skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've said this in other places, but the biggest issue with the Surface lineup is that the Go line is ... just garbage performance wise, absolutely unusable in my experience (despite really really wanting to use it, and basically just using it for PDF annotations!). And the Pro line is good! But it has no 11-inch line and (importantly) it costs so much compared to iPads. If you are looking for a high-end tablet with some pen/pencil input, an iPad Pro 11 inch is the cheap option!

It's kind of frustrating, because I think what's happening here is that the Surface Go line makes a lot of money, and a 11-inch-but-fast thing would probably be popular but have less juicy margins.
I’m in the UK. Yesterday I watched an eighty-plus year old woman settle her similarly elderly, physically-impaired husband into his seat on the train then get out her iPad to write an email.

On my journey home in a more crowded train I saw half a dozen iPads just from where I was sitting. They are extremely useful devices for train journeys.
That's when greed meets reality. Except for reading this through the prism of maximizing profit, it makes absolutely no sense.

They will pay extra landing fees, burn more fuel, fly further, and have one more cycle on their very costly engines to bring you from A to B, so by all metrics, it should be more expensive.

But hey, people are "willing" to pay more for the direct flight, so why not charge them as much as they can, while suing the skiplaggers for "costing" them money..
IBM introduces enterprise magnetic tape drive that holds 50TB per cartridge
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> getting something this basic wrong...

Despite the obvious vitriol of your message, I'd precise for the posterity that when KDE was created, this was not such a surprising thing to do as e.g. old Apple OS did so, and it was a commonly used option on other OSs.
The Vice journalist who wrote this has an ethical duty to disclose that she herself is unionized, and thus benefits from these contract liberty suppressing government actions in favor of unions.
Implications of Approaching the Singularity
It's clear that we're approaching the singularity, & most are drastically underestimating the impact that AI will have on society within the next couple years. Some predictions:

- Humans will not be writing code by hand in a few years.

- Workers will be expected to move "up the stack" of abstraction. Software engineers will be expected to be more high level product manager hybrids, serving more as technical business managers who delegate low level tasks to AI agents + cheap offshore workers

- Rise in generalists. Expensive specialists are most at risk since AI democratizes knowledge + power

- Gutting of the middle class, since most peoples' jobs are now very easy to automate

- Rise in AI agents. Most of what you read online including on internet forums and in DMs, you won't be able to tell if it was written by a human or AI (already the case with recruiting). There is currently an arms race in AI agent development, the results of which we'll start seeing on society within the next 12 months.

- The glory days of working in tech are over. Just like very other industry, it's only going to get more and more competitive. Salaries will at best remain stagnant. This is not specific to tech and will be the case for every industry. The industries most resilient will be those that require a human (eg. physical therapy)

The winners will be those who harness AI to their advantage, the losers will be everyone else.

I think most people are drastically underestimating the enormous impact that AI will have on society within even just the next 12 months. People are treating AI like a temporary fad or bubble, as if things will just return to the way they were before. But AI is not only here to stay, it's just getting started, and it's an arms race because everyone knows that AI will eat everything. Humans are terrible at understanding exponential growth, and most cannot comprehend how fast things are about to change.

Not trying to make this political - but I don't see any easier method of alleviating the hemorrhaging of the middle class than governments implementing a Universal Basic Income (UBI). Humans just cannot compete with a superintelligent autonomous AI that has parsed every book and document on the internet. We can continue to be in denial of this while our citizens suffer and overdose suicide to cope with the depression and bleak opportunities, or we can embrace AI and leverage it to free people to spend their time at their own leisure, moving society collectively up Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. But given how blind and reactionary most people are to this kind of stuff, I don't predict anything changes until we reach a serious boiling point, so unfortunately billions will needlessly suffer in the meantime until the masses wake up to the cosmic societal shifts that are taking place as we speak.
It seems to be a bad sign that the repo for this isn't even open yet...

I understand that on day one the tests may not yet be green or some links in documents might not be updated, but I would feel a lot better if there was a public github repo that had a README.md with a big note at the top saying "Work is underway, don't use this yet".

Without such a repo, it feels very much like opensourceness and community involvement is an afterthought.
Great! In some sense, then, you are agreeing rather than arguing ;P. The point was if they want to say that, they can say that, and the people in this thread (including me, FWIW) would sigh with casual acceptance; but, instead, they make the argument that it is somehow better NOT to have the lidar, as they supposedly are now (as opposed to a while back?...) claiming that it is so difficult to "fuse" the knowledge of the various sensors that you are better off picking only one.
That isn't how this works... If people show-case something they've done via a blog post, then it is submitted to HN for comments, then people comment on it, including an an analysis of the approach. If people like it, they'll say so... if people feel it could be better, then they'll share their thoughts on how it could be improved.

You saying it is the best approach because it is now done that way, is illogical and doesn't promote better ways.

Of course, the approach I outlined /may/ not be better.. and I may have misunderstood the requirements. I welcome critical analysis of what I proposed, but you haven't done that.

However, I am keen to help... so if you are happy to validate the requirement and approach with upstream, and confirm it will be well received I will write a golang drone-ci compatible static site generator that generates near identical html output from the s3 listing they could replace it with.
not sure who or what "king" you are talking about, or the politics involved.

But I agree with the sentiment it's an odd video choice. My attention was captured completely by the violence of the video, instead of what you are trying to demo.
> it doesn't hurt that economically, consumer wealth in Europe is falling like a rock

Falling like a rock? Where is this comming from? What Europe are you talking about? The EU, the continent, the eurozone, the UK, Russia?

Granted, high inflation, primarily caused by higher energy prices after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, has slowed down consumer spending in the EU, but generally speaking the outlook isn't that bad.

- Total financial assets of EU households grew almost continuously during the period 2011–2021, falling only in 2018. Their total value increased from €21 331 billion in 2011 to €34 982 billion in 2021, a 64.0 % overall increase. (Source: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...)

- Consumer Spending in European Union is expected to be 1804.00 EUR Billion by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. In the long-term, the European Union Consumer Spending is projected to trend around 1836.00 EUR Billion in 2024 and 1869.00 EUR Billion in 2025, according to our econometric models. (Source: https://tradingeconomics.com/european-union/consumer-spendin...)

- In June, Eurosystem staff revised down slightly the outlook for growth in the euro area for the next two years. The economy is expected to slow to 0.9% in 2023 before rebounding to 1.5% in 2024 and 1.6% in 2025 as energy prices moderate, foreign demand strengthens and real incomes improve.
(Source: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/key/date/2023/html/ecb.sp230...)
30k doesn't even sound like that much to me given Moore's law. I'd expect more improvement since 1989. Supercomputer performance increased more than a million since then
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The hypocrisy stems from:

1. OpenAI (etc.) scrape the public web to train and build their models.

2. They use these models to sell subscriptions (make money). None of this goes to the creators of the data used to train the models.

3. They deny others to do what they have done themselves.

If you compare to, say, search engines scraping the public web:

1. Search engines scrape the public web to create their search indexes.

2. They use these indexes to provide search results and sell ads around them. Importantly, these search results direct people to the websites that they have scraped (much of the time), offering opportunity for them to make money.
Where's that quote from ? Can't find it in the submitted page.
Supply chain shortages delay tech sector’s AI bonanza
There is already balance without unions. The balance is provided by companies competing with each for employees.
I haven't used an iPad keyboard but 160,000 words is about 159,000 more than I could stomach writing on a Macbook keyboard - which is the best laptop keyboard I've tried.

Perhaps I'm spoiled.
You can try to keep on thinking that it doesn't exist, but the truth is there for you to see.
Wages increase the fastest in countries with the most market freedom and security of private peoperty.

Capitalists generate capital, which is the basis for all wage growth and improvements in quality of life.
> Border inspection types are certainly inclined to ask that you power your devices if they are off - at least they often do with foreigners entering Germany.

The reason for that is that you could disguise a bomb as a laptop where the battery would be the explosive.

That device would never been able to be powered on though, hence the check.
There's several times where I've started jumping to RFC's in my work as a sysadmin recently.

Typically in the context of "what does this DNS record _actually_ do", or "OK, I need to know this random detail about an email header a client asked about", or other small fiddly bits of knowledge.

With practice, it's gotten surprisingly easy to just skim or ctrl-f for the relevant section. Definitely a skill worth learning - it's much easier when on the phone with a client to google "$protocol RFC -> https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc#### -> ctrl-f $topic" then it is to be stuck reading top ten list style blogspam about why $Thing is important, and you should just pay us.
Even in your framing (which I don't accept) it is a dark pattern because it constructs a bias of user behaviour that, statistically, will push users towards something that is both good for the company and not reflective of the user's goals. This IS a trick, because it relies on the user not knowing those incentives to be effective.
I have it on good authority that if you archive archive.org into archive.org, you can break the Internet.
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> We store all our data in Kafka, allowing us to cost-effectively and securely store tens or even hundreds of petabytes of data and retain it over many decades.

> KOR was founded in 2021

Apache Kafka released in 2011, the company promoting themselves in this article just two years ago. Let us know how this worked out when "many decades" have passed.

Kafka vs. relational databases apples to oranges.
They mean that the molecule is generally in a stationary state, i.e. an energy eigenfunction, so it doesn’t evolve with time
Is EU really trying to slow it down? TikTok ban in US seems to be a common talking point. Meanwhile here very few people talk about it and those are seen as lunatics in most cases.

Most people seem to happily approve all the GDPR dialogs too. While doomscrolling TikTok/Instagram/FB.
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This part interested me:

>
A Microsoft representative offered to provide comment for this story on the condition the information not be attributed to Microsoft in any way. Ars declined.
>

MS were then forced to provide an official comment.

Good to see Ars still has some journalistic integrity.
The topic is interesting and the paper looks well sourced, but I find the title to be quite the mouthful!
> Everyone who serves HTTP in the Eu and includes third party tracking, shows you an idiosyncratic consent banner. Often these things download a large amount of JS as well.

> That’s completely and utterly idiotic.

Yes. And that's not the fault of the law, but the fault of the companies.

1. The law doesn't talk about browsers, or cookies, or banners. It's a General Data Protection Regulation. It applies in equal measure to browsers, apps, VR, AR, offline interactions, and whatever you can think of

2. The law is ridicuously simple for 99% of use cases, and is extremely cheap to implement. It says, "Only use data you need for the operation of your business. If you collect any other data, you have to ask users for consent. Consent has to be informed, and it must be as easy to say no as it is to say yes"

> Why is this not the case?

Because the companies think that tracking you and selling your data on theopen market is their god-given right.

And the standard is literally already there: it's called GDPR.
And that escalated quickly because that theory is completely bonkers and any results of that if anything placebo.. so then we can just say everything here.
It’s too complicated to start from first principles to do any kind of chemistry. We even only have a semi empirical formula (SEMF) for estimating the masses of atomic nuclei
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At the time I was thinking that if I had to change something as fundamental as the key bindings to get it to work, it was maybe not the right tool for me, as these base bindings were probably a key part of the whole Emacs philosophy that I would then completely miss-out on..

But if you say that they are the least import part of Emacs, I might revisit it when I have the time. Thank you for the tip.
An update on fulfilling TikTok's commitments under the Digital Services Act
Browsers removed the Do Not Track header because it was... used to track users.

This should give you the answer to "why this isn't sufficient". The ads industry does not respect anything until it's driven out of existence by fines.
King-hit | sucker punch - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucker_punch

Timing wise it occurred not long after the POTUS to be (D.Trump) famously advocated violence towards people saying unwelcome things (“I promise you I will pay for the legal fees”) so it's hard not to agree with the GP about shunning such advocates.

https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/1/26/14369388/richard-sp...
> if they wanted to ban behavioral advertising outright they should have and could have done that instead of what they have done

Yes they could, so the question is why didn't they?

I suspect the answer is that there are lots of factions within the EU, some want to ban it and some don't and what they've done is a compromise.
Oh, no, there's more.

You must list all kinds of data processing you perform, find the appropriate legal basis (and data retention duration, etc.), make sure you only gather data you need (data minimization), know to who you transfer data, make your services secure by default, monitor for unauthorized access, and tell affected people when there is a breach. Perhaps make a risk assessment, but it depends on the processing you do.

Yes, it's work. But quite frankly, I'm cool with a law that expects anyone who processes personal data to secure their service, to properly inform people, and holds them accountable.
exactly

and top is complaining that his industry was instead given unholy ammounts of money to agrue that it isn't.
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> I'm saying the laws EU has released are too complex and indirect and cost too much money

No, and no, and no.

Most privcy-adjacent laws that EU has released in recent years are neither complex, nor do they cost too much money.

Well, they cost some money because businesses have this entrenched idea that they have an inalienable right to your data, so they don't even know which data they collect, sell, exchange, let leak, or use throughout their systems. Well, boo-hoo. Spend some time and money to get rid of this idea.

And the laws are "indirect" in the sense that all laws are indirect. They have to be general enough to be applicable not just in the year they were released to the technology of the time.
Great stuff - and training was so cheap too - it would have cost less than $200 on Runpod, and half that price on spot instances.

I guess it's time languages other than Python, especially niche ones, started collating their own language specific datasets.

Personally, I daydream about an Elixir specific LLM I could run locally, trained or fine tuned to respond in an idiomatic fashion, and plug into a tool like Cursor.so.

Are there any examples of the internal dataset used in the 80K instruction / answer pairs Phind used to tune this?
Median consumer is getting fucked by central bank loan rates, sky-high housing prices wherever jobs are and overall inflation. Talking from EU perspective, but probably applies to most of the world pretty well.
Meanwhile 'Uncle Sam' will also not let SpaceX hire non-citizen PhDs from US universities.

Sometimes it feels like various branches of the US government are set up to sabotage each other.
If this is the case, I guess what I'm really wondering is: does the existence of the EULA cause this, or was it HiQ having "turks" sign in to do it - thus accepting the EULA?
No. [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem
Ah but the new generation doesn't know what a "file dialog" is. I wish I was kidding
> Every single other type of advertising requires your explicit consent. YouTube? Google? Newspapers? All have your consent.

How exactly do they have that "consent"?
Update: Actually most of these paper cups are lined with plastic: An ongoing HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37259619
Ad targeting may be old good regional advertising. Or advertising in specific content rather than trying to target specific human beings based on their profiles.
Oh my god. So what if I intend to work in the US? This whole distinction is useless shit.
Examples: https://github.com/cgsdev0/bash-stack/tree/main/examples

Overview describes what it does, really. Sends stdout of shell scripts to a client through http, routing via folders. “What a complicated bs!” I thought about this principle back in the day. Sigh.
When you have a truly compliant gdpr dialog, aka simple yes/no, I found lots of non tech people around me click no. I'd say about 50%
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> ...but at the end of the day Cargo is the reason that Rust is popular.

FWIW, maybe that's true for you, but there are numerous other advantages to the language for which many people choose to use Rust--some even "despite" Cargo: you see Google having had to put in way way WAY too much work to get Bazel working for Rust :/--that it honestly feels a bit like belittling an extremely important language to make this claim so flippantly.

In my case, I often feel bad that I'm not using Rust more often, as I'm one of those developer churning out tons of C/C++ code. I do my best, but... I'm a security engineer! I know what I'm doing is stupid! But like, I'm having a hard enough time just dealing with the Rust library dependencies I've accumulated, so I'm not going to start developing even more Rust :(.

> You can set a default build target for a Cargo project with two lines of configuration, no nightly features necessary...

This doesn't work as, as soon as you start setting target-specific options, it infects the host's options, as they incorrectly modelled the problem as some kind of map from targets to flags. If you don't believe me, on your Linux computer, try cross-compile something complicated that will runs on a "least common denominator" Linux distribution, such as CentOS 7.

> Can you clarify what this is referring to?

Sure. I've Googled rust cargo target host bugs for you (which, FWIW, finds a number of bugs I've filed or have talked about, but it isn't as if I have a list anywhere). Note that one of these bugs is "closed", but I still provide them for context as a patch might have been merged but (as you'll find out if you read through all of these) it isn't stable.

https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/8147

https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/3349

https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/9322

https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/9453

https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/9753

The result of this work being left incomplete is that increasingly large numbers of "serious" projects--things I'd expect people in packaging land to have heard of, such as BuildRoot--are being forced to set the ridiculous environment variable __CARGO_TEST_CHANNEL_OVERRIDE_DO_NOT_USE_THIS="nightly" in order to get access to a flag that makes Cargo sort of work.

I remember a bunch of other ones but I think they are linked from these bugs (I didn't want to dig too long on this); you can also find--either linked from these bugs (as people will tag the bug in their patch) or by searching for that variable (as no one else would use that in a sane project) the projects that are slowly being forced into this crazy workaround.

(What is sad is I often see people surprised at how long it is taking for various of the more important clients to fully get into using Rust, as the safety issues are so severe from continuing to use C/C++; as you made the contention that you believe the reason why people use Rust is Cargo, I will say the opposite: the reason why we don't see more Rust is also Cargo.)
> Most people seem to happily approve all the GDPR dialogs too.

What's a "GDPR dialog"? Do you mean a cookie banner? Nothing in GDPR requires a cookie banner.
The Minecraft Java world starts with decompiling bytecode, replacing methods, and recompiling it. I struggle to think what could be further from either static types or memory safety - although at least that happens in the mod loader, and the mod code needn't be aware of how the sausage is made.
The EU is not an uniform entity. Yes, you have citizens who sue Facebook, but then you have some members of the commission that wants to ban E2E encryption; but then, you have other members that absolutely don't want that, and the EDPS reminding everyone that it's actually illegal.
Those dark patterns are not GDPR-compliant. GDPR says, "it should be as easy to say yes as it is to say know" and on top of that those huge lists do not present informed consent.

NOYB has a bit on that: https://noyb.eu/en/where-did-all-reject-buttons-come
I do remember breaking my ankle on my bicycle as a child; I don't recall having to jailbreak my bike, though.

How does BitTorrent work via the app store by the way? Kappa.