skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What happens if your phone broke while in the US? Is your carrier from your home country able to assign you an eSIM while overseas? Or are you stuck until you can return home?

What happens if your phone is damaged at 1am? Do you have to wait until the next business day to be able to have a new eSIM issued?

I'm not saying eSIM doesn't have value, I can immediately see the value it provides. What I'm saying is that it doesn't replace SIM cards. We're taking something that is device agnostic and forcefully tying it to a device. Both options should continue to exist in parallel, just like we continue to have both internal and cloud storage on our devices. At least until eSIM tech can improve enough to overcome these issues.
Then agreed it is a problem.

Some investigation revealed though that is has become more difficult for GPs to ignore the pressure put on them by insurers to send patients back to work.
What exactly is this "genuine tech" that should plummet pricing? Switching to 3nm chips, titanium casing, and more complicated camera setups all seem like they would cost more money, not less.

You can argue the degree, but it sure seems like it's costing Apple more money to make them. The BoM cost estimates by teardown companies continue to climb on iPhones year over year.
What are the issues you're having with Calibre? I've found it to preserve the formatting I'm looking for. What formatting are you talking about that it's not preserving?
Genuine question: why wait til 55?

There are tons and tons of really cool technical problems and projects out there that aren't financially lucrative but have huge positive benefits for people.

Having an experienced person volunteering to work on something would make a world of difference to many of these projects that have tangibly positive effects on people but struggle with funding.
You don't win an argument by gatekeeping and patronizing like that. There's information you don't have, apparently. This is not a technological issue alone, but also a social, legal and artistic issue.

It is very clear that artists whose art was used to train AI have copyright interest in that AI's output. The implementation details of the model are irrelevant to the interest. The technical difficulty of auditing its inputs' provenance is irrelevant to that interest.
My father and his friends were academic computer scientists working on AI back in the 60s. I don't know that there's a straightforward path between what they were doing and the popular LLMs today, but I do applaud more stories on what old school comp sci researchers were up to.
The main problem with Windows' terrible settings is that they are constantly changing. So when you search for how to change something all the instructions are obsolete.
If the computers were physically close to each other, you could have just run a null-modem cable between them. I did it a couple times as a kid and it worked well.
Very interesting. May I ask where? Photos?

Have you tried some nitrogen fixing plants like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Nitrogen-fixing_crops ?

I'm fascinated with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_preta . Apparently you can bury some charcoal to improve the quality of the soil (and store some carbon for a time). But I'm not sure of the cost, or if it's an immediate or long term improvement, or if it depends on the humidity, or ... Also, I never heard of something similar here in Argentina, and the farmers here tried all sort of stuff to increase the output.

Disclaimer: I only have only a few pots in my balcony. This is not farming advice. :)
Yeah, not sure about the sensitivity, if it's particularly good conditions here but at least this data set looks like it gives remarkably little room for false positives and quite highly detailed. I thought it would push JWST a bit harder but this looks promising. Even a novice can read out the evidence for various molecules in that graph? So, if only we'd find an exciting result soon!
Have you ever been involved in such a migration?

It’s invariably a complete clusterfuck.
If you have 4 threads and 2 cores there is very likely going to be a noticeable difference between running both of your threads on the same physical core vs one thread on each of the two cores. (Of course it depends what is running on the other thread of each core).

Sure, maybe heterogeneous isn't the right word, much like NUMA is often not heterogeneous. But these do make CPU placement matter.
> Is there any reason for carriers to prefer physical SIM cards?

I'm not in telecoms, but I suppose they want to disintermediate device manufacturers who are trying to insinuate themselves between networks and their subscribers. Maybe with a hint of reducing points of failure
What's also crazy is if we did send a rover over there to hunt for life, and they found it, we'd have to wait 125 years to hear the result.

We all sit around knowing to listen to the skies sometime in October of 2185 to hear if the rover found life within the first month of its landing.

If we ever send a team to live there, we'd hear broadcasts of their lives from 125 years prior. A real portal in time - so cool.
How does it feel to have websites and books and newspapers and practically every other place silently ignore your double spaces and treat them as a single space?
Artists can copyright their work no matter what. If they create a computer program to scatter paint, they can copyright the output. If I as a programmer do creative work (ie programming), it should have the same support.

This was just a bad decision about copyright, the only reason to support this distinction is to protect art and artists.
Maybe "Last-Modified" header combined with "ETag" would be good enough alternative?
New Research Reveals That Lonely People Process the World Differently
Verizon has done this to in the past. They told me directly they prefer physical SIM over esim. I think its mostly a fear of unknown vs comfort of what is known. Ultimately it means reduced friction between the top 3 big networks. It goes both ways though. Easier for people to leave and easier to join. These companies are moving toward a software / service discounts to retain users instead of the inconvenience of sim changes
That's a good approach if you can cleanly separate out the old code from the new code, and if you can make sure that you've got all the old functionality behind the switch. Unfortunately this can be difficult at times. Feature toggles involving UI elements, third party services or legacy code can be difficult to test automatically, for example. Another risk is accidental exposure: if a feature toggle gets switched on prematurely for whatever reason, you'll end up with broken code in production.

The cases where I've experienced problems with feature toggles have been where we thought we were swapping out all the functionality but it later turned out that due to some subtleties or nuances with the system that we weren't familiar with, we had overlooked something or other.

Feature toggles sound like a less painful way of managing changes, but you really need to have a disciplined team, a well architected codebase, comprehensive test coverage and a solid switching infrastructure to avoid getting into trouble with them. My personal recommendation is to ask the question, "What would be the damage that would happen if this feature were switched on prematurely?" and if it's not a risk you're prepared to take, that's when to move to a separate branch.
The bug here was a processing one, having the data in json would make no difference.
Today we use a cosine similarity search but we're planning to integrate with more vector databases and allow you to customize the search logic soon. Is there a particular query method you're looking for?
$20! I recently paid 10 GBP to 10 GB for 30 days.
Hidings Symbols of Elf Files
My Bosch dishwasher works well on the 1 hour Speed 60 cycle. The occasional fork or knife that is left with a little debris is not worth the trouble to use the 2:30 cycle
Things you should never do. Part I
> Why can’t T-Mobile issue me a free “advertising” eSIM that doesn’t actually provide service (or provides a ridiculously small amount), but allows me to look at what reception my existing phone (with all its limitations on bands) would have if I were a t-mobile customer? Why can’t an app that I choose to give location permissions to gather that info, and the Verizon connection info, over time and space and show me a map of where things would be better or worse?

They can. Expect this to become a marketing strategy in the foreseeable future. "try our network for free, for a certain time, and all it takes is 3 clicks and no commitment or contract".
What is the mechanism of action there? Which specific type of waste?
I am researching a man named Hew Draper. Any and all help is appreciated
Hew Draper was an innkeeper that was accused of witchcraft in 1561. He was imprisoned for 2 years in the Tower of London, and there is no record of him after his sentence. He's probably dead, but any info about him is wanted.
GitHub Discussion about the recent feed changes becomes 3rd most upvoted ever
The discussion [0] about the recent changes has been upvoted by so many developers, that it's currently the 3rd most upvoted discussion on the platform [1].

I've been talking about it on Twitter [2] and tried to ping a few people I know who work at GitHub, but to no avail - there has been total silence since they made the change 5 days ago.

Is there someone here on HN who can bring this to the attention of the right people? Even though I understand it's a corporation, I can't imagine nobody cares about so many developers being unhappy.

The ask is pretty simple: leave the old chronological feed [3] as an option.

0: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/66188

1: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions?discussions_q=is%3Aopen+sort%3Atop

2: https://twitter.com/beeman_nl/status/1701278872858178005

3: https://github.com/dashboard-feed
> I would consider that a failure in extremis.

And I would agree. So stop serving the potentially corrupted data to costumers. Mark it as potentially corrupt and let an operator handle that potentially corrupt data manually while the system keeps processing the the rest of the not corrupt data.

Is this such a hard concept to understand? Because it feels like it is not getting through.
Even Nintendo's own offerings show that purchasing is on the way out.

The a la carte virtual console has given way for paid subscription access to curated collections of games. You can't buy retro games on the switch the way you could on the Wii and Wii U.
DARPA hosts a public Slack channel for those who are looking to partner with others to compete. You can join via this link: https://join.slack.com/t/aicyberchallenge/shared_invite/zt-2...
> but trying to get his colleagues to believe it would be an uphill battle

You have to go through a lot of education to become a doctor, so people naturally expect doctor's to be wise, but the truth is they are just good a memorizing things. They aren't necessarily smarter than any other person and have just as many blindspots.

* Source: My dad and uncle are doctors. My brother in law is a doctor. I have a friend who is a doctor. And I've known a lot of other doctors through them.
Ksmbd (SMB3 Kernel Server) declared stable in Linux-6.6
Yes, which means once block rewards are no longer subsidizing transactions, those fees will need to increase.
https://archive.ph/kuqFi
> big try-catch around the code which handles individual requests.

I mean, that's assuming the code isolating requests is also bug free. You just don't know.
Joel Spolsky has a terrific article about where all the extra lines come from and why mature codebases tend not to feel as clean.

“ Yes, I know, it’s just a simple function to display a window, but it has grown little hairs and stuff on it and nobody knows why. Well, I’ll tell you why: those are bug fixes. One of them fixes that bug that Nancy had when she tried to install the thing on a computer that didn’t have Internet Explorer. Another one fixes that bug that occurs in low memory conditions. Another one fixes that bug that occurred when the file is on a floppy disk and the user yanks out the disk in the middle. That LoadLibrary call is ugly but it makes the code work on old versions of Windows 95.”

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
I'm not sure exactly what you're referring to, but, mostly, photos from space are taken differently from photos we're used to taking, like with our cell phones. For example, the Webb Telescope works partly on the spectrum outside of light visible to us, so color has to be added to represent these parts. Other times, we might be seeing a composite image with overlapping parts.
Documentation: https://docs.kernel.org/next/filesystems/cifs/ksmbd.html
I was really hyped up by the beginning of the article, but it seems really miss the points with the conclusion.

I don't think it is easier to manipulate with the last two examples, and I am guessing no actual graphic artist has read this or play with this before you publish it. To think of ways to improve bezier curves for vector graphics, you need to fully contextualize your thinking about the use case; this is not an academic mathematical discussion after all. Based on my understanding, your finding has no mathematical value as Pomax pointed it out, it is not new, it is an old math with a few constraints that is pre-defined, based on your assumption of what graphic artist wanted most of the time, which I agree is a good direction.

I strongly suggest for anyone to try to make a better vector graphics tool, try to draw a letter S with the new approach as a test case, you can choose an existing font to match. And know existing vector graphics rules, here is a couple as example:

- add anchor points at the horizontal and vertical extrema of your paths

- control points should not cross path with one another

Curves that doesn't follow these rules are valid, fine mathematical curves, but graphic artists has practices this for years to rule out them as bad for the purpose of graphic design. Again, the goal is to find the more much smaller set of suitable curves from the infinite realm of mathematical possibilities, for the context of graphic design
The go-to page for this used to be Mike Patton’s page: <http://www.mit.edu/~map/Ethernet/>
Shareable Clinical Large Language Model Built on Synthetic Clinical Notes
This type of response from a developer makes it easy to simply stay away from projects they are involved in.
Just like there is total silence on the new Code Search which doesn’t allow to search by index date. I literally don’t use GitHub anymore at all other than to check my starred repos.

Why I don’t use it? Because I can’t find anything new, because GitHub thought it would be wise to take away this feature from users even though there is cool stuff happening on GH all the time.

That change really got to me because that’s how I was using GH to discover new things and other stuff happening in the dev world.

And it’s the same with feeds, both changes have been heavily opposed and GitHub is just moving in some fairytale direction where the user has no say.
Links here

0: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/66188

1: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions?discussions_q=...

2: https://twitter.com/beeman_nl/status/1701278872858178005

3: https://github.com/dashboard-feed
I struggle to come up with a better definition of “enough” than his. It could be clarified to “the original AI.”
Thanks! Yes agree this is very important. We do show references from Retool Vectors out of the box, so you can see what embeddings were used to generate a response. If it'd be helpful I can walk you through a few internal Q&A bot examples which display references - jamie AT retool DOT com
If the topics API is really just returning a list of things the user is interested in, like:

2: 'Arts & Entertainment/Acting & Theater',
3: 'Arts & Entertainment/Comics',
...
132: 'Computers & Electronics/Consumer Electronics/Home Theater Systems',
...
208: 'Home & Garden/Gardening',
...

why not just have a simple survey and let the user pick or rate what they are interested in? Why the need to have the web browser actually track everything?
Well carriers own the networks that the secure element grants access to. At the end of the day I dont think carriers care about who owns the tokens/auth data for the network, but that 1) they are furnished by the network under their own control and 2) they get paid for the network access
which is why the whole of the 'academic global institution' which in commercial terms is just a big chunk of "big publishing industry" is also in a state of revolution (see the z-lib and sci-hub legal battles: in India, and in Argentina; as well as the "cross-russian border" aspects which are tainted by real hot-open war at this moment)
Avoiding the Trap of Originality
US Copyright Office denies protection for AI image despite human-driven edits
Calculate the difference and intersection of any two regexes
The amazing page computes binary relations between pairs of regular expressions and shows a graphical representation of the DFA.

It’s a really incredible demonstration of some highly non-trivial operations on regular expressions.
I've seen the opposite where ironically going after Big Tobacco left trial lawyers with an addiction to crusading and looking for the next witch to hunt regardless of guilt via downright speculative lawsuits. Look at the cell phones cause cancer pursuit which many desperately wished to be true when the correlation is that cancer causes cellphones.
I had Long Covid for about six months, and it does create similar symptoms as what we know as depression and anxiety. But that's just it. Depression is not really the cause of symptoms, it IS the symptom, or the effect. CBT is not going to fix this problem if the cause is physical in nature. So you can't say "effects of depression" because depression is the effect. Sadly many medical professionals make this mistake.
I haven't used Scala since 2. Did something change related to null with 3? Can you no longer use null? I know it has the Option type which can be used to safely represent nullable values, but that is (or at least was) in addition to, rather than in replacement of null.
I love vintage NPR, Car Talk defined my childhood. NPR used to be so amazing.
That was a fun story, but it also concludes with:

For the next two months, X was destabilized. The lack of servers caused meltdowns, including when Musk hosted a Twitter Spaces for presidential candidate Ron DeSantis. “In retrospect, the whole Sacramento shutdown was a mistake,” Musk would admit in March 2023. “I was told we had redundancy across our data centers. What I wasn’t told was that we had 70,000 hard-coded references to Sacramento. And there’s still shit that’s broken because of it.”
There's a widespread mental model of SMT that is totally incorrect, that holds there is one "real" thread and another one that only gets to fill in the gaps with unused resources. In reality, there is no such bias.
Objective-C and Swift are used all over the Apple platforms, including desktop macOS. So „barely used“ on other platforms is not really true.

Also considering the number of iOS devices, those two languages are probably more usable in practice than for example C#, even if the latter is cross-platform.
No. You don't know who wrote the software that implemented that algorithm. In effect, me as the engineer who created photoshop was the creator of that. You needed me in this example to do that. You don't know if ai created that algorithm - it has been happening for decades that some software was created by other software - and I'm not just talking about optimizing compilers.

There was a creative algorithm, and 99.999% of the time there was not a specification that determines every single bit.

The work output of the programmers, the thousands of people involved in that pipeline to create the software - "that's different", say the artists.
It's scandalous because Arizona is being pumped dry for the benefit of a desert on the other side of the planet, and the Saudis aren't paying enough to offset the damage.

Their model is so unsustainable it's illegal in their home country, so they started it up here. This is not the case for roses, kale, Wyoming, etc.
There's another style: Push the lever down for a standard large flush, pull it up for a small flush.
I'm not an expert on this by any means but:

Modern society needed something scarce and was hard to manufacture/process (thus ensuring price stability) to use as an intermediate currency between currencies. Those countries agreed to use gold as this intermediate currency. Other ideas have been to use groups of commodities but these incur more complexity since they're purpose is to be consumed in some process.

So does this not give gold an intrinsic value? Economists regard it as a "shiny rock" but I think that is an oversimplification used to make opponents of fiat money look stupid.
__probably dead__

Um? Any evidence to say he's not dead?
No change at all? I find that hard to believe. There's also a data design problem here, but the structure of JSON would aid in, not subtract from, that process.

The question at hand is: "heavily structured data vs. a blob of text as input into a complex algorithm, which one is preferred?"

Unless you're lying, you'd choose the former given the option.
Also, there should be a permission API around this for each website (like camera/microphone), that explicitly states why the website is requesting this information and what information the browser will return to the website.
Methane and carbon dioxide found in atmosphere of habitable-zone exoplanet
Machine learning doesn't actually work very well for that. Attempts to apply it as you suggest in medical research have mostly not produced clinically useful results. More basic research into root causes is the only approach that is likely to lead to truly effective treatments.
Uninteresting reply because you've made a fundamental categorical error.

I was clearly referring to psycho-social patterns, not arbitrary lists of technology.
Re-read the article, it is truly great.
It is not about "profound beliefs", but about "profound beliefs, loosely held".
It is not about sticking with your believes, but about validating them, and changing them based on data.

Now, talking as a technical CEO of midsize company, who coded in Lisp, and still codes:
You are missing following pieces of data to justify your belief that List would be a good language for any projects for most companies:
1. Long list of successful companies with large Lisp codebases (are there examples of successful projects/companies based on such codebases)
2. Long list of examples of long term successful projects written in Lisp (how maintainable the code base will be if written in such language)
3. Long list of job positions for Lisp developers (ability to find more talent to expand the project when needed)
4. List of people in the company who can join the project (bus factor)

Management does care about how long it takes to write the code. Yet, it is only one of many aspects. So, while your beliefs might be profound, they are ... short sighted.
Newspapers pretty regularly have articles on multiple sides of an issue, though sometimes one viewpoint is relegated to the opinion section.

Crucially however, "this law is unconstitutional for reason Q" does not mean that "Musk says making their business codify their moderation is against free speech" is correct.