skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Being able to fix a bug without resetting memory state is a huge ergonomic advantage in game development"

Visual Studio works with UE and calls that "Edit and Continue" and it works in C++, too.
It doesn’t even need to be C level executives, anyone with information seen to be commercially sensitive gets put on gardening leave if something big is going down.
that's very weird, what's the BOM savings here? Seems like a custom part regardless, is it the controller chip that's cheaper? USB C for 2.0 seems baffling I agree.
- laptops with USB-C charging (MacBooks)

- Android phones (our family collectively has 2 Android phones and 2 iPhones)

- iPad

- wireless headphones
I thought the anti-mask revolution was because they didn't want to be "forced" but now nobody is forcing them and they still can't shut up about masks worn willingly by others.
> I get your perspective, but everybody has their own risk assessment and comfort

Yeah I get that, but with him it seems very out of character. He likes to ski and is a general aviation pilot; these aren't low risk activities. I hope he comes to term with the new normal soon because he's still young and spending the rest of his life paranoid behind a mask would be truly sad.
True. Thats is pretty annoying. Maybe they should color code them like USB-3 having the blue?
I swear sammy fucks up the battery every other year on purpose just so they can say it's bigger next year.
My headphones, laptop (MacBook), work laptop (also MacBook), Nintendo Switch, external hard drives, and external battery all use USB-C. None of these were intentional switches for me, just the default option. At this point, my phone is the only cable I have that isn’t USB-C, so this will be super convenient.

My partner’s phone (an Android) is already on USB-C, so this will also let us share cables, which is a huge plus.
Three most baffling thing about it is I see this comment in almost every iphone thread. I know so many people irl who have the same opinion including myself.

If there are any Apple execs in this thread: please listen to your customers! We are screaming for a flagship mini!
Yeah, bluetooth controller of choice and a kickstand case on the biggest iPhone gets you very close to a Switch or Deck conceptually.

Once the A17 makes its way to the iPad mini, that'll be even closer.
> What makes sense to fine-tune and what not?

In general, fine-tuning helps a model figure out how to do the exact task that is being done in the examples it's given. So fine-tuning it on 1000 examples of an API being used in the wild is likely to teach it to use that API really effectively, but fine-tuning it on just the API docs probably won't.

That said, there are a lot of interesting ideas floating around on how to most effectively teach a model purely from instructions like API docs. Powerful models like GPT-4 can figure it out from in-context learning (ie. if you paste in a page of API docs and ask GPT-4 to write something with the API it can usually do a decent job). I suspect the community will figure out techniques either through new training objectives or synthetic training data to do it for smaller fine-tuned models as well.
But if you're bringing your switch you're not just bringing the screen. If you are bringing your phone somewhere you are bringing just the phone. It's harder to sell and justify.
> They will have the same problem trying to get them to pay per installs as well

If they are already clients and paying for Plus/Pro/etc. subscriptions that shouldn't be too hard (much, much easier anyway).
If you're tethered to a cord that's attached to your phone in a specific spot can you be said to not have a "port" even without part of the cable going "into" the case?

I suppose the lawyers would get paid a bunch to figure out how flexible the definition of "port" in the regulation would be. "Port" in networking is obviously purely a concept vs a physical hole. "Port" in shipping is also more conceptual, no two ports need share the same layout.
Generally speaking, fine-tuning a small model makes sense when the task that you want it to carry out is well-defined and doesn't vary too much from one prompt to another. Fine-tuning facts into a model doesn't seem to scale super well, but general textual style, output format, and evaluation criteria for example can all be instilled through the fine-tuning process. I would use lookup if you need your answers to include a wide array of information that the model you're basing off of wasn't initially trained on.
I don't know a single person using an 8+ year old phone. I'd guess 99% of the population makes a phone last 2-4 years.
Laptop, Steam Deck, DAP, Kindle, battery bank, ANC earbuds
They you haven't spent any time at all searching. Software-induced plane crashes have been happening for decades, with the extremely high profile case of the 737 MAX being quite recent.
Many people claim they are a few inches taller and 30lbs lighter than they are with a straight face all the time.

Claiming a device has a new design when it actually has a few different design elements does not seem like too much of a stretch, for an advertisement.
Okay, this is pretty cool. Effectively lowering the EM noise floor in their vicinity by rectifying the energy is a neat trick. The catch has always been that the level of energy was such that the conversion circuitry for ambient noise was unable to process enough to both power itself and provide a bit extra (efficiency losses effectively prevented any net energy conversion). That they managed to do that is what I find so impressive.

The second thing is the low frequency stuff. Its taught in most EE programs that you can use an antenna that is tuned to a frequency to transfer energy wirelessly from xmitter to receiver (see NFC or RFID) but antennas that tune sub-MHz frequencies are typically quite long in order to have some level efficiency. That they do this by exploiting geometry of various conducive elements and get enough energy is super impressive too.

If you followed the old BEAM stuff[1] that Mark Tilden promoted, you could see some ideas about two-phase devices that live in a "collect" phase charging up an energy reservoir and then an "execute" phase where they dump that energy doing their thing. BEAM was focused on robotics and bug like behaviors but there is no reason you couldn't have a sensor that measures temperature and humidity and transmits that to a receiver somewhere. Or a passive "game" camera that, once it has collected enough energy, takes a snapshot when it detects motion and sends that along.

I'll be interested to see this stuff get commercialized and designed in. It does have shades of "Smart Dust"[2] though which is pretty ripe for abuse.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEAM_robotics

[2] https://www.nanowerk.com/smartdust.php
Here is the problem. Every investor is going to ask what your moat is. What differentiates your Whisper -> Llama -> Midjourney Pipeline.ai from the next one? And the answer is, if you’re just making API calls, nothing. Sorry. There’s nothing stopping Jian Yang from creating newpipeline.ai in a weekend.

Here’s a couple of things which could set you apart off the top of my head.

Customers. Having customers is an advantage over the next guy who doesn’t, because now you can start customizing your product for unique needs rather than having a generic crud app.

Custom models. A custom model means some kid can’t just replicate your app easily.

Unique data. Data which is infeasible for another company to acquire or replicate.

Special people. People who will give your startup an edge in creating all of the above.
> It’s touch screen but has external controls

The touch screen is one of the least-used parts of the Switch. Which is a little disappointing, since it was so heavily and well used on the DS/3DS lines. But so many of the ways Nintendo intends you to use the system, the touchscreen isn't accessible. So games aren't built around it in the same way that it was for their previous handhelds.
Do you think this would end up facilitating the diffusion of finetuned LLMs ckpt models, just like stable diffusion? What's missing is web-UI?
Prof. Jan Bondeson wrote a book called Buried Alive (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Buried-Alive-Terrifying-History-Pri...). I have a copy. He concluded that almost all historical accounts of premature burial could be explained in other ways, or were unreliable. There were, however, a handful of confirmed cases of people being rescued from premature burial and removed from their grave, only to die shortly afterwards. Around 200 years ago in Germany, many deceased were placed in Leichenhäusen until decomposition started, to ensure they weren't prematurely buried. Not one person woke up.

Of course, for obvious reasons it's impossible to be sure nobody was buried alive, but if anyone was, the air supply in their coffin wouldn't last longer than about an hour.
Why would I use a lightning cable when getting data on or off the device is faster over Wifi. It's kind of a trick question, why don't you use this slower protocol? See no reason to upgrade it no one uses it!
It's a lot easier to add a pass to simplify an explanation by rephrasing or eliding information than it is to smarten up an overly simplified answer.

You do want the underlying model to be capable of the advanced answers, since if it is, it can be used to supply simple answers. You can't make that work the other way around in the same way.
China preparing for war with US, Air Force secretary says
I wonder if the base A16 simply doesn’t support USB 3 and they weren’t motivated to change that - the 14 Pro/Max last year was still limited to USB 2 after all.
Lightning seems to have some physical issues with power delivery, and I haven't seen the size difference matter for anything bigger than earbuds.
Water in fruit is extra pure, so it's a bit sad to "waste" it, but if there's no other choice it's good
> is there a company making worse products every iteration?

Very many companies that built a brand around quality before being quietly sold to a private equity firm are doing just that, to maximize profits for as long as they can while the brand still has a good reputation.

It can be really obvious if you’ve owned a quality product for many years and then go to replace it, only to see that the current rendition is effectively a cheap knockoff.
Eh, the GPU changes with ray tracing were supposed to land last year as part of A16 but heat issues required them to pull it.

The bright side is that if you are on a yearly release cadence then you don’t let one thing slip the whole SOC (assuming, as Apple does, that you have a risk on and risk off design going simultaneously).

Your are right on that the Vision Pro will have a M3 not M2.
might be more popular with that crowd that doesn't backup on icloud but to their local desktop. For that non icloud folks I wonder how many use cable vs wifi.
This is why the iPhone was nearly the last Apple device to switch to USB-C. Plenty of people will be irritated at having to buy bunch of new cables, and they've been accumulating Lightning cables for a decade. And unlike something like Micro USB, lightning cables don't often wear out.

But it is better to finally make the jump. I've never been unhappy with Lightning, but almost everything else I own has now switched to USB-C.
Sounds a lot like the idea behind combined cycle gas turbines.
Autobots are only 4 thousand years old since God created earth etc and the autobots.
I’m curious, not being from this era, what are some examples of better old software than new? And why is the new one worse instead of better?
Proto: Multi-Language Toolchain Manager
I barely could find any info on the web about this thing but looks promising so far. It supports quite good range of environments such as node (deno/bun), golang, python, rust and couple of node package managers.

Btw. I'm neither an author nor related to developers of proto (I feel it's good to note since I've just created an account)
I learned recently that microplastics are primarily from fabrics. Our polyester/synthetic workout clothes shed them in the washer and they end up everywhere. Plastics also generally have a pretty low carbon footprint, ironically.
It's possible for the person with the single clock to get lucky and have a more accurate time than the average, but the original quote says "knows the time". Using the traditional definition of knowledge as "justified true belief", somebody with a lucky clock does not truly know the time. Their belief is true, but not justified. It's really the person with multiple clocks who has more accurate knowledge of the time. The more clocks they average the more justification they have for their belief.
TypeScript is not a Programming Language
It's too polished. COVID is over. Bring back the live demos.
China Sows Disinformation About Hawaii Fires Using AI
993% Conversion Lift for Cotopaxi's Ecommerce Upsell Page
Exactly, I missed this completely in the article. In my experience, microservices attempt to solve organizational problems and not technical problems. There are technical downsides to microservices that may be outweighed by organizational benefits. With monoliths you might have a large amount of hidden opportunity cost that technically never surface.

I do agree that this is less of a problem for startups so it doesn't make sense to start with a complex microservice architecture. But in large organizations, especially corporates, it absolutely makes sense.
Yeah, the medical "ethics" field is full of really weird and damaging decisions.

Someone needs to do the work exposing what the hell is going on there.
Really the plain iPad is great for reading PDF.

To be frank though, so are AMZN Fire Tablets and even though they have some annoyances the price is really right. There is some "reality distortion field" such that people wonder "where did all the Android tablets go?" and never see they are hidden in plain site.
It's not quite that. The police don't HAVE to write everything down, or record everything, etc. And they're anti-aligned with you. So things you say in custody can and will be used against you, but not everything you say can be used in your defense.

Which is why you should never talk to cops without your attorney, especially if you're being arrested.
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I don't think anybody has answered the question "is every COVID infection an individual gets going to give the same level of response"? IE, will you get COVID and then get better, but later get COVID and end up with Long COVID symptoms? Is it random every time you are infected?
> laptop (MacBook)

The fact that people talk about how integrated the Apple ecosystem is, yet you needed an adapter to connect its phone to its laptop says it all.
"I know a guy", as we grew up down the road from each other and I was a groomsman at his wedding. We've known each other for 30 years. This isn't some random guy I see on the street. I see maybe one in a hundred strangers in public still wearing a mask, which is why I mentioned 99% of the public. That's my estimate for how many people gave up masks. I take it you are among the 1% of those who keep it up.
Not hard at all? USB-C has been consistently simpler for me and I’m far less worried about damaging pins.

Pro tip: cut a pointed pick out of the corner of an old credit card. Works great.
That would be dangerous for many rural areas. For some remote regions, blizzards taking out the electrical grid is a real concern. You need a local mechanism to generate heat and an on-site propane/oil tank is the only realistic option.
Congrats. A lot of people don't like Android, it's not a big deal either way.
If you block your timer goes out the window, right? Because the poll will never get there until the blocking call is done. So yeah, you can block, but it will disrupt the whole chain, including tasks above yours up to await. Similar to Erlang VM where the language itself yields (e.g. there are no loops and every recursive call is effectively a yield), but if you add a C module and are careless enough to block, the whole EVM blocks. So no, if you want to use async you shouldn't block. For loops? Nope, not if they take long time for the same reason, you may want to break them down to smaller chunks ("long" depends on other tasks and expected latency).

Having said that, Erlang exists and doing well, so async is as good as any model designed for special cases. But this discussion basically answers the question

> Why don’t people like async?

Because not everybody (which means a majority of developers) needs this complexity. And the upward poisoning means that I can't block in my function if my web server is based on async, which affects everybody who is using it.
> It comes with one USB-C to USB-C charging cable - not sure if it is a data cable, also.

The USB-C charging cables can also carry data at USB2 speeds. I'm pretty sure thats the limit of what the iphone 15 usb-c port can handle. (Since they explicitly called out the iphone 15 pro as having hardware support for usb3).
27 years ago, there was a movie that perfectly shows that mindset:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114323/?ref_=fn_al_tt_5

If it wasn't covid, it'd be something else with people like your friend.
The entirety of my iCloud backups and Photos storage is about 175GB, and I have photos going back to 2008. I think 200GB is probably fine for way more people than you realize.
Hi HN. I'm the director of Free Law Project, the org that's behind this, RECAP, and CourtListener.com.

The idea of this project is to create topic-based bots that follow certain areas of the law so that folks can access the raw data underlying the news and read it for themselves.

We have a handful of "topic bots" over at https://bots.law, and we're working on Slack/MS Teams/Discord integration as well. We'll probably be launching a Crypto bot soon, if we can find a reasonable curator for that.

We'd love your thoughts and if you follow tech cases, hopefully you'll find our bots useful!
It sure was. But so was the kernel itself. I don't think the balance between them changed a lot over time.
I haven't written a lot in compiled languages, so maybe this is a dumb question, but are you actually saying that it takes an hour to compile your unity project? I thought that only happened with huge c++ codebases. How do you get any creative work done without quick iteration?
iPad, MacBooks, Chromebooks, Nintendo Switch, and basically every IoT gadget and other toy that used to use Micro-USB, for the last couple years they've all been USB-C. Even the cheapo stuff. I was ecstatic to throw away all but one (just in case) Micro USB cable I had. I won't jump for joy getting rid of Lightning cables, but OTOH I won't miss them either.
Or they have immunocompromised loved ones at home, or are vulnerable themselves despite looking healthy. It’s their health and passing judgement on them as neurotic or germophobic without knowing their situation is pretty shitty at best.
Not going to happen until Apple can fully control the bounds of the output generated by the LLM (which no one is capable of doing right now). A handful of instances of it spouting...unfriendly stuff is enough to dent Apple's reputation, and so they aren't going to take the risk.
I see, Apple is giving the same price for iPhone 15 for all 3 carriers.

But if you check 14/13/SE, then if you do not chose Verizon, the price is $30 higher. I bought a 13 mini yesterday morning, which is when I experienced the extra $30, and I assumed it applies to all the iPhones.

Apparently, current year iPhones are excluded from the $30 surcharge for non Verizon subscribers.

Also, all iPhones sold on apple.com are unlocked, even the $799 ones. Only exception is if you buy with an ATT subsidized contract.
For me I’ve got my Nintendo Switch, headphones, soon my new phone, and a vape that all charge on USB-C. I’m excited to have one cable to rule them all, personally.
> Heat pumps aren't that powerful.

Is 18 kW not enough? https://thermia.com/products/ground-source-heat-pumps/thermi...

Air-water heatpumps are available in ~9kW

> Then there's the cost. A gas heater is 3 times as cheap, and for that price, 3 times as expensive.

Only really a thing if there's a local gas network and subsised gas.

> Lastly, there's the issue of when it's really cold and the heat pump cannot extract heat from the outside air (this is much less a problem when you have an water to water heat pump, but they are significantly more expensive). Then the thing just runs on electricity. And that can be VERY expensive in certain parts of the worlds.

They work fine in -25c. Few people in the world live in places that are regularly colder than that for significant chunks of time.
> Available starting on September 18, iCloud+ will offer two new plans: 6TB for $29.99 (U.S.) per month and 12TB for $59.99 (U.S.) per month, providing additional storage to keep files, photos, videos, and more safe, accessible, and easy to share.

Interesting to see Apple finally bumping the upper limit on iCloud storage.
Its not about the BOM or the cost, its about creating a more clear "this is the trash one" image of the base model, so more people will buy the Pro.
In this particular case, developers could also move on to a superior and completely open alternative (Nix), so making even a semi-closed alternative with much fewer people contributing etc. was already a hard sell.
I probably said it 100 of times, any thing relies on GSM protocol for authentication is not secure, the protocol is fundamentally broken from security perspective, but it’s still there because someone wants to keep these phone numbers as the weakest possible way to link your real identity with the digital ones.
Much lower than that and you are getting into dual use oven/refrigerator mode!
The USB-C is tempting. The only other Apple devices I own are all USB-C - Macbook Pros and an iPad Air. Maybe this will finally get me to switch from my aging Pixel 3A. The idea of dropping $800 on it is still a bit much though.
There is a rumor that Apple is working on an "embedded" "SiriGPT". Imagine "ChatGPT" but on device, no API calls, no extra latency. And all apps on your device can use this "SiriGPT" instantly to enrich the user experience.
Correlates to being poor, or at least not being rich.
The bimodal variation of this is the famous (?) quote about the U.S. civil war, which goes something like: in elementary school, you learn the Civil War was about slavery. In high school, you learn it was about economics. In college, you learn it was actually about slavery.
Enterprises with strong, opinionated, tech org leadership, maybe.

The rest are shuffling around between solutions that haven’t been state-of-the-art in 15 years or more, and usually purchased or bundled from some giant vendor or another, as usual.

They’re ahead of the curve if they have any standard widely-implemented CI solution that’s fully in use and not one of three (or more) in various stages of being adopted, maintained, and phased out, in fact.