skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If it's an anti-trust violation, then it's an anti-trust violation whether it's a fork of Android or not. If it isn't an anti-trust violation, then Google can ban things that aren't forks of Android too.

Actually, the law often turns more on the intent of the person being investigated than on what they do. (Is this a good idea? No.)

Google can claim a more convincing fig leaf when they're regulating Android than they can when they're just saying "also, you can't work with Amazon". And that slight difference in plausibility can make a big difference in whether the same contractual clause is legal or illegal.
Well, yes and no. I don’t mean to single out C++, I actually do appreciate the language, but it is far more difficult to evolve than most languages. For instance, languages like Java/.NET/Python/etc have a far more “defined” place in the world of software, and they can optimize their languages around their niche. With C++ you have businesses that don’t really care about performance, but they have 50+ million lines of code they rely on, embedded folks, HPC/GPGPU, graphics/AV, CAD/CAM/CAE, application programmers, and people responsible for providing support for customers for all of those domains. It’s extraordinary difficult to propose anything that doesn’t step on someone’s toes.
Holden, Vauxhall, and Opel are the same company with different badges depending on the market. Toyota 86 and Subaru BRZ are jointly developed car models.

Volkswagen Group develops a lot of different car models. Sure, they are using the same platforms across subbrands, but the subbrands compete with each other within the VW Group.
Also mentioned (although not breaking Siri etc) in the article with https://drumkoon.bandcamp.com/album/they-tried-to-ban-this, track titles like "Hey Gugle Play The Music"
So much of tech is actually just fashion. Who would buy a new colourway to signal you have the newest most expensive product? Ugh, far too many people.

Colour alone was enough for MKBHD to order one but at least he had the sense to cancel after using a review unit for a few weeks and basically getting early buyer's remorse... mostly because it wasn't dark enough to be exciting to him and felt like another grey.
It may look more noticeable on the black frame than on the silver frame, but why do you think it wouldn't have looked even more noticeable on a black frame that wasn't given the fingerprint resistance treatment?

Should we not compare this "space black" finish with something like the MacBook Air's "midnight black" finish?

I also doubt whether a finger covered in Cheetos dust is representative here. Seeing a comparison with just normal finger oil fingerprints would be interesting.
The Only Way Is West by Bradley Chermside

Book about Camino de Santiago.
I like walking (and Camino is lot of walking), so this is interesting.
I don't think avoiding things like that is a goal though, it explicitly warns you too to do further research including checking that at the bottom.

But that's the easy bit right, there's already tools (e.g. Google Translate) for that.
Ah, the production and advertising budgets are separate, got it, thanks.
* You have to have a monopoly in the other sector for it run afoul. Many companies enter new segments by loss leading taking profits from their established non-monopoly business to subsidize their growth in another segment. That’s not illegal in the least and is extremely wide spread. In fact the opposite in this situation is true. The EV market is extremely competitive but the supercharger market is dominated by Tesla. The fact they’re opening it up for use by competitors in EV means they’re not leveraging their supercharger hegemony to kill off EV competitors.

* “the internet” isn’t a single market segment. There are a lot of monopolies though, and I would point you to the ongoing antitrust lawsuits.

* you can’t proactively take someone for violating a law in the future to court. Yes they’ll likely be standard oil given how things are playing out. But they are not now. They would rightfully complain they’re being punished for future behavior that they may not do, and there may very well be a large competitor that springs up along the way. The market is too new and the government doesn’t generally interfere in market dynamics in nascent markets; and they definitely don’t punish you for something that might happen in the future. It’s not minority report - you actually have to commit a crime to be legally culpable for committing a crime.

* there are lots of laws about pricing. But in a competitive market companies are allowed to loss lead. But to your point there a lot of ways that can happen that’s structurally unfair. Using one monopoly to predate in another market is potentially illegal. Competing on price in multiple competitive markets is not. And it shouldn’t be, because that’s almost always how companies break into new markets and gain market share against established competitors.

I’d note regardless in this situation I will wager they do have an enormous cost advantage over everyone without loss leading. They have a scaled industrialized operation that generates revenues. No one else does.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38229231
It sure sounds useful. It also sounds like it could be used to constrain user freedom once and for all.
In fairness it has been dropping, eg https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-58831636

Here’s hoping a tipping point is reached soon
Definitely. Someone treats s you unfair, it may trigger inflammation.

So, some kind of penalty should apply and being taken to court.
Yes, the vicious lawsuit by chiropractors may have been enough to turn him off publishing. I sometimes hear him as a radio guest. It seems he went on to work on STEM policy and founded a couple of educational math paths. It’s a shame he seems to have discarded his website.

Undergraduate Ambassadors Scheme
https://uas.ac.uk/about-uas/

Parallel
https://parallel.org.uk/
Except the 0.01% of breakthroughs had tons of real world impact to humans also worked in mice, so what does the metric tell you?
What I wish I was reading is book 9 of Joel Shepherd's "Spiral Wars" series. Unfortunately it's not out yet. But he's one of my new favorite authors, both the Scifi Spiral Wars and the more fantasy-like "Sasha" series are excellent.
BSD is commonplace since the 80s for servers, ISP, CDN and embedded applications. So are its open-source derivatives.

If you're looking for a 4.3BSD / early SunOS experience with support for modern hardware, go for it. After all, it's the original Unix.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invader_(artist)
That's fantastic news then!
For tooling, I am currently reading Practical Vim by Drew Neil. Vim has been my primary editing tool for a couple of years now but I know that I am not close to maxing its capacity. I would like to supercharge my vim skill with more advanced macros and less keystrokes.

Fiction: I am currently reading the Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis. I love the way the book plays with logic in a fictional style. The dialogues with the little demon, Wormwood, are super interesting. More like psycho analysis in fictional form. It reminds me about reading Brothers Karamazov where you find a lot about you in characters in the book.
These guys claim to see distinct “neural signatures” depending on whether n is >4 or =<4. They can see neurons misfiring for the larger numbers.

Is it hard-coded in our brains? My guess is no. You can probably train brains to instantly recognise patterns for numbers larger than 4, and I’d expect the observed effect would disappear for then trained individuals.
Within historical context: This was said after Minkowski introduced the geometry for special relativity, which can be visualized on the `spacetime diagram`, now recognized as the vastly simpler and more efficient approach than the wall-of-text approach. Einstein initially had some difficulty, that was when he said this, but he caught up quickly.

>Strangely enough no personal contacts resulted between his teacher of mathematics, Hermann Minkowski, and Einstein. When, later on, Minkowski built up the special theory of relativity into his 'world-geometry', Einstein said on one occasion: 'Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself any more'. But soon thereafter, at the time of the conception of the general theory of relativity, he readily acknowledged the indispensability of the four-dimensional scheme of Minkowski
Einstein, philosopher-scientist, Schilpp

And later Einstein expressed admiration for geometry again and again

>This problem remained insoluble to me until 1912, when I suddenly realized that Gauss's theory of surfaces holds the key for unlocking this mystery. I realized that Gauss's surface coordinates had a profound significance. However, I did not know at that time that Riemann had studied the foundations of geometry in an even more profound way.
Einstein, Kyoto Lecture, 1922

>I admire the elegance of your method of computation; it must be nice to ride through these fields upon the horse of true mathematics while the like of us have to make our way laboriously on foot
Hentschel (1998). The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Vol. 8 (English): The Berlin Years: Correspondence, 1914-1918
Blender EARNED every cent of its loads of money be being RESPONSIVE TO ITS USERS.
That's definitely true, the chat format (vs the completion format) made all the difference. So much so that ChatGPT blew up even though it was inferior in capabilities to GPT-3, just because it was (much) more usable.
What if during boarding, you walked through the cargo compartment of the plane yourself, which consists of huge lockers you can store your baggage in, then proceed to the seating area?
In Switzerland the sentencing isn't very tough for possession in small quantities, but you certainly cannot _sell_ MDMA and hope for lenient treatment.
Most dedicated KGB agent ever. Spent 20 years in prison while maintaining his cover story. Kind of unreal his true identity was not uncovered until after his release.
>short stories unearthed after his death. Very disappointing

Perhaps that is why he never published them?
Circle... I hope he can do it. Sounds too good to be true everyone I read about it.
You seem to be agreeing with me. Companies don't have to fire people due to regulations. They may do so, or they may do all sorts of other things.

They're far more likely to fire people based on board pressure or PR. Regulations are the least impactful things here.
> Mac OS 7 on DR-DOS!

Seriously?
How do you resolve the post office issue then, just out of curiosity? Show them a chat on your phone where people are calling you the written name or something?

And the address should match still so actually why do they care anyway?
I tried Fedora KDE (I was using gnome) a year back and faced a lot of problems. Maybe its something to do with Fedora and not KDE, but I had a terrible experience with KDE.
As far as I am aware, Switzerland had always cooperated with law enforcement requests. Even before FATCA, if your government thought you were cheating on your taxes, all they had to do was present a warrant.

That said, yes, dictators and such were - and are - a problem. They aren't going to prosecute themselves, after all.

By the way, one of the top places unsavory types stash their cash is the US. FATCA is a one way street: US banks don't provide information on their international customers.
Moody's lowers outlook on US debt to 'negative'
But .mli files do not help with the "no types in the source code" problém. You need LSP (Merlin) to "see" the types anyway. Only adding the signature in the samé (.ml) file helps against that problém.

And I did not experience any advantage of separate signature files so far, but I also haven't written anything large in OCaml (>100 kLOC).
yes: paradigm shifts are not easy.
That’s not under the conditional breakpoint heading. You would just override the value to be a getter in the console, or you could even change it in your source code if you have write access.
Yet you would make it more like GIMP.
Something like dreaming is present very far back in evolutionary history. The last common ancestor of ray-finned fish and terrestrial mammals (450 million years ago?) presumably had it, as both branches of the tree of life show REM-like sleep and brain activity.
What's wrong with mice? IANAB, but rodents are surprisingly close to humans on the phylogenetic tree.
Disable source maps in the debugger. They are likely the source of your frustration and frankly I still do not understand why they are on by default given how bad the experience is of actively debugging with them on.
But not "as volatile as ever".
I don't think the list for each location is complete, perhaps to not spoil the fun.

Perth has 26 invaders but there are only 3 pictures on the map, https://www.space-invaders.com/world/perth/, I've personally seen some that are not in those pictures.
https://viewpoint.pwc.com/dt/us/en/pwc/accounting_guides/rev... quickest example I could find. Also some share sales.
Conceptually, they are immutable Linux distros, but they're far from being the same.

CoreOS is optimised for server use, and made to run containers and containers only, with unattended system upgrades/reboots.

Silverblue is a workstation-type distro, centered around Flatpak and pet-type containers for real work (toolbox, distrobox)

The difference is larger than running Fedora Server on your desktop.
Except rape has much lower recidivism than crimes like theft or murder.

So someone who is a murderer is more likely to commit crimes when released than a rapist.
Whoosh. That was the sound of you missing a hilarious joke. I guess you weren't around slashdot back then. Fortunately it's 2023, and I have at my disposal an LLM to explain the joke that doesn't necessarily require such an extensive computing setup.

User:

Explain the joke.

ChatGPT:

The joke here revolves around a classic internet meme that originated from discussions on Slashdot, an online community similar to Reddit or Hacker News but older and more focused on technology and science. The meme is about creating a "Beowulf Cluster," which refers to a network of computers configured to work together on complex tasks, effectively creating a powerful supercomputer from less powerful individual machines.

The original context for this meme was discussions where someone would invariably suggest, often irrelevantly, that a problem could be solved by creating a Beowulf Cluster. It became a running joke to propose a Beowulf Cluster as a solution to virtually any tech-related problem, regardless of whether it made sense or not.

In the conversation you're referring to, when "timbit42" mentions a Beowulf Cluster in response to the idea of integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT into applications like GIMP, Photoshop, or CAD, they are likely invoking this meme. The joke is in the overkill of suggesting a massively parallel computing solution (like a Beowulf Cluster) for integrating an LLM into a software application, which is a task that doesn't necessarily require such an extensive computing setup.
Nit, but specifically on this:

> call 1f
>
> 1: <next instruction>

It's worth noting that "call $+5" degrades performance if used improperly. Consider:

call 1f
1:
pop %eax

See the problem? (Hint: it's branch prediction)

That's right! The CPU has its own idea of an approximate "call stack" (a.k.a. return stack buffer), which it uses to predict branch target for RETs.

Note that the POP doesn't count as a "return," so it usually does not pop from the return stack buffer at all. In this case, the CPU confidently mispredicts the branch when the next matching RET gets queued into the pipeline, sometimes severly degrading performance.
The thing that scares me is that although the iwf backed down. They aren't saying it's legal. I'm genuinely concerned some sort of ISP level monitoring could red flag me for visiting that page.
Sounds like the beginnings of a class action.
Astonishing Anti Repair Practices by Apple in the Last 15 Years
How much is vaping taking up the slack?

Here in the UK it seems that cigarettes have to be hidden from view in a 'drawer of shame' while vapes are in left clear view. I'm not sure why vapes seem to be getting an easier ride than cigarettes. Are vapes any less harmful than cigarettes? Apart from the effects on health they create a lot more waste. Also some vapes seem to be clearly marketed to children.

(Disclaimer: I have never smoked or vaped, so it isn't a subject I know much about. Please enlighten me.)
You're only at school in one of the countries (at a time anyway) - pick the one that corresponds there?

Of course only one of them is your 'actual' name anyway, the other is just by its existence making your name familiar and easy to pronounce. It having a different local spelling (if that's the case) doesn't have to matter or be annoying unless you decide it is. Anything where it's important obviously you make sure to get it right, as you would anyway.
I'll typeset your obituary in Comic Sans. I'll even add a clipart.
What does that have to do with it? They're clearly going for the aesthetic without considerations for how users actually interact with it. It's likely they don't even know how what keyboard navigation is like on MacOS, because they don't use keyboard navigation.
To me the simplest analog is Amazon Prime. Bezos wants Prime to be something you can't afford to skip by having it deliver overwhelming value, and to that end they've done pretty well: 70% of Americans have Prime.

But since software scales so ridiculously well, that their cloud offering still manages to beat it on profit.

OpenAI had just landed a new class of subscription that scales like AWS, has B2B hooks like AWS, can be the engine behind entire classes of future unicorns like AWS... but then also has widespread consumer value and brand recognition like Prime.

By that measure it's hard not to be bullish.
It says that Vi is a "feminine English name that may also be a Polish word".[1] Now, if Emacs were a masculine English name, it would be a perfect match for evil twins ;-)

[1] Hint: it isn't.
Ah yes, "tech industry" and not, you know, humans categorizing everything for the purposes of storage and retrieval since the time immemorial
It’s on the list of things I want to change about myself. I’m a work in progress.

Dietary control is not something I have been able to exercise in the past. I’m attempting to obtain pharmaceutical help on that front, so maybe I will be able to execute on being a better person in that dimension in the coming months.
But from whom do they borrow more, now you're talking about increasing the national debt. There's no way UBI can actually function or work without harming the system. It's a pipe, dream man, if you want money work for it
I personally think such maps remove the fun part of the game, esp in cities like Paris. I’ve walked countless hours with my kids searching for them, it was great. They re not randomly placed so you eventually get a feel for where they are going to be. Now, I also understand that I don’t have to use it.

It’s worth noting that in some cities ( Montpellier in particular) the space invaders draw a space invader on the map itself ! The map therefore becomes part of the art.
Time to go back to an appliance gps in the car then?

Ms Maps? Who in the world uses anything else than Google Maps and Waze for navigation?
Now we'll never know what they say
To be fair to the analogy, most "inheritance taxes", while demonised relentlessly by certain groups, also have exemptions that other people would consider a lottery win.
If you compare Apple's effort to PC laptops you see what they are on about.

It does leave fingerprints which are noticeably worse than Space Grey but it's easily 10x better than the dozen other black laptops I tried at the store today. Clearly there's a lot of engineering just to achieve that level of improvement.
Water pipes with 0 leeway for movement or elongation/shortening in the violently shaking ground or in the walls cracking seems less resilient, at least in some cases, than these 'mud' tunnels.
While interesting, I think that the relevance of MassSpec based approaches will decline over the next years.

Single cell genomics already had to learn the hard lesson that pure gene quantification and big data approaches without spatial resolution or deep understanding of the biology can only get you so far. Billions have been spent on cell atlases that just deal with biology as individual cells without much to show for in terms of changes in clinical practice. Spatial omics is now finally spreading and spatial organization and interactions are being taken into account again, but the common analysis pipeline still just focus on gene level expression at the cellular level. Subcellular and extracellular information is often completely lost and gene levels are highly variant and only somewhat correlate with the phosphoproteome, the actual effect layer of biology.

Mass spec approaches share many of the same limitations, even though they deal with protein. Spatial information is blurry at best or lost at worst and equipment is expensive and requires specialized training.

Imo, the most interesting advances in the next years will come from low cost high resolution spatial proteomics with high target counts that integrate with biological modeling of processes.
But it’s not like PMs in FAANG are effectively making random decisions, nooo, don’t replace them with a LLM nononon
Well you won’t find apple devices being sold there. Because apple cares about its customers.
Wouldn't a linter catch most of this?

You can also block commits with listing errors
This would fail the first sale doctrine. Once you purchase it, it's yours, licensing it is different. If you have purchased the vehicle, it's yours to do as you wish.
I'm waiting for the day someone manages to get AI to do the job of a compiler...

It's easy to find a sequence of instructions to implement a program, but the challenge is finding a good, small, fast sequence of instructions. The difference between current compilers and the best possible sequence is often 10x, and that difference is worth tens of billions of dollars - since you can reduce your CPU budget by 10x if all your programs run 10x faster.

Searching all possible sequences is infeasible, but it seems very practical to get AI to assist with some kind of directed search. Either additively (starting with an empty program and adding instructions till it correctly implements the programmers program), or subtractively (use a dumb compiler to make an inefficient program, and then use some ML model to decide how to adjust the instruction sequence to be smaller/faster, while remaining correct).
Can confirm, would only suggest such things to my worst enemy.

In trying to push chat GPT to its limits, I aimed to build a website from scratch, with no prior experience.

I very very quickly gave up on trusting its output and instead had 2 weeks of learning everything via YouTube and docs. ChatGPT got relegated to being a better Wikipedia; If I wanted to understand why things were they were, ChatGPT was faster.

I also have copilot - in the cases where I watched an LLM help, it’s invariably an experienced individual selecting the useful parts from the absolutely incorrect.

You need the domain knowledge to make the right calls, the model is more than happy to let you build an ocean liner in a desert.
Alcohol is banned in Singapore too?
IPv6 Fundamentals: A Straightforward Approach to Understanding IPv6

It is the first "book" I bought to learn something, but after tinkering a while with ipV6 in my homelab, I saw no other way.
OG silver is the way to go.

Everything else is a fad.
Indeed. Medium has wonderful typography, but it doesn’t make me want to read them.
ES6+ is actually not bad.
I'm relatively new to Rust. I use panic (and cousins) in fn main only. As in: I'll expect(), unwrap() or similarly handle missing bootstrapping circumstances. Outside of main, I'll never ever use any of them. Even when I "know" that a condition is Impossible(tm).