skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Before judging people for their decisions it's worth understanding why they make them.

I do understand. I understand it's infinitely cheaper to build a shitty webapp and port it to every platform. I know exactly why this stuff is so ubiquitous. Hell, I've even tried it over a few weekends here and there. There was a time I was looking to get into React simply because everyone and their mother is using it for all the reasons you've outlined here. Eventually though I found a job where a native app is much preferred for exactly the reasons you outline here: It runs better, and our leadership is one that's prepared to lay out a chunk of change to have software they're proud to show off and sell.

In short: I know exactly what the tradeoffs are and why they're made. Doesn't mean I'm not going to judge them for it. It's great web tooling but when used this way it results in mediocre garbage applications that are magnitudes larger than they need to be, more often than not by some combination of developers or management that fundamentally don't care that it runs and feels like shit, and that tells me something about their long term product viability.
Both when this was initially discussed in 2020 and following, I've maintained that:

(1) at the time it didn't matter what the source was; what mattered at the time was not flaming international conflict which the US leadership was aiming to do. Now that we have survived and moved forward, it's absolutely appropriate to discuss the source if there is any reasonable evidence towards one source or another: lab, meat market, random chance

(2) ideological conflict won't lead to better lab safety

(3) if it was a lab leak, what a shame.

Frankly, I don't really care what the source was as its identification doesn't change my life in a meaningful way. If it was a lab leak, glad it wasn't something worse and hope we can institute better policies.
I think people need to have a more reasonable expectation of what is knowable. It's very much against human nature to accept uncertainty, but here it's the adult thing to do.

Currently the best working hypothesis is the natural origin, but that doesn't mean we have certainty around what the origin is. We need to stop bickering over unproductive questions.
Why I Traded My Smartphone for an Ax
Last release 2021 with gcc10 :-(
Q&A: Uncovering the labor exploitation that powers AI
Thanks! I've implemented this manually with HNSW and I was wondering if pgvector would be an easy replacement.
Yes, lets embrace the bureaucratics, because thats how we get stuff done! /s
1. 'People like me'? What, the ones watching the demo video and not just taking some media hack's word for what happened?

2. I don't care about Tesla's stock price. I don't own any. Don't care about the NHTSA either — not American.

3. I'm not parroting anything — I watched the video before I saw the article, and thought the tone of the article was off.
The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed [video]
Both VLC and INIA work fine for opening .mp4 files from Finder.

When you change the file association on OSX, be sure to also click the “Apply for all .mp4 files” button. Common mistake.
For car insurance, this is already happening and is fairly reasonable. A lot of car claims are handled by desk folks because you take it to a repair shop and they figure it out and negotiate it.

But P&C is a different beast.

> and the value is within a certain range

This is called a deductible. We literally had a guy who got denied on a claim end of last week because it didn't meet his deductible. (He provided the list.)

Then literally the next day he re-submits with MORE STUFF. So yeah, the human element, even in a reduced form, will always be required. Stuff that he cannot prove was actually even damaged because he had "thrown it away".
They’re exaggerating
> When taken though that lens

No thanks, I'll take properly managed freedom within my OS.

> if we hadn't turned everything into a fucking web-app

Could you elaborate?
This is the dodgy flight plan referenced by OP. A post mortem would explain in detail why there were problems with the data and exactly what they were
> Did you really post this in good faith? Come on.

I'm not sure how to respond. I want people to look at posts like this one[1], that actually reference solidly researched studies like those done by Bloom Labs, instead of the manipulated and cherry-picked data used by Worobey and others who support the wet-market scenario (at least in public).

There are a lot of crackpots out there, and I try to ignore their anti-vax nonsense. But just because it's convenient for them to align themselves with what they seem to think is some sort of anti-China hypothesis, it's no reason for me to discount the clear and growing evidence that a lab accident infected workers, and spread from there, wherever it might have been in the world.

[1] https://nitter.net/ydeigin/status/1695588327540347329
Off the back of yours and the child comments, I tried a swiss water decaf for the first time (beans) and it tastes amazing - I wouldn’t know it’s not regular coffee.

For reference for anyone interested, I used a Mochamaster filter brewer with these beans (which I freshly grind - which probably helps the taste too):

Lavazza Decaffeinated, 100% Arabica Medium Roast

This is exciting to me as I can finally wean myself off caffeine while keeping my {difficult to kick} coffee habit!
It's not better anywhere. That's the problem, everything is a game of compromise and when you try to fix things for yourself a big company gives you the stink-eye. The web is the last place left where developers feel they have freedom, which should make us all feel very sad considering they run a whole-ass computer that they effectively ignore because of arbitrary restrictions.
Use Lobste.rs with a filter: https://lobste.rs/filters
You're probably right. From my vantage point (in an independent agent insurance office right now), the easiest way to shrink UW is to make it ALL run by independent workers (e.g., agents).

The irony of this, though, is that the quality of the underwriting risk assessment can suffer, meaning premiums will often be underpaid relative to statistical risk, and create more problems if enough of them push through.

Another money-saving trick I know of in insurance is to severely downsize the claims department. It's lawfully mandatory to process claims, but I'm not sure if there's a statute on how long to process them. One of the carriers my office hates working with can take 3-6 months to process a claim, and often will find some reason or another to not pay it.

If anyone wants a pain point, the insurance industry desperately needs a decent-quality rater/AMS: the tech and UX is hilariously ancient.
Fortunately, I have had a lot of time to work on my health. I now exercise 3 times a week and cook most of my meals so at least I have that going.
> Probably several millions, yes. Considering the EU has 450 inhabitants, that*s increasing my tax bill by cents. Well worth the money to me.

But this never ends. Every week there's a new article here about how the EU is forcing electronics makers implement their preferred charger ports, or displaying cookie notices to EU visitors, or making phone batteries replaceable. It's endless crap that adds drag to businesses trying to operate in EU, costs tax payers hundreds of millions and has almost no significance to the average person's life.

I'm not anti-regulation at all. I just think it needs to be limited to places where there's a clear need to regulate. Honestly sometimes it seems like the EU is just looking for the next pointless thing to regulate so they can continue to justify their jobs.

Please take this as a separate point on taxation more generally, but I tend to find the most pro-tax people I know are those with the highest incomes. Those in favour of people's income being redistributed to regulators in this way I find are often the same people who argue in favour of spending "a little more" for free ranged eggs, and organic fruits, etc. I'm not suggesting you don't do this already, but we should consider if those pennies would be better in the pockets of workers rather than taken by government regulators so you don't have the displeasure of using Edge when you occasionally need to use Windows instead of your Mac.
You're poisoning the well for what reason?
There exist both long term and short term incentive plans.

See page 10:

https://www.zurich.com/-/media/project/zurich/dotcom/investo...
Blockchain Based Anti-Deepfake Proposal
I've had a very hard time finding good places to source further consulting gigs? Are there any you recommend?
Tinder slave-labour is used also for assembling drones in Russia that attack Ukraine. Source (RU): https://istories.media/news/2023/07/24/studenti-dolzhni-stra...
Nvidia already has Linux (up to this change).

I'm not sure Nvidia needs Linux 6.6+. If this change is indeed a dealbreaker, they can very well fork it at the last working version and offer it in combination with their own distro.

Even if they're unable to make significant further contributions, today's kernel is likely to work just fine for the next decade. Any improvements could happen at the hypervisor layer (because of cloud, x86_64 effectively became the new API, with the true "OS" being the cloud and its hypervisor & managed services) or userspace to not make any changes to the kernel itself and thus avoid tripping up licensing issues.

This kind of bullshit pettiness will end up making the situation worse for desktop Linux users and consumers, while enterprises reliant on Nvidia equipment in Linux-based server systems will just jump to Nvidia's fork and distro.
You can simply not deal drugs. It's not that difficult.
IRS Pushes Back New Roth 401(k) Catch-Up Rules
Governments should make this illegal
Next question is whether the pandemic scenario was exploited by a coalition of interests to push their narrow agendas (digital id, privacy law exceptions, data collection and surveillance, mail-in voting, censorship, undermining of fundamental freedoms of movement and association, etc.) These also absolutely occurred and cannot be denied rationally.

The real question of the pandemic that I think people need to ask themselves is, did you demonstrate courage and compassion? If you fell for it all and became a persecutor of others, consider the capacity of courageous and compassionate people to forgive, and take some time to reckon how you would act if you had the chance to make those choices again. I'm pretty sure you're going to get the opportunity soon.
DoorDash opens google maps by default even though I prefer Apple Maps.

This is almost certainly a bug in Messenger.
you just take a paranoiac anti-institutionalist cryptoperson and tell them that yes there will be a “crypto revolution,” but that the feds (and/or The Fed and/or the FED — all interchangeable) will be behind it.

Sleight of the century!
Move to a 24-48 schedule. You work your 8 hours, on-call for 16, then off for 48. Three shifts provide 24x7 support.
What they are really saying is that they can’t effectively model the risk.

Say you were an insurer… would you want to take risk for Florida hurricane losses knowing what we know?

If we want a functional insurance market in these places, we need a student loan type solution - make the Feds the reinsurer and have the insurance company mostly administer the policy.
Opening up iOS to other browser engines doesn't mean that suddenly Safari stops working. If anything it would force Safari to become competitive with Chrome.
When the world is rapidly changing what do you expect to happen? Systems collapse. It’s inevitable.
Oh, they do. On my iPhone, I've:
-changed the 'default browser'
-'uninstalled' Safari

Yet, whenever I want to search for a highlighted word, it opens Safari. This is such an absurd situation where I am browsing a site and want to do a search for something I just read and, instead of just opening a new tab or replacing the active tab with a web search, it opens a different browser app I do not want to use.

This is just not the way any reasonable user would expect a system app to behave once all browser selection settings are configured to use a different browser.
The title is pure clickbait, and completely misrepresents the actual problem and benchmark.

From the article:

> In other words, we have a tight loop that makes many Ruby to C to Ruby calls. YJIT (as well as other JIT compilers) have a hard time optimizing these types of calls.

Basically the benchmark compares two Ruby gems, one which can be optimized and another which cannot.

And to much surprise, the gem that cannot be optimized performs worse.
There are interesting stories about a device allowing the user - the Vatican - to peer back through time. Called the Chronovisor. Curious times.
Me neither, and I even use the built in health app sometimes, which is the logical place to put an add for their fitness service.
I've had Safari open itself a couple of times when clicking useless Apple links (I think in settings with more info?). Also, if i click the play button on my keyboard without anything recent to play, it will open the piece of shit that is Apple Music that I have never used nor opened by myself. If I open a document or spreadsheet in the default installed apps, saving them will save them in the proprietary shitty Apple formats, instead of the one it came in (thus creating a second document instead of updating the original). In a similar vein, multiple things any other OS and Desktop Environment has, such as different scroll direction between mouse and touchpad, custom keybindings, basic window management features, Display Port daisy chaining over USB C (non-thunderbolt) macOS doesn't just because the gods of Apple have decided you don't need to have them, because fuck you.

I can go on, but macOS is not an OS that respects users or user choice.
Disagree and commit
Overlooked part of brain could play critical role in addiction recovery
The difference is that the US is a democracy and people voted for the politicians who created those laws (and the attorney generals who enforce them), so by democratic logic the people convicted by the system "deserve" to be imprisoned to some degree.
Not mentioned in TFA but subcutaneous formulations can also often be self-infused at home (no need to find a vein or use an electronic pump), saving a trip to the infusion clinic. This can be huge for quality of life.
All large insurance companies were once 240 people. Why do you think they grew to be 100x that size? Why not just keep their headcount the same and watch their margins explode as revenue goes up 10,000%?
It died a long time ago, it was called lunarstorm, it was during the golden age of these sites, people had "profiles" and "pages" and wrote html on them. There was some structure to the quirkyness.

These days, I don't know.. I guess I use facebook the most, but it's not that I enjoy it in particular.

Is HN a social network? I guess it lacks the networking part.. Otherwise, for interactions with strangers online, I think HN and random IRC channels are my favorites.
"can't wait to get the new fairphone!"
Eventually, it's going there but at the moment, people are mostly using low-tech methods to scam others. Oftentimes we'll overestimate/underestimate the abilities of scammers. It's important to realize that access to cloud services and sophisticated AI requires money for that infrastructure and these paltry scammers won't do that unless it's a part of a bigger org.
> The very first tip I see is "Customize the way objects look" which is ok... cool you can do that, is this where it should start?

I mean, why not? It's not all for fun and giggles, it's actually a very useful feature, I use it a lot when working with data structures I've created myself (which are ultimately usually Objects in the JS world, but custom algorithms for get/set/sort and so on) and I want to render them differently in the console.

Another real-life example of it's usefulness is https://github.com/binaryage/cljs-devtools which formats Clojure/Script data structures into a more useful format when printing them to the console. It literally uses that feature: https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Abinaryage%2Fcljs-devtools...
>KF supporters and users are free to say whatever they want in their own forums.

Thats exactly what is no longer the case. We just created the method to even prevent self hosting.

edit: Its also why this is such a big deal. They were a canary and with how they were dealt with its extremely likely that that was a domino. Because there is nothing stopping people from exploiting this now that its here. How ever justified or well intentioned this was, it wont matter for the cases to come.
I would expect any pre-prompt or fine tuning training that is relevant to the subsequent prompts to improve the results (relative to the pre-prompting or tuning).

Likewise, any pre-prompt or fine tuning training that is NOT relevant to the subsequent prompts adds unhelpful and highly non-contextual complexity to the models job, so likely to reduce the quality of response.
I think this article is missing the point. State sponsored cinemas should have a high standard. Playing something with shady copyright, would stain their reputation. Americans would not also play cheap porn in Super Imax theater...

Nobody in Russia cares if some local private/municipal theater plays DVD rip of Barbie...
actually with kids i want to live near the school. because while i could tolerate the occasional 1-hour commute to work, having kids needing to travel that far every day to get to middle or highschool is even worse. (primary schools and kindergarten are more likely to be local, so that's less of an issue)
How to make Plastics without Fossil Fuels
There's No Such Thing as Plain Text (2022) [video]
Solarpunk is going mainstream. This couple’s $1M Kickstarter proves it
Yes, it is, and that's because the trick is that it relies in ligatures to combine series of dots into frames. One '.' shows the first frame, '..' the second, '...' the third, you get the idea.

The only way to animate the font is thus to hold down the . key, which you can't really do in a blog post, at least without some custom JavaScript.
> "Lab-leak" is a single possible event

I don't agree because there are plethora of possible details depending on level of conspiracy. Was the virus synthesized at least partly? Was the virus selected from a number of not so harmful viruses? Was the virus went from naively non-infected bat when the fact is that it was infected? Was the lab-leak done intentionally, kind of something able to pause WW3? And so on and on.
State Insurance Commissioner disagrees. Enjoy your fines and sanctions.
A mouse weighs about 0.2% of a human (napkin math). Does it make sense to feed a mouse 8 human cans of drinks worth of aspartame every day for 12 weeks? this is a genuine question, I'm not exactly an expert on mouse studies. Does the ability to induce anxiety in mice by seemingly overdosing them warrant concern?
See, all those leetcodes practice finally pay off /s.

All seriousness, this is for VM booting right? Not hardware booting.
I really don’t give a fuck what random perpetual contrarians have to say. The biologists who study viruses say that it has markers of natural evolution with at least 2 hops from human back to animal back to human.
> Leave it for a proper OS.

> It might not be possible for your company issued computers if they don't allow you to use something else[1][2] but for your personnal [sic] uses it is fairly easy.

It's not that easy, unless you're willing to make a bunch of sacrifices for the sake of using a different OS. Windows is by far the dominant desktop OS, and there's a lot of software people need and want to use that's available only for it.
Every business has always pushed profit. The only thing that changes is whether or not they have the negotiating power to get it.

These are operating margins, not profit margin, but page 7 should still give an idea for which businesses have more pricing power than others. And of course, bigger companies getting bigger means businesses might simply be gaining negotiating power overall.

https://www.yardeni.com/pub/sp500margin.pdf
They're almost right though. People should ditch Chrome indeed. But they should ditch it for Firefox not Edge.
Safari is not my default browser. I can search for a highlighted word only on Safary, not on my browser of choice.
> Microsoft is acting predictably from a business perspective

A business can be predictable without being shitty to the core. Microsoft has been a shitty scofflaw company since the day it was founded. Apple and Google are pretty shitty, but they weren't in their early days. Microsoft has always been a criminal racket.
He was filming the demo drive while being the actual test driver.

It's arguable whether he was compliant to the regulatory requirement that the test-driver is able to take control of the car at any time.

In a standard car, at least -most- countries would not consider him capable to properly operate the vehicle in such a state.

This might sound like nitpicking, but only until he hits YOUR car because he was distracted by filming a video of his new beta software which was glitching out...
As I recall, there was an election during the trial, where Bill Clinton was replaced by George Bush, whose administration was not as keen to prosecute monopolists.
> An insurance company is not a charity it’s just a profit engine.

Odd then that so many forms of insurance are mandated by the government.
Might is right, huh?
I suspect it's more to do with the EU being an economic enterprise, democracy was and is an afterthought.
Low quality and obvious scams are a feature, they filter only the most gullible.
Professional means you can run IIS and Hyper-V, maybe join a domain.
Greed was held back by a sense of collectivism; as that has eroded since the 1960’s, it’s become a self-sustaining feedback loop.

No one looking out for me means I’d better screw everyone else over first and “get mine”.
No. Obama can just release the transcript on the official white house website instead of storing it on multiple blockchains.
I'm a big fan of WSL, which has kept me on Windows for years more than I otherwise would have.

But I can't stand the scammy adware infused OS Windows has become and will be moving to Apple Silicon full-time when the next gen M3 Desktop hardware is out.

As a recent M2 Macbook Air owner I'm surprised how much software supports ARM/Apple Silicon natively, where everything I use daily as a .NET developer worked OOB [1]. It's also great for running multiple OS's, e.g. you can install a headless Ubuntu with `brew install lima` or install and run latest ARM Windows 11, Ubuntu and Fedora OS's with UTM [2] which saved me a Parallels License I thought I needed to run Windows on macOS.

[1] https://servicestack.net/posts/postgres-mysql-sqlserver-on-a...

[2] https://mac.getutm.app
Are they scamming Westerners? (TFA wasn't clear). They'd have to be pretty fluent in idomatic English to do that.

Do the 5-10 messages I get each week "Hi! This is Irene. Are you going to the party?" come from trafficed people?
It's a memetic disease akin to religion how many person-years of time have been wasted trying to find a use for blockchain lock-in.
Postgres is open source and free, so accusing them of EEE wouldn't make any sense.
Looks like an awesome product! Looking forward to trying it out!
All that would be left is advertising. Everything else will be paywalled.