skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, that's exactly what using one of the outputs of a theory to claim it is unfalsifiable is like.
> Comparable to all curated store fronts.

Both the Microsoft Store and the Play Store require a single payment of ~25$. Publishing on the Amazon AppStore is free. I couldn't find any price information for Huawei AppGallery.

Apple is the only store that requires a recurring payment, and it's the single most expensive one.
Or even "ships from" / "located in".

I'm in Europe and don't want to deal with custom hassles or delays from shipping. Etsy and Reverb both have this option which I never fail to use.
I signed up today and I was disappointed to see that every thread in my "stream" had text followed by an image. I thought Thread was going to be text-only? This reminds me too much of Instagram.
How about young Persis Khambatta in her Star Trek outfit with her Mr. Clean haircut … am I right?
Going back to gig workers, it sounds like you agree that they're actually contractors and shouldn't be classed as employees? All the stuff you described isn't very applicable to gig workers.
This guide seems outdated, and written with IE's limitations in mind. Almost no one is using IE anymore.

> We could use a chained selector for state e.g. .module.isDisabled. The problem is that this approach has less browser support.

> Whichever approach you take, be aware of the 31 CSS file limit found in versions of Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer 9, for example, ignores styles stored in the 32nd (or 33rd etc) file.
Sorry man. Hey, have you checked out the pool on the roof yet?
A reason to code it like this is to avoid that specific date to appear in the compiled code.
the treadmill of perpetual tech migrations only to find out about the downsides after months of work
> For some reason […]

Likely because Apple themselves provide an emulator that accommodates most developers’ needs.
Agreed on the large margin of error. Working on a bot to store and convert the images to webp to improve performance. Having the bot do a check for any images that don't exist and removing those listing. Will likely also need to triangulate this with a 404 check. Recently added an option for users to mark a product as "sold out" on the search results which will help as well.

Unrelated, but what was the "weird criteria" for the secret santa exchange? Half joking but also helps with figuring out filters :)
True, but it does make hardware much more available and not a bottleneck anymore. At least not in the same way. At some point, if it hasn't been reached already, the power available with existing hardware will represent more compute than is needed to hold AI. At that point AI could start creating its own hardware production facilities as well.
But you can only really make those profitably for a few industries (military, medical, seismic come to mind). The EU does have the chip fabs for those industries, of course...
4 years ago:
"LinkedIn is moving to Microsoft’s Azure public cloud three years after $27 billion acquisition"

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/23/linkedin-is-moving-to-micros...
As said: Electric trains are not emissions-free due to the brake dust.
While the gap has closed over the years, with high quality web apps and the ability of the browser to send you notifications, I still prefer to use Thunderbird to check my multiple accounts, and only notify for my primary folder, while lots of relative junk gets filtered down to sub-folders, where I do not want notifications.
The same viewpoint applies to any motor vehicle too. How many road accidents are due to mechanical error introduced by a mechanic (that does not operate on behalf of the car manufacturer)? What makes an "official" mechanic employed by the manufacturer superior to a third party?

This is an interesting discussion, thank you for your nuanced opinion. I don't know where I stand on it but you are spot on about the demographics of HN. I certainly have a knee-jerk reaction in the direction of operator freedom.

Edit: Additionally, if something like this goes wrong (say the train derails) it will be a massive blow to right to repair. Even if it is later found that the third party repair is not responsible, the media will scoop up this story and it will forever warp the public's ideas about right to repair.
I use DuckDB, it's a great piece of tech. Only way I could figure out how to use it though was to read the source (found a few interesting bugs while doing so as well)
It is concerning (although not surprising, I suppose) that they wouldn't have the option enabled to make it so that new contributors' PRs won't run github actions without approval.. although I guess without further detail on exactly what happened it is possible they do and someone who previously contributed did it which would've made that mitigation useless
> After Brexit, the blanket got lifted and I started seeing teeth.

I’ve seen that same regression here in the U.S. It started in late 2016, and got significantly worse with the pandemic.

We’re in a very dangerous period in history. It’s not that long ago that one group of men were cheerfully annihilating another group of men, and I worry quite a bit that we’ll return to that. I think that it might even worse than before, because there is so much less love and beauty in the world now than before.
Doing this is a huge amount of engineering work. Things like the usb controller, modem, audio, touch sensor, and many many more are often custom hardware without any specs available that you somehow need to simulate. That's not even getting into the display tech. And these things change with each new hardware iteration. In the OP repo, there appear to be 25 of these things that the author had to reverse engineer an emulate. And that's for 15 year old hardware. Things like usb controllers require thousands of lines of dense C code. Then you have all of the CPU extensions leveraged by iPhones that generally have poor/nonexistent emulation support. This type of emulation/rehosting is a notoriously hard problem even for simpler devices like routers. Modern game emulators typically move up the stack and intercept high-level graphics etc APIs because emulating all of the hardware would be a ton of work (and doing so in performantly would be impossible). The simulator that comes with xcode works in a similar way. But by doing this, you lose a lot of the capabilities that you might want from an emulated device (kernel/driver debugging, etc).

There is a reason that Corellium can charge so much for SASS access to recent-model emulated iPhones.
> but I'd have to do an integral above my skill level to work out the volume inside; if I understand right, the radial direction and the time direction switch roles at the event horizon.

If you try to naively apply the same procedure you would use to define volumes outside the event horizon, it's proportional to the lifetime of the black hole (infinite in the classical case) for the reason you note.

Of course the better way to interpret this is probably just that the interior volume of a black hole is ill-defined.
That's exactly right! I didn't see hackers until I was in my mid 30s, but when they had the initial flyover of the city representing tables in a database ... I had a moment where I said "my goodness, this is the closest representation of how I think of data".

It's like when you're reading a book - you don't think about the words, the concepts and people come to life in your brain. I feel like this is the only movie to get that that happens with computers, too.
I use a mail client for offline access, backups, and faster search

I stopped using Proton largely because the bridge was unreliable - this may have kept me around

My browser does too much already, too. I appreciate actual applications that have an identity beyond a favicon
Circa 2000 I interviewed for a three-letter-acronym agency that shall remain unnamed and they were interested in me working on a 3D visualization interface of traffic across a network which actually sounded pretty fascinating. Sort of like "packet filter plus visualization" after given physical location information about the computers in question; even without that information, though, it would use something like the graphviz algorithm (or one of its options) to lay out the map on a 2D plane in 3D. Different kinds of traffic was color-coded, you could zoom in and inspect any stream, roll forward or backwards in history, etc.
Federated is how the United States and many other nations are organized, it's not a large knowledge leap. Explain it as one big social network where each server can choose it's own rules and you decide which server you want to be on. You can even move between servers*, like states

I think you might diminish others too much

People definitely also understand big tech and consolidated platforms being a problem
I dont see the economics of splitting servers for parts. Aside from pulling drives for shredding, servers are mostly sold as pulled on the aftermarket
Tcl touts concave and 8K OLED PC monitors using inkjet panel tech
If they have Dell-specific features, then I agree.
> For some reason Apple devices are particularly poorly represented in emulators when compared to other systems.

Well, what would you use one for? Apple provides emulators for current iOS versions and the centralised App Store means versions of iOS apps for old OS versions aren’t readily available the way they are for Windows etc. Beyond maybe testing old versions of Safari it’s more of a historical curiosity than something with real use.

It’s kind of weird, given the number of user hours spent on, say, iOS 6 era Instagram, that we have no way of replicating the experience today.
Sir, this is a Hacker News
The Singularity people and the Rapture people are both correct. Can already see the event starting to take shape, just gotta know where to look for all the signs. Everything is rapidly heading in that direction.
Hello Apple. iCloud Stuck at 50GB.
"I can't upgrade my iCloud. I just get the message "You're already an Apple music member."

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255342249?sortBy=best

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I am curious what other people use for backup because obviously Apple does not care to take my money.
The RVV here isn’t compatible with mainstream Linux anyway.
It probably is. Since they already have a working web app, why would they throw all that away and start a new project from scratch targeting 3 platforms (MacOS, Linux and Windows) and triple the maintenance burden?

I'm assuming they have reworked their current web app into an electron (or similar) desktop application and going forward they can make changes and immediately push out to both web and desktop.
The next step toward phasing out third-party cookies in Chrome
Isn't this hampered by the old 'needing a universe-sized supercomputer to run a fully accurate 1:1 simulation of the universe'? It seems like the complexity of this kind of reverse simulation would be enormous and grow bigger and more complex when you're dealing with something on the scale of black holes.

At least unless you can somehow reduce the data complexity dramatically without tainting the simulation, but that seems difficult to do when you're trying to work backwards to an unknown state. At least the pre-burnt piece of paper is known to exist alongside various rules of physics that we know - unlike in the black hole, where those rules all come with a "warrantry maybe void" asterisk.
Bluesky going public early next year. If you're not going to use mastodon, at least go there, not threads.
As someone who has had a home ML server since 2016 with two TitanX GPUs, and has worked on and maintained numerous servers since then I can definitely echo that maintaining Nvidia drivers, along with CUDA, CUDNN, etc has always been a hassle. It's certainly gotten better over time, but it's still quite fragile.

Automatic kernel update?
https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvidia-smi-not-working...

What about upgrading to a new version of CUDA?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43022843/nvidia-nvml-dri...

What about trying something like enabling forward compatibility for CUDA using an older driver?
https://discuss.pytorch.org/t/torch-is-unable-to-detect-cuda...
(This issue was actually just posted within the last day, so clearly people still have problems.)

If you haven't run into any issues, then I'd say you're very lucky. Just don't pretend lots of others haven't run into issues.
Back in the day me and my buddy spent ages playing Mortal Combat on a PC. I decided to learn all the combos (crazy fast keyboard patterns). The combos gave you disproportional damage wielding power.

I spent hours and hours practicing it when we were playing. My buddy won pretty much every single game, while laughing at my combo attempts.

Then I mastered it one day. I won every single game. Buddy said this combo shit wasn't fair and refused to play the game ever again!
I think the discussion around Elon Musk and his outburst is a little bit more nuanced than choosing which side is the "force for good".
I tried to rob a Costco, but my plan failed because I didn't bring eight guns.
The thing is, as these grassroots movements gather pace, you might see a wholesale shift in MENA politics gravitating towards the East (India / China).

Despite wars in Iraq, Libya, and Afghanistan, MENA was pretty much "meh" towards the US, with only a fringe harbouring ill-will, because the majority believed the US stood for liberty, like Hollywood told them. This is quickly changing in no small part due to disinfo and social media. Opportunist politicians in these countries are guaranteed to ride this shift in the Overton Window for their own gains.
I use a combination of Github topics and parsing of the README to determine if a package is Django related. Can you pass me the link to your repo and I'll take a look?

I'll see if I can build some sort of mailing feature :-)
"Reasonable" is an unfortunate word IMO. An assumption doesn't come out of reasoning. We can't even estimate the probability of this assumption being right because we can't see the future.

The best way this word fits is that we can reason towards the conclusion that whether laws will change or not is an assumption.
Hi, I want to comment on the "readability" package. I am using it, too, on my bookmarking project.

The main project is on Ruby on Rails, but I have a microservice on node just for the "readability". I also extracted another service that would need a lot of memory and run only occasionally.

Those microservices are only needed from time to time, and I call them from a background job, so I let them autoscale to 0 on Fly.
It acts like a stroboscope [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroboscope
So it's only gig working if you work full time? What about other freelancers that work full time? Should they be classed as employees too, or are we singling out gig workers here?
What about this chip is open source? As far as I can tell, nothing. It frustrates me to no end that closed, secret efforts inherit the “open source” branding just because the specification they implement is participatory and royalty free.
You are correct on all points of course. My main point was that unlike projects that distribute those components there's really no grounds for Apple to DMCA down the emulator's GitHub repo itself.
What I’d like to see nowadays for such a tool would be having an LLM as an agent that I could get summaries and ask questions. That would be awesome.
Or a laptop with a translucent case!
It is not a counterexample. Most individuals are having hard time taking into account consequences that are decades removed and either vaguely defined (e.g. 3℃ global temperature raise is a catastrophe) or too great in scope and scale (e.g. literally global societal collapse). But even so externalities are catching up. British Petroleum is pivoting into solar, for instance even if for PR reasons. As a result of external pressure (public opinion and legislation/regulation) fossil fuel industry is in decline. Most major companies are trying to diversify and do something else instead. Companies that comprise fossil fuel industry will probably remain but they'll do something else.

You can not be sure you can shame or legislate paperclip maximizer, though. An average paperclip maximizer has no shame and doesn't care for any law.
'Nature' has chosen –ChatGPT– as one of its scientists of the year
I don't live there or share the viewpoint. I picked it up from people I know who live there now and how their attitudes have changed.

While it might be pan-European, the sentiment in Dublin is certainly new. People seem... fed up. Now there's been a far-right riot, the rest of the world is also aware.
Sun is thought to have completed 18–20 orbits during its lifetime
> The problem is that they don't contribute nearly as much to the system and they're in very precarious situations: no contribution to retirement, no paid vacations, no parental leave, no unemployment benefits, &c.

All of this is applicable to contract work in general, not just gig work. Why not fix it for all contractors rather than only gig workers?
I think a lot of these comments will highlight the lower level parts of ML, but what ML needs right now in my opinion is really smart people at the implementation level. As an analogy, there are way less “frontend” ML practitioners than “backend” ones.

Leveraging existing LLM technologies and putting them in software where regular people can use them and have a great experience is important, necessary work. When I studied CS in college the data structure kids were the “cool kids”, but I don’t think that’s the case in ML.

The daily practice is to sketch applications, configure prompts and function calls, learn to market what you create, and try to create zero to one type tools. Here’s two examples I made, one where I took the commonplace book technique of the era of Aristotle and put it in our modern embeddings era [1] and one where I really pushed to understand the pure MD spec and integrate streaming generative models into it [2]

[1] - https://github.com/bramses/commonplace-bot

[2] - https://github.com/bramses/chatgpt-md
Webmail requires an active Internet connection. A desktop client lets me work in more environments/situations, and acts as a kind of local backup/cache of my communications.

It also makes focusing on email easier. I dislike having to dive into tab sprawl to read/write email.
I'd like to apply to be your company's resident artist
Snowflake isn't local, you have to pay for cloud ... Airflow is Airflow, complexity, steep learning curve, there is a whole industry trying to be as/more powerful than Airflow with less complexity and cleaner integration with modern things you might want to do like k8s, although of course Airflow is still super popular and powerful.

the Dagster folks have some comparisons, of course there are popular modern alternatives other than Dagster

https://dagster.io/blog/dagster-airflow

https://dagster.io/vs/dagster-vs-airflow
"Languages with curly braces are categorically useless for data exploration" is certainly ... a take.
That ship has sailed. If I look at my Dock right now, from left to right I'm running:

- Nautilus

- Brave (Chromium)

- Gnome-terminal

- VSCode (Electron)

- Telegram Desktop (̶E̶l̶e̶c̶t̶r̶o̶n̶ QT)[1]

- WhatsApp (web wrapper in Electron)[1]

- Discord (Electron)

- Spotify (Chromium Embedded Framework)

- Betterbird (Gecko, might as well be Electron)

- TickTick (Electron)

- Steam (Chromium Embedded Framework)

In a way it is very interesting to me, Chromium has pretty much become a "kernel" of sorts that all web technologies run atop. And I don't really buy the "Chromium gives Google power over the web", as it is permissively licensed, and there is at least one other giant stakeholder in the form of Microsoft.

Kind of makes me wish GNU and Apple would do what Microsoft has done, integrate a Chromium-based WebView into the OS and optimize it to the gills. The battle between Blink (Chromium), WebKit and Gecko has already been lost, might as well give your users the best UX they can get.

[1]There is work being done on native GTK clients by third parties, namely

- Paper Plane for Telegram: https://github.com/paper-plane-developers/paper-plane

- Whakarere for Whatsapp: https://github.com/tobagin/whakarere
Stop claiming that I'm spreading FUD and show me at least one Linux app which was compiled to the binary code in 1996 and exactly that binary code still runs under modern Linux desktop environment and has similar visual style to the rest of builtin apps.

Got no counterexamples? Then it's not FUD at all, rather a pure truth.
Also Stratus: Wikipedia says they were originally built around M68Ks. The WP article is a bit thin on Stratus's early products, but my vague recollection is that they used 3 processors in lockstep, with voting to detect a faulty processor.
Most of clothes are subsidized by slave labour or pollution [1] [2]. The question is, who gets the margins. Somehow when it's Shein or Teemu it's "fast fashion bad", and when it's Adidas or Levi's it's "let's close our eyes and pretend that not happened".

1. https://fashionchecker.org/

2. https://wikirate.org/Clean_Clothes_Campaign+Living_Wages_Pai...
You can get knowledge (e.g. mathematical) without observation. You can't get information without observation.
Ignoring how the app and platform are, I couldn’t stomach their data requirements. Like, why do you need to know about my health? You are a messaging app!
I find myself craving examples for _everything_ even as someone experienced with a variety of tools.

So much documentation for APIs, CLI programs, _everything_ is painfully lacking in examples.

Or the examples will be just totally wrong or out of date, then search engines and LLMs slurp it up and give you bullshit examples when prompted.

So now a lot of my comments start with `// e.g.`
I don't know why others mock it, but as an older person working in IT, I can explain why I mock it even when knowing it was real software SGI shipped with IRIX.

(Minor correction: it was not shipped with IRIX but a free demo you could ftp. After 30 years I had forgotten that until looking at https://web.archive.org/web/20070409024417/http://www.sgi.co... and similar sites just now.)
> I don't accept that I must be able to comprehensively articulate the meaning of every word I use.

Did I claim that you are obligated to?

You certainly don't need to be able to. Worse, you may not even be able to see the benefit of a species using language that is highly and consistently understandable (as is common in science, engineering, law, etc).

Let's hope there aren't any negative consequences from this ideology, which seems to be a cultural norms, supported by the vast majority of people across most any ideology ("pendants" being an exception - for fun, look up the meaning of that word in the dictionary).

Say, what's your stance on climate change, and the various wars The Humans have going on?
Heh, I built myself leddit.lol for the exact same reasons.
That's assuming we will get to the bottom of this. And I really hope we will. But I'm kind of concerned that it will all be wiped under the carpet.
Indeed, it's the classical Weismann's fallacy. From Nick Lane's 'Life Ascending':

> The most popular idea, dating back to Weismann in the 1880s, is wrong, as he himself was quick to recognise. Weismann originally proposed that ageing and death rid populations of old worn-out individuals, replacing them with racy new models replete with a new set of genes remixed by sex. The idea invests death with some sort of nobility and symmetry, in service of a greater cause, even if it can hardly aspire to the grandeur of a religious purpose. In this view the death of an individual benefits the species, just as the death of some cells benefits the organism. But the argument is circular, as Weismann’s critics pointed out: old individuals are only ‘worn out’ if they age in the first place, so Weismann presupposed exactly what he was trying to explain. The question remained, what makes individuals ‘wear out’ with age, even if death does benefit populations?
Delete it then. I can’t.
yes, it seems like