skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My https://simonwillison.net/ blog has been running since 2002 and has 3015 long-form posts, 6718 bookmark posts and 770 quotations.

Plus tag pages, archive-by-date-pages, series pages and more.

I don't particularly want to have to wait for all of that to build!

It also offers faceted search against all of that, powered by PostgreSQL: https://simonwillison.net/search/?q=static%20site%20generato...
It's a hedge against the degrading performance of software. There's definitely some feeling of "your phone can only be so old before it functions incredibly slowly", no matter how it feels at launch.
JustPaid.io (YC W23) is hiring a senior full stack engineer
Exactly. Software developers will never learn that the separation of concerns is a myth. In reality, UI, business logic and data are deeply entangled. Hence, moving these things apart makes everything worse.
Name a singpe pop tune without pitch correction in the last 20 years. A few exist, but go look. It will be enlightening, and perhaps disheartening.
> it didn’t make sense for them to jump head-first into an expensive and time-consuming migration effort just because some startup they had never heard of promised to deliver the sun and the moon

> we need to shut down Earthly CI

Is it possible that it all boils down to these two points? The technical benefits don't matter if there's even a hint that your (fundamental to my business') service could fail and be removed.

When I read this it sounds like a technically great idea which solved a problem in a way that missed some fundamental prerequisite for their target user group (and hence success).
Ah, wasn't obvious whether it was an || or an && with those thresholds. Not so bad in most cases if it's an or.

There were also people who'd read it as a 'per install per month' (e.g. monthly active users) charge, as the pricing table refered to 'Standard monthly rate', which made it look pretty awful...
Right? Considering USB-C and the fact that they moved most of the pro features into the base model it seems like a great time to upgrade from an older model.
Previously, I used https://freefilesync.org/ to sync my digital life to external USB storage (now I use an equivalent script that's even more hands-free).

I recommend two drives (or more) of which one is always off-site, ideally not in a car due to extreme temperatures.

Of course, all drives should be encrypted with a strong key (use whatever suits you and your OS: File Vault, Bitlocker, VeraCrypt, LUKS, etc.). Encryption should be done in a way that the drive can be decrypted on a freshly bought computer if needed.

Depending on how much data loss you can accept, you can run a physical back-up weekly, monthly, quarterly, whatever suits you, just set a reminder in your calendar.
This is not meaningless as the message i replied to claimed that developers who write their own game engine do not finish and publish games. That was factually incorrect.

What you are asking for is something completely different and unless humanity had some sort of hivemind to have universal knowledge, we can't really know as people start and abandon projects all the time.

The best we can do is some heavily biased guesses - and mine would be that the abandoned games in engines like Unity, GameMaker, etc where it is trivial to start a new project would be much more than even other engines (let alone custom engines).
But why shouldn’t they? Incremental upgrades are great for both Apple and the consumer as long as Apple supports their old hardware (which they do better than just about anyone)
App Store submissions now open for the latest OS releases
Contributing to this anecdata, it's the same for me. My cables last forever, my spouse runs through them at an accelerated rate. Coincidentally, they use their phone in bed with it plugged in...
I come from a poor working class area so believe me people didn't get the comedy. It was an early version of "muh space lasers started the Maui fire"
I'm usually excited and have been upgrading every year since 11 Pro Max.

This was the most boring, unimpressive iPhone event I've ever seen in my life.
Unreal is cheaper if you intend to stay within the free threshold of less than $1 million in sales, you can't beat free. But if you have dreams of having a hit with more than $1million then I can't find any scenarios where unreal is cheaper. Let me know if you can think of an example. And very very quickly unreal is more expensive.

For example at $2 million in revenue unreal would cost $50k in royalties. Assuming a game with a price of $1 and 2 million installs unity is $10k in install fees. If your game is priced at $10, that's just $1k in install fee vs the same $50k in fees to unreal.
My iPhone's battery health has been stuck at 83% for nearly 15 months. It was only 9 months old (purchased brand new) when it reached 83%. Apple will not replace with Applecare unless it is below 80%. Something doesn't add up there.
This technique works incredibly well with berries.

I've had issues with fermenting mashes in bags in the past. My suspicion is that blending ahead of time may have killed natural lactic acid bacteria on the vegetables. So, you could counter this by adding some ferment brine at the end (e.g., from store-bought kimchi). But, I now blend for the final texture after the fermentation rather than before.
Small proviso: this is only true for a reasonable number of categories (or you run into repeated experiment problems).
You're suggesting government employees are impartial?
I discovered that I could actually add many of the games I bought on physical media in Steam and/or other services by using the serial key inside the case. Still it doesn't help if you can't find the case either... and not all games could be activated this way.
I know Huy Fong is the main brand in the US, being made there and all, but it really does not have anything on the Flying Goose brand, made in Thailand.
> Oh boy, more megapixels. Yawn.

There aren't any even any more megapixels this year. It's the same 48 as last year.
The third party resource exists. It is called Google.
i would say someone's phone/mobile/device is even more personal than say the family's home computer.
Well, I couldn't find the submarine cover, but this will SHOCK you... the actual Iraqi weapons of mass destruction:

https://weeklyworldnewsvault.tumblr.com/post/130026803238/co...

Warning: that site has plenty more WWW covers, you may lose a good chunk of your time perusing them.
Cohesion *Is* a Good Explanation
> Further, what things are we doing now that future generations will ask the same question about us?

In a word, fashion. Our fashions will be criticized.
With such an incredibly popular product and rich ecosystem?

I don’t understand…
I feel like this is an epic joke. Except the joke is on all the suckers paying $1k for essentially the same phone, but wow, now with a usb-c port. Please Tim Apple...take my money faster. Even better, please strap it to my head so I can be even more disconnected from other people.
All the marketing and production wont give the human impact of a well written song.
Paper Page – NExT-GPT: Any-to-Any Multimodal LLM
It's okay to just not care. "My phone/pocket computer is good enough" is a nice place to be.
If the temperature outside is -20, heat pumps have an efficiency of around 200%. That's nice. But if you feed it electricity from a coal plant running at 33% efficiency, total efficiency becomes 66%, less than many stoves.

That doesn't take into account the transfer loss or the cost of producing an maintaining all that gear.

In places where the vast majority of electricity comes from renewables or nuclear and where the supply is quite stable, heat pumps still make sense in cold weather. But using lignite based power plants to fuel heat pumps in Eastern Europe is something that is attractive more because it lets you heat buildings in highly populated areas while having the air pollution happen far away from population centers.
NASA to Release, Discuss Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Report
Common enough but it still lacks an explanation. They don't know what causes these flashes.

That is the point.
Both sides hire impartial expert witness firms during the discovery phase to produce evidence, partake in depositions, conference with judges, meet and confers, etc.
Still no TouchID. Boooo!
Submitted URL was https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/28094.... Submitted title was "Risk of brain hemorrhage transmissible via blood transfusion"

Our software switched the URL because the original page contained this:

<link rel="canonical" href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2809443" />

... but that points to the same article. A mod edited the title, in keeping with the HN guidelines ("Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.")

I've switched the URL to ccooffee's suggestion now, and will edit the title accordingly.
Nobody can answer this question now. The best legal minds in the world are debating this and they don't know yet.
Mother Nature didn’t mention replaceable batteries even once, they must have beaten her up so badly that she holds her tongue in front of Tim now.
Yes. Anything featuring vitamin D is guaranteed double figure karma.

Others: quantified self/self-tracking; fermentation
Nothing wrong with that, it's a mature platform. Features for features sake isn't very interesting either. Besides maybe the price I'm happy with small refinements, as I dont need a new phone every year, my iPhone 14 Pro is 100% as useful as it was last year and is extremely rugged, I'm sure it will last another year+ absent a bad accident.

A slightly faster CPU+slightly better battery+slightly better screen(?)+better camera is all I really care about.

Not like any of us are having performance issues with the last few models for 99%+ of use-cases. Software is extremely stable too.
The older iPhones still hold resale value pretty well too, which means most iPhones have a second life as a "cheap" option. Combined with the software updates you mentioned, that's pretty good for the environment. The best case scenario is most iPhones get to be used by multiple people and new iPhones contain a lot of recycled material. That's not too far from reality.

The problem with tech is nothing is ever "good enough." Sure, you could make a phone that is durable for 10 years... but someone will invent new battery chemistry, CPUs will get considerably more powerful/efficient, and Sony will come along with even better camera sensors.

So it's really not possible for that high-end "old" phone to keep up after a few years. That's true for most consumer tech, even if the pace is slowing down somewhat. An expensive LED TV from 2013 will not compare favorably with a good value mid-range one today.

We can either stop innovating, which is also bad for the environment (technology improvements allow for vast efficiency and energy-use improvements in a huge range of products), or we can make sure things have a lot of re-use value. That can be done through the used market with good repairability and software support, and by making sure phones can be recycled and also use a lot of recycled materials.
GrapheneOS receives OS updates for another year. It's pretty simple to flash with a web-based installer.

If it feels too slow, try disabling "Secure app spawning". It's a security improvement over Google's Android by GrapheneOS but increases app startup time. Especially on slower devices like the 4a.
its not that they're running out of ideas. It's just as good as it can ever get, period. I mean the paper clip came out 100 years ago and you don't see 15 versions of that. Every device reaches a point after which it's way more than good enough.

personally, I'd only like to see them get cheaper and maybe longer product life ( i hate replacing everything after just 7 or 8 years).
Using that logic literally everything in America is overpriced.

Turns out different places have different costs of living.
Waterproofing in terms of actually being able to use the phone under water or not breaking when it falls into water (i.e. it will switch itself off when submerged and after it dried it will work again)?
Old saying:
The flowers, yes. I grew up on elderflower champaign. Wonderful stuff. I have had elderberry cordial, but not recently. Must seek it out again.
Yup! I actually intend to trade mine in for an iPhone 15 now that they finally have USB C.
How does quantisation affect model output?
I hate the non-live presentations. Just hate them.

Who thought adding all the filters and special effects was cool?

It just makes it feel cheap. And my god, the people talking don't sound like people at all.
BTW, can confirm the Underwood Farms siracha sauce is a very decent replacement for the rooster brand.
Corporate espionage is just part of business
There sure are a lot of comments here about USB2. I can’t imagine anyone actually giving a shit about it though. Wifi, Bluetooth, airdrop, etc. are all perfectly fine. What are you people plugging your phone in for other than just charging?
That was a very different time. That era of pushing hardware to it's limits is mostly history when it comes to games.

These days, hardware is almost limitless* , the real scarce resource is person-hours of development time.

(*Ok, not limitless, there's still some people doing serious optimisation work on games. But for an average indie/mobile developer, it's more about avoiding fairly well known performance pitfalls than worrying about low-level optimisation or inventing really clever algorithms to gain back some speed)
It seems the transcript is sealed for three months: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/18552824/united-states-....

I would love to read it and see if this headline is accurate, or if the judge was just trying to clarify a confusing argument from a lawyer.

> He also appeared unclear about how SEM works and struggled to understand the options for Microsoft to promote Bing ads outside of Google's SEM tools.

I mean, same? I am a software engineer and I don't really know what this sentence means. This is the opening statements, I don't think the judge is already supposed to be a domain expert.
This option is painfully underappreciated.
RenderWare is a better comparison than Unreal, since Unreal was developed first as an engine for a flagship game and only later licensed out.

From Wikipedia on RenderWare: It was licensed over 200 times. The scope went towards an integrated middleware with low level APIs for rendering, physics, audio, AI all of which are extensible through plug-ins which also serve the official high-level API. The aim was to reduce the learning curve by also including service and support for licensees. With RenderWare Studio an integrated development environment including a debugger was included.[3] RenderWare themselves claimed a 70 % marketshare across studios that choose an external engine in 2003
Reads like an Android head until

> I will order one this Friday.

Good to stay critical, but a lot of cool features came out of this event as well.
Imagine what the M3 is going to feature next year... the A17 Pro gives a hint.
The cost of inputs has gone down. What has happened to the cost of storage and RAM (both commodities, I assume) over the last several years? They're still shipping "Pro" iPhones — that cost as much as a computer — with 128GB. That's one way to keep costs down, and to goose the demand for Apple's iCloud backup service.
Happy to see the end of Unity as a Linux user. The Linux versions of games were very poorly optimized, and instead of native ports we got buggy, slow, unstable games, for years.

Also Unity games were mod unfriendly, meaning that those games are mostly dead by now.

And I don't know what it was exactly, but Unity games (specifically the RPGs) seemed to lack some sort of gritty realism with character interaction and movement. It just seemed cartoony and missing some sort of UI feedback that made the game feel 'real'. Maybe because of lag because of the terrible engine, I don't know.

Maybe one day a Linux engine remake of Unity will make all of the amazing RPGs playable and moddable again, like Pillars of Eternity 1/2 or Wasteland.
Create an account for your kid, then you can family share games you own with that account on specific devices.
> companies were forced to prioritize shareholders above all else

Publicly traded companies have to state what they prioritize. It's as simple as that. If they don't, they must prioritize profit, but not short-term profit.

That rule is usually blown out of proportion, it just can not explain the modern companies behavior.

(But yeah, they must prioritize shareholders. That means that the shareholders are the ones that decide that stated priority, into whatever they want.)
I don't want to undermine the work of the researchers because they did a good one with a solid protocol.

But the problem to me is the specification, basically one of the tasks was : "design a basic Gomoku game".
Which implies a set of pre-existing rules, something already known and well documented on the web.
For example on github you can find 1.2k repos in python with the tag 'Gomoku'.

In a company you will be less likely asked to code a Gomoku from scratch, maybe for an interview, at most.

So in my POV, it's just code synthesis from already existing stuff. And reviewed.

I think my job is safe.
Federal judge upholds rule requiring visa applicants to disclose social info
Nice article! As with all CSS posts there’s always something in there I’ve never used. Today it was `display: flow-root;` [1]. I’ll probably never use it given Grid and Flex but still interesting to see this may have saved some small headaches in the past.

[1] https://css-tricks.com/display-flow-root/
Isn't boosting websites without ads against their interest?
What is your monetization model for your game? It might not be a huge issue if you know you'll get way more than $0.20 per user. If you were selling a game for $10, this is minor. If you're making a f2p game where there's no guaranteed income and most of your players will not spend a dime, it's a lot riskier. I'd worry about the install counts getting spoofed by angry players, but that seems like a bigger liability for Unity than developers.
Let's hope more companies to run out of ideas and put the focus on environmental impact.
We would need to know how many Minecraft installs are on mobile and console, where Java isn't an option. I would expect it's a large % of the overall userbase, but I don't have access to the numbers. Switch and Android both open Minecraft up to a huge number of people who either don't have a PC or can't install Minecraft on it.

Agreed that mods are a big part of the experience and would only really have flourished using technologies like Java (what Notch chose), C# or JavaScript, not C++.
the model size is above 2GB, is that a quantized version? basically want to know if there is a room for further compression.
Try running Firefox over your networked X connection.

Go ahead, I'll wait. Literally, I'll wait.
Absolutely.

If you told me:

"This pipeline will automatically perform all of your [insert line of business] testing, batteries included.

XYZ has signed off that if you get to the end of this pipeline you do not need to jump through any hoops to get to production." I would be screaming on a soapbox

There is too much process to know about a company to make any claim with any certainty and these companies will not tell you their process because you are a salesman, not their friend. Technology Sales is "Frenemys" at best and "Inherited Cancer" at worst.

Here's a pitch for OOP. If you do this you will have a line around the door:
"You can run this on your own internal cloud, public cloud, or mix of both. Hit the eject button and it will give you a [Docker, CircleCI, Jenkins, Travis] playbook to lift and shift your pipeline. Every app that goes through alerts each C?O that cares how it meets their KPI, Security Whatever, etc.

Set the bar as high as you want to get through the pipeline. Mission Critical? Core Business? Skunkwerks? This can be in the DMZ, this can't...you make the rules, we are the engine that enforces them."

I can tell you right now, your success will be predicated on Networking and Security teams that work together effectively and selling high enough to start the ball rolling.

We have this absurd "Throw paint at a wall and see what sticks" approach to doing business and then "People don't really want what I made" response when it fails. Look inward.
About 7/10ths of the world has a phone in the traditional sense. The number of people who have a phone that accesses the internet was projected to reach surpass 50% somewhat recently. (It was 43% in 2017)
Yet another victim of enshittification this year. Tech sector has been hit especially hard.
Ok, we'll change to that from https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/28094.... Thanks!
It's a bit more complicated than that with the iPads. The Mini supports 5Gbps but only as USB Host mode. If you hook it up to a computer as a USB client, it'll still be USB 2.0 [0]

If you're familiar with the Raspberry Pi 4, those do the same thing. That SoC supports USB 2.0 client. The USB 3.0 host is done through an external (to the SoC) USB controller, a VIA Labs VL805. That's what the Mini and iPad Pros have done. The first iPad Pro didn't even have a USB 3.0 to USB-A cable for USB client because it didn't support it, just their host mode accessory. The newer Pros probably do the 40Gb USB4 through a similar USB controller and only in host most. Not client, where it's limited to 10Gb [1].

[0] https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/ipad-mini-6-is-still-us...

[1] https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/thunderbolt-3-cable-to-...
Well, all electromagnetically interacting matter right? I don't think neutrinos etc will do so
I think what is missing (and I'm stretching my understanding here) is the right doping mixture and crystal structure to get a high enough efficiency of emissions from the junctions.
Let's assume that the reviewer is correct and the key idea of the paper is not new.

(edit: parent subsequently reports they mention the precedent work in their paper. This is a different scenario. I leave the rest of my comment which was about the scenario as originally described)

What's the alternative? You want to present an idea that isn't novel?

> how does (weak accept+accept+reject) == reject

The editor or program chair that makes the decision knows from Reviewer 3 that the paper is not novel. If the paper's value is based on novelty, it has to be rejected.

If the paper has some value other than novelty, edit it to include the key citation and very carefully explain the contribution of the paper, and submit somewhere else. If there is no such contribution, tough. Do a better literature survey next time.

> it's a big name, prestigious conference

Imagine how you would feel if you were the author of the obscure paper and someone who didn't bother to read it got your idea published in a prestigious conference.

> The presumptive necessity of "novelty" is what enables such extremes.

Did your paper claim novelty? That claim obviously would need to be removed. Without novelty, what is the contribution? Your paper needs to explain.

If the world needs to know about the previous paper, so that the idea is recognized, write a review or case study that highlights it.
Not fair I think... in a world where most companies produce profits without a single care for the world we live in, I welcome a company like Apple that has shown a path to a better future in some areas.
They still have a long way to go I think... but advancements like that are also advancements.
did you install the security systems for your house or car?