skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know what the success rate is so far, but it has to be low single digits of Google products/services that stick around? Has anyone ever done that math?

EDIT:

Based on this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products

I didn't do any editing of the list, just ran wc -l on the 2 lists, so all of those phones are still considered production. That's probably not correct, but I'm not energetic enough to fix it.

Looks like it's right around 50/50, so about 1/2 their products are discontinued/failed.
there are two groups of people affected by the ephemeral nature of a debate. First is the group that listen but don't necessarily seek out a transcript. The second is the other person in the debate. They have to hear and respond in a matter of seconds. interaction is why I say say debates only prove who is the better debater.
To be clear, the word "ridiculous" is targeted at the signal-to-noise ratio, which is indeed in the ear of the beholder, not the article or the experience(s) of the author herself. Also, the "hard" part is not because it is dense or thorough. I just think it's messy and all over the place, but it's her blog. She gets to do whatever she wants.

Thanks for your perspective though. I don't wish to dig into this and turn extremely pedantic - I have a knack for that - because the author seems like an incredibly nice and talented person. I hope she moved on and forgot about this whole issue.
He’s still not answering the question on everyone’s mind: did he take a pay cut?
> You omitted health

But we don't need meat for health.

American Dietetic Association

"It is the position of the American Dietetic Association that appropriately planned vegetarian diets, including total vegetarian or vegan diets, are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases. Well-planned vegetarian diets are appropriate for individuals during all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence, and for athletes."

NHS UK

"A vegetarian or vegan diet can be suitable for everyone, regardless of their age."

British Dietetic Association

"[I]t is possible to follow a well-planned, plant-based, vegan friendly diet that supports healthy living in people of all ages, and during pregnancy and breastfeeding."

> Meat is a package of pre-processed vitamins, minerals and energy sources.

In addition to saturated fats, cholesterol, and common additives like nitrates and preservatives, meat consumption can also entail exposure to antibiotics, hormones, bioaccumulated pesticides and herbicides, and ethical concerns related to cruelty and mistreatment in the meat production industry.

> Other than health, taste, tradition, habit and convenience, what has meat ever done for us?

If everyone on Earth adopted the American or European diet, we would require more than five Earths to feed everyone [0]. Animal agriculture is already the leading cause of deforestation [1], biodiversity loss [2] [3], and water pollution [4]. Our current agricultural practices are pushing over a million species towards extinction [5].

Switching to plant-based diets could free up an area equivalent to the combined size of both Americas [6], allowing us to reforest it and promote biodiversity recovery. By reforesting this vast area, we could sequester enough carbon to potentially reverse climate change [7] [8] (assuming a simultaneous phase-out of fossil fuels, of course) [9].

This approach represents the only sustainable way to feed a population of 10 billion [10] while reducing our agricultural land requirements from 4 billion hectares to 1 billion hectares [11]. Animal agriculture is one of the major culprits pushing six out of nine Earth boundaries beyond safe levels [12] [13].

So ... it does a lot.

[0] https://css.umich.edu/publications/factsheets/sustainability...

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/drivers-of-deforestation

[2] https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/press-release/our-glob...

[3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26231772/

[4] https://blogs.ubc.ca/makingwaves/2017/02/07/cows-pigs-and-po...

[5] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01448-4

[6] https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2013/10/World-Map-by-Land...

[7] https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/10/8/08...

[8] https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal...

[9] https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector

[10] https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/917471

[11] https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

[12] https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/research-news/2...

[13] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_boundaries#Nine_boun...
It’s still yet another instance of an unsolved problem in this industry: what happens when a company gives up the will to provide supporting infrastructure to devices that they release? Traditionally, the consumer had a chance of continuing to run the device, since it was independent of cloud services. Now these devices are necessarily dependent on these companies with no duty of responsibility on their part. The companies demand subscription income to use the device and then kick users to the curb when the costs exceed that income. This is when consumer protection measures should step in to keep company’s “shareholder value optimization” tendencies in check. For example: keep all device schematics and protocols in escrow such that a community could continue to support the device.
Remember that much of our current system has been a slow increase of the "popular" vote, from landholders to men to adults. At some point it'll go to "everyone above the age of 0" but let's not ignore that kids will at first vote the way their parents do, and then vote the exact opposite for awhile.
Let's hope someone has spent the last 3 months reinstalling Azure from the original CD.
Primer!
Ask HN: Why does YubiCo need my private key?
Hi HN,

I've been reading up on YubiKeys, which seem to be well-regarded on HN. When doing my own research, I discovered that the default authentication method requires a copy of the private key to be stored on a validation server[1] (YubiCloud, by default). This can be changed to a private validation server, however that would also need to have a copy of the private key in order to work.

My question is: why is this necessary at all? Surely the same functionality could be achieved with public-key cryptography rather than requiring the private key to be uploaded[2] to a validator.

[1] https://docs.yubico.com/yesdk/users-manual/application-otp/yubico-otp.html
[2] https://upload.yubico.com/
It is interpreted as positive/affirmative against the correctness or relevance of the previous output. Telling it 'That is correct' will achieve a very similar effect (as will saying 'No'/'That isn't relevant'/etc. would in the converse.)
Toolchains Adventures – Q3 2023
At some point your new ventures compete with your old successes.

What would you and others have payed for a Unreal Tournament monthly subscription? Not much I assume.

If you are a land lord you want the home-owner slice to shrink and the renter slice to grow. Gross, right?

I was interested in their Verse programming language, but it's future looks grimmer now.
Technologies like Flutter, Blazor, Rust GUIs that similarly draw to the canvas etc also are all leveraging WASM and WebGPU too though, so I'm not sure how much benefit there is on using the pure web for stuff like this. Even Figma's main canvas editor is written in C++ and some Rust, it's not using Javascript. I expect that if WASM and WebGPU become mainstream, people will simply use their programming language of choice and render to a canvas via WASM, and be able to port that to mobile and desktop. This is basically what Flutter does anyway so it's ahead of the curve of what you're predicting.

True, some apps could be packaged websites, but you will always be able to tell. The Twitter app is one example, and it's definitely not as smooth as 3rd party native apps, or even those made by React Native or Flutter. I simply consider PWAs a bad user experience based on the many I've tried.
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put a mandelbrot on your cover letter
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This is some kind of bug with throttling not being applied i guess, but I'd very much like Apple to test their devices outside a constant temperature dust free office.

Right now it shuts down when it's too cold (and i mean like 0 C from personal experience, in my stopped car in winter), shuts down when it's too hot (car in summer). Keyboards fail if you dare to use them outdoors and are irreplaceable.

Can they afford to use their devices in the real world a bit before launching? Not everyone always keeps their phone at a traditional office 18 C...
The point is that network operators can't tell which website the user is visiting, as it could be any of the sites hosted by the ECH provider.

In this case, Cloudflare are acting as the ECH provider and as they already host the websites, they already see the connection plaintext.
You'll pry my base model M1 Air from my cold dead hands. Yes it only has 8GB memory I don't care.
> Pages here and here list hundreds of packages for Ubuntu and Debian alone that rely on the library known as libvpx. Most browsers use it, and the list of software or vendors supporting it reads like a who’s who of the Internet, including Skype, Adobe, VLC, and Android.

I guess there's a trade-off between reinventing the wheel vs. being open to 0-days that take down a lot of projects at a time.

The upside is of the current situation is that it will likely be patched more quickly than a smaller project would be able to since everyone will be looking at libvpx right now. One shared library update will fix a lot of programs, though if they use snap or flatpack or statically include it then it will be more of a mess.
they should let you turn it off in device setup (or at all..)
AMC Plus is getting an ad-supported subscription tier
MS discovered this years ago. And they have refused any recall.

This is also not the first time they cover up some serious problem and refuse to fix it. In fact, that's a daily activity for them. This one is just a larger problem than usual because they are broken too, not only their clients (even though, that makes it only slightly larger).
This stance is both too philosophical and tenuous to be credible. The picture it paints is ideological and doesn't reflect reality. If you read the Times or such landmark journals, yes you will find both journalistic values and proper English. For the rest of the press, textual adequacy has gone through the drain long ago, and you'll find either hot garbage written in the spirit of decorating an advertisement brochure, or pompous logorrhea from people who love the smell of their own farts.

As any profession that involves manipulating text, journalism certainly will be impacted by generative AI. But I find it truly fascinating that, to defend their profession and value, the author would advance their superior mastery of English and wordsmithing. The real value of real journalism comes from its values, the capacity to understand what happens, drill through a topic, don't crack under intimidation, dare to ask the right questions, and report back in a factual and useful manner. Without going into the reasons or casting the blame, these have been in chambles for a while, generative AI won't change any of that.
Does your father continue to vote the same way he has most of his life?
I understand outrage, but I think it’s misdirected in this occasion. It’s an 8 year old product, that because of the price, age and small niche like had customers that you can count in hundreds.
Yeah, sounds like a made-up term a book author would choose to redefine something that already exists.
Yes. In every possible way, yes.
Don't Optimize Your Includes
Indeed. The FSF is a very worthy cause. If it is true there is a lack of young people involved I'd look for reasons why amongst things like "is it a pleasant space to cooperate in", "are people accepting of new people"? I never had anything to do with FSF directly, but whenever I dealt with people involved with heavily "politically charged" projects like guix, guile, linux-libre and few others in addition to very nice people I always encountered complete idiots that would try to chastise me for example for having the audacity to report problems running a nVidia gpu. Or one person told me flat out he will not answer any of my questions regarding a programming language syntax because I admitted to be making a non-Libre package for my own use. It is 100% bonkers. You may say so what, it's just one person. Every community has idiots, right? Yes, correct, but in case of these projects I had dealings with the toxicity is rather bad to the point that only very dedicated people stay. This also means the communities are tiny and it's much more difficult to get help when you're just starting out.

I think that's why we don't see many new people flocking to FSF projects.
Just keep it simple and avoid optimization like the plague. you can spend 1 month building a prototype or >3 months perfecting a single piece. Just know that it is all smoke and mirrors and don’t worry about that.
I feel like this is only possible because Cloudflare is already so huge. If this becomes widely adopted, anyone who wants to offer "private" access to their site will have to move through Cloudflare. This can't be good.
Per the GDPR, you are not allowed to condition access to the website on acceptance of tracking.
There is an ‘unroll’ parameter in scan that lets you control how many iterations of the loop are fused into a single kernel.
> We seem to be reaching

We clearly reached it at the 90's. We have been waiting for the other shoe to drop since then.
> I'm just sad that there's no young people to pass the torch for when the time comes and the founding fathers are no more.

TBH I would put Drew DeVault in this category.
I sure as shit talk to them when they get there, then talk again when they are ready to leave, ask them to walk me through what they did, and double check the invoice for accuracy.

Especially for "subscription" services. I've found it's best to trust, but verify that they are coming out as frequently as you're paying them to and doing everything you're paying them for. It's not even a malice thing; humans make mistakes.
It's trained on humans, so it makes sense that you get the best out of it by treating it in the way that gets the best out of humans.
As a kid in the 80s we used to fly YVR-HNL every winter … always pneumatic earphones.
You're not changing the underlying value of `color.Red`, you're changing the variable (in other words, `PrintColor(color.Red)` will still print `red`). If that's the point you're intending to make, then couldn't you make it more easily with this?:

c := color.Red
c = Color("orange")
PrintColor(c)
Dev describes the frustration of making a change to the Oracle Database (2018)
The interior has been aluminum, but the band around the outside has been stainless steel.

> Ceramic Shield front, Textured matte glass back and stainless steel design

https://support.apple.com/kb/SP875?viewlocale=en_US&locale=e...
We already allow 19-30 year olds to vote, and it doesn't really seem to move the needle much in areas they are supposedly interested in.
It seems like the same result could easily be achieved by widespread Domain Fronting support (e.g set sni to cloudflare-sekrit.com and Host: header to the actual domain). Can someone explain why this wasn't adopted more widely (I know CF, for example, disabled theirs)?
Have a great offer (get a demo is not enough), try conversation and newsfeed ads, work with a contractor who knows it. Expect to spend 10 to 20k testing though. Not for low budgets.
One of those classes is more equal than the other, though I assure you that when Bezos stares down at them all from space, he does not see them any differently.
It's about regulatory capture.

The chief thing to understand about the MBTA (and many other things about metro Boston), is it's a patronage system at heart. Jobs to friends, and jobs to allies. That's it. Stripping the system and the public in order to pay for nice homes on the Cape, and to pay for nice retirements in NH and Maine.
what product or service has lasted indefinitely? Google will compensate those who adopted it, life goes on.
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"We all want"

Let me push back on that. We are all TOLD to want, using psychologically manipulative tactics. Advertising as corporate/Capitalist propaganda.
You're right, of course. I try to think about it like a car. I would never buy a new car, and a 5 year old luxury car is cheaper and better than a brand new non-luxury car.

But the new ones are definitely shinier...
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Sycamore is an LLM-powered semantic data preparation system for building search applications. It introduces a distributed set-based abstraction, a DocSet, that makes processing a large document collection as easy as reading a single document. Sycamore makes it easy to use LLMs to transform and enrich your unstructured data and prepare it for search. It comes with a scalable distributed runtime, built on Ray, that makes it easy to go from prototype to production.

For example, with Sycamore, you can read a collection of PDFs, partition them in coherent chunks, pull out entities like titles and authors, compute vector embeddings, and load them into a local OpenSearch cluster. All with a few lines of code.

To learn more, visit the repo: https://github.com/aryn-ai/sycamore, docs: https://sycamore.readthedocs.io/, and demo: https://www.loom.com/share/53e68b0eb5ab49948111a3fcf6286b7f?...

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A bit of development history at "GPS Almost Ended Before it Began":

> The death struggle: NRL wanted a two-dimensional system, and Parkinson and the Air Force wanted three dimensions plus time. The NRL patent called for atomic clocks in the user equipment, which would have made them prohibitively expensive. Parkinson and the Air Force wanted atomic clocks on the satellites instead, which would greatly simplify the GPS user receiver if atomic clocks could be modified to fly in the high-radiation environment of space. It wasn’t going to be easy to do, but space-qualifying atomic clocks turned out to be possible. NRL had tried to orbit a laboratory atomic clock, but it had quickly failed under the intensity of space radiation.

> With these modified concepts all defined, Parkinson spent the next three months trying to, at least, convince the key players in DoD not to say no. In December 1973, the Defense System Acquisition Review Council reconvened and voted yes. It was not that everyone in the military liked what they saw. Many navigation officials in the services liked the systems they had such as TACAN, VOR, DME, LORAN, etc. The Air Force was particularly opposed to GPS and no doubt preferred more airplanes.

* Embedded PDF: http://www.brightcopy.net/allen/avne/60-9/index.php#/p/20

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradford_Parkinson
I've wondered about this. If it's trained on human responses, and humans are more likely to be helpful to a polite question, then shouldn't ChatGPT also be more inclined to give helpful replies if I say please and thank you?
> Lol, that’s not at all what the culture is good at. It’s an internet mob with famous examples of false accusations, doxxing and harassment.

You're both wrong :). There is no "Reddit culture"; on Reddit, culture is scoped to a subreddit. You and GP are likely hanging out on different kinds of subreddits - but if your experience is that of "an internet mob with famous examples of false accusations, doxxing and harassment", I strongly suggest you rethink which subreddits you follow. Yes, they probably need a different type of marketing, but they're probably also not worth it for technical products.

> Being cynical and anti-business is not about “getting to the facts”.

It's hard to tell, because cynicism and healthy realism overlap nearly 100% when it comes to modern business.
> "Actually, one more thing." to ChatGPT for example, are strictly unnecessary

I won't run a conclusive test about it but treating ChatGPT well gives me much better results.
“Should” is doing a lot of work in this sentence.

It very much should not do this, if it’s following normal AppKit conventions.

Might be a nice optional feature request…
Everyone on HN should know that this is not just one guy on Mastodon.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/08/microsoft-cloud-sec...
People try to build all new, better software tech all the time! But doing so breaks backwards compatibility with existing stuff, which greatly hinders adoption. So it mostly remains relegated to experimental research projects, and if you're lucky, the best parts of it get incorporated into existing projects gradually over time.
Any provider can deploy ECH, it's standardized at the IETF. Cloudflare are just first.
stadia with take-hands-off-controller before visually updating was amazing? it was one of the quickest plug pulls for a reason
It’s being shutdown after 8 years. That’s not a bad lifespan. Most electronics are obsolete but that age and replaced with new ones. Especially at businesses - it’s already amortized by then and reached end of life.

Google sucks, but I think you’re blowing this out of proportion.
I have HP ProBook 430 G6 and I have not noticed any problems (I don't know how Windows run on this, though - never tried).

I have never tested the fingerprint reader, all other features work.
> foundation of quite a lot of SciComp in JAX

...if that SciComp uses machine learning, I guess? In my "physics of biomedical imaging" bubble, people are hardly doing state-of-the-art ML, but rather expensive forward models for which computing a gradient is cumbersome.

But I know that e.g. Stephan Hoyer is a physicist and you are a mathematician originally -- I have read a lot of your JAX issues and libraries ;-) maybe it just depends on the "mini-bubble' aka. the indiviual research group and not only the field of science.
There is also a line of thinking that the system should not be installed at all, under any circumstance, because it is ineffective:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/07/its-time-police-stop-u...

https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/four-problems-w...
This is great ChatGPT. Next, please design and prove up a decentralized energy supply for earthlings using off the shelf components from home depot.
Idk what this has to do with the issue though. I mean sure wait on launch for bugs, but how often you upgrade a phone is irrelevant.

In the last 6 you get 5g, 120hz, usb c, more ram.
I don't. I was simply pointing out the business model's effect on Google. I participate with a search that is uses a subscription model service.
And to be clear - CloudFlare is hardly the only available option. Akamai has existed for significantly longer, and there's plenty of competitors. Cloudflare did not invent the CDN.