skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
…or simply that words don’t have universal meanings, but general ones that vary by use and context.
This is a hilarious read but I think the author is too optimistic about the state of humanity. Marl isn't the "marginal" user, Marl is the "average" user. If the average user actually cared about deep and meaningful content, then any A/B test that throws her under the bus in order to please Marl will show bad data, and the proposed change would be killed.

Yes, the author tries to hand-wave this away as "product is sticky", but I really doubt this is the main reason.

No, the truth is far more scary. The average user doesn't want deep and meaningful content. The average user is Marl. That is why every product, no matter how noble it starts off, eventually degenerate into Marl-fodder. Because that's where the money is. The only way to escape this is to take on a huge pay cut and work at a company that doesn't care about growing profits. Go ahead, you first.

Finally, let's be honest. Marl isn't some obnoxious bozo. You and I are both Marl. That's why we're here in the HN comments. You are Marl, I am Marl, the world is Marl, and it's getting Marlier every day.
GvR !! ;)))
What’s really embarrassing is how it compares to the Snapdragon.

Is the gap expanding at this point?
I just wanted to toss out one quick idea that worked for me.

First, my experience with the standing desk:
1) If standing still, my inclination is to lock one knee, cock my hip and lean in. This gets pretty uncomfortable and is probably not much better than sitting for short-term pain issues.
2) I also bought a treadmill to do the walking desk thing. Works well for some tasks, but if I'm deep in complex coding, I can't be walking at the same time. It just doesn't work for me. There's a bit of extra context switching that happens for me when I need to turn off or turn on the treadmill.

What did work for me was a bicycle desk. I bought Garmin Tacx smart trainer and hooked up a cheap bike that I got for free from a friend. I slid the front of the bike under the desk. I can then pedal while working. I found I can pedal even when in moderately deep thought, and if I need to stop pedaling for something complex, you simply stop, rather than having to turn off a device. There have been many days where I've gotten in 50 miles of pedaling while working. I usually output 80-100 watts while working, so very low power. However, after doing that for hours, it's a non-trivial amount of calorie burn. So, you do get a lot of muscular activity.
I can't speak to this particular situation, but your argument has "if you'll had nothing to hide then you would have nothing to fear" vibes.
You don't seem to account for the possibility of a situation where an entity is not guilty, but gets in trouble anyway because of someone's words.
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Has any real lawyer got any idea whether the unity license update is unconscionable? I have this vague notion that the bar is lower for contracts of adhesion.
The hydrogen is not in a liquid state.
You can run a VPN on the host, or you can use a bridge on the VM if you want to minimize the probability of your ISP knowing you're using Tor.
Postgres 16 Release Notes
I don't listen to Taylor Swift so maybe this is out of line, but is she not the absolute pinnacle of music commercialisation? Why would she take a break from making millions to tank her money making machine? Seems like asking Bezos to make less money so his employees can make more.
I suppose that is a fair characterization. I would say that I still think it's tautological. Obviously it's a synthetic situation that involves infinity, so real-world applications are difficult to evaluate.

But I just don't get why people see it as an ethical dilemma – the conclusion is a perfectly sensible outcome of the setup. The conclusion is just a restatement of the premise – a maximization of population over a maximization of happiness. Thats why it seems tautological to me, the math of it is perfunctory and reveals nothing. If you cared about maximizing happiness more than population you would have to modify the setup. The trade-off is built into the premise.
By Reddit he means old Reddit, right?
We just used cycles per second (cps). Or multiples of it. Hertz was simply the name give to this unit, first in 1935, and later was included in the SI units in 1960.
I did see that and need to comment. That spectrum needs to stay with the HAMs. Fact is when bad things happen, our investment in those people pays off.

I say they can rent spectrum from someone. It's not like the people who are doing those kinds of volume need yet another free gift. And mooching off amateur spectrum is exactly that.

Life has taken me away from radio for a while now, but I could jump back in anytime. It's great tech.
Qualcomm is just happy lazily sitting back and collecting licensing fees while putting out mediocre products at this point.
They probably did not come with scratches, did they?

Don't scratch them. It's simple as that. Wash lens with soap. It's as simple as that.
Or if you have a good bb gun or not?
Unfortunately yes, it will be.

I like Samsung hardware but I can't go without the headphone jack.

I like large phones, so I'll probably end up with an Asus ROG phone, but they're slightly chunkier than I'd like, and I'm not really a fan of the "gaming" aesthetic.
LACNIC is a fucking pain in the ass since they block after like 27 records

ARIN is awesome
And so far as I’m aware Epic is pretty dev friendly.
> The privatization of the public's air or water supply should be criminal.

Internet, cellphone, electricity, trash, healthcare, insurance... if the vast majority needs the same thing, the local, state, or federal government should provide it. We need to put an end to all the rent seeking behavior, it's parasitic and slowly destroying our economy.
https://archive.is/xicjn
It was even faster than that. I remember it being almost instantaneous. And you could even play Doom!
This shall be henceforth known as "The Dunning-Kruger paper". ;)

Certainly, overconfidence and negative attitudes cloud public debate and popularization of conclusions. I've unfortunately come across narcissistic CEO/VC types who believe they have "all" of the answers, when instead they may have a corner of the Rosetta stone or a piece of lint.

STEM knowledge must be tempered with data and supported conclusions over non-experimental biases. The larger issues are behavioral pathologies when people appear to believe they have a superior special monopoly on knowledge, experience, or being. Another pathology is anti-intellectualism, which runs deep in America.
The word you're looking for is probably "anti-intellectualism". The tribal flavoring of the white supremacism-religious fundamentalism far-right spectrum in the US is against undisputed knowledge, history, learning, and facts in addition to STEM.
And you're also brainwashed to think that the only way to get stuff from your phone to your PC wirelessly is via iCloud.

I use SyncThing and it works fantastically, with no fees and no spying.
my chromebook is a c720 released in 2013. Still holding up fine.
https://archive.is/cdzag
Large Language Models for Automated Open-Domain Scientific Hypotheses Discovery
I don't understand why so many companies are against simply developing a new product with a new brand instead of lobotomizing their own product.

It seems to have over and over where a product and brand that makes decent profit is utterly destroyed in an attempt to acquire a new market.
Exactly. Crabs in the pot. "How dare you suggest lifting everyone up. Only I should be lifted up!" A lot of HN thinks they are Captains Of Industry who would somehow make less money in a union. The rest point to the least-pleasant union they can think of and declare "They are all necessarily like that one."
capital g gamers is just a marketing term to try to convince people to buy RGB bling and overpriced accessories. Again, the only thing they all share in common is that they play games, which are entirely mainstream at this point.
For decades now bilionares have bought companies, improved numbers in the short term, and sold them for a profit
Last time I ran it, Lakka (a Linux disto for Retroach emulation appliances) booted in 5s or less on an RPi2, to a usable graphical menu, complete with particle effects or whatever if you have that stuff enabled.
Not to get all music snob (because I’m not), but aren’t there already several options for artists to connect directly with music lovers? Isn’t this basically the indie music scene?

Most consumers of music don’t care enough to seek it out, and there just isn’t (?) big money in indie music. I grew up in the age of the CD transition, and CDs were how I bought my first music. It was touted as cheaper (but got more expensive) and the quality of the music went down (1-2 good songs on an album).

Digital initially changed that and gave some power to consumers. I could spend $2 on the 2 good songs. Now I can spend $10/month (less than purchasing 1 album) and have unlimited music.

Basically, the enshittification of the music industry, to the point where I, an average music consumer, don’t really care.
I hope home solar turns into a normal trade. Then it will be done by regular contractors. No different than getting new roof or water heater installed.

I also think there is a place for solar company that ignores the hard sale and leases. Even better if they focus on efficiency and getting the installation price down. Franchised or training companies would also work.

As prices drop, it becomes possible to pay immediately. Or get a small loan. I wish they would ban solar leases.
How the hell does the Seek by iNaturalist app work so well and also be small/performant enough to the job completely offline on a phone? You should really try it out for IDing animals and plants if you haven't, it's like a real life pokedex. Have they released any information (e.g. a whitepaper?) about how the model works or how it was trained? The ability to classify things incrementally and phylogenetically makes it helpful to narrow down your own search even when it doesn't know the exact species. I've been surprised by it even IDing the insects that made specific galls on random leaves or plants.
https://archive.is/gxYeN
For a 150 kWh battery, 10 minute charge to go from 10% to 80% SoC means charging at 600 kW or so. It would be pretty insane.
That claim seems incredibly unfair.

That is just regular corporate espionage. The reverse is possible as well.

What next? Governments are not allowed to police corpY because rival corpZ will violate the laws that corpY follows; thereby stealing marketshare?
I don't think "article of faith" is the right phrase. For every possible hypothesis, we attach a prior probability and then we update those probabilities when new evidence comes in. If accepting a given hypothesis would require changing a lot of other hypotheses that we have high confidence in, then we should attach a low prior probability to it. I don't have to take it on faith that a low probability hypothesis is false; the default position is to assume that it is false until compelling evidence to the contrary appears.

For example, I can hypothesize that a fifth fundamental force is needed to explain consciousness, but then I need to modify the standard model of particle physics to account for new interactions. I have a high confidence that the standard model is correct in the domains relevant to the evolution of life on Earth, namely chemistry and biology. So my default assumption is that we don't need to introduce new laws of physics to explain consciousness.

>Is a (functional) brain both necessary and sufficient for consciousness to "emerge"?

I think you misread my post as implying that a brain is required for consciousness. Our baseline for talking about consciousness is consciousness in humans, and all of the medical evidence suggests that human consciousness is associated with brain activity. But I see no reason to believe that something made out of silicon or other non-organic materials couldn't be conscious if it implemented the same kind of processes that we find in the brain.
You might be interested in Wright's lecture/one-man-show My Trip to Al-Qaeda, where he talks about his research for the book The Looming Tower, going overseas to meet Al Qaeda members and their relatives.

It's available for free several places online, e.g. https://tubitv.com/movies/312561/my-trip-to-al-qaeda

The second part of the book, which was about the FBI's pursuit of Al Qaeda, was turned into a dramatized series on Hulu. It's very much from the FBI's point of view. One of the main "characters" in the series is Ali Soufan, played by an actor. The real Ali Soufan was one of the producers.
Isn't a constant power supply a requirement of a border router?
> You can give out welfare without id or means testing: just require people to hang out in a specific place, and give them eg five dollars each hour.

You can do this, but is that supposed to be less burdensome than requiring ID?

> Yes, though instead of saying that UBI doesn't require means testing, I would say that a UBI folds the means testing of the tax system and the welfare system into one, and then decides on the net payment (constant UBI - taxes) that you get.

That's fine from a theoretical perspective, but the practical point is that it doesn't require separate means testing paperwork for the transfer payment.

> At least that point of view makes sense for something like personal income taxes. If most of your tax take comes from VAT or land value taxes, this framing is less useful.

Only in the sense that it would remove the means testing whatsoever.

If you look at the effective rate curve of a flat tax - UBI, it's quite progressive and can be made arbitrarily so by adjusting the tax rate and the amount of the UBI. And this is in fact the preferred way to do it, because phase outs for existing benefits programs are often higher than tax rates paid in higher tax brackets, especially when combined with a lower but still non-zero tax rate at low to middle income levels.

Switching to a flat combined tax-and-phase-out rate would be no less and possibly more progressive than the existing system, while also being vastly simpler and require no means testing paperwork or privacy-invasive income tracking of any kind.
So, it looks like Apple will be taking the console path to gaming, instead of the PC way.
Anecdotal, but I've gotten better results from iNaturalist than from the built in camera search on my phone, especially for insects.
I've been using git for I guess 15 years, on a variety of server platforms (github, atlassian, MS devops, plain ssh) and branching models, with teams of various sizes, and I've never had a repo "break". Branching and merging is what git is amazing at.

The worse thing I've had happen is that someone was lazy when merging and just did a "take mine" on 100s of files, thinking that they'd do a "proper" merge later. Of course git doesn't work like that and their lazy merge had to unwound very carefully.
It makes a horrible sound in the videos, but it's not obvious to me what you mean by "motorized wheel".

None of the mechanism is visible at all, certainly no wheel, motorized or not. How does a motorized wheel accomplish this?
Correct. The enumerable configurations of expressible shades of meaning are pretty sparse, and don't line up well between languages.
> individuals have the lawful right to defend themselves up to and including using lethal force

But not to run into a room to dispense it. If the armed guard happens to be under threat, yes, they can shoot to kill. But if someone starts shooting inside while they’re at the door, their legal rights are typically restricted to apprehension.
I find articles like this really vexing because this isn't a general-purpose CPU, it's just a chip meant to run the software that Apple allows on the App Store. Most of the software I use day-to-day can't run on it by design.

It's kind of depressing that the most advanced mobile CPU technology (that can only be fabbed by a single company in a far-away country) is monopolized by a company that heavily restricts the software you can run on it, and will never sell it to me with documentation and let me plug it onto my own motherboard--which is ironically how Apple first started, by buying and making full use of the MOS 6502. But the days of the garage hacker getting their hands on cutting-edge parts are long gone.
Making a programming language prone to bugs/frustrating to work with makes one possibly a stochastic serial killer
Could you expand on that?

Why does GHz matter? Performance should be measured as a black box, with the metric being the time it takes to accomplishing some task.
Title misleading. Journo's headline itself misleads from the contents, and it remains to be seen when things are returned, but the intent to do so is stated.
Mildly. Some classes had MacBook airs, which were a bit more durable to the sorts of abuse that would happen, but they costed 3x as much, and didn’t take 3x the punishment. I can’t imagine a solution beyond ‘give them the cheapest thing possible’ which happens to still be chromebooks.
After further research, can Gogh might have used paints with ingredients that brown over time. What a pity!
typically a school chromebook will break in 3-4 years though
if thats all it is, then it seems a simple solution... split the product up into two. One for mobile game development and the other for PC/Console game development.

Charge them separately at different schemes best tailored for those markets.
So now we are talking about profit margins being bad?

We have the internet now, with plenty of other vendors willing to sell eyeglass frames and lenses for cheaper.
That's why Nuvia/Oryon is coming.
> Okay, and?

You appear to be violently agreeing with me that there is a point to giving kids computers to use gdocs.
Change your DNS - Cloudflare and archive.today do not play nice - (think, David vs Goliath) Search;

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What is the deception?
The hydrogen is stored as compressed gas. No doubt about it.

The physics:
https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/docs/documents/1419/Hydro...

Some photos:
https://www.thedrive.com/news/37872/now-with-three-hydrogen-...
I'm a huge fan of the Seek app. It does a much better job than the attempts Apple makes at IDing plants and animals in photos I've taken.

I'm sure it's an issue of the image not having enough data, but Apple seems to always try and pin down a species or two whereas Seek seems to only tell me what it knows.
Its cool, but it seems kind of obvious how it would work. Uou can tell the ball is speeding up at the wrong times. It'd be cooler if they could make the motion look more natural.
I mean instead of killing entire people, what if you kill a small fraction of thousands of people?
Exponential growth is also expected within new businesses within an established corporation. Similar to software's margins and distribution advantage, an existing corporation can often pursue new businesses with an existing infrastructure that approaches minimal additional expense beyond human salaries. The reference to "hurdle rate" is an often used term by corporate MBAs evaluating the worth of a new line of business.
Your next Mac Book Pro will be a sleeve for an iPad Pro, which, in turn, will be a sleeve for an iPhone Pro. Turducken computing. ;)
As far as I’ve gathered, race to idle has definitely been a focal point for Apple when it comes to power management along with coalescence of CPU and antenna wakeups — the system batches up work, powers up components, burns through the work as quickly as possible, and then returns components to idle/sleep.

This is also why on iOS, apps that become known for abusing or mismanaging background processing are penalized and have their background processes run less often. Even just a couple of processes waffling around instead of completing their tasks and quitting can keep the system from idling and have a big negative impact.
On any recent PC, I find that more than half the time booting Linux to a GUI is in POST.

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And 5 seconds for DHCP if you are using dhcp
UA = User Acquisition, so other app/mobile game publishers will run ads through a UA platform in the hopes of attracting new users.
ChatGPT Is Becoming Increasingly Impressive
I know you exist. I'm actually able to find literally dozens of people like you, every month.

OTOH, for everyone of you (users willing to pay $1 for a tool that'll solve a problem they have every once in a while), I'm able to find 1000 that'll just install the ad supported app, use it that one time and forget about it (until the next time they need it).

Trust me: the barrier to get even $1 from a user for an app the majority uses once a week tops for a couple of minutes, is immense, especially if they can run it for free, in exchange for the annoyance of a single banner ad, that you can dismiss (and go full screen) after 30s, if you do use it longer than that.

But the free version must exist, for discoverablity if nothing else, and experience shows that degrading it to drive sales only jeopardizes total revenue. So ads it is.
Cool! I'll definitely be following your progress with interest :)

Hopefully constructive feedback: I would put that residential thing further down on your list. I think that stuff tends to be too complicated unless / until you can aggregate a lot of loads (eg. I think Tesla only recently recently started doing this stuff residentially. Probably awhile before you reach their scale...)
Did you get the number from GV, or port into GV from a standard carrier?

If the former, then you're the first one I've come across who's able to do so. Facebook/Google/Twitter/Microsoft etc. all block VOIP numbers. The providers you use probably aren't hit with enough malicious activity for them to care about it.
Looks fun. After starting a conversation I got "disallowed user agent" from google. I opened your project in an unofficial HN app (Harmonic). You might want to address that.
It’s depressing right now maybe, but at least it probably means we’ll have this level of performance inexpensively in some years. The tech is still getting better quickly.
> absolute pinnacle of music commercialisation

I'm a fan (her latest work with Bon Iver and the National is great) but yes, there's no one else in the world exploiting the music industry right now quite like Taylor
To add, PA semi was a Power ISA shop. After apple aquired them they simply ported it — modern computers are branch prediction machines and the ISA doesn't matter as long is it has the basic load/store add ect.
What? No, you'd be worried about getting a programming language inventor for your serial killing startup, right?
Where Did All the Laid Off Tech Workers End Up?
https://archive.is/MxnQA
> Assuming there is a buyer waiting to take ARM private seems pretty unlikely.

The whole premise of this comment thread is that ARM made more by selling 10% of its stock on a public market than they would have by selling 100% of it to Nvidia. In other words: there already was a buyer who wanted to take ARM private. So how does it seem unreasonable to assume one would exist, when we already know that one did?
They'll be available on all Apple Silicon devices including Macs, as the processors are so similar.
That's a pretty big claim. Git solved real problems at the time in a novel and extremely useful way. Coming from SVN (or god forbid VSS), the power and flexibility of git more than made up for its difficulty to grasp.

Why it "won" over alternatives with cleaner UX (eg Hg) is a different question, and I think has a lot to do with github.
Just guessing, but maybe there's some magnets attached to the wheel and they accelerate the ball as it gets near the bottom.
Teachers were building lesson plans around everything being on the laptop, and that all students would have one available. A student couldn’t just be restricted to not taking laptops home, because that means that student either can’t do their homework, or has to do their homework afterschool, which would require parent involvement.

The sorts of kids with laptop issues were not the children with high parent involvement.