skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the land can be almost anywhere. the point is that people shouldn't forced onto tiny reservations. Land should be abundant enough to allow the cost to be low enough for everyone to easily afford, as well as it's rent (property taxes).
The Nova Kakhovka Hydroelectric dam in Ukraine has been blown open - 12 hours ago (267 comments)
Meh, I'm no bull but I also don't think "cryptos are mostly useless" is accurate. I believe there are solid use cases for distributed global ledger and digital replacement for cash. Is Bitcoin the winning/best manifestation? I doubt it, we likely need something much more energy efficient (like Chia is trying to be). But I don't think the idea is bust. It just isn't as overwhelmingly applicable as people dreamed it might be. We're trying out use cases, vetting the good ones and sometimes painfully learning the which ones were stupid or bad ideas. And once all the speculation settles, I do think true currency is still a viable one. Logistics and markets are another, etc.
Context is important. Ski googles look OK because they make functional sense, because everyone needs some kind of eye protection while skiing. You'd look ridiculous wearing them anywhere but at a ski resort.

It's an open question whether these will fit into their intended social contexts, whether that's the office, home, or public. If anywhere, I'd guess they wouldn't look weird in an office or on a single person at home (since there is nobody to look at them), but not in public or in a family setting.
It's an AND statement, not an OR statement. You can append to a CSV file efficiently, but while flexibility is context-dependent and ease of use is very subjective, we can assume the GP knows their own use case).
For me, the Macbook Pro 14 with a 10-core M1 Pro I am typing on has my favorite keyboard and trackpad I've ever used on a laptop (2nd place was the 2013 MBP and this feels the same). It has the best display I've ever set eyes on.

The battery life is the best of any laptop I have ever used by far.

And the performance for number crunching is as high as any x86 machine I had previously and per watt it blows everything out of the water. And it is dead silent while doing so, whereas every x86 'work' powered laptop I ever used would wind up sounding like a jet engine with my workloads.

So for someone who runs linux.. if they want to run it on hardware that is this nice (to me at least)... this is it. This is worth it. It's worth developing for.

Also, Apple is going to stick with the M-series SOC's for a long time now that they have switched. And they tend to keep hardware interfaces for a long time too. So the development of Asahi now will bear fruit for... at least the next decade I'd say.

I still use OSX for daily activities, but the kernel Asahi is developing may be my plan to stretch this 2021 M1 MBP 14 out hopefully to the year 2030, as MacOS moves on. My 2013 intel i7 Macbook Pro made it to 2021... 8 years of daily use and world travel. I was beyond the moon with that product performance and I'm expecting similar from these new macbooks based on my current 1.5 years of use.
Since at least 2020
> Drawing is a task that is more like aiming

A new platform certainly doesn't have to be better at every task.

Even 20 years ago, a professional digital illustrator wouldn't try to draw everything on screen with a mouse, they would have a tool more suited to the task, like a Wacom tablet.
Good question. As a non-racer who enjoys watching racing, I'd imagine at least some accelerometers/gyros and load cells if they got them, and possibly Pitot tubes or similar for measuring aerodynamics when testing, to get a detailed understanding on the forces on the car and how it behaves. Motor currents probably up there too, to catch current spikes.

Curious to see how far off I am :)
I am on macos 13.3.1 and have noticed this feature for at least a couple of months, maybe longer. It says Charging On Hold (Rarely Used On Battery)
"You don't know if you were gonna have a life changing epiphany next week or not!!!"

The radical changes in mentality from psychedelics is well documented.
Not understood but documented.
"I've seen this bear before but never with a camera" ... I think I'd be tempted to try taking the camera and possibly editing whatever its storage contained.

The thought of its handlers getting their eagerly awaited card back and discovering porn and "Paddington" on it makes me giggle.
I don't think the things you're reacting too are indicative of the brand of tech running the social network. It's the people. It's always been the people.

Keep a social network small and concentrated on a single topic? Less garbage and it's easier to deal with. But there's less innovation and excitement.

The opposite? The opposite.
Show HN: I built an on-device LLM based chatbot for iPhones
I’ve been playing around with local LLMs for the past couple of months and decided to build something that can run on an iPhone. It’s a universal app built with SwiftUI and the excellent ggml library. The model is an SFT fine tuned and 4 bit quantised version of the RedPajama-INCITE-Chat-3B-v1 OSS LLM. It works reasonably well on recent-ish (~3 year old) iPhones, iPads and Macs. It was launched on the App Store yesterday[1] and Product Hunt today[2]. It seems to be reasonably ok at natural language interactions, but given its size, does pretty badly at coding and reasoning. Also, it sometimes hallucinates after a few back and forth messages. The fine tuning for natural language Q&A seems to have made the base model’s already bad performance on coding tasks, even worse. I’ll add a few App Store promo codes in a comment below, if anyone would like to try it out.

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[2]: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/personal-gpt
At Google, that’s definitely not true. Our C code crashes way more often than our Java code.

Memory management is harder than just remembering to free. It requires a deep understanding of ownership, lifetimes, and threading. That is hard at scale unless it is built into the language.
Yeah, so features that don't have strong reasons to get implemented have a hard time being advocated for.
Judging from his other tweets, he seems really into crypto and making art projects out of crypto tech.

I can't say I really understand the art - and I went to school with him, had the same professors, etc. I'm just scratching my head when I read his tweets.

But well: he's worth many millions and I still have housemates so I guess capitalism has crown him in the lead.
It just does not work that way for me.
Key product learnings from Ryan Singer
Tips are a percentage. Therefore, they track inflation perfectly. Even without any changes a 15% tip today should still be more in terms of raw dollars than a 15% tip ten-years ago.

We're getting hit with double inflation: Literal inflation (causing tips to be higher at the same percentage) but on top of that percentage inflation.

This is something I miss about Europe. They just paid workers a fair wage, prices weren't misleading (by 20% or more), and there's no odd pitting customer Vs. [lower] workers going on. Feels like an intentional technique to deflect blame, get high margins via low wages, and to make it "those darn customers just aren't double-dipping enough by paying you AND me!!!"

Service workers are very pro-tipping. The problem they have is that all this is causing huge tipping burnout and making questions about how arbitrary tipping itself is gain popularity (e.g. why aren't I tipping the cook? Or for my oil change? etc). It is going to backfire.
> ANy normal thinking human realize the one enforcing rules, must obviously also tell what rules are ok or not

I do agree that things should be this way. In some countries, it is much more clear. In the US, it is very much not like this. Nobody can list everything that is unlawful. You can only pay for opinions.

It sucks, but it's not some unique quirk or the SEC or whatever.
I really don't know what you're trying to argue here.

Yes, that spec places additional requirements on top. But looking at just the C spec is apparently enough to find a violation here, and that's relevant! (Especially because the C spec doesn't say "should".)

People wanting to point that error out doesn't mean they're failing to grasp anything.
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Since it’s a universal app, redeeming a promo code on the iOS App Store will also get you the macOS app, and vice versa.
> 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.

I don't know what it is about crypto that makes HN commentators want to make the most ridiculous, put-downy statements without evidence to back it up.

Crypto is not mostly useless, it is just that people don't like the uses. crypto is absolutely massive for avoiding capital controls in countries with inflation, etc.
Going public regs is not about validating business practices, it’s about validating disclosures to investors. Entirely different things.
One API to connect with the hundreds of IoT devices is brilliant.

How long do you think you'll have to write the integration code, versus having people look to integrate with your platform proactively?
JPEG XL is significantly more efficient at both lossy and lossless compression than any of the alternatives.
I think the hangup with BTC as a commodity is that I can make a loaf of bread with wheat and eat it and the amount of wheat in the world is depleted as a result. Similarly I can use gold to build a cell phone or some jewelry and while it is possible to recover it isn't as simple as trading BTC. How is a BTC consumed?
Also he keeps telling companies to reach out to him about this tech so he can make that sweet sweet consultant money, so I'm guessing he's still onboard.
>There's absolutely nothing mediocre about how Mexico has developed their economy

LOL, what? Do you speak from experience? Because I do. Watch this [1], that's the mentality of the average individual who has enough interest into science and tech to attend an astronomy congress. You're looking at the top of the distribution, it's downwards from there.

>in spite of the absolutely absurd geographical logistics problems that they're faced with

Ok, you may be just trolling right now. Mexico has amazing geographical and logistical advantages:

* 3,000+ kms of border with the largest economy in the world, plenty of goods that go from/to the US, go through Mexico

* Access to both the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans

* 14th largest country by area, the vast majority of land is (or could be at least) productive

* Great weather the whole year, fresh water and rain

* Not hit by natural disasters as much as other places in the world

What are you talking about?

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAwiyS5aTcU
Correct. An existential risk is something that threatens to wipe out all of humanity - "extinction risk" would probably be a better term.
What informs your view? Because https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusian_League doesn't sound anything like the eugenics movement.

Modern birth control started in the mid 20th century with the combined oral contraceptive pill. Rice-Wray, from what I can tell, saw it as a way for poor families to be able to voluntarily plan the number of children they have.

I don't see how that's informed by eugenics.

What do you see as "eugenics"?

What do you see as '"modern" birth control'?

> As an example of the “Malthusian mindset” in 1954

"Malthusian" has multiple meanings. The Malthusian League Wikipedia entry says: "The organisation maintained that it was concerned about the poverty of the British working class and held that over-population was the chief cause of poverty".

This is in accord with what Malthus wrote. Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusianism#Early_history , Mathus' "criticism of the working class's tendency to reproduce rapidly, and his belief that this, rather than the exploitation of their labour by capitalists, led to their poverty, brought widespread criticism of his theory."

The Malthusianism page goes on to quote: "Though Malthusianism has since come to be identified with the issue of general over-population, the original Malthusian concern was more specifically with the fear of over-population by the dependent poor"

You quoting someone in 1954 doesn't mean it's the same as the goals of the Malthusian League some 80 years previous.

I have so many disagreements with the position of the Catholic church - sex outside of marriage, sex by teens, abortion, the role of women in the church, gay marriage, co-habitation, and so much more - that I don't see the point of trying to understand its official views of birth control.
New Emergency Google Chrome Security Update Zero-Day Exploit Confirmed
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> e includes base support for the M2 Pro/Max/Ultra SoC

Does this mean Apple gave them prerelease hardware early? Might apple start helping these guys more - like for example donating a 5 person dev team for a few months maybe?
Other things that come to my head:

- truedepth 3d camera and lidar

- 3d scene reconstruction

- arkit framework

- wifi 6 for higher bandwidth

- Uwb sensor with Proximity and orientation detection

- high fps motion sensors

- game controllers support for dualshock and joycons

- ultra low latency audio on iOS (since like forever - android improved but still behind)
? Bitcoin is down 5% since Binance was sued...
I was chatting with someone I know that has a paid subscription for ChatGPT 4. I was venting about the hallucinations I was getting for a certain problem; they mentioned how much better v4 is, and proceeded to plug my prompt into it. The answer it gave was actually a more blatant lie compared to the responses I got from v3.5.
Not that it's really relevant to your point, but imgur is not owned by the same company as reddit.

Reddit is owned by advanced publications which is a huge media conglomerate. Sort of. They have the largest stake in reddit. Reddit spun off of conde nast a few years ago.

imgur is owned by medialab who also own things like kik and worldstar.
Chrome doesn't forcibly convert images to WebP.
Commodities are usually raw/close-to-raw inputs into some process. Bitcoin doesn’t really meet that, but again the whole point is recent technological innovations haven’t really settled into the language yet.

And again, that is by design of both the instruments themselves and the massive PR campaigns/grifts around them.

The whole trick is attempting to position these things as “the half of the definition of commodity that means this has intrinsic value but not the other half of the definition which says it’s a raw input,” or “the half of the definition of a security that means You Can Make Money, but not the other half that says I can be regulated as someone selling a You Can Make Money instrument.”
I didn't mean to compare JPEG XL to JPEG. I'm more curious if there is any advantage to JPEG XL over WebP or AV1.
I think it's also a clever way to compare performance to other, non-Apple Intel machines--without mentioning them.
> control of the narrative

This also kills off apps like 'removeddit' that sheds light on rampant moderator abuse - it will be even _harder_ to see what the moderators have been up to behind the scenes after this, which is an aspect of the narrative that reddit has been trying to get a handle on for quite a while now.
Thanks, that solved the issue. For some reason I always forget that reader mode is a thing, specially on mobile where they are even more effective.
TBH this is what all ML researcher / engineers have wanted for the past 10 years.
Plus it will take 5-7 years for Android (Google) or Microsoft to get the rest of the industry to come together for creating / replicating a device of this calibre or maybe not at all.
Quantum visualization technique gives insight into photosynthesis
> a better user interface

As somebody, who are changing between top iOS and Android phones all the time, I don’t see that much real difference in the same price category.
It isn't a huge fine for a one time thing but for doing it for years after being told to stop.

Parks are public property but there are lots of rules about what can be done to keep it available for all. What do you think about a guy standing in park yelling obscenities while kids soccer game is going on? Who keeps doing it after police tell him to stop and give him fine, and the fines eventually total some huge amount and he is banned from the park.
I simply never tip. If I get asked for a tip before they've even done anything, I definitely don't tip. I'm not American so I just blame it on cultural misunderstandings.
Except I'd replace "whims" with "reasoning".
Alliance of Open Media, the multi-company consortium that develops and promotes AV1 and AVIF.
Nope, I'm never going to tip for takeout.
I put a lot of blame on the new POS 'self checkout' style that Square and Toast popularized. These let you configure the system to default add the tipping prompt, and it detaches the service provider from the self consciousness of asking for a tip at inappropriate times. Previously, there were only a few times when a consumer would be prompted for a tip in an official capacity - i.e. from a server at a restaurant - now, it can be institutionalized with the push of an admin button in some backend web console that any finance person can push and configure.
This is an excellent point.

I've been accused of being an Nvidia "fanboy" when I touch on this. I attempt to explain:

"Nvidia made the very hard, very expensive commitment to developing and supporting CUDA 15 years ago when this space was in it's infancy (non-existent). They SUNK incredible resources into this gamble/vision to universally support CUDA on every chip and every platform - for 15 years. They didn't achieve their position through shady dealings or luck, they earned it with a decade and a half of investment, focus, and execution."

Granted, they do somewhat abuse the position they have now (as often noted on HN and elsewhere). At the risk of whataboutism I ask: "Show me a corporation that wouldn't. Do you think if AMD had their market share they'd be nice, cuddly good guys?" Microsoft, Intel, Nvidia, Standard Oil, the Phoebus cartel, etc - it goes on and on. Always has and always will. Of course I'm not saying it's a good thing, it's just a fact of the real world.
> Reddit makes 12c per user per month and are asking for about 2.5$ per user per month for 3rd parties.

How did you arrive to 12c and $2.5? Also, is it expensive? Okta for example charges $2 just for sign in: https://www.okta.com/pricing/

> more expensive hosting option.

this is again your speculations without any evidence. Reddit is much more complicated product with img and video hosting.
> Their concerns are also valid: "we don't want to expose users to security-sensitive code without significant benefit for the users".

It's possible to sandbox these things. Firefox sandboxes some native libs, by compiling to WebAssembly, then back to C.
It's obviously gambling and should be regulated as such: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/17/cryptocur...

Commodities have real-world uses (e.g. gold, oil, frozen orange juice), securities represent a claim on some productive enterprise. Cryptocurrency is neither.
Yep that’s closer to the reality IMO! Edited :)
How well does the concrete end up mixed? I'd be really concerned that it would be a big pile of hollow concrete shells around powder that never came in contact with water.
Soldered in memory is a key part of why apple hardware is lower power, smaller, and higher memory bandwidth than the x86-64 counterparts. Sure 2 dimms on a mac mini, or mba wouldn't hugely change the form factor. However 4 dimms, 8 dimms, or 16 dimms would. Unlike the AMD and Intel product lines apple does actually provide 2x, 4x, and 8x the memory bandwidth with basically no compromise on power usage, physical size, or noise.

Sure AMD Epyc, Intel Xeon, Threadripper Pro and similar to improve memory bandwidth, but at a substantial penalty in size and power.
a productive day at the NY Post posting flamebaity articles meant to pit workers / middle classers against each other, entirely ignoring the fact that the minimum wage they refer towards as disqualifying the need for tipping has not been raised in fourteen years and still places workers well below the poverty line.
Do use a pseudonym if you're going to call any of your past/present coworkers muppets, particularly if the name fits ;)
Quick search showed this thread (maybe its that one?):
https://mastodon.social/@UP8/110492207881449484
Point of sale extortion. You must tip or risk getting an ugly glare, incompetent service, delayed food, cold food, etc...

It is part and parcel of the general breakdown in civility after Covid. You don't have to go far online to see videos of thieves blatantly walking out of stores. Petty crime has gone up everywhere. Speeding cars are everywhere. Demanding crowds are everywhere.
This might seem crazy, but I can imagine a world where the first time my browser encounters a file of some new format it gives me the option to download a codec to render it and it doesn't matter if it's google software or not, just that it's signed with a trusted cert.
It was obvious to a lot of people who were wondering what was taking regulators so long.
Universal basic income: Plans drawn up for £1,600 a month trial in England
A better solution for what?

Why would that change anything about tipping at all? This isn't driven by wage pressure that much, and relieving that wage pressure won't keep it from being a runaway cultural norm that spirals out of control.

Even if I were in favor of minimum wage hikes, I wouldn't think this would change it much. There was a picture the other day on reddit of a self-checkout kiosk asking for tips. Would minimum wage fix that one, do you think? If I get a soda at Sonic, the phone app asks me if I'd like to leave a tip. Can I be sure the employees even receive those? Will minimum wage hikes help guarantee the employees receive those?

When a waitress at the chain steak restaurant receives far above minimum wage in tips, will bumping her $2/hour wage to $12/hr be any significant increase for her? Will she start turning down tips and chasing people in the parking lots to give them back their $20s and $50s?
The cultural norm will be to not go to restaurants anymore, and continue to clamp down on luxury items until the other costs of living no longer price us out.

Something’s gotta give, and it’ll be things like the restaurant industry that are the first to go. The slow evaporation of the middle class has measurable consequences.
I've never encountered a segfault in Python that wasn't caused by interacting with C code. Is that claim even true about Java? unless it's a bug in the JVM itself, I'd be really really surprised to see an actual memory-related error arise from user-written code in any popular GCed language.
happy to pay higher prices...instead of tipping. Tipping still supports the system, and there's way too many horror stories of managers/owners stealing tips.

It's just a bad system.

Just raise prices. Stop adding fees, pushing tipping, etc.
- In my own testing JPEG XL demolishes AVIF and WebP in terms of bitrate at my desired quality, particularly for artifacts around sharp edges.

- This can (in theory) be solved in other formats by improving the encoder, but the current jxl encoder is pretty much "set it and forget it" in terms of getting a good quality; other encoders are far more variable (e.g. I would use a different quality setting for B&W vs color and line-art vs photo).

- In others' testing (I don't use this feature) JXL has better lossless compression.