skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wife is "Jen". I used to work with "Joe Chan". To this day, if I say "text Jen ...", there's about a 20% chance it'll reply with "OK, saying ... to Joe Chan."

Dude. How about optimizing for the option that I've actually communicated with this decade, and 4 times already today?
I totally understood. Was not a fan of the poster responding to you, claiming you made someone homeless.
Hindsight is 20/20.

"Could have not happened" means without hindsight, you could see the possibility that it might not have played out.

nVidia didn't know for a fact that deep learning architectures would have been so successful in the past couple years. GP's point is that maybe deep learning would have worked 80 years later, and not have the great breakthroughs around 2016~now.

The video from 2015 proves nothing. nVidia was deeply invested into this bet by then, and the mere fact that the video exist is evidence that they already betted heavily on AI by 2015 -- before the big results we know of today came about.
Xi Jinping Is Fighting a Culture War at Home
Tech's DEI backlash is here
It is an old joke, it has been told about Presidents, and various other figures.

Thinking long term is not something that is rewarded next quarter, in general.

This is a large part of why I've worked over half my career for non-public companies. I want my management making the best choices for the product and the company. Not what Wall St. will like.

If the invisible hand worked... yes they would be the same. Reality says they aren't.
RCS is a spec ratified by the GSMA, the same standards body that specified things like SMS. Google tried to get Apple to do RCS, they refused, then Google tried to get a license to interop with iMessage and Apple refused again. Google has tried literally everything to try and get Apple to play ball here.
> I was replying to the examples of Twitter and Reddit you gave. AIM, MSN and ICQ weren’t amongst your examples,

Yes they were

> So now we’re going from one false equivalency to another? Perhaps it helps if I break it down. The players on the board are: [...] Pidgin [etc]

I'm not talking about FOSS when I say "There’s been plenty of 3rd party clients for Twitter and Reddit that weren’t free."

Apollo is a great example of a paid 3rd party app that HN were sympathetic to:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36312122

> I guess I misread what you were going for. I feel the opposite. Granted I haven’t looked into this, and perhaps this is because repos are more readily accessible than ever, but I have the feeling there’s more open source stuff available than ever before.

I agree there is. And commercial operating systems are taking advantage of that too. Yet our walled gardens are more restrictive than ever. Messaging protocols are more locked down than ever (libpurple is a pale shell of what it used to be, Facebook and Google used to use XMPP). There's ongoing legal disputes about Apple's App Store and how restrictive that is. Windows and macOS both treat any unsigned 3rd party programs as suspicious. Our hardware itself is become more locked down than ever too.

It's a better story on desktop Linux for sure. But I'm stuck with Android and iOS for phones because building a FOSS handset is almost impossible (and I've tried!). Even the hardware on modern phones are full of closed binary firmware, SoCs and closed Linux drivers.

But I digress. My original complaint was the, in my view, double standard happening about people shouting for greater openness yet also supporting Apple in locking out 3rd party iMessage clients.

> Personally I thought it was a pretty cool little workaround they bought (pypush), but didn’t think it was smart of them to try and sell it.

> As illogical it might sounds, if this was just a DIY thing for people to do themselves then I would’ve probably leaned more towards Apple being petty by trying to block it. But by it being a company doing it and trying to profit off of it, I immediately skewed more against Beeper.

> In particular because I saw the writing on the wall. Not only of Apple mitigating it, but the subsequent “woe is me” by Beeper as well. Whereas I’m more of the mentality that if you’re gonna fuck around like this, at least take it on the chin if it doesn’t work out.

Yeah I completely agree with you regarding Beeper. That said, I don't think that should really change things on Apple's side. It just means both parties are at fault rather than it being a hero vs villain story. I guess I just view this debacle as more nuanced than a lot of the comments on here would like to claim. People are definitely picking sides but, personally, I don't think either company has come out of this looking particularly great.
Pedantry: I didn't mean to imply the Mac's week number was an 8601 week number, only that (if back-compatible to persian 7-day counts) solar-synced continuous calendars —no matter which— will need an occasional 53 week year. End of pedantry.

see also https://qntm.org/calendar :

( ) the lunar month cannot be evenly divided into seven-day weeks
( ) the solar year cannot be evenly divided into seven-day weeks
( ) having one or two days per year with no day of the week is asinine
It's absolutely an insult and frankly disheartening. And in order to get a word in edgewise you would have to rollup an entire decade of work into a simple cliche using appropriately PC keywords. Which is just as draining to contemplate as do.
You still have to get around when you get to the destination. For a lot of places, that will mean renting a car.

Even free can be more expensive than driving.
I suppose all this hinges on if you want to have a car when you get to the destination. If not, then sure take the train if flying doesn't work.

But I usually want to have a car. So I'll be driving until it really doesn't make sense for me.

Most people I know spend crazy money for a car, if you compare to how little they could spend. Thus it seems many people are ok shelling out thousands of dollars a year for a cooler or more comfortable car. I have a feeling if high speed rail costs the same as taking their car, they are for sure going to take their car.
You do realize that this is the "correctional system" right? With the goal to fix/correct/reintegrate people into society? What if you can do that before locking them up and throwing away the key? You have zero empathy, friend.

Also - this individual is clearly a brilliant hacker and if that energy could be directed towards the white hat space, defensive posture, that would be invaluable.

Guaranteed Mi6 will be trying to snag this kid for offensive hacking. He'd have been hired already by NSA if he was in the US.
Beeper says it's done trying to bring iMessage to Android
and if your post had actually been that neutral, the other poster wouldn't have called you out on it.
Silly fun fact, the chemical code for MSG (e621) just happens to also be the name of the largest furry "booru" site on the internet. I have no idea why this is.
That gives Musk way too much credit.
This is coming from a person who has a SiriusXM membership and who actually likes it, but is the human curation really that much better? I frequent SiriusXMU to listen to more obscure stuff, but I feel like I get pretty fairly comparable performance with YouTube Music's "Start Radio" on an Imogen Heap or Secret Machines album or something.
The parent wanted interactive 3D plots, which means JavaScript embedded in or linked from the HTML. Then there‘s stuff like JavaScript embedded in SVG.
Belated thank you for taking the time to write this!
We use these systems liberally on other times of the year and no one notices, usually. If they do, downtime and interruption budgets handle this.

/However/, let me counter with the point: Just one of our customer has 8000 FTEs working with our system. During hell-time (aka, December and Christmas shopping and shipping), each of those dudes spends their shift taking customer calls lasting 2-4 minutes, which in turn require a few requests into our systems.

Due to the stress of their customers^2 (because it's Christmas and holidays and such), if an agent of a customer is unable to access our systems, they cannot handle the use case of the customer^2 and that will piss of the customer of the customer.

So if we push a bad change during this time, we're going to piss of hundreds of customers^2 per minute for that one customer alone. Even with a fast automatic rollback, that's a long time during hell-time. And they have people who know how to yell at vendors in nasty ways who don't like that.

I enjoy moving software fast and enabling moving software quickly, but customer focus and customer orientation means to understand when to move slow as well.

And hey, if that means more quiet holidays for the hard working operators on my team, who's gonna complain?
I can't find the original source, but there are many articles that claim that FBI recommends ad blockers, the ad networks made the internet unsafe so we need to setup ad blockers on our and our family computers.
I wonder how much of a perf hit a normal multithreaded Unix application would take because of this model.
Are there any data points around the multi-threading perf here?
I would like to get iMessage on my Linux desktop. It’s a step down migrating from my MacBook that I can’t see my texts from my iPhone on my desktop
They should arrest you for misuse of statistics.

Since this is a joke thread, I'll share one related to this concept:

The police catch a man trying to sneak a bomb onto a plane, and question him.

Man: I was doing it to increase the flight's safety!

Police: How can a bomb make a flight safer?

Man: Obviously I'm not going to set mine off, and what are the chances that there are two bombs on the same flight??
a great way to get banned from the business, you say?
Just remember this time of year is often peak vulnerability time. When attackers exploit that teams are at reduced strength and off guard. Slower response times to investigate and fix issues etc.
I wonder if Stevenson was thinking about that event when writing Seveneves:

In the near future, an unknown agent causes the Moon to shatter. As the pieces begin to collide with one another, astronomer and science popularizer "Doc" Dubois Harris calculates that Moon fragments will begin entering Earth's atmosphere, forming a white sky and blanketing the Earth within two years with what he calls a "Hard Rain" of bolides, causing the atmosphere to heat to incandescence and the oceans to boil away, rendering Earth uninhabitable for thousands of years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seveneves
You can click the "Introduction" anchor on the left side and it scrolls for you past the author list
Makes me wonder how voice assistants handle people with multiple partners. Maybe "which one" is actually the right answer for some users?
This is something quite striking in US where there is a full aisle of "cold medicines", "headache pills", "back pain reliefs", "muscle ache aides" etc, and they are all the same stuff (ibuprofen/"Advil" or paracetamol/acetaminophen/"Tylenol") in different packages. In Finnish pharmacies it's mostly just three or so "generic" paracetamols or ibuprofens in different brands.
I have family who work in the nursing-home-conversion business. Their clients are people who own residential properties who want to convert them to nursing homes, ie, businesses. Business is booming, particularly in overdeveloped retirement-friendly areas (Phoenix, etc.). But basically anyone can start one of these businesses as long as they can develop favorable relationships with insurance and banks and jump through the necessary hoops to get a provider number, etc., all services provided by the conversion companies that are out there, so service quality varies greatly between locations.

Personally I would be very cautious signing family into places like this because knowing the bored-with-too-many-properties money-grab types they probably do not want to be involved to the extent that is necessary to keep things running smoothly and safely.
Reading the responses here, so far everyone has taken the currently dominant majority viewpoint strongly against any platforming of unpopular, offensive free speech. Since my position on this is so clearly in the minority, I kind of feel obligated to post here just to share that philosophically I agree with what's stated in the OP. To be clear, I don't know about any other positions which may be held by the author or the organization so I hold no view on those - but as far as what the OP itself actually says, I think it's basically 'right.' Even if only in the awkward sense that it's the 'least wrong' answer to a thorny question which has no good answers.

Of course, that doesn't mean I agree with any of the, likely, reprehensible things the stated policy will allow to be published. I acknowledge my viewpoint on free speech is wildly unpopular these days and, frankly, I'm both conflicted and deeply uncomfortable holding it. But I've held this general view on free speech for a very long time and nothing that's happened in recent decades has caused me to abandon the fundamental principles in which it is grounded. Others have defended these principles far more persuasively and eloquently than I can (going back to the founding of the ACLU) and I doubt I can do any better.

I concede that these lofty free speech principles can result in perverse outcomes I hate but I've long understood that "free speech" is not free. In fact, the costs can be very high and all too real. Allowing the most vile and disgusting ideas to be openly shared is the high price I reluctantly, regretfully still believe is worth paying.

Believing this requires a lot of trust. I have to trust most people are able to eventually recognize wrong, bad or evil ideas when they hear them. I have to trust that most people are fundamentally pretty reasonable, fairly bright - and most importantly - basically defaulted to strive toward good vs evil. Certainly not everyone and not all the time, but most of us, most of the time. Finally, holding my viewpoint requires trusting that many people like me will exercise their own free speech to counter wrong, bad or evil free speech. That others, whether they agree with me on free speech or not, will still join me in not just condemning but also marching against evil when necessary.
The Food and Fellowship LoTR precon is insanely boosted for the price (~$60 retail, $100ish on secondary markets).
As with sibling comment, what threat vector do you see phishing risk with?

A race condition where the phishing email lands first, user clicks link to g00gle.com, gets a convincing message that they also need to present username and password?
I have 84 first cousins - 44 on my Dad's side, 40 on my Mom's. I lived in the Philippines for 3.5 years with my Dad's extended family and got to know almost all my cousins on that side. It was a great time and all my cousins were amazing. Our Christmas celebrations were the best and I still miss them, 40+ years later.
I can't believe this is still up, but it's amazing: Russian lolcats.

https://rolcats.wordpress.com/
I guess this looks moat shaped.

And seems to be aligned well with Apple too: their focus on privacy, their hardware performance gains, their ai assistant products.

Apple is good at launching new product categories, ahead of competition. The apple watch had no competition for the first couple of years after launch, ipads are a class of its own, I wonder if they’re planning a similar move with ai too.
Personally I thought it was cool that you replaced the shell AND the terminal. I honestly feel like we need a re-imagining of computer interfaces. CLIs are cool but the current state of the art is lacking. So kudos on what you're doing.

I don't think I will become a user because I'm a radical free software purist but I like what you're doing and I think it's the kind of outside the box thinking that's needed if the shell is to ever move far beyond "1980s state of the art".

Another interesting take on entirely rethinking the shell: https://arcan-fe.com/about/
an average of 44 per day in the US. So... common, but relatively, uncommon. And apparently there is software that can help mitigate this.
German trains are not known for being automated. I'm sure you have some, but not as many as you think. No tram in the world runs crazy automation, they all currently have a human on board. Only grade separated trains run fully automated. There might be some automation on your trains, but it isn't fully automated.

Your second point is completely wrong: we have trains, and have been running them for more than 100 years. We have real statistics to show in the real world they are much safer than cars. Sure you can imagine anything you want, but when real science has real data why would anyone look at your imagined data.
Employee records as wiki pages? That must be a joke, right?
> Air is just much bigger than light, so you can't block light but allow air to pass through.

That seems easy to fix - small tubes/vents that don’t go straight through but hit a corner or big enough curve. Air can go around obstacle but light won’t.
Occupancy Explained
Good thing they built another 2,900km in 2023, and have no intention of letting up!

https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/china-buil...
To simplify Go errors, unnest code
They might have discouraged alternatives to pop-up. 'Oh Intel has this in the pipeline, it's hopeless to compete, let's invest in something else'. I've heard this so many times, just to see Intel kill said product, product-line.
..

At this point, if it's not about x86 cpus, listening to Intel's roadmaps seems foolish.
I'm currently running dolphin 2.2.1 mistral on an M1 Mac Mini with 16GB of RAM. Zero optimisations, just running base LM Studio, I haven't even bothered with GPU acceleration.

It thinks about 5-10 seconds before answering and writes the answer about the speed I can read it.

The current top of the line iPads are more powerful than this and an optimised modern iPhone implementation using the ML hardware should be faster than my current setup.
But Google actually is rent seeking by the economic description. The poster is just accusing google of a 'lesser charge' by misunderstanding the concept, they should fix their accusation of what Google is doing not change the term.
GM buys out nearly half of Buick dealers in the US who opt to not sell EVs
Additionally, in a multi-person household adding things to a shopping list should take any authentication. Not everybody has an iDevice or needs to have an iDevice - my petsitter, babysitter, maid and random family members should be able to add stuff to the shopping list just because they are in the room with the homePod. On Alexa, it works - but we have to deal with all the advertisements for crappy AliExpress junk. As soon as Apple figures out shopping lists for whoever is in the room, I'll be dropping all my Alexa devices.
Now if they'd only add a button to unsubscribe from their physical mail... I bought a used Prius this year and installed the Toyota app to see if it did anything for me. All it did was give SiriusXM my home address, so now I periodically get a plea from them to subscribe.
Ethical? Say you launch a product that uses cloud services (ie servers and storage). If I reverse engineer your protocol and launch my own (paid) product on top of your service, is it unethical for you to shut me down? Isn’t it also unethical for me to create a product on top of your infrastructure without getting permission or providing some kind of payment?

IMHO, Beeper is the one with an ethics problem.
Read on if you want to learn a pattern that:

1. Simplifies code such that portions cannot return errors

2. Improves reusability of components for future work

3. Reduces the number of tests needed

4. Highlights broken code earlier in the software development cycle, rather than amidst handling hot paths.
You missed the second half of the equation. For the long foreseeable future, solar will still require the use of natural gas for many seasonal events. Nobody seems to worry about storing the waste from that but is very concerned about the tiny amount of nuclear waste.
> Musk, and probably Bezos, have goals that were previously only attainable by nation-states, which require nation-state-sized budgets.

A Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan discusses this a bit, not Musk and Bezos, but the cost of exploring space and his hope that space exploration was finally what would bring various nation states and humanity together. The irony is not lost on me that instead of bringing humanity and democracy to space, we instead brought back kings.
Yup, which is why when in a shit stirring mood, you’d better be prepared to get some on you.
A bottle of scotch recently sold for $2.7M – what's behind such prices?
Unless it’s as advanced as Unity, is it possible to even sell an engine these days?

Something like this is expected to be free
> Failure to pay your dues is a crime.

No, it’s not.
if you can take out the 3rd party tempting Apple users from doing this, then Apple doesn't have to lose those users. doesn't seem very strange for them to do this. however, if it's not something that Apple could control on their end, then they probably still have the "suspend user" club in their bag
> Their chips are second to none (or perhaps tied for first, depending on who you ask).

> For server marketshare, intel vastly dominates (80%?). For gaming marketshare, Intel still has 60-70% the marketshare.

Marketshare is one thing, but saying they are the best but the marketshare is 60-70% is a totally different metric.

Its saying oh Toyota has the best cars because they ship the most... but they cant be as good as a Lambo / Ferrari because they dont ship the most.

In terms of server cpus, if you are looking at raw performance per socket, intel is no where near amd -- https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-xeon-platinum-8592/10 . This is based on Emerald Rapids / Bergamo.

In terms of gaming cpus, they definetly are neck and neck with performance.

But yes you are right, Intels chips arent something you would throw away in the trash. They are good chips. They need to stick around. Its just that you cant say marketshare makes them the best.
I think you might be attributing too much agency to the CEO and management of both companies. IMO there are a lot of external factors too.

It might be the case that Andy Grove "only the paranoid survive" was really a factor. Or simply the fact that under Andy, the tech sector was really different : X86-64 market was the dominant and growing platform of compute, they pretty much had a strong set of patent around X86-64. The initial military and gov contract give them enough run away money to build a moat around having a fab.

Also let's not forget despite all those advantage, intel was also fine 3 or time, for more than a billion each time for very anti competitive practice. It's unclear to me that intel was never the great company they think they are.

Fast forward to now, X86-64 is no longer growing as fast, having a fab is no longer a moat with TSCM around (might even be seen as a liability), the WinTel monopoly doesn't have strength he had...etc... etc... The game is just much harder now.

For nvidia, they had a triple boom market with first PC gaming, then crypto,the now AI... Hard to distinguish CEO performance from market performance.
Sadly it's pretty hard. I have had a great experience with Lineage OS for several years now. Installing a custom ROM is not that hard imo, but it is scary to most and few flagship devices allow it. But I think more competition will be the key to more freedom and openness, and that is coming: Google is being pressured to embrace 3rd party app stores, and Apple is being pressured to allow side loading in Europe. Also things like RISC-V and the growing open source hardware movement are shaking things up. The death of Moore's law will also bring more competition into chip design in the coming decade which could help to establish more open standards and options in the market.