skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't exactly seem fair to say Google is up 48% when they went from 2% to 3% of the market. It seems to me that their growth is almost entirely coming from Samsung. The numbers are jumpy enough that I also wonder how much when different phone makers announce their new wares affects the numbers.
It's easy to see why the user churn in Threads is on a spiral. A simple measure is trying to follow a timeline for the Women's World Cup happening now. Crickets.

The Instagram easy sign-up got Threads its users and it's the same feed algorithm which will churn the users. If nothing changes by the start of the NFL season, Threads will be niche. It's a darn shame.
No this is more like each raindrop shimmying down the sky carpet and then poking the panel to deposit the collected static charge.
If I'm a citizen and want to sponsor my parents to get green card, do they have to spend 6 months/year in the US? Is there a way around this requirement? Life abroad is better for them so 6 months/year in the US is a lot, but having the flexibility to come and go would be nice without having to deal with visas.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36900934

Apparently the main maintainer's accounts were compromised.
I already have a copy (it's a static site). I can rehost it if needed, but I'd want to get permission to do so from someone first.
You’re amazed that people pay a premium price for very premium products that they interact with constantly?

Do you also question why people buy quality shoes or mattresses?
Given that the anime waifu crowd is a huge reason why AI image generation is moving as fast as it does, it's probably better for society that he becomes a weeaboo. It's thankless work but someone has to label all the images on the -booru websites for the good of humanity (unironically).
except when someone shoots up their school, it seems
Alright, fair enough. Apologies for the dismissive tone. Could you elaborate (or point to) these wrong lessons or an alternative?
Anecdotal support for you claim: gave my dad and his wife two of my older iPhones to replace their Android phones. They'll never look back now.

He told me he assumed the fawning over iPhones was "hype", now says he believes it is not.
Bloat isn't just things that you don't like. It is not uncommon for a "pointless" Samsung OS customization to make its way into stock/pixel android a few years later, at which time it will receive much praise and be considered revolutionary.
Way too much conflation with labels, timelines, types of project, recollections from 12 years ago, etc. for me. Also we're comparing Meta, a company with experience running two successful social networks against Google of ten plus years ago, with none.
You misunderstand me. I'm not talking about detecting when LLM's plagiarize humans, but when humans "plagiarize" (copy from without attributing) LLM's.
At University we had a tv that would give static shocks every time you tried to change the channel.
> In 5 years I expect it to be as normal as using an IDE.

Five years seems too conservative. Five years ago we only had GPT-1, which only generated funny word salad with acceptable syntax. An AI like ChatGPT seemed unthinkable at the time. And ChatGPT came out only last year. In five years similarly radical changes could happen. Programmers might actually get replaced with AI. Sounds too radical? But ChatGPT also would have sounded too radical five years ago!
The Samsung Galaxy S23 and iPhone 14 both start at $799.
hardcore...wow....
I don't understand the value of this. Is it just "big screen=better"?
Because, my phone's screen is already bigger than the standalone GPSs of the past, and has voice, so I've never thought that I needed a bigger screen for navigation.

In fact I want less: A few new cars have very slick HUDs on the windshield which are very elegant in their simplicity. A recent BMW rental had this, all without any smartphone integration, and I thought that was really cool!
Now, though, that feature has probably been replaced with an android equivalent - A lot of companies are going "Android Automotive", and it sounds like a downgrade.
General purpose computing is a concept that computer scientists appreciate. The vast majority of consumers buy products based on their cost/benefit of their features and overall experience, not ideology of their technical construction.

You won't see too many people who decide to hand wash their dishes because they can't find a dishwasher with an unlocked bootloader. It either satisfactorily washes the dishes or it doesn't. Most people buy phones the same way.
That's also true for iMessage?

If you actually care about e2ee you'd use Signal.
Try llama v1 13B with https://huggingface.co/izumi-lab/llama-13b-japanese-lora-v0-...

There may be even larger llama tunes for Japanese... But huggingface is tricky to search.

I would suggest baking the LORA into a ggml file and then running it with koboldcpp (with opencl offloading) for maximum ease of use.

https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp

You could get even better results using Japanese llama.cpp grammar, but I have not been down that rabbit hole:

https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/1773
The issue is not that you have to pay to put your software on the App Store, it’s that the only way to run your software on the hardware you and your users own is to put it in the App Store.
Yes, the types that JIT omits are dynamic types.
Let’s cut the bullshit. Prisons have nothing to do with rehabilitation and everything to do with punishment and dissuading others. If there was any desire for rehabilitation, prisons would look a lot more like in-patient therapy. Phone calls would never have cost as much as they have, and books and other self-improvement tools would be freely available.
zserio [1] has the former at least. It isn't intended for the same use cases as protobuf/capnproto/flatbutter though; in particular it has no backward or forwards compatibility. But it's great for situations where you know exactly what software is used on both ends and you need small data and fast en-/decoding.

[1] http://zserio.org/doc/ZserioLanguageOverview.html#bit-field-...
You might try https://jmp.chat. I'm very happy with them, I get SMS for everything I've tried(though I haven't tried everything/much).

It's just an XMPP gateway, so you can use any XMPP capable chat client or gateway you want. XMPP isn't the worlds best protocol, but it works fine.
Intense academic competition and lack of unstructured playtime would seem to go hand-in-hand, no?
> I'm constantly amazed by how people spend so much of their income on Apple products

I don't know about other people, but I went iPhone specifically for the value/$. Got a used iPhone SE 2020 for $150 in late 2021, and expect to use it for 5+ years. I seriously doubt that there are any Androids out there that could get even close to that.

It really helps that Apple's CPU/SoC is substantially superior to what everyone else uses, so older iPhones tend to feel snappier. Between that and Apple's clearly superior OS support, I don't know why value shoppers who don't want to install their own firmware would go with Android.
These work really well when sent to Kindle with...umm, Send To Kindle. I usually read them on the web, but they're great as ebooks.
> I guess what Americans are missing from how smaller towns work in other countries is that they tend to be more dense, with more mixed zoning. Not as overfilled with way too big parking lots, way too wide “stroads”, and endless suburban sprawl. So the trip to town is shorter/faster, you go into town more often, for more different kinds of activities, and so you don’t have to buy everything all at once.

Well I'm not american and I lived in village and in small town. If I have supermarket in "range" I will go to supermarket, choice is bigger and prices are lower.

Sure, if I have store nearby and want to get an icecream or something, or forgot to buy something on weekly shopping trip I'd buy it there.

> Being in town - to me - is a part of living life. It’s where you’d have a third place, where you’d do various activities, meet people and discover new things.

...when going on grocery shopping ? And for some reason you're prevented from speaking to people in supermarket ?

> If you’ve felt the need to optimise your life to maximise your time at work and in your house.. that feels really sad to me.

I dunno from which arse you've got that conclusion. Do you have nothing more interesting to do in your life than going around shopping ?

Groceries are chore not a fucking adventure, regardless of shop size. And saving money means I can spend it on things I actually enjoy and places I actually want to go to.
Incentive is to make it better for their users who have Android friends. They already did that with the last update that meant you could do Facetime group calls with them.
There used to be this project: https://www.mysociety.org/2019/06/26/placing-everypolitician...
iPhones just work. Macs just work. 99% of people don’t want to spend time configuring anything.

Both iOS and Android stopped innovating like 5 years ago, but at least the Apple ecosystem doesn’t feel dead like Android.
didn't they recently find US made components in Russian military hardware? I suppose that's not 'fuelling Moscow's war on Ukraine' though
Chat with Barbie
Hi! I made Ask Famous People a couple months ago and people liked it, I've just added Barbie. You have 20 free messages, after that, you can add your own openai api key to send unlimited messages. (We don't store it on any database)
Except they do? You can get a VPN app that blocks network requests, like 1Blocker. Also AFAIK android doesn't support adblockers?
> The next time Twitter goes down, and it will any day now

People have been saying this since the day Elon took over... but has it really gone down that much? More than other tech products? E.g. how many outages have the big cloud providers had in the last year? When I hear people say 'any day now' it reads like they are looking for any excuse to say 'mars man bad'.
I never understand this view, but admittedly I don't have children. I have a cat though. She's the first pet I've ever had in my life.

I got lots of warnings from lots of people. Don't let her out or she'll cry all the time to go out. Keep her away from the door or she'll run out and you won't see her again. It sounded very difficult.

However I didn't follow this advice and let my cat out in my backyard. And I found out that people were right and she does cry to go out all the time.

At the start. So I ignored her. I didn't even tell her to be quiet. I let her whine and cry as much as she wanted. She was 100% fine and had everything she needed except the ability to go outside.

She started to scratch the screen to voice her displeasure. I'm the boss and so she lost screen door privileges. She tried to negotiate but failed horribly because, again, I am the boss. She is a cat. The next weekend she got screen door privileges back and scratched the screen on day 2. She lost them again because I'm the boss and I don't want her to scratch my screen. When she got her screen privileges back again she never scratched the screen again.

The door thing, same. She snuck out once. Then I started locking her in a safe room with everything she needed. It's still her room to this day and she can trash it as much as she wants, just like she could as a kitten. That's the only room she can do that and seems to understand that. She doesn't really come near the door if I'm leaving now, and if she's close she will not try sneaking out.

She just turned two this past month, and while she was a nightmare as a kitten, she is a complete angel now.

I'm not totally perfect and for example I can't keep her off my desk if it's in the sitting position. So I've learned to deal with it. If I don't want her on my desk I need to either keep her out of my office or use it standing. I can't seem to win this battle and I tried everything. I'll say that not buying a kid a new iPad seems like a much easier thing to do.

I'm sure children are a lot different but the "I can't teach children philosophy" excuse sounds pretty weak. I don't understand how children can have that much power over an adult.
As a subscriber to Bret's Patreon for over a year now, I'm doing it as a donation to support his work, not as a quid pro quo to get access to more stuff.
I think this comes from everyone wanting to use the same schema and parser. For example, a text editor and a compiler have obvious differences in how to deal with invalid programs.

Maybe there need to be levels of validation, like "it's a text file" versus "it parses" versus "it type checks."
I would disagree with the order of those events.

Originally there was simply an attempt to protect a victimized group. Say, for example, let trans kids (and lets be honest these kids are having a hard life) use a different bathroom. Perhaps to relieve these kids already difficult situation.

Why make a boyish girl use the girls room and get teased by the girls, and who knows what would happen if they were put in with the boys. Or why make a female boy 'twink' continue to get sexually harassed by the football team, but of course, can't put a boy into the girls restroom. So, the solution, have a third option, lets have a 3rd restroom for these kids in a difficult situation. Simple, problem solved.

And then - the "Right", the Religious, Republicans, just 'lost-their-shit'. And decided this is the group to pile on. Here is a hot button issue we can whip up the crowd with.

I've never seen or heard anybody on the left doing anything like the boogie man situations that the 'right' is portraying. The examples are all made up. There are NOT some huge number of grown men dressed up as women using restrooms and stealing girls, there are not some massive number of male athletes stealing awards from girls. These are all just fiction to feed to the right wing.

Meanwhile. Trans people are just caught in the middle. They didn't start any of this.

There are real genetic disorders which do not go by the visual genital's. I think most people on the right think you should just be able to reach in someone's pants and figure it out.
One thing I think is notable. Solar and wind installations performance tends to just degrade instead of going 100% offline like traditional plants. And batteries greatly improve grid reliability. I suspect they can add power to the grid faster than breakers will trip.

Also we're working towards a system where demand can be controlled. Think your electric car stops charging or your air conditioner kicks off for 10 minutes when there is a problem.
I'll have to dig up my old website and offer it to them. It was entirely flash, and we went overboard with every feature we could possibly toss in.

I had to eventually take it offline, because instead of potential customers, I got a gazillion web dev classes all constantly hammering away at my site. More than 80% of accesses were from schools, and direct links from course material. I would have been okay with it (flattered, even!) if it wasn't costing me a fortune in bandwidth fees.

I also got a lot of people offering to buy it, but of course I declined. Oh, and I had to DMCA one site for stealing the binaries and injecting their own logo and text into it. Very uncouth of them.

Companies were extremely excited about the technology when it was the new kid on the block.
Building your own PC is simpler than LEGO.

Quick read about what what CPU is compatible with what motherboard then selecting memory and sufficient power supply.

You have 6 main components.

-Case

-Power supply

-Memory

-CPU

-Motherboard

-Hard Drive

I'm really surprised someone on HN would feel like it is a challenge.
There were concerns the observatory wouldn’t live on after University of Chicago’s divestment of the property. Glad to see it’s got another chance at a long life.

https://yerkesobservatory.org/learn/governance/

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-yerkes-obser...
I was about get a stroke while reading that.
Sure, but I would also like to send them pictures and I would like some security about it too.
It depends on the person who owns it and the expense/level of effort required.

Some game collectors are motivated by the idea of owning something that no one else has. For decades, there were no preserved, shares versions of Marble Madness 2 available for that reason, but looks like that finally changed last year.[1] Akka Arrh was a similar case.

If a collector is interested in preserving and sharing, there's still the expense/effort factor. For an arcade game, they need to buy (or find someone with) specialized equipment, and may need to desolder chips from the board. I.e. there's a non-zero chance of destroying a one-off artifact, even when performed by people with experience.

The production ROMs for Discs of Tron have been preserved for quite awhile.[2]

However, if this was a test machine, it would be neat for someone with the necessary gear to dump it and see if the code is different.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/05/after-30-years-the-wo...

[2] e.g. http://adb.arcadeitalia.net/dettaglio_mame.php?game_name=dot...
Things like distributed tracing, auth data, metrics, error logging messages and other “meta-subsystems” is certainly typical use cases. Reverse proxies and other http middleware do exactly this with http headers all the time.
Always heard about Florence syndrome as Stendhal's, but never did click before.

My bet is that in the future somebody will eventually find a direct relationship between the symptoms and the chemicals used to clean the museums or preserve antique valuable pieces from the attack of insects and molds.

As long as the ventilation systems (and insurance?) improve should be more and more rare.
Having them centralized on one platform is an asset when you want to avoid the people who will sell off you contact info and resume to unscrupulous body shops. Cut out LI and apply directly whenever possible.
Most school orchestras are not chamber orchestra, they separate band and the strings into separate classes with separate performances.
> This is beyond reprehensible.

It is easy enough to make honest mistakes and spread misinformation before it can be properly replicated that we do still require scientists to be honest. Active deception should come with a high cost. There should be a scientific equivalent of disbarment.
> For these cases, I follow the Twitter accounts on Mastodon by way of the mirror sites - bird.makeup is the most popular I believe.

Didn't Musk break Twitter a few weeks back in a hamfisted attempt to deal with scrapers? What that was he was fighting against?
One thing to note is that Apple also tries very hard to get you to log in to their online services when you use your phone or laptop. They're not as overt as MS about requiring it yet, but I would not be surprised if it was coming.

As for UX, I feel like it's hit and miss for me. With the huge caveat that I haven't used Windows 11, Windows beats MacOS in a lot of areas. For example, I prefer older versions of Windows to MacOS for window management, and Explorer is a lot better than Finder in my opinion. Those are two major pieces of the user experience!
what a weird take - the "complexity" of sysv has to include the random shell scripts people write for /etc/init.d of hugely variable quality, and the tooling like start-stop-daemon, and the administrative complexity of not actually being able to reliably shut down (needs a process group) or start up service (needs dependencies).

it is much simpler for some people to write a dependency-based init system and then for my OS to write dependencies for the OS services then for me to say "DependsOn = network.service" to permanently avoid racing dhcp or whatever.
I mean, their main product started out as a cooler MySpace. So I think you're right, this is their core competency
I've launched Android based hardware products, I should be as Android deep as anyone can be and I use an iPhone.

"iPhone is better than Android because iPhone can do X" was never why anyone used iPhones. iPhones generally did things years later than Android but did them significantly better.

And Apple didn't need to convince people, they straight up were luxury devices compared to decay prone Android devices. Android lagged in locking down background services so battery would worsen over time as random apps did random garbage in the background. Lots of devices had weird eMMC and virtual FS bugs that'd also slow them down over time. And for a truly embarrassing length of history, top apps for things like flashlights would install lock screen ads on your device.

I agree it's more personal preference these days, but that's mostly because Google went and copied Apple's walled garden approach. Things power users loved got gutted, more and more core functionality became part of Google Play Services that vendors aren't allowed to modify. Because of Project Mainline even the Android runtime is about to start getting updated via Google Play.
That echoes my general experience everytime I try the Apple ecosystem again: it's fine until it's not fine.

I suppose it's equal parts {stricter locks} + {smaller number of devices} + {fewer dev resources?}

Last time for me, it was MacOS never having implemented USB-C DisplayPort MST (daisy chaining monitors).
What in your opinion is required in terms of policy changes for mobility of talent?
Nothing. The iPhone SoC blows every android out of the water. Apple has been dominating mobile performance ever since they went to 64-bit in 2013. That's a decade of leadership in silicon. No android comes close. Not sure what OP is thinking.
Yes, the TENG that they refer to in the paper is TriboElectric NanoGenerators https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triboelectric_effect
At some point in time you made the determination that the value of the child possessing that item was greater than the cost to purchase said item. While them breaking the item may have changed the equation, generally it doesn't. In real life if you accidentally break something, you replace it and move on. If the child is old enough perhaps have the replacement come out of their allowance/have them do something in exchange, but if they are too young to take care of the issue themselves, they are too young to be responsible for taking care of the issue.
I can't really comment on the justification behind the policy, I can just explain how it works.

Point is, with a few exceptions (notably, H-1B), coming to the United States on a non-immigrant visa with the intent of staying is an inadmissibility (7A1 immigrant without an immigrant visa). It doesn't matter if you're married of have children. Coming to the United States on a non-immigrant visa and then adjusting status due to a change in circumstances is allowed.

>Is it United States policy that the children of such marriages must be raised only by a single parent?

If it's a bone fide marriage (and if there's a child, it probably is), the US citizen spouse can petition for an immigrant visa (which will turn into a "green card" on admission at the border). Immigrant intent is not an issue when entering on an immigrant visa.

My personal opinion that this immigrant/non-immigrant visa distinction should be removed from US immigration law, but right now it's there, so these are the rules right now.
The busy sidewalk thing is about innocent passersbys not having to deal with rowdy kids bumping into them or otherwise bothering them. And actually, kids that are told to watch it actually overall do take more care about that sort of stuff then if parents just let them do whatever.
Which versions, exactly?

Because each one of those has 3 (Samsung) or 4 (iPhone) major models with wildly different specs, and each of those specs has often times major differences in quality between the two lines.

[https://www.pcmag.com/news/samsung-galaxy-s23-vs-apple-iphon...]

Samsungs adware and weird modifications being a major negative IMO too. Though that's a taste thing I guess.