skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was planning to buy a phone last year, it could have gone either way, iOS or Android. After a lot of analysis, I settled on iOS for my needs, and while I like Android UX more, there just weren't any good options at the time. My previous two phones were OnePlus, but they have also gone to shit, and last year's Pixel also didn't get any good reviews. And now I'm planning to buy an Apple Watch for its health features.

I'm using Ubuntu on an old HP laptop right now which is working fine for me, but maybe, far off into the future, I will buy one of those Macbooks. I just don't like Apple's software, but as an overall package they're good and I don't see any better options right now, I wish there were better options, like something with Apple's hardware, but with better software.
In New Zealand, there's often the inexplicable closeup of a flower or art display. "Hey, check this out, I bet you couldn't live without this, eh?"

Keep working on those art house photos, Sandra. But maybe keep them out of the listings, hmm?
Oh right, it's those open source kernel guys. Has nothing to do with incentives to sell phones being aligned with business/profit (i.e. avoiding a phone to be usable well across the 5+ years mark).
I'm so torn on if I should buy APPL.

They have a Nike/Coke kind of grip on the market. But that kind of stuff can flip on a dime if Apple begins to be 'not cool'. They have survived releasing bad products(butterfly keyboards and bad antennas). They survived from being the cool thing young adults use and migrated over to the phone your mom uses.

I really can't see any obstacles for their domination of the Veblen good tech market. And that market is incredibly profitable, where Asus has significantly tighter margins.

I'll probably end up buying some total market ETF since even 100k in a good performing Apple is only ~7-15% per year, 7k-15k... but the risk is insane. Even when I bought Google after the Bard PR flop, I still only made a 10% return in 2 months, and I probably had heart palpitations doing it.
It's one of those websites that have a shelf life of five minutes.

It's hilarious! I can't believe those are real pictures taken by real realtors! It wears off pretty quickly.

And as is typical for these websites, eventually they get under pressure to keep producing new content even when they don't have any actual bad realtor pics on hand, so they start reaching.

What do you expect them to do if the property is still inhabited by the current tenant/owner? The doors both say "Diana," so what?
I'd say the valuation is related to its services in that Apple's good reputation is based on consistent services. But it's certainly not proportional. Number goes up because everyone who sells demands to make a profit, just like with houses.
You can extract a lot of money from a company by torching its reputation. It takes people a while to catch on that they can't trust a company anymore. Buy a company, remove all the costs that give them their competitive advantage, then profit off the reputational arbitrage until it's burned to the ground.
I had a similar experienced, though I'm biased by being related to an agent, but having worked with good ones and bad ones, there can be a difference. Bad agents are glorified door unlockers and sign placers, but good ones have experience marketing, know the market well enough to make recommendations, help with staging and making a property attractive, and advocating for their client during sales. If the game was different, maybe they'd be redundant, but a good agent is a real ally and can move a house quickly.
Not at all, given the way Google is pushing it on Android, they are even mischievous enough to compare Kotlin with Java 6 when going on about why Kotlin.

For all practical purposes ART has turned into the Kotlin Virtual Machine.

However it so happens, that to keep the advantage of using Java libraries in the Android ecosystem, they actually need to support newer Java libraries unless they feel like rewriting all of them into Kotlin.

So Android 12 and 13 got a subset of Java 11 LTS, and Android 14 is getting Java 17 LTS support.

That doesn't change the reasoning that Android is all about Kotlin nowadays, unless one is writing platform code itself.
Total guesswork as I don't know the guy, but my suspicion as an observer is the money from selling Reddit and Hipmunk was peanuts, he has lots of wealthy friends, and the IPO is a good chance at a big win, despite the downsides.
Yep, and thankfully the FAA will allow you to fly with undiagnosed untreated ADHD but not with treated ADHD. Because the NTSB gets bored, I guess.
I've seen plenty of posts on Twitter, Medium, on the Fedora mailing list, and elsewhere by individual contributors and industry veterans (some of whom had storied careers at Red Hat) who are not happy with Red Hat's decision.
Bookwyrm is a great alternative I’ve been using. It’s built on activitypub so you can follow accounts from Mastodon or kbin or whatever, and can even spin up your own server if you want.

https://joinbookwyrm.com/
It's more complicated than that: in Europe, the brand has been licensed to La Maison française du verre (which is the latest name of a company that has changed names many times in the past decades) which is still selling borosilicate dishes.
>> Bowlers equate how good a place is with how good they bowl! They get angry and superstitious about everything.

Fuck man. This like, lifts the veil from my eyes. It almost ruins my life a little.

I was never a good bowler. But there was this one day. See, I had been driving through Mobile, AL, a year earlier, and started talking to the girl at the front desk of the hotel. We were both kids, I was 19, and she was reading Emerson, and we ended up spending the whole night in the park talking about poetry. A year later I flew there and met her again. And I was just absolutely enamored and so in love with her. That first day she picked me up at the airport, we just were so crazy to see each other. The next day we didn't know what the hell to do so we went and had Waffle House for breakfast and passed by the bowling alley, so we went bowling.

It was the only time in my life I ever threw over 200. I think I got close to 250. We only hung out there for that one game, but something went click in my head.

Something went click that, any time since that morning that I've ever needed to just believe in something, or fix something, or make something work, or sink a pool shot, I just close my eyes and think of that feeling I had with her when every ball I threw was a strike and she kept cheering. It surprised me that something so good was even in my own body.

I think that bowling moment became to me the closest to what other people get when they say they feel something when they pray.

And now you're saying it was probably fake... just laid down on the wax. That's fucked up, man. That was like, a peak experience.

I think I need to do some molly.
How on earth can they claim this is not a drug if it does what they claim it does?
Rather than putting a plate on top in the microwave, I have resorted to using a lightly dampened paper towel, gets the job done just as well and one less dish for me to clean.
"Garage sale tsunami" made me cackle :D
You do not need an agent to know a fair price lol
Non-story.

There is plenty of material available at Amazon and BNL that can be considered hateful, regressive, and contrary to the needs of a decent society. People can choose not to read them, or - better yet - read them and destroy their arguments openly and cleanly.
I have trouble finding new authors or good books on there to the point that I stopped trying.

I only use it for reading up reviews.

I was kinda shocked reading through their top X list and finding absolute garbage, rated 8+. I wonder if they suffer from IMDB syndrome.
No, opnsense has guides for using wireguard in various setups. See their road warrior tutorials for example.
100% agree. This person's work is outstanding. No ads, no gimiks. Simple to learn, but fun to play. Some of the games have a paid version that can be purchased just to show support.
is it really 14 with no upper limit on the other partners age?
That's how all photos should be - original, no editing, no staging; If I want excitment, I can Prompt a Generative-AI platform to create mind-bendingly-creative imagery.

I've wasted so many days viewing flats/apartments because the Photos looked amazing, and the actual property was utterly awful.

issues:
- narrow/steep Staircases
- very old photos (now the place a dump)
- fish-eye lenses (or similar) enlarging the space
- etc etc et bloody cetera :(

nice post
Agents are facilitators of the deal. They are the lubricant that gets the deal done.
I think back to the Playstation 2-3 or N64 that all took years for developers to fully utilize the capabilities of the hardware. Yet the hardware engineers must have known how to do it long before the software side totally figured it out. After years of SW Development it's still just magic sand to me
I agree with this totally. For me, the strongest manifestation is cognac. A good cognac is just fantastic. The main thing is the tail, that just goes on and on in different stages of taste and sensation. I'd drink it all day if I could. But if I did... er... that would not be good.
Assuming what you mean is over mobile data (and not over wifi), mobile data works differently than typical internet. You can think of it like when you connect to a mobile network what you're actually doing is making an IPsec connection to your carrier, with all data flowing over that IPsec connection. As such any carrier with a roaming agreement in China will bypass the GFW entirely -- and this is by design, Chinese carriers have to whitelist the APNs of western companies they do business with.
The panorama function of Open Camera is terrible, and I only keep using that app because I'm too lazy to find a suitable replacement.

Any suggestions?
Llama.cpp running on the GPU is pretty slow. Better try with something else.
The speedup going from CPU to RTX 3090 is usually around 10x or 15x.
Whenever I read about Goodreads I had a website called MustReadBooks in the 1990s which was rather successful - should have kept developing it :-)
Thank you for speaking some sense in this thread. It is quite easy if You start to look into it, reparations is about justice. Injustice is perpetuated under the guise of “neutral” policy all the time.
NTK-Aware RoPE allows Llama to have 8k+ context size without fine-tuning
In Intel's case they were thinking about turning the CPU into a GPU, but failed at that several times, AVX is what is left from Larrabee.
This is the only combination I also went with, nothing else seemed acceptable on the android side. GrapheneOS has been fantastic, no Google apps.
I’ve switched to glass bottles for my daughter pretty early on, but most of the bottles used for breast milk pumps are plastic (e.g. https://www.medela.com/breastfeeding/products/collecting/sto...), and are supposed to be boiled after each use for disinfection. I really wonder how durable they are and how much microplastic ends up in that breastmilk…
An anarchivist!!
Remember when they said GCP is exempt from their random product killing?

At a minimum one needs a good abstraction layer to facilitate lift and shift. Docker or k8s etc
> drivers are closed source

And that’s a problem that needs fixed. Out of any piece of software, the one that connects my hardware to my OS is probably one of the most important.

Although I find it dubious this alone is why Linux historically has failed at desktop. It certainly sucks to deal with, but at least people attempted to use Linux. Personally I would argue that people’s innate fear of change is the bigger problem, in my experience.
Aluminum has its own problems leeching into acidic foods.
I found I had to tap on the image (long tap, open in new tab), then tap on the image in the dedicated post. Pinch-zoom available after that.

But yeah, I'm generally puzzled when sites disable that very useful feature.
Unsurprisingly. [0]

Did people here really think that the regulators are going to allow this merger to happen?

Adobe might as well pay the $1BN break up fee and the Figma will just use that to fund their IPO.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33919862
Looks like the sibling comment is correct and that <dialog> a11y has improved recently: https://adrianroselli.com/2020/10/dialog-focus-in-screen-rea...

I still would be careful using it! MDN has a section on accessibility considerations: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/di...

The W3C also has a pretty great set of examples of how to make complex widgets like dialogs accessible (not that a11y is just a checklist): https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/patterns/dialog-modal/
There’s a huge difference between not being mean and actively pushing a view point (be it cultural, emotional or political).
I'm not sure why people like it so much. My aunt-in-law is high pressuring me to use it.

I have my library listing all the books I checked out. I have a pdf/epub reader that has a history of the books I read(although a new phone will probably wipe that out).

For a while, I was merely writing down my books in a dedicated notebook, but I realized that it didn't really matter, if a book was important, I remembered it. If it was bad, I forgot about it. I could have typed these into google sheets so it was sharable. I wonder if that is an acceptable option.
I'm seconding the Pixels - they're also pretty much the only phones that allow you to upload your own signing keys, so you can run Google-free GrapheneOS with secure boot enabled.

(Which is also nice for long term support.)
The new UI "upgrades" make it much harder to use as a database of books you've read.

I accidentally marked the wrong edition of a book as read the other day and it took me like 20 minutes to figure out how to switch the entry to the correct version.
Say Goodbye to Managed Notebooks
The byline is "Inexplicably bad property photographs". So its clearly the photographs that are supposed to be bad. But almost all of the photographs are objectively not bad. They are exposed and framed correctly. Showing some (mostly bad) real estate.
Working for me here in the uk.
Population increases in India and Africa have no impact on the economic catastrophes pending in the Western world and Asia.
RE: the fire, problem properties are actually a hot market... flippers love those. In reality that's a fantastic photo for marketing purposes.
Supercharging My Focus (With Help from AI)
> Also, Pyrex is still borosilicate in Europe, since soda-lime is hard to get there.

How is soda-lime glass “hard to get”? The main reason why it's still borosilicate here is because the brand has been licensed to a different company, and their management hasn't chose to stop selling borosilicate.
I am blown away by the pace of OpenSource progress in the LLM space; I've never witnessed something like this before in tech.
Awesome to see that individual enthusiasts are really bringing the field forward and this shows again, how much more potential there is, even without new fundamental breakthroughs...
For historical injustices, it is untenable to discuss paying reparations. Hopefully more recent and/or future instances are resolved early among the actual perpetrators and victims. We should instead focus our efforts on actual problems (for African-Americans, there are many legitimate grievances; I've said my ideas of reform elsewhere). An issue money can't quite solve is mending peoples' perceptions of the government or of the victimized group by others, which is usually the case due to rampant stereotypes (e.g. Muslims and 9/11). Hopefully, the fact that the government would be funding genuine avenues for progress and enforcing policies for race-blind evaluations (why isn't this happening already?!) would slowly mend those wounds over time.

(I realize I'm focusing on the US; this can surely be applied to other countries too.)

Your last line is valid. Now (in the US, at least), where might massive and grossly unnecessary sums of wealth be found to be taxed? Oh yeah, billionaires. A progressive tax and elimination of loopholes such as charities are a start. If the US really is the land of opportunity, why not see if kids of rich people can work to the top themselves? They probably already have an advantage in schooling and whatnot, so inheritance should be capped heavily, or even cut entirely.
Not sure if younger people know how big Japanese electronics were in the 80s and 90s with brands like Aiwa, Nakamichi (look up "Nakamichi Dragon", or even better, try to buy one on Ebay) and Sony (which was like Apple in the 80s). Although Japan still has some great electronics brands, they have been in decline since the late 90s, when China started taking huge chunks of their market share.
> Google tried its best to bury the announcement: it made it the fifth bullet in a series of otherwise mundane updates and published the blog post on the same day Pope Francis was elected to head the Catholic Church... But as it turns out, the people who care about Reader don’t really care about the Pope.
The problem is of course, that this whole process will be automated. Think how youtube handles copyright or other complaints, but applied to the whole internet by law.
We software engineers already have tried, and failed to the tune of $550 million. Oops.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29087479
Fantastic news. I’ve tried lots of new CLI tools but they always seem to fall between too little functionality (eg. xsv) and too much (VisiData). AWK is just right.
I just deleted all of my Reddit apps and walked away. I think their competition is basically any form of media.

I don’t feel bad for them. Reddit is such a huge wasted opportunity to begin with. And they never seem to learn lessons other people make.
[dupe] with previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36515787

Both the Economist piece and the Harvard study are flawed in a bunch of obvious ways, too numerous to fully rehash in a thread this old.

But most chiefly, for the Economist: the idea that a study or two about one particular kind of work applies to all other kinds of work.

The the Harvard study - conflating or ignoring a whole bunch of other factors, such as differences in equipment / connectivity; the fact that many of these call centers had to expand rapidly during the pandemic (and hence bring less experienced workers on board), etc.

Basically the kind of stuff we expect from people who (1) themselves don't do, and haven't done these other kinds of work (such as tech stuff) that they are claiming would be performed much better, and result in better employee retention when done in an open-plan office with a 2.5 hour commute each way, and (2) probably wrote a good chunk, if not all of what we're reading while WFH.
Huffman, if nothing else, you have brought entertainment to my life recently with this debacle. Between Reddit and RHEL lately it’s just amazing how fast companies like to burn through good will. I used to use Reddit daily and now I refuse. If I was an advertiser I would be in full sprint (I believe many have left already).
It's great for following people who read interesting books and may leave reviews that are worth reading. Of course this is an an extension of the database of books you've read, because you can compare your ratings quite easily with those of other people and find things they liked that you didn't know about yet. That's a great source of recommendations, much better than the automated systems.
The stark differences between vit D non-interventional studies and RCTs continue.

As I recently mentioned in another thread, I hope all the enthusiasm about associations between microbiome and human health (also mostly promising non-interventional studies) pan out better.
How Do You Become CEO? [video]
Using the SFTP KIO backend was awesome. Was super impressed being able to copy/paste files between tabs in Konqueror, with both tabs being SFTP servers! FUSE is still catching up.

I think Konqueror also supported man:// URLs, and those man pages were always nicely formatted.
very cool. you'd think that with the web audio api there would have been an explosion of creative takes on music generation (like this one) but I am not sure it has happened...
What's the problem with the plastic lid in the microwave? As long as it doesn't touch the food shouldn't you be perfectly fine?
Just want to mention that the moto camera is made FAR worse by the software.

E.g. video on my moto would always be blurry due to bad de-noising settings used by stock software. mcpro24fps allowed me to take dramatically better videos. The difference was HUGE.

Same with photos. Custom gcam roms, after a long time of trying different ones and tweaking, gave me dramatically higher quality photos. Again, night and day difference.

So the hardware is fine; they shoot themselves in the foot with the software.
Not exactly the same but close. There was a listing a couple blocks away from my current house. Nice brick colonial. Listing said "completely renovated". The exterior had been painted. In zillow, you can click a "see it in Street View which I did. The image was of a house gutted by a fire. I remember thinking "how could the listing agent not notice that?" and then "Perhaps there's nothing they can do in Zillow to turn off that feature". Well, the following week the Street View images had been updated. Which resulted in me wondering if there's a special Google hotline to request a driveby.
Sorry, yes, you are right. It’s a similar analysis probably because Title VII is also grounded in the 14th Amendment.
That's a massive shame because shadowsocks has been the only real reliable method for a long time.

I used it successfully when I was in mainland China while VPN's, even the ones boasting they could get through the GFW were all hit or miss.
The damage is corporations could now determine whether they classify downstream use of open source code as "valuable" or "not valuable", and determine (according to their own rubrics) whether to effectively end the open source gravy train in their own ecosystem, or be a member of the open source community and share alike.

Despite every attempt by Red Hat employees to call out CentOS Stream as being "Red Hat sources", it is not. If they wish to participate in the open source ecosystem, they can't coerce customers (paid or not) into a particular (very proprietary) usage pattern with their software. No matter how many tens/hundreds/thousands of employees they hire to code for open source projects.
“Reddit’s controversy has also continued for longer than many media buyers suspected. On June 19, a hacker group posted that it would leak confidential data it stole during a February breach if Reddit doesn’t undo its new pricing model. Some subreddits began exclusively posting pictures of John Oliver or changing their topics, while others marked their communities as NSFW to prevent ads from showing.”