtown area for 3 years and used to walk around there quite a bit.

I think trucks are 10 times louder than cars. I walk by 20 cars idling at a stop light and 20 cars driving in the other direction. The noise doesn't bother me. The car exhaust doesn't bother me either.

I stand next to one diesel truck idling and the noise is really loud and the exhaust makes me cough.

If I could make any changes I would get rid of diesel trucks first.
There are two issues here.

One is that we need to come up with comprehensive solutions for reducing the number of vehicles in use. But that’s a difficult problem where solutions take decades and must be tailored to each scenario.

But what can be addressed now is the engine and exhaust sound levels. Some vehicles are loud because their engines are working hard, but many vehicles are loud because people (boys) want them to be loud. For some reason there is a large percentage of people who equate loud with good or cool.

Some of these unnecessarily loud vehicles are so loud that your home windows will rattle when they drive by. The worst are the Harley style motorcycles, but some crappy two stroke scooters can also be deafeningly loud.

Ironically, there is even an electric car in my village that makes a noise (to improve pedestrian safety), but the noise is so loud that it sounds like a street sweeper vehicle vacuuming the road.

Meanwhile, in this “peaceful” village I live in, there is always someone with some lawn or other machine making loud noise.

Essentially, noise is just another form of pollution that some people assume is unavoidable and just accept while others revel in producing.

Imagine buying aftermarket parts so your car would spew oil around it as you drive. Then imagine being proud because of how much oil your vehicle sprayed. It’s absurd, but it’s the same thing with boys and their loud toys.
Yep, I'd love a podcast app that can remove all the fluff from conversational podcasts and give an abridged version. Like blinkist, but for anything I throw at it.
It's "only on-device" as in the data isn't sent to MS servers (in theory).

According to ms's docs, depending on the sensor implementation, the OS might have access to that data:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/identity-...

> Some fingerprint sensors have the capability to complete matching on the fingerprint sensor module instead of in the OS. These sensors will store biometric data on the fingerprint module instead of in the database file.

So, knowing how most "enterprise" pcs get the cheapest possible implementation, I'd bet that in most cases windows stores the biometric data itself.
Pine64 aims to get their boards (and phones) working on mainline Linux. And their work applies to other boards using the same SoC, so for example the Rockchip RK3399 used in the Pinephone Pro and the Orange Pi 4 both run mainline.
IMO this sounds a bit more like an argument for banning the "vast majority" of VPN apps on the Google/App stores apparently re-routing all traffic to enemies (though I'm skeptical) and less of an argument as to whether or not TikTok should be banned.
It’s been like this for days, it will continue into next week. We had no announcements where I am, none of the news broadcasts I checked (and I checked a few) mentioned it. The Tokyo metro site wouldn’t even load on my phone. Glad you got a heads up.

Don’t really care what Paris is like, tbh. Shit air is shit air. Saying it’s shitter somewhere else isn’t super compelling.

The whole point of my original comment was that people elevate Japanese cities in ways they don’t deserve.
Japanese cities are a lot quieter and cleaner than most much less dense western ones (e.g. London).
It's really noticeable near traffic lights. All that pollution and noise really is accentuated when the cars are accelerating away from the lights.
> PM2.5 levels in Tokyo yesterday were like 6x WHO limits

Is it worse than SA, London or any other megacity of the world?
India could be a good model here. Basically, the likes of Venmo/Zelle have replaced everything. They are not allowed to charge a transaction fee (I’m pretty sure…and if they are, it’s set very low), and they are required to work across platforms (so a Venmo user should be able to pay a Zelle user directly without having to download Zelle).
This has been going on for years now; I don't understand why can't the supply be ramped up to match demand. Is this the chip shortage thing again?
> It really is not "incredibly expensive" to deal with cash.

Yes, it is. Cash counters cost money to buy and operate. Storage and security has a cost, and even if it is not "expensive" in isolation, storing and securing cash doesn't happen in a vacuum. You really can't set prices to avoid running out of certain coins, because people buy different mixes of items that may or may not be taxable. And you are obliged to take your money to a bank if you want to pay your suppliers and employees, who all expect a check, direct deposit, or ACH.
> diesel buses

Ah, we love the electric ones here in sweden!

Of course they have to stop ~20 minutes to recharge instead of just turning back.

And of course when it's cold (which surprisingly does happen in sweden) the batteries can't hold enough charge to do 1 run, so they can't run.
You are just one sentence away from saying "human quality of life doesn't matter, we must think of the economy".

Shortness of breath is something doctors report as a more and more common symptom of city dwellers.

Not reported on the news because nobody -- apparently you included -- cares, but I've been to doctors lately, and they complained that the lung and heart doctors are overbooked lately while the others have a normal load.
I can understand it. Where would a want for work come from? Either the prospect of increased prosperity (which is becoming ever more difficult to achieve unless you start out prosperous through inheritance, or are able to make it in one of the few high-paying industries), or the prospect of a job that is meaningful (which is becoming ever more difficult in a world of gigworking, AI starting to remove creative elements of labor, unchecked bureaucracy both in governments and just as much inside corporations, and so on and so forth).

If I were to find themselves in a situation where the salary can just about make ends meet and there is no realistic prospect for them to move into a high-impact or high-paying line of work, then I would not be overly enthusiastic about doing anything above the necessary minimum at work, either.
Well, in a free market there’s no ban. Is the reason for the ban “dur dur China?”, or performative political theater?

Montanas politics are such that they you can’t find an OB to deliver a baby anymore, so any “free market” competitor needs to consider what random event will put them out of business.
You can get way higher audio quality at half the price with the Truthear Hexas. There are a ton of good wired IEMd that are cheaper than Airpod Pros and knock them out of the park
Wouldn't the ban apply to all types of access? So at the end, this prevents the update-problem, but they still need to use a VPN.
Air quality also wildly varies between streets, so it's hard to compare blindly across cities. Walking for just a minute down a side street can massively improve air quality compared to the main street.
That, and I've noticed that most diesel exhaust smell seems to come from a small number of vehicles: old VW TDIs, illegally modified taxis, and old buses.
American payment systems are shockingly outdated and have been so for decades.
Why would I ever go to mall? It is an awful experience. At most, when it would be too cumbersome to bring on public transport, I rent a car.
I'm in a small village and use the car exactly once a week for driving groceries around, otherwise the important local points are perfectly reachable by jumping in the bus. Also I'll drive once a month for some longer trip: bigger shopping, or leisure, or even job related. For these I can't use (bulk items) or don't need (too many switches) public transportation. For those about to get to Hamburg I think the next step (also applicable here in Switzerland) could be syncing a bit better between highway exits and parkings and public transportation between these and the city center - currently usable but definitely not ideal.
I think you answered your own question. Electron doesn't support iOS as a build target due to imposed sdk restrictions. So it's not a hardware issue but a platform limitation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_(software_framework...
Paris in the summer is a delight, fewer cars make such a difference
Is it a free market if such a ban exists in the first place?
Smart material prototype challenges Newton’s laws of motion
So you have 6 use-cases you think all have strong defenses, and yet when challenged decline to pick any use case to describe what the benefit would be?

Meaning you actually have no argument, got it.
I'm sure other phone companies have plenty of highly creative people who could out-do the iPhone if management decided to make it happen. Do you think Microsoft just spontaneously developed the people who worked on the Surface once Microsoft decided to show OEMs how it was done? Even the manager behind it was already there in 2004.

Lack of environmental enrichment is not what gets in the way of innovation.
It's also their job to protect the citizen from future governments by not giving themselves too much control.
Fines only hurt working people. The homeless just ignore them.
The solution is obvious -- look both ways before crossing. Don't depend on sound only to ensure your survival crossing a road.
> If it's because of China, then ban TikTok and subsidize a competitor app - but be serious about it. Be ready to spend hundreds of .....

Domestic competitors have already published their equivalents though, no subsidied required. It's not a very complicated app - they had clones up in months. Most popular Tik-Tokers already repost their content on these anyways.

Why do we need to subsidize naything? This already exists.
> In medieval England, ale was an alcoholic drink made from grain, water, and fermented with yeast. The difference between medieval ale and [medieval] beer was that [medieval] beer also used hops as an ingredient.
I’m not sure it’s fair to editorialize a title like that when sharing an hour-long podcast.

I’m curious about the claim being made but I’m being linked to a haystack.

Edit: it begins at 25:34.
The U.S. has legalized corruption in the form of lobbying. This wasn’t so bad as long as donations to politicians were capped, but since Cotizens United there is no limit, so the corruption has gone through the roof as well.
Why don't you use Termius and SSH into the Codespaces instance? That way you could just use vim directly from there.
The leaked exceptional price is also consistent with the leaked very low projected sales figure of of 900.000.
Yes, but it took all my 20s to settle this idea
thats not my point, of course someone will make that
Not so sure. It might help children but old people are just old and deaf. When they stop in the middle of the path and people ask them politely if they can leave room at normal voice level they typically do not hear it and you end up shooting at them so they can notice you are here trying to pass and move aside.
This could also be because people don't go out as much - perhaps for fear of pollution.

Generally, it takes a lot of pollution to counter the positive health effects of active commuting. It was a while since I did the research, but someone estimated that you need to cycle for more than sixteen hours per day for the pollution to outweigh the cardio benefits in the 90th percentile of cities ordered by pollution. There was no city for which any mount of cycling would have made you worse off.

Granted, walking is probably slightly lower in intensity, but still.
I'm normally the type of Google person with doing minus or using other tags.

I totally gave that up with chatgpt and the magic of it is that it understands it so so we'll.

Sometimes I also switch to German in the middle of a sentence or use very vague words to describe something if the word is missing in my head.
Yep, that 4% to 25% jump is what I was talking about. I’m no virologist but it seems like 6x likelihood of infection would lead to it spreading faster, which of course it did but I don’t know if that was the reason.
It's something as small as throwing in a milk shake with lunch. you don't experience the money leaving.
Living in Hong Kong, I'll tell you what's loud: the constant remodelling, both in apartment and office buildings. Try working in an office where someone is trying to drill 50 holes into a concrete wall next door.

In comparison, all other noises can be easily ignored.
it may be hard, but it is not impossible, no way.

so summary: microsoft being microsoft
Recommending counting new/delete operations in 2023? What about smart pointers?

I would imagine that nowadays you should use new/delete only if you have to account for every CPU cycle to literally get every drop of performance...
>No offence, but have you spent any time in Japan?

As someone who moved to Japan it's always funny. I think people literally get their impression from Japan solely from neo-Tokyo sci-fi from the 80s. The country has taken some of the worst cues from the US.

Many cities like Tokyo are 75% suburban, single home, it's in fact the largest suburban region on the planet. The number of cars in the country is much higher than in the rest of Asia and many cities are extraordinarily sprawlish. From the air Tokyo literally just looks like a sort of denser LA (https://i.redd.it/mghcpc5xvt761.jpg)

If people are looking inspiration in Asia, Singapore is a much better place to look at, it deliberately designed around green spaces and avoidance of cars.