skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow. Lots of thoughts. First off, if we're talking about the same thing(s) I'm in violent agreement. However I question that congruence.

First observation is that one light isn't a reliable on/off indicator because the light can fail; you need two lights, one for "on" one for "off". Then at least if no lights are showing you know one of them is broken. OTOH a meter which reliably reads 50% of actual or consistently jumps between 30% and 70% violates the principle of least surprise, but I can work with it once I know about it as long as there aren't too many competing distractions. Sometimes a broken indicator is better than nothing; sometimes it's worse.

People ask me to do a lot of tasks applying deterministic logic to nondeterministic systems (at lot of this comes down to lack of research, although the reasons for this lack of research vary; I don't accept these kind of jobs without asking some pointed questions first). Sanity checks feel kind of pointless here, because what would they mean? I've surrendered to the philosophy that feeling that I know what is going on is sanity; therefore the sanity check is I feel like I know what's going on. The approach I've settled on is "bug parts", or measuring the actual ingredients and including that in a label. In practice this means that I report certain (often reverse engineered) values, and count the number of times through various portions of code and report those. In reality it seems like the good ones collect in some distinct buckets or fingerprints (and I keep adding indicators until this occurs!); anything which is not in one of those buckets could probably use a closer look.

There are different ways of reporting disk (and memory) space. A common example of this is "copy on write"; a common corrolary is "start with zero". If this is being done, large chunks of a randomly written file might not be allocated and if you read them you get zero. This presents a problem for "space which is used": does this represent the commitment (this is a 30GB file), or usage (4GB is allocated, the rest is all zero)?

Finally, in a twist on that last point systems overcommit. Your allotment might be a limit, not a contract.
tbh, i personally think the article is timeless and beautiful
If Apple's in trouble for infringing on Masimo's patent, why would Masimo's watch have any better accuracy? The whole issue is that they're doing it the same way...
That’s a good question. The built in tutorial is actually really good, you can launch it with “vimtutor” on the command line. It doesn’t give you everything, but its instructions and text to try things out on in the editor itself, which I find a good way to learn. It isn’t particularly programming focused either.

For getting used to the motions especially https://vim-adventures.com can be a fun way, in its game format.

For getting started I’d say don’t worry about plugins much, but get https://github.com/tpope/vim-sensible at least so the defaults meant for vi don’t get in the way. The only other thing you might want is a format syntax if your preferred note syntax isn’t highlighted well by default or something. Polyglot can be good to stave that off but really I’d say learn on a really lean config, and get used to using :help or similar. It’s the best way to learn the parts that work everywhere.
That's not a good explanation. Either GGP was being sarcastic or is corpo-brained. GP was confused because, unfortunately, both are equally likely these days.
> Why should the "nuclear renaissance" happen, this time?

Dunno...maybe because, as the article you cite mentions, the term was used in 2001 to refer to a hypothetical.

" ... a nuclear renaissance is possible ... "

So there was no "that time". Whereas "this time" it is not some hypothetical that could happen, but officially declared government policy.

Macron presents France’s long-term ‘nuclear-heavy’ energy plan

https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy/news/macron-presents...

Macron announces ‘nuclear renaissance’ — and papers over past mishaps

https://www.politico.eu/article/emmanuel-macron-papers-nucle...

Macron pushes 'French nuclear renaissance'

https://www.dw.com/en/macron-calls-for-french-nuclear-renais...

Did I write "declared" government policy? My bad: declared and enacted government policy:

French Parliament passes law to accelerate construction of new nuclear reactors

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2023/05/17/french-...

French parliament votes nuclear plan with large majority

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/french-parliament-votes...

Note the "large majority". To be precise it was "approved with 402 votes in favour and 130 against." That's a whopping 75% of the vote. Doesn't seem particularly controversial.

France's Assemblée Nationale adopts 'nuclear acceleration' bill on first reading

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2023/03/21/france-s...

So that's what's different. Hypothetical possibility vs. declared and enacted government policy.

You're welcome.
A good reminder to get back to keeping lab notebooks - they are extremely useful for being able to look back in time and go "What was I thinking and where did that number come from?"
Hmm..

"A quarter of the seaweed grown typically falls off the platform and sinks 1,000 meters to the seafloor, von Herzen says. At such depths, little oxygen is present, and biomass doesn’t readily decompose."

Let's hope that is thoroughly verified. Elsewhere, microbes break down biomass in oxygen-poor conditions into lots of methane. If that turns out to be the case, dropping masses of seaweed to the ocean floor could be a timebomb worse than the CO2 it sequestered.

Better aim for the other option:

"But he [Rod Fujita] believes the best strategy for mitigating climate change with seaweed is to turn it into fuels or plastics, construction materials, or additives that suppress methane emissions from cattle and rice paddies."

Yep. Win-win: sequester carbon, and produce something useful that replaces fossil-based goods.
Assuming the upcoming Zen 5c was capped at 192 Core because of Bandwidth and not Thermal. We could have had 256 Core + IOD ( 70W ), if every core were to use 3.6W that is nearly 1000W for the CPU Socket.

In a 2U 2Node system, this is a potential of 1024 vCPU in a single server.
Did they? I've heard very little about this from developers, unlike plenty of other rug pulls from companies in the past. I signed up for it but never got access, so in my case it's not like I lost anything. Since the article mentions they're coming back I guess I'll keep my ears open for updates?
I think it's more like "since Apple plays hard with regards to patents, looks like they made their bed and might as well lay on it now"
Sure, it was reasonable for the time given that XBLA launched two years before the Wii.

The issue was that the Wii was basically just a GameCube++ in terms of architecture, and no one would have expected a digital storefront on a platform where all the software boots bare metal.
I mean people will just wait to buy the Apple Watch when it gets resolved and they are on sale again. It’s not like people will flock to the alternatives.

The harm is only significant if it drags out for a significant period of time. Apple will probably just remove some functionality and keep selling.

I mean it’s a watch, and the timekeeping aspects aren’t patented (I don’t think). Calculator watches existed since the 80s so that’s ok…my friend had a game on his watch in the 80s so that’s ok..
The magic fairy dust is "really fast NVME" and "really low latency memory access" which for most users makes the 8GB give a performance comparable to slower 16GB memory (and not need to read from disk).

That's about it. If you're doing anything other than regular web browsing and word processing it's not going to be the same as having 16GB. But I'm certain the average Mac user is not a developer, video editor, or other power user.

Like it or not, tech nerds are not the average consumer of Apple hardware.
All of the recent legislation on this topic, including the EU Digital Markets Act, has a numerical unit cutoff which basically exempts all video game consoles.
You know, it's maybe a bad idea to privatize some things https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2023/07/10/mathew-la... water in the U.K got more expensive and the service worse. A terrible deal for everyone but a handful of private equity investors.
Maybe we’ll be able to heat our homes with self-hosted AI in a few years.
There is a compounding effect of this though, the fact that the Play Store doesn't allow this greatly dampens development of libraries that would make it much easier for developers to add this functionality to their apps, making people more likely to rely on the Google's payments and just dealing with its cut.
Patent laws really are so strange. Two people had an idea in 1989 (over a decade before I was born) and as a result, I am not allowed to build a product using that idea and sell it, even if I independently reached the idea myself. I think in an ideal world, we would have intellectual rights and patents, but for a vastly reduced scope of time.

You come up with an amazing breakthrough that will alter the world? Congratulations, it's yours for 10 years to do what you want. After that, it's fair game. Innovate or die.
Try something with dirty stinky bass.
AI and Gender Imaginaries: Reddit Discourses on Training the Ideal AI Girlfriend [pdf]
Generally true, but if you start from scratch and only learn "the good parts" you have to be careful that you don't accidentally wander into some syntax you didn't know had some other use.
One of the big problems is that infection control and antibiotic stewardship don't have billable procedures most of the time, and are thus viewed as cost centers by hospital leadership.
The new click bait is openai negativity
That would be IP theft and is completely unrelated to the patent system, and that hasn’t been proven in this case fwiw.

While some patents were found to have been infringed, that is different than IP theft even if the same people are involved.

It’s a poor extrapolation or idea anyway. Patents are public, and no sane entity would hire someone to reimplement a patent without a license.

More likely, they thought they were far enough from the patents in their new implementation and either did not know of the specific patents (were the same employees named on those patents?) or had a different reading of the invention described.
Why can’t they make carveouts on a country by country basis? So they lose in the EU and Japan, but they could still maintain their profits in the US.

Look at the world of pharmaceuticals. Drugs are way more expensive in the US than most other countries. Big pharma companies make nearly all of their profits in the US.
Understanding Parquet, Iceberg and Data Lakehouses
Modern open source notes manager for macOS and iOS
I can see that. It feels more like the car salesman who says, "Sure, you can look at the car you actually came here to see, but only after I show you three more we'd prefer to sell."
Why would that make any difference, unless we want the government to punish success? And if ~140 million Switch consoles sold doesn’t constitute “success”, where is that line?
There are things like Cordova that make it a bit easier, but yes you need hundreds of MBs of stuff to compile and test. Debugging was a bit of a nightmare, though.

It is also possible to deploy to Apple with things like Github Actions without personally owning a Mac (and it can publish to Google too, naturally), but then testing is not trivial.

I know 90% of HN will disagree but there is a market opportunity here to make this better.
Getting to the point he’s at requires a lot of patience, dedication and effort. And money to buy time.
And the repo you pointed out is from a former colleague ;) the world is small
If you asked them in the same session, the previous answer would have affected the next answer.

The rule of thumb goes: never argue with an LLM, unless you are looking for an argument. Just reset and start over (or edit the prompt, which is the same thing but preserves the previous communication).
I used to follow Tank's Good News[1] each week for this type of thing, but it seems it stopped being updated. I am hoping the owner eventually brings it back one day.

[1] https://tanksgoodnews.com/
Those two were my favorite mags during the heydays of computing. To them I'd also add the first decafe of Wired. No other mag captured the computer revolution and the infinity of possibile worlds that might ensue better.
You are implying that a company has any ownership whatsoever over its workforce. It does not. The workers are not “theirs”, and they are presumably employed under an “at-will” agreement.

Companies and owners sure do get upset when it’s the workers that take advantage of “at-will”.
There are established processes to invalidate a patent ?

It is more than 10 years since this started , patent office is slow but not that slow .

Apple may believe they didn’t infringe masimo’s tech and theirs is novel enough, I doubt they have made indication that they believe it is invalid.
Open source patents, like Tesla does.
Pretty amazing to use the guest account on https://online.interlisp.org

thanks a lot
How exactly does the market work without the government enforcing contracts and property rights?
It’s pretty clear to me that the overriding economic issue of our time is how do we systematically realign delivering quality and efficiency with profits. It’s pretty obvious that there are major breakdowns in both the current practices of laissez-faire and of regulation. Its seems to be an exception when a company delivers on all three of quality, efficiency, and profits.
For me it was obvious that there was a massive "Learning" curve. I needed to be sure this was viable for what i wanted to do. So i went with the $400 Ender 3 S1Pro. But ended up with new hotends new most everything. I didn't think there was a large difference between it and the Prusa. I intended to move up to the Prusa but the bambu lab printers came out before. Very lucky on my part.

The creality K1 Max was because i needed a bigger bed. I had an anycubic max in between and it was worse than the Ender. I never got it reliable. The K1 Max at least does get used. I just throw away a lot of filament from failures. The ones that complete are very nice.
There is a Beni and the Jets joke just waiting to be told there.
> hackathon is a (physical or virtual) competition where people contribute code to you in a manner you decide on and get prizes.

Having been through a couple of Hackathons, rest assured that there are plenty of Hackathons that are more focused on the business case rather than the implementation. I've seen hackathons won by teams that didn't write a single line of code. It was all mocked up in Powerpoint or similar.
Was recently reading about new Viking Link interconnect between UK and Denmark.

Scheduled to come online soon.

https://www.viking-link.com/
The paper:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01634437221119021
Both yourself and the GP are technically correct depending on how you choose to interpret harm on the company.

The problem is that the tone of that claim implies the kind of harm that is significant while being just vague enough to also be covered under your interpretation should they get challenged on that statement.

Thus I would argue that Apple are still being disingenuous even if they are technically correct.
I'm not knowledgeable on the patent, but the one I've seen referenced is: https://patents.google.com/patent/US10912502B2/en

It's basically "take this arrangement of sensors and put it on a smartwatch". So a lot of my opinion of it is going to rest on whether the arrangement of sensors is actually novel, or whether this is Masimo taking a long-existing setup and saying "but with a computer!" like all the most-mockable obvious patents.
The No-Stats All-Star (2009)
I found this to be incredible, an NBA player whose stats are worse than other players on practically every dimension, "yet every team he has ever played on has acquired some magical ability to win". Many tech companies look at individual-level productivity metrics like PRs submitted, sprint velocity, deploy time, etc. But what are some good ways to assess team-level productivity?
Oh interesting, my AMS has worked flawlessly. This is interesting because I've tried many multimaterial solutions, and other than a Voron with multiple hot ends, none of them worked well at all until the Bambu AMS. It was really wasteful at first, but that was the only negative thing I could say about it. Maybe Bambu Labs has more QC problems than I thought. My experiences were all so simply and directly positive (across 4 of their printers now), I kind of expected that to just be the norm.
tbh, my experience is the other way around. When a hospital locally ran out of money and was taken over by the county, the quality of care dropped drastically.

My wife had a good experience giving birth in our local hospital 12 years ago, but this year, after having been taken over, they completely screwed her brain up in what should have been a routine procedure. 10 months later and she’s still suffering. i’m not sure she’ll ever recover :(
The last I checked in C++, you need to use the PIMPL (private implementation) idiom for that behavior: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/pimpl

(not my favorite)
Not if you use Flutter
Google has Bubblwrap, which will take any PWA and create an Android wrapper for you: https://developers.google.com/codelabs/pwa-in-play#0

There are tools like that for iOS too, but you absolutely have to have a Mac.
You’re citing one of several exceptions that proves the rule.
I didn’t know about this point. Which printer would be closed frame, so I can understand the difference?

From what I’ve been able to observe, the quality of the XL is quite good for single tool head prints, however the quality really nosedives when multiple tool heads are introduced, and a bunch of people have been finding tricks to improve things (more wiping, less lifting, insane retractions, etc).
Google has a CLI tool for producing an APK bundle: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/bubblewrap

Tutorial here: https://developers.google.com/codelabs/pwa-in-play
aboriginal people of austraila stayed pretty much unchanged for over 50 _thousand_ years until quite recently.
But the amount of processing necessary to trigger the patent is "any amount more than zero". Here's what claim 19, which Apple was adjudged to have indirectly violated, says about processing:

> [the user-worn device comprising, among other things: ] one or more processors configured to receive one or more signals from at least one of the four photodiodes and output measurements responsive to the one or more signals, the measurements indicative of the oxygen saturation of the user.

So if your device includes one or more processors, and those processors aren't just decorative, you're in violation. What processing you do is not relevant; what's patented is that you do any processing of any kind.

Note that Apple's violation does not seem to have been related to data processing; they were adjudged to have directly violated claim 22, which is the device described in claim 19 plus a series of modifications and/or clarifications, of which the modification/clarification unique to claim 22 has to do with the configuration of the LEDs in the device.

If the problem had to do with their data processing, they probably would have been found in violation of claim 19 instead...?
I haven't had a raise in 2 years at a SaSS company.
Been a Java developer for many years but I've never tried JProfiler. Is it free, no big catches?
Lots of cryptography and security guards?
Exactly, if a court actually finds damages then the monetary tally just racks up as you keep making money from a product, but no federal agency currently has authority to stop you from selling the product at all. maybe a judge could go that far, but thats not been the path and its a super high bar to get that far
Agreed. It's frustrating because both Obsidian and Logseq have deliberately removed a crucial feature. So people either have to pay a lot, or do janky workarounds to do their own sync.
Why have so many people waste their time with own custom solution.
In a world of so many distractions, what's not a surprise?

Also, I think unless people are trained to question everything, they tend to flow with the dominant narrative. Private equity makes health care more efficient!

I'd love to know how to get people to focus on potential problems and ask questions.
> You come up with an amazing breakthrough that will alter the world? Congratulations, it's yours for 10 years to do what you want. After that, it's fair game. Innovate or die.

That’s how patents work in the US. You get 10 years with the ability to extend 10 more. There are games to be played with some patents that extend their life (like a new use patent in pharma) but generally these parents for seemingly old things are new ideas about an old thing.

If you want a short fun read on Solar Panels [0] you’ll find a Melvin Severy referenced. That’s my ancestor. We don’t see a penny from his work because that patent is long gone and is just referenced as prior art. Feel free to use it all you’d like.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/sponsored/brief-history-solar...
So threat of violence? In other words, a defacto government?
Kelsey has a new channel on YouTube called Chalk Talk. It got some traction with a few lovely videos, but it's been some time since she maade one. I suspect there is a funding issue.

https://www.youtube.com/@chalktalkmath
Email already supports delivery to destinations which are intermittently connected. The legacy MTA behavior is to retry automatically every few hours for several days, with failure resulting in a notification to the sender. Operators have adjusted the behavior over the years to support grey-listing so the retry period and interval are both shorter -- but still in use!

While communication between two hosts which are rarely simultaneously connected is best facilitated by a third party, some tweaks to your MTA's the delivery retry interval and period could enable reliable communications between email users who are connected simultaneously on a regular basis.
Gapminder's 'best of 2023', though always very welcome, features several plusses regarding EV batteries. I expect an alternative to personal EVs, group EVs (automated), will be upon by this time next, making the lesser green elements of batteries even greener.