skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure in your career you've seen countless attempts by 1000+ employee firms to spinup an ops team that must construct a giant spreadsheet of product priorities between customers, PMs and engineering teams -- versus having all of Salesforce, Slack, emails, meeting transcripts, user support messages, vectorised and fed into an LLM that any employee can converse with. The latter is not a trivial problem by any means and many, many implementation details, but I'm sure it's such an exciting time to be at Microsoft. Stratechery had a fantastic article about this.

If I had to make a bet, I suspect Google and Meta will royally lose this generation: Apple will dominate personal access to LLMs, Microsoft will dominate business access to LLMs -- and honestly Palantir for the first time terrifies me. The current generation of LLMs are not about automation as such, but helping individuals accomplish self-directed goals (as possible in language and code).
I think a better solution is to increase minimum wages (or UBI, but that is less likely), such that people question why they tip, and/or cannot afford to tip.
I accepted the Google spyware and put ChromeOS Flex (https://chromeenterprise.google/os/chromeosflex/) on my ancient MacBook Air; at least it gets security patches now, and I can use it for basic tasks (including running a Linux VM on it and Linux apps (like emacs) that appear as native apps).

Its hardware support seems great - trackpad, wifi, etc all worked on install.

It's not a bad way to extend the life of some pretty nice hardware
I would cynically suspect: existential dread
Is that the rustacian perspective? Force a Klein bottle when what I actually needed was a peg in a hole, a peg which has now been destroyed and useless for my purposes? Or will we be torturing another aphorism to death to get to the point.
On the flip side, isn't it also likely that repeating the same stressful behavior pattern over years (decades?) results in this outcome?

However, parsing signal from noise does seem a very difficult proposition.
> payment processing

This is outsourced.

> customer support

"Can't find the solution you're looking for? Here's how to get help from our experts. Note: We currently don't offer support by phone."

And half of what they do have is outsourced to "community members".

> regulatory environment of music licensing

This, this is what they do. So that's something. Is it 9600 people something? Apparently not since they already shaved off 6% of the work force earlier this year. It would seem their own CEO appears to agree with the take they are overweight.

Selling hardware around the world has tremendous regulatory burden as well. If you can't imagine the complexities of designing, sourcing and selling hardware products around the world maybe think harder?

Let the chips fall where they may. It isn't like it's the first or even biggest layoff for Spotify this year.
And yet every person who is literally oppressed is not a Nazi, nor am I one.

Not that I’d equate the decline and fall of quality interactions on Reddit with “oppression”.
I don't think any of the positions I listed are contrarian, they were all in response to questions openly posed to the subs, and I felt I gave my comments soberly and in good faith as a member of each community.

On the note about queer communities: I get why queer people are sensitive because I'm a trans woman with a nonbinary streak and I was oversensitive in my first few years after coming out. My experience living out+proud all over the country for the past decade, lining up with the experience of other queer people in my life, is that that sensitivity is largely motivated by self-loathing and fear that our communities reinforce, and that one of the best things you can do as a queer person is learn to love yourself. Once you do learn to love yourself, you can see that life is actually really good for queer people--many less marginalized groups are falling over themselves to support us, our married couples average the highest household income of any other family unit when controlling for other factors, tokenistic representation and marketing are booming, and despite what the news cycle will tell you things are by-and-large improving in the legal domain. Had one bathroom incident in New York a few years back, dealt with sexual assault and groping in the early 2010s, 10 years later I'm still visibly trans and road tripping around the rural South making friends will all sorts of strangers in unexpected places.

You can apply the same logic to all sorts of other social groups and formations, internet conservatives included. The disingenous way to state the truth is that internet communities in all corners of society are full of pedantic snowflakes who need to touch grass.
So store sqlite on S3. Start a new lambda (or similar) per user, download the db from sqlite and write to it and upload it again. And making sure there can never be more than 1 function running per user (to avoid two lambdas editing the same database). Seems a bit fragil but I might be wrong.
That's not a filter, that's structured packing to give the water a large surface area to evaporate from.
Or possibly used as a drop catcher with spray nozzles underneath; either way the gas stream hits the surface without excess wasteful turbulence.
imagine your crypto wallet being blacklisted by a 51% attack, over political/cultural reasons.
I know their are legalities I am not an expert in on finance, but my conspiracy theorist is bubbling up given the failed crypto bank, the SEC suing Binance and Coinbase, and the US and world government move for traceable, government managed and controlled digital currencies.

I was at the first HOPE in 1994[1] at the Penn Hotel in NYC when Eric Hughes (known for the Cypherpunk Manifesto) and others gave a talk on cryptography and how it would be part of a future of privacy and security for anonymous banking etc. I was so enthused about getting rid of the middle man (a minimum of 4 or 5 entities process your latte purchase at Starbucks and take a cut as well as track you and your data trail). Government doesn't like this. "What do you have to hide?" is a tired defense of prying eyes.

Yes, there were a lot of bad fish in the pool, but the goal was and is still good in my book.

[1] https://youtu.be/v5kayD5IQQU
What I found interesting (in the CNBC article) was that the partners will no longer cross-invest in each other's funds.

The 3 units were operating independently already, but there was cross-over in partners from 1 division investing in funds from a different division.

After the split, the article explicitly said the partners will no longer invest their own money in the other entity funds.

Feels like it's a move motivated by regulation/compliance.
No, it couldn't. It's going to be used as a downvote/upvote system by delusional hyperpartisans.
I think it's more a case that anyone who was involved in crypto early, and who has actually taken the time to understand the technology, has realised about a decade ago that crypto currencies are mostly useless.

But then people had they idea that they could still make money from it by grifting people if they just added layer upon layer of complexity in order to disguise the ultimate uselessness of the underlying technology. That is where all of your Ponzis, rugpulls, NFTs and everything else comes into the picture.
Not least because we have been doing the courtside view of sports events for what... nearly a decade now? And it's not very compelling compared to proper coverage with camera angles.
Used to wonder why more hospital patients had critical episodes at night. My brother-in-law who's worked hospitals all his life, said simply "the night shift is on"
> He also presents his math, related to cost per user in terms of revenue and reddits proposed API cost is 20x average reveneue per user in any similar business model plan.

he gets traffic and potential Ads views from reddit, and can't monetize it well enough. Sounds also not like reddit's problem.

> The numbers very much point towards malicious pricing. And they are, in so far as they are presented, indefensible.

this is pure handwaving without any supporting evidence. Counter-example has been provided: imgur charges similar price on standard plans.
Edge does make a lot of sense, but only if you’re actually talking about physical computers that need to exist at physical locations to do no-network/embedded systems/rtos without the cloud, but with a cloud-metrics or aggregation layer (or other apps) which explicitly do not need to be on a nearby computer to help the users, and often serve as a control plane for a set of edge resources. Think Tesla wanting to do BI on every car vs. having the car actually work for the user when they decide to drive through the network-disconnected wilderness.

Server side rendering or “single optimization” as the “edge” is kind of an abuse of terms.
AI will be used to increase profit for mega corps and this is basically the opposed to saving the world.
JXL and HEIC/HEIF support are in the changelog for Safari 17. If you download the iOS or iPadOS 17 beta, JXL will work in pretty much all apps.

I agree on giving the Chrome people some space, the title here is ridiculous.
> I have one (1) Windows PC and one (1) iDevice. Can I get these to sync? Or do I need an Android phone for that?

Yes. In Chromium-based browsers, at least. Your browser will display a QR code which you scan with your phone. Your phone will display a list of accounts you can sign in with, you select one, authenticate, and you're logged in. Firefox support isn't here yet.
At a complete guess, the non-pro model will arrive in around 2025. It will have the same M2 chip as the current one, and less or lower quality sensors/cameras, and maybe a cheaper and/or non-replaceable strap (I'd lean towards the former as selling extra straps will be something they'll want to profit on).

By the time it comes out the pro model will move to the M3 or M4. Storage will also be lower on the non-pro model, and you wont get the same level of sound quality (Which for 99% of people wont matter as they'll have Airpods being existing Apple users).

Apples historically launched pro products, and then when its ready for a performance and/or feature bump it's passed those old features down to the non-pro models. Think TouchID and FaceID for example.
This is such a great milestone. Congrats to the llama-index team!
I’m thinking an inotify hook could be created to run the script.
Launching Like Apple
<< The reality-shaping power of Apple's demo maestros is truly admirable.

One of the things we have dissected in our MBA class was Apple's Iphone reveal and how carefully choreographed[1] it was ( I am being very generous given my anti-Apple bias ). You could argue that Apple was simply lying since the product was not ready, but looking back, they were able to deliver on the promise of that reveal.

Oddly, it makes me somewhat hopeful that this product will work as well. I am not ready to shell out that cash on it just yet, but I will be looking at SDK as soon as they actually release it. Heavens protect me; I want to play with that toy.

[1]https://www.macrumors.com/2013/10/04/former-apple-engineer-g...
While we are at it [0]:

> The meanings specified in POSIX.1-2017 for the words shall, should, and may are mandated by ISO/IEC directives.

By those directives "should" indicates recommendation. [1]

> In POSIX.1-2017, the word should does not usually apply to the implementation, but rather to the application. Thus, the important words regarding implementations are shall, which indicates requirements, and may, which indicates options.

You also have to differentiate between any requirements for the argv argument when passed to one of the exec functions and the argv parameter received in main. Any requirement for the former constrains the application, but requirements for the latter constrains the implementation.

exec is indeed only documented in POSIX and OS specific documentations, but main is also documented in ISO C. Both POSIX and ISO C constrains the argv parameter of main not to be null. They don't require argc > 0 or argv[0] != null.

From [2]:

> [under exec] The argument argv is an array of character pointers to null-terminated strings.

This is a hard requirement, without "should". This implies that argv must not be null itself when passed to exec. This probably gives implementations the freedom to do whatever in this case, POSIX doesn't define the behavior. The requirement for argv[0] (which implies argc > 0) is merely a recommendation.

[0] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/xrat/V4_xbd...

[1] https://www.iso.org/foreword-supplementary-information.html
Falls, falls, falls!

You can avoid falls by not wearing socks or slippery slippers inside. Bare feet are less of a problem than wearing socks but wearing shoes is safest.
I thought crypto mixers were run by the Feds?
That's good to hear. If cross-platform sync is possible, passkeys are definitely a better option for the 95% of crud that currently lives in browsers' password managers.
You should try to convince me it’s worth signing up for before you ask for me to register.
Which was about a very stupidly communicated, but genuinely good intentioned misshap. Iphones older devices with old batteries had cases where they no longer could provide sufficient voltage to the phone and thus it would reboot randomly for people. To fix the issue, they decreased CPU frequency so that it would no longer drain so high peak power.

But they should have made it an option (it is one now on these devices) instead, they might have even come out good from it (as an android manufacturer wouldn’t even care about such an old device at the time).
Jobs that are customarily tipped (I'm thinking food service) have a lower minimum wage they're required to pay than other sorts of jobs. In those cases, the business owner is literally demanding that the customers subsidize their employee's wages.

I'll tip for those things because if I don't, it actively harms those employees. I'm 100% being extorted by the business, and I resent it greatly, but what else can I do (besides never going back).
Well, you could use your scripts to put the KPIs into a table, and then use a BI tool for your SLA reporting, but that will more than likely get quite expensive.

BI tools such as Looker, Tableau, Jaspersoft, etc., get very pricey very quickly.

If what you are doing is working, then stick with that, unless you absolutely need something more sophisticated.
Please reply indicating whether you agree or disagree with the following statement:

"The Cloudflare developer experience with miniflare is worse than that of Sandstorm."
If we followed this line of thinking, we'd all still be using BMP and GIF for everything.
> If it seems like he’s gushing, he is.

This is how he writes. If you ever read him on a topic where you are an actual expert, you’ll probably never bother reading him again.
And also to chime in on the most common argument for the "VR/AR for work" - the meetings. I actually DON'T need to see anyone's faces or avatars on the online meeting. I don't WANT to see them and I'm honestly tired of Zoom trying to shove me in my face their speaker thumbnails and constantly switching to full screen. I don't need that at all FOR WORK. For work I eithr want to see screen being shared pixel perfectly (so no floating pseudo screens in VR) or don't see zoom/meet interface at all, keep it in background and just listen, while doing work at the foreground.

VR people advertising to me a "real life like meetings along with a meeting room, whiteboard and full body avatars" are either clueless or delusional, because that stuff has actually a negative value FOR WORK. Sure, when you have something like an online party (yay... fun...) then seeing other can be entertaining. But not for actual work.
What is the effect in this study? The linked article has no info, not even the doi.
Excellent news! Congratulations!
Maybe, but I can't help but notice the "programmatic control" is over someone else's computer. Those who care the most about having programmatic control over their computers are also those who would rather send their prompts to their own GPU rather than an Azure server farm. I believe there will be a programming revolution built on the foundation of LLMs, but it won't really take off until we can use local LLMs for the bulk of the processing.
Toyota brings up good points worth considering.

> Toyota backed the Trump Administration’s lawsuit against California’s stringent emissions rules.

> News reports say the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (Calpers) and New York City’s public-worker pension funds have voted against Mr. Toyoda’s re-election

> The shareholder campaign against Toyota shows how public pension funds and the proxy advisory duopooly of Glass Lewis and Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) work in concert to exploit corporate governance to push progressive political goals.

Given CalPERS is a creation of the California government it seems that they are at least being consistent in supporting the legislative aims of the California government.
Yes, Apple with 10% of the PC market and 50% of phone market in the US is a “monopoly”

> That's probably the last time a phone from any maker had a distinguishing feature worth paying for.

Yet people by new phones every year. Every TV to a first approximation is a smart TV where you can control everything with an app.
My fear at not tipping at literally every Square/Clover terminal (coffee shop, sandwich shop, etc) is that the employee...who almost always vigilantly watches to see if I tap on one of the unavoidable tip options...may seek revenge for me not tipping. Doing something to the food, drink, whatever.

I feel like the whole modern POS system customer UX is designed to make the act of not tipping feel so overt, miserly, and risky.
Or it works for small amounts and then selectively fails for large amounts sent from wallets that already sent small amounts.
Compared to JPEG:

JPEG has been hitting its limits for an extended period:

JPEG can only do 8-bit color depth, no HDR.

JPEG can only do lossy, with no lossless support

JPEG lacks good compression for graphics images

JPEG cannot do alpha transparency

JPEG cannot do animations

JPEG does not support multiple layers

JPEG compression efficiency is 30 years old and not as good

JPEG comes with annoying compression artifacts we all love

Banding, Noise, Blockiness, and more banding.

For much more, here is a comprehensive overview: https://jpegxl.io/articles/faq/
That's rather unlikely, otherwise they wouldn't already ship it behind a feature flag.
This too. It's pretty important we focus on building a viable business (see current funding environment). Contrary to popular belief, building open source isn't free and takes time away from that effort. You have to make sure your stuff runs on the various platforms, you gotta triage issues...etc.

Now for certain products, such as databases, not being open is borderline a non-starter. But for many other infra categories, the customer doesn't purchase your product based on whether it is open source or not. For example, no one cares that Stripe, Twilio, or Plaid aren't fully open source. Customers just want the API to work.

Personally, I'd like to see Seam go more open as we get more resources/bandwidth. We've already published a few things (https://github.com/seamapi) and I'd like to do more over time such as publishing firmware, open connectors, backends you can run anywhere...etc.
Github link https://github.com/jerryjliu/llama_index
Now all that's left is to generalize that and start a movement where we kill Chrome by making commonly used JS frameworks deliberately perform orders of magnitude worse on Chrome. (I understand I'm being absurd and that your suggestion is not actively malicious like mine is because Chrome is being stubborn in this case.)
Ask HN: Ban All ByteDance and Tencent Domains
Some U.S. states have passed laws that ban apps and websites developed by ByteDance or Tencent Holdings on state devices and networks. Yet, none of them provide a list of domains to block. If you were asked to implement this block on your network, how would you do it? And, how would you create a list of domains owned by these companies? How would you keep it up2date and accurate?
My mistake, missed their reference to IPD.

I think it's automated? I guess with the eye tracking there's data for it to be able to center them.
A bunch of people have speculated that this was a CYA move. I mean, if you get hired as the Compliance Officer for a company which clearly has no interest in compliance and only hired you to give a facade of respectability, you probably want to have a paper trail indicating "I clearly communicated that this was against the law, and they ignored me" for when the cops inevitably come.
> Quest 2 is the best-selling headset to date. This Apple device will have an even smaller addressable market at the $3500 price.

I don't think they address the same market at all. Apple will sell their headset to people who already own an iPhone, an iPad or a Mac. This is a market on its own and it's not small. I wouldn't be surprised if 99% of Apple consumers never heard about the Quest 2 and don't care about VR headsets in general, but might still be interested in trying that new Apple device.
Agreed. If you pop into any dollar/pound type store the shelves are filled with cheap cables and car phone holders that use the 'i' name. It's become synonymous with cheap junk now.
I think total disconnection on weekends cause more stress on Mondays and that's why most people hate them, you need a lot more cognitive effort to resume work.
Related:

Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36201593 - June 2023 (2685 comments)

Also:

Apple Vision predictive bio-feedback - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36210133 - June 2023 (46 comments)

visionOS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36208735 - June 2023 (58 comments)

First impressions: Yes, Apple Vision Pro works and yes, it’s good - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36207705 - June 2023 (437 comments)

Apple's Vision Pro headset deserves to be ridiculed - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36204653 - June 2023 (130 comments)

Ask HN: At $3500 entry point who can afford Apple’s new Vision Pro headset? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36202898 - June 2023 (28 comments)

Apple reveals Vision Pro, a AR/VR headset unlike any other - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36200958 - June 2023 (53 comments)

Apple Vision Pro Is Apple's New VR Headset - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36200884 - June 2023 (156 comments)

Apple Reveals 'Vision Pro' Headset - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36200777 - June 2023 (159 comments)

Apple’s Vision Pro AR headset is finally here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36200708 - June 2023 (162 comments)
Apple's Vision Pro rips off the HoloLens, 7 years later
Since the page doesn't seem to load: https://archive.is/oRhu0
“I think at one point they were making it virtually impossible to replace components because they were serial locked.”

They are very much still doing that
Anecdote, but most often the employees I encounter will politely look away, or the terminal will be positioned in a way that it provides cover.
Trust the government fiercely to defend their right to other people’s wallets and prevent individuals from risking their money how they want.
I don’t think “lower dimension” is a pejorative, just, contrasting with the “higher dimension” claim.
Like, just literally a lower dimensionality (on account of the fractal dimension, where the metric dimension is less than the (integer) topological dimension)
> Newton, Power Mac Cube, iMac G4 "Sunflower", and solid gold first-gen Apple Watch come to mind as Apple hardware products that failed to live up to the hype.

No one seriously thought that the Apple Watch was going to be an iPhone size hit. It’s a complete straw man argument.
The carving is photographed here: https://static.cambridge.org/content/id/urn%3Acambridge.org%...

Via https://doi.org/10.1017/S1047759400005341