skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple is worse; MacOS is slowly becoming the locked-down hellscape of iOS. If Apple had its way with MacOS, not only would you not be able to uninstall their browser, but you also wouldn’t be allowed to install any alternative browsers.
Computers are an inherently oppressive technology (2022)
This article describes how nano metalenses work and what they can be used for.

Spoiler alert: they can't be used to replace your smartphone's camera lenses yet, but can be used for IR distance sensors used on drones and soon, polarization sensors that will be able to tell materials apart and even detect cracks in concrete.
I'm curious, before (and even while!) they do their assigned thought exercises, would you mind explaining to the rest of us how ridiculous it is?
amd a leg
It's possible new investors can be enthusiastic, rather than concerned, with the change. A startup without a founder who's not aligned with the new strategy is stronger than one who has someone around "just because" (which can imply an inability to make decisions).

danbmil99's suggestion of touching base with the existing investors is a good one. They could actually help explain this to new prospects.

People who've already met you may not be as enthusiastic about this change as completely new investors, to whom you'll merely be an artifact history, just like the previous strategy.
Solving Puzzles Using Constraint Logic Programming in Prolog (2020)
Using Prolog to solve SEND + MORE = MONEY and the Zebra Puzzle.
Yeah great point. I think people just take today’s state of things for granted and don’t realize how much has been going on behind the scenes to enable it today. And it’s still not great.
Long ago, under a different account, I emailed dang about removing some comment content that became too identifying only years after the comments in question. He did so and was very gracious about it. dang, you're cool af and you make HN a great place!
1 million miles per day is an insane figure
Intel/amd create a cuda compatible api, for cheaper.
Those are my first thoughts too. The calcification is real.
Earthquake insurance increases?
It also makes the assumption that the measurement of position must be continuously detailed, which we know in our universe is impossible because of the Plank length.

So even if spacetime is continuous and particles do move within it in continuous ways, the combination of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle plus the Plank length means we can never observe such continuity anyways.
Did you get this before?

All your messages have been recorded by the government, since the government has been collecting all push notifications on iPhones, and iMessage runs over push notifications
I thorny issue for sure. One suggestion is update the current investors that you will be leaving and you will create a succession plan that includes finding a new CTO (co-founder) to take on your role. For new investors, tell them clearly what that plan is, that you believe in the firm and you are willing to provide some of your shares to the new CTO. Accept that you will stay on until you and your co-founder can find this person. Be open to paying a headhunter. speed is important. Hope this helps.
Anchoring effect is a very simple one and easy to replicate.

But in general the psychology knowledge is a lot less certain than that of natural sciences, precisely because the experiments are very difficult to conduct and the results often turn out to be irreproducible.

Also, people are diverse and behave diversly and it is impossible to get a sample that represents humanity for your experiment.
Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes
People have really bizarre overdramatic misunderstandings of llama.cpp because they used it a few times to cook their laptop. This one really got me giggling though.
I am glad you are still with us to tell us your story. Thanks.
Even Mistral 7B ("Tiny") gets this right if you ask it to do the reasoning first.

Kaley has 4 brothers. Each of her brothers has 2 sisters. How many sisters does Kaley have? Give the reasoning first and then the answer.

Otherwise it starts by giving the wrong answer and then puts some reasons after. The 8x7B version ("Small") gives the reasoning first by default, but still gets the answer wrong unless I include the instructions to do that anyway.

I thought it was funny, but Orca 2 13B consistently gave the wrong answer despite being trained to talk things out verbosely.
Aha! Glad I caveated things by saying I may have missed a change in semantics. I’m surprised they did that in a minor release and not a major one.

So, then, is there no actual difference between private and protected now?
Here’s a fun theoretical existential threat: false vacuum decay. If our universe is in a false vacuum state (maybe yes? maybe no? we don’t know!) and that vacuum someday suddenly shifts into a true vacuum state (decays), then worst case scenario this change propagates everywhere instantaneously and we experience “complete cessation of fundamental forces” including elementary particles and structures. Everything everywhere wiped out in a blink.

We can take some comfort in the fact that we’d never know it happened, and theorists have asserted that it’s highly unlikely a false vacuum of any size could exist for more than a moment in the presence of gravitational forces, plus physics within the bubble would be “super weird”, I think is the technical term.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum#Existential_thr...
People use Beeper Mini because the Apple users they text with want them to. There's zero reason for two Android users to talk over iMessage using Beeper Mini. RCS provides nearly all the same benefits. But when the social pressure is for you to buy an iPhone that you don't want, it's sure tempting to just install an app so that Apple friends can stop complaining, and stop cutting you out of group chats.

If no one used iMessage, the value of Beeper Mini is zero. The value is smoothing the interaction with people who assume everyone is using an iPhone, and treat it as an annoyance when they don't. So effectively saying "just buy an iPhone to use iMessage" means "just buy an iPhone so you can talk to your iPhone friends".
> A lot of people don’t understand the absolutely insane (and totally stupid) power of “blue text” in social settings

In America. The rest of the world doesnt give a shit.

> Break that and the phone market gets competitive again.

See above.
It depends on the org. In my company, which is a SaaS-like company, all of product and engineering is a cost center, despite creating the product the company sells. It’s just the way they do their accounting.
His comments have a very distinct style, for sure.
I like this post, and agree with almost all of the written content. But man, those AI generated images are cancer.
Bantee
We just launched Bantee, the Strava+Discord platform to bring the golf world online. Let us know what you think!
I am building a self-hosted infrastructure as a service product right now. We are approaching a private beta, so there hasn't been a big announcement yet (We'll post here for sure).

Highlights:

- Your data and web services only touch open-source
- Running top of Kubernetes
- Postgres
- Redis
- Serverless PaaS
- Self-host Oauth single sign-on
- Mesh Networking/Security
- Built-in operational tools
- Machine Learning tools
- Monitoring

https://www.batteriesincl.com/

If anyone wants a demo of the alpha state, my email is elliott@ batteriesincl.com.
We used `talk` all the time in our university Solaris labs when I was there from 2000-2005. Mostly insults, but it was fun.
Fun Search
JAX is a compiler.
What software companies are not classifying QA as R&D?
> I am literally stating what he literally stated.

And if you look what he said in full context it doesn't seem that bad?

>"You are promising America tonight you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody?" Hannity asked.

>"Except for Day One," Trump said.

>When asked to clarify, Trump said he would use the presidency to close the border and increase oil drilling in the U.S.

>"That is not retribution," Hannity said.

>"I love this guy. He says, 'You're not going to be a dictator, are you?' I said, 'No, no, no. Other than Day One.' We're closing the border, and we're drilling, drilling, drilling. After that, I'm not a dictator," Trump said.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-sean-hannity-dicta...

I agree that it's not a great thing to say as a presidential candidate, but it's tenuous to go from that to "he's going to go full dictator like Xi Jinping/Putin/Maduro/Orban".
Apple wins when you aren't allowed to message somebody using beeper, rather than you switching to beeper from iMessage
You're being very obsequious about having to personally get approval from a moderator to do on your behalf something every other forum lets you do on your own by default.
It has now shut down :(

I loved this site; it was what Spotify on the desktop should have been, but isn’t.
Flight booking systems still seem to be stuck with it, even newer fields like email are always in all caps.
As I understand it, the much smaller number of particles hitting Voyager now are the interstellar medium. The rate of particles hitting Voyager is not a measure of the pressure of the ambient plasma.
I created an app to track the scores and events for our annual family decathlon. Every year I learn what’s new with SwiftUI and I make the app a little better for everyone. It has notifications when events are coming up and it keeps a record of everyone’s scores in every event. It’s fun and working on it reminds me that programming is a creative act that doesn’t always have to be for profit.
>The revenue keeps rolling in so, clearly, they made the right business decision... >sigh<

This is exactly the point I was going to make. Their stock price is doing great! So obviously they've done the right thing for their position in the market: the market has rewarded them for not wasting money on QA and just letting users suffer with the bugs.

>I wish there was some kind of consequence to them for their declining quality.

If people keep insisting on throwing money at them no matter how bad their software is, then there's no reason for them to improve their quality.
GE Announces Breakthrough Test for New Hypersonic Engine Concept
oops, so you did!
Tangential question: Is there a utility than can get rid of Microsoft’s pesky defaults and useless functionalities like widgets via tweaks done to gpedit and registry?
For up to the minute information.

https://twitter.com/nascom1
They are still, indeed, orbiting the sun. In the same way the earths atmosphere is orbiting the earth.
They're using "buying an Apple device" as a spam filter, rather than using democratic means to put good regulations that are anti-spam.
It's a shame deep space probe budgets aren't useful towards war on other countries or population-wide domestic surveillance or we'd have spacecraft at 10% the speed of light already.
Mustn't Ring black holes also be fluid attractor system solutions?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38370118

https://westurner.github.io/hnlog/ Ctrl-F "n-body"

"Mathematicians Found 12,000 Solutions to the Notoriously Hard Three-Body Problem" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37959364 https://westurner.github.io/hnlog/#comment-37959364 :

> Are all of the identified solutions (also) fluid attractor systems; and - if correct - shouldn't a theory of superfluid quantum gravity predict all of the n-body gravity solutions already discovered with non-fluidic numerical solutions? [...]

> A sufficient theory of quantum gravity must describe n-body gravity within Bose-Einstein Condensates and also quantum levitation.

...

> N-body gravity solutions with fluid vortices should predict all existing numerical n-body outcomes?

> That so many things in space look fluidic - how many spiral arms are there on a nebula, [or a vortex due to a drain] all existing visual representations of black holes look like fluids, merging neutron stars look like emergent patterns from curl, too

Shouldn't there be a corresponding solution with vorticity?
This phenomenon is very well described by Elisabeth Hendrickson’s “Better Testing, Worse Quality” article.
And yet it's a vanishingly small distance on the scale of the universe. Mind bending.
No, in general it isn't possible to livestream images like this because they are usually captured as very long exposures measured in hours or days.
Glenn McDonald, founder of Every Noise at Once, gets laid off from Spotify
Gore-tex is the same as other breathable water-resistant fabrics. They uses DWR, a form of PTFE, but sounds like switching to something better.

The difference with original 3-layer Gore-Tex is that membrane is protected so lasts longer.
Is your point that a more intelligent AI would develop a more entangled measure of what is good, requiring more specific alignment to be overcome; by way of analogy, are chefs harder to instruct precisely because of their prior expertise? I guess some chefs are like that, but I think it results from personality issues, not structural ones. I find describing an AI as having its own agenda to be a presumptive personification.
This is how iMessage works, not contacts, and as a user of the iPhone since its launch in 2007 this is surprisingly unexpected to me. I would expect each separate email/phone number to have its own conversation.
You're one of the very few technical people that made it big that I continue to look up to. Congratulations on your achievements, and looking forward to whatever is in the pipeline.
What if Ford made it so that their vehicles drive worse when non-Ford vehicles were on the road, and then when confronted about it told all of their customers that they should convince their neighbors to buy a Ford to solve the problem?
Nice idea. This feels so 90’s internet when people were amazed with what was possible, a bit like those remote control robot websites.
As noted in the post, one characteristic of a healthy QA environment at your work is how effectively you triage bugs. That includes detecting duplicates. One big QA smell for me is opening a team's bug backlog and realizing that there are shitload of dupes in there, because it means that no one really looked at them in detail.
Do you really need to be certified if you only use it for receiving?
> It is not [just] DevOps

Definitely agree. In a sister comment[0] I mention a concept I've been calling "Goodhart's Hell" for a more general term. But I think what you are specifically mentioning is sometimes laughably called "Loud Laboring"[1]. I think this all falls under the broader umbrella of metric hacking and thus Goodhart's Law.

Idk why, but it really does seem like metric hacking is extremely pervasive in our modern society, and can be found nearly everywhere. What upsets me the most is that it too is found in the sciences. There also appears to be a strong correlation between the popularity (or hype) of a field and metric hacking.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38647582

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37147707 || https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/09/forget-quiet-quitting-loud-l...
Finally found aliens!
John Walker is also very impressive, definitely rates a mention. And I'll forever owe him because of Speak Freely.
He may have said "university" but i suspect he was really thinking more like a "cult".
We really need Congress to act, to try to restore the Telecommunications Act of 1996 to it's written purpose. The courts gutted access to Unbundled Network Elements, meaning that anyone trying to provide high speed internet basically has to DIY the infrastructure themselves.

Congress should pass another law. The courts basically sided with arguments that high speed internet would only be deployed if a monopoly was provided. And that hasn't been true in many other places, which do have competitive Internet by way of unbundled local loops.
Thanks for laying all that out!
For me the big one is unreliability of memory (particularly relevant in the context of eyewitness testimony) - all the Elizabeth Loftus stuff. That's solid science and results that were originally surprising but are now pretty much generally accepted.
Could also be a bacterial bloom that extracted all oxygen from the water and the fish all died due to this. I've seen this before though I can't seem to find evidence for this.
> The fortunate thing is there are measurable metrics you can hit and improve upon as an X-Ops team

Question(s):

- What are the metrics?

- How aligned are the metrics with the actual goal?

- What isn't covered by the metrics?

- How is what's not covered by metrics evaluated?

- Can what's not currently covered by metrics theoretically be covered by some potentially unknown metric? (best guess)
AMD's Next GPU Is a 3D-Integrated Superchip
You think estimating that AI will be impactful but won't deliver the singularity is incredibly strange? I'm struggling to imagine what a non-strange statement would be to you.
Not really no, ISPs charge as much as they can and already charge what the consumer base will pay, they aren't a company that's on the edge of profitability that needs to raise rates.

They might try to use it as a PR smokescreen but except for consumers that do not understand reality, this will not work.
If you're working without a net, you're going to be more careful. And 5 whys is not a particularly great overall practice. https://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/26/8/671
Nobody at this big corporation tested the settings before shipping? It should probably require FaceID and some steps.

That said, if you enable E2EE I don’t think it’s cause for much concern. You already use their closed source OS.
Am I the only one who has the Zelda theme song playing when I read the title?
The difference is that bugs in the social network parts of Facebook (the ones where you see your friends and family's pictures and posts) are not directly making money for Facebook. The only real stuff that matters for the money is all the tracking.

I bet the people responsible for Facebook Ads Manager are a lot less enthusiastic about "move fast and break things", although I'd be interested to hear an opposing viewpoint from anyone here who's worked for that group.
No, they are traveling at velocities far exceeding the gravitational escape velocity of the sun. There is no meaningful sense in which they are orbiting.
Personally speaking, I would love to switch to Firefox just to use uBlock Origin, but this picture[1] shows Opera's killer feature.

It's a screenshot of today's old.reddit.com/r/all. You can see how you're able to read all of the text vertically, without having to scroll sideways, because it wraps perfectly to the current pinched zoom level. No other browser works this good on Android, and reading stuff is my main internet use case. Try seeing how that website looks on any other browser, it's ridiculous how unusable they are.

[1] https://files.catbox.moe/5t853c.png
This. This is what Apple should ACTUALLY get punished for.
I don't care that they intentionally lock down their service I wouldn't use it anyway as it's not as secure Signal.

What I DO care about in that they intentionally degrade the experience for communicating outside their garden.

Maybe it'll get better with them finally supporting RCS, but I doubt it.
If only they were compelled to let users install an SMS handler app of their choice, then this whole "green bubble" thing would instead be a "geez, why is my iPhone so shitty at handling SMS" thing instead.
A great tale. I usually hear a version about a halted production line, with the punchline invoice something like:

1. Hit machine with hammer ....... $1

2. Knowing where to hit it ... $9,999

The production line versions have the element of customer losing money by the minute, which suggests that the customer received the value, and is only confused/petty because it seemed so easy for the engineer to provide that value.
This post brought my down a rabbit hole of early internet technologies, leading to a search for the two PC newsmagazines I used to read for free as a teenager in my Bay Area suburb in the late 90's, which ended at this Usenet post hosted by... Google.

https://groups.google.com/g/alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt/c...
1. You cannot opt to use SMS on Apple Messages when talking to someone. If they are registered on iMessage, you are forced to use it. This happens transparently, automatically, and for the most part, silently. This helps to create the illusion that Apple devices are just better at texting, and anything else is old and shitty. When in reality, Apple itself only supports their own proprietary messaging system, and an ancient texting protocol that is bad.

2. I hope you are right that RCS will solve everything once Apple implements it, but I don't have confidence it will. The biggest problem is how they handle group chats: If iMessage group chats cannot seamlessly convert into RCS group messages (without duplication or splitting) then it will solve it well enough. This is unlikely to happen unfortunately
> I feel like I'm on crazy pills.

Could be.

> Here is what you seem to think happened: Daniel Ek fired a bunch of people during an open trading window, saw that the stock price went up, and sold a bunch of shares.

Nope.

> Executives. Do. Not. Have. Windows. To. Sell. I don't know how many times I have to repeat this.

You can stop whenever? Obviously I know this. Windows are just further restrictions to add to the schedule. I'm certainly not an expert, but I dunno why the concept of combining restrictions is so hard to comprehend.

You're on your own for the rest of the misinterpretations though. I think those ones are easier if you think a little harder about it.
Priority? Half the company is on vacation right now!
> Whenever you cite papers just because you're "politically supposed to", even though you don't think it's really intellectually useful for anyone to be aware of the cited paper, you're making the citations less useful for everybody.

The audacity of deciding on behalf of readers whether information is valuable to them when publishing an academic paper is quite an interesting concept to me.

I'm not published in journals, but I do have a "professional" writing background. There's only a few ways I can imagine to read into your statement. Either you think you're above citation, or so much smarter than the reader you're qualified to decide on their behalf whether it's relevant, or simply hiding it for nefarious reasons.

Any of these options, or even the perception of them, is precisely the type of behavior fostering anti intellectualism and prejudice for academia.

It's also quite ironic you repeatedly mention "politics" while your entire argument seems to hinge on seeking to deny empowering further those already in power. Isn't that exercising political capital?
Why hasn’t CUDA turned into an x86 type thing where competitors can be compatible, and well… compete?
China Will. Their education is mint. Current US education model is too soft and weak. Perfect for war meatballs not enough for space travel.
Moderna BioNTech merger when?
I wish I were projecting the lifetime of bullshit I’m going to have to deal with because trump was in office for 4 years
I wanted a simple RSS feed of the Verge, so I created a small web project that updates the content every hour. It is online at: https://theshook.one

When I started using it, I thought it would be great if I could filter categories/tags that are not interesting to me. For example all the Verge's "Deals" content is focussed on the US and not at all relevant to me, so you can simply disable that category and never see any of those articles.

To make it a bit more challenging from a technical perspective, it is build to work without any JavaScript :-)
A very valid question. In this case IIRC this drop-off in low-energy solar wind particles was correlated with observed changes in the magnetic field and also an increase in higher-energy cosmogenic particles all around the same time. These three phenomena (observed by different instruments) were theoretically predicted to occur at the heliopause transition. So it lends much more confidence to the interpretation of the data.