skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They aren't praising Apple. It's the incredibly lame, intellectually vapid "only silly people buy Apple devices, and for silly reasons!" noise that has been the tired retort of weird anti-Apple sorts of the past decade and a half. That people are still plying this rhetoric in 2023 is simply pathetic.

Particularly weird given that a) Apple devices stay in service much longer than competitors, b) Apple sales swooned as well. It turns out that people are pretty satisfied with their devices.
There’s some good points on here that I might share with some tutoring students, esp about greenfield and how that’s really a coveted thing in a social setting of engineers. I do think the tone should be worked on so it is less.. bleak. Like, I don’t really remember being nervous about how long something would take me, unless I was concerned it was impossible to do to begin with. I also didn’t have to deal with thinking about the job all the time, because I was doing it, which is a tongue and cheek way of saying if you want to succeed, work life balance might look different to you than to the peer next to you.
Oh that's too harsh. Don't forget, you could subscribe to this valuable and expensive to run HTTP handler for an ongoing $45/year.
US nonsense only. In democratic countries I never heard of such shenanigans. Some costly treatments are denied, yes, but not in such clear cases.
It's not relevant to the premise of the article, though. I don't understand how someone committing a crime means we should change what gender we address them as.

Does this mean that, for people you like, you respect their gender, while you do the opposite for people you dislike?
All you need is an option you can set on a private repo in Github so that if you close your account or don't pay your fees for 3 months it automatically becomes public rather than gets deleted.
I like the store metaphor.

Shopping list is set and I should be in and out in 15 mins but it turns out there is no ketchup - so do I go to another store to get ketchup or mustard will do. Product owner my Girlfriend has to decide because she is doing the cooking and will present it to customers our guests, and she knows if they like mustard or not because she talks to them more often than I do.

But yeah going to another store might make dinner late and I cannot know this until I actually arrive at the store that there is no ketchup on the shelves.
I downvoted you because you don't make sense. Maybe rephrase and use proper capitalization?
This is no problem for the initial version but businesses and the environment they operate in change, you are in general not going to figure out what you will need ten years down the road. And then it really depends, maybe everything is fine, but maybe you also made choices early on that allowed you to save time and the price of limited flexibility and this eventually bites you.
Really good reframing and perspective. I think all this absolutely can be spot on. I have personally experienced this kind of work a few times in my career, and yeah, I agree that when I'm in one of these environments, it's almost certainly a better job than anything else anyone else I know is doing.

But I also think the ability to flip the script into this positive experience really does vary between organizations and even within organizations. And it's basically impossible to evaluate it accurately before taking the job and doing the first three to six months of work there. And then if you do conclude it's not a conducive environment to do great work in, it's easy to feel stuck, or to very reasonably feel like you might just go through the exact same thing at the next organization after putting a bunch of energy into getting unstuck.

I don't really have advice here I guess... I think there's a lot of luck involved.

I guess maybe my advice would be that I think this is one of the good reasons to start out at a "big tech" company if you can. They have all these difference that exist across companies, but they have them across teams or divisions within a single company, and it's both a bit easier to figure out what the good teams are, and a bit easier to switch teams than companies.
"folks" are serfs in this system
Everyone on the receiving end of a tacit subsidy is pretty happy about it.
"Supercharged Interpolation" is not a thing that exists sorry.

Learning in high dimensions always results in extrapolation.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.09485

And I would love to see the human that can generalize beyond their training distribution.
RoadRunner: High performance PHP app server, load balancer and process manager
My tldr: intermittent fasting is easier to adhere to than calorie restriction.

Or in plain English: it’s easier to get someone to eat less by getting them to limit windows in which they eat than to ask them to eat less and keep the same routine.

Tre = intermittent fasting
Cr = calorie restriction

The TRE group reported being adherent with their eating window a mean (SD) of 6.1 (0.8) days per week (87% of days) over 6 months (eFigure 2 in Supplement 2). In the CR group, 17 participants (68%) reported being adherent with their prescribed calorie goals during the 6-month trial (eFigure 2 in Supplement 2). Participants in the TRE group reported finding their diet intervention easier to adhere to compared with CR group participants (eFigure 3 in Supplement 2

Full text:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...
Really great book I bought years ago from a recommendation on HN; of course.
Cardboard Standing Desk DIY
I agree that is a good goal. But the most robust realization of goal is less homeownership, and boxing in landowners.

Looks like Switzerland is doing a good job of the former. The rent control is more important to make renting lower risk (avoiding rent increase risk and building land wealth are two different goals of homeownership, the first is much more laudable).

Curtailing rental incoming is similar to an LVT, except it doesn't have the incentives for densification. Europe could probably use a bit more of the latter so there is less immigration vs cheap housing going on.
I am a power user who notices every upgrade, but totally understand that majority are not working from their phone for the entire day.

It’s a very interesting question, hardware wise, on what it would take to make a new device interesting…
https://github.com/spiral/roadrunner
I was thinking the same thing: surely the needs of low-level languages intended as compilation targets are different from languages intended to be programmed in directly? Especially if the goal is to be able to accommodate different high-level language paradigms, which WASM seems to be aiming for.
> "Mass surveillance by a benevolent AI is the best outcome for humanity."

Except that "benevolent AI" doesn't exist, and likely won't exist before the evil humans abuse existing AI to destroy humanity.
I was so sure that my iPhone did that for me. I have setup one shortcut to send a notification when I reach 35% (to not go too below) and another one when I reach 85% (to not go too above). Since I'm in front of a computer all day, I never charge during the night anymore.
> If there was, their data wouldn't be lumped in with everyone else

You're giving the World's Largest And Most Ineffective Bureaucracy far too much agency.

> You won't be able to remove that stuff now that it's out

Who said it needs to be removed in order to secure these servicemembers' identities?

> That's not any kind of solution

It's the only solution that will work; to treat it as a constiutional mandate. It's one of the only ways to enforce widespread change when it comes to individual rights. Source: history.
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"Participants were aged 18 to 80 years with obesity and T2D."

Do the results apply to people who have no obesity and no T2D ?
Well I guess this is the best time to say that HuggingFace hosts many open source chat models, one of my favorites is a finetuned version of Mistral 7B: https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceH4/zephyr-chat
I didn't pick up disdain or displeasure from your original message, and I didn't feel bad for you. I felt good for you! I thought "here's someone like me, who's making a decent living in a nice job, but who has a good sense of perspective and isn't getting caught up in the inane irrelevant trivialities of the tech workplace that are ultimately utterly meaningless."
You can make a living doing something you enjoy without having to buy into every single aspect of a corporate workplace and without tangling up your identity with your job. Some of us work to live, and are happy doing that. It's not a failure to be not totally consumed with your career.
Honestly once you learn the truth about their finances their banner campaign are actually the absolute pits of advertising and the most deceptive and emotionally manipulative type of advertising going.

Laughable to claim wikipedia is "ad free" just because the one ad is for wikipedia.
You can do that today depending on what you need from the models.
I was forced to Google something earlier. It's like when you discover 'craft' coffee/beer/baked goods/whatever and then go back and try the mass market stuff. How did I ever live like this?
> hahaha seriously. this is the internet they want to go back to.

Well there were obviously good and bad things about it.

Some people think there's a way to be inclusive unlike the way it was once very exclusive while still embracing the general ethos of the original Internet - which was people connected directly via the infrastructure rather than through third party corporations.

We can have an inclusive internet - digital democracy, as it was once called - without walled gardens.
Hate to be that guy because I know what you were trying to say, but not really, not necessarily. You can avoid eating for the first X hours of the day and then gorge yourself on a huge meal and be in a caloric surplus at the end of the day.
> That's where the brand comes in: they're supposed to have something to lose.

Samsung is a huge brand, and had significant issues with battery fires. The bigger the brand, the less they lose because they swim in money and have specialists dedicated to PR damage control.

In fact, brands seem more likely to be the ones that manage to stuff more battery capacity in there, increasing risk and scope of damage.
Thanks, I'll keep an eye and hopefully.
Yeah, upgrades used to be worth it and the phone were $500 and not $1200
Dammit, how do I do internal announcements in slack without a DALL-E picture?
With this idea of "wasted work", it's no wonder that many people don't think twice about using AI image generators in unethical ways.
I've literally read several articles today (mostly via HN) from which I have garnered enough value to pay at least $1 to each author. And I'd gladly pay it, as long as it's not a subscription and I don't have to enter my card details all over the place, or have my money charged as a large number of individual transactions.
I think that one very important issue got left out: always be learning. The colleagues that ended up having to change careers were ones who refused to keep current with technology. Or who treated education like a vaccine: "get it" once and never again. "Learning how to learn" is probably the most important skill one learns in college, yet it is treated as a side issue (if at all). So many tech stacks have ended up on the "dustheap of history", yet we have to constantly learn new ones.
I've had nothing but bad experiences with Chamberlain in IoT integration discussions. I have since replaced all garage door openers I own with Genie/OHD.
I'd actually agree to a significant extent that people should own their employment (this is the original American Founding ideal of "free labor" that Jefferson and Lincoln both believed in) but I think you're better off not using the word "socialism" to describe that economic system. People associate that word with "communism" which is defined as a dictatorship where the government operates as a single monopoly under the pretense of representing the will of the people. The word "socialism" is also associated with corporate dominated market systems where the government provides a safety net and some labor rights for working people.

A system where workers are part owners of their companies is probably better described as "distributed ownership" to avoid confusing connotations. If the first thing you have to do is explain to people that you're not advocating a Nordic style welfare state or a USSR/CCP/North Korean style dystopian dictatorship, you're using problematic terminology.

If I'm misunderstanding you and you're advocating that all businesses should be controlled by a (democratic) government rather than by their employees then I'd be against that because most people are not going to have enough time, under any system, to become informed about stuff they have no direct stake in. I don't want politicians or voters responding to a media fear campaign telling businesses what products to produce and such a system would almost certainly devolve into incumbent politicians using the media to keep themselves in power and ensure their preferred successors win. I think it essential that decisions on whether to start new firms or what they are to produce should be mostly depoliticized except where there's a strong public interest that the government needs to regulate (like firms that want to pollute the environment or sell harmful highly addictive products).

An economy completely under the control of a democratic government would allow 50%+1 people who don't like Taylor Swift's music to ban her from singing and deprive 40% of the population who are fans of her music of their right to listen to her sing (or in the case of representative democracy, allow a majority to vote for a "lesser evil" party that includes outlawing Taylor Swift concerts as one of their package deal policies). A more extreme example of why democracy needs to be limited in scope would be how the democratic government of Athens voted, by majority popular vote, to execute Socrates because his constant challenging questions they didn't want to answer were annoying to them.
I just "upgraded" my phone and for the first time my new phone is worse than my old one.

I only upgraded because I noticed my old phone (Huawei P20 pro) was no longer getting android updates and I was concerned for the security of it.

My new phone (pixel 8) feels worse in almost every regard.

I can't even customise the home screen as much ( Literally cannot remove a link to Chrome and other google apps ).

Given it's 5 years newer, it doesn't even feel any faster or snappier, the P20 pro did a remarkable job at remaining fast and having decent battery life.

It's a lot lighter, but aside from that it feels like a downgrade.

If a 5 year old phone can still hold up against a new phone, admittedly not the top of the range pixel 8 pro, but a new phone nonetheless, then why would you upgrade every 2-3 years?
Just buy a new iPhone with a carrier subsidy, and use it for 4-6 years probably replacing the battery once during that time.
Scheme WASM Tail Call Situation
HN needs to get more sophisticated with its response to this risk. RISC-V is a lot more than AI; that's why it would be a tragedy if any restrictions happen. BUT there is a genuinely big emphasis on using it for AI tech. RISC-V summit is happening right now; there's basically an entire track of talks dedicated to matrix/vector optimization and proposals. We need to brainstorm acceptable compromises in case this continues picking up steam. Bad example but you get the idea: what if the restriction just got focused on RVV rather than RISC-V at large?
I quit my remote sw engineering job cold turkey a few months ago. same bullshit as you. But I have a high risk tolerance and supreme confidence in my skills that I can get to the same level or higher in future if I choose to.

Only you can really answer this question
You need that. I like the internet as it is.
One of the fundamental problems with most things on the internet is that there’s unlimited output. A socially dysfunctional shut-in living on the internet is simply going to have a much larger output than someone with a healthy social life that only uses the internet in moderation. Someone who is judicious about their upvotes is going to have a much smaller impact than some who just reflexively upvotes or downvotes everything based on kneejerk reactions. This becomes even more prevalent when you add gatekeepers. Most people don’t have time to be volunteer editors or moderators. Or to park themselves in the new submissions section deciding what should make it to the front page and what should drop off.

So of course anti-social nutcases dominate these spaces. That’s how these spaces are structured.
Probably because they are still paying off their other phones

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CCLACBW027SBOG
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Atlassian? What?
Food bank usage is up ~30% year-over-year. Hardly surprising that people are delaying upgrades for smartphones.

(Not a “grrr, smartphones” post, just a sad reality post)
Chamberlain has always rubbed me the wrong way...

A friend of mine has a relation (uncle?) that was part of the litigation team that spent startling amounts of time trying to block third party accessories from being able to interoperate with Chamberlain openers, because of their proprietary "encryption" routine. But their encryption was startlingly simple, IIRC something like basically being one of 3 effective codes.

If you're going to do security, don't half ass it, and don't use shitty security to litigate.
All tech folks should just get a PTO today . #ChatGPT_outage

Am I supposed to use Google and Stack overflow ? That’s like going back to roll down windows in a car :)
By 1995 I was regularly interacting on the internet with Japanese, people in the former USSR (who wouldn't necessarily be considered "white"), Romanians, etc. What was special is that when those people had political and social views that may have differed from one's own, but were representative of their countries, they could air those views. And the result was that a user of the nascent internet could learn about the world's diversity of societies and views.

Mastodon's federation policies, which require mod instances to police anti-LGBT speech for example, expressly excludes that. If you spend any time on the Nigerian internet, for instance, you see this is a matter that ordinary people are strident about, but they would be unwelcome in the fediverse except for those few, often westernized+hipsterized people whose views conform to what the Mastodon founding generation is comfortable with. Don't people in, say, sub-Saharan Africa, or the Middle East, or (Great Firewall aside) China have the right to join this ecosystem and still be the ordinary representatives of their societies that they are?
I can't reply to the child directly due to nesting, so I'll do it here:

As far as I know, for in-person transactions ("contactless" in Europe) the economics work differently - for example SumUp quotes a flat fee of 1.69% plus a small one-time cost to buy and register the reader devices. That gets you parking meters, public toilets and the like.

However, for online credit card transactions (which are a very different risk profile, to be fair) there's a fixed cost of something like $0.20 per transaction on top of the percentage fee.

That is why, for example, substack has a minimum pricing tier of $5 for subscriptions, and why Patreon is "restructuring" because their original micropayments model wasn't breaking even.

So I agree with the parent poster that microtransactions _online_ are currently infeasible - not fundamentally impossible (Visa/MasterCard/Amex/Diners etc. could bring in a new pricing model) but it is impossible for even the NYT to set up a workable "pay $0.50 to read this artice" tier at the moment.

A kind of system where you micropay "on credit" and it's all billed once at the end of the month could, depending on the jurisdiction, make the service provider subject to regulation as a provider of financial services.
I'm on Apple's yearly upgrade plan and still don't bother. I'm not interested in a device larger than their mini form factor, and they keep a) killing the mini and b) making their devices larger. At the moment the mini I have is better than their SE offering. So why bother updating my phone?

And as you say, everything works fine enough for me, so there's no pressure for me to move off my stance.
I was a Green Beret for 15 years and have worked for DOD/IC for a subsequent five. The rating system I described was used throughout SFQC and on some ODAs and at multiple schools like SOTIC and SFAUC.

NCOERs/OERs aren't great, I agree. They're almost as bad and useless as command climate surveys.
Clippy, if activated, always added an unnecessary step in accessing the help file. Clippy was in part bad, because the help file had a mostly useless index, leading to no or wrong answers for Clippy.
The content in the help file was additionally less than accurate, it lacked usage examples and a FAQ section that could have been used for recognizing and offering a solution to a question.

The difficult part of creating an assistant is recognizing the users' problems and offering solutions. It's the kind of experience a company can acquire with years of tech support or lots of lab testing.
Then it would have to compile that knowledge in an expert system and give it away essentiality for free.

Companies that prioritize development and/or support over documentation shouldn't try to create an assistant for the same reasons. But if you have great documentation, a great support knowledgebase, and support scripts, creating an assistant out of it will someday become as easy as keeping a Juypter notebook running.
I'm okay with these high rises so I can enjoy the quiet tranquility of rural Spain. Everytime we do stay in an apartment in Spain the lack of sound proofing really stands out. Perhaps even more so because everything is tiled, no carpets.
I’m stuck in my mini 13 until a new mini comes out or I get tired of it.

I think that's where we're at now, there's no feature you NEED, just occasional upgrades that you can put off if you want for form factor alone.
Astute observation about agency. You're absolutely right that current AIs are capable, but without a drive to actually do anything. They are lacking what every organism on the earth has - the predilection for "not being terminated".

Where does your agency come from? Ultimately it's because you have to acquire resources to stay alive.

This is a very sci-fi take, but I have a dark feeling that as soon somebody wires up the next gen AIs the imperative to not be turned off, the wheels will come off very quickly. Maybe it won't happen the first time, or the hundredth time, but eventually somebody is going to make the mistake of giving an AI the ability to keep its lights on AND the preference to do so and we're very quickly going to find ourselves in the next era of humankind...
Facebook app( either web or ios) does not have to be SAME app as your friend have installed / opened. Some call it A/B testing, some call it malicious update. Depends on contents.

Apple can send malicious update to any app.... Do you check hashes thru 3rd party service ? Apple is scanning ALL your photos, documents on your device, with ML AND AGAINST HASH, DO you think they do not scan your photo for face of UBL ?
No, because they have financing. Everyone can afford iphones. Teenagers without jobs can afford iphones.

The system seems perfect.