skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With Unity, the trust is gone. I don't think there's ever been a good time to be in the game engine business but this is probably the best time.
My understanding is that GM and other car dealers have chronically wanted to get rid of underperforming dealerships but their hands are tied and they only do it when some crisis comes up.
> This is an incredible amount of storage, over 10x the annual global battery production.

It's a lot. Battery production would have to increase. But it is increasing, and it's not an impossible amount.

You also cut it to less than half by doing the thing mentioned above, because the daytime load is higher anyway. If 40% of the generation comes from nuclear, that's 80% of the nighttime load and now you only need 20% as many batteries.
Try Deno, it compiles cli apps in distributable binaries
In the US, Apple holds 87% of the teen phone market and iMessage is bundled with the phone. You don't have to have 100% of a market to be a monopoly and Apple's policy of visually distinguishing users of iMessage from those using other platforms leverages peer pressure to ensure it continues to command the overwhelming majority of the teen market. Not sure how it is defensible to use minors developing social skills as a pattern for entrenching one's share of that market.
> Where did the pipes for the canalisation and water systems go? Correct, it went to build Qassam missiles.

It appears the ones used to build rockets were extracted from abandoned israeli illegal settlements, in combination with IDF unexploded ordnance launched into the Strip. See: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/56285/did-hamas...
I don't think that's allowed where I live. But hey. We have gun shows every other month and a strangely coincidental amount of gun deaths. But at least I'm protected from dealing with colds.
They'll get your name from your credit card. There's no way to pay with cash or an anonymous visa gift card.
GenAI Prism Infographic: Framework for Collaborating with Generative AI
An autonomous taxi isn't going to make many more trips per day. Every hear of "rush hour?" Turns out most people are moving around the city at the same time of the day, then much less trips in the other parts of the day. (except lunch hour when again all the same people are going to lunch). In the middle of the day the trips people make tend to be different (more likely shopping or delivery: different car type than commuting).

I think most people will try the taxi, but if you already own a car (that is transit doesn't make sense for most trips) you will discover it isn't much cheaper than owning your own car, and your own car is waiting outside when you want to go (one big advantage of owning a car over transit is the car is ready when you want to go instead of having to call or hope one is waiting - if cars need to wait outside your office all day in case your kid gets sick that increases costs). Instead you can just buy a self driving car and then leave your things in the car if you go shopping over lunch - something you cannot do with a shared car.
Here's the problem: you can't change the hiring rules for more equity unless it applies to everyone equally. Otherwise you're just trading one arbitrary class for another. You need to basically destroy seniority and job protection for all, to make it fair. Furthermore, the people brought into replace the oppressive class must be held to a high standard so they don't repeat the offending behavior.

DEI agendas can only work if the displaced people (i.e. white males), see a genuinely better alternative rising in its place and are not asked to pay the price for their skin color and gender for their entire lives. I suspect white males would be far more accepting of DEI if it wasn't a lifetime penalty they felt they had to struggle against, but just a few years.
That's fair - and anyway nowadays even the interpretation of the constitution has never been more open.

A problem with laws is that there are so many to choose from and they are so narrow. See for example the video rental records law. An extremely narrow law that ignores the broader issue entirely (and which penalty is not even scaled for inflation). Same for credit reporting. Or for HIPAA.

General principle is needed and we are not likely to get that from laws. And in the US that's not what laws are for. Generally. So the 4th amendment could be touched up to correct the fact that it was written when "online", "data", computers did not exist - and metadata was thin enough to not matter too much, and "privacy" was or was not the point and was unclear of a concept. Fixing the 4th would establish the principle that yes, now digital matters and privacy matters and must be included in the 4th. Otherwise we remain in the situation where it's easy to argue that it's not part of the 4th.
Yeah, its a bit weird that the abstract doesn't have a link on the left
Out of curiosity, I did some spelunking. The US Department of Labor has stats[0] which summarize county-level "median yearly prices for one child at the market rate." Still TBD what the comprehensive data show at P99. That said, among the county-level medians, it appears the maximum estimated cost in 2023 is in Arlington County, VA, at $28,747 for a single infant, which is $2400/mo.

[0] https://www.dol.gov/agencies/wb/topics/childcare/price-by-ag...
ASML ships first "High NA" lithography system to Intel -statement
I agree, but there needs to be some legal distinction between 'union' and 'guardianship'. The latter probably should be harder to dissolve.
The latest iOS allows more (all?) automations to run without user acknowledgement so I made one that fully disables my WiFi when I leave my home.

This does not solve the entire problem of course, but at least alleviates some of it.
I have 3.
https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/
Why not? If your company has lots of employees, like tens of them, you may create a nice template for those pages.
In this post, you're describing software that has a UI. How about some more screenshots or videos of it?

Also, I know most readers are on mobile, but your site is _tiny_ on a desktop monitor.
I didn't realize making an app like beeper was so simple, can you recommend your favorite alternative? The other 3rd party apps I've tried to use for FB tend to have lots of problems (eg missing/delayed notifications, rendering issues).
> there have been many instances when we have had to lower the hiring bar to meet diversity requirements.

Where have you worked, if you don't mind me asking?
I'm absolutely with you that their games around cancelling are beyond shitty and hopefully illegal - but my point was that those are two orthogonal legal matters and it's not a good idea to start playing games of your own if you suspect the other to do so.

In this case, your argument was that you never had a contract with them in the first place. But this would be hard to believe if you actually used their services. Your cancellation email would undermine this argument even more, as you don't request cancellation if you don't have a contract.

So a court could perfectly well decide that the gym acted in breach of the law by making it deliberately hard to cancel, but that you acted in breach of the law too by stopping payment without even trying to cancel.

If you argue that you made your best effort to cancel, as documented by the email, that would be a more convincing argument I think (not a lawyer tho) but that's a different argument than claiming there never was a contract at all.
The pipeline problem in "tech" is absolutely massive. Most DEI efforts inside existing firms are doing very little if anything to address this while introducing toxic and prejudiced attitudes of their own, so that part of the 'backlash' is quite understandable. But denying altogether that a problem exists is not.
Please drink verification can and continue.

Anyone unsure what this means: it's a popular meme where the future of cloud/online gaming will degrade to cross-sell products maliciously. (Requiring the user to drink a sugary soft drink to continue using the product).
Apologies for only linking to the abstract. PDF can be found here: https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/pdfExtended/S2666...
Personally, I believe this is the future. You cant have really cool (tm) space suits with all the telemetry, comms, life support, situ, interfaces, etc... etc... etc... without on-bio AI hardware.

obviously its augmented by any Galaxync.
There wasn't a "killer app" for on-die AI accelerators until roughly this March. Until about nine months ago, the only widely-discussed ideas were re-aiming pupils to make your video call feel more natural, and applying background filters.

So today's on-die AI accelerators were, as far as I can tell, a cautious bet. It turns out caution was warranted, because LLM's need large amounts of memory bandwidth and capacity far more than they need a specialized neural compute engine.
Kaliber10000 (1988)
In October 1998 Two Danish web designers, Michael Schmidt and Toke Nygaard, launched a community website for designers, called Kaliber10000 (K10k). The K10k webzine published graphical works of talented designers on a regular basis and became an important source of inspiration for the first generation of designers who started using the web as a visual medium. In October 2011, K10k terminated its activity.
This, plus there's a control aspect. People fear flying largely because they aren't in control, even though it's technical safer than driving. But driving...you're in control.
How about changing the CC number? Or using throwaway CCs?
if they're putting up barriers to let other people do it as an alternative then yes
30 years after HTML was invented to support accessibility and collaboration for research and academia and the same day the White House released their new accessibility guidance which happens to be the first time they've published formal new policy natively has HTML rather than PDF - https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/management/ofcio/m-24-08-stre...
DEI as a philosophy is fundamentally flawed. Its whole premise is alleviating racism in the workplace, yet its practical effect is giving certain races a favorable edge in the hiring process, independent of merit. Is this not in itself inherently racist?

I raised this with colleagues on a few separate ocassions and was promptly shunned, yet they didn't have an answer. Most recently when he hired an engineer from one of these "favorable races" even when half of the interview panel recommended a no-hire.
Incompatibilities Between ISO C and ISO C++ (2001)
Apple's CoreML libraries have existed for several years, including a BERT model that is useful. I have been expecting Apple to bring more advanced Transformer models than BERT to iOS and iPadOS.

My iPad Pro has 16G RAM and I run a 13B model on it.

Things are moving fast. About 6 weeks ago I bought a 32G Mac Mini and the models that I can now run 6 weeks later are a huge improvement (e.g., mistral, solar, mixtral:8x7b-instruct, Phi, Yi, etc.) and for local RAG applications and various experiments I feel like I could live with what I have now for a while. My expectations for the future are high!
Oof. I bet people are reticent to post any comments here. That's good - it's hard to post about this topic in a way that doesn't detract from the overall tone and quality of HN.

No one wants to post some James Damore screed decrying the longhouse, nor some 2010s style social justice screed.

No matter which side you argue, you'll get a 1,000 very uninteresting comments from uncurious ideologues doing their duty to defend The Good Truth. I don't like to talk to these partisan soldiers, but rather, curious scouts having fun exploring ideas. Maybe that's because I have the privilege to not take these ideas so personally, or maybe I'm a brave hero speaking out against the HR scolds.

Blegh. It's all so tired. Mom and dad arguing in the other room, about things which are surely much more important than my gameboy, but which nevertheless seem much less interesting to me.

By the time I post, others will have gotten here sooner. We'll see if my pessimism is justified. I'm gonna close my laptop, since clearly I'm procrastinating instead of finishing that keylogging article I'm supposed to be writing. I'll write it at home. I miss my babies.

Hope you all have a merry Christmas btw!
> CPUs became so fast that most applications don't need customer hardware.

When complicated realtime signal processing is to be done, FPGAs shine - in particular if there exists no DSP that is competitive for the task.
> Just don't think that I am going to turn off the adblocker for you as a consequence. Much more likely, I'm just going to go somewhere else for my kick.

You’ll be saving them money (less infrastructure costs, like bandwith) without giving a penny to their competitors (because you’re using an adblocker); actually now you’re probably a net loss for their competitors.

So they’re happy to lose you, I guess?

We’re headed towards a paywalled Internet, I know first hand. And I hate it.
That's one of the point of the article. It's not known whether the RCS implementation of apple will be interoperable with Android's.
> Why should Apple have to give Android users free service?

Who said anything about free? Apple could charge Android users.
It’s not except by those who have been indoctrinated by misleading socialist propaganda.
I have been a happy Google Workplace user for many many years with my custom domain
The place I work for pushed v2 of their software, a full rewrite (nothing from the old system, not even databases) by a new team, into production this week for several customers. Mostly they did it so they could say they met their made up 2023 KPIs for the v2 rewrite. There was no good reason to push it out now other than that, and there were several reasons not to, such as it wasn’t well tested and it’s fucking December 20th. Anyways, I’m not really on call so I can’t complain much, but my poor coworkers have to support this over the holidays now.
Yes, 1st neural engine was in the A11 Bionic, 2017.
That quote is not only biased, the "without bias" part is strictly wrong. Treating people differently based solely on their race or gender is a core part of most DEI programs. Just because the proponents think it's "good" discrimination or bias, doesn't give those words the opposite meaning.
If something is not sustainable without ads that seems to imply that people are not willing to pay for it. If people aren't willing to pay for it then I'm not sure it is a good business model.

Regardless of the consequences I'd rather see an ad free internet. If that means Youtube can't exist and Facebook can't exist and Google can't exist then so be it.
If I can't find browsers that help me protect myself from websites, I'll just stop using the web entirely.

The web has been getting less useful, more irritating, and more problematic for years anyway. At this point, it wouldn't be a huge loss to me.
You can disable iMessage altogether. Sure you can't uninstall it, but you can choose to simply not have it enabled on the phone: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203042

Basically no user would do this but it's not somehow magically forced on the user.
The Great AI Weirding
My comment is about what I believe to be a double standard in what was a popular comment in this thread. It's not a meta argument because it's directly responding to the comments being made that are Beeper are in the wrong / Apple are in the right and it would be hard for me to make that point without, well, referencing those comments :)

In my view it has been a very one sided discussion and I wanted to shine a light on that fact. It definitely isn't a sneer at the wider community (I mean why would I? as a prolific commenter myself, I'd be tarring myself with that same brush!)

So I do not believe I'm breaking any of the guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).

I do want to shine a light on one of the guidelines though:

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

I appreciate your comment is well intentioned but it's not taking my post in good faith.
So what is your suggestion? How do we avoid this fast approaching existential threat to humanity?
> Car pooling becomes more acceptable because you can sleep during the detours to pick people up.

Only if it is always picking the same people up. Otherwise this is a big negative. People often need to arrive someplace on time. If my car had decided to take a detour to pick someone else up and made me late for my early meeting I'd be mad. Car pools work - to the extent they do - because it is always the same people who need to arrive at the same time.
OK I know I'm doing it wrong because no one on HN misses $2K/month, but what's up with the downvotes?
I think the world and it's dog want to run AI on consumer hardware instead of in the cloud. Its sure as shit cheaper to do (if you exclude the RnD costs.)
> I see this as capture of processes -- their invocation, context, and results -- in a relatively normalized form for analysis and re-use.

That's a nice, neat, concise way of putting it. Thanks.

> There are many possible applications based on analyzing these ...

Those are some neat ideas. I'd certainly have to talk about them with some real users to understand the demand and use-case. I think the easy sharing I mentioned could go a long way to achieving that goal.

You can also already pretty easily extract just the commands run, to (as you put it) hoist it into a larger script or workflow. E.g. in my current instance, `hucksh sql "select command from command_history where id > 2863 order by id"` dumps out the most recent 10 commands you ran.

> No one likes to have this level of intrusion or monitoring, but everyone seems to accept running code in containers, so if this were built in to the container, it might be easily deployed and widely accepted.

Hmm, perhaps.

That does give me an idea for another use-case for hucksh in containers: mount the hucksh database file into a container, across invocations, to have a more seamless history of working in the container.

> A more narrow goal based on the current implementation could be to build and maintain a library of bash functions or scripts, possibly shared by a team.

Indeed. That's where I was going when I said "I hope in the future to make it easy to share history, which could help with new employee onboarding, [etc]."

> My goal is always to migrate any bash that gets big [...]

Yes, I agree.

Thanks again for your comment. Some neat stuff here.
All technological discoveries and developments are owed to the historical work of all mankind. It would take quite the nerve to gesture one's own short life as even capable of a single one of such marvels.

To answer your question: No, I am not OK with capitalism, which is why I don't need such philosophically vacant concepts like copyright to justify exploiting the hard work of others.

Regardless, I'm right.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Act_of_1790
.....?

Are you claiming Apple would have to pay fixed costs a second time because new users were added to the already existing service?

And are you claiming that 1 million dollars is a lot of money to Apple, a company worth over three million million dollars?
The Idea That Won't Go Away
Clearcase is 100% to blame here. It made assumptions and the world changed.

And when it changed... Clearcase did not degrade gracefully. It was a full on collapse.
> a grift on top of the hard work of those that actually drove a company to success

Where does the profits and dividends sent off to the idle class aristocracy fit into this constellation? Your resentment seems to mostly be that some dufferent people might be at the workplace.
Hating on Computer Modern (ok, probably now Latin Modern) is something close to blasphemy.
> OpenAI has been talking about AGI as it lines up commercial partners across the globe and up and down the stack. But AGI is no more realistic than crypto taking over from central banks. It's possible in theory, but not in fact.

At some level it feels like the pearl clutching about GPT4 as it relates to AGI is astroturfed.
The point that I am trying to make and I am not sure you are getting: if we take the decentralized system as the Internet and the different social Networks as "relays with autonomy over their own content", isn't that already an example that that each subnetwork gets to enforce the policies that their own communities value?

The problem I am taking with your view is that shows a not-so-subtle hint of totalitarianism. It tries to use the abuses caused by people with freedom to justify that we all should lose our liberties (or accept that global subjugation to a common set of rules as inevitable.

Yeah, currently all platforms that promote "censorship-resistance" are predominantly used by those who got affected by large -scale censorship. Yeah, most of these people are doing or saying despicable things. But that should not be an argument to make the case that centralized platforms and worldwide gatekeepers are the best solution.

To repeat: you keep arguing like the enthusiasts of decentralized platforms are "anti-censorship", when in fact the fight is about claiming back some sense of autonomy and agency to let people be able to do the moderation/curation themselves (or to someone closer to them who understands their values and social context better)
Oh really? I had no idea.
Would we expect the list to re-render once the fetch finishes? This may just be years of react poisoning my brain

const Stargazers = () => {
const stargazers = van.state([]);
fetch(`https://api.github.com/repos/vanjs-org/van/stargazers?per_page=5`)
.then((r) => r.json())
.then((r) => stargazers.val = r);

return ul(
stargazers.val.map((s) => li(s.login))
);
};
Yeah I find this incredibly annoying.
Couple of years ago I've excelled at a lead position interview, we've arrived at the part where I get to just spitball questions about their company, team and overall culture.

I just talked about how I think it is important for leaders to have an extra-fine antenna for the psychological well-being of your colleages when in a remote-first environment. The moment I uttered the word "psychological" it triggered the interviewer's DEI-driven buzzword thesaurus and he immediately started talking endlessly about their efforts for "Inclusivity" which of course stands for: if a non-straight, non-white, non-male candidate existed alongside me, they would've of course chosen him/her/... instead of me.

I know that this is what it meant because this were his exact words ;-) (which he confided in me thinking I would see statements like these as a good thing and not a massive red-flag)

Needless to say I declined.
Wait until you discover how Plaid works.
Apple knows the cell phone market is saturated. That's why they have iPads, AirPods, Apple Watches, MacBook Airs, etc. Their plan is to create new accessories (and services) that pair with the iPhone. This generates a moat around existing iPhone users.
Apart from the advantages for privacy and Siri, imagine if the OS included a shared system AI that any app could query. That would unlock so many new features that are either impossible or impractical today.