skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
comment you are replying to said "forced rehab" - this is not sheltering people from the consequences of their actions, it's forcing them to accept them and change those actions.

Rather hard examples of this that I've seen have been locking someone up in the psychiatric ward to get them detoxing. Or I have a friend who is a Vietnam vet, who got addicted to heroin whilst there. He ended up getting injured and was in a full body cast for a bit. The doctor in charge of him decided it was a good time to get him sober, so he spent a couple agonising weeks in a full body cast suffering through heroin withdrawal, and he's been clean since.
> Logic: Quality 1080 by default. If your machine has 2 or fewer cores, quality 480. If anything ARM, quality 240. Yes, Google thinks all ARM machines are 5 times worse than Intel machines, even if you have 20 cores or something.

Can't he just change the default? It's not locked in to a maximum resolution of 240 is it, he could click the video settings and switch up the quality to 1080 or similar.

Seems a bit excessive for him to refer to this as "crippling Firefox" when it only takes a couple of clicks to sort it out.
Yeap i've talked to itchyny quite a lot about various changes https://github.com/itchyny/gojq/issues/153 and also upstreamed quite a lot https://github.com/itchyny/gojq/issues?q=author%3Awader like custom iterators (to allow eval, own iterators and "empty" functions), query marshalling (query rewrite tricks) and a bunch of small things and bug fixes. But the largest change to add a JQValue interface is quite complex, other changes like extended literals is also a bit tricky.

Hmm weird list of changes for https://github.com/wader/gojq/compare/fq...itchyny:gojq:main but i guess it is because i haven't kept my main branch in sync. The fq branch should be based on latest gojq/main as of now. I usually try to rebase as quick as possible.

Let me know if you have any other questions or want to help out! maybe email etc as i usually don't check HN comments replies that often :)
Spent ages and wasted lots of money on trying to make this work. Buy an iPhone and an Apple Watch or go without was the conclusion. Everything else is absolute fucking garbage. Even the Garmin stuff is problematic. I had a Garmin watch crap out entirely while up a mountain. The Apple watch that replaced has taken a complete beating and works reliably every time and doesn't feel like I'm wearing a prison tag.

Incidentally the only activity tracking stuff that works at all outside the ecosystem is stuff that dumps GPX files. I ended up without a smartwatch at all there and just chucked a Garmin eTrex 10 in my bag for tracking and used OrganicMaps on the phone for mapping.

I wouldn't recommend sleep tracking. At least in my case, it makes me sleep worse worrying about it.
I doubt YouTube cares enough for "Asahi Linux" to try and cripple Firefox on it.

It's more like that guy plays the victim card to build some PR.
Building AGI Using Language Models (2020)
JPMorgan Is in a Fight over Its Client's Lost $50M Fortune
I assumed there was more OpenAI drama
This seems like a waste of everyone's time. Tesla should market the vehicles as 'advanced driver assist', and authorities should let them do pretty much whatever they like as long as Tesla cars are killing fewer people per mile than competitors.
Solving the Looming Developer Liability Problem
I think this solves the problem of Cartesian explosions in ORMs. The requirement of related data needing to be shoved into a single table means data shared by many entities has to be duplicated. The result set being split into distinct tables removes this constraint.

The only way I know how to deal with this in Postgres while maintaining a single query is to lateral join into a json aggregate. However, I don’t think the tooling around that approach is mature enough yet.
I don't agree with your "X dimension" assumption.

I've seen the poor performance of current phone apps. My point is that one could do better for less coding effort with access to a 3D model. Either a pair of photos, or a 3D camera.
It opens the gates of hell and corruption! Since every parenthesis has its own & unique match, you need to find the one missing its other half, and add the correct one to the correct place.

Every parenthesis in Lisp world is unique like a snowflake, and they come in pairs.
I don't know enough about Flaubert, but Hugo??

Have you read some of its poetry? Have you read "The toad"?

If the death of Eponine in Les Misérables does not touch you then I understand why you dismiss all these writers, but you are the outlier here.
archive: https://archive.is/zZYfz
Not really. I guess if you’re already drunk on the Kool-Aid it seems that way. He’s a grifter who capitalized on government largesse and the public forgetting his thousands of broken promises and lies.
Does the title actually make sense given the content? It reads like Fitbit misled customers about their warranty coverage/consumer rights, not the devices themselves?
Visual Studio Code November 2023
And that is presumably what the network would predict in most cases.
'There's no limit': one congressman's solitary crusade to rein in sports betting
> From today's perspective, it's boring, it's not insightful and the style is excruciatingly dated

From your perspective. From my perspective, Madame Bovary and Sentimental Education are exceptional. Fresh, engaging and psychologically insightful. I would recommend anyone who enjoys reading to try Flaubert.
I use a lot of Excel / Spreadsheets when I have to explore and tweak numbers until I got some nice result.

I use also it to process data, like grades of my class or experiments in physics.

So another feature request that I miss in Spreadsheets: Add "solver"
I find it highly unlikely that these new systems will make the TSA line go faster. They tried this with self checkout at grocery stores and that doesn’t seem to have been successful.
How is this any different than using snow tires, which is also a recurring cost and requires you to do something (ie. change your tires) before you can use it?
Barely Managing
The same reason it’s always “for the children”; it sounds good and righteous if you don’t think critically.
Yeah... A few issues:

1. Non-standard tire - More expensive, won't be stocked, difficult to replace.

2. Reduced tire tread - Those grooves will receive more wear, overall the tires has maybe 1-5% reduced tread and contact surface.

3. Bumps/knocks - These pieces of metal are likely to be damaged and/or worn before they ever get used.

To me it would make far more sense to literally just bolt a cage to the alloy encase of snow, with some sensor to detect presence (reduce speed for safety) and knocking to indicate the user no longer drives on a snowy surface.

Another option could be to have some form of extension to increase the surface area of the tire.
Having worked in both, and lived in one, I can definitely say France is much more hierarchical.

Perhaps in reaction to that, France can be more chaotic than Japan. Those are different axes.
> Which kind of modern election?

Funny you should mention that in the same paragraph as Condorcet (doubly funny that the Condorcet method is considered an innovation after 250 years). Basically anything after the French Revolution although most of the interesting research seems to have clustered in the last century (eg, Arrow's Theorem which proved that for a some reasonable definitions an elections can't be optimal - apparently only came up in 1950).
Monobank was under attack as well: https://t.me/s/OGoMono/1456
Well if their whole project is reverse engineering stuff that Apple could have just documented, it's understandable how they can get into an "us vs them" mentality.
The last time I used Twitch it also insisted that my 16 character password was too long for their 40 character limit, so that kind of thing seems to be normal there.
As a Vim user, I use hjkl as left/down/up/right. HL is beginning of line/end of line. ^H moves the cursor to a buffer to the left, ^L moves the cursor to a buffer to the right.
When you are an ad company then why would you reject the source of revenue?
I don’t think they’re very useful, at a technical level anyway. If a closure is non-escaping then a good compiler should be able to see that and optimise everything it can (Rust very much relies on this).

Note that you can want that at a semantics level though, escaping closures means resources escaping. In low level languages you may want to make your analysis simpler by not allowing it, even if it’s implemented as a full closure under the hood.

That’s similar to languages which only allow second-class references (references which can be passed as parameters but not returned or stored) so they do get the efficiency of references in many cases but don’t have to deal with the complexity of a borrow checker or something along those lines.

Self notably used “inner blocks” if I remember correctly, when I played with it I was surprised that you couldn’t really return blocks. This may have been a limitation of the original VM though (to not have to deal with the cycle a block’s execution causes).
I agree. According to the article, Fitbit misled customers about their refund policy. That's it.
It was for a little bit though. That is why this thread is here!
Snow chains are efficiency and road killers when there's no snow - and really useful when there is - so this could be good... if it really works.
I wonder if it attracted a 'type'. Because I know many people who have since moved to portland and they all have a type.

It could be that portland is taking a huge number of people that would otherwise be a drain elsewhere. Maybe we shouldnt consider this an outright failure, but look at some federal support.
Jason Schreier left in 2020, and the title on this post indicates it's from 2017. So even if all of that is true, and none of your negative perceptions were absorbed due to gamergate, this article still came out in the period before the point when you think Kotaku took a turn for the worse.
You can also know this by reading the article too:
"Since the system prompt for ChatGPT feeds the bot the current date, people noted, some began to think there may be something to the idea."
There's a pretty consistent slope in the plot since 2012, and the steepest point was in 2012-2013, so it's probably negligible relative to other factors.
What article is it referring to?
The main issue in the article is that the author assumes that those factors "drag" EU startups, but as others pointed out, there are fundamental differences in values, cultures, and principles between those places.

> - If you’ve worked in tech in the EU, can you share examples of this affecting you?

As I have worked in both ecosystems, some things that I have on top of my mind are:

1) The taxation on unrealized stock options: For me, it's the worst. Roughly speaking, if you have stock options, you have to pay for the appreciation of that stock, even if it is an illiquid asset. And since in Europe we do not have some clear equivalent of 409A, it's a no-go to pay for something that has no intrinsic value.

2) Salaries: Since companies cannot pay with SO, some of them use some synthetic mechanisms like phantom stocks or virtual stock options, but all of them have a small issue: The returns are not so great, maybe 1.05x-1.10x. It's better to be in a big company with a great upfront salary than to run for something that will not provide even a 20% downpayment on a house.

3) Low payment with no learning: People underestimate this aspect, but for me, startups are an environment to deliver and learn at the same time with some cap on the salary. In the US, this is not something controversial, but here in Europe, I know startups where the average developer cannot even choose to work on a Linux workstation and most of the founders have little knowledge of how

4) Talent density: The tech diversity in talent is great here, and it's awesome to work in a multicultural environment, but the problem is that, at least in some places in central Europe, the talent density is not as great as some places in the USA, especially in cultures where the least denominator reigns in terms of accelerating and fostering talents. It's more or less the Procustes bed: if you're short, they will stretch you out; if you're big, they will cut your legs.

5) Talent culture: This is a big difference that I see in comparison with the US. Most of the founders in US see developers as expensive talent but they fundamentally understand that without

6) Low probability of exit; more likely to go and be acquired: Self-explanatory: no one will run to build something that will end up acquired by some other tech company in central/western Europe or have a very low probability of exit. I saw cases where a scaleup was just afloat and meanwhile, the founder and the executive team were enjoying the nice things in Europe while underpaying people with illiquid, non-valuable stock

7) A secondary market is non-existent; most of the contracts do not have the right of first refusal. Once you have this illiquid asset/liability in your hands, it's almost impossible to get rid of it. Due to the cap-table structure here in Europe, there is no culture of selling shares outside.
If you rely on common game libraries and widely supported web APIs, you can get quite far with C. Here's an OpenGL and SDL2 game running in the browser that I ported (and also maintain):

https://play.neverball.org/

Getting it to render was the easy part; I've since spent the majority of time getting it to feel native to the browser, implementing responsiveness (web dev term for adapting to viewport size), touch controls, GUI tweaks, working around fullscreen API gotchas (e.g., the Esc key/Back button is reserved), and any other small things that might remind you that this is not a native browser game.
Apple Offers iPhone NFC Chip Access to Apple Pay Rivals in EU
Just the other day I played with qdrant, using its Python client. Pretty smooth onboarding experience.

I came across two questions. Perhaps some kind folks with more experience can shed some light on these qdrant use cases.

1. for embeddings for use cases such as LLM chat bots, I split internal data into chunks. Those chunks are then vectorized and stored. Alongside the entry itself, I stored the original chunk in metadata. That way, a lookup can immediately feed that into the LLM prompt context, without lookup in a secondary data store by some ID. Feels like a hack. Is that a sensible use case?

2. I resorted to using `fastembed` and generated all embedding client-side. Why is it that qdrant queries, in the ordinary case (also showcased a lot in their docs, e.g. [0]), expect a ready-made vector? I thought the point of vector DBs was to vectorize input data, store it, and later vectorize any text queries themselves?

Having to do all that client-side feels besides the point; for example, what if two separate clients use separate models (I used [1])? Their vectorizations will differ. I thought the DB is the source of truth here.

In any case, fascinating technology. Thanks for putting it together and making it this accessible.

[0]: https://qdrant.tech/documentation/quick-start/#run-a-query

[1]: `sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2`, following https://qdrant.tech/documentation/tutorials/neural-search-fa...
> books accessible in the US

Sadly books accessible in the US / English language is slowly becoming synonymous with general availability, through no fault of the US/UK or other English speaking countries. A huge amount of books are simply never translated to language with smaller markets. I can read English just fine, but an entire book is a struggle. There are so many books that I want to read, mostly non-fiction, and they are never going to be translated and even when they are circulation is low and reprints are rare. Normally I can read a book in Danish in about a week, depending on the time available, and English book is normally about three to four weeks.

To be clear: I solely blame Danish publishers and bookshops. They churn out crime/detective novel at an absolutely insane pace. Want to read about someone being killed and have the murder investigate by an alcoholic Scandinavian cop, the Danish publishers have you covered. Want to read "Meditations" in Danish, well screw you. Want to read the most popular book on this list, Demon Copperhead, well to bad. Slaughterhouse-Five you can get, for more than three times the price of the English version.

I get this is probably different for Chinese, German, French or Spanish, but for smaller language you either read what everyone else reads or you read English language books.
Is it stereoscopic (two videos) and with LIDAR depth information?

The iphone cameras are close together, is there really a benefit in recording both at once?
A paper menu.
WhatsApp is owned by Meta/Facebook
Nah, in those days everyone was either offering POSIX.1 support or even providing their own custom Unix distribution for their machines, because it was the only way to get US government contracts. This is why things like Amix, Atari UNIX, and A/UX existed at all, and why NT had to have an out-of-box POSIX subsystem.
The same thing happened to me. Ads from Kazakhstan impersonating a Czech state-owned energy company etc. And almost every day there is an article in the news about how older people have been caught and lost their savings.
Interesting that they attach doors, then remove them, then put them back on again. It raises the question, why did they bother to attach them the first time around?

My guess is that the answer is the paint process. There's some range of allowable difference in paint hue going from one car to the next, even if they're marketed as having the same color. That range is much smaller for a given single vehicle. If the doors are even a slightly different hue, you're likely to notice.
aka Betteridge's Law of Headlines.
To prove you are not Full Self-Drive
Honest questions: I thought Playstation and Xbox had "secret" deals? They have their own studios, they buy exclusives, timed exclusives, special promotions, games optimized for platform A but not for B etc?
Honestly, yes!
They use both. They crosscheck you against stored biometric data from the passport, and also the data stored in the passport against data previously seen.

If something is not matching they put additional scrutiny on you.

It is not perfect. Super spies, and determined smart criminals are going to be able to defeat it, but it raises the bar.
Spying in the Land of the Free®?
>> we're being dragged out of our brief experiment with liberal democracy by people who stand to gain from it.

There's a name for that condition: corruption

It is a societal disease that is vicious and hard to get rid of. It makes bad situations worse even when everyone says that they agree on a solution and want to make it happen.

Antitrust laws are one way to prevent and maybe even remove corruption, but they only work if the people writing the laws and enforcing the laws are not corrupt.
Yes, the other coffee shop doesn’t remember my name and my regular morning order. I’ll have to start afresh.

Seems to me the analogy holds.
I worked at a local-owned jewelry store for years (starting out as on-call computer guy). The kind with an old fashion in-house jeweler who did all repairs himself (setting stones, resizing rings, cleanings, etc). We did everything EXCEPT most watch repairs. We changed batteries in the quartz watches, and replaced and repaired bands, and performed some minor repairs of mechanical watches, but we sent out most watch repairs to a watchmaker several cities away.

The boss, who was an old jeweler who had started out in the business as a boy in the fifties working under a jeweler and watchmaker, always said that watchmakers are a dying breed, and could pretty much name their price.

When I started working and learning the trade we had two watchmakers that we shipped to. Within two years one of those had retired, and we were unable to find a replacement for him.

I loved working and repairing jewelry (even more so that my fulltime job in IT for local gov), and wanted to become a watchmaker, but my life took me elsewhere. Now that I am older and in a better place in life I often think of those three years, and have been considering obtaining the tools to start up a hobby in one or the other...or both.

Thank you, OP, for an awesome post and link.
Some questions:

Could OpenAI exist without Microsoft?

Which other tech company has meaningful ownership / economic interest of OpenAI?

Is OpenAI collaborating with any of Microsoft's competitors (e.g. Google, Apple, Facebook etc.) in a meaningful way?

What practical difference (e.g. price, privacy) would people experience if OpenAI would be a 100% Microsoft owned subsidiary vs. the current situation?
Colemak folks have been using similar things and beyond for years. They are so sophisticated in the endless search for the perfect layout, it’s sad to see people unaware of existing solutions.

* Is Extend "just another layer"?

Extend, at its core, is a way of bringing navigation/editing to the home position. To do that really well you have to be able to chord modifiers and nav/edit keys easily from the home position. If you can do that with a layer, I'll consider it an Extend-type layer. Many laptop Fn layers, for instance, have only nav/edit and not accessible modifiers so they fail to meet my definition.
I also have multimedia, system and mousing keys in my basic Extend layer. There may be other layers too, such as a NumPad layer and string/symbol/command layers.
An Extend key is a layer modifier that lets you select these layers. You may have both Hold-Extend where you hold the Ext key like a Shift key, and Tap-Extend where you tap it like a dead key. Tap-Extend is best for one-shot stuff like strings/symbols, whereas Hold-Extend is brilliant for nav/edit and NumPad layers.
…

* ... Why?

> Living without Extend at this point would seem like some kind of perverse hell imposed as punishment for terrible crimes committed in numerous past lives.
~ SteveP, creator of the Colemak-DH mod
…

https://dreymar.colemak.org/layers-extend.html
I drive on studded winter tires for 4-5 months of the year.

I'm a little sceptical. Snow is less of a problem than ice, in my opinion.

Studs provide excellent lateral and longitudinal grip on icy surfaces, and wear well. This design doesn't look convincing for lateral grip. I am also worried about wear.

Black ice surprises you, so you need to have winter tires active.
Even for go it should actually work as-is: the syscalls should exist statically in the binary, so the loader can enumerate and whitelist them.

What gets blocked is the system constructing the entire thing at runtime, or at least setting the syscall number dynamically.
They are all parked at SolarCity.
how the hell is it different from zapier?
Just checked, works perfectly fine on iOS safari as well. Not entirely sure what the grandparent comment is on about.
Interesting article opening new options for large data visuals.
I will check how fast this is in Taipy. Anyone has experienced using it?
Yeah even a child like me is better at secure programming than Theo De Raadt
I almost forgot about my own travel facial recognition failure two weekends ago...

I ran into the same problem with British Airways at Heathrow a few years ago. Face was scanned at initial entry point, then failed at the gate during boarding. After a few tries at getting the system to match my facial scan from a few hours prior, the gate attendant gave up, had me stand aside, let everybody else board, I got on dead last. Thankfully my wife's face matched, so she got on and managed to keep a spot in the overhead for my baggage.
The Virus Inside Your TV
They're all like that. A whole back I reported an obvious real estate scam using Wayne Gretzky and some Blue Jays player (I'm in Canada). The reply was it didn't break any policy.

When ads are the primary source of revenue, there's zero incentive to police the platform