skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have wondered if linear marginal pricing is one problem with this. Wealth is not distributed linearly, and growth does not occur linearly either. Wealth is a hyperbola and growth is exponential, and yet marginal prices go linear.

Thus, fuel prices have to be affordable enough for poor people, but a moderately wealthy person can tolerate to pay double that to drive the same distance. Those a little further up the hyperbola can drive four times as far. And after a few years of exponential growth, we all can.

I've been wanting for taxes and other duties to be exponential shaped. Scale property tax exponential with the energy use of a house. Scale vehicle tax exponential to the car's fuel consumption. (You could require airlines to charge a sort of negative-percentage frequent flyer's discount as a tax, but that would be communism.)

My guess is with the right parameters for base and exponent, this system could be very just, ensuring that everyone can fly across the country to visit family, but weekly business flights become prohibitively expensive. And my hunch is that this would be a more effective way to reduce total energy usage without creating disastrous living conditions for anybody.
How do we know the sun will rise tomorrow?
On aliexpress, there is an usbc adapter for the t420 power cable that will allow it to take charge from a 65w powerbank (maybe even 20w). No need to search for battery replacements anymore and can also throw away the original power brick.
Thanks for the suggestion, but it has put several important features behind an expensive paywall.

I understand people want to earn money but something as essential as this should somehow be free and available to everyone. Not sure how exactly big companies would split the bill, but it should be possible in our universe. After all, we have Linux, git, openssh, etc. I know that k8s was supposed to be that, but it sucks.
> How about: a shorter second. 100,000 seconds in a 'day'. 1M seconds in a 'week'. and so on.

Yes, that's exactly what you get when dividing Unix secs by 86400 you get 100,000-second-long days, useful on Earth, for now. :)

What would be a non-celestial day?
The moral shift played a part in galvanizing enthusiasm for the war, but the Civil War ultimately was started by Northern statists who were adamant about maintaining a firm control over the North American heartland. Recall that the Emancipation proclamation came three years into the war.
I’ve never seen anyone ”censored” on Twitter for opposing immigration.
This is great AI Tool for web devs!
And personally I think C# is moving forward almost too quickly, as if Microsoft has a compulsion to always introduce new features to the language with each new release, accelerating especially since post-.NET Framework. Funny how different views one might have!
There should be a blanket ban for all jobs which are under ~100k.
Ask HN: Burner Phone for China?
Hi Hackers, I'm planning a 2 week visit to China. My question is, is it ok to use my iPhone and do a factory reset when I come home or do I need a burner phone? I've Googled and read a few articles, but it is hard to get a real sense of the actual risks. Will I end up with CCP malware on my phone or are the risks exaggerated? Thanks in advance.
Review: For those who found themselves too intellectual to enjoy the teen romance magic school vampire genre perfectly embodied by the fanfic My Immortal (https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6829556/1/My-Immortal), Superrational presents a more sophisticated rationalist re-imagining of the magic school universe. May it make the great Yudkowsky proud.
While I sympathize with feeling disappointed in having to pay for apps for use with such an expensive headset, I believe that its price would have severely restricted the number of free apps available for it in the first place. Developers are going to want to recuperate their investment, and that'd remain true even if it were possible to install whatever one pleased on it.

It's technically possible to develop on the simulator alone, but given that the simulator is confined to a 2D window on a computer screen I can't imagine that apps developed in this manner would be able to stand up to competition developed without such limitations.
Yes. Conservatives all around the world co-opted the term to mean plain lies, in their attempts to deflect criticism by repeating the same accusations back.
What error message do you expect the linker to produce when there is a reference to a symbol that it doesn’t find in any of the object files provided?
> That's the standard for most first time, non-violent offenses

In what country?
A lot of trucking, at least in Canada, is very fly by night. The proliferation of operators and a lack of consolidation is because a consolidated company would need to obey rest limits, conduct proper maintenance, and adequately train employees or be rapidly fined/sued into oblivion.

Why I generally oppose small business. There should be large, niche, and challenger/startup type companies. Small businesses that survive but do not grow are generally surviving by just not obeying certain laws.

My Dad used to work for a bakery that was regularly burning workers due to not updating its equipment. Whenever the workplace safety regulator came along, they cried "small business" and were given more time to burn more workers. When they finally had enough of that and cracked down on the food processors and safety, they very quickly consolidated into publicly traded firms.
There are a bunch of different expectations depending on the types and agencies. I suggest starting at SBIR.gov then really happy to help in any way. Most time consuming part is tailoring the answers to all of the sections.
Which is also what "disinformation" means. Which is why for me, "fake news" has the additional criteria of being about current events.
Yes, it’s indeed very common to share iPad with kids and to have a laptop shared amongst family members. That’s why users exist and were such a hugely requested features of iPadOS (something Apple actually took ages to acknowledge because well, Apple).
Poor comparison
going higher and higher up the exclusivity chain
Same here. I love that aspect of Fedora. My main desktop has been upgraded-in-place for 8 or so years now.
I have the xreal airs. I’m very happy with them as an “on-the go” screen or “I don’t have my desk”, but I certainly prefer my desk setup (triple monitor).

I think the price is right for what they do.
One? One?

Buddy, it takes a village.
>your vision will eventually settle when you hit late 30’s

This statement reminds me of the surgeon who did my PRK few months ago. He mentioned preferring not doing procedure on candidates who are at least in their mid-20's. I think the person you're replying to probably meant specifically myopia whereas you're referring to presbyopia?
I can definitely see an authoritarian regime "solving" population decline with that one, so I kinda hope we never get there.
Agree that’s the right analysis for many people. Wasn’t arguing whether you should start a startup or not. Just that if you do bootstrapping isn’t inherently better than raising venture capital.

Your broader point is important too: startups are unfortunately too often a luxury of the upper class. It is extremely scary to take a risk when you don’t have a safety net. I was personally broke when we started Cloudflare and had to borrow money from my mom to pay my rent. But I could borrow money from my mom. And I had a mom and a family that if I failed would make sure I didn’t go hungry. My family wasn’t anything close to what I now see really rich looks like, but we weren’t scraping by. Had I not had that safety net I don’t think I’d have had the confidence to start Cloudflare. And I think that’s a real issue with entrepreneurship we don’t talk enough about.
on startupschool I met several groups that are trying this. One of them, when I asked for a follow up meeting about ethics, instead took a small write up I wrote to respond to their technical needs (...literally a two page write up) and immediately sent it to upwork. Three weeks later, lol, when that didn't work out, they contacted me again. I'm not going to disclose who it was, but I have a new policy now: Absolutely, under no circumstances will I consider working with former McKinsey partners.
Anyone curious like me that wants to see emissions of electric vehicles vs gasoline vehicles, check out:

https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/Find.do?action=bt2

Seems like a reasonable comparison. They're comparing a user-selected electric vehicle to "Average New Gasoline Vehicle". Clicking on "About this Calculation" they're assuming 27 mpg for the gasoline comparison vehicle with a factor of 1.25 added for production and transportation of gasoline.

Myths about electric vehicles addressed here:

https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/electric-vehicle-myths
Love this so much - doing things that don’t scale well.
On the other hand, if something’s morally repugnant it should be called out as such.
US self-employed more likely than workers to be highly satisfied with their jobs
Young families continued to leave cities last year – but at a slower pace
Because RDS comes with infra to support the software. This is what many want from their ai weights too. For it to come with infra to support the deployment of apps that use the weights.
I'll take another position; since it might be keen to understand a little more from a different perspective.

I am a person who is a non-founder startup CTO; my company does not have any venture capital funding and we have enough capital to go to market.

However, certain institutions (especially US ones) give great discounts, insider incentives (such as early access to features or access to people) and so on to venture backed startups.

I have even been explicitly told this by AWS and Google; I am basically invisible to them except for the fact I have previously worked with a small handful of people coming from a large organisation. I have to use personal contacts which wouldn't be necessary if I was venture backed.

VC's also seem to open doors into other companies that they are invested in, which can be hugely beneficial.

Even companies that invest egregiously in everything, like Tencent, can't command such door-openings.

So, if you absolutely need some doors to open, VCs can be a good way to go, but it's very much a "selling your soul to the devil" type deal.
Surely it would be more of a problem if they ignored each other?
So what about this product opened your eyes that the previous 15 years of VR/AR did not? Just Apple's marketing power? Or is there something specific about this device that made it click for you?
It's disturbing how much this information is sold and resold:

* Securus purchased the location data from 3Cinteractive Corporation, which was located in Boca Raton, Florida.

* 3Cinteractive Corporation, in turn, purchased such data from Technocom Corporation (doing business as LocationSmart), which was located in Carlsbad, California.

* Technocom Corporation (doing business as LocationSmart) purchased this data directly from telecommunications services providers.

* This capability enabled Securus’s registered users to obtain the location data entered in the LBS platform, or, in other words, to ascertain the approximate physical location of a particular cellular telephone on demand.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/d9/press-releases/attachments/2022/0...
If it was easy to do well on the cheap it would already have been done.

Apple seems to have maxed out every possible spec and put a ton of research and software into making a great experience.

Probably will see it move down price points from here (it already has Pro in name so presumably that’s the top).

The parts will get cheaper over time as well which will help.
SchizoGPT
If the new macOS settings panel is indicative of SwiftUIs overall qualities, I really hope it wont be the future (eg if even Apple themselves can't get such a trivial thing like a settings panel right, I don't even know what the point of SwiftUI is after so many years in development)
Have you ever seen a 410 actually used IRL? This has to be one of those that's pretty high up in the code rarity list.
Maybe this is cynical, but my marketing class taught us to look at everything Apple does under the view of the best marketers in the world.

The marketers told them to go for the 'exclusive club' vibe by doing in-store appointments.

Wonder if there is some messaging by the Apple leader at the appointment that explains how this is cool, exclusive, luxury. Reinforcing the purchase decision.

Need to make the barrier to entry extra high too, so when people laugh at it in public, they are fully committed to defend it. Who knows maybe they will go full abercrombie and make sure people who are older than 40 get it slightly later than 20 year old females. Eventually it gets normalized and people use it.
Please follow the site guidelines and edit swipes and putdowns out of your comments here. They're not what this site is for, and destroy what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What? You don’t think women/homosexuals/minorities were barred from holding certain cultural megaphones?
> My only gripe now on my 2nd Pixel with Graphene is exactly what Fairphone is fixing, which is easy hardware maintenance + 3.5mm jack.

The hardware maintenance is true (even though I suspect the repairability of the usb-c port is what made me need to replace it in the first place) but starting with the 4, Fairphone doesn't have a 3.5 mm jack.

Source: I have a Fairphone 4 and have so far replaced the screen, battery, usb-c port and back cover.
First thought: it helps if you're using what you've learned in some way. Maybe find someone to talk to about what you're learning. (Rubber-duck learning?) Imagine you're teaching someone, and trying to summarize what you've learned.

It might help to read two books on the same topic -- just so things you read in one give you context for the other. (Someone told me they retain information better when it melds with topics they already have some long history with...)
The end of the magic world’s 50-year grudge
How to minimize Rust binary size
The Other Way to Fight Software Rental
My read on lot of justifiable criticism of langchain is, that it is rooted in trying not to lose out the lead it established since Nov 2022.
Pace of updates in LLM space have been staggering.

Langchain hasn’t invested enough in quality of lib. A good lib needs good deliberation to build right abstractions that add value, then “get out of the way“.
Microsoft Word. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word

> It was not initially popular, since its user interface was different from the leading word processor at the time, WordStar.[20] However, Microsoft steadily improved the product, releasing versions 2.0 through 5.0 over the next six years. ... The first version of Word for Windows was released in 1989. With the release of Windows 3.0 the following year, sales began to pick up and Microsoft soon became the market leader for word processors for IBM PC-compatible computers.[13]
Much of the San Francisco peninsula open space is under the supervision of an open space initiative voters approved about fifty years ago, it’s a line item in my annual taxes so government can work, too. https://www.openspace.org/who-we-are
What is the Flashlight app developer success? At best the app sales supported them for a year or two. By this metric a failed VC funded company also has supported its founder (plus employees) for a year or two.
I misread it as Dagger, the CI/CD tool (https://dagger.io)
While reading the article, I can't help but get the impression that public transit in the US is for poor people. Lots of quotes and stats about income levels, hardships, etc. No wonder most US public transit is viewed as a last-resort solution for getting from point A to point B.

In London, Paris, Taipei, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and New York City, you see people from all walks of life on the subway and bus. I've even seen A-list celebrities waiting for NY trains. Riding isn't a referendum on one's social status.

I don't know which is the cart and which is the horse. I do support free public transit because congestion is a public nuisance that everyone should have an interest in reducing. But the marketing needs to emphasize something other than hardship, or else it'll continue to be associated with hardship.
An Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in Python [pdf]
Not sure why you are downvoted, this is exactly my concerns with llama. You can’t run llama with the intent of distilling your own commercial model.
yep! and i have almost exactly the opposite experience!

with ruby i feel (same caveats) like there is so much ambiguity that i can't build a coherent and predictable mental model of my program -- it makes me feel anxious and unsure

what you characterize as "cramped and constrained" i probably experience as "precise and unambiguous" -- it makes me feel calm and in control

no judgment from me about which of these perspectives is better or worse, i don't think there is any way to say that, just want to point out this interesting difference in perspective among practitioners
> Obviously the models will improve

Says who? The Hot Hand Fallacy Division?
SwiftData integration (and notably the Observable macro) seems like a huge step in the right direction for it. The problem we’ve found is that integrating SwiftUI in existing UIKit apps that also rely on stuff like RxSwift isn’t easy. So far it’s only good at brand new presentations for us.
Another thing is that a lot of the great new features are locked behind iOS targets that are plainly too new to be realistic for products
These schoools' associations are all correlations, not guarantees, though.

Howard is a historically black college, which means their student body today is majority black, not 100% black.

Bryn Mawr is a womens' school and admits only women. However, gender is not always fixed going through life.

BYU is a Christian school, but also admits several non-religious people too, and people regularly become apostates to their respective religion.
$1M offered to the genius who resolves complex math theory
It's a reference to the famous Stanford Marshmallow Experiment: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experim...
Would it be possible to take ~$100k of VC funding to get the 'VC-funded' benefits without actually giving up any real control of the company?
I'll actually look into it, it sounds more interesting now that I started reading about it. Sorry if my comments sounded antagonistic, I was genuinely wondering. I'll dive into the rabbit hole now!
I don't think you should count suicides. Just have a precommitment (don't write it down anywhere, obviously) that you would never use it on yourself in a situation where it would more than slightly reduce your QALYs, so not terminal illness or a high certainty of being irreparably incapacitated.
The genius of AppKit in particular was that it made the easy things easy, often trivial or automatic, and the advanced things straightforward.

Almost every other technology I've ever seen for making things easier hits a wall once you're outside a usually very narrow path.
It's not that uncommon to say "okay" as merely a verbal acknowledgement; I do it all the time! In this context it's indeed ambiguous I guess, but I don't think it can reasonably be assumed to mean "we accept the terms" since where I'm from these type of "verbal contracts" are extremely uncommon – I'm highly skeptical it would have stood up in court (it came as a surprise to everyone that this was enforceable) but we weren't really eager to test that.
> My use case is being able to code with a giant screen anywhere

I've tried this on other platforms. The device gets heavy and your eyes get hot and sweaty, and dealing with an extension cord running from your head to a battery pack just adds insult to the inconvenience. It's not fun and it was not a major boost to productivity.

Plus.. for $3,500 I can just buy quite a few nice monitors.
What's a 4D light field?
I like the better bow knot because it's a simple variation of the bunny knot I learned in school, and I like the look of it.

https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/betterbowknot.htm
I wouldn't trust any of those things you list with my data, so I think it in fact seems logical.
See also LOVEINT. Every once in a while, some NSA spy gets caught spying on their loved ones. Not even incompetence, just plain malice and abuse. Looks like they don't even face any criminal charges either.

Governments are essentially adversaries, enemies we have to defend against. It must be mathematically impossible for them to abuse their power. Anything short of that is not enough.
> Or should relics stay with their ethnic creators, along racial lines?

That works. We seem to be zeroing in.
The Launch HN for Dropbox, such as it was at the time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
> but tossing your code into a merge request to run tests and then taking another look over it tomorrow

Or even just immediately. I often find minor issues just by looking at it in a different context (the merge request vs my editor).
To the extent that it shifts purchases away from trucks and SUVs to Teslas and Japanese hybrids, it takes food off the table of UAW members.

https://uaw.org/solidarity_magazine/2023-uaw-union-built-veh...
I've been on some mighty rusty unstable feeling jetbridges, I've always wondered how often they collapse, and what their nominal lifetime is.
Well, I guess like the rest of your comments, your impression is wrong and you’re making assumptions and jumping to unsupported conclusions. I read all three articles in their entirety, and the comments under them. They simply don’t back up your claim about social science vs science.

Why do you believe people downvoting you work in social science, what actual evidence do you have for that? I would love to see that, I want to know how to identify the jobs and motivations of people responding to me.
I suspect that they don't expect high volumes so rather than giving the impression that the launch is a failure they turn it into an exclusive club product.
Which on the opposite side, default configurations should disable as much as possible as to reduce attack surface.
TBH there’s not much you can do about that, it actually has a better battery life than the 8 IMO
> What changed about China's surveillance systems

In the last few years, I don't think anything substantial. IMO new difficulty (post zero covid) was due to massive human trafficking crackdown after the "chained woman" uproar in PRC. Don't forget some of these people are "rescued" by human traffickers / organized crime that sold them to sex work in first place. There's also geopolitical layer of these defections being run by Durihana, South Korean NGOs (double whammy of foreign + religious), conducting operations on mainland soil without PRC assent - there's no reason to allow these operations in the first place.
Right, that's definitely quite a strong point against the C operator-function separation. There can be a good argument made for just not providing unavailable operations as operators. But, still, x/y won't touch any of your memory (assuming a non-broken stdlib), so you're still free to skip over it while scanning for a use-after-free or something.
worse than?… Worse than google analytics?
The hype doesn’t feel organic, and neither do the posts from brands on Threads.
Some examples, which feel like they were written by the same social media intern:
https://twitter.com/chrisbeach/status/1677584064436477952

As for the app itself, feels very bare bones to me, and I dislike Zuckerberg locking us into another walled garden with no web access.
> What is wrong with a public distributed ledger?

It is a highly centralized artifact, which is maximally self-defeating if the goal is not centralizing. When you actually achieve decentralization nobody else is storing or accessing your activity or hoarding your data. There are no public ledgers or anything to crawl or anything to screen scrape, because its on your hardware and you determine who can access it.