skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> buying stuff via contactless card is extremely convenient

I specifically don't want buying stuff to be too convenient. There has to be some hassle involved, so that I don't do it without thinking about it. That's why I always reject autofill prompts for credit card numbers, for example.
The US government is actively pushing the whole alien narrative in the past few months for some reason.. looks like people didn’t really cared so “suddenly” the Mexican government has another alien discovery too.
Ask HN: What works to get iCloud reminders back in sync across devices?
Is there a reliable method?

I have 2 laptops and 2 phones that are all on the same iCloud account. Every couple of weeks, the reminders.app goes out of sync.

I've tried all the apple suggested steps (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203521), none seem to solve it.

The only reliable method that has worked for me is if I wait about half a day, eventually it'll resolve itself.

Have you found any method that works in the short term?
Yeah. I also make it a personal rule to never buy things on Amazon, but I can't imagine turning down a gift like this from someone.
There are a lot of Lora models that are being made to generate textures, maps, diagrams, backgrounds, etc. You don’t need to wait for adobe, open source models like stable diffusion let you do whatever you think is useful. I’d look to the open source world for creative innovation. Adobe is just doing what’s on the product management roadmap.
That 'non-pro' model is still $1,000.
Talking about worker rights is dangerous to parasites yes
But I literally have two computers? Why would Bethesda care that I’m playing Starfield while my kid is playing Stardew Valley? ConcernedApe certainly doesn’t care. If I’m trying to play Starfield in two places at once sure, I get why that wouldn’t be allowed.

I guess I just don’t get the business reasons for it.
> What's the damn point

Monnney. Monney monney money.

They did the same thing with the iPhone 7 Plus, the first iPhone with two cameras.

It could also be because there’s extra room in the larger phone but… I’ll stick with because Timmy loooves money. Point in case, they just increased the price of the Max and said “same price as last year (for the higher storage you don’t need)!”
You probably meant "USB 3 controller" rather than "USB-C controller", The USB-C is just the connector + tons of its own protocol headaches and a "USB-C 2.0" connector is totally allowed.
Yeah, so? Not all of the money for Ukraine goes to the war. It is used for many purposes by the Ukrainian government.
Years ago I started with a .NET shop as a junior dev not because of the language or tooling, but because the job and company were a good fit.

Since then I've done other languages for personal projects, but have made a career out of .NET development. There are things I don't like about the language, sure, but the backing of MS, the very large user base, and the ability to use on non-Windows systems have outweighed everything.

So I'm not the biggest fan by any means, but I do recommend as a prudent decision over most other options from a business point of view.
If you're just taking a normal amount of photos and videos then cloud syncing over wifi works well. The fast data transfer rates are going to be most useful to people recording 4K video, especially if using it for professional projects with more than short clips.

Maybe the most important feature allowed by the USB 3 speeds is that iPhone 15 Pro can record directly to an external drive, so you can plug that in to your editing machine and not worry about the phone's internal storage at all. But it's not something normal people are going to do.
> Animals with a big body are illustrated from the side.

Proceed to illustrate the rabbit from the side, but the lion from the front. How big is this rabbit??
Honestly, all of these arguments feel pretty subjective to me.

This is the major problem with most comparisons of config file formats: the actual semantic domain of a config file format is extremely limited, which means the main thing left to disagree over is syntax, which is highly subjective and extremely difficult to get people to agree on.

Add too many syntactic features and a lot of people will disavow you for being too complicated. Add too few and you'll be missing someone's pet feature. Make white space significant and you'll frustrate people. Require extra characters to delineate and you'll frustrate another group.

It's worth noting that this article is primarily talking about TOML in the context of the Python ecosystem, and I think that's a healthier way to talk about config file formats: How well suited are their syntactic choices to the community they're targeting?
Honestly, who cares? Does anyone even transfers data via USB from their phone anymore? It’s been 4-5 years since I’ve done that. It’s all in synced via iCloud now.
I have not connected a cable to my iPhone in years (since Magsafe launched in 2020). I haven't transferred data from/to my iPhone via cable in a decade (since Airdrop launched in 2012).

So having USB-C instead of Lightning is nice for the very occasional 'i am traveling without my magsafe charger' situation. But 0.5gbit vs 10gbit USB makes zero difference if I have not transferred more than 0bit in a decade anyway.

One can get angry about so many things. This ain't one of them.
Kinda a biased source if you ask me.
Yeah, don't know why some people don't want to settle on bad formats without such basics of human economics like comments and keep improving
In theory that makes sense, but in reality, when you're in line at a convenience store and just want to pay for the thing you need and leave, the "hassle philosophy" is well, just a hassle.
There's someone on HN with a blog where everything is split into Spans that then have widths set by JavaScript to precisely lay everything out with pixel precision.

I was both impressed and appalled to see it.
Can you show some evidence?
I assume this is a joke? These are two news companies famous for people not believing anything they say.
The main use case I've heard is video transfers.

If you shoot videos longer than a few seconds on your iPhone, you will appreciate a way to get them off of your phone at a non-glacial pace.

For professionals shooting significant amounts of video, this is more than a convenience feature. Once your device's internal storage fills up with video, which does not take long at 4K60, now your "camera" is a paperweight until you can dump that footage.

Obviously, only a very small percentage of people are using their phones this way. But I think Apple really values that market.
> Sweet, sweet inertia…

It’s almost as if it was a natural law or something…

Look into Ally Loans. Same deal, you’ll be packaged and sold out within the week, but they have a very, very nice online system for the loan process.
What? The non-pro model is $799

The pro model is $999
Yeah, maybe you shouldn't get your news from government PR blather.

Come back when we send billions to Hawaii like we do to Ukraine.
Why? There is merit to it. Or are you waiting for a newspaper release to tell you it is well-supported?
For federal you do https://www.irs.gov/payments

For California state you do https://www.ftb.ca.gov/pay/index.html

It's a payment, not a filing. Go through the payment links and you'll see that you can select 'estimated tax' as the reason for payment

I'd suggest checking with your accountant, to make sure that you're doing it right. Just say hey here's what I'm planning to do, these amounts, on these dates, using these links, does that look right.

Note that depending on your setup you might need to do multiple. E.g. I do quarterly personal estimated IRS payments, personal estimated FTB payments, and corporate estimated FTB payments.
Because Apple didn't upgrade the old A16 chip with a new usb controller. Only the A17 chip has it.

All they did was swap out the connector. For phones with A16 chips, the USB-C port is just a differently shaped lightning port.

Apple decided not to make a new processor for an old phone... shock and awe.
Other phone manufacturers don't have any problem with including USB3 speeds on their value phones. Apple at this point is being foolish by nickel-and-diming everyone.
Sounds like you are looking for a travel router. GLinet makes some good ones. I have one of these: https://a.co/d/gbWTmjS
I use it to connect to hotel WiFi then provide its own WiFi (or Ethernet) connection to my devices. It can connect to vpn to route the traffic like you mention.

Edit: I should also mention that it’s very doable to DIY this using OpenWRT, and some compatible SBC that has WiFi and Ethernet.

You don’t want something crazy underpowered like VoCore for this.
I'm not sure what a serious person is, but there are people that seriously believe stuff like this.
What use cases do you know of that would make >450Mbps speeds noticeable? (And I mean actually noticeable, not "this movie will take few seconds less to copy") Backups are incremental. Data copies are usually used for a small subset of files. Any common hardware attachments need way less.
iPad mini, which has an a15 bionic, has usb c at 5 gbps. I wonder if that’s a separate usb controller?
At least you can still switch between workspaces with cmd+1/2/3/4...
But this is absurd design decision. Make it at least configurable...
I've never used my iPhone cable for anything other than charging and debugging, and even the latter I mostly do over WiFi. I can't think of a single case of any of my family members plugging theirs into computers – to them the cable is a "charger". Using a phone in combination with a laptop/desktop is an incredibly niche use-case.

What makes you think any non-pro users do need data transfer capability?
CurtaGL: Curta Mechanical Calculator Emulator
I don't want unemployed people desperate to survive threatening order...
the iphone 15 starts at 799.
97% of phone users don't care about a lot of features. Let's remove them all one by one. Accessibility first!
Yes, but people love cheap debt, so it stays.
Would it melt before then? Interstellar space is extremely thin, on the order of 1 atom per cubic centimeter (estimates vary). But, as we learned when Voyager finally left the solar system a few years ago, it is hot as hell. More than 54,000 degrees F according to National Geographic:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/interstel...
I don’t have a gas heater
Personally I'm waiting to see the iPhone SE refreshed. The last time that happened the CPU in the phone, the A15 Bionic, was the same as what was in the iPhone 13 Pro released the fall before. I'm hoping that the 4th iteration of the iPhone SE will include, if not the A17 Pro, then a slightly more modest version of the A17 that has the new USB controller (and USB-C, of course). If not then my iPhone 8 Plus will need to hold out one more year because I don't see the point of going with USB-C if the throughput is no faster than lightning when it comes to backing up all photos and video from the phone to my computers.
Here's what it's focused on, targeting Themelio cryptocurrency's requirements:

> In a blockchain, the behavior we almost always want is for all transactions on the database to be serializable and for database integrity to be guaranteed — that is, a transaction either happens completely or not all, and crashes/power failures cannot cause inconsistency — but we do not need strong durability. We don’t need to ensure that a information saved to disk is still there if the system crashes immediately, since generally Themelio will tolerate “traveling back in time” a few seconds.

> The combination of extremely robust serializability and integrity with eventual durability is hard to find. SQLite in WAL mode with PRAGMA synchronous = NORMAL is close, but directly using SQLite still has relatively poor performance with the extremely fragmented reads and writes Themelio nodes create. LMDB and friends simply give no option besides either synchronizing every transaction or leaving database integrity up to chance every time a power failure might happen.

> ... We actively encourage use of BoringDB outside of Themelio; we think it’s the perfect choice whenever you need a single-process, embedded key-value database with extreme reliability but also reasonable write performance.

It's written in Rust with a permissive license.
I think the idea behind breaking down the task into a composable pipeline is that you then replace the LLM steps in a pipeline with supervised models that are much faster. So you end up with a pipeline of non-LLM models, which are faster and more explainable.
That Cargo config with

[Lib]

But also

[[bin]]
What is the actual impact here?

What kind of time difference transferring data?

It hardly ever transfer mass data from my phone, when I do I honestly don’t care how long it takes provided it is “fast enough”…
Cool. It’s a little broken on smart phone screen (Safari/iPhone)
I don’t want to speak for anyone else, but I very rarely copy data over lightning. I think I’ve only ever done it a couple of times over the past few years, to copy mp3s to my phone from my laptop (which I gather is rare in this age of streaming).

Everything else goes over Wi-Fi.

Would it be nice if the cable was faster? Yes. Would I pay more for it? Dubious.
Exactly what do you need the speed for was my first thought. The only thing I came up with is maybe car play, but if lighting/usb2 speeds are sufficient then it’s mostly moot that the flagship has usb3. Maybe the extra usb to lightning controller will draw some extra power.
As others said, companies only care about themselves. Nevertheless, it's not impossible to trick the "tech interview process" and get a decent job these days (I'm not talking about FAANG-style companies). IMHO, you could do the following:

1. You may need around 1-2 months of preparation, depending on how much time you are able to put (e.g., if your current administrative tech job doesn't demand too much from you, use your working hours to prepare for the tech interview)

2. What do you need to prepare? Based solely in the description you provided, it seems that you were doing some kind of backend engineering job, right? (Writing queries, code, dealing with deployments). If you have more than 5 years of experience (total) in the IT industry, I would call myself "Senior software engineer" and apply for such jobs. In this case, chances are you'll likely will have to deal with the so-called "design systems interview" (there are many good books out there like [1]. Read a few examples and get used to the way they are solved). If you need to prepare for coding tests, then google "cracking the coding interview". Don't go crazy, just learn the way these exercises are done.

3. Fake it till you make it. Watch a few YouTube videos about demoing tech interviews. Imitate the way people explain things and the like. One needs to gain some extra confidence in oneself when doing interviews.

4. Iterate, but don't go crazy. Find a company, investigate it a little bit (e.g., read their website, blog, social media, linkedin employees). Tailor your CV to what they are asking for in their job ads and apply. I cannot say anything about referrals because I never had one.

5. Relax. You have a job. It would be harder if you were jobless and trying to find a job (like many engineers are right now)

[1]: https://github.com/G33kzD3n/Catalogue/blob/master/System%20D...
I've had a fair amount of success at work recently with treating LLMs - specifically OpenAI's GPT-4 with function calling - as modules in a larger system, helped along powerfully by the ability to output structured data.

> Most systems need to be much faster than LLMs are today, and on current trends of efficiency and hardware improvements, will be for the next several years.

I think here I disagree with the author here though, and am happy to be a technological optimist - if LLMs are used modularly, what's to stop us in a few years (presumably still hardware requirement costs, on reflection) eventually having small, fast specialised LLMs for the things that we find them truly useful/irreplaceable?
True, but I think the solution to that problem is simply less cars. On-street parking it's a huge subsidy for car owners, if people had to prove that they own a parking space fewer people would have cars.
> What is Linux-Next?

https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/linux-next.html
Weird take. Who cares about data transfer speeds? Lots of people. Many parts of the world dont have the same cell service coverage or wifi stability you may have.
It’s almost like there’s hundreds of billions of dollars at play to make people incentivized to push ad ecosystems as much as possible
Target is also notorious for union-busting tactics.
Support for trailing commas is just the sane thing to do, especially since JSON is inspired by Javascript that already supports them. So does Python, Java, C++ and perhaps another half dozen of popular programming languages. Why the hell go the opposite way?

I'm not sure who made the decision at the time, but looking back at the hours we have collectively wasted because of this non-feature, I believe they would have reconsidered.
> Postmodernism rejects the possibility of unmediated reality or objectively-rational knowledge, asserting that all interpretations are contingent on the perspective from which they are made;[5] claims to objective fact are dismissed as naive realism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism
I do but I also do it so rarely that I don’t really care provided it transfers quickly enough.
For better or worse I created a very similar system, but using Google Sheets instead of Excel files and fetched with the GSheets API. In that case the configuration was gigantic (many of the configuration values were product-decisions, and it ran in hundreds of different environments with different tweaks), so the tabular structure made navigating things very natural. It also had the advantage of structurally highlighting how environments differed. Doing it with Google Sheets came with some extra nice benefits: online sharing, versioning, access control down to specific ranges, etc.

Basically every engineer who joined the team thought it was a unforgivable blemish on the system, yet it survived a few years with no major issues, long enough for the team to build an internal backoffice and port the whole sheet structure into a proper CRUD API.
TikTok Became a Hotbed of Brand Misinformation
Looks very impressive!, thanks
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Genuine question: How does USB 2.0 compare to Bluetooth (Airdrop) and wifi (assume local network or ad hoc, not icloud or internet) speeds on the 15 line?

EDIT: TIL more about the underlying mechanics of Airdrop than I thought I would, appreciate the lesson.
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Plugging your phone into anything is a security risk that deserves assessment.
> Lots of people.

They might actually be asking for examples.

I do it but pretty rarely to just back up a few things manually to the point that speed doesn’t matter much.
I do transfer photos but, honestly, data transfer speeds within reason are pretty much a don't care.
Real world transfer speeds are ~40 MB/s with USB 2. Wifi 6 is about ~700 MB. I struggle to find real world use cases that would hit USB 2 limits and not have wifi as an alternative.

The really interesting parts of USB are display port alt mode and thunderbolt. While it's technically possible and probably valuable for millions of people for Apple to do their version of Dex, I don't ever see that happening.
Filthy Android user here.

I don't use NSA scanner tools or upload my sex tapes to Google's AI training model, so I sync my photos to my local NAS once a month.
In their own launch presentation, Apple was taunting how the USB-C port now enables "professional" film makers to shot 4K60FPS directly to external storage
Ask HN: Llama 2 on local server. Is 3090 better than 4090?
I've seen some people say that 2x3090 is better than 1x4090. The exLlama.v2 results also show a slight improvement in t/s (30 on 3090ti and 35 on 4090).

If I want to be future proof, is it okay to purchase a (used) 3090 instead of 4090? Can we use 3090+4090 together later?
91% accuracy. Anyone know what the accuracy of typing on your typical iPhone keyboard is?
Generative models can certainly create midi, but no one has done it yet. Given the technique is making video, audio, images, and language, all you need to do is train and build a model with an appropriate architecture.

It’s easy to forget this is all pretty new stuff and it still costs a lot to make the base models. But the techniques are (more or less) well documented and implementable with open source tools.
Ah that's very fair. My apologies.
This has been my experience as well. iPads are a different story (useful for wired Sidecar, serving as a graphic tablet for a Mac, loading up large video files to watch, etc), and those have all gotten USB-C along with their chassis updates.
All forms of exploitation are incredibly valuable for those with the power to benefit from them.
It’s saying indistinguishable when adjusted for severity.

It’s like saying night and day in Yosemite are equally bright when effects of the sun and moon are controlled for.

Look, this doesn’t appear to be sticking, it’s a basic statistical modeling thing. At this point the options are accept it at face value, study stats, or be like the kid saying “why” 100 times after every explanation.
There's no shortage of people shooting 4K video on iPhone these days. Being able to get it onto a laptop to edit in a reasonable amount of time matters to them.
Both of you are right. I think the us non prosumer is entirely on icloud
Why not both? We have to click those dumb cookie things anyway.
>> Roam says it will recommend lenders to provide additional financing. It wouldn’t specify which lenders it will work with. Roam will collect a fee from the buyer that equals 1% of the purchase price.

Yes, you'd have two loans.

It's an interesting idea, and one we floated by our mortgage lender. Our mortgage lender did not seem to like it, because I don't think they make as much. This makes one think, are there better ways for mortgages available that are not considered because the mortgage company does not make as much?
These changes really are a shot across the bow of every single developer who bet on Unity. Even if this particular change doesn't negatively impact you, why would you continue to invest your time and energy in a product which has shown that it's willing to retroactively alter licensing terms?
Not everyone uses iCloud. I still refuse to have my most personal data backed up to a corp server. I’m probably in the minority but I’m sure there’s a sizable number of people like me.
What I would expect is that it will work with any USB-C cable but possibly only work at max speed or watts on MFi cables