skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll keep my suspicions to myself next time. Folks are increasingly going to wonder this when there's a short/vague comment that doesn't quite match their understanding of the world. I wouldn't have wondered the same with the additional context you've supplied here, e.g.:

> I don't think Apple is only using ARM and their chip for their whole stack, in fact, their servers run something else, and they support software that runs on other OSes wich run plenty of different architectures, including X86_64, and they are exploring a plethora of architectures [1]

Now I understand why you suggested it might run on other architectures / OSs. I'm skeptical though. They may develop/run software on Linux/Windows, but I haven't seen any examples of them releasing a development toolchain (e.g. any part of Xcode) for those OSs (with the obvious exception of platform-independent LLVM improvements). Likewise microprocessor-level stuff (afaict everything they do with risc-v).
>There are plenty of those who purport AGIs threaten us and conflate "existence" with "potential". This is aimed at those driven to hysterics by such.

I'd hazard a guess that the Venn diagrams of "those who purport AGIs threaten us and conflate 'existence' with 'potential'" and of "people who grok binary and can solve esoteric brain teasers using it" have very little overlap.

You might have more success with an example that's a little more accessible to "normies".
A typical speed check camera will not register the license plates of vehicles that are not speeding.
Very readable short paper
How Well Do AI Text Detectors Work? (Benchmarks)
hCaptcha tested popular detectors on confirmed LLM and human output. No public AI text detector scored better than random chance.
Just know that the people endorsing mass importation of immigrants are the same ones hoarding property.

They benefit directly from the cheap labor (even child-cheap labor [1]), from the depressed wages, and indirectly from the enlarged voter base of their political friends.

When you deflect the conversation towards racism and related name-calling, you're acting as an agent on behalf of the lords, doing exactly what they want you to do [2]: flinging mud at other peasants, rather than at the lords themselves.

I think one of the best ways to avoid being agentized by the elite class is to just be more skeptical in general, especially when you encounter emotional argumentation. Accusations of racism in particular is a huge red flag. This tactic is by design intended to shut down a discussion rather than engage with it.

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/06/12/child-labor-is...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28415546 - It is far better for upper class to ensure that people discuss and focus on issues like gender and skin colour than the class differences. Hence, they ensured that this is the issue plebs would hear all over on the media and shift their attention from class divides to gender and skin colour.
The elephant in the room is that Unicode is a steaming pile of shit. It is the source of all the complexity that results in people picking and choosing what they dare to try implementing, and document other things as being off the plate (the application programmer can fend for themselves as best they can, based on what of the missing cruft they need).
Yeah...

And before Edge it was IE..

IE was also impossible to remove backj in the days.. they did have an option uninstall but all it did was remove the icons from start menu, but all the files where still there..

At this day and age the browser is so deeply integrated into the OS that is not really possible to remove it without breaking things..

This is why you cant remove Edge from Windows, Chrome from Android and Safari from apple things.

Even in linux, Gnome has Epiphany (now Gnome WEB) and KDE has Konqueror..
It isn't a "flop" if Apple knows this and expects to sell a very small number of these devices.

This is a first version of a device in a very niche market that will take a long time for it to hit mainstream (if it ever does).

Apple even danced around this quite a few times in how they talked about this particular product. For the first time, maybe ever, Apple hinted at future products while talking about this. I think this was made even more clear with it having the "Pro" name attached.

Us calling it "DOA" and a "Flop" are very very different than wether or not Apple considers it either, and ultimately that is what will matter. If Apple is smart (and I believe they are based on how they talked about this) they know this is a long term product category.
What are the consequences? Legal protection from retaliation?

https://www.dodig.mil/Resources/FAQs/#whistleblowerFAQs
The point I am trying to make in 2(a) (maybe inexpertly) is that all the data sharing in the world isn’t going to solve any problems when the people looking at to do their own “replications” are uninformed about methods. Data sharing on its own will not solve this.
As the article notes,

> Redundant conditions are nice because they require no changes to the database [...] This makes them useful for queries that are only sometimes run or where indexes can't be easily added to the main conditions

but where possible I typically prefer adding an index on the expression that the query is using (if your database supports it) since it expresses your intent more clearly. A redundant condition is more likely to get "optimized away" by other developers or changes in the query planner.
> But I can see this as being useful for dedicated tasks

Possibly, but Oculus already exists, and has existed for a while. Did this market materialize?

Honest question, I don't follow Meta/Oculus news closely.
Anomaly detection has been around for a long time. You don’t need a chat based LLM to analyze data.

The beauty of the markets is that you can put your money where your mouth is. If you believe there’s an inefficiency go fill it yourself and become rich.
Ah, you're right, it's pretty dumb then. Swing-and-a-miss, GPT-4.
The cost of rent is so high that providing space to linger is non economical
Your description makes the approach sound like applying ca 1980s simulated annealing, also a form of gradient descent. Am I missing something?
Any LLM that Google offers is not worth the risk
Having a look at https://killedbygoogle.com/, you can see tons of "cool" ideas that were once a Google product, but ended up being canceled by Google for various reasons.

As someone who's investing in large language models for the long term, I just can't trust that Google won't kill Bard or any other LLM in their line.

My gut feeling is that any product that isn't directly making money for Google, will stop at some point. It's a sad reality because I so desperately want there to be competition in this field so that ClosedAI doesn't get away with dumbing down their gpt4 without consequences.
I'm sure there must be some back story here. What are these people's concerns? They seem to believe that HN is a bastion for harassment. Of all the forums I read, this seems the most benign by a large margin.
I mean this is just an issue with convincing it to use code when it should, which seems surmountable.
While I'm 100% positive the details of operational concerns like this are classified, there are 2 distinct types of submarines today with 2 different objectives:

1) Attack Submarines (e.g. Los Angeles-class & Virginia-class for USN) which usually roam within a designated operations area, surveilling, tracking, and generally keeping tabs on other nations' surface & sub-surface fleet dispositions. These subs typically have multi-week sorties and may intermittently surface for surveillance & comms.

2) Ballistic Missile Submarines aka "Boomers" (e.g. Ohio-class for USN) which are given a strategic area in which to operate and their objective is to remain silent & undetected, waiting for the hopefully-never-coming order to launch their SLBMs. These subs usually have multi-month sorties and often don't surface until the end of their patrol.
Code search on GitHub now requires login
I'm not opposed to mandating people work from the office, but I do think changing it up after people have altered their lifestyle accordingly is crappy.

Here's how I think they should have done it:

- If you live within X distance you must return X days out of the week
- Employees living further must come on-site X amount of times per year
- All new hires must work from in office all or X days out of the week
I get around this problem by blogging on dev.to, which is shadowbanned by HN.
But the trademark policy and how it's weaponized to control social behavior through affiliation is entirely crux of the matter.

This draft would have passed if there wasn't such a large public outcry. The foundation was completely silent when our VP of engineering expressed concern about the draft and our ability to start using Rust™ for projects. The software firm we work for primarily contracts in red states. Had this draft policy passed, it would have likely resulted in us losing some of our state contracts.

I don't think that's good for any language ecosystem, but apparently the HN echo chamber believes we're wrong about this.
I think you misunderstood your parent's comment.

Blizzard _today_ takes to maintain World of Warcraft's macOS build. The same Blizzard is releasing all new titles as Windows-only.

This difference between WoW and there rest is what puzzles you parent.
I believe so, I haven’t had any issues at all. I use my email for my business and personal and in all the dealings I’ve done with different providers, none have ever marked me spam. I also have a very spam-looking domain so I might have a better than average say on it.
Nice combination of things but most of the nifty stuff is the tracer: https://github.com/visioncortex/vtracer
This is the argument for books against TV.
Agreed. Funnily enough every single school provided chromebook in my city comes with it preinstalled, and yet the teachers don’t use it.
Nope, I’m using Dvorak mainly, but switch to QWERTY when I need to use shortcuts with one hand while the other is using the mouse (when designing in Figma etc).
Whether or not you like them, Apple's product team is among the best in the world
> If you just started with properly painted lines, always-functioning traffic signals, and correct street signs, autonomous driving would be much, much easier than it is now.

If you had this, driving period would be safer, automated or not. And that's before getting into inclement weather conditions where, say, lines or signage may not be visible.
At this point, doesn't it make more sense to just throw away the original where condition and use only the redundant condition? If it's really redundant and makes no different to the result, why keeping the inefficient clause be useful once the new/better clause has been added?
It's a saying - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dead_on_arrival (definition 4)
It still doesn’t sounds like the end of freedom. But yes, ideally the system should be rigged in a way that the amount of money you have doesn’t influence how much it sucks to be on the wrong side of the law. It’s a regressive tax otherwise.
agree with all this, but VS Code may become profitable via copilot subscriptions.
Best I’ve heard at the lay level

https://youtu.be/Gej9UZZAnQ4
Videos are one of the most important parts of marketing projects. Github projects without gifs get less attention. Humans are visual and don't like scouring through a readme before seeing some action first.
I admit that I thought the same thing about Apple Watch and it seems to be doing quite well these days.
Windows APIs (including any COM and .NET libraries you may interoperate with) can serve you strings containing unpaired surrogates. That has nothing to do with that I “didn’t care about correctness”. Processing Windows UTF-16 as-is simply avoids complications that you would add by converting back and forth from and to UTF-8. If you’re working with other I/O (network requests, file contents) that is UTF-8-based, it makes much more sense to strategically pick the places where you perform conversions within your application. The conversion then is also limited to where data actually crosses between Windows APIs and other I/O within your application.

Traditionally, strings in C are encoding-agnostic. By default, the encoding of the current locale is assumed, and applications are expected to convert to other encodings when specifically needed. Forcing everything into “there can only be one encoding we can work with” isn’t a great solution. One can wish that everything was UTF-8 from the beginning, but that’s not the world we live in.
Author here - I mirrored the page on https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/dutch-intel-law-about-inte... since y'all managed to take out the about:intel server!
OpenAI CEO suggests international agency to oversee AI
I’m sure this will succeed. Unlike the quest it’ll be able to use millions of existing iOS and iPadOS apps.

The cost is a hard pill to swallow but at the end of the day even $500 for a quest 3 is expensive and people will buy that too.
I second "The Mom Test", it's a great book that can be read in an hour.
Segments are provided by community members, and you can adjust/edit them if you're finding the segment to be badly timed yourself.
There seems to be some disagreement on numbers in various reports. This article says:

> "Global spending on solar power, the IEA projects, will hit $382 billion this year. That’s more than $1 billion per day. Investment in oil production, meanwhile, is estimated to total $371 billion."

In contrast, this articles says:

> "The annual Banking on Climate Chaos report, authored by a group of nonprofits, including Rainforest Action Network, said banks provided $673 billion in finance to the fossil-fuel industry last year. Canadian banks are providing a rising share of the money, though U.S. lenders are still the dominant player."

https://www.barrons.com/articles/banks-financing-fossil-fuel...

The discrepancy could be that the latter includes coal and gas investment, while the former is just oil?

More solar is good news, but it'll have little if any effect on global fossil CO2 emissions, as demand for energy in the developing world is steadily approaching the levels seen in industrialized nations. Replacing fossil fuels with renewables on any short (decadal) timespan would require at least a 10X increase in renewable investment over today's levels.
Why do I have a feeling this is going to age like all of the people who posted on Slashdot over 20 years ago.

https://m.slashdot.org/story/21026
Hacker News has every right to include noreferrer in its links. The destination site was playing games based on the HN origin, so dang just fixed the bug.
Right so you're agreeing that the Government (U.S.) doesn't exactly have an easy path.

Hence why I am more concerned about Corporate surveillance than I am over Government influencing our lives.
Not everyone is using the web to blog you know... Imagine if google maps satellite view could save 30% of image bandwidth
Ampere Altra Dev Kit – I-Pi Smarc
I don't get it, can someone explain what is going on here?
Currently in the United States, several people who organized a bail fund for protesters are sitting in jail on terrorism charges.

In the 50s, people who organized civil rights bail funds were called in front of the Anti-American Activities Committee to be blacklisted from their careers and communities.

If anything, privacy is incredibly important because the powers at be continue to prove they will use state-sanctioned violence against people who protest these systems. We like to tell ourselves its only those other bad countries, but rights in the US are just as delicate. Enough money or power behind a charge and you have to real ability to uphold your rights.
But only has housing and health services for 30M.
Same was valid for Chrome, that's why it was ridiculous to claim lack of interest.
Hi! (one of the Daft maintainers here), thanks for the feedback. Ultimately you're right that supporting the full Polars syntax in a distributed fashion is very difficult. There are libraries out there that do "Pandas but distributed" but from what I have seen is that they prioritized API coverage rather than performance or memory consumption. So you end up in a similar boat to the situation you mentioned.

We're trying to start with a simpler API that maps well to a distributed query query that we can execute well and then add the features that people request for.

I would love to know what you would want to see in Daft!
I and the teams I work with don't come to a stop when GitHub goes down. We can continue to write code, test, commit, review code. You'll have to give more details describing how a GitHub outage prevents developers working.

If you have a development process that halts if GitHub, or any other external service that goes down now and then, rework your process to remove the fragile dependency.
I agree, but let's not forget that the more (semantically) obvious reason why people get locked out of wealth has more to do with not being able to take it than with not being able to produce it.
I love it. I can't overstate how much I love it. Honestly, I feel like this is the first "real" VR headset and I'm wildly excited about the applications. Pretty much any sci-fi VR imagination is possible here, as long as it only utilizes visual and audio output (no haptics, etc). People saying "this is useless" are effectively saying "there is no killer VR/AR app that has ever appeared in the corpus of science fiction" and I'm not ready to accept that tenet.

Although I just learned apps will not have access to live eye tracking (so, much much less eye tracking data than Tobii eye tracker). Although I quickly understood how evil this would be if provided to app makers like TikTok, it still disappoints me because there are so many "expand context on hover" applications would could be super seamless. Now those will all require a click, but that's the responsible tradeoff.

Yes it's super expensive. It's a whole MacBook Pro with three displays and an extra major chip (R1). The price for the hardware makes perfect sense to me. The price for the product...probably not. But if they can stick with it for long enough for the price to come down, and maybe make a lighter cheaper plastic version some day to save weight for all-day wear, I think this will be absolutely huge. Especially if they can ever let your eyes focus to infinity.
When Spielberg edited E.T. to replace guns with walkie-talkies, was that censorship? Or freedom of speech?

"Sensitivity readings" is hardly a recent concept. The Hardy Boy's were updated to remove the original depictions of racial stereotypes. Was that censorship? Or a desire to make more money?

The 1981 revised edition of "How to Win Friends and Influence People" were edited with edits for "modern sensibilities", including reducing sexist language [1]. Was that censorship?

When is the copyright owner and/or licensee morally obliged to not make legally allowed changes?

Only when the change can be seen as "politically correct"?

[1] For examples, "insurance man" was replaced with "insurance agent", and "leadership gravitates to the man who can talk" changed to "leadership gravitates to the person who can talk". It also dropped the section on marriage. ("Never get married until you have kissed the Blarney Stone. Praising a woman before marriage is a matter of inclination. But praising one after you marry her is a matter of necessity — and personal safety.")
The images at the top are labeled, poorly. It took me some zooming in to be able to read them. But agreed the lack of table headers was just plain stupid.
Can a Star Be Smaller Than a Planet?
Magic links are great because they essentially eliminate ATO attacks and allow startups to bypass SAML requirements by delegating to the mail provider. I’m 100% willing to forgo efficiency gains of passwords and managers as both a user and developer.
Better to not design cars that rely on parts of the infrastructure that won't be maintained
I don't think so for stuff like this, it kinda has to be built in public, and iteratively. If it gets good enough they'll surface it more in search and that'll be that.
Not every mistake is something you could have prevented/ avoided. Sometimes you just get unlucky.
>Does that mean that if they know your account is under attack they can just read all of your emails?

If they "suspect" it is more like it in practice, suspecting also meaning "when they want to target you".
Necessity, which is also the important difference between murder and self defense.

I so wish people would think of dog or cat meat in these supposedly difficult questions. What's the difference between killing and eating a dog for survival and doing it for fun, or because it tastes good?
That checks out. I got out of crypto a long time ago, back around when people were creating doge based coins for a laugh, i can imagine it only got a lot worse.
You are right. But I must admit response like the one I got gives you a tremendous boost to the confidence. I might go back to the earlier product someday if I learn to be a better marketer :-)
> One of the most absurd statements I have ever heard

Then you must be living in a reality distortion field. Nobody is making references to Russian ties. This is something you came up with because it is what came to your mind instinctively. We are focusing on the real occupation force in this discussion. Germany has been occupied by the United States since World War 2 and has 21 American military bases on its soil. This year marks the 78th year of the occupation.
I find that people who fling around the term “basic economics” rarely have a good understanding of economics, usually basing their opinion on overly simplistic ideas that don’t reflect reality.

Many of the things mentioned in the article, specifically causes of inflation, are talked about by other economists. This tells me your idea that “anyone with some background in basic economics” are all in agreement (with you) is wrong.

Feel free to share a proper criticism, there is a decent amount you could discuss from the causes of inflation to her potential solutions. That would make for a more interesting discussion than hand-waving the entire article as “pure trash”, which I don't think is a fair description of the article even if you disagree with Weber.
For the same reason you vote, stop buying products, and read history books.

To shape the society you want to live in.
> If you wanted to split hairs this thin, you wouldn't use any project with at least one german citizen as contributor, since they can never truly yield all copyright on a work.

Nor can anyone else, copyright is not generally 'destructible'. That's why it's a licence. The holder keeps the copyright, but licenses the work to the general public. (Assignments are another way to achieve something like this, provided the assignee then licenses the work.)

I assume what you're referring to is inalienable moral rights - hence the reference to Germany - but those are a feature of many (most?) of the world's legal systems. They are included in one of the revisions to the Berne Convention, if I recall correctly, which is an international treaty on intellectual property.

I understand you're sceptical, but the legal dimension of OSS does matter. Using copyrighted material without a licence would constitute a major business risk. I would appreciate it if you could kindly refrain from making ungenerous assumptions about the intentions of others.
Russian 'Anti-Sanctions PC' Powered by New Skif Processor
In IT, when ever I hear the phrase "we don't have the luxury of planning" I know with a high probability that the project will fail.
oilprice.com and renewablesnow.com together provide a decent broad overview of latest current news on investments and projects in the overall energy sector.