skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am an Apple customer. I don’t feel attacked. In this case, specifically, I feel protected.

Using an analogy from a person I follow on Mastodon: “For $1.99 per month, I will give you a QR code that tells 24 Hour Fitness that you are their customer when you really aren't. You can work out for free whenever you want.”

And:

“The Department of Justice is investigating 24 Hour Fitness for banning the people I charge $1.99 per month for access to all 24 Hour Fitness locations without actually being a member. What a world!”

Thread: https://fedia.social/notes/9n0w48tiq887x0bp
I hate to defend them, but I'm honestly sharing my experience: circa 2020, maybe '21, I called them (L.A. Fitness), said I lost my job as the reason, and they let me cancel. Maybe that was a fluke, maybe it's different now, I just want to share counterpoints to "X is impossible", because it's not always the case.

Somewhat tangent, but everyone says "nvidia doesn't play nicely on Linux", I've never seen that! I've installed cuda, switched to cuda drivers/nvidia proprietary (non-cuda) drivers, FOSS Nouveau drivers, ran x11, wayland, never seen a bona fide issue. I'm not denying others' experiences, but dont make up your mind before you try. worst I've seen is laptops that have dual video cards (nvida + intel, for instance), but that's on par with any other Linux snafu you could have, it goes with the territory.
YMMV, re: TSA. My wife's license was due to expire a week after flying, and they gave her a bunch of shit about how lucky she was that she wasn't trying to leave the following week.
There aren't many more single new features that are going to justify upgrading that will exist on the mobile platform. Apple is playing a game where they try to add enough features to prevent the upgrade cycle from becoming too long. Encourage people with 2 or 3 year old phones to upgrade this cycle instead of delaying a generation.

Honestly, Apple's business model is harder if everyone wants to upgrade to a certain new version. The M1 Macs were so good, everyone upgraded their Intel Macs and then mac sales dropped. It's better logistically if the sales are more predictable and consistent year-to-year.
The Salesforce CRM application somewhat "famously" does not use native DB foreign keys to model most relationships, and has a custom relational integrity and indexing layer.

Mostly, this is in order to support our complex custom schema functionality, described in the Multitenant Whitepaper here (https://www.developerforce.com/media/ForcedotcomBookLibrary/...)

But interestingly, this also lets our internal data modelers choose to make a relationship e.g. leave dangling records or have other update/delete patterns that are appropriate for the data and data volume. Obviously there are cleanups and tradeoffs required here. It's certainly not a model I'd suggest people start with, but there really are times where database native FKs aren't the answer.
I don't see Google making it easier to communicate outside of their kingdom. AFAIK Google's RCS (with their encryption extensions) is not an industry standard or available for 3rd party apps to use. Why is the expectation only on Apple to make such changes?
I mean, I'll admit I've watched the tech industry promise the moon and deliver a user-surveilling mud pie a few too many times to particularly care for their hype anymore.

It's 2023. I'd like to buy a car, TV, phone, or computer that isn't, by default, "slurping as much behavioral data as it thinks it can possibly get away with, routed out whatever connection it can find, to be sold to others who want to influence my thinking." It's hard to find.
Wouldn't this count: https://9to5mac.com/2023/12/18/beeper-mini-broken-antitrust/ ?
> "They" should be held to a high standard of expectations.

OK, and the justice system is. It's full of professionals, processes, training, exams, appeals processes, etc. They are held to very high standards.

Why do you say we don't expect patience from them, and why is that relevant?

Legal professionals like lawyers and judges seem incredibly patient, as the processes they deal with generally take months and even years.
> I've found with most medications looking for an active ingredient and an amount is helpful. You can search for effectiveness or side-effects.

Is this not common practice? I would be uncomfortable taking an ambiguously labeled “cold medicine” pill, personally. I know which medicines are effective for me and which are a waste of time and money.
I expect that locally installed models will quickly resemble how we think about drivers today. In the short term you'll install a notes app that requires Mixtral-8x7B so you pull that in through ollama. Down the line all operating systems will ship with various models preinstalled.
As if this week had attempted to take a measure of blood from my body, I'll be on-call next week. Looking forward to all things quiet on the HEP network front.
EU is already demanding that Apple allows more app stores, isn't it?
Why would electric car improve our traffic situation? They're just more efficient than ICE cars. Maybe it will lead to smaller vehicles, but we could have used motorcycles instead.

So you have self driving cars, which will probably improve traffic flow, but it's fundamentally limited by geometry. If people takes more car trips, this will reverse some if not all the benefit of self driving cars.
I don't think there's really anything wrong with your comment, it's a triggery term and jumped out at me in the original piece itself where the author uses it to ironically self-describe. It's a little weird (or maybe he is also Jewish) but I think I get the usage. He's written previously about Bulgaria's Roma community and the discrimination they continue to face so I don't think he's trying to start any shit.

I wouldn't casually use it in English, though, precisely for the reasons you outline.
It is pretty close, yeah. I believe delegation is an NFSv4 feature and therefore included in NFSv4.1
I don't have gas to my place--they just installed a line on the street, so I could get it relatively cheap now...

... but probably going to get a heat pump instead. Electric heat sucks money, so I'm keen to replace it with something. And now that we've gone from 1 too-hot day per year to 7-8 with smoke, it's a double win.
Well the most likely theory is that he did not expect it to work, which is precisely why he proposed it.

The point wasn’t to work. The point was to kill/delay CAHSR.
I hate driving into Manhattan.

I'd much rather take rail relative to the alternatives even if it takes longer and maybe costs more (especially leaving aside parking). And many others do as well even if it would be faster to drive.

And generally Manhattan is pretty walkable once you're there.
Oklahoma fans spam family business of player who transferred with 1-star reviews
IBM did something similar ...I want to say with OS/2 but that can't be right (or I'd have more issues with it under emulation than I have). Maybe with PC-DOS 2000?
East India Company ? Also had some rather negative effects.
FWIW, I now understand where you were going with the comment and appreciate that you clarified it.

It was also quite informative to learn about this phrase and its nuances.
A chilling tale, but step back and look at the odds: Not only does it rely on a significant original measurement/prediction error, but it also assumes the exact wrong nudge will occur that happens to compound that error.

In contrast, the vast majority of possible nudges will be neutral or beneficial, since the Earth is a very small target compared to the rest of space.
It's not a zero sum world economy...
I had a private conversation about customer service, rudeness, and such.

It's terrible that in order to do something as simple as "I want to cancel this service", you have to scream and make legal threats of retribution.

These are policies put in by terrible and shit capitalists to "make friction" of people leaving. But that's not all it does... It also introduces tremendous emotional labor (the rank and file employees) being screamed at by soon-to-be-former customers. Customers know that screaming gets heard, and responded to. Being decent gets you abused. But doing this pushes a large toll on the non-policy-making employees, who are exposed to massive emotional and sometimes physical abuse.

I do blame the companies in setting up policies that screaming at the bottom employees 'gets shit done'. It's a choice by the companies that force that issue. But screaming retains rights, like "cancellation", or "being made whole when a problem occurs". It's all top-driven bullshit that screwing the non-loud people makes more money.
> the first 10GW of peaker plants is economical against nuclear and the last 10GW is not.

I'm not sure how well this works given that peaker plants have to pay for their fuel whereas nuclear - to a first approximation - does not; everything is factored in the building cost. So it's more like the first 10GW of nuclear baseload can displace a lot of gas use, whereas the last 10GW shortfall might still be efficiently covered by peaker plants if they're cheaper to build for the same capacity and almost never have to burn fuel. It works out to mostly the same outcome, though.
AOSP does not come with GMS
Me too, but they pay a few bucks an hour to carry the phone so at least that adds up.

Ultimate trick is to have a diverse team. Someone that doesn’t care about Christmas but absolutely needs some random day off in March (cool with us!). Someone that celebrates new years some other time.
I don't agree with you in the main part, but I do see where you're coming from. I'm from Europe, use trains often, and have also driven a fair few trips in the USA. Rush hour Bay Area was about as hellish as I expected (though merely tedious, rather than scary), but other than that it was very pleasant driving. I'd still rather take public transport if it was even two thirds the level of a decent European country – and while that's a fairly big request from where the USA is right now, we are talking about the biggest economy in the world.
beeper/iMessage: A Matrix-iMessage puppeting bridge
True story, decades ago in HS we did the whole stock market competition. As a big gamer, I somehow convinced my team to dump everything into Nvidia.

We were 2nd in the state in Illinois, and I wanted to cement our place and possibly win by selling everything to lock in gains in the final week. The person executing the trade on our team accidentally shorted it and it went up a considerable amount in the last week knocking us down quite a bit.

At that point I seriously considered dumping my savings into Nvidia. I'd be retired right now if I had done so.
It's obvious to you but not obvious to your average iPhone user which is why I get videos with 3 pixels sent to me repeatedly. On the flip side I can mms videos with acceptable resolution just fine. It's all just to try and keep people in the system, not because it's a better user experience.
I think a lot of people watched this Vox video about sudafed 2 months ago and became armchair experts tbh: https://youtu.be/ZlFF7A8nk0w
From what I recall when I registered some time back, it was possible to simply use any debit card for the process. This meant there was no need to share login details with anyone.

Their documentation may provide more current details than I can though.

https://support.privacy.com/hc/en-us/articles/7970157169943-...
Why would the factory assign, to a second computer, a number that's already been assigned to a computer which has been manufactured some time ago?
Would you please name and shame this monitor?
What's a good alternative for virtual CC's?
If course it isn't.

Neurodivergence is a reality. Our justice system can do better than be ignorant of it. Our justice system can do better than to escalate its symptoms. As a participant in democracy, I will accept no lower standard for justice.

This person wasn't killing people. He was looking at secrets. There are people who don't understand that murder is wrong, and those people need to be institutionalized for the safety of everyone else. He isn't one of them.
Some absolutely see how full their schedules are gonna be with one, give some consideration to what that’ll look like with two, older and at different ages, and stop at fewer than they might have if they hadn’t thought about that.
> still run on a device like the iPhone, which weights about 170g [1]? The human brain is 8 times heavier.

Why are you comparing the weight? I'm sorry but this is a bizarre comparison. This isn't even apples to oranges, this is apples to a telephone pole.

I'll also throw in that a single Nvidia H100 is 1200 grams. Unless you have a "Bracket with screws" which will add 20 grams (who wouldn't want an extra 20grams of intelligence?).

Like 70%+ of the human brain is water. The human brain needs a massive network of systems to transport nutrients/oxygen which is irrelevant to logical processing.

Similarly the majority of the iphone weight is the battery and frame. The weight of the processing chip is _grams_.

Besides the conflicting variables with the weight, the way that ML works on a physical level is completely different from the human brain.
Different market, different product.

You ain’t scooting in Manhattan or San Francisco at 65mph.

I assume this was a Vespa style scooter, not a “stand on a board with no protective gear at all” type of scooter?
Typically you look for orphan rows - the sort of thing ON DELETE CASCADE was invented to prevent. Another thing to check for are records that need to exist but should have references cleared when something else is deleted, e.g. ON DELETE SET NULL. And the third thing is ON DELETE RESTRICT.

You can check for the first two of those things after the fact, and they are relatively benign. In many cases it will make no difference to application queries, especially with the judicious use of outer joins, which should be used for all optional relationships anyway.

If you need ON DELETE RESTRICT application code should probably check anyway, because otherwise you have unexpected delete failures with no application level visibility as to what went wrong. That can be tested for, and pretty much has to be before code that deletes rows subject to delete restrictions is released into production.

As far as race conditions go, they should be eliminated through the use of database transactions. Another alternative is never to delete rows that are referred to elsewhere and just set a deleted flag or something. That is mildly annoying to check for however. Clearing an active flag is simpler because you usually want rows like that to stay around anyway, just not be used in new transactions.
This comment makes no sense - I'm an iPhone user and receive spam almost daily. And if it's reassuring to know that your messages are rendered correctly, Beeper Mini would only expand the number of contacts that this applies to.

How exactly is Beeper worsening the iPhone experience?
> When should the government be able to force you at gunpoint/threat of imprisonment to carry a fetus for 9 months?

If you get to the point where you're asking "when", you're already saying the government should be able to force you to carry a fetus. I'm not sure how else to interpret it.

If it helps I guess you can twist my formulation to be "the government should be able to force you to carry a fetus under some circumstances that are evaluated by people on a case-by-case basis". All that "under" and beyond stuff is redundant, however.

As soon as we say that a case requires evaluation we apply force. We coerce the person by threatening them with imprisonment if they don't stop seeking an abortion. Further, we open the door to imprisoning people in a system that is already slow and burdensome; we then give people in government power to wait 9 months for the question to become moot.

> A binary response leads only to argumentation because we can't find the edges that we agree on, only the boundary we fight over.

The debate is not nor has it ever been over circumstances or conditions -- that is a distraction from the pro-life crowd.

For example, some propose exceptions for cases of rape. But can rape be proven in less than 9 months, including appeals? Obviously not. If an allegation or mere statement that a rape occurred is enough then we might as well not issue the threat.

Others propose exceptions if the pregnancy threatens the pregnant person, which just means that some cases will be decided by the government, ultimately.

The boundary is well-defined and fixed. You may just be uncomfortable with it, and that's your choice.
I'm not sure who the "we" is in this comment, and I can't think of any group I know in real life that it aligns to.

Because everywhere I've lived and every community I've been a part of, "we" absolutely do give motherhood profound levels of respect. So much so, that being a mother is an almost sacrosanct role and puts the holder of the title above reproach in many situations.

Also "we" do pay them for it? If you feel better thinking about it that way, their income-earning spouse can be seen as paying them (by having the single income pay for all household spending). Also society at large pays them, by virtue of the myriad subsidies, deductions, services, and programs for children and parents.

The biggest challenge I've witnessed to praising motherhood as a full-time profession, is that mothers who work corporate jobs feel attacked or disparaged if they hear any comment which suggests they are doing any less mothering than the full-time mothers. So we end up in a tricky position culturally, where you can call someone a full-time mother, but a phrase like part-time mother is seen as offensive or inappropriate.

It's very challenging to balance giving respect and recognition to full-time mothers in a way that won't offend mothers who work for companies.
Musk was not instrumental in mainstream EVs. He was on the early wave of it, yes, but other companies had EVs out at the same time or before, and the price drop in lithium was obvious to everyone who was paying attention at the time. It would have happened one way or another.

Yes, we've ruined astronomy with a ton of LEO satellites, but we've got some internet in exchange (I'm rural, I have it, I'm quite honestly not impressed with what it delivers for how much I pay, and how inconsistent it is - on some days, it's quite good, on other days it's more or less dialup grade).

And we'll see how that lift capacity works. Everyone will continue insisting that Kessler Syndrome Won't Possibly Happen until about a year after it's happened, at which point, welp. It was fun while it lasted!

I've done computer security a bit too long, I think.
I couldn't quickly locate the original source, but in your link the reference to 'utilization' suggests it's talking about how much is used for cars, not how much production is sitting idle:

> Compared with 56% of the installed capacity in Greater China being used for light vehicle segment, Europe will have a much higher capacity utilization of about 74%.
I'm essentially homeless. I'm living on the free will of an extremely kind landlord who let me stay in his empty house until it is sold (which it is now, waiting on closing).

I can't get a regular job for another 12 months until my immigration status is resolved, as my USA SSN won't allow it right now.

I do work 16 hours a day though on a number of projects that I'm trying to start.
I'm struggling to understand how to reproduce this.

I have a Google Workspace organization: org.com

I create a new user: sneed@org.com

Where/when/how is the sneed+alias@org.com created? How is the user sneed@org.com doing this if they don't have administrative access to organization management?
Not on arXiv (unless I'm much mistaken), which is a preprint server, not a conventional journal.

arXiv accepts various flavors of TeX, or PDFs not produced by TeX [0], and automatically produces PDFs and HTML where possible (e.g. if TeX is submitted). In the case of the example paper under discussion, the authors submitted TeX with PDF figures [1], and the PDF version of the paper was produced by arXiv. The formatting was mainly set by using REVTeX, which is a set of macros for LaTeX intended for American Physical Society journals.

[0] https://info.arxiv.org/help/submit/index.html#formats-for-te...
[1] https://arxiv.org/format/2312.12451
Comparing LLM Performance: Introducing the Open Source Leaderboard for LLM APIs
AMD's purchase of Xilinx made less sense because AMD is fabless

Xilinx was fabless before the acquisition. I'm missing how that made less sense.

with all the zero interest rate money floating around

Hehe...as one of my finance-world pals said: "everyone's doing M&As like drunken sailors".
>That's not confusing at all!

For real! Do they mean 2MB or 2Mb ?
> You have solar panels that generate 100GW average, i.e. 200GW during sunlight and nothing at night. You have batteries to match this up with the daily load.

And that amount of batteries is absolutely massive. To put this in perspective, the US uses about 500 GW of electricity, or about 12 TWh per day. That's 6,000 GWh for just the United States. This is an incredible amount of storage, over 10x the annual global battery production.

This is why talking about "average production" of intermittent sources is simplistic. You need to dig into the degree of overproduction and storage required to even out that intermittency. But including those factors makes renewables way more expensive, which is why people don't like to talk about these factors.
This and lots of highly opinionated literature.

Not that there is anything wrong with opinions, but they should at least be referenced as such when there is a clear debate.

Otherwise it just erodes trust - this actually seems to be an awfully common sentiment towards wikipedia, as it is evident even from neighboring comments.
Molten salt oxidation is perhaps preferable: it's an exothermic reaction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten_salt_oxidation
probability of hitting the moon with a random velocity in space is comfortably roundable to 0% provided you randomize decently far awaay
Traffic issues are mostly intra-city--not inter-city. I'm not sure anyone is really arguing against commuter rail (however bad it is in many cities). But about inter-city rail in many locations.
I think that's just a neural accelerator, not an FPGA. The IP block happens to be from the Xilinx side of the company.
ever heard of something called DNS?
Burning plastic (and all kinds of other trash) for energy, if done well, IS economical/profitable and not much more 'dirty' than burning natural gas.

I think a lot of refuse to energy plants in the US have been shutdown by environmental interest groups and negative sentiment from local residents, etc.

We should first use a lot less plastic in disposable things... but if we can't do that we, should burn it along with a lot of other trash.
Sorry, I misunderstood you. Thanks for clarifying and props for being open minded to change your position.
Yes, the Tesla approach is superior - if it could be made to work. Waymo is an inferior product that works today and is available. I'm sure the superior product will quickly recover and compensate for the first mover advantage of Waymo by way of sheer awesomeness. By then, we will all use Betamax cameras, minidiscs and the GNU/Hurd operating system.
Personally, I'd be more comfortable when get to trillions that cover all aspects of the globe in all seasons 24 hours per day over 365 days per year for perhaps a decade. Edge cases are likely insane everywhere, we already know that. Are my estimates overkill? Perhaps. But it's what I'd like.
> The real problem here is this major bug only elicited a token $1337 payment.

Agreed.
Steam takes a cut of the sales price and a cut of microtransactions done through the Steam wallet. But they don't force developers to use the Steam wallet. I wouldn't be surprised if that last point is what will ultimately matter.
I think that prompt is for something different.