skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When people say things like that what they usually mean is the volume of bets on the price of gold in the futures markets is much larger than the trading in either physical gold or ETFs representing physical gold.

Which doesn't mean ETFs like GLD are not real. It just means that if I say I'll bet you the price goes up, we settle the bet at $100 for each dollar the price moves, that is independent of us actually owning any gold.
I've some other posts planned about this topic, I don't know when or even if im going to deliver, but you are free to follow the blog and receive the update if I ever do.
A week after Microsoft announces their new version of Surface Hub

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/surface-it-pro-blog/s...
If you are poor, medical care is essentially free in the US. I know a few people that had excellent cancer care at some of the best oncology clinics in the country all paid for by the US government.
> including DMs ... to train their AI
Huge discussion earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37699851 (currently #13 on the front page)
I built Echo to help me (and my kids) keep learning while we're on the go (driving to tennis, mowing the lawn, walking back from school). It's free while it's in beta, and I built it as a PWA so it's installable on your home screen. Hope you have fun playing with it.
Yep, I noticed. It's an interesting approach tho xD
Spending 4 months anywhere in Singapore without air-conditioning would deter me from pretty much anything. I imagine the experience in a prison cell is worse.
Buy an iPhone, turn on the new Assistive Access mode from iOS 17. Instantly the iPhone will be turned into a "dumb phone" with giant buttons and simple features.

https://support.apple.com/guide/assistive-access-iphone/set-...
Can USD handle dynamic elements like a description of a scene for an RPG or a comic book ?
Anecdote: My 15 pro max has been totally fine. It has never gotten any warmer than previous iPhones. And the FineWoven case everyone is hating on? Just fine, so far. No worse than any other case I've owned over the years.

Frankly I assume this is just the usual hyperbolic nonsense that accompanies every iPhone release. Some folks make a lot of money from all those clicks.
I wonder if they'll include the photo-realistic avatars, like what was demonstrated between Zuck and Lex Fridman.

https://twitter.com/lexfridman/status/1707453830344868204
The solution is simple: don't pay for SaaS products. And that's if you consider it a problem. When email was created, you didn't care what the remote mail server's software was, as long as it conformed to the protocol, you're good.
Tesla has plenty of experience or are there no safety regulations in the US and China factories.

This isn't Tesla's first try so the excuse isn't valid
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_the_Kakhovka_Da...
Yes we don't know who controlled the dam and would be able to place required amount of explosives in the location they were detonated at. It's shrouded in mystery.
Don't forget the sharks! I want those!
Generally cloudflare assumes itself as being a part of the website.
Its not the fiest time they did this.
They sold units recently no. So there’s some ppl who might have only gotten a few years of usage
You don’t need to measure at scale, you just ask each supervisor to measure at micro-scale and provide more relevant feedback than a binary reader.
Unfortunately very familiar with them and their disconnected demands, just have never heard them called HiPPO before and now I have a new favorite term for the over inflated egos in management that make being productive harder.
The market is an illusion. Until recently I had no means to buy Linux, I was forced to buy Windows (and it is illegal here, but all you get for going to a trial is not even the price of a licence). Even today the options are very few.

The idea of a market works if it costs ~0 to enter a market, consumers have an infinite access to knowledge and infinite time to make a decision BUT make it in 1s when at the store, and also enough money so as to not be a problem. Basically, consumers have all the power and vendors have none.

Nothing is really a market, and operating systems definitely shows it.
> But he doesn't even need to do the pointer/type conversion stuff, he could just do `c = Color("orange")` and call it a day.

c = Color("orange") does not compile.
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On one hand, you have "propaganda" (your words). On the other hand, you have those that lived under it. If the views of those align, there may be more truth to the anti-communist sentiment than plain "propaganda".
Its a book https://whenitsready.com/wowdiary/ originally sold as a kickstarter by one of the original Blizzard mappers made from notes they wrote while working on original wow. They did some AMAs[1][2] with other wow developers that sort of touch on some of the topics discussed here.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/9huows/ama_former_wow_...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/classicwow/comments/9fb2bo/john_sta...
He's cooler because of how he did this.

The package he's giving employees is outstanding. The communication is solid.

The alternative is to bleed out financially and put the larger company - the other 84% of employees - at heightened risk. A lot of things could easily go south for Epic, their business isn't guaranteed in the least, and they have 5,000-6,000 other employees to consider.
Whoops - I was reading a list of vacancies/recent resignations and thought a House one was a Senate one as they were commingled. You're right, there are 47 Democrats and 3 Independents.

Doesn't change that they won't do anything, of course. :|
why should a 70 year old retire if her constituents continue to support her?
How do you prevent those alternative ways of discovering products from getting flooded by masqueraded ads?
I read it's not just 6 months of vesting, it's the entirety of 2024.
I'm curious why he sets Stockfish depth to 10 when he's looking for mate-in-3 puzzles. Surely 3 is all he needs?
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> But I’m not arrogant enough to think my definition is the single correct one

I am arrogant enough to know what is acceptable to me, though, and to work towards that. Just like Google (or most anyone else) does, albeit Google outguns me by many orders of magnitude.
This is an incredible idea. It’s very much like mandating the recyclability of electronics but goes one step further - enforcing the reusability of electronics. It would be a game changer for consumer and environmental protection. Literal tonnes of e-wasted iPhones would instead become offline music/game devices.
The adversarial system is the best we've come with in law and government. It seems, relying on opponents to keep each other honest, is a tool worth using.
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That's so strange. I wonder what makes this product category seem like a good investment for Microsoft but not for Google? Since it occupies the same functional role in the office suite. Not to mention Google had the additional market of schools where it integrated seamlessly with Chromebooks.

It's very hard to understand why they'd be going in such different directions.
While valid points, let's not ask the head of engineering and product for a search engine whether search engines have a future as products.
This article is a good place to send people who don't understand why their ignorance plus the assertion that "everyone else does it" makes the cloud somehow OK.

The cloud has its uses, but people need to be aware of the complete lack of accountability and poor security before they decide to upload important data. This goes a long way to helping with the "I didn't know" defense. Read this article. Now you know.
PLEASE STOP GIVING CAPITALISTS IDEAS!
More crypto con artistry.

Color me --- not surprised.
I was a strong Elixir shill for years. I still use it in personal projects (it's very fun) but commercially it never replaced Ruby for me. Here's my quick take:

1) There wasn't large enough gap from typical business perspective that needed to be filled by Elixir.

2) No really big company marketed Elixir. People start shoving microservices/Kubernetes/whatever new tech into any simplest app because Facebook does it. Had it been different, I believe Elixir would explode in popularity.

People here mention that Elixir means higher pay for devs but it was never the case for me. For every Phoenix role there were 5 better paid RoR/Fullstack ones. If I've proven empirically that I can provide value with RoR, why switch? I can derive joy from it by using it on my own project, and from the fact that it's much more fun using any lang on hobby projects than commercial ones.
Facebook/Meta blocks accounts for posting link to EFF privacy tips
Responding to some of the comments saying that jamboard had a good run and people shouldn't be outraged that google made a decision in their own interest...

Everybody remembers the old saying, "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM".

Well, there should be a reciprocal saying: "Anybody who ever buys google should be fired".

If the lesson here is "caveat emptor", then the real lesson is this: don't buy google.
I'm guessing this is something specific to the US.
Googles backends are all proprietary solutions. So you’d need to open source a huge swath of google code. Much of which has assumptions of running in Google’s DCs.
I’ve found myself unconsciously placating ChatGPT when it’s doing a good job. Maybe because it’s pure black magic that it’s actually doing what it’s doing and helping me with something, and all I have in return are tokens of politeness to encourage it.

It also feels precarious: at any moment it might stop understanding what I want or it might outright refuse, so I think most of my behavior is akin to some sort of superstition. Kind of like when a government employee goes out of their way to help you in the system and all you can do is lather on the affectation as if to somehow goad forces out of your control to conspire in your favor.
One thing I worry about is Bandcamp. I was worried when Epic bought them, and I'm even more worried now as they were divested to a company I've never heard of...

Bandcamp has for so long been a boon to independent music and musicians, and allowed them to sell their work (and whatever else) on their own terms, more or less, in a way that I thought was radical and fair compared to most other marketplaces today. Not to mention the Myspace-esque customizations you can make to your album pages!

Hopefully Bandcamp continues on for a long time relatively untouched.
This company must have done something totally awful, the whole domain is automatically blocked by my DNS filters…

Ah, its entire point is to stalk unwitting users. I guess my filter was correct!
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>There will be regret in 10 years as the US economy continues to grow and the EU shrinks

How would we regret not letting US tech giants misuse our private data? How would letting them do that improve our economy?

Innovations and technology means a lot more than targeted ad-based spy-ware where the US is king and the EU is not even competing.

We should be competing who gets to provide a better standard of living for it's citizens not who's country's corporations Fe to exploit everyone to enrich a select few.

Also, let me get back from my year long paid parental leave, to tell you why having the strongest economy is not the most important thing in life.

https://imgflip.com/i/80vik0
Semi-related: I read the first page of your second reference and really can't make any sense of it, despite having what I would have thought to be enough knowledge to at least orient:

"We aim to construct a physically-grounded compositional framework for hybrid system synthesis, particularly targeted at applications in robotics. Compositionality lies at the heart of language in general [WHM12] and its formalization underlies much of computer science in particular [Lee90]. However the behavioral modularization of physical synthesis for digital computing that arguably ushered in the information technology revolution [MC80] has proven much harder to achieve in analog computing technology [Mea89].
There are fundamental reasons for this challenge to become more severe in machines intended to perform mechanical work on their environments [Whi96]."

Since you know enough about this field to cite it, does it appear to you that this stuff could be written in a more comprehensible way, without losing expressive power? Or is this level of ornament necessary to say whatever it's saying?
I liked Swing, and I liked the "native" Swing look better than the "platform" skins that were offered (they just looked wrong everywhere). Swing failed for a lot of reasons, mostly because Java performance on the desktop just wasn’t where it needed to be.

Flutter feels to me like a half-assed rebaking of Swing's basic ideas with worse HCI/UX and an insistence on pretending look like the target platform even if they consistently get it wrong and perform slower than molasses in January. Flutter is something that only an Enterprise Developer could love.
This claim makes zero sense. The Russians had already withdrawn their army so the opportunity to trap them was nil. Not only that but any future opportunity to trap them was also lost. Meanwhile the Russians got a free moat at a crucial moment when they were retreating and the Ukrainian counter offence was stopped in its tracks.

In WWII the Russians blew up a damn on the same river (killing tens of thousands of their own civilians) to stop the Germans advancing. It’s the most Russian tactic ever. This is exactly how they fight.
And people who bought an iphone 15 are not people who buy a phone every 12 months.
Finkelstein was cancelled by the right. Most prominently by Alan Deshowitz, lawyer for Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, etc.

As a result, he was denied tenure and was never able to get a job as a professor, other than occasionally working as an adjunct. Really, I'm not sure how much more severe it could be without being something other than cancellation.

He was cancelled long before his work on wokism - that topic was only brought up because someone misread one of my previous comments.

Another example of someone on the left-wing being cancelled by those on the right is Paul Robeson, who was perhaps the most famous American alive at one point, but lost everything due to his left-wing beliefs.

I do think you're confused about the popular conception of cancellation. Stallman lost his position at the FSF and MIT. His speaking engagements were cancelled. Article after article came out about how terrible he supposedly was. Almost all of it was unfair, almost all the claims against him were inaccurate. If these things don't constitute cancellation, nothing does.
That’s because it was trained on human communication, so it will be more effective when treated as a human communication tool.
The problem with chalkboards in a meeting, assuming you've set up a dedicated camera for it, is that remote participants can't draw on it.

When I worked at a place with Jamboards, it was actually super useful doing meetings with virtual post-it notes that remote participants could move around. And it meant the meeting's facilitator could be remote as well.
Hi, sorry just seeing this.

What about the comments on commits? Are those all displayed in the Github PR when it's merged, and attached to all the correct lines, even the ones that were made on branches that were rebased?

Thanks!
Someone told me about this last night. What are the best communities of users?
This is about as clear as it can possibly get --- if you value privacy, you shouldn't value Facebook.
Why would I get down voted for this comment?
Similarly, Paris is building 200km+ of new fully automated, fully grade separated, mostly underground metro covering the Paris metro area, and using the opportunity for urban redevelopment as well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Paris_Express
wow, I never saw those videos! thanks for linking
> It generates the most efficient solutions

>> I have no economic reason to donate, the most efficient solution for me personally is to give $0 to charity.

So we agree that you were able to increase the efficiency of your capital expenditure by not giving to charity. That is an increase in the efficiency of capital allocation over the taxation approach.

> If we decide, as a country, that it's important for our brothers and sisters to not starve to death, it seems to me that the most efficient system is one that's centralized, evidence-based, and supported by mandatory contributions.

Now you're contradicting the $0 charitable allocation. If you want to prevent starvation, then your optimal charitable contributions would be nonzero.

All society does in your example is force everyone to give to a cause that not everyone may want to give to. You're able to lower your contribution to the cause by forcing your neighbor to give to it under threat of violence. This is the problem I have with welfare, and this situation is known as "tyranny of the majority," which is what the republic US system sought to avoid.
A lot of "burn in hell" and "good riddance to a Jew" in the comments (some of it quite un-downvoted even after hours!) - more than usual, especially for HN. Does anybody feel that they have (or can link) an unbiased summary of why she is particularly more hated than other politicians? I don't know anything about her.
Good point about short-term vs. long-term.

I think I conflated that in my example, with an additional factor: degree of stress. Such as I'd guess differs between when you can rise to the challenge successfully, and when all your efforts are thwarted.
Linked from this page: https://www.navcen.uscg.gov/gps-problem-report-status

About 500 reports from people saying "GPS on my phone isn't working" and the US Coast Guard and Department of Homeland Security replying that "perhaps your phone is broken".
The data it was trained on and how it is weighted is mostly proprietary.
Workplace culture? When we were in the office, whiteboards were used at least weekly.

A bit different now with remote-first or hybrid... If one person isn't in the office, it's basically dead in the water.
I'm aware of those studies. Nonetheless, the difference to my ears, in my settings, with my equipment, is not slight. It's screaming-in-your-face obvious.

Whether it's because of the math or because of poorly done encoding is only of academic interest. It happens regardless of the cause. Using a lossless encoding resolves the issue entirely.
It is true that some did not oppose communism, but they were fortunately always a minority. They had a very naive and romantic view, which is easier when you don't get to suffer the oppression personally.
Indeed. Go types are like simple locks: they keep honest users honest, but they don't prevent dishonest users from breaking your assumptions. The point is just that "compile-time type safety for enumerations" isn't actually true, or even possible. You always have to do some amount of runtime validation of received values.
Probably because of https://www.epicgames.com/site/de/news/layoffs-at-epic
This issue has absolutely nothing to do with anyone's feelings about the US.
Hope I did not wander out of the non-editorializing guidelines, but summarizing that toot in 80 chars is not trivial.
> It's not the ads I object to, it's the data collection that drives the ads.

I'll take this one step further, it's not the data _collection_ that bothers me, it's the data _sharing_.

I have an Instagram account, I'm fine with Meta hoovering up every tiny bit of data from my account to generate highly targeted ads. They know my posts, my photos, my follows, my comments, my faves. They can use all that data to deliver highly targeted ads directly to my timeline.

What I don't want is Meta knowing anything at all about my actions _outside_ of Instagram. What apps I have installed, my purchase history, my search history, my location, my real-life friends and family. That's all private and Meta should never know about any of it.
> These days modern software is so extremely sophisticated and refined that I can’t think of anything I could improve for say iOS.

> Still love foss, but the idea of “it’s open source, you can improve it yourself any time” has worn off for me.

If you look at major MacOS or iOS releases, you will often see new features being advertised that were copied from FOSS systems that experimented with them and proved them out often many years beforehand.

That is to say: iOS might have the edge on QA, but if you want to have impact and shape the future of how people use computers, contributing in the community is still a good way to do this. And in fact, commercial development tends to rely on this talent pool for survival, as companies do a comparatively poor job in educating new talent. It's where you get people with "job experience" in doing certain things.
To avoid the whole "walking dead" thing that keeps happening to elderly politicians. I think it is self-evidently bad when the people running the country cannot remember what happened yesterday.
Their hexagon grid page is one of the best hexagon grid resources on the web that I've found.
>Hmm I'm curious. He's been basically running non profits all his life. In the US. How can he afford the treatment? Is the FSF big enough to be able to get medical insurance for their employees?

Since he's 70, he's eligible for Medicare[0]. And likely has access to other insurance through his professional affiliation(s) as well.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_(United_States)
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj8xbq/police-are-telling-sh...
I suspect they are trying to compete in the console market without having a console per se. AFAIK the iPhone 15 Pro has 1/3rd of the TFLOPs of the Playstation 5. They also have a smooth TV-connectivity system.

Most people who have consoles in the US already have an iPhone in their pocket. Now you just need a controller, some kind of dock for the phone, and pay off a lot of devs to make games for the platform to get the ball rolling.

This aligns with the new changes on Mac OS and IOS and the Metal API: https://developer.apple.com/metal/
Higher bit rates do help some, but not enough.
As a commie who feels bad about Kronstadt, I got a chuckle out of this. That kind of back-stabbing has happened too often.
The article is titled "Compile-time safety for enumerations in Go" but my example demonstrates that this is not the case.
I firmly believe that the GPS we got is the best option we could have picked.

I've read a lot of the design papers from the 60s and 70s that formed GPS. The initial design was a 3-satellite constellation that would only cover Viet Nam. Options considered [1] included a receiver broadcasting to the satellite (wouldn't scale infinitely) or having an atomic clock in each receiver (high cost and weight). The expectation would be that there were about 100 GPS receivers worldwide: those installed in USAF and USN planes, and possibly some in USN ships or US Army tanks.

One constraint they eventually settled on was that a receiver should be portable (less than 50kg) and inexpensive (less than $500k adjusted)[2]. It just goes to show how far we've come from what was at the time considered ambitious in its size and cost goals.

[1] https://www.xyht.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/3-5-redacted... page 57

[2] https://www.xyht.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/3-5-redacted... page 73