skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Their richest country is slightly richer than our poorest state, even if comparing GDP per capita.

I consider such economic figures to be at best a very loose correlate to quality of life, and thus essentially irrelevant.

> Then why do we have a net immigration from Europe, instead of a net emigration?

Because the vast majority of Americans have no idea how much better life can be in Europe, especially for average people.

> What extra evidence do you need to recognize that poorer countries, with fewer opportunities than we have, less infrastructure (skyscaper...), and an active immigration to the US are maybe not good places to live?

I don't need any external evidence. I have personal experience living in both places.
They have more money and effective power than most governments worldwide.
Interestingly I see the Japanese glyph on Apple M1. My locale is English-US and I am a native Chinese speaker.

When I paste it into VS Code it also renders Japanese, but when I click on the unicode code, it goes to https://symbl.cc/en/5203/ and https://symbl.cc/en/76F4/ which renders Chinese.

I am typing out the Chinese equivalent for reference: 刃直 but looks like they also turned into Japanese glyph for display past Chinese input method, in fact I can't type out the Chinese glyph in any apps on macOS.

It is not a big deal to me because I have no issue reading kanji as Chinese characters.
They’re just MV-HEVC http://hevc.info/mvhevc with a specific profile which is published as well https://developer.apple.com/av-foundation/HEVC-Stereo-Video-...

Any platform can implement playback of them.
This is also true of tech news. We (I) scour HN and Reddit and TC for up to date news. We refresh tech Twitter for a hot take. We watch tutorials passively.
> If a user wants a 3rd party app store, why did they buy an iOS device?

Wants and circumstances can change over time. When I purchased my device, Fortnite and Xbox Cloud Streaming were available from the Apple App Store. Now they aren't.

Also I can want more out of my device; none of my devices are perfect but I still buy them. I believe 3rd party stores would be an improvement to my device. Replace the feature "3rd party app store" with folding phone: "Why did they purchase an iOS device if they wanted a folding phone" is a leap in logic to "No iOS user wants a folding phone"

A year ago, I'd say USB-C, but that's no longer the case.

> if they can thereby bypass some of the restrictions Apple imposes through their review process

Those same restrictions are blocking apps like Xbox Cloud Streaming. When Apple chooses to block those, but I still want access to apps, 3rd parties providing the such apps isn't unfair competition.
Harm reduction and rehab still only treats the symptom, not the cause. The cause is financial instability brought on by insecurity in housing, food access, etc. It's an issue of human dignity in the economic sphere that drives people to such depths, not recreation.

Unfortunately we still have a large portion of the population who believe that one must deserve to live a dignified life, and then apply all sorts of caveats on who is deserving. So we can't reshape the economy to support everyone because the people at the top need to feel like the work they did to get there somehow speaks to their character rather than merely their circumstances. They can't accept that they're not actually that special and so have some pathological need to draw lines between "us" and "them" (e.g. "taxpayer" vs "freeloader").
I have people with disabilities in my family so I know their realities up close - unlike most leftist politicians who only seek them for photo ops.

My wife volunteers pro-bono in a foundation that employs solely people with disabilities. They do work (according to their capacities), they get paid a wage, and they pay (little) taxes off it. And they are super proud that they can “pull their weight” and be equals in a society that tends to look down on them either as limited (usually from the right) or as “must-be-kept-cotton-balled” (usually from the left).

They want to be seen as people, which is what they are.
I know this sounds absurd, but I don't think social studies on such politically hot issues can be trusted outright. Given the state of university social science departments, can you imagine the cost of publishing something that supported ‘war on drugs’ style policy. Im not saying your study is bogus, just that Ive learned to be circumspect around research into such topics. Because often such academics are also activists or involved in public/ nonprofit institutions that have become invested in specific policy.
> Also be aware that if one of the inputs to ARRAY_AGG is NULL, the entire output will be NULL and thus none of the non-NULL attribute values will be shown in the output! So extra logic is re-quired to avoid these cases. Good luck with that one!

that's how null works in 3VL, use isnull or coalesce accordingly.

> We present a backward compatible SQL extension (SELECT RESULTDB) to allow SQL SELECT statements to return a clearly defined subset of a database rather than just a single table.

just use sql/json it's standardized and supported. you guys are way out of touch from modern sql. please go and read modern-sql.com
The conservatives who run Portland and Oregon?
Have you taken a look at: https://www.getjavelin.io
I know facial recognition algorithms and human facial recognition work wildly differently. However, the two faces are similar enough that several months of training, with some ability to choose perspective, isn't sufficient for my oldest to be able to distinguish the twins. In order for me to be confident which of my twins I'm looking at, I need a view at least 30 degrees off center from the left side to get a clear enough view of the subtle difference in the shape of the top of the left ear.

I'm not confident a one-shot algorithm can reliably distinguish them without also sometimes believing one of them is two different people.
Requisite link to Nicky Case's "We become what we behold"

https://blog.ncase.me/we-become-what-we-behold-a-post-mortem...
The bureaucracy in Europe predates all the US. Systems of government changed, but hey, you still learn Roman Law in law school for a reason.

The US is a baby in terms of structures and culture.

Vienna has been continuously operating as a city since being a Roman fort, Vindobona = you can see the ruins directly in the city center.
Ambition has nothing to do with how you treat the people you hire to work for you. The point is, you can both be rich and work a normal work day.
Apple actively squashes attempts to jailbreak the phone which allows for additional app stores. The fact they aren’t mainstream alternatives is because Apple takes actions to stop the competition.
Android has privacy indicators for when software is recording things on the phone. Wouldn't that give the coworker away? Or does his son just have an old phone? (The privacy indicators are fairly new, IMO, but it mirrors a thing Apple did a few years ago.)
Because GPT-4 is multimodal, which puts it into the entirely different class. GPT-3.5 was trained on text, same as this model.
> The consolidation effort would not have gone forward unless a significant number of people who have been studying these characters agreed that they were, in fact, the "same" characters.

The concrete term is the "normalization rules", which dictate how given arbitrary characters are transformed into domenstic variants. As far as I know most countries with significant Han character usages already had one before Unicode, and the ROK rules were (and still are being) developed alongside with Unicode.
More practically, it allows you to claim what Jimbo here is describing without any practical loss. At two weeks pregnant, you likely haven't even had sex yet. A pregnancy test might not be positive until week five or so, and there are only a couple of abortion clinics in conservative states, so you've potentially got a window of just a couple of days between finding that you need one and getting one. So a six week ban is more of a PR move than an actual thing that people believe in.
Can you really say that was why they lost? A jury found Epic’s case compelling against Google while a judge did not with Apple.

Is it a specific reason or a difference of opinion?
I really don't see the need for it. Perhaps export tools could use it. For the rest of you have correct tables and joins you can get all the data you need in one query.

You could already use multiple subqueries if you wanted.
As with most things, "don't do X" is catchier than "do X better". Ways I like are (1) get from the headlines to Wikipedia as fast as possible. You can even start from the Wikipedia front page. (2) Read old school blogs with deep information on narrow topics (3) read in another language you're trying to learn.
The usual 'just get an old thinkpad' advice still applies IMO.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=thinkpad&_sac...
Prices per square meter:

Marseille: 4300 EUR

Birmingham: 3000 GBP

Bremen: 3000 EUR

Liege: 3000 EUR

Antwerp: 2500 EUR

València: 2200 EUR

Poznan: 2000 EUR

These are all major, but not the biggest, cities in their respective country. I'm not saying they are representative (for what, anyway). You'll find major cities that are much more expensive (eg Munich) or cheaper.

As for income tax, at first glance, PWC disagrees:

https://taxsummaries.pwc.com/france/individual/taxes-on-pers...

https://taxsummaries.pwc.com/germany/individual/taxes-on-per...
Seems more straight-forward to arrange a car accident.

Or just shoot someone.
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So the law says that once your city reaches a certain size you must let in the barbarian hordes? In this case the barbarians are the malicious apps that would have been stopped by app store vetting. Seems like a bad deal for the average citizen of that city.

I think tech savvy users should be able to (after jumping through a few hoops) do whatever they want with their phones, without any fear of reprisal from software and hardware manufacturers. If Apple and Google insist on strangling this market then Tim Sweeney has the money to develop a competing phone ecosystem, it could be a great business opportunity if a large number of users and developers are actually not being well served. But he may find that this underserved population is a quite small slice of the total addressable market, and that walled gardens actually do a good job for the vast majority of users, protecting my oblivious grandma who clicks on everything from a horde of scammers.
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So let's split CJK? Unicode is a joke anyway. It should be renamed to Multicode.
You might want to also look at: https://www.getjavelin.io
That was over 2 decades ago, they have had plenty of time to try and fix this.
There’s a few beavers near my place. I’m pretty sure they share their dam with muskrats.
Unicode was originally designed with the dream of fitting everything into 16 bits. CJK unification was a controversial measure that enabled this, by combining "the same" characters together in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Microsoft (wchar), Sun (Java), Netscape (JS) and many others settled on a 16bit fixed width "Unicode" encoding (nowadays often labelled as UCS-2).

Later it turned out that 16 bits wasn't enough anyway, but we are left with the UCS-2 mess regardless. UCS-2 and CJK unification are historical mistakes in the development of Unicode that we are stuck dealing with.
They still do. Flooding so much land is a nuisance for farming and for road access.
They are stereo using the MV-HEVC format https://developer.apple.com/av-foundation/HEVC-Stereo-Video-...

And while stereo video as a format is simple, IMHO it’s still quite a feat of engineering to capture it from the current phone generation. There have been stereo Android phones before but they were engineered from the get go with stereo in mind, and sacrificed other elements to achieve it
> Well, the most and third most populous countries on Earth don't.

WhatsApp is ubiquitous in India, the most populous country in the world.
Only for some, because some source character sets had separate codes for them and Unicode had to guarantee a safe round-trip conversion ("source separation principle").
It's a little sad that 1984 still sits near the top of the list for sci-fi favorite reads of the year in 2023. Not that it's a bad book by any means, but just because the genre feels neglected.

On the plus side, this is the first I am learning of Project Hail Mary, and definitely plan to give it a read. Thank you for compiling this list!
What does thad mean "part of the OS"? It is not built into the kernel, and is therefore no part of the OS. I do not see why the same would not apply to Apple.
But maybe the US legal system is just totally broken ...
WhatsApp is that middle ground in some parts of the world.

Upon moving to Europe we discovered that WhatsApp is the preferred way to connect with friends, employees, social groups and schools. It was actually the driving factor in me conceding and setting up a FB account.
Storage limitations from the 80's (as described by sibling comments) is one reason, but there's also another: which characters are considered their own graph (versus variants) is a somewhat fraught geopolitical issue, especially when China and Taiwan are on opposite sides of the argument. The final chapter of Yale professor Jing Tsu's Kingdom of Characters does a great job laying out how this manifests itself at meetings of Unicode working groups.
> But at some point it will reach a steady state.

I highly doubt that these guys will win. I would bet 5 AAPL on it.
Land that they were already using turning into lakes.

Beavers can make lakes that are absolutely enormous because they aim their dams so carefully, and can construct them to very impressive heights. I've had a 20 meter wide two meter high beaver dam on my Canadian property. It seemed incredible that such tiny animals can make such enormous constructs.
Ok so Google is punished for being more open in the first case? Sounds fishy to me ...
"They can afford it" is a terrible argument. There's literally no upside for Apple providing their infrastructure for free to third parties, particularly given that it's a potential vector for flooding their customers with spam.

Up until quite recently, most phone carriers metered the number of texts you could send per month and then charged extra. Many still charge per text when you're roaming overseas. Perhaps Apple could offer API access on commercial terms to third parties but that's their decision.
Thanks for the footnotes, made my day! :lol:
How can you be certain that changing this detail would result in Android failing? Was it really app sideloading and allowing other stores that made Android successful? I think the biggest contributing factor was that it was made by Google (who had the money to both partner with other manufacturers and eventually make their own hardware), in combination with a lack of other options that'd directly compete with iOS (you mentioned Tizen, but it wouldn't come out for another 4 years after Android's release)
广+マ can stand for more than one character. That's the fatal problem with CJK unification in general. It takes the correctly entered language character X and replaces it with CJK character Y and then everyone gets confused
yeah alphabeticall languages solves this problem by assigning different code points with the same looking character in different languages, which doesn't bring any problem at all..... except maybe domain phising. LMAO
> Imagine that all roads in the US belonged to Apple

If you go this route, not all roads would have belonged to Apple. People would use Apple's roads because they're well built, the majority of cars are nice ones and drivers drive well because enforcement is harsh. Maintenance is usually done on schedule and if people want hassle free travel, it's the best choice even if they're boring and uniform.

There exists other roads for every (start, destination) pairs. But only the new ones are maintained. Drivers do whatever they want and even enforcement wants to stop at every turn. Sometimes you're not even sure what exactly are alongside you on the road.

Here you come trying to create a taxi service (But you did not build any road yourself) and both companies ask you for the same fee. But you know you can probably get your cars on Google's road and bypass the fee with some hassle. But Apple's won't let you do that. People has paid a high fee to get access to these road and they don't want random cars on it. But you know these people has money and you want some of it.

I could go on and on with this.

> Apple's ecosystem is _unavoidable_ if you are making mobile applications (not games).

If you're a business, why would you care for 30%? Apple is providing the whole SDK for free, and your users' platform is getting updates for free. You are not doing any of that. the 99$ yearly fee is peanut.

If you're building things for yourself, Apple has never advertise that iOS was something to tinker with.
American that naturalized after moving to the Netherlands here and I can confirm.

Also, poorly performing engineers will sometimes be promoted into management roles to get them away from the code. Now the incompetent guy in the team is your boss.

I would also add that if companies attempt to give technology specialists higher salaries they will often run into problems with their financial auditors claiming a lack of market conformity.
The cat would likely hunt them down and make sure the humans see that.

I'm from Eastern Europe and have never seen a mouse inside a house here. In Amsterdam they were everywhere.
> Something I have wanted to create for a long time (definitely more than 5 years) is a new modal editor. I don't want yet another vi clone: I want something that is defined from the ground up by user configuration.

This is more or less the philosophy of the editor I've been working on (and using ~exclusively) since 2014: https://github.com/alefore/edge/tree/master

Some parts of the UI are still defined in the compiled language (so don't fully fit your philosophy yet), but a big part of the UI comes from the configuration loaded at runtime: every time the editor starts, it interpretes and runs this configuration defining the UI: https://github.com/alefore/edge/blob/master/rc/hooks/start.c...

(This file is not compiled into the editor, but loaded and executed directly at runtime; the format of that file is my editor's extension language/configuration (the equivalent to emacs lisp or vimscript), which just happens to be a garbage collected C-like language.)
You will note of course that the rules and regulations around how to implement these things are always 'bipartisan' and meant to stir up as little backlash as possible. There's many opportunities to install bottlenecks and roadblocks in systems that end up shaping the entire way they function. To some extent it is progressives anticipating conservative backlash but there's plenty of lines in plenty of laws written into and insisted on by conservatives that have wide-ranging consequences.

Reductionist perspectives on how politics works always end up at this "one side is dominating the other" kind of narrative but it's never actually that way, both sides still have a lot of influence on the various specifics of the outcome.
You don't have to run WebAuth on a VPS, you can use it on your PC/Mac or even on your phone..!
They do allow competition. Build your own phone and your own app store.
The case can be used as precedent, though.
Out of curiosity what are the use cases/benefits for running models locally?

I also have this fascination because I'd like to have my LLM exist like a 'pocket calculator' that's safe from any technical fiasco in the future...

But aside from this I'm wondering why others are into this as well.
They'll often, if not always, prioritize their animals over themselves. They're no different from housed pet owners in that way.
I feel like answer 2 promotes the basis that such a complaint by Google is acceptable.
> “What's the intended solution for encoding text that uses Chinese and Japanese at the same time?”

For web documents, you can explicitly mark the language and let the browser pick the correct font. Can be applied to any element:

<span lang=“ja”>…</span>
When you’re a marketplace, especially a big one, both the people buying in your store and the people selling in your store start to look like customers, both paying you for access to the other. For the sellers is obviously more implicit, but still often explicit like grocery stores getting paid to put specific products on aisle end caps and such.

The whole 30% fee is premised on providing services to app makers for money.
I think the article doesn’t provide enough arguments why this is even an issue.

For example what is the probability of such character being rendered incorectly in some standart tex? lets say a wikipedia article.

Even more so the argumet that people don’t report this because they are "not speakers of English!” is just an assumption. Not to mention that translation applications are more than good enough for such a task.
> South Korea's economy is run by like three chaebols[0] but they have working infrastructure.

Some parts of that infrastructure seem to be having serious problems now:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38539167
News become part of history but I don't think history is the integral of old news.

To think about things maybe dear to us, the history of Apple, Steve Jobs, Amiga, Atari, is very different than the integral of news about those. It is more influenced by people's stories that were never "news". I'm not sure any news about these really constitute a major part of what we'd call the history there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History says "inquiry; knowledge acquired by investigation" ... most of what we call news doesn't really involve much in the way of inquiry or investigation. A lot of news is just PR. E.g. the crime reporter in the news knows some guys in the police and they give him some story and he prints it. That's news. Often the history of significant events is discovered over much longer time frames through more serious investigation and research. The events that aren't significant sort of fade away into nothingness.

Good journalism, investigative reporting, that provides some insight, seems incredibly rare in any domain.

When news stories come out about some technical discovery or science, and you're familiar with the domain, they very rarely are accurate. Like those "cancer is finally cured" stories that pop up every now and then as "news".

I guess it's like "reality" shows?
Well, it was an opinion based upon direct observation. To be fair, that’s a foundational aspect of the research you suggested.
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> get from the headlines to Wikipedia as fast as possible

This is the way. I treat news headlines as a list of recommendations for which Wikipedia articles to read today. I have even built my own archive of Wikipedia's "Current Events" pages[1] to make this process as seamless as possible, and skip all the non-news garbage that news websites tend to be infested with.

[1] https://pastevents.org/
Can anyone recommend an online course for practically “learning AI”?

I’ve tried the hugging face course but got discouraged at the not quite working examples and colab books. There is also the Amazon and MS courses but I’d rather learn in a neutral way rather than a vendor-centric way.
Just changing some habits was useful in managing this.

- firstly, turn off the Always On feature - this saves an immense amount of battery and I'm not staring at my wrist half the day anyways.

- IN the morning, when I have my coffee - slap it on the charger at my desk.

- Showering - slap it (or simply leave it) on the charger, then get dressed and put it on

- In the evening when I'm cooking/eating dinner, slap it on the charger.

I find that a 30-minute charge time is enough to juice it up for 8h or more. It is often fully charged in an hour or so.
Out of curiosity, what languages do you speak and what is your native language?