skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The world exists in infinite resolution, and that’s what we’re built for. The truth is made of details, and they go all the way down. Any ideas about it just rest on the top.

This isn't known. The greatest depth of resolution we know about is the elementary particles. Quarks, Leptons and Bosons.

The smallest meaningful length is the 1.6×10^−35 and it's known as the planck length. We don't know what's smaller than that length.

This length places a hard limit on our very notion of abstraction. You think your memories and imagination are ethereal abstractions that have no meaningful size or resolution? False. Your memory and even thought takes up physical space in your head and whatever that physical space is it can be no smaller than the planck length. This limit puts a full stop on even the most ethereal abstraction you can think of. Everything and I mean everything... even that feeling you get when you remember the sound or smell from some place in your childhood, that feeling itself takes up physical space and has a limited resolution.

I get what he's talking about and I know I'm being pedantic. But the fact that he just stated something that's axiomatically wrong shows that his ideas here are not likely to be fully correct and he's not thinking deep enough.

Our existence is owed to the macro viewpoint. I am not simply a collection of atoms and particles. The arrangement of those particles is what makes me human. The macro view with less details is what gives me, and you meaning. From a quantitative perspective this viewpoint is measurable as entropy.

The truth is often hidden by the details it is not hidden in the details.
I don't know why it is but it is. Every company now has a mission/vision/culture statement touting trust, respect, inclusivity, innovation, ethics, and similar flapdoodle (dis)embodied by Corporate Memphis grotesqueries. In fact, it is getting harder to find product information on company websites because home page real-estate is liberally sprinkled with this stuff in between some diffuse product blurbage.

There may be people within the firms that embody some or most of those things. A fraction of those may be low-level managers. Anyone in a position of power achieves that power by doing the exact opposite of the published boilerplate.
I made an attempt with this, but my toddler never picked up anything because:

-She learned some gestures of mine instead, which I didn't realize I was doing.

-Defaulted to speech as soon as possible because it was just easier.
Gas stations have attendants. When payment doesn’t work, a person can go tell someone and still pay. When a pump has an issue it can be switch off when it first happens. If it’s an easy fix, it can be done right there. If it’s not an easy fix they can schedule a repair.

These charging stations were built with a business model of set-it-and-forget-it. This doesn’t work. It should have been obvious this wouldn’t work, but I’m sure companies were blinded by the apparent simplicity of the business and the idea of being first to market.

This seems like a fairly easy problem to solve for charging stations that are in the parking lot of a business. Provide training and resources for people at those business, and it can work much like the gas station model.

This reminds me of the roll out of NFC payments. Companies had it, but it was always broken and they didn’t bother to fix it right away, as it wasn’t deemed critical, since everyone had another form of payment and people using NFC was rare. It was years before I felt comfortable enough to go somewhere without a physical credit card as a back up. It seems electric chargers are treated with the same, “nice to have, but not critical” attitude.
But how so? Encryption? Will it break at every other small change from Apple?
Apple solutions is better.
No, I don't think it's a problem.

I use Google Docs exclusively. Sometimes I'll use Apple's built in document apps for local.

Microsoft probably makes more money having Office on Macs than not having it.
Office software competition would have built up from Macs not having MS Office. And MS Office would have stronger competition than today.
While sad and I feel for the family, this is an insane amount of politics on this blog (and post).

I say that, not knowing the now deceased blogger and if he was in some way connected to this community or to tech?
You posted that over three years ago. How are things now?
Now I want an emotional support miniature horse. Is that so very wrong?
Pit bulls should be summarily euthanized and it should not be legal to keep them as pets.

Look up the numbers on how many maulings of children are disproportionately done by this breed.
Site not loading for me, but probably this: https://nothing.tech/pages/nothing-chats
The advice about if up is not bikeshedding though, it is the exact kind of architectural choice you're saying one should decide on. Don't believe me ? Well imagine you have inputs, where should you validate them ? According to this rule of thumb it's at the topmost level, when they are received. Well that seems super sensible, and it's typically something that helps with understanding the code (rather than checking them at thw very last moment). Also for proofs that's technically necessary to allow the preconditions to "percolate up", which has the same effect of moving the if up.

So the first advice is definitely not bike shedding, the second one I'm not so clear though ;)
Show HN: Extendimage.ai – Extend images with generative AI
UX here with 10 years experience. It's... not great. Mostly suggestions to fix things that are fine with made up reasons, but some advice that's actively bad. For example:

Problem:The FAQ section requires users to click to view answers, which may reduce engagement

Suggestion:Use an accordion with the first item expanded by default to encourage interaction
I watched Interstellar in a movie theater with remarkably low image quality. The picture was as if they had chosen the wrong gamma setting. I was very dissatisfied with Nolan's work at the time, because I didn't know that it was a presentation issue. Ironically, I realized that it was so only when I've seen it again on my home TV, which was not a high quality one, but still produced better image quality than what the theater had offered me.
/r/CannedSardines/

Also canned kimchi is surprisingly decent. Available on Amazon.
Crossing the Taiwan Strait with the U.S. Navy
Don't underestimate the face-to-face element of it.

People are assholes online. Sometimes even trolls. But in real life, they're often just respectful normal people.

Heck, you wouldn't say that Ken Griffin is full of shit to his face if you met him but you said it on an online forum.

Edit: I think I should be clear that the face-to-face element of it does make it that much harder. I remember having to fire someone face-to-face multiple times. Each time, it made me very nervous because I don't know how this person would physically react upon receiving the news. I also built real human connections with them so it's extra difficult. I believe that remote work makes this process far easier on both the manager and the company. In fact, I believe that managers would subconsciously choose to fire the remote worker over the in-person worker if all things are equal.

For those who didn't read the article, the main point is in this quote:

>If your boss doesn’t know you personally, they won’t stick their neck out to save your job.
https://github.com/sympy/sympy/issues/9479 suggests that multivariate inequalities are still unsolved in SymPy, though it looks like https://github.com/sympy/sympy/pull/21687 was merged in August. This probably isn't yet implemented in C++ in SymForce yet?
Thank you for your feedback. We do provide simple code for Google Colab [1], but creating a higher quality demo video seems like a good idea. I'll try to make one in my free time.

Also, while we currently offer basic sample code [2], I am considering attaching these rendering videos to the README.md.

[1] https://colab.research.google.com/github/rezoo/movis/blob/ma...

[2] https://github.com/rezoo/movis/tree/main/examples/applicatio...
Digital technologies and democracy: challenges ahead
Site doesn’t work. But I suspect backend might be a matrix bridge.
“If you could look even closer (and you can with a microscope) the detail would continue to unfold essentially forever, or at least until you reach the molecular scale”
In Japan, there is a service called Hatena Bookmark.
Some people have around 100,000 bookmarks.
https://b.hatena.ne.jp/

mybook marks
https://b.hatena.ne.jp/aoi_sora_siroi_tsuki/
myfavorite bookmark users
https://b.hatena.ne.jp/aoi_sora_siroi_tsuki/follow

Articles that point out similar things
https://togetter.com/li/2259440
https://aps.arxiv.org/abs/2309.10668
I quite like this as an exercise in thinking a bit differently about writing. Something missing though is examples - I'd love to see a few raw and final pieces to see how to use it in practice, as well as expanding on the specific recommendations.

I also see this as something to mix in with bits of specific desired prose, much like markdown can always have html plopped into it. When I'm coming up with ideas I often find some really clarifying sentences and metaphors that the piece shapes itself around, which I'll often just pre-highlight so readers know what to take away.
> If we were attempting to put someone into some sort of Matrix like reality simulator but we lacked the technology to provide a perfect simulation what level of simulation would be 'good enough' that a human would consider it reality and be able to develop into something we could relate to?

Have you tried VR before? You really don't need perfect simulation to be fooled. Good enough is already here, albeit for a short amount of time.
Sad. But nice that the dad was able to access a logged in session on the blog to make a post I guess. I ponder how so many of our digital lives (and thus lives in general) would be locked forever should something untimely happen as no one would have access to anything unless we left some sort of giant password log book or mechanism in place.
> Unfortunately, the author has managed to create a catchphrase out of it. Let's hope that doesn't catch on.

In you next pull request: "Hey can you push this if up?" :D.
But the article wasn't about "validate inputs at the boundaries" (which is a semantic concern), it was about "push your ifs up" (which is a syntactic concern).

I agree that in the provided example, those two seem to somewhat coincide (although it's hard to say, given that the author makes an effort to give their functions names such as "frobnicate" that don't indicate their purpose), but in the general case that doesn't have to be true.
My special talents are disappearing that thing which was just in my hand and pulling up to the out-of-order gas pump without realizing before I've exited the car.

Malfunctioning pumps are everywhere but they don't have much impact — there are other pumps, and all the occupied pumps will cycle customers in just a few minutes, and if you must move on to the next station, you almost certainly are able and won't experience further problems.
This is also wrong. We have ways to deduce resolution smaller than the molecular scale.
The traction control on the Cybertruck looks pretty bad but to be fair the tires on the Cybertruck look really bad for off-roading. A lot of the comments here are about weight, motor torque, etc. Obviously if the wheels are slipping the torque is adequate. In terms of having adequate traction, tires and inflation pressure are very often a much bigger factor than anything else. Very often, even a 2WD truck can beat a 4WD truck if the 2WD truck has good off-road tires and they're aired down to a reasonably low pressure.
Personally I only either use if statements that wrap a single line of logic, or a switch/case statement where each branch is a single line of logic.

Most situations are handled by guard clauses, exhaustive type switching, or switching on logical cases. Very occasionally do I have to break this practice for a legitimate reason, but this keeps functions simple to read and to reason about.

I occasionally am unable to avoid an else, but I will always avoid else if. It puts too much reliance on remembering how this condition interacts with the one on the if statement above it, which can often be many lines away. I’d infinitely rather use a case statement where all the alternatives are in an easily-understood table with every condition aligned on successive lines.
From other sites, it seems it uses a Mac Mini in a server room as a proxy for iMessage to accomplish this, with the massive drawback of having to provide Nothing your Apple ID credentials.
One of the unfortunate things about Wayland is every compositor will have its own quality of implementation affecting things like latency.

With XOrg, especially in the pre-compositing days, you could choose whatever WM you want and it wouldn't have any impact on the rendering performance of X clients. Once the Composite extension was added and everyone started running composited X desktops, that started to change, and the increased latency already started appearing - in an arguably worse architecture than Wayland because there were often three processes involved with lots of IPC/context switches per draw: X-Client->X-Server->X-Compositor->X-Server->CRTC. At least in Wayland it's more like Wayland-Client->Wayland-Compositor->CRTC.

If you're unhappy with the rendering latency of your Wayland sessions, it may be worth trying alternative compositors... they likely vary significantly. The Valve/Steam folks have made a minimal one specifically optimized for games/low-latency [0]. I doubt the SteamDeck would be seeing as much success as it is if Wayland were so problematic in this department.

[0]: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope
I recall avoiding multiple method exits (in Java) like the plague. They were hell to get through in a debugging session. But I guess we don't use debuggers much any more.

When I began writing C# I recall my other team members "refactoring" my code to be shot through with multiple exits instead of a my collecting variable, because "it looked nicer." When they asked me why I wrote it the way I did, I mentioned the Java debugger thing, and they kind of looked at me blankly and said, "Huh, never thought of that."

Times change.
Maybe it's me reading too deep into it, but that article sounds like the author had strongly held predetermination that simplistic ML translations that generate malignant deformations of English are "obviously objectively better", and could not accept the evaluations from actual first language speakers that they don't even make sense. IOW the fight had already happened and the author won by power. Two points that stuck up to me:

> [x] Try some more sentences. Which is better, ML or human translation? In which cases?

Any English second language speaker just knows this: There are basically zero cases where ML translation is in any way better or more accurate. That includes DeepL and ChatGPT w/GPT-4 proper. It's just tap water at restaurants. Which is a fantastic choice to pair with actual drinks. It's weird this sentence appears here at all.

> [...]and why is TextBlob so good at translation? Well, behind the scenes, it's using Google translate, a sophisticated AI able to parse millions of[...]

And this part. Maybe it's just me, but I think it might be showing that the author first tried to hand-roll translation, as seemingly needlessly lengthily elaborated up to this part. It could be that they then either faced technical challenges or failed validation by certified Frenchmen, and had to rewrite the section as a guide to use Google Translate API.

There seems to be an endemic misconception, mostly seen among but not limited to American people, that American English is a perfect language that is also completely disconnected from internal thoughts and intents and monologues, that simplifies language translation problem to a simple matter of "convert[ing] the formal grammar rules for one language, such as English, into a non-language dependent structure, and then translate it by converting back to another language" as the author claims, while in reality even the possibility of "non-language dependent structure" is still under debate. This kinds of attitude always existed, but now it's borderline beyond annoying.
Uses the Sunbird app https://www.sunbirdapp.com. Requires one to sign in using their Apple ID which, I presume, is actually stored/signed in on an actual server somewhere in their DC.
There's quite a lot of details that go into something like that and it's often not possible for the code to know all of them. Languages will sometimes abstract similar things out (e.g. have a function call run on some other processor across a network/bus and get the results), but it's quite a high level feature.

Systems programmers tend to demand a lot of visibility into what, when and how every line of code executes instead of abstracting that behind the language runtime. For example, a systems programmer might care that the data being received is transferred over DMA with zero copy.

As for features, honestly getting placement new without pointer shenanigans would be nice. C, C++ and Rust all make that (somewhat niche) use case more verbose and obtuse than it strictly has to be.
An excellent counter-example to the usual "things with fewer moving parts are more reliable" trope. Design and manufacture play a much greater role in reliability.
AFAICT this is the thing enabling the "blue bubbles", which the Nothing Phone bundles:

https://www.sunbirdapp.com/

Not to be confused with Mozilla's (if anyone remembers that one):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Sunbird
That is BS mantra by economist that failed as entrepreneurs. 1990 to 2010 American booms largely help by lower production prices from China. Your average laptops and computers from the 90s tend to drop prices bigly from $10K mac to somewhere around $2K. Let me know how bad Apple did. Let le know how worst off Americans during those low gas prices and cheap GPUs.
> Not that simple. You think Palestinians love being beholden to the terrorist leadership that refuses to allow elections, is known for stealing their humanitarian aid to enrich themselves on the order of billions of dollars, and operates safely from a foreign country?

According to large segments of the political class in the US, yes they do love it. And in fact they are legitimate targets of the Israeli military because of it.
Clearly politics was very important to him.

Don't be one of those folks who tell comedians to stick to jokes.
Capital in the Anthropocene. A review by Ulv Hanssen (2022)
Thanks for reminding me about this! I just discovered three interesting blogs within a few minutes.
It looks like this is powered by Sunbird: https://www.sunbirdapp.com.

Another alternative for iMessage is Beeper: https://www.beeper.com/imessage

They both have a waitlist at the moment, but Beeper seems to be opening up to a lot of new people.
In my industry, I've found that people with serious technical chops can figure things out and get things done in new areas, even as managers.

The problem is with those who get onto the management track double-quick and replace any technical books they have with rah-rah management theories. They seek out management roles, get them, and then depend on others to do the hard thinking and tough trades. It is a point of pride to them to say, "I have people that do that for me" even if they have done Masters or Doctorate level technical work at some point.
In functional languages like elixir there is no return though, and you are forced to use if-else structure
Tesla’s supercharger network is FARRR more reliable. I’ve traveled thousands of miles.
Bangkok Street Omelet Is Michelin-Rated [video]
Ah. I was playing before the 1.0.0 spidertron and the 0.15.0 patch where fish healing apparently got 20x as effective!
De-dogmatizing needs to happen, so what? I think these kinds of rules are helpful to play with; adopt them, ride them as far as they go, invert them for a day or year , see where that takes you. You learn their limits, so what? More grist for the palimpsest.
Very nice tool!

So grab a spare Raspberry Pi, a GPS, a cheap USB sound card and a mic and get recording with this Pi based Acoustic Recording Unit

https://github.com/hcfman/sbts-aru

And while you are at it, install 3x or more and localize where the birds are.
Paper: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:I_am_not_alone_(An...
It's an interesting "tech" moment when something like this happens. It's worth pondering the nature of mortality and how the technology we delve into relates to that. Like another commenter said, how will my online acquaintances learn about it if I were to suddenly die unexpectedly? Would it be years? Would a family member manage to make a post or two on various stuff my computers are still signed into? Maybe it's worth planning ahead for, even. Who knows. Definitely an interesting (and sad) thing to see IMO and certainly conjures some thoughts...
Looks like Nothing is partnering with a US-based third party called Sunbird to build this service. From Sunbird’s site (https://sunbirdapp.com):

> Will the app be open source?

> Some of the messaging community believes that software that is open source is more secure. It is our view that it is not. The more visibility there is into the infrastructure and code, the easier it is to penetrate it. By design, open source software is distributed in nature. There is no central authority to ensure quality and maintenance and by putting that responsibility on Sunbird, development would not be feasible. Open source vulnerabilities typically stem from poorly written code that leave gaps, which attackers can use to carryout malicious activities.

Not sure I’d be willing to trust them with my Apple ID credentials.
you don't have to add meta to beeper
Intel themselves said it could lead to privilege escalation and a friend of mine (who coincidentally was responsible for this Intel-related talk: https://youtu.be/Zda7yMbbW7s) already managed to get privilege escalation with it, though I’m not sure if he’ll want to share any details, at least for now.

It’s anything but a minor bug and anyone that says so clearly hasn’t worked with CPUs
> We don't know how we work. We really really don't.

Amen.
I think there's a common lesson to CCS1/CCS2/CHAdeMO and HTTP 1.1: Any standards that avoids discussion of payment integration eventually succumbs to monopolistic substitutes.
Tangential: A few years ago a coworker of mine suddenly died in a tragic accident at way too young of an age. Every once and a while when I see his name pop up in a git blame from code written many years ago I'll click into his GitHub profile as it is frozen in time now. For the first year the worst part of this was watching the green contributions squares slowly retreat to the left until the wall was solid grey.

It makes me wonder how long all of our online presences will remain after we're gone. Personal blogs/websites will go down and large companies like GitHub & social media will yield to newer competitors. Archive.org is probably the longest living publicly available archive of these profiles but who knows how long that will exist for either. Like countless other human lives, at some point there will be no evidence left that we were even here at all. "All those [profiles] will be lost in time, like tears in rain."
Hey look, another boss with another attempt to convince his workers to go back to office.
On Evaluating Godot. - Casey Yano
This only talks of an overload of unknown people surrounding you in cities, but surely the www is for many a strong contributer to that sentiment as well.
OrgNote: A note-taking application based on the org-roam Emacs package (beta)
What is a neck wallet? Have never heard of something like that
To add more, this depends on area a lot. Basically MVNO or not some areas would be better with T-Mobile and some with Verizon.