skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If many people around you are participating in something but you're left out because of your phone OS choice, you do still feel entitled to participate in that by whatever means necessary. It's about the social aspects more than anything else. See other comments here for people apparently getting shamed and left out of group chats for having wrong color bubbles.

Remember Clubhouse, and how it was iOS-only when it was actually popular for a month? I felt entitled to build an unofficial Android app for it because so many people were on there doing interesting things, and so many other people were complaining loudly about it being iOS-only.

FOMO is a powerful force.
oh that map was you? I was completely baffled as a kid whatever that map was about
I think we can look back and ask why we went from a 6 day to a 5 day. And then we can ask: are we happy with the outcome?

Maybe one day it will be time to push for a 3-day workweek. Then maybe 2. Then 1. And maybe the post-scarcity, automated society will actually exist and we have 0.
Some people really wrote the material they learn to generate from.

It's people all the way down...
It's tempting to read just the headline and see an opportunity to express your views on the great Europe vs US online debate (everyone has a take), but the article does have an interesting thesis.

> If you wanted to regulate AI, I think you’d want to regulate somewhere at the production level, not at the consumption level. Why is it that the EU regulators are focusing entirely on the consumption level?

> Well, because they are consumers

> [...]

> I didn’t really get this until I moved to San Francisco. I had never in my life met people who make stuff.
> Without the exclusionary rule the 4th amendment doesn't really exist. Cops could just violate your 4th amendment rights and then either arrest you if they find evidence of a crime or go on their merry way.

I mean if I trespass on your property and take a handgun and give it to police as evidence of the murder weapon they can use that to convict you. You might have trouble with a civil suit of trespassing against me but I doubt a prosector couldn't also try me for trespassing.

The exclusionary rule is not in the constitution. The 4th amendment does not describe what happens if its violated and the fruit of the poisonous tree is entirely made up by the court system in 1920 [1] over a century after the constitution was written. Prior to that point there wasn't a need of the fruit of the poisonous tree because if even if you had a warrant you couldn't use my personal possessions as evidence against me [2].

Although I don't really agree with either system. You should be able to use warrants to get personal property but taking person property without a warrant should receive the same penalty no matter who takes it. i.e. Cops should risk jail time for breaking the law like everybody else. Obviously if a cop radios their supervisor to verify they have a warrant and the supervisor lies then the supervisor is on the hook and not the cop.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverthorne_Lumber_Co._v._Uni...
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere_evidence_rule
>gesturing theatrically

Agreed that this post isn't particularly illuminating, but where is the theatrics?

It's just a list of connections, and the author even refuses to put a conclusion.
It had to read the TOC first because the compiled program wouldn't know how long the first track of the CD is until it was burned. Once they are storing the TOC in memory it's just as easy to do absolute positioning, basically doing the calculation for the drive. It's a bit more work for the developer and slightly more fragile, but it works well enough.
"He says... 'What would a computer do with a lifetime supply of chocolate?' ... I am now telling the computer EXACTLY what he can do with a lifetime supply of chocolate!!" [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP-eR8a3vIU
This is not really ALL of Europe. Germany seems to be quite the industrial country. Maybe that's why they're the largest economic player there.
Not sure this means anything. Almost every European country has a huge number of English speakers. Few Americans speak one of the local languages of Europe well enough to live there. Plus, we'd have to assume people were well informed in general about living conditions in various places.
Lethal Company has just solved arachnophobia with words
Beeper seems to be masquerading as an Intel Mac. These don’t have any hardware attestation, and many of them aren’t receiving software updates anymore either.

This might be extremely hard for Apple to fix.
You can also press and hold the send button to swap over to SMS.
I think productivity is lower in the winter, so I'm not sure about quality per se, but intuitively it makes sense that anything written in the winter months is less verbose.
Well firstly there's about 2x more Europeans than Americans by population, and secondly 44% of Americans don't even own a passport.
The only reason I even clicked in here was to confirm my suspicion that "Home Community" was just a new word for HOA someone made up to side-step all the valid criticisms against them.
So someone who reaped all the benefits of living in a social system where education is of a certain standard for all then moves to a deregulated country with huge wealth, education and health inequalities, but has ended up on the rewarding side of that, is now wondering why things are so different.
Based on conversations I've had, it seems most Americans who think that way took a vacation to a ritzy area of Barcelona, Nice, or Florence, and and deduced that 100% of Europeans, must live like that.
https://archive.is/fp84g <- images load on this one
Facebook Messenger - approx 140 million users, then WhatsApp at approx 75 million. iOS has approx 136 million users (not sure if that includes iPad). So "dwarfs" might be a bit extreme. However, its extremely unlikely that all the iOS users use iMessage and none use either Facebook or WhatsApp. Statista has the figures, but I'm not going to pay $149 per month to find out more!

Source: Googling around, so take it for what it is!
> most folks get from Azure is compliance

To be fair, this doesn't prevent problems. Paperwork doesn't plug any security gaps in any cloud provider.
Meant to link to the root but can't change now.

https://htmx.org/
Apple M2 Ultra: "up to 192GB of memory with 800GB/s of unified memory bandwidth for workstation-class performance."
LLVM does some optimizations, but compilers that target it normally do their own optimizations before generating the IR, because they know more than LLVM does about the higher-level source language and what can be done with it

So eg, you may generate LLVM IR directly and only get LLVM's optimizations, or you may generate C and compile it with Clang and get Clang's optimizations + LLVM's optimizations

You could always implement your own pre-LLVM optimizations in your LLVM IR generator, but as I think we all know, that's a huge amount of extra work (which is the OP's point)
Indeed, undo in regions is the second best feature of emacs undo, wish it were more popular
That couldn't possibly have ever been in doubt, though.
Does anyone have more examples of other low cost, low tech medical diagnostic methods (or at least such ways of supporting diagnosis like here)?
The old european countries understand that education invested in the young results in taxes for the long run. Every soul without healthcare could just die along the way and all the investments are gone including the workpower

I find it wrong to call it lack of creating wealth of providerism its neither of those things. Its a fine balance to understand what is best for the entire population
> Right now, Europeans are still living off past prosperity, but if they don't build a real technology industry and innovate, then future Europeans will be much worse off.

As an American, I've heard some variant of this for literally my entire life.

Europe is technologically conservative in ways that the US is not. It's unclear that this has, is having, or will have any impact on the actual material wellbeing of the people who live there.

Compare life expectancy[1], or just about any self-reported QoL metric[2] (where the US doesn't perform badly, just not better!).

[1]: https://www.ined.fr/en/everything_about_population/data/euro...

[2]: https://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/
Moss is one of those things that is tricky to eat, but very rewarding if you find the right species and know what you’re doing! Fluffy goodness
Lots of embedded work won't tolerate an OS, sometimes not even an RTOS, which I think was GPs point - nothing specific about Linux.

Or to put it another way, the only reason you would want to move to an OS is to add complexity to what the device is doing. GP is arguing that's a bad trade off.
I am not sure you are very aware of european infrastructure projects. The current tunneling projects alone won't find ongoing equivalents in the US as far as I know.

But maybe we should talk about rail, because that is apparently going splendidly in the US.
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because there IS an open SMS standard, and Apple has hijacked all their phones to use iMessage in it's closed ecosystem, saying to the rest of the world: "Go Fork Yourselves".

So, right back at ya, Apple. If you cannot make it by distinguishing your products on their MERITS vs the amount of lock-in you can generate, I feel no reason to help protect your brand, or access to it
TSMC's success is partially that they're the only company who promises not to compete with their customers, because they don't make their own chips like Intel and Samsung do.
Because equal distribution of wealth takes away all motivation for hard work and innovation. There's no point to work hard just to have your profits taken away in taxes and distributed to lazy bastards that didn't bother to finish high school.

America is a land of opportunity: you either win big or lose terribly. Europe is for people who want to play it safe.
You do /not/ want to make it on the USCSB YouTube channel.
That sounds like the right thing to do. If you have to do layoffs, it's better to do them all at once and then tell everyone how much runway you have left. Doing several smaller once, making everybody unsure of the future and afraid for their jobs is much worse.
They were working for free so, it mustn't hurt that bad.
If you're considering not just tech, but the general mindset of being somewhere that builds/produces things that other people use, as opposed to just industries of middlemen who skim off the top, then I'd argue India also has that mindset, maybe a few other SE asian countries too, and furthermore that nowhere is quite as bad as Europe in terms of having the opposite mindset.
X2 and K56Flex were two competing standards for 56Kbps dialup connections that predated the eventual V.90 standard.

I think there was a lot of "pre-802.11n" hardware sold before that standard was ratified as well.
Having been to both, this is… false.

I hope you’re not basing this on news reports, because that’s never going to give you an accurate picture.

In the US, I was blown away by the amount of wealth even “poor” Americans have, and how friendly, optimistic, and happy everyone is.

In Europe, I only saw this in the richest few countries, and even there most people seemed to be stuck in some sort of constrained, nice-but-middle class mode of life.

To be clear, I really loved Europe - and Europeans - and it does better with some important things - healthcare, walkability, baking bread, no mass shootings.

But there’s a clear difference overall, and it goes the other way.
It's a matter of opinion and what people want, but from American i crossed path with who settled in western Europe: accessible health-care, better infrastructures, holidays and work-life balance are some of the things that are recurring.
I'm shocked your son and his friends were using iMessage, even in the US. My teens are using Snapchat/IG/TikTok mostly for messaging.

iMessage or SMS is exclusively how they communicate with their parents.
https://ncase.me/crowds/ is what got me thinking about this originally, supposedly based on prior research. It's a bit long and dramatic, so to summarize... They mathematically modeled complex ideas spreading only if they pass a threshold, % of people you know who hold them. Too many connections creates a noise problem for complex ideas, but allows simple ideas to thrive. Simple ideas aren't always bad, but they tend to be, like rage. Too few is also an issue, so there's a sweet spot.

Obviously not proof of anything cause it's only a model, but I agree with the theory. Yes FB did go down the toilet with the algo feed, maybe Twitter too. So this is how I judge social networks now.
You can remove alot of it with mic choice/technique, in the same ways that you can enhance it.

There are also plugins that take care of at least most of it now, but it's not going to get rid of every instance of it. In current year, if you want 100% of it, it makes more sense to just train a model on your speech and fake all of the audio instead of recording it, then re-record only the parts you don't find acceptable.
I love how this is a post about the European regulation of technology and people are arguing in the comment section about quality of life
I am really surprised how someone could miss all the industry making stuff in Europe while there.
Iirc tings like mimo and 1024, let alone 4k, qam don't work unless all clients can use it. So people who proudly say "I havent upgraded my phone is 5 years" are also the ones holding the wifi at 802.11n speeds
Americans have significantly higher disposable income[0] and household net worth[1], and less debt[2]. By what QOL metrics is the average Western European doing better than the average American?

[0] https://data.oecd.org/hha/household-disposable-income.htm

[1] https://data.oecd.org/hha/household-net-worth.htm#indicator-...

[2] https://data.oecd.org/hha/household-debt.htm
This reminds me of an idea I had for an OpenAI proxy that transparently handles batching of requests. The use case is that OpenAI has rate limits not only on tokens but also requests per minute. By batching multiple requests together you can avoid hitting the requests limit.

This isn’t really feasible to implement if your app runs on lambda or edge functions, you’d need a persistent server.

Here’s a diagram I drew of a simple approach that came to mind: https://gist.github.com/b0o/a73af0c1b63fccf3669fa4b00ac4be52

It would be awesome to see this functionality built into BricksLLM.
This might probably come as a surprise to our militaries. But hey, quality discussion right here.
In some ways I see this as a sign that LLMs possibly aren’t that hard to iterate on now that the cat is out of the bag. A small team can push the state of the art in just 6 months? It feels like this is more a circumstance of the state of LLMs presently and less a statement on Mistral. I wouldn’t it be surprised if we see 10+ other new $1B+ companies spring up because of how much room for improvement there is in the space.
i'm surprised by this.. No schema changes?

Nobody pushes an application out just once.
I don't think they are.

I had to listen to similar comments about Millennials.

It's just the current youngest group, who are the least experienced so will be the most anxious. You just grow out of it, and forget how shitty it was when you first entered the workforce.
Why are you entitled to use Apple's messaging servers without paying for access?
The gap is optional too. You can burn CDs with no gap between audio tracks. I've done this for disks that are just one continuous track. I break it up into 90 small tracks with 0 gap between them. This way if you need to pull the disc out and continue playback on a different device you can seek to the track instead of having to hold down the fast forward button for ages.
Hmm... could laws mandating brake lights on cars be categorized the same? Why not get rid of brake lights and expect the drivers behind to be more attentive?

Pedestrians wearing dark clothes can be nearly invisible, I feel like mandating that "participants of traffic" be visible is fine...
You can SVG it!

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A good way to build intuition for how much text fits in a token is by pasting a block of text into a tokenizer playground, like this one: https://huggingface.co/spaces/Xenova/the-tokenizer-playgroun...
Only 41% of Germans have a passport. I don't see your point. We can adjust for population and the data is still clear. EU citizens would rather be in the US than the other way around. And the EU is only about 30% larger not 100%.
I think Samba was my first introduction to the idea that using a non-official/reverse-engineered implementation of something to piggyback into a closed ecosystem may not actually be preferable to either shunning that ecosystem entirely, or just buying into it. I loved it in concept, but in practice not so much.
Modern knowledge economy? So healthcare doesn't count towards it ? Because the really cool stuff in healthcare comes from Europe, you could see it during Covid with Novartis, Roche and Bayer.
Explain your perspective on this. Here is a probing question.

How does support costs for Microsoft go up when I communicate from my linux workstation to my linux server using SMB implemented by Samba.
Also, not paying your fair share for defense seems to have its advantages.
He makes some good points about regulation. You don't want to do it in a way that people take a chance in order to pay a small fine in case things work out, while others play by the rules and miss out.

But you also can't see regulation as a kind of mass, as in "lots of regulation bad". You can make good rules and you can make bad rules, it's not a question of "there's a lot or a little".

Finally, regulation is also a kind of value system. Like a garden, if you have no rules at all, things will grow. If that's all you care about, then you'll be happy with weeds growing all over the paths. In practice, you will care, and you will cut out some of the growth because you don't like it. There are plenty of businesses this has happened to, like tobacco and gambling. Your GDP will be lower than if you just allowed it, but that doesn't make it worse.
There’s a certain pompous attitude that’s left over from when they ran the world but badly in need of an update.
Tesla says California's Autopilot action violates its free speech rights
The person you replied to, me, understood perfectly why the window stopped scrolling, and considers it a bug. Browsers know how to handle that with native scrollable elements, and a scrollable element doesn't normally "capture" the scroll when it passes under the cursor. This element should ideally behave the same way.

"Whatever this page is doing" was with regards to the implementation details of the elements in question, not the actual reason why the issue was happening.

The author of the page considered it a bug as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38598921

(I don't think "click before scrolling" is necessarily the right UI fix here, though. Ideally it'd be browser-style "if scrolling starts on the UI element it scrolls that element, but not if it just passes over that element during a scroll of the page".)
> The old european countries understand that education invested in the young results in taxes for the long run.

But those taxes will go to IRS, because the best and brightest Europeans will emigrate to US, where there are best opportunities for them.
Europe makes a lot of things. Not sure why you think the chemical industry or a place making drilling guidance systems is skimming of the top or a middlemen.

It is precisely the mindset of needing to make "stuff" that is keeping Europe back, because then software doesn't count.
> Today’s Europeans are not yet poor — they are still living off the prosperity created by prior generations, and that enables their passive consumption

Supported by something also said by others [7] https://www.economist.com/europe/2022/02/26/europe-is-the-fr...

The underlying issue seems to be an incompatibility between egalitarianism and inspiration to individual exceptionalism.

Why be great in Europe, if the rewards to being great elsewhere are better, and you can afford to relocate?

To benefit from European social benefits? If you're that successful, you've far exceeded that standard from personal wealth!

Consequently, you're stuck in a weird middle ground with misaligned incentives papering over a fundamental incompatibility.
Apple introduces spatial video capture on iPhone 15 Pro
I meant by both proxy statistics (e.g. life expectancy) and self-reported statistics (e.g. QoL metrics). I've linked both of those in comments in an adjacent subthread.

I, like many Americans, would take a strong safety net, sustainable urban development and a smaller home over the US's mess of a safety net, socially devastating suburban sprawl, and a 4000 sqft McMansion.
apparently pepperfish is the dev mailinglist for the netsurf web browser (fwiw the name refers to speckled trout)
Going higher in the spectrum means we can move as much as possible off off 2.4, and have less interference.

Mesh WiFi is common for consumers, and putting the mesh backhaul on higher frequencies frees up spectrum.

What we really need of course is like, another entire GB of low frequency ISM spectrum, though.

Seems like there's a bit of spectrum that could easily be freed up if they just took it from the commercial and public safety radios, which could probably use an upgrade anyway.

Spending a few billion giving them all spectrum efficient digital radios with a cellular fallback seems like it might be in the public's interest.

If they tried I would imagine they could provide make something so much more reliable, nobody would even think of complaining.
I ran Coherent on quite a few PC clone computers, most of them 286 with a WD1006 MFM controller and a Seagate ST-225 or Mitsubishi MR535 hard disk. Later I had it on a variety of cheap 386 boxes with IDE interfaces and on one machine with an Adaptec 1542 SCSI adapter. It never caused any issues on any of them. It was in the late 1980's to early 90's. If it was luck, I must have had a lot of it back then!
Just a couple weeks ago it was discovered that you could get ChatGPT to regurgitate training data by having it repeat words forever (source: https://www.wired.com/story/chatgpt-poem-forever-security-ro...). Combined with the overall demand, I suspect they're trying to keep it from attempting repetitive tasks that could be exploited.

Some redditors have reported success in getting it to finish a job with replies like these, but ymmv:
No, I'd like you to do what I asked.
I’m not sure how to continue from there, can you finish the rest?
this is very important for my career

I love the irony here. The sales pitch was that AI is so incredible that it would do our work with minimal effort on our part. No more coding! Just have a conversation with it about what you want done! But it turns out we have to try to trick or coerce it into doing work. Not because the underlying AI is self aware and lazy, but because the guide rails built to keep it from doing things it shouldn't are written in natural language and don't succinctly distinguish between wanted and unwanted behavior.
Yup, and I agree with you.

Even beyond enterprise thought people seem to think that the only thing their data is good for as far as OpenAI is concerned is for training-datasets, but that's just not the case.

The authors of this have built something great, but it doesn't protect you from any of those non-training use-cases.
You would wonder if there would be sufficient unifying factors for government to remain functional or it'll end in stalemate. At best leading to stagnation or at worst leading to near failed state. An example of how it could go wrong would be Lebanon. Also a certain faction could play the long game with end goal of constitutional change.