skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking as someone who regularly uses both iOS and Android (Pixel) phones: The App store and Play store are indistinguishable in terms of app quality. Both are absolutely filled with garbage, and the only way to find anything worthwhile is to search off-platform, then punch your desired app name into the store's search.
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Health system-scale language models are all-purpose prediction engines – Nature
Companies only need that if they place nonessential cookies.
Most people are ignorant of their own ignorance. Chicken and egg problem.
Computer Shopper, Dr. Dobb's, and Byte were all incredible and indispensable. I miss them all sorely and often wish that there was anything comparable in existence (online or not).
Ask HN: What are some systems related innovations in the area of AI/ML?
I'm not a data scientist or model author. Looking for systems related innovations in the area of AI/ML. To give a flavor here's one https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi22/presentation/yu.
There seems to be a lot of edtech startups being sold to big companies right now. I’m guessing these are distressed companies that need to raise tons of money or find a buyer. Since the VC landscape has changed in light of the end of free money, they’re disproportionately being sold off.

I don’t blame the companies, though I’ve taken a bootstrapped strategy because I didn’t want to get stuck on the VC treadmill.
I can't upvote this enough! I've dedicated a good portion of my life to collecting Brazilian records from that era. Expensive, but rewarding hobby.
I'm in Brooklyn and sometime mid-afternoon I walked out into my living room to it being completely dark inside and orange out my windows. Local AQI has said 330-350 all afternoon.

And somehow this is a lot better than when I was in Delhi one winter. Some nights I'd see 500+, and there wasn't much escape from it in our airbnb in hauz khas, I'd just sleep with a keffiyeh around my face. People are living like this almost daily in cities around the world, to the point where the locals are sort of just used to it. Pretty depressing, but hopefully we'll start doing something about it.
Maybe it’s because this being unheard of in NYC is literally what makes it happening newsworthy?

California has wildfires literally every year but they still make the news when they’re particularly damaging and record breaking. Fires have never impacted NYC to this extent in living memory - it’s deeply unusual for the region and inherently newsworthy.
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"Now it’s a mess. I’m not quite sure what broke it" - capitalism...
When I did my driving test, I have to drive through a road that was not painted. I was still expected to drive without crashing into anything.
It looks great but the provenance seems sketchy.

In 1979, Ricardo Vilchez, one of the project team members, sent the photograph to an organization in the United States called Ground Saucer Watch (GSW) which analyzes these types of cases. GSW determined that the image was true and unadulterated, reported CRHoy.

Sierra [a UFO researcher] said the photograph was analyzed in France and the United States by different organizations that studied the case, and all confirmed the object’s existence.

We only have word of mouth from UFO researchers citing unnamed "organizations" to verify this. I'd want to see an independent, accredited and non UFO related team actually study the negatives and such. Otherwise it's just another picture on the internet. It is a really good picture, though. Classic shiny flying saucer.

Although I am concerned about the shape of the reflections in this "high res" version[0], they don't look right to me.

[0]https://www.uapmedia.uk/articles/costarica-ufo
AI CoPilot vs. Pilot
It works but not at par - for best performance, it is advisable to use it with a Firefox clone.
I've found this jarring only in one case: the dub of Mary and the Witch's Flower, where the setting was an emphatically English-style public school, the lead character's VA had (or was using) a strong Home Counties accent, but the lines were full of US-only terms like "Somophore". It just felt horribly fake (even in a fantasy story!) because you'd never see those things together in real life.
If they want people to care about mac dev they should get rid of the fee entirely and supply build tools for Linux/Windows. At the very least CLI tools that can perform the actual compilation. Cross platform compilation should be possible, especially for CI but also to reduce friction of onboarding new devs.

It's absolutely ridiculous that you have to pay to add value to a platform.
Corn-Based Ethanol May Be Worse For the Climate Than Gasoline, a New Study Finds (2022)

Long touted as a renewable fuel emitting 20 percent fewer greenhouse gasses than gasoline, ethanols’ emissions may be 24 percent higher.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16022022/corn-ethanol-gas...

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2101084119
Ask HN: How are you fighting apps for mundane things, extreme data collection?
My building installed new washer dryers. To use them:

1. I need to download an app

2. I need to add my credit card, load up some amount (don't worry, there is "auto-refill" for my convenience, how thoughtful!)

3. I need to scan the QR code on the washing machines to wash

Ah yes, the app has "History" complete with date time, amount spent on washing etc.

Now some shitty company somewhere knows my full clothes washing history, complete with credit card, address etc down to the exact washing machine used.

Can't wait for the day where I have to use an app to pee, in my own apartment's rest room. That way someone can have precise data on my peeing habits.

I am not a conspiracy theorist, but I wouldn't be surprised if my building's owner gets a cut out of this whole enterprise for using this company's "services"

I am just fed up, I can't even wash my clothes without having access to a 800$ smartphone?

End of rant
Frankly, I think dynamic libraries are less secure (at least when talking about a desktop environment, not servers) because sometimes package managers update dynamic library dependencies without actually checking if binary compatibility was preserved in the new version, causing various crashes and bugs (I experienced this first hand with an archlinux package of a software I was developing).
It's revelant on servers, workstations, embedded systems, and supercomputers.

So, basically everywhere.

The thing is: you're unlikely to be programming directly on top of the POSIX API unless you're doing something comparatively low level to the average programming that is done in industry today.

Embedded is an area where applications are often written right on top of libc and POSIX interfaces. Even many RTOS which are not fully POSIX compliant borrow a lot of ideas from UNIX.
Depending on the instance type, Lightsail easily gets throttled into oblivion. The $3.50/month instance allows for 5% utilization before you start eating up burst capacity. Perhaps WireGuard is light enough that it's okay, but thought it worth mentioning.
The problem is with automatic updates.
Yup.

Whatever blind dev is making a living providing an app (or other software) as an accessibility layer for the blind over reddit will now have to potentially do so for free.
I think it might be partially because I've done & currently do some copyediting work. So I'm pretty trained to see any grammar or spelling mistake. To be clear, it's not the difference in language that bothers me, just words that are spelled differently from American English. I literally can't not see them.
That's a bargain bin
What this and the box fans seem to miss is that prop fans have very little ability to generate static pressure. You will move more volume over the static pressure loss of the filters if you use a centrifugal type of fan. A little looking on Amazon shows those at about 3x the price of the prop boosters for the same rated cfm.

If you add even a little bit of duct to extend approximately 3 duct diameters on the outlet it will make the fan a lot more efficient by allowing the airflow to stabilize and lower buffeting noise at the outlet. There athere are some of the centrifugal fans that include a noise suppressor for more money that's basically a short duct that's double walled and perforated on the inside.
How is it different from Consent-O-Matic? What makes it better?
To my research, SF AQI has never topped 249. New York just topped out at 342 today with no sign of letting up. I won't dispute that SF wildfire season being so frequent and long lasting, there's been nasty periods, but no it's factually incorrect that SF has ever been at one time worse than what's happening in NYC right now.
Surely the effort to manage LLMs is wasted on keeping a publisher from having to do the job they’re paid for.

Are we really going to let big corp automate away their role in the social contract? Ostensibly Random House needs to provide real output not just be a brand that farms out all the work to AI, and thus captures value on the fiat ledger.

The number of rent seeker non-contributors is too damn high. We cannot base society off dying peoples hallucinations about how the world works anymore. This is bonkers.

I never asked to exist. Why am I constrained to beliefs like Bill Gates and the like are divine in contemporary ways?
Ultimately if the app is unmaintained, then it's likely to have security issues even if it's using dynamic libraries. If it is maintained then it shouldn't be a big deal to update it.
Having an amazing experience here on grapheneos. And unlike on iOS, I can sync my files, contacts, calendar events etc. to my nextcloud server, use syncthing to sync stuff in a decentralized manner and play nintendo switch games with the yuzu emulator.
Maybe all unimportant for you, but this amount of security and freedom is amazingly refreshing.
I agree this is preposterous but one nit to pick: event loops on self driving cars are really that slow, and they must use very good behavior prediction + speculative reasoning to deal with scenarios like the one you described.
From the core assumption that there would be more dry days doesn’t change the fact that you will encounter more ferocious wildfires (actually if we had less dry days we would encounter even more ferocious wildfires because of less burns in general when you think about it).
This is the source of the quote:

https://www.vulture.com/2023/06/streaming-industry-netflix-m...
Spend $50 and prepare to have your mind blown.

https://www.amazon.com/Adaptive-Sound-Technologies-LectroFan...
> Apple's product team is among the best in the world

Best at what?
I already documented precisely this in another comment. Inverters switching off means that everything works exactly as designed. Negative prices are mostly on account of those producers that don't switch themselves off, such as nuclear power stations and baseline load providers that are too slow to adjust to demand or supply peaks.

With 50 panels on my property (a good 12.5 KW of generating capacity based on the nameplate power of one inverter and the peak capacity provided by the other) I probably am on the large size for a domestic installation. But you don't install solar power for peak capacity, you install it for average days and not so average days when you're going to need every Watt produced. And on those days (when power is scarce) you'll find that you are still consuming from the grid. That's the only issue with solar: when you need it most it isn't there. And so everybody gets to be happy: less CO2 emitted, fewer fossil fuel tonnage burned as if there is no tomorrow and some cash back for those that invested in solar. In the long run everybody wins, in the short term some parties may have to review their spreadsheets. But those traditional suppliers definitely aren't losing money, in fact they made out like bandits over the last year or two.
in the future, just flag things you think don't belong. That's the "proper channel" for doing this type of feedback.

Things are frequently flagged for all kinds of reasons. That's why everyone has access to the feature
It's not a problem with everything. Distributions tend to add editorial input here and try to do something they consider reasonable for their users, staking their own reputation on that without trying to pass it off to the component publisher.

For example, I doubt that Debian would would take an update from an upstream that is detrimental to their users. They would follow a friendlier fork first. Debian maintainers follow their users' interests first.

(I'm a Debian Developer)

Edit: and that means you can generally trust automatic updates on Debian.
The industry had more smaller players compared to today and a better chance to sell. The barriers were higher but expectations lower. Plus you had a fragmentation of computers and high margins. Trade shows and flea markets, magazines, shareware and asking store owners directly were accessible ways.

Today we have the illusion of speaking globally but have been gatekept out by a handful of companies.
I too was wondering if it could act as DJI's FPV helmet.
The Independent covered her story in depth a year ago.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/featu...
I really don't think this is a bug. The first element is focused when you start, but not selected. Pressing down moves the focus down, and selects. If you want to select the focused element, press 'Space'.
I saw it as Enzo as well
Sometimes this is more annoying than helpful, and I only speak with a tiny bit of hyperbole here.

On several different SaaS softwares used at my employer I have found myself asking if they have entire teams of highly compensated UX professionals and graphics designers who justify their continued employment by changing the interface every 3 months by just enough to annoy me after I finally remap my brain to the latest locations of the tools and buttons.
I'd probably plot to destroy the killbot, which would probably result in it trying to kill me. Doesn't sound ideal.
Apple squeezes profits from their suppliers very aggressively. They operate very similar to the automotive industry there. Even more aggressive probably because they have a larger market share than any car OEM.
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This is hilarious. Somehow I responded to both.
Unless you don’t know that; when I listen to it, that song is all about her.
This seems misleading to me.

To make the math more obvious, let's say 10% of debtors are still in school. If each of those took on, on average, $15,000 of additional debt for the next school year, that means the entire population of debtors has increased their debt by an average of $1,500.
one of the first? Don't they literally have laws requiring them to have the first presidential primary?
In Tunisia, North Africa we have laws against that. It works even in third world, because those bad practices do not benefit the business, they really need to get rid of inventory sometimes and they need to do it in a safe trusted way.
Noctua makes some nice, slightly ruggedized 12v high static pressure fans.
I'll admit - looked at the New York ones for today after making this comment and it looked higher than I had seen in SF. I was basing on what I had seen on purpleair yesterday.

e: Although I do remember a few days where I believe it might have broke 300 on purpleair
I see this all of the time, but without any evidence. Even your edit says they get a "butts in seat" tax break. But how much is that? I can very easily see the savings of remote employees being way higher than this tax break. You might need to spend a bit more on IT and maybe on equipment. Then again you save on cleaning (not needed as often), garbage, electricity and anything else related to maintenance. Maybe it's slightly more expensive, or slightly less expensive. I've never seen anyone break the numbers down before making this claim. It feels like an appeal to emotion, those bad companies only care about money. Even if that's true, this argument doesn't prove it's true in this case.

And this all assumes long term leases or you own the building. It's possible to pay to get out of leases some time, and you can sell the building if you think it's going to cost millions to keep owning it.

Also, we are seeing lots of smaller businesses also requiring people to come back to the office. If they are getting some huge tax break for a 100 person company, how much is that? I'm happy if I'm wrong, and this is some huge tax break that saves companies millions of dollars, but I think it's fair to ask for evidence that this really saves the money people claim it saves.

I think there are other dumb reasons people are being called back, it just doesn't feel like this is one of the reasons.
Not if you block the 25 scripts that this article tries to run ... physician, heal thyself ...
I posted about the bait and switch 7 months ago. I see they have steered the wrong way and in a bad way.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33336722
Increase in skeletal muscular adiposity&cognitive decline in older men&women
Open Source DIY Air Quality Monitor Kits
“… you won’t be confined to “a tiny black rectangle”. You’ll use all the apps you already use. You don’t have to wait for developers to adapt them. This is not a someday-maybe tech demo of a future paradigm; it’s (mostly) today’s paradigm, transliterated to new display and input technology.“

This is why I think this device will be different than its predecessors. There are practical reasons to buy it … assuming you can use it without getting sick or strained.
> But a COCOT had all the "pay phone magic" embedded in the phone itself - the line was a normal line

There is one still operating in the parking lot of a general store in a tiny, tiny town near me. I keep wanting to put an old-school modem on my laptop, paying it a visit, and dial up a BBS (a few of those still exist, too), just for old time's sake and maybe a nostalgia overdose.
To be fair, ChatGPT's answer is wrong when given the Bard example.

To find the prime factors of 15,683,615, we can use a process called prime factorization. We divide the number by prime numbers until it can no longer be divided evenly. Here's the step-by-step process:

We start by dividing 15,683,615 by the smallest prime number, which is 2. However, 15,683,615 is an odd number and not divisible by 2.

Next, we try the next prime number, 3. If we divide 15,683,615 by 3, we get 5,227,871. Again, this is an odd number.

We continue with the next prime number, 5. Dividing 15,683,615 by 5 gives us 3,136,723. Still an odd number.

Moving on to the next prime number, 7. Dividing 15,683,615 by 7 yields 2,240,516. Again, this is an odd number.

We try the next prime number, 11. Dividing 15,683,615 by 11 gives us 1,425,783. Still an odd number.

Next, we try the prime number 13. Dividing 15,683,615 by 13 yields 1,205,659. This is an odd number.

Continuing with the next prime number, 17. Dividing 15,683,615 by 17 gives us 920,755. Still an odd number.

We try the prime number 19. Dividing 15,683,615 by 19 yields 823,035. This is an odd number.

The next prime number is 23. Dividing 15,683,615 by 23 gives us 680,563. Still an odd number.

Finally, we try the prime number 29. Dividing 15,683,615 by 29 yields 539,475, which is divisible by 5.

Therefore, the prime factors of 15,683,615 are 3, 5, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, and 29.
You'd have to know a bit more about how venture capital funds are structured to see how this makes sense. Most of them have a limited run-time, usually between seven and ten years. This means that the pressure to 'exit' is on the VCs big time because after the fund expires they no longer get to charge those sweet management fees. But they still have to do the work. So typically after year five you'll see funds to more investments with a short horizon to exit and early on they'll take longer shots to profitability.

For seed capital it's even worse there it easily averages to a decade for an exit. My oldest investments go back to 2007, and that's for the ones that 'made it', the bulk of them dies long before that.
OP didn't even mention climate change in the post, and previously has explicitly denied that climate change is a problem - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36166197
Why is it monolithic? Why not microkernel? Especially that all the typical jobs of an operating system are outsourced.
If only there were at thick black viscous substance rich in sulfur that was present in the Earth's crust we could harvest easily, then extract the sulfur, & then use to create fertilizer.
Very cool project. Do you run your clone device in any kind of enclosure?
I run atomictessellator.com and have been working on many different implementations of density functional theory for the last 10 years, as well as working closely with professors at Stanford university and Oxford university of using advanced, non-static geometry data structure for density functional theory for multiple years, this is a subject I know a LOT about, so I’m glad you brought it up.

Deep minds work on Density functional theory was complete rubbish, and everyone in computational chemistry knows it. They simply modelled static geometry and overfit their data, we wanted this methodology to work, computing DFT is expensive, and we did multiple months of rigorous work and the reality of the situation is that a bunch of machine learning engineers with a glancing amount of chemistry knowledge, made approximations that were way too naive, and announced it as a huge success in their typical fashion.

What they then count on is people not having enough knowledge of DFT / Quantum property prediction to query their work and make claims like “it certainly does move academia way further ahead” - which is total rubbish. In what way? Why aren’t these models being used in ab initio simulators now? The answer to that is simple: they are not revolutionary, in fact they are not even useful.
> "Is there a way to get these away without purchase cloud subscription?"

Even with a subscription the ad-free honeymoon won't last.
Looks sleek! No pricing. Sign me up anyways.

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What is that calculation based off of? The article lists the 4 filters as $70 (which I'd assume you would replace all at once).

The Levoit uses 1 filter "unit", and filters are $55 for a 2-pack on Amazon ($27.5/ea), or half that if you trust the third-party ones.

Levoit recommends to replace the filters every 6-8 months, so you could get 12-16 months of filtration for $55. I can't find any calculation in the article for how long the author estimates their filters would last.
Yes, gamers have standards and thats why GPU performance on the PC does not suck and why it is relatively affordable. A tough market to be in for sure, everyone wishes they could just be Apple.
I wonder if the observed decline in discussion quality has any correlation with the "boost" that is given to comments from accounts with blue check marks.
Another for the pile https://github.com/cnvrg/metagpu
https://www.mcmaster.com/products/high-pressure-blowers/

Or don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good -- buy 10x box fans for cheaper, because they're manufactured and shipped in the millions of units.

If it's not going to catch on fire, why are we worrying about the longevity of something that costs $30?