skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My statement wasn’t merely about UI. It’s about a lack of respect for conventions. It’s about many things that are inherently wrong with Flutter’s pretend-to-be-native approach, which happens to include UI boondoggles.

Flutter would have been better off with an entirely separate UI convention and stop trying to pretend to be like native apps. I’d still hate it because it really adds nothing to the story that wasn’t in Java+Swing two decades ago, but at least they could start paying attention to how poorly Flutter apps work in their intended contexts instead of trying to keep up with the Joneses.
> If you don't think that all ads are bad, then I think you may agree that sometimes, ad targeting produces more useful ads.

Ads are, at best, malware for the brain.

What little positive they could possibly serve (discovery) is unfixably corrupted by the profit incentives involved.
There's a review of a game by Automated Simulations (Later known as Epyx). They were one of the great successes of the 8-bit era, but failed to transition to newer hardware.
The Notes app on iOS works perfectly for this so I would assume many iOS users are just using Notes. That is going to be hard to beat.
Politeness and niceties can actually play a role in prompt engineering, because it signals actual information.

For example, in automated contexts, I’ve found that asking follow up questions sometimes causes the model to apologize, thinking that it didn’t do what you wanted the first time. Inserting “Thank you, now please…” resolves this concisely, because it’s how “you have done what I wanted, and I have further requests” is represented in a real conversation.
HN grew up playing his games; now a small part of HN is The Man (who have changed, man).
Modern capitalism predates the modern marketing and advertising industry by 100 years or more.
The first link doesn't just say "ineffective"; it suggests that the gunshot data being generated is fraudulent.
I've been a reddit user for a number of years, and while there are indeed some good subreddits, by and large my experience lines up with kortilla's.
curious minds would like to know over here as well. add to that, the loss of sales for throwing the tantrum and taking their ball and going home. where's the punishment for those involved in that business venture?
Is he going to accept treatment from non-free medical machines?
A fantastic site. When I originally took over teaching Intro to AI, I initially relied on the A* search closed/open set pseudocode explanation[1]. However, when it would come time to ask students to implement it, I was constantly finding students absolutely confused by the approach. Once I swapped over to Amit's A* explanation, the number of confused students dropped significantly. Forever thankful for their walkthrough.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A*_search_algorithm#Pseudocode
Having a small project with a low to no amount of users certainly allows you to play with more novel ideas that might put off certain users (especially if the solution has stability issues at first).

I feel that his second point regarding creating limitations actually requires the creative freedom implied by the former. Once you have a user base you cannot simply arbitrarily add limitations.

It does feel refreshing sometimes to see certain software reflect the authors idiosyncratic way of working. Not every tool needs to scale to 1 million users. And i agree with the author that if you love working on your project you will probably produce something much better even if it uses unconventional designs.
The author has himself to thank for a chilly reception amongst some.
Billionaires are not your friends: https://twitter.com/ethangach/status/1643731543490277376
Yeah, why have fun when I could
be Generating Profit? Sorry I enjoy recreation.
Any recent Thinkpad will do fine. The Apple Silicon laptops can't run Windows, but can run linux, so there's that, too. Also, Dell XPS laptops do very well with linux.
Serious question from a crypto outsider: is four months long enough to deter future grifts? Will Zhu’s detention increase likelihood of further prosecutions?
It's incredibly wasteful. The tech industry produces prodigious amounts of waste with a deliberate purpose (revenue).
This doesn't seem to be upstreamed yet.

I hope they have real hardware performance numbers for the rv summit talk.
Recently I've been doing some data modeling stuff that essentially boils down to aligning and identifying common concepts between several JSONSchema each of about 30000-50000 characters without whitespace. For example, "This field `$.run.acquisitionTime` in the first schema means the same thing as `$.operation.experiment_timestamp` in the second schema; but generally for more esoteric concepts than datetime.

Naturally, I cannot remember most of the content and use text editors / home built data review tools to augment my very limited working memory. It is slow.

I would love to chuck them all into ChatGPT4 and have that magically align and cross reference them, which is just not possible with limited context. There are perhaps some clever solutions involving progressive abstraction and stuff, which I do not have the time to figure out.

So TL;DR maintaining a context much larger than human working memory is a value prop of computers in general, so it feels like it should be a value prop of LLMs too
Tonga Eruption Blasted Unprecedented Amount of Water into Stratosphere (2022)
Marketing as we know it was invented after Marx.
The reality is they need office attendance to meet tax agreements with the cities they’re located in. All the “culture” hand waving is certainly a factor, but something so fuzzy wouldn’t fly at Amazon. It’s when data is presented that decisions get made typically, and they have no data that shows in office collaboration improves productivity - quite the opposite - I’ve seen the data collected by other megacorps I’ve worked at where we had these discussions. The only real data is the many millions they’re getting in tax agreements with seattle and other cities they’re located in.

Attrition is probably also a part of it. However, I’ve heard there’s a strongly negative bias working again Amazon in that attrition where only top talent is attriting and they’re loading up on bottom quartile who are coming into the office every day to try to cling to their job.
Huh, why would VAG just give up on Porsche like that?
Especially that Porsche holdings owns a big part of VAG itself.
This worldview is fine for running a company and making money, but it isn't the only one that exists. The whole IoT push over the last 10 years is new, and a lot of consumers haven't had to think of questions like "what happens when tech support goes away for my digital whiteboard" or "what happens to my fridge when company is goes bankrupt", so I don't think patting them on the head and saying "This sucks for you, but it could have been worse" is really a compassionate stance.

You're underlying thesis is correct though, you're not legally required to care about other people when you design or sell products.
Gave it the ol' 3 clicks to try and understand what this does. Got a gist but they do need a good elevator pitch on that header.

Maybe "Touch Designer is a flexible projecting mapping tool that can be used to build complex visual effects and interactions"

But that's possibly wrong, because I couldn't quickly get the full scope!
Doubt it. Data governance and access control is just getting to be a bigger deal with each passing year, and nobody wants to (pay enough to) self-manage that. Or to take personal responsibility for it.

Maybe “on prem” but largely managed by someone else, which is already a thing.
> Also, next time you go to a fast food place look and see how many of them are high schoolers. Maybe that’ll stop the strawman arguments.

Have you considered that by increasing minimum wage so dramatically, high schoolers now need to compete with adults for the same positions, and they are now crowded out because they have less flexibility with their hours and schedules?

High schoolers may be willing to accept a lower wage for the same work, which would give them an advantage in hiring, but now they are barred from seeking it.
Managed solution _makes it easier_ not harder.
I think things are more competitive and fast-paced nowadays than when we entered this space and so history and all of the details that come along with it aren't necessarily their first priority. I don't blame them.

For example,

When I was first getting into computers I felt like I had all the time in the world to perfect writing batch files and I could pour over a single magazine at a leisurely pace for weeks until the next one came out.

Nowadays every time you use your face to unlock your magic pane of glass there's a language, a new framework, a new more impressive AI you can build your business on or some creepy guy trying to scan everyone's eyeballs, it's just different.
That's not true, there are 50 functionally-democrat senators. There were 51 with Feinstein.
GPS spoofing, not jamming, is causing issues around Iran-Iraq such that the FAA put out a notice:

* https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/air-transport/2023-0...

There was/is speculation that spoofing may have been used in the capture of a US drone:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–U.S._RQ-170_incident
A few thoughts:

1. This is probably just badge-in and not badge-out data. I'd be surprised if you have to badge to exit the facility.

2. This may contain badge data when accessing other areas of the campus; such as elevators, executive offices, etc.

I'm curious how they're handling expected OOTO scenarios. E.g., a worker traveling on company assignment for several months, gets fired for not badging in frequently enough.

The enforcement spectrum on this is probably pretty broad, and probably felt most in areas where the company believes there is systemic under-performance; or in areas where the company wants to un-invest without explicitly coming out and saying it.

Fragmented teams will be reorganized and the process continues some underlying business metric, such as the labor component of SG&A, hits the desired corporate target.
SIMH – Old Computer Emulator
Has that ever actually happened? Who is worth millions (at a rate faster than index fund) who isn’t married to a wealthy spouse or have wealthy inheritance or have lucrative book deals etc?
My point is that you can solve the inter-process case with precisely the same tools that Rust already uses to solve the intra-process cases.

Outside of a pure-Rust single-threaded process that uses only stack allocation, those cases are already using unsafe- for heap allocation, or to launch a thread, or whatever. Or if Rust is a guest in some other language's process, you don't even need unsafe! And the type system features used to contain that unsafe are just as useful when you're sharing memory with another process as when you're sharing memory with another thread.

I'm obviously not saying you can just take a shared reference to an arbitrary mmapped buffer, or whatever. I'm saying that nvm0n2's claim is misleading, because Rust's type system does give you the tools for cases like this, at least to a greater degree than C++'s type system!
Ofcourse you are right. Its a veblen good. Read up Conspicuos Consumption.

The plebs cant buy super yatches or formula 1 teams to signal Status (ie check me out, I have resourced to squander, so who do you want to hang out? with me or someone who doesnt have resources to squander?)

So they buy shit like iphones. Its within the credit card limits of the plebs with status cravings.

Veblen would say status signalling is a massive misallocation of the econimies resources, and a good technologist is one reduces economic waste. I mean get people as crazy about poor infra outside their homes or in their hospitals and schools instead this type of stuff.
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I'm not sure I follow. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Green Line (all of it, old and the Extension) use standard gauge tracks. The current problem with the Extension is that the brand new tracks are unstable and the parallel rails are collapsing into each other ("narrowing"). So it has nothing to do with the age of the rest of the system or the carriages, and everything to do with shoddy construction.
Apple supports the published specs of an operating temp between 32° to 95° F (0° to 35° C). Your comment implying they don't test outside dust free "California temperatures" is simply not true.
It used to be common everywhere.

From my point of view, free WiFi became normal when it became less important because of affordable mobile internet.

From the point of view of the hotels it was about recovering their missing income after customers got mobile phones and stopped paying half a dollar per minute for using the hotel phones.
There was a period when both mobile roaming and hotel WiFi was expensive, so I often went out from my hotel room and bough a local SIM-card to get internet access.

What annoys me most, is that only when I finally could get a laptop that would work a full transatlantic flight on one charge, then suddenly airplanes all got power outlets.
I guess everyone hitting it at once has brought the server to its knees...
My last company bought a bunch of these just before the pandemic to help facilitate working with remote offices. All the big conference rooms had one.

Nobody wanted to use them, and they went completely unused to my knowledge.
You can buy things like GLD https://www.spdrgoldshares.com/

an ETF backed by physical gold. Probably safer and cheaper than getting bars from Costco.
A computer doesn’t send a RST when it gets an unknown packet…
> If you don't think that all ads are bad, then I think you may agree that sometimes, ad targeting produces more useful ads.

I don't personally agree with this, but I think it's an irrelevant point. The point is that targeted advertising requires spying on people. Google's "solution" is a nonsolution because it simply codifies that spying. That it's arguably less comprehensive spying is beside the point.

It's not the ads I object to, it's the data collection that drives the ads.
Am I correct in saying the app is free on Android and $4.99 on iOS?

There is also no need for third party to-do lists on iOS.
I love how half the comments on here are about what a nice person the author of the site is. I, too, have had only positive interactions with Amit!
> In both pivotal studies, a statistically significantly greater percentage of subjects experienced their study eyes returning to normal at all time points measured from 60 minutes through 24 hours in the Ryzumvi group compared with placebo.

Thanks, FDA, industry standards, and general statistics education. This means almost nothing.

How much does it help? What fraction of people are helped? Can one still see comfortably in dim light after administration of dilating drops followed by this? Does it also reverse cycloplegia?
I don't want to defend Mao/Stalin, fuck em both, but: If you're counting deaths by starvation under a communist regime as "death by communism", then you have to count deaths by starvation under capitalism as "death by capitalism". Poverty kills a whooooole lot of people, and the current system is broken specifically because the billionaires who benefit are specifically blocking any attempts to fix the system - like oil lobbyists who prevent climate action. We could have ended world poverty in the 1980s, we had the resources and it would have been overall profitable for the world economy. We can't afford to not end world poverty.

Of course, communism is a system where the workers have control over their workplace, and by "the workers" I mean "random government bureaucrats that supposedly represent the workers", and by "have control" I mean "they have their choice of vote in the single-party election for the government that appoints said bureaucrats".
It’s worse than that - the farms in the area are situated on the most fertile kind of soil in the world. These are important wheat growers on a global scale.
>The concept of a 'biologically determined interpretive framework' doesn't seem all that determined to me. The variation in our individual moral compasses and the existence of intercultural moral divides indicate that this framework is as vague and inconsistent as it can be.

Is it limitlessly inconsistent as Foucault claimed?

>In the future, there might be a carbon-neutral vegan society, and they will view us through their newly derived ethical compass, much like how we perceive morality when we look back at our recent history.

That is correct, and Chomsky raised almost that identical example. As I said he's not arguing for no moral relativism, just that there are some biologically imposed limits.

>Can you find a single human ethic that all societies from any time can agree on?

You're missing the forest for the trees that are blocking your view. The very fact that individual societies do have consensus moral frameworks demonstrates that individual moral frameworks are not unlimited by constraints such as environment and culture. This is why he says relativism is incoherent. The fact that it accepts that cultural moral frameworks exist, and that there are reasons for that, kills this hard form of extreme relativism stone dead. After all if human ethics were truly unconstrained, how can cultural norms exist?

It is true that individuals can vary greatly, most people are not psychopaths but some are. Most do not experience extreme abuse as children that warps their perspective, but some do. Even so, these individuals have their ethical frameworks very largely determined by factors outside their control. A psychopath can't choose not to suffer from psychopathy, an abuse victim cannot just choose not to be warped by that abuse. They do of course have autonomy within a range, and it's not the same range as most of us, but it's still a range.
NASA’s first asteroid samples arrive after release from Osiris-Rex spacecraft
Plus, some receivers can work with signals coming from different cobstellations, e.g. one GPs, one GLoNAS and one Galileo, in order to provide a proper position.
CPU speed indicates radiation frequency.

By the mid-1990s, this was in the FM broadcast range, as a sysadmin I knew at the time demonstrated with an open-cased tower he was working on. (Perhaps perpetually.)
It's your system too. It helps keep all of us more safe, and more alive, than we would be without anything. If you succeed in tearing down our system, it will be a very bad time for everyone.
Nah, the world only really cares to hear about techie stories if they make a few billion for themselves.
> A used iPhone 13 Pro Max in great condition is about $450 these days where I a.m.

That's a pretty good deal. I got $580 from Apple for my 13PM trade-in.
That's the point, though. As you say there is obviously enough information to learn grammar given our starting point, but Chomsky's point is that there's not enough information to distinguish between all possible languages, so (paraphrasing from a decades-old recollection and probably very much putting my spin on it) learning a (first?) language as a human is probably a matter of figuring out how to apply existing "machinery" that imposes some of its own structure rather than operating entirely from the information provided to the senses.

I'm not saying it's necessarily correct, but it does seem well formed, and LLMs only undermine it in a very weak sense (so far?). To defend the conclusion itself I would have to know a whole lot more about how he estimated information content (needed and available).
The following is one implementation of Typesafe Heterogeneous Containers in Golang.

Like an ordinary Go map, it’s a key+value data structure.

Unlike a map, it can contain values of arbitrary types but with __compile-time type checking__.
I have exactly none of those installed. The only Google app that I have installed on my phone is Meet, and I wish I didn’t have to have that installed because it’s the worst meeting app on my phone, but the company uses Google Workspaces.

I will go without an app rather than a Flutter app.
Your concern about being rude is endearing considering that your comment is downright reverential by comparison to other sibling comments.
It’s a great business model. Let someone else take the risks and sell the hardware, then use regulators to open the complementary goods to be undercut.

Assuming they eventually win against Apple, they will make a fortune when they take on the console market with the precedent.
There is not enough diversity in the supply chain to support all market segments, especially in a market as unforgiving of inefficiency as phones. You have to commit to making a million (less than one one-thousandth of the phone market) of anything in markets like that, or your costs will be higher than for products with more capabilities. 10 million is table stakes for a major product.
My workplace gives a choice between Linux / windows / macos. Less than 30% choose macos. It's one sample point but it can't be the only one.
Not sure how people interpreted this, but it wasn't criticism or celebration of his misfortune. I intended to note that he is extraordinarily firm in standing by his beliefs and principles.
Did the Tonga undersea volcano eruption cause this year's extreme heat?
We've had one in Libwebp and now it's libvp8 turn.....
When was the last one sold? If it wasn't 8 years ago, then that one has a shorter than 8-year lifespan.
I think the expectations are different for salaried workers in the US and (most?) EU countries. In the EU, salaried workers are usually contractually required to work a certain amount of time, unlike the US where it is more "do the work asked of you". If you have finished your task faster than expected, then you're supposed to get a new task and work on it until you've worked the contracted hours. Conversely, if you've done your hours, then see you tomorrow.

In that regard, it makes more sense to track how much time you actually work since it is a breach of contract not to work them.
Totally with you - feedback is a gift. The challenge (in all fora, not just HN!) is parsing out the well-meaning, helpful, truthful feedback from the other noise.
People value those when they don't trust the finance institutions to keep their paper-gold promises.

Why people are distrusting those institutions, and on the US for all places... that's a question for sociology or psychology. I strongly suspect the social network cultural bubbles are behind this, but don't have much to say there.

(Anyway, I'm not an economist, but I've studied it a bit. This question is quite simple anyway, and it's something that has happened before, so it's pretty well covered.)
Exploring Scenius
> We will soon have the technology to concentrate power and security into the hands of an ever-shrinking minority pretty much to the point that any violent rebellion of any amount of normal people will fail.

This isn't new. Read up on the dark ages, and how Gutenberg ended them with the printing press. As technologists, the best thing we can do is figure out how to build technology that scales down enough to be wielded by individuals. That includes education and media distribution technologies.

Also, climate change models that estimate economic damage project annual damage from extreme weather exceeding global GDP in a few decades. Humanity will probably survive, but its unclear that anything resembling the modern economy will.