skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That may be true for now, because generative AI models are still at the "look at all the cool things we can do" stage of development. But like all new technology, they'll soon reach the value engineering stage - when they'll be "optimized" by removing quality, cutting corners, and papering deficiencies over with marketing, until - like all inventions before - they'll become the worst possible version of a product the vendors can still call "fit for purpose" without being laughed out off the court.

Enjoy it while it lasts, but try not to make anything critically dependent on it, as soon enough, we'll all be regretting being stuck with the inferior facsimile, victims to the usual market bait&switch.
Fair. Yet something as core as an OS should be planned to be OS'ed once you don't want to maintain it. Even just the fact that it's non trivial and large would justify to structure code for new joiners.

Large tech companies all try to pass as green nowadays, yet consider the waste that throwing away code that would likely interest others represents - even after two decades of service.
They're not operating a showroom.
Is that advisable? It won’t learn anything new and might reinforce its errors.
I'm assuming that _most_ people don't do any non-trivial daily exercise yes. According to this map [0], nearly a quarter of Americans or more in almost every state in the US haven't done _any_ significant physical activity in the past month.

So it's not that you are unusual in that you sweat profusely (I'd agree that most people probably need a shower after any decently vigorous exercise), you are unusual because you exercise regularly.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/physicalactivity/data/inactivity-prevale...
Cigarettes aren't harmful, no siree

Fossil fuels are helping the climate, if anything

Social media? All good homie

AI would never hurt you, pinky promise

Signed,
Your pal, Big Tech/Pharma/Whatever
> "Baby Got Back"

If you remember the maniacal focus on thinness in the 2000s, this was actually an important and supportive song.

(Also, he's a hobbyist electrical engineer now.)
Don't know why you think that, I learnt some COBOL using microfocus' compiler on a pc at college, it was fine.
> Anticipation of what?

> it won't get the attention it needs until attractive hardware is ready to ship.

Dunno what to say!

Windows RT is the perfect example; software was not ready, and is still not

It's only been 11 months that Visual Studio can run on ARM
I think the price of devices worked hard against it. A lot of CE fans would only ever have 2nd-hand CE hardware - because they couldn't afford used car prices for the new stuff.
Conservatives are increasingly knives out for the nation's top cyber agency
The owner of this website (www.bleepingcomputer.com) has banned your IP address.

Anyone else?
Scientists identify more than 2k quakes at the Long Valley Caldera
Symbol barcode scanner PDAs used to run Windows CE also. IIRC, there was a cheaper PDA-like version with a laser scanner usable instead of the bulky industrial pistol-grip ones. I'm sure UPS or FedEx still use WinCE-based devices to do their job.

I'm curious. Does anyone know what model / OS Amazon fulfillment centers use for their field force handheld devices?
To be fair to Mongo, I've seen an enterprise application with an embedded Postgres backend choke on itself every single time it's upgraded the database. Of course, I'm a sysadmin and we had an enterprise support contract so that was not a big deal.

MongoDB is perfectly fine at what it's designed for: Enterprise data infrastructure. But while needing a sysadmin or a support call may be no big deal for an enterprise platform, for an open source project without a customer support team or any product telemetry, the risk of shipping a less than perfect database upgrade is extreme.

Tempest, or course, uses SQLite, which is far more suited to the role here with ten years of hindsight.
"Man wildly shooting gun into the air complains that regulating the discharge of firearms prevents him from wildly shooting a gun into the air. Claims it's perfectly safe. Some members of crowd have doubts."
That's scary high. Those aren't candy, and that's prescription based so a doctor must have evaluated the patient and seen fit to prescribe these.
Just a fun rejoinder. One of the most important 'papers' [1] in the history of quantum mechanics was a short 'letter to the editor' by Bohr, in which he quickly plugged some numbers into a formula and compared with a recent experiment. Probably didn't take him more than a few hours to write it.

That observation told us that we were on the right track of both predicting and explaining the spectra of atoms.

Of course, this paper is likely nothing like Bohr's work. But sometimes very simple ideas have far reaching consequences.

[1] https://zenodo.org/records/1429570
Smart people have smart kids and said kids do better on tests. Another garbage article not considering the genetic confounding.
5 Rankine is 2.55555555... Kelvin for anyone wondering which is there or thereabouts in the range of an average air conditioner.
But for that to work Sandstorm itself has to be as easy to install as an app on your phone, and there needs to be way more apps.
So they’re conflating AI with pure rational intelligence. Seems false to me. A more likely scenario I would have thought is that proper general and conscious AI will be made in our image to some extent at least being influenced by our behaviours as one of the most conspicuous phenomena it could observe.

Once we have AI that is intelligent and something else, doors are wide open. Einstein want the only kind of intelligent human there’ there is. Intelligent psychopaths exist too.

Beyond that, presuming a perfect AI rather than an imperfect one seems another fallacy here.
I've seen it more in the context of security, if you want developers to use a malicious library or extension, you can buy stars to give it a fake reputation boost making people more likely to use it.
Can someone explain why work visas are an acceptable thing?

How come the government can know better than the companies who should they employ?

Is there a risk of Apple employing an Afghan shepherd as a product manager if there wasn’t a visa requirement?

If it is about creating artificial scarcity to rig the job market, I’m not sure it works for the employees since the work visas are tied to a job so as a result you end up with employees who can’t stand against their employers of fear getting deported.

IMHO, the visa reform should be abolishing the visa regime. Just security checks.

Why not have a meritocratic job? And no, nationality is a skill.

Very unpopular opinion - I know but just can’t get an explanation on why everyone loves visas so much. Why do you love being limited with your options and controlled by the bureaucracy.
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In that case, I would think the company should also show that an equivalent job is offered to non-visa worker with a similar pay. Without that, such rule would not be sustainable.
I find it mildly interesting that Apple’s pricing scales linearly at these higher levels:

50GB: $0.99

200GB: $2.99

2TB: $9.99

6TB: $29.99

12TB: $59.99

Given they usually want to tempt you to make that step up to the next level I wonder if they consider 6TB and above to still be real niche territory.

Personally I’m conflicted about the whole thing. $29 a month for 6TB of storage feels insane. But I can’t argue with the utility of having all my photos accessible immediately.

Once upon a time I had an Apple router with hard disk storage, I’d love it if I could buy one today and have it contribute to my iCloud storage. Apple TVs already do more than just show videos: they’re HomeKit hubs. A future model could have an option for extra storage. But they’d never make as much money that way.
Where do they get the energy for the synthesis from?
Exactly. You can't even search within just one bookmark folder in chrome or do fuzzy search. Bookmark manager UX is hot garbage.
CPP is city owned, doesn’t sound like anyone is stopping them.
Thanks! That's a relief.
Orbstack still seems to rely on docker's virtualization. We need something better than docker to improve on this.
I remember being able to find documentation for some Windows aspects only in Windows CE stuff, I guess that's the reason!!!
They don't have standing to auto file a counter notice. And then if someone accidentally publishes something copyrighted to github, they probably don't want to go through a lawsuit.

I looked at the code some, there are some app secrets stored and used, so they probably have at least a thin claim.
Colorado Law Would Charge Owners for Driving Giant Trucks and SUVs
I haven't kept up on my Python-flavoured shells. How is this different with xonsh? What similarities does it have with xonsh?

Looking for a compare/contrast, not a ranking. Diversity is usually good

Kudos to author, this looks really good
i hate to be that guy but... source?
I hate the community, so I'm one of those folks. I stay here because occasionally something interesting pops up and because I have literally nothing else to do.
OS/2 seemed to have filled much of the 'not Windows' market for ATMs.
> Can someone explain why work visas are an acceptable thing?

Because citizens vote and migrant workers don't?
I think this may be another issue with "AI", is people will go "We'll it's just intelligence it doesn't have X". But we already know this is bullshit as models show the agility to manipulate.

Even more so the paperclip maximizer allegory shows that no desire of domination is needed, only a goal.
If you were to share your current job's private repos with me, I wouldn't hire you since that's a signal that you would do the exact same when you leave my company.
Had a similar experience trying to change my billing country for Google One. The support staff would not reassure me that I wouldn't lose any data by cancelling my plan, waiting until it expires in a year, and resubscribing with the new payment method.

I asked multiple times and they just kept dodging the question - turns out you also do have a 30 day grace period in which you can resubscribe, so it worked out fine.
An Ada image with zero use of Ada.
Ask HN: How to deal with Interviewer/HR trying to extract information?
I applied for a job at our main competitor. I've had two interviews with them so far and I'm really disappointed. It seems that their HR and the hiring manager is more interested what my current company is doing rather than what my expertise is.

Question: How do you navigate such questions? I feel like I ethically can't share non-public information with competitors. But their HR was pushing hard for more detailed info that I basically refused to share.

In the current market, I don't have a lot of options so I'm between a rock and hard place. What do?
Disabling the distracting touchscreens is one of the things that Mazda does right. Pecking at the screen while driving is stupidly dangerous.

Pretty much everything you need can be done with at most a few steps of the commander interface which are easy to learn.
> In my opinion, industries with low barriers of entry are fundamentally incompatible with - atleast the current flavor of - capitalism, if you use user harm as the metric.

Agreed. Tech is exemplary here, and so is all media since it went digital: when natural barriers to entry are low, the first thing companies do is to establish artificial ones, whether by abusing the legal system, or by piling up so much marketing bullshit it creates new barriers ex nihilo, right there in the minds of consumers.
I think by sheer definition it would be surveillance though.
I've seen the occasional memory leak from Youtube and Twitter, but only once a month. Not a big deal since I try to reboot for security updates every 3-6 months anyway.
What you’re proposing is unlimited immigration. The government checks are to make sure the limited immigrants we get are of high quality.
Don't forget networking. Having to deal with DNS, NAT, port mapping, TLS, firewalls, etc etc is a complete non starter for basically everyone.

IMO we need a nice simple OAuth2-based protocol for setting up something like Cloudflare tunnels.
despite being "dumber than cats", facebook already has a documented history of doing damage to society

> If it were true that the smartest humans wanted to dominate others, then Albert Einstein and other scientists would have been both rich and powerful, and they were neither.

yet Einstein was one of the signatories of the letter than triggered the Manhattan project

> I think it’s exciting because those machines will be doing our bidding,” he said. “They will be under our control.”

this seems like hubris when facebook struggles to control its current recommendation engine
America is so weird. To someone on the outside it just seems like the two parties just take turns getting into power and ordering all the agencies in their control to harass their 'enemies'.
Ask HN: Why Build Models from scratch?
Hello - for those Data Scientists/MLEs who build models from scratch (i.e. say building a least squares model without using sklearn, etc.), why? Are there performance benefits if the pre-built model isn't built with a faster language or maybe restrictions on imports?
I think the term is "home schooling".
Just using the name "Marcel the Shell" probably isn't enough to be legally actionable.

Plenty of books, films, and TV shows have the same titles, which indicates that titles alone typically don't enjoy the protection of exclusivity.

Copyrighted characters and trademarks have a better chance of that, but those aren't being appropriated here, just the name.

"Marcel" is also a common first name, which makes it less likely that the creators of the film can claim any exclusive use of it, and "the Shell" is completely descriptive in this context, so unlikely to cause copyright issues.
> Spelling and word identity are distinct.

What I'm saying is:

1. If "midori" began with the meaning "sprout", then...

2. its spelling in early texts should have been 芽 [sprout] and not 綠 [green].

The spellings were fixed a long time before the article identifies the change as taking place.

The Japanese spelling of a word must develop by either (1) the Japanese borrowing a Chinese word with the meaning of the Japanese word; (2) option #1, but the Japanese meaning of the word later shifts; (3) option #1, but the Japanese spelling of the word later shifts [this would be weird]; (4) indigenous innovation of a character; or (5) refusal to use a character at all.

"Midori" appears to have begun its life by being spelled as if it meant "green" and to have continued to mean "green" since that time. This is strange if it originally meant "sprout", and I'd like to know more about the claim and the history.
Your domestic workforce would rapidly be replaced with cheaper alternatives.
Even worse. I mean... What developers? Did you see any?
I think if you submit more than one application you should be processed last.

The spirit of the H-1B visa is being a last resort when filling vacant positions. "Prior deference" doesn't make much sense to me.
> All I'm saying is that official map boundaries these days should be used.

Pray tell, which official map boundaries should be used?

The whole problem being that officials disagree of course.
This won’t work.
1/ this will incentive IT and software jobs and marginalize other fields with lower pay (physics, mechanical, chemical, etc).

2/ this would mean only bigger software companies would get a chance and people would willing to work in startups will stand lower chance.

What we need is a way to avoid abuse by body shops.
That is a very bad, no good idea.

A good language-specific package manager should know how to resolve its dependencies and maybe install them locally, but most importantly provide this information to the system package manager (apt, rpm, etc.) to handle.

Having "pip install x" is a poor man's ad-hoc system package manager.
Uh, well, because that's contrary to the operation of every other professional airline company in the world.

Would you think it was strange if suddenly the New York Times only had pictures of dogs? That would raise some questions from me, for sure.
Amp links still exist
Reason for it is thermals
FWIW, that is also how it feels to a lot of us who live inside it as well.
This isn't something they're offering for your benefit. Google wants your data for themselves while keeping it from their competitors. A free VPN (which this isn't) from a reputable company would be nice, but Google is not a reputable company. When the EFF offers a free anonymizing VPN I might be tempted, but for-profit companies that make their money by exploiting the private data of others shouldn't even be considered.
O-1 visas are for extraordinary talent. H-1B is for ordinary people with some education or work experience, and supposedly only in situations where such talent is in short supply in the US. What is missing is the middle category: a visa based on objective criteria that lets people work in the US, if their accomplishments are sufficient that it's reasonable to assume that their presence would be beneficial to the country.
Or, one corrupt party ignores illegal activity because they personally benefit from it, and the other chooses to enforce laws when they're in power.
Over the years I’ve seen many examples and articles about how ugly design encourages users to create without anxiety about being judged on quality. Examples include Minecraft, Craigslist and rage comics.
It was most notably helpful in litigation against the White House Office of Management and Budget. Was suing for one week of email metadata records (to, from, CC, bcc, time, date) in the last week of Jan 2017. They said that they had no way to complete the request. So we sent them multiple one liners that extracts the info from outlook 365, which pipes it to a csv export command. They told us that they didn't run that sort of command as a routine practice, but we found a separate lawsuit that found emails of the exact command we were asking them to run.
That's where you make a browser extension to dump your tabs before closing all
shure, of course.

OK, enough!

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This is very cool but it needs a nix package. :) I may try my hand at packaging it for Nix(OS) later this week
> It'd be nice if some agency actually held him to that promise.

And then what do they do if he does not? SpaceX is a sacred cow.
On my PC, I limit my FPS to 24 (via graphics card settings). It uses far less power, and runs considerably cooler.
Not me. Are you on a VPN?
The housing market looks like a bubble, 2008 regulator says
> If I predict an earthquake in San Francisco "tomorrow" every single day, at some point, I will be correct.

Not quite the same issue, but a similar logical space: I sometimes give the example of someone living by a volcano and maintaining a sign that predicts it will not erupt today, claiming 100% accuracy.

Thirty years later, it erupts, and they amend their sign: "99.99% accuracy".

Point being that context and Bayesian prior probability are pretty important.
I think OP is just doubting the government's ability to know which immigrants are higher quality vs. the companies who seek to employ them.
Will Hurd is one I can think of off the top of my head: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Hurd
And training, a lot of training to stay current and up to date on changes.
All the surrounding ecosystem for batch scheduling (JCL, Tivoli), databases (IDMS, IMS, Adabas, DB2, etc), something like what we would call an app server (CICS), role based access control (RACF), and others I've missed.
Depending on which cores it’s moving between it could be a performance issue if they don’t share a cache. I don’t know if it actually is or was.
Sounds like a free market to me. Maybe everyone should be paid fairly. If you can be replaced by a third world country immigrant, you should be. You should have acquired enough skills in your prosperous country.
This sets the precedent that if you find a way to improve your life using Mazda, you have to worry about Mazda going out of their way to break you.

Like, the literal least Mazda could have done to support their users here was nothing, and they found a way to do worse than that.
I really was happy with my Nokia 1020 and Dell Venue phones. I ended up going back to Android after the death of Windows Phone till I got frustrated with the lack of support of even former flagship devices and switched to Apple. I've gotten used to Apple, but I really still miss how intuitive and customizable Windows Phone was.
> the other chooses to enforce laws* when they're in power

* except the ones that would affect them.
The greatest difference between the US and the UK is just that: the US is a far more chaotic, violent, and generally unpleasant society compared to the UK, but it has an extraordinarily robust legal system and institutions that balance each other's power so that nobody is ever really in full control. The UK is a fairly pleasant place to live--at the moment. But things are starting to go downhill a bit, the government is becoming, ever so slowly, more authoritarian, and there is no legal backstop: in the end, the UK is an absolute monarchy with an embodied sovereign power, everything goes back to the Crown. If a far-right party comes to power and parliament becomes effectively dissolved, there is no telling how far and how rapidly they could change society.

That is simply not the case in the US, where, in fact, a right wing populist did come to power, did try to subvert the election process, did try to (indirectly) eliminate congress, and failed on every front. And he failed so hard that people might re-elect him since they don't think he could succeed the second time around anyway. Yes, people shoot each other all the time, the violent crime rate per capita is incredibly high, and society in general is plagued by inequality and racial tension. But the chaos drives the country forward. The UK is quiet, calm, comfortable (workers schedule their strikes!) There is no room for real organized dissent. It would take the dissolution of the monarchy for real change to come about, but they aren't going to do that here. They aren't going to do anything.
Many CPUs have already specualtion barriers. But of course they are slow.
On what machine? As I mentioned up thread, if a machine with similar specs can't handle that many tabs, something is misconfigured. Eg maybe memory timings are way too conservative or the wrong power profile is in use.

If you open Resource Monitor before the freeze, you can usually see what happened on the graphs. If you're fast enough, you can also click "analyze wait chain" to see something that looks like a stack trace. The graphs and trace should make it pretty obvious why an app is frozen. Eg maybe it's trying to save the history sqlite database and your SSD ran out of SLC cache.
Exactly. I don’t believe that a company can be worse than the government in picking their employees. If the government has the ability to pick skilled employees, maybe all the employees(not just the immigrants)should be picked by the bureaucrats.
Ha! Yes you're right, units matter. For me it was 2 km/hour, on rides for an hour or so typically above 20 km/hour, on a hybrid bike, on long streets in Marin. The ellipticals worked especially well, for me, in combination with bar ends.
The libertarian in me is opposed to this on principle, yet these large vehicles impose a lot of externalities:

road wear and damage due to increased weight

accidents between pedestrians due to high hood height and less visibility, other motorists of smaller cars

congestion

less parking space
Yeah that makes sense. But my general point is that it often makes some sense to invest in a technology that is in the process of being deployed more widely, rather than a technology that is naturally limited in reach. Cell (and satellite) coverage is likely to broaden and move down the cost curve, PLC won't ever be used for anything besides this, and likely isn't going to see much innovation because of that relatively small target market.