skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As per your link is, it is not so much that "The research out there found no meaningful difference between both styles", but more than the research out there is utter garbage.

Which is what I would expect: a proper research on the topic would be terribly expensive, requiring multiple teams reimplementing complex projects in different languages and separate distinct expert panels evaluating development and results.
True, but that means the length of a meter is a scientific observation we can't individually duplicate.
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Sure. Yet, there were "deep dreams" to generate "unreal" images back then. In my opinion, these are hallucinations - things that happen in dreams (or under the influence of various substances).

See https://blog.research.google/2015/06/inceptionism-going-deep... and https://distill.pub/2017/feature-visualization/.

I would differentiate these dreamy generations (i.e., things that we don't see ordinarily) from generations that are incorrect. Sure, there is overlap.
> If they can so easily compute the correct number anyway why continue with the whole charade of making us answer a whole bunch of barely decipherable questions?

You should look up what Intuit and H&R Block lobby for. They spend massive amounts of money to stop the IRS from just sending you a prefilled out form for you to verify. It's called return-free filling. There have been countless bills to introduce this but they always die. The IRS could technically do it easily, but it isn't authorized to by Congress.

This is one of those stories that breaks every year or two in major newspapers and people are outraged but it never gets better.
“assertion failed: ino_has_vnode(ino)” for me, hints at a filesystem problem.

On the other hand, https://www.macuser.de/threads/macbook-pro-14-stuerzt-ununte... has a similar/the same issue, with somebody else think that, too, but it didn’t seem to be the case

I would start in recovery mode, see whether the kernel panic happens there, too, and if not, try running disk repair.
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Yeah. They couldn't even give us an ultrasonic fingerprint reader, which is one feature that would have convinced me to buy this instead of the 7. The brighter screen and 1TB model are the only upgrades I find compelling.
It's pretty incredible how you know more about our needs, usage, and infrastructure than we do :D

Also don't you think it's funny calling out somebody else's tech choices when you have zero insight into it and when it's worked out perfectly for us?

By the way, how many TBs of vector data are you storing in Postgres and needing to retrieve with minimal latency?
This is poor advice.

Lots of people make a quick judgement on your trustworthiness based on whether you at least have adequate design. If they turn away in 200 ms because of poor design, they will never be able to evaluate what your true value proposition is.

Many decisions in a B2B context are defensively made, so as to avoid the risk of looking stupid in the future if things don't work out. Like the old saying, nobody got fired for buying IBM. If your branding and design isn't at least adequate, again there will be no trust and a fear of being blamed in the future.

I've even had clients tell me that design really doesn't matter and they just want to see functionality right now, only to be shown something with full functionality but poor design and then walk away.

The trick is to not be a perfectionist but to spend the 20% effort that will get you to the 80% which is good enough.
I am headed in the other direction. Making something AI or a computer can't do.

Times are changing and I can't handle another hype cycle.

My CTO is already running around the halls talking to people about "have you done anything with ChatGPT in our projects...you should".
> platonic love

> With two of them I occasionally have sex

these are two conflicting descriptions.
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Usually keyring is separate package which is also signed with a key which can be verified from multiple different sources.

Of course, if you are a target of nation state attack, which fakes public keys from all sources by MITMn DNSs and servers, you might end up with the wrong package.

But that threat model is totally different.
If you spend your life filtering out for the "right kind of customer" based on some Platonic ideal you have of a correct customer you are going to throw 95% of them away
Yes, but also no.

I think the general sentiment (spend time on things that matter) is valid, but to some extremes it might bring more damage than value. In this specific case, either you have a disruptive product such as GPT that sells itself, or you will need to promote the s*t out of it before it has some traction (the common fallacy of "build it and they will come").

So I agree, spending a ton of time customizing a signup or landing page, a powerpoint presentation, etc might be at the same time a waste of time, and the most important thing to do - depending on the circumstances.
> Accidentally jumping in the pool/ocean/lake with your phone. But past that, I'm not often in submerged situations.

This is the main use case, but it's not to be dismissed considering this is a very common cause of phone failure. If this doubles the lifespan of your phone then it effectively ~halves the cost. Which is a big deal when phones are as expensive as they are.
Sharing this not to defend forged paperwork, but because I find it fascinating and think others may as well.

In the 60s and 70s, there was a lot of crossover between automotive and piston aircraft parts. In particular, Cessna used the same voltage regulator as Ford. Ford used millions of these and Cessna tens of thousands. They were all made on the exact same production line and all got a Ford part number.

Relying on statistical process control, Ford demanded a certain percentage of their parts get extra, manual QC inspection. Cessna demanded 100% inspection of their parts.

Solution: make all the parts on the same line, divert enough for the greater of (Cessna production plus spares) or (Ford’s SPC needs), QC that amount and stamp those inspected parts with a Cessna number (in addition to the Ford part number).

Ford and Cessna can each get parts cheaper than if they were handled separately.

Now, the question comes up: if there are no QC failures detected, are the Ford-only parts as safe as the Ford-or-Cessna parts coming off the line?
All of the examples given are about trust. Does the user trust that the product is worth their time to use, does the investor trust that the company will make them money.

There are many ways to gain trust, and you often need some of everything. A website that looks like it was built in the 90s likely won't gain sufficient user trust to even get to proving the value of the features. An investor deck that doesn't pass a minimum bar won't even get a reply, let alone a chance to defend the product.

This is not because people are "shallow" and want their login pages or decks to be pretty, it's because we pattern match to save time. I don't reply to every terrible recruiter email I get because I know from experience that it's unlikely to be of any benefit to me – I don't need to do some job interviews every time to make that reasonable conclusion.

Know your audience, know what their bar is, don't spend time going above and beyond on details that don't matter, but do spend time reaching the bars that are necessary, there are many of them.
"Tell me about a project you worked on..."

That's not asking directly. It's vague. It's ambiguous. It's lazy. It's a cover for not having taken the time to prepare for the meeting (read: interview).

On the other hand, "I see Project X on your CV. Sounds interesting. Tell me more about that...." Is a legit question.

And no one expects every line of code to be looked at. That said, my CV has a section with links to repos. And yet I still get, "Can you send some links to code samples?"

Engineers with an aversion to questions? How about engineers who are tired of showing up to interviews and the hiring person/peoples are unprepared? The questions are a tell, a signal. And too often it's a tell with a smell. The aversion is to that smell.
I wonder how these "visual story telling" articles are created, they are really great.

Like, what tools do the authors have. Are the content authors super tech savvy or not. How much specific code must be created for each article. How long does everything take compared to a normal, mostly-text page. How many people work on one article. etc. Must be pretty interesting.
All software handling untrusted input should be sandboxed really. Even if curl was written in a language that prioritises memory safety, there would still be plenty of opportunity for harmful, exploitable bugs to be introduced.
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I love stuff like this so much. You take something as seemingly complex as time or weight and it ends up boiling down to like a handful of people diligently crunching numbers or a hunk of exactly 1 KG of platinum sitting in the basement of some French lab. Dispelling the "magic" behind these things utterly fascinates me.
> No company will ever make a 5-8 year phone at that price

But they already do? I used my Oneplus X for 6 years and that was $249. Battery is the main reason I stopped using it. That's $3.50/month, maybe an outlier, but I wouldn't pay 10x that to check my messages and get directions.
Your generous explanation seems to run counter to the first part of the second quote, which is that none of Delta’s aircraft are currently flying with unapproved parts. Why would your explanation be true for the first quote and not the second, which is much more directly problematic if false?

I suppose 1 could be true and 2 false, but that seems less likely
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Attention takes in all tokens in the sequence and outputs a new representation of the current token in context. Each layer of the transformer adds more context to the token.

I haven't read this explanation in detail and although they have some nice animations, I wouldn't go to FT to explain machine learning concepts. Here are two well known explanations that might be better:

http://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-transformer/

http://nlp.seas.harvard.edu/annotated-transformer/.
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For fun today I booted up my Pixel 3 XL and it works just fine. It was slow at first, probably as it synced a bunch of stuff, but after that it was about as snappy and useful as I remember it. Everything still works. I used that for 3 years before the Pixel 6 Pro. Before that I had a Pixel XL for 3 years. I still have that phone too in my device collection.

But the lack of security updates makes the XL and the 3XL, though still functioning as expected, not acceptable. This thing has far too much access to my life to actively use it on the Internet every day.

I'm getting the Pixel 8 not because the 6 Pro has any problems (personally I've had none), but rather because I have a bit more disposable income to spend on my tech enthusiasm and I'm excited about a phone with a 7 year software support window (with incidental coverage to support 5 years of accidental damage). If all goes well, I hope to take advantage of more than 3 years of that, assuming some insane new development doesn't happen in the interim.
Makes me think of genetics. We could say that genes and gene expression is associated with some macro behavior, sometimes with an almost 100% match, and sometimes the gene affects several but pretty unrelated biological processes.

Maybe we need a similar discipline to understand models and how each neuron impacts the overall behavior of the model. Neuronics?
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I don’t mind the poor scholarship it offers opportunities to have better ideas. What I love about the ancients is that they are just like us with fewer objects.
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Well, as usual it depends. It depends on who is your target customer and what they value. Here in Hacker News the login page is completely barebones and it's OK. In other cases that won't pass, but a login page using the stock tailwind components (or another library) will be enough.

In general, I'd say that picking a good library of components is necessary for most projects and it will take you to the proverbial 80% results with 20% effort.
Does anyone really read it, though? I'm a catholic and never read it in full... Someone said it on X "if christians really believe that that is the word of God, they should be reading it much more than they actually do". Applies to me..
Eh, the backup is a bit of a pain... The sqlite3 tool supports a .backup command but it's basic and can't even write to stdout, only directly to a file.
There is an online backup api though but most APIs and libraries built around sqlite don't even acknowledge it, let alone support it.
Just copying the sqlite file is of course not a real backup and if done at the wrong time will lead to a corrupted backup.
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I don't remember, probably from the official site - it was 1.5 years ago. Then I was just updating it from the application. For now, I reinstalled it and I will see if it repeats.
I realize that they do binary diffing, but it was not clear to me if setup.exe was only the thing that runs on first install, or if it keeps running. If it keeps running they should definitely try to keep it in check.
I agree Cuneiform tablets is a multistep process of recording an idea.
> Why would anyone do that unless the part was inferior?

To save certification costs. For many safety critical parts, the actual manufacturing is a small part of the cost - the testing / certification process is the bulk of it.

(This is no excuse, natch - the part may or may not be inferior, but without the process we have no way to know; and for safety critical applications WE NEED TO KNOW.)
I wonder whether we'll ever get to a point where the kernel, the drivers and the userland software are all written in memory safe languages, possibly with other safe mechanisms and abstractions thrown in; yet to have it become mainstream and as popular as Linux is now.

Might take decades of work though and probably nobody cares enough for something like that.
There are trivial browser add-ons that fix that, but, yeah, this behavior is annoying, distasteful and borderline deceitful. Not that it'd be shocking though given its origin.
What problem, according you, is Go "trying" to solve?
The International Earth Rotation Service is possibly my favorite name for an international bureaucracy. It give me visions of a Giant Control Lever extending deep into the Earth, with the labels Faster and Slower.
If it makes you feel any better, my daughter is about to turn five and has spina bifida. She is quite the chatterbox, but due to advances in modern medicine, got a brain shunt put in at a very early age so she’s normal intelligence for her age. Her prognosis is quite good, she’ll like live into her 60s or 70s.

The shunt isn’t something we have to think about very often, but it’s truly a remarkable piece of hardware that makes it so she can live a fairly normal life.
#define RAW_BUFFER_SIZE 65536
...
bytesin=read(STDIN_FILENO, raw_buffer, RAW_BUFFER_SIZE);

read() cuts off at 16384 on most systems I've tested, so this will probably not work as expected without checking the read hasn't truncated. 16k is probably more than enough though?
If the angles in a triangle don't add up to 180o then I think that means the triangle is not on a flat plane. An example would be if you took a point on the equator of the earth, moved East or West 1/4 of the earth's circumference and took another point and then projected those two points North until they met at the pole, you would have a triangle with 3 interior right angles.
At least this proves that their marketing was successful :)
I guess a Fairphone 5 (which will also have 5 year OS, 8 year security updates) is the best chance of this.
Your conclusion is hard to argue against, but I'd like to pitch in that some customers explicitly want something that's not well designed.

In particular, those customers that think adopting an early-stage prototype will give them a competitive advantage, they expect something that's not well designed. If they get something shiny when they've asked for a prototype, they'll be worried you're trying to hide a turd behind the polish, whereas if you give them something that doesn't look great, they'll know you're serious about giving them the latest, rawest, earliest experience of whatever it is you're innovating on.

(Of course, "early adopters" is a rather small market niche, so you might not grow very far doing just this.)
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Computers should be using TAI and converting to UTC when humans want to see a local human time. My sincere belief is this was a bigger mistake than null, bigger than all the Y2K “we stored the year as 2 digits” stuff… The fact that from the BIOS/system Firmware up “we” decided to use a fuzzy time scale that changes on an unpredictable but just infrequent enough almost everyone can ignore it even exists except for when it changes and they remember it exists… genuinely a poor choice that I suspect is in large part due to a lot of people not knowing about TAI
I propose calling it artificial non-diligence.
Curiously, I noticed people here mention that camera on older iPhones is taking ages to open. I'm on iPhone7, battery never replaced ("battery health: significantly degraded" as reported by iOS), so goes from 100% to 10% in about 12 hrs with "normal" use. However, camera opens just fine.
> When was the last time you changed your mail id?

19 years ago, the minute gmail offered a better alternative to Yahoo!
I'm not sure you can claim that the essential functionality of something is the issue with something.

The whole idea of LLMs is that they chose the most likely token based on the tokens before, and then sometimes chose less likely tokens. But it's all based on likelihoods.

Probably there is a huge education part missing from this, if people aren't aware that this is how it works, and they think that any LLM can "creatively" come up with it's own chain of tokens based on nothing.
The Magic 8 Ball (invented in 1946) also confabulate not hallucinate. It is just a evergreen hype to attach human properties (in a psychiatric context... brain damage... amnesiac patient...) to objects that have zero connection to human intellect.

IBM Watson from 2010 won Jeopardy. Markov Chains were described in 1906 and used for a long time to simulate human activities (including simulation of blabbering of mentally handicapped). In Ancient Rome there were "talking boards" (some kind of Ouija boards) to predict the successor to the king. It is just a tendency for perception to do such associations, similar to pareidolia.
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I too once thought "Why don't girls like me for who I am, why do I have to dress nice and make myself presentable, this is just a façade and I want them to love me for who I am inside", but then I grew up and understood that appearances matter and there's no point in fighting people's feelings. You might say "don't worry buddy, my startup is really good and effective, don't mind the messy styling and presentation" but why place that hurdle on your business when just a tiny bit of effort can make a big difference.

There's no need to be pixel perfect, but some eye for colors and proportions goes a long way, just like there's no need to perfectly groom every single hair, but a nice shave and deodorant go a long way.
When I was around 14 or so I read an blogpost that we would now describe as being incel-like. It had a really profound and negative effect on my relationships with women for almost a decade unfortunately.
See the Ford/Cessna VR story here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37776842

That’s paperwork and an ink stamp as the only difference.

There are other cases now where NDT is used on high-grade bolts and Heim joints. Parts coming off the same line are sold with a -M suffix (“this bolt was individually magnaflux tested and can go on an aircraft”) or not (“this part can go on a tractor”).

Where no failures are ever found in NDT, I think most practical engineers would agree that the parts are physically identical.
> Any UI is worse than a good AI assistant that I can chat/talk to.

Good lord no. Never. Not in a trillion years will I be okay with interacting with these data hoovering blackboxes rather than just fucking clicking on the button with my mouse.
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Wouldn't this process also contribute to climate change by trapping energy on Earth that would have been reflected back into space?

Edit: Apparently, yes, current PV solar may also do this:

> We found temperatures over a PV plant were regularly 3–4 °C warmer than wildlands at night

https://www.nature.com/articles/srep35070

But I suspect/conjecture that turning sunlight directly into heat, then turning some of that heat into electricity, would capture even more heat from sunlight.

Because some of the heat in the sphere will re-radiate, but much of it will inevitably be lost to convection and conduction.
I agree, I'm not sure if I'm just a complete blind Apple fan boy but I truly think their products have mostly improved many aspects of my life including their "Focus Modes". I am rarely disturbed when I don't want to be and I get the notifications I need at the right times.

By far the greatest feature of my Apple watch is being contactable while out on a hike without access to any Meta products. It's absolute bliss. I guess someone at Meta is trying to workout how to make us all completely addicted to our watch screens too but until then, it's paradise. A smart phone on my risk with zero distractions.
This was a sarcasm btw
This is terrible advice. The author is essentially discounting the value of aesthetic, which is nonsense, and then suggesting that if you do value aesthetic you automatically have a bad product or a bad investor, again utter rubbish.

I argue it’s the other way, discounting aesthetic in this way to me says you are either lazy (and therefore I should be concerned about credibility and other gaps) or you are a contrarian in which case you will likely be high maintenance and trouble.
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Android has been replacing a lot of core components with Rust and other memory safe languages. The Asahi team built a GPU driver in Rust recently. Seems like things are moving in the right direction.
Interesting, thanks for sharing this
Could have plundered Google.
> in a previous life I worked at a startup

It's very fascinating that you remember your previous life
Even in 2007, he was ~50 years late.
> But I think it's interesting to remember how slow that took. The iPhone was released in 2007, but the real winners of mobile were launched years later -- Uber (2010), Snapchat (2011), and TikTok (2016)

You mean how fast that took, right?