skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With regards to UI there is Microsoft’s MAUI, which I personally prefer over Avalonia. I love the single project approach of MAUI. I think Avalonia also relies on MAUI controls to some extent (I seem to recall a <UseMaui /> project setting in Avalonia projects.
I don't plan on ever doing business in China, much less purchasing electronics, but the book looks very interesting from the index. Might buy a copy.
- Ticketmaster: no idea, I haven't gone to those events since the 20th century. It does sound dystopian but also for most people, at most a very occasional thing, no reason to carry a smartphone every day. Especially if there is no cell service at those events, you don't need a phone per se.

- Parking: parking meters here take credit cards. They also take 1 dollar coins which are slightly bigger than quarters. I used to carry a few in my car for that purpose.

- EV charging: hmm ok, though sort of a niche use. There are some chargers near here but idk what it takes to use them. Maybe I'll check.

- Office building: I'm used to access cards, has that changed? Anyway if I need it for work, that's a work phone, not a personal phone, more or less. And it also sounds dystopian, if it requires cell service to work, or if you have to install a malware app.

- public transit: idk if it's even possible to pay with a phone here. They want us to use the Clipper card, clippercard.com.
The Messages app supports filtering extensions. I use a free one called Bouncer where I configured some regular expressions to auto-junk things, but there are far more sophisticated extensions available.
After turning FSR on and off in Talos Principle 2, I think this upscaling thing is not as bad as I expected, though lag is a bit of an issue.

I wonder if dedicating more transistors (not fixed function) to the task could improve the issue, and if so, why aren't AMD and Nvidia doing it. As I understand it, the latency issue is not better with leather jacket cards
I think it was a lot of hubris to call this ssh3, as if it were to be picked officially
I bought the first one to send a copy to the Internet Archive for long term physical archival. Going to do the same with this release.
> Not even enough for a Mars outpost

Landing a single Starship on Mars literally is already an output if we want to be exact about it.

The idea that the Starship architecture isn't enough to have a small base on Mars is just nonsense.

> The story about ferrying 100 people to Mars in a can is 100% lying; they might fit a dozen.

As with everything 100 was an inspirational goal, once you have good infrastructure on both sides and everything optimized for mass transport. And yes you might be right, 100 is to optimistic. He didn't sign any contracts based on those numbers, he promised nobody that number. Its literally an inspirational goal with a low chance of success.

> they might fit a dozen

Damn, a dozen is amazing.

> And there is literally nothing on Mars worth refining and exporting home

Nobody claimed their was ... but you are really good a fighting straw man.

> "Mars colonization" story is purely to pump up stock price

That just proves that you don't have the first clue what you are talking about. Musk literally admits that Mars colonization isn't gone make money. The reason they want Starlink is because they think that can actually make money and support large rockets so they can use it for Mars. Musk things he will spend his private money on Mars colonization. Pushing Mars is literally the opposite of stock price pumping.
Large financial news site uses AI to copy competitors wholesale
No is declaring that there is no needle in the haystack. Please actually read my post.
Can you give some examples of the discoveries that have happened over the last 20 years that weren’t already being researched or at least predicted?
The knife is probably to deter someone messing with you thinking you're an easy target.
Our upper limit is something like 10^-1. After all, there is life on earth! Our lower limit is 10^-25 or so.

Why pick the lower limit? Existence of life on earth is extremely powerful evidence.
The boy got the answer wrong! But I have seen math schools where the children do similar arithmetic on air abacus. Just this kid couldn’t hack it with those fast digits!
More importantly (from the point of view of capitalism) whose going to pay for things
One possible public key is zeroes + public fingerprint. If I remember correctly diffie-helman is based on multiplications , so maybe finding the private key is now equivalent to finding the private key of a 40 chat public key, which may be doable.

I'm probably wrong on the details here , but there's probably some math tricks you could use to more easily find some private, public key pairs that end with the fingerprint.
Yes. The attack surface would be much smaller.
I doubt QUIC is easier than TCP to build on. But it's much easier to get your new protocol through firewalls and other middleware when using port 443 than trying to introduce a new port (or worse: a new protocol number)
I/we use tomatoes because the sad fate of the tomato is the best rallying cry we have.

I don’t even like tomatoes, but they piss a lot of people off.

I heard an NPR interview a few years ago where a farmer was trying to do for peaches what we have done for apples - make a palette of flavors instead of the 2 we get. Those are selected for shipping as well. They are only really flavorful just before they spoil, or when baked.
Is this really intended for competition? Or is it for soft bundling? (subscribe to The Caladan Post and save $2/month on The Times of Arrakeen)
They could make Apple branded living pods for them. Like those cute little dystopian pod hotels.

iPods, if you will. Apple should just give them all iPods.
Ok but why is that relevant? Does that actually change anything about the actual issue? Or do you just not like the specifics of how they describe dev work in a way that does not affect tax treatment?
I’d head to your local library.
And speaking of spokes, that's what provides the strength in a traditional bicycle wheel. That allows for a fairly lightweight rim. Without the spokes a much stronger (and heavier) rim is required.

This is an interesting exercise and beautiful result but I wonder if it is more a work of art than anything practical. Aside from the impracticality of the pennyfarthing configuration the pennyfarthing was replaced by something called the safety bicycle for good reason. (The safety bicycle is the most common configuration used today.)
This is a good reminder to add code comments explaining why code is written a particular way. Also helpful is including breadcrumbs in comments and commits to relevant bug reports, docs, or commits.
Almost every piece of data we store in SQL would be better on a document database, but since nobody is familiar with those we keep on trucking. I don’t mind too much, I don’t even think we made the wrong choice, but it does cause us some issues with how we have to handle data model changes.

I think most data storage didn’t really keep pace with how a lot of software is being build now though, and things like events and queues are what we build on top of what we have because we need it. For the most part a lot of the data relations happen outside of our databases today through various services, because that’s just how the modern IT landscape looks in many organisations. You’ll have internal master data that supports different teams in the business and interacts with 300+ different IT systems and applications in order to streamline things. With micro services it’s easy to keep the business logic and data models clean, but then you need to manage events, queues and data states as well as reliant storage. Which is just so complicated right now.

I do like SQL but these days, the systems we’re building could frankly be put in a SQLite and be perfectly fine, well almost.
DeepMind's LLM Just Solved an Unsolvable Math Problem
Thanks, and wow that is expensive. I'll look around for phones like that though. A Moto G Play is a pretty good phone from what I can tell (Android 12), and it is 100 USD new. So paying 2x that for a used dumbphone is painful.
They usually have a calculator to show you prices. Translation apps that aren't Google work to some extent. Some speak enough English to haggle, so numbers mostly, and it's not hard to learn Chinese numbers.
Apple devices already phone home when you reimage them - Activation Lock - this already causes some headaches when your MDM doesn’t consider the implications:

https://learn.jamf.com/bundle/jamf-now-documentation/page/Us...
This is true. It is also true that we have found “not one single shred of evidence that life has ever existed anywhere in the observable universe but Earth”.
Kids read less and less. Assigning them works not likely to be absorbed properly and certainly not enjoyed is tantamount to souring them on reading permanently — something which has been done in many countries for way too long with teachers sticking to 'perennial' classics they (might have) loved, but which no longer enthuse. I stopped reading fiction for years after high school figuring literature just wasn't worth bothering with after get fed ponderous dribble and books not of interest to a young person. I only got back into reading after discovering Douglas Adams, and decades later read anything which grabs my interest, including Dickens and many other classic works.

A good teacher assigns works which lie just outside of the pupil's comfort zone, but not so far out there as to make reading a chore. Want to assign Dickens? Go ahead and read the Christmas Carol at this time of year; it's short and not too hard to grasp, and with enough hooks to go into Victorian society and other related topics. But assign David Copperfield? Great book, but for teenagers way too long for a work that old and removed. A teenager could read four novels that do connect with them in the same time. Sure, some teens might be ready for it, but it's not for everyone.

First, get them to read. Any book. Teach them that not all books will work for them. Skip that step, and you lose most of them as adult readers (the status quo by now).
IT is doomed
https://archive.md/bVTJv
Here is an earlier comment subthread by me, on an earlier HN thread on the same general topic, as I said I've done, above. It mentions Gabe, Elaine, and a few others, including Geoff Lawton, permaculture pioneer, who are doing good work in this area, with a few more details:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24827234
Personally I like Apple not allowing other companies who hacked into their infrastructure to using it without permission.

That seems incredibly reasonable to me. Beeper’s statements seem almost like parody to me.

“I know I broke into your house, but someone else figured out the key. Now I’m here I should be able to rent out your couch! The renters deserve it, you’re discriminating. I’ll give you a cut!”

People want iMessage open, or at least available on other platforms. That’s fine. I get it.

This is NOT how you do that. As a customer I would find it weird and disconcerting if Apple said “You found a way in? Congrats! Start setting up camp!”
From your experience, where does it bring value?
I wonder how long it takes to lead to this effect, and if humains have been isolated long enough at one point in history to have had a local effect.
This only works if you assume perfect fungibility and thus price is the only differentiator. That obviously is not true outside of the most trivial apps, rather there is a spectrum of price, features, UX, privacy and other considerations. A price discount might be helpful in terms of marketing to get people to take a look at your product in the first place vs a competitor, since even if it was far superior there's always some cost to switching. However, it's generally not sufficient to get everyone to stay either. The reason I'm paying money at all is because it's delivering value to me that is higher then the price I pay. If the original application is 50% more expensive but delivers 2-3x (or 10x+, a lot of apps are so cheap that if it costs me even a single digit number of extra hours per year in time it utterly drowns out the purchase price) the value, I'm not going to move to something inferior just because it's cheaper.

Offering more tools to let devs convince people to give something a shot is an interesting move, but to actually beat out competitors and have customers stay still requires being, well, competitive right?
This is correct. Messenger never really was XMPP. It just had a client API based off of XMPP. There were a bunch of quriks and no federation. I suspect the idea was just that it provided a starting point for clients.
You get what you pay for. Any of the "rugged" phones like my Kyocera should last a lifetime.

I used this website to find it
https://josebriones.org/dumbphone-finder
Upscaling shouldn't add appreciable latency and might even reduce latency because the frame rate is higher. Frame generation (which is not what the article is about) necessarily adds latency which is why people recommend only enabling it at high frame rates.
I Am So Glad I'm Uncoordinated – By Pat Helland
How could anyone who has read or seen The Lord of the Rings think that a Palantir was anything but an existential threat?

Not all of the lost seeing stones have been accounted for. We don’t know who else may be listening.
Honestly we should be taxing vehicles worldwide by weight. Damage to the road is x^4 to this value and it also would have the benefit of driving vehicles to be lighter and more fuel efficient and kill less pedestrians.
We have pretty good explanations for why people die and why we expect everyone alive today to die unless we acquire new knowledge that enables us to prevent it.
Great comment!
Indeed there is a recent Nature paper that's causing a lot of discussion that is investigating that missing link between the physics of matter and the emergence of the natural selection and evolution processes that give rise to life. this is a really fascinating area! https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06600-9
That’s not at all how satiety works. People over eat for all kinds of reasons and there is a lot of low volume and highly calorically dense food available now. You feel full a little while after you’ve hit a certain level of physical fullness in your stomach.

Very few people in the west have meaningful micro nutrient deficiencies.
Vector programming requires you to change your way of thinking; instead of computing something for 1 element, you compute it for N elements.
I've heard this argument before, but I think it's pretty clear that humans and machines are not equal before the law and the fact that you have the right to make a derivative work doesn't necessarily mean that you can make a machine to do that for you.
Ask HN: Stories of political intrigue in large companies
I work in a large corp and have been a manager for a few years. I just got massively outplayed by a group in a different part of the organization. They were supposed to be working with us, but rather just ended up copying key aspect of my team's work, and delivered it into production.

When I realized this, I was pretty bitter and contemplated quitting. After being angry for a few days, I started to smile. Over my career, I saw some other people being secretive and protective of their team's work, and I always thought those people acted in a silly way. I just realized I now understand why those folks behaved in that manner!

So this was clearly my first corporate knife fight and I got bruised (and who knows, maybe my team and I get buried). I am very fascinated by the political intrigue itself. There was lying, there was delay tactics, communication BS, and so on by the other party. I'd like to learn more about such tricks, not to use them, but frankly to catch onto them in the future faster. Any stories people have to share or pointers to material (books/videos)?
Figure out the next abstraction to implement.
Many things which are hard to believe are nevertheless true.
Some perspective:

In Boeing airplane design, the philosophy is the aircraft must be able to survive any single failure of a component or system. Everything that is flight critical is redundant.

But if the airplane flies into a cliff, or a missile hits it, there is no backup plan.

Undergoing a ransomware attack is commonplace, and so a backup plan for that scenario should be a minimum standard. Surviving a nuclear attack is an unreasonable requirement for most operations.
That was too long. Had AI summarize the article. Is this about right?

Here is a summary with some additional context:

1. AI competition is heating up, with companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, etc investing heavily and releasing new models. There is also a proliferation of AI startups raising large funding rounds. OpenAI fired then quickly rehired its CEO Sam Altman, causing confusion.

2. Machine learning engineers are in extremely high demand in the job market, receiving lavish recruiting offers. Meanwhile, other engineers like backend developers or mobile devs are struggling to move jobs since companies are mainly focused on security and ML hires. ML people get showered with "bear spray" level recruiting interest.

3. Most companies, even big Fortune 1000 brands, are still only in the initial stages of developing a concrete AI strategy and execution plans. There's a lot of "we're working on it" talk but not much to show yet. Companies are slow to focus on this due to inertia and competing internal priorities.

4. Metrics like "completion acceptance rate" (CAR) for coding assistants don't actually quantify developer productivity gains. However, some companies wrongly want to use CAR to closely monitor developers.

5. Cody, a new coding assistant from Sourcegraph using retrieval-augmented generation, leverages Sourcegraph's code search and understanding strengths. It is now generally available. Comments in code can improve Cody's understanding. Sourcegraph has developed Cody quickly thanks to its existing infrastructure.
I think it's mostly just an experiment, example, proof-of-concept or other "toy" implementation demonstrating/exploring the idea.
A simple badge with an LED matrix, powered by a RISC-V microcontroller
Apple cares a lot about its corporate employees but that does not extend to its manufacturing partners like Foxconn and Pegatron (or the hundreds of parts suppliers).

They go a long way to keep photos and documentation of conditions in manufacturing facilities private and only show off staged facilities in Cupertino etc.
Unless you have a private profile they can scoop up all of that data whether or not you have a Threads follower. If you do have a provide profile it is pretty easy to deny follow requests to people subscribing from Threads.

I don't think this is a major issue, it can be dealt with on a case-by-case basis by the owners of private profiles.
A sorted array to less inefficiently iterate children of a node? This is getting ridiculous.

The “no pointers” thing is cache efficient for three reasons:

1. Indices can be smaller than pointers.

2. The data is packed in memory. This means that cachelines will be full of relevant data, and adjacent cache lines (which are a bit faster than faraway lines) get used.

3. SOA form is more or less cache efficient depending on what you’re doing with it.

And that’s it.

If you need child pointers, use child pointers. If you want a cache-efficient tree, use a cache-efficient tree, e.g. a B-tree or an appropriate variant.
> The current state can be reconstructed from the read only transaction table ..

Isn't that called event-sourcing?
The Gambler: Masayoshi Son
If automation = obsoleting workers, then What would Marxism do? Keep workers doing manual labor?
I hate to reduce everything down to one soundbite, but i think you're right it's a governance issue. So is the FISA issue, so are the many data breaches. So to reduce it all down to a single issue i could imagine a strong affirmative privacy law addressing all these issues at once
That’s not what this feature seems to be about. FTA:

“There’s a slight catch here: According to 9to5Mac, the discount is only good while the customer’s other subscription is active”
I really hope this goes to court and Apple loses. It would be quite entertaining.
“I figured out how to stream HBO Max without a subscription! What do you mean I can’t give other people free access? That’s my right!”

I agree. It’s weird. This isn’t about if/how iMessage should be available on other platforms. It’s about if Beeper should be able to sell/give access to an Apple service by fiat against Apple’s will.
Yep. Pushes the industry to research lighter composites too, let’s see more carbon fiber chassis like the BMW i3! (A really underrated great little vehicle, my sibling has one and it rocks!)
You’re going to have to clue me in, to what it would be deflating?! The word is like a decibel, in that it needs some reference marker…

With the currency pegged to a standard, a penny would actually have more value, than it does now.

I disagree on your mortgage point. The whole reason for rebasing to a standard, is to avoid those issues. Where I think the rub is for most people, is they’d have to disavow themselves of the notion, that a property should go up in value.
Yeah that seems right. I guess an attacker could tamper with the call early on, say "hey what are your emojis?" as soon as the call starts. Deepfaked voices and 2 henchmen should be sufficient here, no need for real-time audio rewriting. Then once the emojis have been verified, switch to a pure-eavesdrop MITM.

To defend, could ask to verify emojis at a random point in the middle of the call to make the attacker's life more difficult. Especially right before discussing sensitive information ;-)

Or drip verify over the course of the call, e.g. "what's your 3rd emoji?", and listen for signs of an attacker cutting in and out.
I’m trying this now and can’t figure this out. I’ve been trying for months now.

I’m adding a new action, I search toggle and Bluetooth and I’m not getting any actions to set Bluetooth. What am I doing wrong?
Edit:
Scratch that! I figured it out!
Realised I wanted a way to connect to a Bluetooth device (my flaky headphones don’t always connect, pain to dig into the settings every time)
I give Apple a good amount of my personal money every year precisely because Apple works well with Apple, and because when you switch on all the features like Advanced Data Protection and Lockdown Mode their vertical integration across hardware, software and services gives them a strong security story.

I have Signal and WhatsApp for talking to people on other platforms, and I’m personally fine with Apple maintaining strong control over iMessage and introducing things like Contact Key Verification [1] to further enhance security within that closed system (things like Signal have alternatives to this, too!). That is to say: there’s plenty of competition in cross-platform messaging already, this is good, many of those alternatives have hundreds of millions of users. We’re really not at the point where we need regulators to step in and force Apple to open up iMessage!

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213465

You are obviously free to spend your dollars as you wish, but don’t conflate the lack of interoperability with Android as “making the life of its own customers miserable”, it’s really the opposite: everything Apple works well with Apple and that’s a real upgrade for me and likely others over the piecemeal, fragmented, and harder to secure ecosystem that is Android.

Your opinions likely do vary to my own and that’s why it’s good there are options and competition.