skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Didn't know I wanted it, but I now really want P2P iMessage between mountain summits
Sadly, I've worked with software engineers who had absolutely no ethical qualm with implementing basically anything their boss wanted them to implement. Dark patterns, Benchmark cheating, Excessive user data collection, I'm sure they wouldn't even balk at writing Malware or Ransomware. This is why ethical engineers opting out of the project or job will never work: There's always someone lined up willing to write the unethical code.
To be legally binding it needs to be

-----BEGIN ATTORNEY/CLIENT PRIVILEGED BLOCK-----
A per-installation fee model is bonkers: of course Unity is allowed to charge for their product, but if your margins are already pretty thin, it's pretty hard to budget for a per-installation fee – not even per sale!
That's not an excuse though.
What are boot times like?

I see a lot of text-editing environments geared towards "distraction-free, focused editing" but not a lot of innovation on an OS focused on the same experience. I would like to see such a "writing OS" that boots to a text editor in less than a second. Maybe this OS is a candidate?
There was the case when someone was deliberately poisoning Tylenol in Chicago back in 1982, killing 7 people. The man who they think did the poisoning just died two months ago, and was never charged.

The three different makers of the affected kid's cough medicine in India say they do not use DEG, so how did it manage to be a 34% solution?

It sounds pretty similar to me.
> I'm now convinced you have a mental disability. Are you high or retarded

We've banned this account for egregiously breaking the site guidelines. You can't post like this here, regardless of how wrong someone or how right you are, or you feel they are, or you feel you are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Those folks are just sick; instead of being their equivalent of CloudFormation (which I stupidly hoped they had finally fixed) their "Enable Infrastructure Manager" page <https://cloud.google.com/infrastructure-manager/docs/enable-...> has "create a Project" link followed by a `gcloud` command

orly? Create a Project, you say? Can I do that with Infrastructure Manager? Assign a billing-id to that new Project with Infrastructure Manager? Enable that service with Infrastructure Manager?

Just mind boggling
- It was a joke bro.. sorry, your honor.
More like the tiranny of people whose job title matches .*[Pp]roduct.*

They are the real scourge of our industry; I never met one who wasnt hellbent on raising some kind of meaningless number that people who don’t talk to the customer decided was important for the next 90 days.

Get them out of the industry as fast as possible, keep only the good ones
Except the war in the pacific, which needed two atomic bombs to "win" it.
I wouldn't not call it that
How to use Git bisect and Git bisect run
I don't know him but I feel he is a bit tongue-in-cheek with humour. As far as I remember, he did comedy and was also good with education with kids. I don't imagine meeting him and him coming across as full of himself though. I feel I could approach him in a pub and he would have good banter.
In some ways web apps act like this: all (most) of the buisness logic and data is on the server.

And you get the data through API calls - so in theory one can build your own UI on top of a known service. There are rare examples of this done succesfully (for HN for example), but usually you won't get very far in a reasonable amount of time, because often it is a mess behind the shiny UI. (And because this is not encouraged behavior by the service provider)
Did you misread my comment?

Texas has an isolated grid. They can't buy or export power. This causes grid overloads. People have ended up freezing and dying in heat waves due to power outages.

You said "maybe it ok, maybe it saves money even if there are catastrophes, but I don't even know what the money is like".

Why would you say that a terrible power grid induces crisis is ok at all, let alone when you don't even know how the money breaks down?
Recruiters and headhunters start getting the axe as companies go slow on hiring
I used GPT-4 and this was the result:

Please translate this:

ငါ့ကို ဒုတိယ အခွင့်ရေး တစ်ခု ပေးခဲ့တယ်။

The sentence "ငါ့ကို ဒုတိယ အခွင့်ရေး တစ်ခု ပေးခဲ့တယ်။" translates to "They gave me a second chance." in English.
What is a “3 second fillup?”

And what do you mean “Recharge my ICE”?

Are you trying to infer that Internal Combustion engine vehicles are not refilled but “recharged”?

And how does your singular personal anecdotal experience change the fact that range anxiety is a very real thing with EV vehicles?
Have you read the entire thread you linked? People explained to Linus why direct IO is important to them. Besides, it's 20 years old and there were even no SSDs back then. The lack of direct IO in PG was one of (one of) the reasons why Uber moved to MySQL (https://www.uber.com/en-PL/blog/postgres-to-mysql-migration/, "The Buffer Pool" Section).
With buffered IO you will likely store a lot of the same data in memory twice- once in DB's memory and then in page cache. Now you can just give the memory used by page cache directly to DB, because it knows better what and when it needs.
But they were simultaneously making Macs and ipads with usb-c?
New ETF looks to tap hot market for zero-day options
> privatization tends to be the worst option because of one simple fact: in addition to total compensation of all the costs required to provide the service to the public, the private entity also demands that they make a profit on top of that

This applies to all private efforts. Yet history shows the private sector can compete with public initiatives. The difference is competition. Water utilities don't have competition. They're born into a mode of market failure. For natural monopolies, public management seems to work best.
sounds like your note-taking & web-clipping need an update. spend some time figuring it out.
yeah this is strange and I don't fully understand it. perhaps the options exist and we just haven't heard of them (like there's a chrome extension or an OSS library that solves every conceivable problem)? Or that the nature of the modern smartphone software stack encourages too much bundling of functionality?
This is the biggest issue. Unity have clearly signaled that the previous and current user agreements to use their software are useless as they may be retroactively changed at any time.

What company would put their bottom line at risk dealing with these terms?
Title: "An easy way to concurrency and parallelism with Python"

Content: basically how to use ThreadPoolExecutor

Comment: Concurrency and parallelism aren't easy in Python.

How is this off-topic?
Walking is just controlled falling.
Bill Willingham Sends Fables into the Public Domain
That's because those $20 glasses are objectively worse than $200 Costco glasses. You might not think that the latter is worth the increased price, but for the vast majority of Americans it is.

Btw Zeiss (known to HNers for making EUV lithography hardware) also makes glasses and you can buy them online. Some of their lenses are $700. Not worth it for me, but I can definitely see how someone would be willing to pay even more for those optical specs
I've tried using ChatGPT to translate Latin texts from the Renaissance. I know enough Latin (intermediate, but can figure it out with a dictionary) to check it, and it was very, very impressive. What blew me away was not just the fluency of the translation but the fact that I could drop in highly imperfect OCR'd text from Google Books, and it didn't have any trouble making sense of garbled passages. This ability makes it a really distinct advance on Google Translate and the like, at least for my purposes.

Also, another underrated feature: I asked it to summarize each page in a single sentence, while also picking out the passages most relevant to my research question. It did a great job.
And the tyranny extends because most of the money goes to those who can (theoretically) get geometric growth - get lots of us during our Marl moments.

If the pendulum swings the other way - meaning we each have less Marl moments - more of us willing to pay for an experience with dollars than time, then expect more OKCupids to start and to persist. Theoretically without venture money.

I think LLMs may help swing the pendulum in the OkCupid direction but in two very different ways - curious how others see it.

1. Lots more Marl courting apps developed, faster. Causing more fatigue. Less time to go to any single Marl app; reluctance to try new ones. Push pendulum away from Marl apps - each of us cuts our Marl moments.

2. Ability to develop OkCupid apps with less investment and target smaller circles (which often means i can deliver a better experience to that small circle, and not need VC funding/geometric growth to keep the lights on). Pull pendulum towards OKCupid apps.
Utah already gets 27% of its water from the Colorado river.

I am not suggesting that Utah desalinate the Pacific Ocean or that Utah desalinate the great salt lake. I am saying they should increase their usage of water from the Colorado River.

If California stopped using the Colorado river for water, then Utah could pull more water from the Colorado.

Water can be moved in pipelines or controlled via a manmade river/channel.
> What do they do with that money? They spend it, which grows the economy. Our economy, not some other country's economy.

I'm going to guess you've never spoken to anyone who is sending money back to their family in their original country with every paycheck.

Not really the point of this conversation I guess but... yeah. It does happen more than you probably think. To the point where malls in my area have kiosks for wiring money to other countries for cheap.
Of course they were hanged, quartered and their pieces hung.
Anyone who enjoys these kind of stories should check out the series "Raiders of the Lost Art". They are on Curiosity Stream and maybe elsewhere. Good stuff.
8 years sounds like an absurdly long time to retrofit a different instruction set onto an existing CPU core design.
Your other points are well-taken, but don't address why you don't think releasing schematics is a good idea. Schematics make diagnosis and repair possible without having to engage in reverse-engineering.
This isn’t even close to accurate. For one thing, developers already pay to license the Unity engine, it’s only free if you agree to keep the unity logo loading screen and make under a certain amount of money.

Two, unlike the Reddit API changes which just annoyed mods at worst (yes there were problems for people with disabilities but that is such a small percentage it was basically a rounding error for them) this is an existential threat to F2P mobile games which are Unity’s largest market by far. When you aren’t directly selling the game and the only way to make money is to get as many downloads as possible in the hope that a certain small percentage buy IAPs these few cent fees per install could very easily wipe out their entire revenue.

Three, unlike Reddit which had no viable alternatives for the millions of end users to migrate to, Unity has far fewer customers and an extremely viable replacement in the form of Unreal and potentially Godot.
The fact that you have to have this conversation strongly implies that the notion of an accurate translation is, no surprise, already heavily strained; you've simply chosen to aim for/accept "most accurate possible translation" as the best you can do, while punting on choice of distance metric and its scale.
Seems like it would be really easy for them to just add it to iMessage. It already seamlessly transitions between data and SMS as needed; just add a third possibility

Would not be surprised if one day they announce on stage that this is going to just start working for the last X generations of iPhone
The article shows how to use ThreadPoolExecutor, but that's not fully parallel. For that, you need multiprocessing.Pool, which is slightly easier to use anyway, unless your data happens to be non-pickle-able.
A device you buy and trust today can easily be used against you later on
Have you considered making your database available for download as Parquet format so people could just copy the file to S3, Google Cloud, etc, and query it immediately with various tools?

I know it can be done with CSV but it's not as smooth.
It wasn't really that long ago when you got schematics for pretty much any piece of electronics you bought, because it made repairs possible.

That practice stopped because manufacturers wanted you to throw your broken things away and replace them rather than fix them.
> backup camera

You can fit aftermarket ones. (I checked, many models exist.)
To Pogo: 'What do you mean "us"? Do you have a mouse in your pocket?'
I have a lot of respect for Oz's ability to ship and skills / imagination.

Only thing I can think of is for people to think thoroughly the license they set. BSD in this case, 4 years ago. And to not take any contributions unless they sign a CLA so the license can be changed in the future.

As for my own point of view, I screen apps/libraries that are not MIT/BSD/Apache2 and I may want to link statically to or sell services for and try to sponsor on Github projects I rely heavily on.

[1] https://github.com/ozramos/handsfree/blob/master/LICENSE
I don't know what is the remedy here since it seems Google broke no laws, did it?

Can you sue someone for "stealing your idea"? Unfortunately this is the world we live in. Only thing I can think of is that people vote into power parties who are willing to check the power of big corporations:

https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2023/09/biden-doj...
An article in The Economist that doesn't touch on the actual economics of diamonds, not once. And, they talk about gold as if it only does well in economic downturns.

Diamonds are worthless rocks.
Overcompensating from their statements that EVs were a fad and hydrogen was the way to go?
The industry regulating/certifying them selves again.

This is like diesel gate and Boeing/FAA. You can't have labs that depend on money of these companies to certify these same companies devices without a conflict of interest. What do people think happens to a lab that asks too many questions or sends too much back? They get replaced with a lab that toes the line. This conflict can only be dealt with tight regulations or non private-for-profit labs.

Wasn't there an article here recently of a safety inspector that got fired for finding too many violations?
Improving folks economic reality tends to lower drug use. We could try not further ruining lives by putting them into the "justice" system and instead close the gaps they fell through while helping them up.
> When did this become a metric that mattered to any normal person?

1946 it seems:

https://www.motortrend.com/vehicle-genres/c12-0603-icons-unc...
Perhaps so. I've always called them sit-stand desks, because at one point there was a definite difference between the naming of the two.
Google has a track record of discontinuing things when they feel like it. Such a statement is welcome but it needs to be tested in time. I would even say it is much more related to the fact that it is September than anything else or because they want to make their brand look better in the light of all this antitrust probing.
This honey: $6800/kg

Gold: $61000/kg
I agree with the sibling comment about what the point was, though of course you are technically correct as well, but in addition it might be relevant to mention that attempts at someone's life are also punishable. Whether the analogy continues to work for anti-monopoly law, I don't know
This is a problem with specific people within Google, and Google's inability to manage their staff.

Google's Legal department can definitely resolve this problem.
The remedy is Google gives the guy a job or some damn payment. "They don't have to" - well no shit, we don't have to be nice to each other, yet most of us are. Why can't Google be nice to people?
Never write the END block. Infinite privilege glitch!
I would pay $100/month for a site like the original okcupid, but I want Max Krohn, Christian Rudder and the rest of the original team running it.
Because 0 to 60 in 5 means 0 to 30 in even less than it used to take.

No need to be a sour puss, let car people love their cars
And if you do, does the unity pricing change now cause an install cost?
Depends on the year, it used to be around 11s, latest models brought it down to 8-7 seconds.

Normal ICE cars are in the 12-18s range, sometimes <10s but you’d look like a mad man revving your engine high enough to achieve that.

5s is ridiculously fast and that kind of acceleration should _never_ be used in the middle of traffic or city roads.
I've long wondered where the American meaning comes from. In the UK, the etymology is pretty clear from the long-gone occupation described in this article: knocking on a window that is often up on the second story (or perhaps more directly, forcing someone up from their slumber through the act of knocking).
How many apps are successful enough to meet the revenue thresholds (over $1mil), but are sub $1 ARPU, and aren't ad revenue driven? I'm sure there are some, but that's going to be a small number, and there likely can be some carve out for them.
Anybody else remember the data blog posts? Those were interesting and satisfying. It was another confirmation that I'd found the right dating site and probably a like-minded userbase.
Pool executors only solve one kind of use case. They aren't a general solution to concurrency+parallelism.

And they're still the worst version of this pattern, because despite using multiple OS-level threads with all the associated overhead, the GIL prevents most of the real parallelism from happening. And if you want full parallelism, you have to use multiprocessing.Pool, which adds pickling overhead and incompatibility.
Am i crazy?
https://twitter.com/unity/status/1701650081403842851
In the original tweet they write:
"We want to be clear that the counter for Unity Runtime fee installs starts on January 1, 2024 - it is not retroactive or perpetual. We will charge once for a new install; not an ongoing perpetual license royalty, like revenue share."
> Companies are just an abstraction we invented purely to facilitate capitalism, a simple organizational unit in the market.

No. The earliest companies in various cultures go back more than a thousand years and they have emerged for a variety of reasons -- pooled risks and resources, family businesses needing to hire non-relatives, tradesmen needing to hand their businesses on to their apprentices, etc.

Capitalism is actually pretty new. It's not much older as a practice than its definition.

Kongo Gumi alone existed for more than a thousand years before capitalism became a meaningful economic model.

The livery companies in the UK date back 600 years before the UK was a capitalist system.

And we could still have various forms of companies in a non-capitalist system, which in turn does not automatically mean communism.
and if you never end the block everything you do is safe from now on. Judges don't want you to know this one weird trick
> I guess this could also be a play to make Microsoft interested in buying them out when money crisis hit.

That would be a stupid idea. Companies that are in financial trouble tend to be cheaper to buy, typically a lot cheaper if there’s only one serious buyer candidate.

If they think “when we’re almost broke, we can sell out to Microsoft for X million”, certainly they can get at least the same amount now that they aren’t?
Apple and Epic’s Fortnite fight has spiraled into something much more (2020)
To some, to others they’re just Toyotas with leather seats ;)
Baldur’s Gate 3 Patch 3 is Out on September 21st
The Nissan Leaf has an official 0-100km/h sprint time of 7.9 seconds, while the Leaf e+ achieves a sprint time of 6.9 seconds.

This is easily achievable by many ICE cars. You can get a Toyota Corolla that matches this (and I’m not talking about the GR Corolla).
Your reply is not passing my sniff test. Your hype and bias are showing.

It may present more fluent text, but if it doesn't know it's strayed from the source text and you can't tell either (because you don't understand source language) then you'll end up with error-laden pseudo translations. At least with NMT you know the errors are consistent.

I don't know who you know who thinks GPT is ahead, but nobody in the very well funded translation industry has a GPT powered translation engine for the key reason that it's not ready for production. For a human to post edit MT, we're mainly talking fixing broken vocab. You'd never present raw MT to a client. It needs editing. Heavily. To think LLM translation doesn't need editing is either coming from someone not in the industry, or blinded by hype. And the kind of editing issues are more insidious, like those found in voice dictated texts. Homophones aren't flagged by QA software because they are real words. Just like LLMs make real sentences, except when they don't, but good luck detecting that, and editing out the additional meaning it has decided to inject.

Have you tried to run the GPT-4 API on a segmented xliff at all? If the segmentation is bad, and full of tags, GPT4 breaks completely. It tries to close sentences that run across segments, it can't handle tags in-line (the chatgpt interface can, but you can't use that at scale).

It can do some impressive work, don't get me wrong, but I'm not sure how hands-on you've really been if you think it's a solved problem.

Production translation is a non-trivial output. The entire industry hasn't released an LLM solution yet for translation (excepting the rewording mini features). What makes you think you know more than those on the ground? Or have you developed something that's still in stealth?

EDIT: Oh wow, all of your 107 submissions to HN from the 6 months your account has existed, have been about AI and LLMs. I guess I got the hype part right. As for industry knowledge the jury is still out, but this could well be the classic HN "I understand tech so obviously I understand everything" play. Keep us posted!
The legal system isn't the only means to a "resolution".

Public shaming can work pretty well too, sometimes.
You claim you're a #2.5 which is intermediate. So according to the article you might very well be an overconfident #1, instead...

You should probably add a "5. don't know" option and check that one...
instagram and threads are both social apps owned by a large social app giant and they launched right when people were getting pissed off at Elon’s twitter

calling their DAU numbers anything but a perfect storm doesn’t make sense—your app wouldn’t push messaging to every google user to join, and you don’t own Google OAuth and users, Google does.
The company i work for ha2e something like "XYZ Applications".

The %20 in the url irks me every fricken time.

I prefer kebab-case on my projects.
i have only seen a few of alec's videos, but i immediately recognized this as familiar, wondering "hey, that's a different guy"
> Why do you feel it needs to be faster?

Because there's nothing I hate more than a car that doesn't respond when I try to accelerate.
Azure DevOps allows that space. Fricken dorks.
I need to be hired by Google so I can start the first Google Monopoly board game club
Or worse, earthquake-fragile houses get built.
That's very common. Look at all the $0.03 microcontrollers on LCSC. They save time, money, and board space.
Current share price is only the price the last trade was made at. It would be remarkable if the other 90% could sell for anywhere near that number. Comparing an offer for the entire company to selling 10% to the public is a bit lopsided.
only when the question is wrong