skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, some people downvoted this, so let me explain:

Overcharging: Apple tends to replace whole assemblies rather than individual parts, and don't do board-level repairs or anything. Apple staff are generally just following a procedure and aren't allowed to/aren't trained to solve problems in the best way. Here's an example of them charging for a whole motherboard replacement when the issue was a bent pin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2_SZ4tfLns

Some people might be OK with this, but not everyone; competition is important!

About the self/independent repair program: The self repair program allows you to order one part at a time and you have to have the device to do it. Realistically, almost no one will do it themselves, and will use a repair shop. The program is impractical for repair shops, because they can't stock parts in advance. The other option is the independent repair program, which effectively turns you into a shipping centre for Apple; it bars you from doing anything but the most basic repairs without sending it to sending things off to Apple and they will do random inspections on your store and fine you if you're actually offering good service like board level repair or using cheaper aftermarket parts. So it's likely that both are mostly just PR stunts to get ahead of regulation while also not making a significant change to their business
If you consider the processes of the mind to be acausal, that also removes the possibility of rational argument.

It's possible that I'm a Boltzmann brain with nonsensical memories about environmental stimuli that mislead me about what reality is, but it's tedious to prepend every statement about reality with "the conception of reality that my state at time t-1 and my environment have lead me to believe is the most likely candidate for reality."

That doesn't seem to be a particularly useful objection to the philosophy that GP espoused, instead, you have to assume his same priors - materialist, agnostic w.r.t. determinism, and some basic assumptions about senses and a shared reality.
Can you please expand on this? It wasn't my understanding at all.

A decade ago SIP didn't exist at all. I thought disabling SIP just put us back to how things were in Yosemite. What changed?
Personally, I'm a huge fan of Pocketcast. It's fast, stable and has a nice balance of simple interface and powerful features.
In my view, tracking has a necessary place - and does not mean the education system is broken.
same! love it
My bad, missed the first part.
That's an insane amount of money. I can't read the article, it would be very interesting to see the rental costs they backed out of and how much they saved.
But Google is claiming such thing by calling it "trends", which the dictionary defines as "a general direction in which something is developing or changing.", if they didn't want to create such misunderstandings they would just call it "word frequency on Google books" so the biases of the data would be a lot more clear.
I stayed in something very similar for a week at a Tokyo hostel. Keeping it tidy was hard. My dirty clothes would just slowly accumulate around the bed. Sleeping was fine; I just used earplugs to get the sound of anyone snoring nearby down to an ignorable level. It was a great social experience, though. Not having comfortable private quarters basically forced me and everyone else into the communal food area. Ended up having some great nights exploring Tokyo with the people I met there. I am well aware that everything I have described is a very typical hostel experience and that is the point: for 20-somethings in SF I could see these pods being a pretty great and memorable hostel-like experience.
Actually yes, it sounded good at first but it makes optimisation and determinism harder for the engines so it's probably better not to have it
You cannot point to a neurotransmitter or neuron or synapse and say "that's a thought." Thoughts are not material. You might say they are not real. Even if you can point to a group of neurons and processes in the brain and associate it with a particular thought, the thought itself is not real. The neurons and their behaviors are.
Inasmuch as thoughts have a one-to-one coupling with the physical processes in the brain, then we are saying the same thing.

But qualia (the more accurate/descriptive term for what we are discussing) are inherently subjective and non-physical by definition. Both of us can observe an ocean wave using many different methods (direct observation with light, their effect on a buoy, their impact with the shore, etc). However we can never both observe your qualia. I have no way to determine that your perception of "red" and mine are equivalent. There is no way you can explain vision to a blind person; yet a blind person can have their own understanding of an ocean wave.
There's a similar problem with Netflix. They are so cancel-happy with shows if the numbers aren't hit worthy, that it caused people to avoid new Netflix shows (why invest in something that'll probably get cancelled), causing a negative feedback loop.
And yet, despite mounting evidence, people are still opposing even basic measures of hygiene in way too many schools. Air filters, if they are even present, are often just plugged out. Windows can't be opened at all. Way too few loos for way too many students, most of them vandalized to hell, no soap dispensers to be seen.

On top of that come all the parents who send their kid to school despite clearly being sick.
The number of 'system' features for an OS update is small. The most interesting one to me is the AirPods variable noise cancellation which is more along the lines of hardware accessory support. There's something not quite right when an OS update mainly updates web browser, apps, widgets, etc.

Is there another set of notes that has all the underlying API changes supported that 3rd parties can use?
Attempting to present the inability to scale out as a sort of advantage sounds strange to me. The problem with duckdb is that it does not work as a database server. Occasional data analysis may be more or less ok, but you don't need duckdb for that - you can use proven, boring open-source technologies, such as ClickHouse.
That and a massive amount of experience already out there on how to optimize for that particular architecture. NVidia has done well for itself on the back of four sequential very good bets coupled with dedication unmatched by any other vendor, both on the hardware and on the software side. It also was one of the few times that I didn't care if I ran the vendor supplied closed source stuff because it seemed to work just fine and I never had the feeling they would suddenly drop support for my platform.
Virtual Reality – Future Trends
> Same goes for tech interviews: people learn algorithms and keywords and problems by heart just for the interview. Doesn't mean they know how to write good software, just that they learnt those things by heart.

For actually hard questions, I think this happens a lot less than is claimed.

I would be astonished if someone without physics knowledge could 'learn by heart' and get anywhere close to a passing score on one of my college physics tests.

Maybe I'm just rabidly pro-test, but I think a lot of the anti-test sentiment comes from... people having negative experiences with testing in their own lives, than an actual indictment on its utility. The obvious explanation for why people hate leetcode is because it gates them from $200k+ jobs, not because of some high-minded moral qualms with tests.
That's probably a good thing for proponents of remote work, since it means that they bit a bullet instead of forcing people to return I guess.

I wonder if things keep going that way, how will downtowns evolve and also how will humans, spending even more and more time in less social environments.

ps https://archive.ph/L3rAS
Plex Amp might be an alternative to consider
I read Cory Doctorow's new book, and I like his ideas in the abstract. I think he overestimates the amount that the tech companies use the law to defend themselves, though.

There’s no technical reason you couldn’t use scrapers and bots, to pull in the posts from the people you follow and reply to them without really being a Twitter user. And the thing that stops us from doing that is that there are laws that allow Twitter to come after you and destroy you if you did.

There are many scrapers for services like Facebook. Most of them don't pay attention to the law. Facebook fights these by funding "site integrity" teams that intentionally break the compatibility for scraping tools.

The key difference here is between goods and services. When someone sells a physical good, like an IBM PC in the 1980's, they can't stop you from reverse engineering it. If you build something that works with it, the manufacturer doesn't have any options any more. The devices are "out in the wild".

For a service, like Facebook, the technical arms races work differently. If someone creates a popular extension that, for example, removes ads from your Facebook feed, a team of Facebook engineers will start working on breaking that extension. You can fix it again, they can break it again, this can just keep happening. As long as Facebook can spend more money to break your service than you can to fix it, your product will never really work smoothly.

This isn't to say that regulation is doomed. For example, requiring iPhones to use USB-C seems like it has clearly succeeded. The law to make phone numbers portable also seems to have succeeded. I just think that it will not work to simply "reset the law to neutral" like Doctorow imagines. If we want services like Facebook and Twitter to be open and interoperate, we need to have specific legal requirements.

For example, should an application be allowed to export your contacts' birthdays from a social media service? Their phone numbers? Should an application be allowed to export your entire social media posting history?

These aren't obvious questions to me - openness and privacy are often in conflict.
I'm getting burned by this. Arg.

Is there a podcast app that has something like sponsorblock?
Lucky you! My ten year old has zero interest in watching the movies I grew up with in the 80s with me. When I had a kid, I started building up this fantasy that one day we'd sit down and go through the movie vault and watch all the classics together, but we tried and she's just not into it. It's a combination of the (to her) immense runtime of a typical movie and the slower pacing of media from decades ago. She got through about 15 minutes of Star Wars and was obviously bored.

I don't force her. She knows the offer is always on the table. "Kids these days!"
> Does it have registries and the ecosystem of OCI containers

Not at all. If you want all that, docker/podman is better.

But if ultimate simplicity is your goal, it's worth looking into. They are -very- lightweight and fast by comparison.
> Also, don't install shit anywhere but your home directory as you unless you want to break your system in an irreparably, unmaintainable, or unsupported manner.

I guess you don't use Homebrew or MacPorts?
We need to move away from the term "monopoly" (which may not literally be a mono) and towards anti-competitive.
Yeah, unless your at unicorn scale, I don't see how self-hosting BI would ever make sense relative to other investments you could make.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37659482 (7 hours ago, 144 comments)
They had a huge outage for over a week that left people stranded over xmas.

> More than 16,700 Southwest flights were canceled and 2 million passengers stranded between December 20 to 29, scuttling holiday plans and leaving mountains of unclaimed baggage nationwide.
“Computer as Furoshiki” (1993)
An essay Bruce Sterling wrote for Mondo 2000 (anyone remember that mag?). Was reminded of it when reading about LG's folding laptop.
PR and legal teams and forums frequented by employees are the only way to short-circuit the corporate feedback layers.
I've experienced something similar with my kids where they're at a deep cut level of familiarity with all the StarWars, Indiana Jones trilogy, Marvel, DC, Jurassic Park, etc. from having played the Lego games of all of them.
I wonder if this will be available as a standalone library for older JDKs, it looks very nice.
Prophet is a PITA to install with PyPy on Apple Silicon. Beware.
Thank you! Now I gotta check The Superjesus
Might have considered it, but saw the subscription-only pricing and left.

General unsolicited advice to desktop application vendors: unless you have the market size and monopoly of Adobe, Microsoft etc, go with one off pricing.
Also perhaps anomaly detection in a metric.
So there is hope? Sounds good.
> "We announced today that Google Podcasts will be going away next year."
Mainly because you won't have to write as much glue code.
Okay... here's an attempt at optimism.

In one respect this consolidation makes more sense than the Play Music → YouTube Music switch: many podcasts cross-post episodes as YouTube videos and audio-only feeds.
If YouTube collates those feeds and lets users select between modes while maintaining a unified "already watched/listened" list... hey, that reflects how podcasts distribute/monetize in practice.

The YouTube Music app was a dismal replacement for Google Music, and never regained features for managing one's own library of uploads. Of course, that's not a problem for podcasts; episodes are already syndicated.

All that said, this still bodes poorly.
Right mate, so I'm not autistic, but I've been a software engineer for a little bit over a decade, so I can at least help with that.

So, in general, the "harder" the technical work, the less you talk to people. So if you want to avoid the MBAs, suits, bean-counters and other assorted ghouls, look for the "hardest" technical work.

The simplest way, anything that involves complex mathematics like cryptography, finance, big data, etc...

Another good candidate is moving to work on bare metal, so that means working as close as possible to the computer's physical hardware. I'd recommend looking into Rust if that interests you, it's a relatively gentle introduction to bare metal.

In the past I would have recommended AI and Cybersecurity as also good spaces, but unfortunately Wall Street's interest in both fields has made them chockfull of scam artists, under-trained and over-paid technical personnel, and even more over-over-paid executives.

This goes 4 times over for the games industry which is basically untenable as is and would not recommend to anyone at the moment, with the exception of hardcore graphics programming, which is pretty technical and also can be widely applied to several uses like cinema or scientific simulation.

As for the autism bit, well mate, I'd consider where you are currently living. Are you living in a country where your status as someone who is neurodivergent is respected or not?

If you are, then try to connect with resources that might help you.

If you're not living in a country that is friendly towards neurodivergent people, then I can recommend migration. I myself migrated to Canada and I'm perfectly content, although unemployed at the moment.

Canada has an express entry option for professions that are in demand and software engineering is definitely one of them. And I'm pleased and proud to say that Canada does offer both legal protection and actual help to the neurodivergent(although it's not perfect, and mostly good in cities). So please, take us into consideration.

I hope this helps, keep your chin up
What's your solution then, say fresh water after a hurricane? The grocery store has enough to go around if everyone takes only 1 container. Charging 100x the normal price to soft limit purchases seems way worse than a sign that says "limit one per customer".
Someones gonna use advanced airplane technology to take over the world and blame it on aliens.
Ask HN: Can you help me find a blog that has been linked here before?
It is a machine learning blog that has been posted here before, and possibly referenced in a comment as well.

There were a few posts of note:

* A post that broke down the training costs of a human vs a LLM in terms of the information density of experiences that humans have to have to match an LLM.

* a post about his deep learning rig, which was a massive 8 gpu behemoth in an open case.

Some other things I remember:

* he recently accepted a position at openAI working as a machine learning engineer on their audio team.

* he lives in Colorado.

If you can help find it, I would appreciate it immensely!
> I'm honestly not sure how you could make the case that they aren't maintaining and abusing monopoly power

Well, the obvious way would be "Amazon is not a monopoly." It's blatantly anti-competitive but hasn't produced a competitor yet. And heck, they didn't even have to buy off the competition from Jet.com, Wal-Mart somehow inexplicably did that for them.
And likely also “creating a better experience” by injecting ads :/
That’s why I no longer spend my time on Google’s non-core products.
Time series forecasting is not at all solved. Prophet does not solve it for you.
Hybrid working and desk sharing is the worst option for getting any actual work done. I'll gladly commute to an office where I have a dedicated desk with good equipment (2 monitors, keyboard etc) but having to work from a laptop without any dedicated space is just horrible.
Long-term support (both product and customer) are not in Google's DNA.
Am I out of line for disliking the number/size of dependencies Spinneret pulls in?
Meta had another 18 years on its lease and paid the equivalent of about seven years of rent to get out of the obligation, according to BNP Paribas Exane analysts.
Slug and Lettuce pub owner to charge more at peak hours
Based on?

You understand how betas work right?
Correct, at least one row for every time you load a csv file.
> If we use AI to replace the creation of copyright free derivative works, it isn't clear what the objection should be?

None whatsoever, and I agree with everything you stated but this is right here and right now. If the technological boundary of AI had already reached its speed of light then there wouldn't be anyone raising concerns.
What a useless comment. It is you that drives the fire, I would be more than happy with a bit more competition. The sad reality is that right now if you want to focus on your job and not on the intermediary layers that NV is pretty much the only game in town. The 'Team Green' bs came out of the gaming world where people with zero qualifications were facing off with other people with zero qualifications about whose HW was 'the best' when 'the best' meant: I can play games. But this is entirely different, it is about long and deep support of a complex hardware/software combo where whole empires are built upon that support. Those are not decisions made lightly and unfortunately AMD has done very poorly so far. This announcement is great but the proof of the pudding will be in the eating, so let's see how many engineers they dedicate to delivering top notch software.
Ask HN: Friendly Communities to Discuss Architecture?
Are there any real-time communities like Discord that are friendly and more advanced? I’m having a hard time finding people to discuss cool things I’m learning or building and would love to learn from others and have fun back and forth on software design, etc
No real disagreement from me, on that general point. Things were certainly more convenient in some older formats.

I'm not clear on the relevance to this particular story. For one, ebook practices are literally not part of this case. For two, the assertion in this branch is that that exists at the demands of publishers.
Sickening. Podcasts are a simple RSS-based mechanism that points to sound files. The whole point of them is that you can find them "wherever you get your podcasts", no feudal lord has a monopoly over them, no company controls the distribution (despite efforts by Spotify, Audible and others to incorrectly use the word "podcast" for some of their exclusive content). YouTube Music isn't an appropriate substitute, just a way of injecting additional ads and sucking more data in.
Article introducing Confluent's new Flink offering on cloud
So again, forcing companies to pay if a user wants to use them as default like on any other platform.

How about something simple like I don't know, a text box? Or even detecting support?

No no no that would be entirely too difficult to do.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-or-remove-search-en...
Of all the arguments in support of Apple's prohibition against third party browsers, your mother's gambling addiction is the saddest, most bizarre, and by far the least convincing.
Since when we call an inventor specialized in a field and having a patent that he seemingly uses and licences, a patent troll? The article angle is questionable
It blows my mind that A100 and H100 are each safely below 1000W power draw.
Came here to say this as well.

Metabase is the only tool I’ve used where I’ve managed to get non-technical users to actually engage and use to query building tools to answer their own questions.
I've seen multiple cases like this professionally, and they don't always have the typical PANDAS profile, either in terms of sequelae or putative causes. Kid gets illness, very clear signs (very high temperature for example), sometimes admitted, dramatic personality change afterward. The cases I remember most were around 7-12 but I recall one that was more around the age of 17.

It was unnerving for multiple reasons the first time I worked on these types of cases; one of those types of experiences that made me realize there's a fair amount of very serious illness out there that "goes under the radar" in the sense that there's serious consequences and little to no way to prevent it and poor understanding afterward of exactly what happened.
I dislike about your pricing that it tells me reasonable 29$ and then in the fineprint it says minimum 5 users. I get the reasoning behind your pricing logic, but I really dislike it. Now as solo business owner I'm gone.
Communication important
I think MIPS and POWER could also do this.
Welcome to the Era of [Poe's Law](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law).
> "Pegasus spyware is classified as a weapon by Israel and any export of the technology must be approved by the government."

vs

> "the NSO has very big connections with the mossad, its not a coincidence all their leadership come from the mossad."

You know Mossad is part of the Israeli government, right? NSO is a Mossad operation, e.g. an op of the Israeli government, and all their exports are approved by the Israeli government. There's no contradiction here.
I never intended to grow old in the states, emigrating eventually, but as I near that benchmark... I grow skeptical.

I have no idea where to start - fear the costs, bureaucracy, and so on. It surely depends on where you want to go... and changing your mind is likely incredibly prohibitive.

Anyway, more probably don't do it because it's nebulous.

Something to consider, too - six years ago I was upper-middle class, now I'm just hanging in there with inflation. External pressures put one in survival mode
We kept hearing 52 weeks for new shipments.
In my case it’s not just me who will suffer, but also my family. I’m just not wired to make a risky decision for them.
Well played ;-)

ps - I spotted the pedant that is technically correct, and I claim my 5 McFun bucks!
That is a great Citizen Kane joke since its greatness is that each shot was carefully planned and storyboarded. The films brilliance is the visuals.
The human cell count and size distribution
Xamarin/MAUI is even worse than React Native, which is not easy feat to accomplish.

Flutter is not perfect but orders of magnitude than RN/Xamarin/MAUI.

Source: I developed over 50 iOS/Android Apps, many of them with millions of users.
Or you know maybe they are just open to hearing rational arguments from both sides before calling them a communist or nazi.