skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a Lumia 830 until the bitter end (of security updates—2019 I think) and I agree it was really nice to have a third competitor. But I also got it back out of the drawer the other day and was reminded of how buggy it was, especially after the upgrade to Windows 10 Mobile (on my phone I had a nasty memory leak that made the browser unusable after going a few days without rebooting, and an issue where photos you just took would get deleted if you viewed them immediately after pressing the shutter without waiting a few seconds). I also think you can't print with it, at least not without a third-party app, so AirPrint on the iPhone was very nice for me.

Definitely ahead of its time in certain UI concepts, definitely didn't get the attention it deserved to iron out some big defects!
no, cattle grazing on land serves to regenerate the land.
"The most 'pro' iPhone we've ever created"

Did they uh... even listen to this?
I'm keeping my 12 Pro Max another year.

It takes great photos. I never use the port. Dynamic Island is an Emperor's new clothes marketing scam where they've just moved the bezel even more in the way than it was and managed to convince people it's a good thing.
I'm game to see more on that. This study specifically, shows that you can be vaccinated and get it. You will have fewer symptoms, but still shed just as much virus. That is literally what their callout was about, no?

If you are claiming that you are less likely to get it when you are vaccinated, that kind of contradicts a lot of what I've seen out there. I'm happy to learn that is mostly paranoia, though? I haven't actually followed too much there, as it doesn't seem to impact my behavior. I'll get vaccinated when eligible, just as I have done for other things for most of my life.
Before smart phones became something for everybody, 99% of "gamers" would game on lottery tickets, casinos, slot machines and such. They are still the majority and they want their slot machines, where they don't have to think or learn to progress. Computer / video game tropes are just an aesthetic to skin a slot machine on your phone.
You're right--chess is a decidedly finite game. Even so, we have not "solved" this simple, finite game--not even close! If we're not close to solving such a trivial game, how can we be close to the limit of the knowledge of the universe?

A googolplex is "too big to be contained" in our universe yet here we are talking about it. We can perform operations on this number, compare it to other numbers, and even come up with mathematical proofs showing that it's too big to exist. There are an infinite amount of numbers larger than a googolplex and we could have an infinite amount of conversations about them. The material limit of the universe does not limit our ability to create information, to learn things.

There isn't enough space in the universe for an infinite series, either, yet we can (and do) still use them, we reason about them, we learn from them. We can even reduce some infinite series to a finite number. The material bounds of the universe are not a limit of knowledge.
I would say that GOG is a more decent service - you get the games without DRM - and I buy games there without question.

Many games on steam are also on GOG.
Heh, Steam for me was first just a new UI to Half-Life and my beloved CS. I hated the design but I liked where they were going with it. Being able to find mods, install mods, “shop around for mods” made steam what it is today. That, and beloved CS.

Also, if you can find it, in the Counter-Strike Beta, a lot of the levels had hidden community graffiti tags by the authors. It was awesome to see so many people. I miss the days of people coming together like that, building something they themselves want to play. Now everything is “how do I get rich off this?” loot boxes and shallow rewards for dopamine’s sake.
LLMs as they are now are not a drop-in replacement for what people use voice assistants for.

If you ask it a question it doesn't know the answer to, "I don't know" is better than making up a bullshit answer. That could be potentially hazardous at iPhone levels of scale, giving everyone easy access to what appears to be a very intelligent AI chatbot without them understanding that it shouldn't be relied on for a lot of information people will ask it.
I put everything in tables.
I hope that the grocery store who is splitting the wheel removes the rind area with the label. I don't like the idea of ingesting a eating a chip even if it's very very small.
gpt3.5 turbo is (mostly likely) Curie which is (most likely) 6.7b params. So, yeah, makes perfect sense that it can't compete with a 70b model on cost.
I learned C from Schildt's C, The Complete Reference (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C,_The_Complete_Reference) that didn't either mention that it was Windows specific or that there were other options. :-(
My mistake, I had only seen / searched for the Bloomberg reporting.
COVID as a health crisis is over. It's endemic, just like the flu.
I was wondering how well synchronized the camera clock is with the clock used to establish event timing in picking the earthquake arrivals.

There are several seconds between my smart watch time and the network time displayed on my workstation. There are several minutes between those two times which I consider accurate and the time displayed on the battery powered clock on the wall. There are hours between those times and the time displayed on my coffee-maker.

Where does the camera get its time stamp?
That's perfect! Saving this one for later.

And now, back to Tim.
Rent-seeking seems a silly term here. If you just mean "charging a fortune" then there are other consoles to buy. And consoles are luxury goods, so if they get too expensive people just won't buy them in the first place.
> the obvious go-to engine choice for indies and mobile developers

What do you think has taken it's place?
If it happened to me the situation would really grate on me.
It really isn't, given how much of Android will get updated during those security fixes only years. Many of the builtin apps will still receive feature updates, likely even beyond that window.
You can change the contact email associated with the account (where correspondance goes), but I'm pretty sure you can't change the email address that was initially used to register the account. You can set a public-facing display-name, so in practice it's only used as a login username, but it also shows up in the UI in a few places.
Xlib is peculiar in that it doesn't really expose you to the protocol very well. For starters, it doesn't immediately write every request. Partly because it saves bandwidth on slow networks to not send lots of tiny requests that might end up in separate packets.

Partly because the Xlib API is pathological in making it hard for you to minimize requests yourself. E.g. a lot of calls to modify graphics contexts can be batched up, but that requires Xlib to not worth requests immediately.

So hence there being some value on testing with different flush behaviour.

But this is Xlib specific, not really X.
You asked which Android phones get five years of security updates? Directly from Google, only the Pixel 6 and up, most likely in reaction to Apple's better support policies. Other manufacturers? You have to research it because it varies: https://www.androidauthority.com/phone-update-policies-16586...

Ideally Google would mandate a minimum number of years for both feature and security updates that matches theirs of three and five, respectively. Having said that, these really are wasting assets thanks to storage wearing out, but that's true of all phones, regardless of manufacturer.
Big ups for using the same colors as Developer Tools to denote margin, padding, etc
- Does not conduct 1:1s - everything happens in a group setting.

Wouldn’t in large meetings mostly the loudest and most political be heard? How do you hear everyone in a large meeting? Who takes credit, assumes responsibility, be more or less paid, etc?

1:1 are important, at least to connect to people.

Nvidia bet on a good fast growing market early on (AI). Maybe that explains their success. Also, take these stories with a grain of salt, til the sources are clear.
Awesome. Any more feedback on the website, please do let me know. Open to any suggestions, best way to improve.
I'm talking about early standouts, not also rans. I think 2010's Infinity Blade pulled in two million dollars the first week, back when the user base of the devices were comparatively tiny.

People were willing to pay up front on iOS, but Android users just sideloaded, leading to Skinner box free-to-play games being the most reliable way to monetize.
People were already exploited umami before they knew it had a molecular source.

After learning to taste umami clearly (for example, unsalted chicken broth) I realized a number of things:

umami is in many things now as a flavoring- anything with "yeast extract" will have umami flavor

umami maxxes out pretty quickly- after a certain amount, it doesn't taste better (or worse, really). It just saturates.

it's not surprising we have a dedicated taste receptor for umami. Umami is mainly provided by two things: hydrolyzed amino acids, and hydrolyzed nucleosides. That is, the constituents of proteins and DNA. It's very convenient to consume umami compounds because they are easy sources for the process that metabolizes and converts foods into new protein and dna.
USA & europe tanneries are usually pretty regulated and treat their wastewater. Other countries may vary.
I tried Orion. It’s super unstable. I don’t know what tricks they are trying to play, but they clearly aren’t working.
Maybe that's actually the case. Jensen Huang has done it, and it certainly cuts down on the filming and rehearsing time.
You should try actually implementing packing, layout and size allocation algorithms sometime, if you have not.

We have our own Canvas (aka scene graph) object inside Ardour and attempting to implement all of the above there showed how delightful most of CSS is, and how necessary.
GameMaker is not Game Maker, at least, to me. either way: not open-source.
Transactions where you got scammed aren't the same thing as unauthorized transactions.
While possible it is unlikely. It would take a considerable amount of time to accumulate that amount of energy needed from these sources. These systems are generally used for transmitters that transmit for a couple of seconds at most and may be off for the rest of the day. Enough energy would have to be accumulated to run the GPS long enough to get a valid fix etc.
People have had the option to use bluetooth headphones since 1999. Removing the headphone jack from iPhones wasn't some revolution. Apple simple took away a choice.
> On the other hand, I heard that leather is a by-product of the meat industry - i.e. the cattle would be raised either way.

Sure, but still seem worth it!

Right now the by-product generates additional profit per animal. If we all stop using leather, the by-product becomes a liability and they need to do something else with it that costs them money.

All of this means to retain their initial profit per animal, the cost is transferred to the meat consumer. Which in turn might help drive sustainability through lower meat consumption.
Interesting, will check it out!
look at gog - though not as many titles, games purchased there run offline without drm.
Uzi Nissan, the owner, died a few years ago: https://jalopnik.com/uzi-nissan-internet-domain-owner-who-fo...
They better quadruple iPhone RAM for that.
> I am already running a self-hosted solution (ex: Zulip/Rocket/Mattermost). What makes this a compelling offering to me?

(Quiet founder here) Great question! If you're already happy running your own self-hosted Zulip/Rocket/Mattermost/Matrix and you have no problems with maintenance or downtime, Quiet is just a cool demo and probably not useful!

If you cannot run a server (a minority on HN but a majority of the world) or you do not want to (maybe a slim majority on HN?) and you need a team chat with nice privacy properties, Quiet is being built for you!

The thing that frustrates me about free and open source software that requires servers is: most people don't have servers! And the prevalent model for using others' servers involves a terrible power / dependence relationship. One thing that drives me to build Quiet is that I want to see a world where free software comes "batteries included" with all of its promised freedoms and advantages, for the vast majority who do not have servers.
Amazing, I wish I had a government that helped like that.
Now is a good time to read "Crossing the Chasm:" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_Chasm

The book talks about the state of the business Earthly CI was in: They tried to go from enthusiasts to generalists... But with a completely new product!

I don't think it was wrong to build a new CI; instead, I think the thing they did "wrong" was build a super-complicated CI; or that when they tried to cross the chasm, they tried to sell a (cough) completely different product than what their early users were using.
There's a lot more indies talking about Unreal, and also Godot. Too early to see how much of that talk will translate to shipping finished games, though.

Artists are excited by the potential of UE5, as Unity's rendering tech has stagnated somewhat. But making a UE5 Nanite/Lumen game is likely to be limiting your audience rather a lot, with high hardware requirements.
See also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37481344 - "Unity plan pricing and packaging updates"

It's linked in this article as "the latest and final straw".
If you want income, either you

- cross your fingers for a deal with a major (Xbox game pass, Epic exclusivity)
- cross your fingers for a deal with one of the smaller ones that will do proper guidance and marketing (devolver, deck13, new blood, Annapurna, team17, etc)
- cross your fingers for big streamers to dedicate at least a few hours to your game
- make an extremely niche, moated game that will for sure attract a specific fanbase that buys everything on that niche. And cross your fingers that a competitor doesn't launch around the same date.
- make an addictive gachapon filled casual mobile game, and burn money in ads

Only one of these doesn't have you crossing your fingers. (I'm half joking please don't take this too seriously)
Ah, this explains so much!

I once crapped out a game engine over a weekend using python. I called it turdPy.

I released it under a commercial license of $20000 per CPU thread per developer device per day to use. With an additional 80-20 revenue share model (80% going to me) once the devs sell their game.

I never got any customers, and I always wondered why. But now I understand that it was because game studios simply didn't have a good enough business model.
Might be worth checking how they are using it. If they're used to gas heating in a less well insulated home they may swich it off until they need it, whereas in a well insulated home with a heat pump you want it on basically all the time.

edit: In-depth geeky video on this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGs_biFA87Q
Taskfile looks worse than make to me in every possible dimension (except maybe windows compatibility, but I don't believe that it meaningfully supports that).

You should at least read and understand the paper "Recursive Make Considered Harmful" before attempting to replace make with something "better":

https://aegis.sourceforge.net/auug97.pdf

Most people use make incorrectly (and it sounds like the system you describe makes most of the classic mistakes). The paper I linked explains how to use Make's templating language to help it scale to complicated setups.

Here are a few critiques of taskfile (from skimming their documentation):

- The syntax is incredibly verbose and weird. For instance, you have to write a tree of yaml nodes to loop over a set of files. Make's syntax is weird, but at least it is not verbose.

- The documentation makes no mention that I could find of deriving a set of tasks from a list of files (Make's $(wildcard) macro, or stemming rules like "%.o : %.c"). So, I guess the taskfile will end up being huge (like the size of autogenerated makefiles from autoconf or cmake), or you'll end up using additional ad-hoc build systems that are invoked by your taskfile.

- From the documentation, they haven't thought through having more than one project per unix account "When running your global Taskfile with -g, tasks will run on $HOME by default, and not on your working directory!"

- They seem to have partially reimplemented the bad ideas from recursive make: https://taskfile.dev/usage/#including-other-taskfiles

- I suggest taking an idiomatic but non-trivial bash script (which is 99% of what make is invoking, and that taskfiles support), and then trying to port it to python directly. There's usually a 10-100x line of code blowup from doing that, and the python thing usually bitrots every year or so (vs. every few decades for shell).
The degree of smothering-in-the-cradle from those bullet points... Compliance with that alone would kill any startup.

The cat is already out of the bag IMO; Llama2, Falcon, etc are easily trained wherever you can buy GPUs, and the fundamentals for building LLMs are reasonably well known: this isn't like building nuclear weapons, where export controls will stop or slow knowledge transfer. The knowledge transfer already happened — in fact, many of the advancements in AI that made general-purpose LLMs possible were made by citizens of foreign countries on work visas. If the US passes that legislation, new AI companies will shift their training runs to friendlier regulatory regimes, to other countries' benefit and our loss. Much faster than trying to fight a First Amendment court battle...
Who uses a download manager in the days of high speed internet access and, in general, cloud services?
It's been 11 years, and what Apple said was very far from a promise. They said it was a connector for the next decade.
I've been with Android since my the very first G1. I'm not an iPhone hater, I think they are great phones, I'm just happy with Android (for now) and see little reason to switch yet. That being said, the one thing that could probably make me switch is this issue right here.

I have the Pixel 5a, it was released in August 2021 and Google only guarantees support for that model up to August 2024, that is for both full OS updates and just security patches. As of the Pixel 6 series and after, you get 3 years of full OS updates, and 5 years of security patches (that's 2 extra years after full OS updates stop).

To compare, the iPhone 13 series was released in September 2021 and will continue to get support up to 7 years after its release (Sept 2028).

So far my Pixel 5a has been the best (reliability-wise) phone I've ever hard and it sucks to know that after August 2024, I'll be vulnerable to future security vulnerabilities.

Samsung offer only slightly better support by increasing the full OS support to 4 years instead of Google's 3 for the Pixel. Same 5 year for security patch. That's not enough for me to go back to Samsung and deal with their OS bloated with apps I can't uninstall (it's been a while, maybe it's better?)

sources:

https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/4457705?hl=en

https://www.androidpolice.com/samsung-four-year-update-list-...

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201624
The observation above is simply true. If you toss a coin 30 times, there's about a 5% chance that you'll end up with 10-20 ratio or one more extreme.

NHST testing inverts the probability logic, makes the 5% holy, and skims over the high probability of finding something that is not equal to a specific value. That procedure is then used for theory confirmation, while it was (in another form) meant for falsification. Everything is wrong about it, even if the experimental method is flawless. Hence the reproducibility crisis.
I suppose it's me. When I'm working on something on the bench, I don't like having to Google the pinouts. A well-curated printed book would be ideal. But, yeah, I can see how that might be very niche.
They are so CRINGEY. That Mother Nature thing, wow.
Connection to people is important and grown ups can sort out how and when.
> The closest thing I've found in the modern age is https://anvil.works - basically works like Delphi/VB, but web based, and in Python

You haven't used Lazarus (https://www.lazarus-ide.org/)?
The various Meta properties do this too, except instead of phone numbers they require government ID and headshots. It’s all a scummy dark pattern relying on the sunk cost fallacy.
This isn't even a response to anything.

notabee held up one example, which is relevant only if the argument was "everyone who challenges the norms is insane." That would be a counterexample, and only one is required.

as for "There are not many of those" I don't even know what to say. Of course those people were forgotten and there are no citations, because they weren't newsworthy. That was the whole point.
It's the kind of thing most people would be delighted to blamed for.
Thanks! When it comes to choosing where to work with these models, which compute platform do you recommend (assuming locally doesn't really make sense with my resources)?
Colab?
AWS StudioLab?

Which is your go to?
Apple over the last years has made a very conscious effort to have a set of speakers with diverse backgrounds.

It’s good in many ways, but also hard to ignore just how obvious that effort is once you realise it’s there. That’s true for all presentations, including the dev talks at WWDC.

It is hard for me to push aside the impression that nowadays the speakers - regardless their background - are entirely chosen for optical reasons. My only favourite moment in a recent big presentation was the M1 chip part with Srouji. That guy is not made for the camera but man he lives hardware with every fibre of his soul.
How does this compare to the prices of other phones which receive 6+ years of manufacturer software support?
Popes are also burried in multiple coffins, including a metal one. Probably at the request of their successors, just to be safe if they ever resuscitate.
https://www.techradar.com/reviews/fairphone-3-review#section...

$500 in 2019 is $597 now.

450 Euro in 2019 is 533 Euro now.

That's enough to buy an iPhone 13 and skip the SE model entirely.
Which rocks or minerals fluoresce in the ultraviolet to near ultraviolet end of the spectrum? I'd have to look that up but it could help understand the origin of the lights that are observed which can't be tied to infrastructure issues, weather, etc.
"If it's stupid and it works, it's still stupid and you're lucky" - Schlock Mercenary maxim #43.
Nearly every single device I use regularly that can be USB powered is USB C at this point. Just from looking around, my mouse, my Android phone, both my work and personal laptop, my Switch, my portable speaker, my headphones, my iPad, my Raspberry Pi, and even my Pokemon Go Ball.

At this point I actively avoid buying any devices that are not USBC because there is an alternative to any product I could want. Products shipping with micro USB in 2023 are almost always indicative of a cheap product or an old product that hasn't received any meaningful updates.

The only glaring examples are Apple phones/accessories, which I avoid, and sadly fitness devices. My water bottle and watch both have proprietary connections, I assume because a water proof USBC connection is just not feasible on small devices. Hopefully some kind of standard gets established there as I've had products that look like they have very similar connections that almost fit but they don't actually charge.
Installation of anything gas related could be pretty expensive in some parts of the world too.
I don't see (given their environment about secrecy and not wanting to give their bosses/politicians the bad news when there are failures) how this could be successfull. Its hard to innovate when your family risks being disappeared when you inevitably fail at some point of the larger effort and on the way to results that transcend the faults of that overall developmental process.