skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same. I got mine for $149 (down from $199) thanks to some discount deal they were running at Staples of all places. Looked nice, did all the basics (notifications, nav for when I was riding my motorcycle, quick replies, could install or create any watch face I wanted), and the battery lasted long enough that I only needed to charge for 30min in the evening if I was going out somewhere after work.

Eventually the battery died and I failed miserably at replacing it so it was toast. I figured there would be something new available in the few years since I'd bought it - maybe improved battery or a fix for the "flat tire" at the bottom of the display. But when I searched, all I found were either ugly plastic "omg sportz@!" designs or classier stuff for 2-3x the price.

Still haven't purchased another smart watch. It was bad enough dropping a couple hundred bucks for ~3 years of use. I can't imagine spending $400-600 for (at best) minor incremental updates.
Not really. VCs want growth, consumers want stability. A company can be profitable and stable and still die because VCs want ROI and hence growth and the growth potential of the existing market has been depleted.

Arguably, Pebble was an example of this. They initially presented the smartwatch as a productivity tool and many users loved it. But the productivity market was much smaller than the fitness market so they kept adding fitness related features. This eventually enabled them to be bought out by Fitbit (for a good exit) who saw no further use in the brand and killed it.

Another example is planned obsolescence: there's very little money in producing a product that has few returning customers because it continues to work fine for decades.

Saying "consumers" or "demand" or "your wallet" implies a level of agency and democratic control that isn't really there in practice. Consumers don't decide product success, profit and growth does. And consumers certainly don't get to make any direct decisions, they just get to pick through what has already been preselected for them.
He tends to be absent from D-related threads for some reason.
I don't think it's a matter of right or wrong - these are people who are behaving completely rationally given their context.

(I should caveat that I think if they get what they want, we all lose in a big way. Not that I think this is going anywhere)

We're coming up on the outer bounds of our systems of incentives. Captialism, as a system, is designed to solve for scarcity, both in terms of resources and in terms of skill and effort. Unfortunately, one of the core mechanisms it operates on is that it's all-or-nothing. You MUST find a scarcity to solve or you divorce yourself from the flow of capital (and starve / become homeless as a result).

Thus, artificial scarcity. It's easy to spot in places like manufacturing (planned obsolescence) IP (drug / software / etc patents) and so forth. I think this is just the rest of humanity both catching on and being caught up with. Two years ago, everyone thought they had a moat by virtue of being human. That's no longer a given.

One hopes that we'll collectively notice the rot in the foundation before the house falls over (and, critically, figure out how to act on it. We have a real problem with collective action these days that may well put us all in the ground).
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Since the way GPT "learns" is not materially similar to how a human learns, I don't see why this talking point is particularly relevant. Nothing stops the courts from distinguishing between an AI and a human with regard to what may be permissible.
Apple doesn't make product decisions (in terms of design/arch) six months before an announcement. The lead time for most Apple products is closer to 2-3 years.
All Microsoft needed to do is look to the Apple Music app to know how bad an idea building it on WebView is.

But, yeah, I wholeheartedly agree that they should either develop or use a native framework (Flutter perhaps?) rather than trying to shoehorn a technology that has never been very good for application development.
When you say "income based affirmative action" do you mean an increase in need-base grants and scholarships, which already exists, or giving someone preferential admissions treatment because their parents make less money regardless of academic ability?
Even if 100% of the court agreed, 9 people can't possibly represent 300 million in any representative way.

Even Congress with 535 representatives isn't many. One representative for each 600,000 citizens? When was the last time a thousand Americans agreed on anything, much less half a million?

We have one of the worst ratios in the world:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_legislatures_by_number...

Edit: And the SC isn't representative anyway. They're appointed by the elites for the benefit of the ruling party, and there's a lot of politicking for those seats. Way too much power and corruption -- for life. The institution itself is a problem.
If you take a photograph of someone else’s copyrighted work, that doesn’t make it a new piece. For example, look at how Valve is rejecting games that use AI generated art: https://twitter.com/simoncarless/status/1674285134374404096
>When asked about the extremely high concentration of PFOA and GenX in the waters around it, Chemours referred to a 2020 analysis by the RIVM that stated that there were no health risks. “Chemous did not mention that the RIVM used standards for this that are now outdated and have been significantly lowered by the RIVM,” Zembla said.

Surely the limit wasn't 13000x as high previously?
A proxy of zip code, maybe. That would be racially blind, a poor white kid in the midst of a poor black neighborhood would be just as likely to get in as their black neighbors would be.
> Ireland is currently bringing in an extremely draconian hate speech bill that doesn't clearly define what hate it, and makes it possible for an individual to make a citizen's arrest if they consider someone's speech hateful.

It's also redolent of the silly anti-abortion law passed in Texas that ultimately removed abortion rights in the US. Certainly on-brand for Ireland.
OpenAI Compensation Packages Are Unique Among Tech Companies
If colleges stop considering standardized tests in order to keep the number of Asians down, is that illegal? Could courts force colleges to keep using the SAT?
Got to the retype your password one and didn't copy beforehand. Not going through that again...
"the number of thefts had gotten so out of hand that facial recognition was needed."

The line has to be drawn somewhere.

Many places have outlawed facial recognition and refuse to prosecute property crimes below a given cost threshold.

This has turned retail theft into a free-for-all with some areas getting so bad that businesses are closing shop and leaving the city.
No, even with i one of the solutions is \tau = 0
Well Cuil has already been mentioned, there's A9.com and Quaero; on the open source side there's mozDex, notably Jimbo Wales failed twice with Wikia Search and then Knowledge Engine.
Im really not so sure. I've seen plenty of support for "affirmative action", just not based on race. Most people are more than ok with giving those in need an edge, given their situation, but many are against promoting a rich black person over a poor white one.

And sure, race can serve as a proxy, the black population in the United States is impoverished compared to the mean, but in the same way that it's not acceptable to take race as proxy when it comes to crime, it's not acceptable to do it when it comes to livelihood, in my opinion.
In PostgreSQL on the other hand there is no efficiency hit. A varchar(n) is on disk and in memory the exact same thing as a text.
But according to Fravor's report, the 2 planes were sent there by their ship because the radar at picked up something. So it means that if it is made up, it involves the 2 pilots and their 2 weapons specialist, plus an undetermined number of radar operators, and their chain of command in the USS Princeton who dispatched them.

So from my understanding, it was picked up by at least one type of sensor.

There is still a probability, there was an artifact on the radar, AND the crew then decided to make up a story, but, Alex Dietrich, the second pilot had just started a few weeks earlier, and it was her first real world mission. I don't think that typical people tries to do a prank on one of their first assignments, on the spot, more so with colleagues they don't know very well.

But it is still possible I guess, even if I have hard time what could be the motivation of everyone involved.
Then the headline should be: "Legacies are banned from top tier private schools".

Around 25% of admissions in Ivy League schools are legacies. Unsurprisingly, this does not seem to outrage certain parts of society that much.
Thanks for pointing that out, it looks that my knowledge was a bit outdated.

It looks like the 0-RTT thing only work for connection resumption so it will only work if the user has already visited the site before.

Still, even without it, TIL that since TLS1.3, there's only a single round-trip and not two in the TLS handshake.
At top elite schools fewer blacks, fewer Latinos. Slightly fewer whites. More Asians.

In relative numbers it probably impacts less than .1% of all students one way or another.
Doesn't GNU already have a protocol for this? It would be great if they used that. Hopefully they'll make it FOSS
> I hope it leads to some clear laws regarding data privacy and how TOS is binding

I hope it leads to more people realizing that a TOS doesnt override their individual rights and that the legal system works to support them.
BBC Science Focus isn’t bad.
To add to my reply, it appears that - rather than "plummeting" since 2011 - homeownership went up even more recently and actually peaked in 2019:

> About two in three Canadians lived in an owner-occupied home in 2022. Since 2017, the home ownership rate in Canada has fluctuated and in 2019, it peaked at approximately 68.6 percent. In 2022, this figure was slightly lower, at 66.5 percent.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/198969/home-ownership-ra...
I worked with F# for about 3 years and the sentiment of most F# developers after using it in anger, including myself, is "I don't want to go back to C#". In my opinion, it didn't win significant market share because Microsoft didn't want it to. This goes even further back than 2010. I don't know if it's because F# was open source and C# was not, as Microsoft's FOSS stance hadn't really come around yet till what, 2016?
https://archive.is/Wayn5
FTC issues illuminating report on digital dark patterns (September 2022)
Pardon but what are SBC costs?
Worth noting that while affirmative action has been banned, we still have proxies for race (aka legacy admissions) which overwhelmingly favor rich and white students. And given the historical discrimination of elite universities, this ban on affirmative action without addressing legacy admissions or historical harm will only increase the number of white students at universities. We can't pretend that eliminating race based admissions will serve the greater interest without addressing past (and current) systems of white supremacy.

Link to demographics on legacy admissions: https://www.culawreview.org/journal/legacy-admissions-an-ins...
> This means that foreign-trained doctors (as an example) can easily get a federal visa to enter the country, but the province will refuse to recognize their medical training, forcing these skilled immigrants to work low-skill jobs instead. It is not rare to find foreign-trained engineers working as taxi-drivers or for PhD-holders to be slinging coffee.

That's not the whole picture... Friend of mine is a doctor here in the Bay Area, originally trained in Ontario. There are agreements with some countries to transfer licenses (how he was able to practice here in America). Quebec, for instance, has agreements with France and Switzerland. When someone comes in with medical credentials from a jurisdiction where there's no special agreements, they simply have the candidate take the same exams as the medical students (which, should they be as qualified as they claim, shouldn't be hard). He told me the pass rate was abysmal for foreign trained candidates.

Apparently, it's the same for engineers (and is one of the reasons a lot of them end up trying to break into software since it's unregulated).
Maybe, and it's a good case study to compare F# vs. C# with Java vs. Scala to understand why Scala seems to have higher penetration than F#.

In my opinion, and I mean this in the broadest way possible, the average C# developer is probably less motivated to learn a new language than the average Java developer. That's because C# developers are prescribed by Microsoft what to do, and Microsoft could deliver a productive-enough experience with C# + .NET Framework + Visual Studio for a long long time.

Java's fractured IDE story and runtime (OpenJDK vs. HotSpot) I think lead to a higher concentration of programming language people looking at the JVM as a viable target to build a better experience on top of, so we got Groovy, Scala, Kotlin, (anyone remember Xtend?), IDEA, Eclipse, etc...

The bazaar produced and embraced a functional programming language whereas the cathedral treats F# as thunderdome for new C# features.
it's one thing when third parties do this, and quite another when it's the operating system manufacturer. it's as though Microsoft doesn't want Microsoft Windows users to feel good about being Microsoft Windows users when they use their Microsoft software from within Microsoft Windows.
If you agree with this decision on the grounds of supporting meritocracy, consider that the real travesty with regards to meritocracy in college admissions are legacy admissions.
To hear them?
> primarily coming from decreases of nonwhite students

Given the actual numbers, its more likely that the largest number of applicants negatively affected by this will be white, in absolute terms.
I appreciate your sacrifice and thank you for the review. I won't waste my time.
For the case of resource usage, you can see work like https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-81685-8_... "Synthesis with Asymptotic Resource Bounds" which implements bounded resource checking. Of course, there are programs it rejects that it can't prove, but this is the essence of type systems: if you are willing to appease the typechecker, then you can establish facts about runtime properties.

For your case, there may be a simpler dependently-typed solution: in such systems, you can already say things like "given an input natural number n determined at runtime, this functions returns a vector of size n", which bounds the result vector size. One approach could be to disallow explicit memory allocation and require passing a memory allocator as a parameter along with the associated "request" number bounding how many allocations you can do, in a similar dependently-typed way.
Well, that's the end of that.
And you’re using a throw away to make unsubstantiated claims without reference. You’ve given no reasons to take your comments as made in good faith.
If true, an in-person English fluency and personality interviewing process, even a supposedly race-blind one, tends to skew heavily against a majority of, but not all, Asian college applicants.

That’s probably what your theoretical proxy will look like, if you’re correct.
What are you looking for in learning a new language ?
> has anyone who complains about systemd actually written a unit file vs an init script?

Yes, I've written quite a lot of both. My objection to systemd isn't really the init system replacement. It's OK (although I really don't prefer it over the System V style). My real objection to it is everything else about it.

> And all your logs are in journald

JournalD is an example of one of the "everything else" that I strongly dislike.
> he literally did

He literarily, both in the traditional (literally) and modern (figuratively) meanings, did not.

Stating that the page is the source for the information summarised does not mean the same as claiming all/most of the information in the page specifically refers to those cases.
> I would like to see lotteries used for this type of thing, because they would be much easier to accept.

Advocates for a new admissions system at TJHSST proposed a merit lottery. Conservative advocates called it racist and the proponents "enemies of excellence" in precisely the same way that they did for the eventually implemented system. A similar response would happen if applied to universities.

I think that merit lotteries are excellent and work much more effectively than the ordinary things people to do increase diversity (which often focuses on aesthetics rather than actually changing things). But we are kidding ourselves if we think that they won't face precisely the same resistance.
I only hear complaints from either side when the tables are turned against them. When its in their favor it's just the right thing to do.
Proofs do not have to be of the form "This will never use more than 64 bytes of memory". You can prove that something will use x times 32 bytes of memory, or a polynomial value based on x, or whatever you have. Then you have to decide if that meets your needs or not.

But this is also where they get tricky. You can have a proof that a particular sort function will never use more than twice the memory of what you pass in, and then you can combine that with a proof that some other bit of code will never have more than 10 elements, and that produces a proof that you only need 20 element's worth of memory for that upper function... but across an entire program, what sounds cute and useful in my little example here becomes its own monster of complexity. So far it is not yet clear to me that it constitutes an improvement on the underlying program.
Arguably, the main thing standing in the way of a global digital identity scheme is Android fragmentation. From a strategy perspective, Google is probably getting pressure to solve that problem from it's "stakeholders."

The case for the Pine phone and other divergent devices is incredibly urgent.
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Car drivers are used to constantly breaking the law, endangering pedestrians and other road users and seeing zero consequences. Even in cases of hit and run homicides, the driver rarely faces jail time. https://abcnews.go.com/US/hit-run-drivers-kill-people-jail-t...

Technology could play a big role in ensuring people actually follow the rules and are held accountable for criminal negligence causing injury or death.
HL2 is a huge UX upgrade, you don't have to look at something to click on it, it's all hand based. Was hoping a HL3 would have the hardware specs to make it more viable to use, really just more FOV and I'd be using it for floating screens while working. Such a shame they cancelled the team and project
> No need to fall into us vs them rhetoric

Sure. My point is that there is a lot of pig-lipstick application when you get generously offered two minutes at the end of an interview to ask questions. Not because they are sociopaths, I think a lot of it comes out of a sense that they should not bad mouth their employer, or that they have to seduce candidates or they won't come.

> you can just say the truth in a way that does not sound like you blame everyone but yourself

People are generally bad at interviewing. You might get lucky and find someone who has the finesse to understand the situation you were in and how it's not generally relevant to your performance in their own context - in my opinion and based on a significant number of data points, I wouldn't risk it. I have heard interviewers in debriefs for developer roles telling that the candidate wasn't motivated because they weren't looking at the camera or because they didn't ask strong questions during the last of 4 interviews, or that they were lacking a sense of humour because they didn't laugh at their joke, or that they had a weak personality because they were anxious during the interview.
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I can't remember seeing Greenspun's Tenth Rule invoked so literally.
OWC makes rack-mount kits for the Mac Studio.
It is not that strict. Many years ago machine code was directly loaded into memory and wherever the cpus program counter was, that's what it'd execute.

These days, a page of memory can be set to

Read
Write
Execute

The exploit mitigation you refer to is having the program typically set pages of memory to never have both write and execute set at the same time.

However, this is ultimately controlled by the program. On Linux, the program can invoke the os call 'mprotect' to change the permissions on a page (though a program can also voluntarily use seccmp routines to forego ever invoking this ever again)

And this is basically what browsers do. They compile the code into memory that has been set to 'write' (but not execute) and proceed to then set it to execute (but not write).

The effectiveness of this mitigation is mitigated by the existence of ROP techniques, which is why Intel started introducing Control-flow Enhancemnent Technology (CET), which is intended to ensure you can only branch to certain locations in memory.
> but if the C library provided one then the effort to do it well only needs to happen once.

It would've happened only once, but in 1987, and then we would've stuck with it, because every body relies on the exact behavior.

Just look at `rand()`, it's basically unusable.
As far as I remember Luddites were smart and not against all technology, they were just protecting their jobs. And they were ultimately right.

Why? Except for the longshoremen in the US getting compensation and an early retirement due to the introduction of containers, I know of exactly 0 (ZERO!) mass professional reconversions after a technological revolution.

Look at deindustrialization in the US, UK, Western Europe.

When this happens, the affected people are basically thrown in the trash heap for the rest of their lives.

Frequently their kids and grandkids, too.
I agree with this, but I still think it has benefit, if only giving a lot of skill to the dev pulling it off. It’s a trade off of course. I myself like writing and reading it more, and I detest ‘move fast, break many subtle things you will find out only after it’s too late’. I carved out niches for myself that are hard but fulfilling and I don’t really need to worry about spending months on something some ‘gunslinger’ can put together in 3 days as my clients like long term robustness. There are devices out there 2-10 years and replacement is painful, so let’s not. We see cases with clients (I wish I could name: you will know some of them) were they have a server in the cloud and client in embedded hardware and needing to replace all devices because either client or server or both popped a security issue that would mess certification.

It is also expensive to fix things without hardware: everything is iso/pci and needing recertification to changing anything. So the 100k you spend for going for perfection pays off. So far at least.
I agree, Common Lisp is crufty but really stands the test of time. I have been using Common Lisp since about 1982 and old code still runs fine.

My relative use of Lisp languages: Common Lisp 60%, Racket 20%, Haskell 5%, Clojure 5%, and various other Schemes 10%. Unfortunately since most of my work in the last 8 years has been deep learning, LLMs, LLM chains, etc., I spend a little over half my time now using Python. So it goes...
My ex would leave on GPS tracking when we'd go out so he could re-draw his route later, and his Apple Watch would almost always be dead before dinner. Just my N+1 anecdata, and he was using an older (Series 3?) model.
I totally forgot I had yahoo mail account. Will try to sign in again
Comparing AI-Labeled Data to Human-Labeled Data
In my country already 80% of all transactions are electronic. I personally haven't used cash in ages.
There's nothing to attempt we've been living this way for a long time and nothing bad has happened. Just don't vote for a Christian fascist party led by a narcissist moron.