skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but doing so with a specification language instead can bring some benefits, including model checking in the case of Quint and TLA+.

I was referring to benefits that only a rich specification language like TLA+ (or Coq or Isabelle) could bring, although TLA+ is more naturally expressive than the others. Model checking is nice and very useful, but just the rich formal specification is at least as useful in itself. Like most people, I was drawn to TLA+ for the model checking, but after spending a lot of time with it, I realised that model checking was its least interesting benefit even though it's its best marketing. It's really cute and useful that there are model checkers for TLA+, but I'd used SPIN and Pathfinder before, and they were cool, too. What set TLA+ apart for me was the way it let me specify and improve my designs, not the fact that it happened to have a model checker (although without the model checker I probably would have never given it a chance).

> turns out that people want to specify things that actually execute, and won't need a way to express things that don't.

Absolutely. And others want to specify things that cannot possibly execute, because if they could they would make for a lousy specification from a very practical perspective (it's of the utmost practical importance to be able to say: this distributed protocol requires O(lg n) messages, and yet it's not something you can easily model-check), and you can't have both. A model-checked specification is often not a good enough specification, and a good specification is not something you can model-check.

So in the practical world of software it turns out there are people who want to model check, and there are people who want to write good specifications, both groups are positively tiny but the former is larger. Neither is fully served by something made for the other. Something that's great at being fully model-checkable cannot be really good for specification and vice versa. I'm all for more languages that are more fully more checkable, but it's important to acknowledge that such languages are less practical for rich specification. Both specification and model-checking are practical concerns, but there's always a tradeoff.
Seems like the references aren’t working very well.

I really want journals to have two way links in a paper. I get google scholar alerts about certain papers being cited, and I want to skip to “why did they cite this? Did they use it, improve it, it just mention it?”
I'm pretty sure most people are very aware that most of east Asia never saw massive PC adoption and so their internet developed in a very mobile-centric way. This hasn't been surprising for a long time?
I downloaded two files, ran `llamafile-server-0.4 -ngl 35 -m mistral-7b-instruct-v0.1.Q4_K_M.gguf` and was getting 53 tokens/second on my RTX 2070 Super 8GB. It couldn't be easier.

This is really going to make me want to try using a local model to help with coding. I never get responses that fast on ChatGPT with GPT-4.
It's definitely a consequence I never considered as possible and frankly am not a fan of, to be clear. But fan created works are still very legally gray basically across the board. If I had heard about this sooner, I likely would've been following the case closely as I wouldn't have any clue what to expect in terms of outcome.

Ultimately though, at least insofar as the current system exists and operates, fan creations are not protected and in fact seem to be legally unprotected. In the odd event this person was correct, that one of the writers for Rings of Power adapted their work without compensation... well... it isn't entirely theirs, by definition, even if you have fan creations enshrined as fair use. There would probably have to be some legislation covering intellectual property that's derived from other intellectual property, and how that ownership then is calculated.

Certainly, expecting the Tolkien estate and a company the size of Amazon to have to pay royalties to a fan writer is just, and I'm sorry, but it's fucking absurd.
https://web.archive.org/web/20231221130921/https://www.nytim...
Retina computer displays are already high enough as well.

MacBooks and iMacs don't really need further pixels either.

VR seems like the only mainstream focus now on increasing density. It seems like the Vision Pro is going to get us halfway there from e.g. the Meta Quest, but there's still going to be another big jump to get to Retina-equivalent.
Hi Albert, can you paste the Youtube URL you are trying? This is still under development and many features will be launched soon.
Mixed feelings - Isovalent is such a great company that it's sort of sad to see it acquired by Cisco.

Hopefully they will keep on being awesome - but Cisco acquisitions aren't generally positive for innovative companies
Or any large pot or pan. Gas heat distributes heat nicely across the bottom and sides of any size pot you put on it. Even rectangular pans and dishes.

Even an old school electric is better in this regard than an induction top. If you lay a big cast iron pan across your induction top (which you wouldn't want to to begin with) it will literally only heat up the molecules directly above your biggest burner.

So while an induction is superior in 80% of cases, you still ultimately get more versatility out of gas.
I see iMessage as simply the default texting app that comes with apple. It can text to any other type of phone and any other phone can text to it. It does have other features/perks that are only available to apple users, but why do android users feel they have the right to this too? It's not like apple only allows iphone to iphone texting.
Resistive electric? I’m with you, I truly would just go for my own propane supply before going back to that crap. But you can get propane conversion kits for natural gas ranges, no need to get the camping stove.

I haven’t had a chance to try electric induction yet. I don’t know anyone who has one.
Same. I've been considering ways to do whatever (infinitesimally small) things I can to help change the culture around "blue bubbles." I love being a "green bubble."

Green bubbles are not just "a broke Android user" even though the Apple masses like to spread that image.

Green bubbles are a sign of a technological badass, a power user who does things with their devices that Big Gray doesn't think they should be able to. It's the sign of a person who thinks lock-in strategies are gross and an anti-pattern, and is principled enough to vote with their wallet. It's the sign of a non-conformist, a free thinker who makes their own decisions, rather than following the group-thinking masses. A green bubble is the badge of honor that identifies a person who thinks differently.

In the end, Apple's strategy will probably win because Machiavellianism works, but that doesn't mean we can't give it a hell of a good run.
> now we've traded traffic flow/congestion for an equal level of safety.

If you don't maintain a safe following distance for your speed, you are the one creating the dangerous driving environment. Tailgating is worse for both traffic flow and safety.
Recent and related:

Waymo outperforms comparable human benchmarks over 7M+ miles - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38710874 - Dec 2023 (247 comments)

Edit: looks like that thread only spent 40 minutes on HN's front page. Since it has the original source, we can re-up it and merge this thread thither.
True electricity abundance (like posited by fusion reactors) will enable an incredible amount of new advances and technology.
I'm wondering, does the machine only check enrollment once? What if a future OS update institutes regular checks?
For the volumes often boiled in kettles, often 0.5l to 1.0l, only if you use a massively oversized pot. But then you need to account of the extra evaporation and greater cookware mass which hurts the induction stove.

Induction power is still limited by pot diameter and common cookware is very heavy for water boiling because other types of cooking need more even heat and higher temperatures.

I actually raced a 120v kettle versus and high-end induction stove to boil 1l and it was very close.

Electric kettles are very well optimized for speed and efficiency.
Negotiable Abstractions
I used VSCode for a good 5 years. Before that, it was intellij (and long before that, eclipse).

I have switched to neovim and have been using it for the last 5 years. I haven't had a desire to move back.

There's something about using the keyboard to seamlessly transition between tabs, buffers, terminals, and control window positions and sizes that makes me enter into a flow state a lot easier than other editors.

The only thing I truly miss about VSCode is how easy it is to set things up. In neovim it can be a PITA.
Or.... He is a good actor and has decided that being locked in a mental hospital is better than prison
I agree with 1-6 that they have always been really focused on their margins, they were never a company that wanted to go into debt for something that was 'unproven.'

They have had lots of things they stopped doing, the graphics chip I was involved in (82786) was one, the speech chips, the iAPX431, the modem chips, their digital watch was an early one.

I always saw it as an exceptionally low tolerance for risk. When I was their the 386 had just fabbed and I was one of the people watching when the very first chip was powered up and it actually worked (which amazed pretty much everyone). Sun Microsystems was a little startup in Mountain View using the 68000 and getting some traction I suggested to Intel that if they used the graphic chip I was working on and the 386 they could build an Intel branded "Workstation" and both replace the VAXStations they were using for CAD work internally and sell them as part of Intel's initiative to become a "systems company." I got a response to my memo[1] from Dave House who was later CEO but at the time just the head of Microprocessor Operation (MIPO) Marketing explaining to this lowly NCG (new college grad) that Workstations were not much of a market and Intel was only interested in pursuing the "big" opportunities. Six months later I joined Sun (just after they IPO'd sadly) and didn't look back. :-)

[1] Yes memo, as in typed up and printed out and put in a manilla envelope where on the last line of the front had it coming from Dave and being addressed to me. And yes, it started as a memo I had printed out and given to my manager because while Intel had "heard" of electronic mail they preferred the "durability" of actual mail and forcing people to use actual mail cut down on "frivolous" communications.
>How do you do haptic feedback to hands? That's an essential part of any AR system that isn't just a gimmick, and yet it's basically impossible without clunky gloves.

Who said VR would need gloves and haptic feedback to succeed? We're talking about virtual reality here, not simulated reality. For the latter better wait for Elon's neural link or whatver we'll get that plugs our brains into the Matrix and simulates reality.

People still use mice and keyboards to interact with UIs despite having the ability to use touchscreens. Just because one thing exists, doesn't automatically mean the other dies.

>How do you prevent damage to the human eye over extended use like a 9-5 job?

Who said you need to use a VR device from 9-5 for it to succeed? You don't stare at your phone screen or tablet for 8h/day, do you? And yet you most likely have one.

> The human eye did not evolve to "look at" different things that are in actuality on a screen an inch from our eyes

Have you seen what lenses can do with light? Like move the focal point of a picture much further away? They're pretty big tech in cameras, telescopes, binoculars, and .... oh, these optical things humans wear on their faces, a couple of cm from their eyes to fix their vision issues, their called glasses I think.

How about we use those lens thingies to move the focal point of a screen that's 2cm from your eyes to 2m from your eyes? I'm telling you dude, whoever invents this tech is gonna be big.
> The issues and OS limitations leads to things like kids bullying green bubbles (as silly as that sounds).

That sounds silly, but it's important enough that Apple executives were talking about it ten years ago. See the link from the article at https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1589450766506692609

> In the absence of a strategy to become the primary messaging service...iMessage on Android would serve to remove an obstacle to iPhone families giving their kids Android phones

That's from Craig Federighi, who is now the SVP at Apple in charge of all operating systems. If it were a minor silly thing, you probably wouldn't expect it to be talked about at the highest levels at Apple, would you?
Hmm, maybe! Is that the idiomatic way to do async? I was thinking something along the lines of this, which react devs will have written a variation of plenty of times :)

import { useEffect, useState } from "react";

const GithubUser = ({ login, avatar_url, html_url }) => (
<div>
<img src={avatar_url} style={{width:40, height:40}}/>
<a href={html_url}>{login}</a>
</div>
);

export function App() {
const [stargazerResp, setStargazerResp] = useState([]);
const [repo, setRepo] = useState("vanjs-org/van");

useEffect(() => {
fetch(`https://api.github.com/repos/${repo}/stargazers?per_page=5`)
.then((r) => r.json())
.then((r) => Array.isArray(r) ? setStargazerResp(r) : setStargazerResp([]));
}, [repo]);

return (
<div className="App">
<input value={repo} onChange={(e) => setRepo(e.target.value)} />
<ul>
{stargazerResp.map((s) => (
<li key={s.login}>
<GithubUser
login={s.login}
avatar_url={s.avatar_url}
html_url={s.html_url}
/>
</li>
))}
</ul>
</div>
);
}
It’s apple’s own private system and infrastructure and they’re within their rights to control content delivered using that system. It’s not free for them to operate.

I have seen lots of comments like “well we need some kind of solution to this problem, whether it’s Apple launching an android app or a 3rd party”, and to be honest with you, I don’t even understand the problem. Maybe it’s cause I’m not from the US and can’t wrap my head around the social implications of message bubble hues?
Did you look carefully at that serotonin paper? It's pretty underwhelming. Check out the comments on s4me if you haven't already:

https://www.s4me.info/threads/serotonin-reduction-in-post-ac...

There is a lot of crap science published, and that serotonin paper is pretty poor.

Anyway, it's up to you what science you want to pursue. I managed to recover from ME/CFS myself by looking deeply into the science, so I'd recommend looking further. Stress seems to be one of the major issues. Anyway, from what you say it sounds like your symptoms are pretty mild (correct me if I'm wrong here).
'methane cleaner' could become a permanent fixture in cattle and pig barns
This is a great step forward, but I hope eventually Llamafile can also simplify using local data and documents as context.
Android may soon tell you when it's time to replace your phone's battery
Is this not how everyone works?!? I mean aside from the pausing to think about things this is what I do.
Wind and solar are terrible solutions. Another 10-20 years and people will be complaining about cost of power as all the wind and solar need to be replaced and repaired. And the discussions on irreversible damage it’s done.
One Pill Can Kill
California can power about half of their homes with batteries for 4 hours. https://www.energy.ca.gov/news/2023-10/california-sees-unpre...

That is certainly hugely significant, and does spell an end of peaker plants in the next decade.

What it doesn't do is explain what is going to be the backup for long tail events where there's not enough sun or wind for days or weeks at a time.
SSID / BSSID is often enough to pinpoint the location. Recently someone debated this with me, so I asked him what his wifi AP name was, then proceeded to provide their home address.

How? By searching it in https://wigle.net.

That ended the debate quite swiftly.
Why would Apple buy them? What value could they provide to Apple?
> They also stole directly from individuals through their cryptocurrency wallets.

Plus other hacks in the article.
I was a long, long-time Vim user from ~2005 to ~2020; I loved and still love Vim. But, man, it's a time-sink. Sure, I can edit fast, but I first need to spend an hour fixing some random thing that annoys me in my vimrc.

After pairing with many co-workers using vscode, I saw the light and had to switch. Then I discovered vscodevim[1], and now I have the best of both worlds! The ease-of-use and "it just works" of vscode, and the power of Vim when I need it.

[1] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vscodevi...

EDIT: Years of "fixes" I've had to figure out and add: https://doc.xn0.org/.vimrc
Pictures look awful,

The CTIA recommended allowing up to 5MB for pictures back in 2013. That would handle full-size JPEGs with reasonable compression most DLSRs. What does your carrier support?

https://support.twilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018832773-Tw...

> videos look worse.

Same as above.

> Read receipts don't work

MMS read receipts have been a thing since at least 2004. Wanna bet your carrier still doesn't support them?
The game you are playing is the same one that's been played for hundreds of years. More likely thousands.

"Umm... maybe we shouldn't be burning these harmless old ladies as witches."

You, five hundred years ago: "AHA! So you are ADMITTING that you are PRO-WITCH!!!!"

It was dishonest and reprehensible then, and it is dishonest and reprehensible now.

By the way, no one put you in charge of deciding what "basic protections for children" should be. In fact, no one put you in charge of anything.
Apple wants to gatekeep the feature for "legitimate" uses. If it was just another permission, random flashlight apps (as the joke goes) would ask for the permission and _n_% of people would just blindly accept it. Then, of course, Apple would get blamed for allowing random flashlight apps to track people's location. Of course this could all be done via the regular app review process, but Apple seems to have decided on a few permissions they want to keep super locked down (CarPlay is another, to avoid blame for when someone crashes while using some CarPlay app).
> a fan

I think you might be underestimating the # of components in a modern furnace.
Because this is a rather conservative field with little dependency on the general public, so without much interest in hepling disseminate the knowledge broadly & accessibly (relative to other priorities, not absolute)
Your induction cooktop isn’t going to dump all of its power into a single ‘burner’, and the pot you use on an induction stove will have significantly more thermal mass than your average kettle. The heating element in an electric kettle will be directly heating the water. A induction cooktop will heat the pot first, then the pot heats the water. Lots more thermal mass to heat up.
The British way of saying this is "being economical with the truth".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economical_with_the_truth
Agreed. Most of the propaganda videos I see around are more like things taken out of context. When you see a battle or atrocity video, it's hard to be sure where it was actually filmed, when it was actually filmed, who each side actually is, what happened before and after the camera rolled, what is happening outside the camera frame, etc. It seems everyone is doing this on both sides of the Russia-Ukraine war and Israel-Gaza war.

Do we even need deepfakes when there's a practically unlimited amount of such video that can easily be cut deceptively, taken out of context, and misattributed to show anything you want?
>What isn't backed up by the source? The purpose of the mob?

Yes.

>Optically, if you're going to steal an election by changing which electors count, after putting your own electors in as replacements, then having a mob attack the capital demanding that you respond to some made-up conspiracy is a _lot_ better optics than just enacting the plan without any kind of justification.

You're justifying your speculation by saying it is plausible. That doesn't change that it's speculation.

It's fine for you to speculate. I was confused because you were mixing speculation with fact in the same sentence and providing a source.
don't forget our moon, too
I wasn't expecting this to be modd.io when I saw the title. It's a popular framework/platform for building IO games.
Some of us certainly do love city life. My current job is remote, and my family could live anywhere; we chose to give up our spacious house in a charming small town, with a lawn and a garden and separate home offices for me and my wife, and move back to the city, where we now live in a two-bedroom townhouse. No more home office - I visit a coworking space instead - but we're in a lovely walkable neighborhood near the heart of it all. We are much happier here and wouldn't go back.
Apple wants AI to run directly on its hardware instead of in the cloud
But it is a criticism of Wikipedia directly. There is no reason why they couldn't come up with a more thoughtful, complete validation method. Instead, they just default to a last-century model of trust.
If you work on a large scale system that doesn't include foreign key constraints, try running some queries that should never return results because that would expose data integrity problems.

If your system is hooked up to a data warehouse you can run queries there, too.

I bet you can find all sorts of weird edge-case records doing this.
Since Beeper has stated that they're done if Apple doesn't like their latest solution, what are other options? Two I know of are AirMessage¹ and Texts², both of which seem to support this in a way that doesn't bother Apple.

¹ https://airmessage.org/ ² https://texts.com/
> With additional radio communication that wouldn't be an issue.

Given the life and death potential, I consider any signal I get from another car "trust but verify". Having a radio signal about a car a few cars up would maybe get me to slow down but not emergency brake until I had more information.

The hacking potential is just to great.
Hello, and welcome to vscodium:

https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium
> He worked with Kurtaj and other members of Lapsus$ to hack tech giant Nvidia and phone company BT/EE and steal data before demanding a four million dollar ransom, which was not paid.

> They also stole directly from individuals through their cryptocurrency wallets.

Its not that easy to have sympathies with such an individual since these are not isolated instances but clear long term pattern, he may excel at one extremely narrow aspect of existence but rest is much less than stellar.

The crimes he did may not mean much to you but clearly law says different, if you don't like it feel free to campaign for a change. Or would you have similar sentiments if he got enraged and somehow managed killed few people? Since your words would still apply.
Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38713215
> Fortunately, Smart people

Umm... that's highly questionable.

Besides, you are simply attempting to change the subject. The OP was (allegedly) concerned that home-schooled children wouldn't be "reading at grade level". In many areas, public school children aren't "reading at grade level" either.

If "reading at grade level" is the metric, then why would public school be preferred over the home school? No one has cited any evidence to the effect that 66% of home-schooled children fail to learn how to read.

Why they're not "reading at grade level" is irrelevant. Whether it's because of the reasons you claim, or other reasons, it is clear that the public schools a) cost billions of dollars and b) are ineffective at fixing the problem.
> Night mode > dark mode

Can you elaborate what that means?

I looked through the article linked but couldn't find any obvious explanation.
And yet, people like Musk and Bezos keep trying to make more money.
Do you have some statistics on the "very high rollout rate"? I am skeptical of its success.
For life? Probably not.
Globally, most iPhone users install another messaging app.