skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The competitive market has multiple goals - lower prices for consumers is only one of them.

Big companies compete in the market by offering the same quality for a lower price. That's good, no problem with them doing that.

The problem is when the big companies crush nascent competitors by using their advantages in the market and not by being better quality or more consistent. That's bad; it stifles innovation and creates market concentration, resulting in monopolies and allowing large companies to charge supracompetitive prices.
You can preprogram that sort of stuff in, but if you set alarms to irregular times, you really want the integration rather than having to manually readjust daily.

(I have a Lifx Day and Dusk in the bedroom lamp, not a Hue.)
the SHED_LOAD thing offered by ns1 looks cool. anyone have experience with it? https://help.ns1.com/hc/en-us/articles/360020683413-Configur.... seems like something juicy missing from route53. ns1 even has an integration with cloudwatch (not to say cloudwatch is great) as a source for the load stats.

it seems obvious at the level of like an individual load balancer to consider the load of the nodes backing an upstream when it decides which one to send reqs to. i didn't think of lifting that to the record that points to the load balancers.

i'm trying to think how you'd do it with route53. maybe with health checks that take load into account? i don't think you'd get the low and high watermarks like in ns1s thing. maybe a weighted record with something wired up to to tweak weights based on load? sounds just annoying enough to get right and working safely that if route53 implemented it well, people would pay for it...
MSM wants to pretend that nobody realizes their purpose is to push disinformation to everyone, all the time. So they clutch their pearls when "the other side" does it. Sorry, MSM, your credibility is in the toilet. You're all pushing disinformation, all the time. You get no points for calling the other side out on it.
I can certainly see the other side of this argument though, it feels very unfair to saddle a third party with the responsibility to support a child they had no part in making.
Agree that the Kasa app is great, but the QC on their hardware is lacking. I bought a four pack, and two of them just refuse to stay connected to my Unifi 6 Pro access points. After a day or two they drop connection and won't reconnect until you unplug/replug them. Timers, etc all stop working and they get stuck in whatever state they were in - even the button on the plug doesn't work.

Zigbee/Z-Wave plugs have been rock solid reliable.
The latter isn't the dystopia you seem to think it is.

We have plenty of existing rules that are fine for enforcing access to markets.

There are tons of people who want to make great products and tons of people who want to buy them and tons of people who want to make them discoverable.

The issue is that large lawbreaking organizations are actively inhibiting that.

Consumers are good at avoiding consumer hostile vendors when they are actually given choices and opportunities to do so.
> The authors, on the other hand, are claiming to be authoritative and thus the burden of evidence on their claims is far far far higher.

From what I read the authors are only claiming that some Google n-grams fail the common sense test and that the data shouldn't be considered rigorous.

"said" is in the top 300 most frequent English words, according to Wiktionary. For its usage to halve in 80 years then double again in 20 would represent a profound shift in English that would certainly be known to linguists.

Or, as with "toast", one could simply doubt the veracity of the data.
Adopting is no big deal. Being cuckolded is generally considered one of the biggest betrayals in the human experience. It's incredibly relevant to know if your spouse is faithful to you!
If the state decides that it is better for a child, of no relation to you, to be taken out of foster care and you are now their legal guardian: you would be happy with this turn of events? You have a job presumably, surely that would be better than foster care or an orphanage.
> A system that does not incarcerate anyone for any reason would be much preferable

surely you don't actually believe that? I don't think the result of this is just 0 false positives. The result of that is a lot more crime, and a lot more injustice.
Biomolecular analysis of early Viking Age hair combs from Hedeby
So then what’s the point of conducting this experiment when we already know the expected behaviour?

My point is, most folks think the expected behaviour was the unexpected behaviour. I think it’s the other way around.
You really, truly, cannot close all the holes necessary to prevent fingerprinting while still providing a useful general purpose OS.

You especially cannot achieve this while providing third parties access to what has traditionally been vendor-only API on mobile devices; e.g. to support third-party app stores.

This simply is not solvable through technical means. It must be solved through policy and law.
You have a hard time sympathizing?

Say what you will about their means of getting it, but this person did 100% of the leg work of getting that sale. That sale doesn't exists without them.

And Amazon gets the MAJORITY of the revenue cut for that?

I sympathize with the idea that China should get more of that, but make no mistake: Amazon's logistics and warehousing were not an option here. They were the cost of doing business. And Amazon took more for that service than this person who actually made that market happen.
> doesn’t have an “order by” clause

Does that mean it doesn't have any order or that whoever writes the query doesn't care about order?

Also we are arguing over whether pg suffices as a queue implementation, and you use itself as an example?
Amazing! Nice work.
I'm building a major open source stack on top of NVidia because of how bad my experience with AMD was.

- I bought a ROCm-supported card. Said so on the box. Paid out-of-pocket. An NVidia vendor had sent me a free card, for comparison.

- It never worked well, and a bit more than month after I bought it, AMD dropped support. Money down the drain.

- AMD itself was a black hole for any sort of contact or support.

I'm pretty sure this was a legal violation, as the card wasn't fit for the advertised purpose, but no one took responsibility, and small claims isn't worth it.

I'm very supportive of open, but there's enough wrong at AMD that I'm not hitching myself to that wagon, probably ever.
Automate (But Automate Last)
It’s much simpler than that. Home screen shortcuts open in the default browser on iOS regardless of where you created the shortcuts from. So they just didn’t have Edge set as default
Glass hearted is a Chinese insult meaning you are weak minded and/or easily offended.

Pinkie is a term used to describe young pro-China online posters.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Pink
Interesting article, wasn't familiar with the history of Spaniards bringing the animals over to the americas. I grew up eating lamb on special occasions and it makes more sense as my grandma is from Madrid.
Have always found lamb to be "gamey" and have raised sheep as well which were particularly so. I would previously prefer to eat goat whenever possible but don't have any good reason for it - it does have a more neutral flavor.

I think many Americans are probably robbed of food breadth and just default to "boneless skinless".
Tools for Conviviality
They routinely recommend pro inflammatory foods like peanut butter. It's an inflammatory condition.

They recommend sugary foods. It's a condition that puts one at high risk of diabetes.

They recommend ice cream as a high fat, high calorie food. It's a condition that predisposes people to having trouble tolerating milk and milk products, especially from cows.
Will they protect users from Microsoft?
The same solutions that prevents people from going to "scamwebsite.com" to steal their credit card information and ask for social security numbers. That's already an issue with a web browser like Safari is it not?

The same solutions we use for kids: parental controls that do not allow them to install new apps or give permissions like location permissions to apps. iOS already supports this.
Oh. And I thought that reddit outrage over the video of a father throwing his son in the air was just your standard modern hyperprotectiveness. Actually, the father risked lawsuit as it stands. The lack of common sense (and knowledge of physics) is off-putting.
Yes, that's a pretty small number. I would assume that Duckdb will have >130 releases in the future.
>If the price stays low and never goes to high monopoly prices then it is a good thing.

Not necessarily, but it goes a long way to balancing out the negative consequences. The problem, though, is they've never had prices stay low. Eventually, prices go up. So far, Amazon does this through loss-leaders; products that have low prices allowing them to capture a market and charge high prices for other products as a monopoly.

>If a company becomes a "monopoly" by being cheap, and staying cheap, thats just competition by definition.

If that was all they were doing it would be legal.
It's complete bs that Microsoft gets anti monopoly lawsuit just for having IE as default browser, but Apple can just force everyone to only be able to install software thru their own app store.
Yes. Anyone who disagrees must be engaged in nitpicking, PR tactics, and astroturfing. This all seems very rational. Lina, is that you?
> An app cannot normally register daemons or agent (or even an XPC service). Installing is already limited to FrontBoard standard installation mechanism. All that will remain in a possible open iOS future.

So Apple won’t comply with the EU law then?
Mutton is adult sheep, older than hogget which is older than lamb.

Goat is goat.
> And that's not even getting into the "waaa?" from `du -hs /nix` although I am open to that being a misleading number due to hardlinks and other trickery that du may not correctly surface

Are you running garbage collection? It gets out of hand if you keep all versions, but you don't need to do that
That's why I posted this. TESCREAL as a standalone concept without people raging for or against.
Big business sells stuff to consumers. They collect consumption tax from consumers. That consumption tax gets sent to the gov't. This is the same as its always been.

Big business buys stuff from other businesses. When buying things, they are paying 10% in consumption tax.

With this change, the consumption tax they pay to other businesses can be deducted from the consumption tax they send to the gov't from their sales to consumers (making consumption tax be a value added tax, and avoiding deeper value chains from being "consumption taxed" over and and over and over again).

In order to support this, invoices have extra details (notably a tax number), to avoid VAT fraud.

However, businesses also sometimes bought things from freelancers and the like, who mostly did not charge consumption tax. A freelancer with an existing business relation might send a 100k JPY invoice to a business, and the business pays it.

But with this change, the business might say "hey, you're supposed to charge consumption tax right?" And would pressure a freelancer to charge 100k JPY (tax inclusive), effectively reducing the amount the freelancer get (since the consumption tax would need to be sent), _but also reducing the cost to the business_ since the 10% of paid tax reduces the amount of collected tax sent to the government, and they only really are paying like 91k JPY.

Now really really, freelancers should be like "We are going to charge consumption tax so are increasing the tax inclusive amount by 10%. Please deduct things correctly" to businesses. B2B interactions are already basically marketed at tax exclusive rates. And hey, the business can deduct.

But freelancers are bad at negotiating, and "please pay me more" is an argument that many freelancers are bad at doing this. On the business side, many businesses use freelancers specifically for cynical reasons and are very comfortable pushing for freelancers to offer to take the tax hit.

I think it's important that in this model, the amount of consumption tax given to the gov't doesn't actually increase. The amount of consumption tax collected by the freelancer is deducted by the business from its collections. This is totally advantageous to "real businesses".

I don't want to comment too much on the ethical/moral nature of it, because I'm fortunate enough to be exempt from this stuff for "clients being abroad" reasons. But it's a bit of a mess.

EDIT: also, if you register into the tax system you gotta do a lot of paperwork. People not in the consumption tax system were basically just having to report their income on a single line, and paying income tax. There's a lot of good software to track this stuff, but taxes in Japan for a freelancer was basically easy enough to entirely do on paper by just adding up invoices and dividing, up until now.
> What happens to the mutton-aged sheep here?

I thought that was a good question that unfortunately the article didn't appear to answer. Similarly to how leather is essentially a byproduct of the beef industry, I'd expect that at least the reverse would be true with sheep, that mutton would be a byproduct of the wool industry. So what happens with older sheep once their shearing days are over?
Am I missing something? Isn’t the whole point of HomeKit that you don’t need a 3rd party app? I have some cameras and they work like that, scanned the QR code and Apple does the job never downloaded the manufacturer’s app. Is it different with Philips Hue?
This reminds me of some of the stuff I would write in my early 20’s, well after midnight. The difference being that I read it the next morning and hit delete.
I think you (as is very common) vastly overestimate the effect of the threat of incarceration on crime.
+1 for the HUZBZB-1. I waxed more poetically about my setup already[1], but I've had that little guy for over 4 years, it was plug-and-play on day 1, and I've never had a single issue with a Zigbee or Z-Wave device. (Wi-Fi? don't even get me started...)

And yeah, it'll be another year or two before Matter/Threads really starts picking up steam. I'll just pick up a new dongle when there's 10 of 'em in that same timeframe.

(Disclaimer: my house is 800 sqft and I don't share any walls with neighbors. Zigbee is SUPPOSED to be mesh and Just Work assuming you have enough devices, but I can't speak from experience on that front.)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37667266
Every regulation the EU puts on Apple delights me.
But it's alphabetical, if you see Ignorant Ibex and Jaundiced Jackalope, you know that (after singing the alphabet song to yourself quietly) that II came before JJ.
I completely agree. I wasted a lot of time just assuming that ROCm would work on Radeon, just like it does for CUDA.
My brain keeps thinking the axes are in decibels than plain logarithms. I think I have never seen a graph with a log axis compressed so hard that the major tick interval is over 1.
Ask HN: Will it be a viable business model to offer llama.cpp as a service?
Wrapped in a nicer UI for b2b SaaS model.
The AltStore apps I've installed are pretty reliable
What a fluffy statement withstanding like a thin paper tower.
It's telling that this anti-automation and anti-AI movement is finally reaching its crescendo now that creative and white collar jobs are under threat. These same people writing books about the evils of AI sat back over the last few decades as countless factory jobs, farm jobs, retail jobs and even "lower class" intellectual jobs (like bookkeepers, travel agents and telephone operators) were automated away. "It's just how human progress works." "Think about the printing press/water mill" etc etc. Well the exact same argument applies now.
Notice that I did not specify the number of crew members, just the number of labor hours.
I scanned the updates hoping for this exact same thing, but alas did not find it there. I am not comfortable disabling SIP to fix this issue personally.
These models are pretty much always extrapolating [0]

Whether the extrapolation is crude/low-rank or astute/high-rank is a question of memorization vs generalization. That gets into the question of whether or not the model is over-fitted or under-fitted. There are certain heuristics borrowed from high dimensional statistical physics that can be used to guess how good the test performance of a model will be on a typical task without even knowing what the test data is [1].

Originality for me means finding better answers to sub-tasks, and then combining those answers together in a better way. This is the nirvana of cross-entropy minimization - the emergence of capability results from gaining the ability to amass a wider range of skills, improving upon them, and percolating those improvements towards multiplying the leverage of other skills.

How long such a thing can keep improving with current tech, who knows, but you should really think critically about whether that sounds just like interpolation through the corpus.

[0] Learning in High Dimension Always Amounts to Extrapolation - https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.09485

[1] https://github.com/CalculatedContent/WeightWatcher
Does Philips the main corporation still own Phillips hue? I thought they sold off the brand or at least the rights to the brand?
I was in a private discussion group during the pandemic that "did their own research"

First off, this was genuinely valuable during the first few months. Gigantic medical institutions were moving at a glacial pace and were making proclamations literally months behind the state of the research. In order to conserve masks, propaganda was put out that masks were only effective if you were a medical professional, and the most common way I saw this rationalised was that the general public was simply too stupid to wear a mask in a sanitary way. So I proceeded to wear a mask in a sanitary way. Then after a few months mask stocks started to pile up so propagandists THEN pronounced that more science was conducted and masks were actually effective for everybody!

That positive outcome aside, what other people saw was that the younger people got, the lower the risks of COVID, and the higher the risks of getting vaccinated. In fact, it seemed from the numbers (This is for the earlier strains of COVID), that for certain populations (young people who lived like hermits, in other words, hacker news readers) it could be on a selfish individual basis, be irrational to get the COVID vaccine. The risk from myocarditis could actually outweigh the risk of COVID itself. It was however, always in the collective interest for as many people to get vaccinated as possible, to reduce the transmission of COVID, and reduce the consequent strain on medical resources and the direct/indirect deaths this caused. Public health institutions did not get into this nuance, because it wasn't in the collective interest, so they just told everybody the vaccine was good for you. I proceeded to get vaccinated, and the main person I held discussions with did not, after both drawing the exact same scientific conclusion. Not every anti-vaccer was stupid, some of them were just massive civil libertarians.

What I saw from people who DIDN'T do their own research is that they were UNIFORMLY misinformed because they tended to either believe institutions who would lie to them whenever it served their purposes (2 weeks to flatten the curve!), or believed whatever podcaster told them about Ivermectin.
Oops Google Search caught publicly indexing users’ conversations with Bard AI
Easier to keep in sync in the physical and virtual world, plus you don't lose connection if you turn off the switch like a smart bulb.
Check out https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/export-data-big... - you can configure GCP to spit out pricing data to bigquery, to be queried however you like.

(I don't think it produces a volume of data that escapes the free tier, but I'd have to check)
I am always shocked when I read posts about causality in ML and see no mentions of Granger Causality.
50k years ago and ceramics?

If these are from the same period of time, wouldn't that predate all known earthenware ceramics? I'm not an expert at all so idk.
I could suggest you two variants of solutions.

First, you could buy few old books with algorithms, where good terms on use IP and just implement them.
Usually, this mean, new patents could not prohibit usage of IP which is published before patent appear.

Second, you could join some technology consortium, like OpenGL, or Vulkan, or W3C, or may be even GNU/Posix, and use only technologies, which this consortium linked to, usually membership includes rights to use their IP, and they defend their members from patents issues.
This is more expensive than old book, but may include more modern algorithms.

Using any of these variants, you will early know, what you near guaranteed to use, and will have predictable future.
> by using their advantages in the market and not by being better quality or more consistent

But they have a lower price.

That's competition working as intended.

Yes, the lower price thing should win out against the more expensive product.

> to charge supracompetitive prices.

We aren't seeing too high prices.

We are seeing low prices and then competitors that suck complaining about the fact that they suck in comparison to the more competitive company.
I’ve had great experience with the IKEA stuff. I even still have the old Tradfri hub. I haven’t really had any make problems with it, despite the reputation it has received.

I have it connected to Homekit via an Apple TV.

My main complaint is how big their outlets are.
Tell HN: Modern Is Not Better
Lately, I've been thinking about the term "modern" in the tech industry. It's a word that often appears in software projects as a badge of honor, but what does it really mean, and is it always a good thing?

When a project proudly declares itself as "modern," it implies that it's up-to-date and built with the latest technologies. But does that automatically make it better? Let's consider the example of TeX, a typesetting system created by Donald Knuth in 1979. Despite its age, TeX is still considered a robust and dependable tool for document formatting. Would anyone suggest replacing TeX with a "modern" alternative simply because it's newer?

My point is that "modern" can sometimes be a vague and overused term. Instead of relying on this label, it's more informative to understand what specific technologies, practices, or improvements a project brings to the table. Saying "we've adopted Rust for better memory safety" or "we've transitioned from telnet to web sockets for enhanced performance" provides a clearer picture of what makes a project stand out.

So, the next time you encounter the term "modern" in tech, take a moment to dig deeper and understand what it really means in that context. Newer doesn't always mean better, and the true value of a project lies in its specific innovations and improvements.
I feel like everything I have that supports HomeKit requires the manufacturer's app installed so that HomeKit can interface with the accessory through the app. Which always felt like it defeated the purpose to me.
He wasn't the only one.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

-- John Adams
If ‘industry’ is selling cheap tat by invading privacy then anything bad for that is good for society.
Microsoft wants small nuclear reactors to power its AI and cloud services
IoT is a giant enshittification. Sadly personal transportation, ie cars, are now IoT.
> this person did 100% of the leg work of getting that sale. That sale doesn't exists without them.

I don't really see it that way. The sale wouldn't exist without anyone in the pipeline (Amazon, manufacturer in China, shipping merchant, etc.)