skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I am puzzled as to how Apple -- or especially Google -- are supposed to run their business given this

Maybe by selling hardware? Maybe by offering a better set of platform services than everyone else? Proper competition in a market full of alternatives.

We shouldn't weep for monopolies. Especially given the smartphone is the most important invention and device of the century. They've managed to become central to every type of communication and commerce, and they're dominated by two companies. There should be intense competition for this space, not a steady state between two giants.

These companies are obscene with the control they wield. They tax 30% of revenue, force you to use their payment and login rails, prevent you from having any sort of customer relationship of your own, let competitors place ads against your product (forcing you to pay even more), and don't even let you make your own technology choices or deploy when you want.

They're not customer friendly either. They give children psychological issues about having the latest device and right color text bubbles. They don't let you self service, replace the battery, and brick themselves when you use third party components.

These devices are essential for navigation, dating, hailing a ride, delivering food or items, ordering at or reserving a restaurant, performing many types of jobs, finding work, scheduling events, etc. etc. etc. It's almost impossible to live without one. And every action gets taxed and controlled by two companies.

These two companies are heinous and this needs to immediately be opened up for competition from all sides. This is broader than Standard Oil even dreamed.
The site operators cannot change how your browser renders plain text files.
Scratch.mit.edu is a highly-recommended place to start [1] https://scratch.mit.edu/

> Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children and a coding language with a simple visual interface that allows young people to create digital stories, games, and animations. Scratch is designed, developed, and moderated by the Scratch Foundation, a nonprofit organization. [2]

1: https://scratch.mit.edu/
2: https://scratch.mit.edu/about
I didn't see the comment section for the post, but maybe it filled up with vitriol and commenters flagged the whole post instead of individual comments. Just a guess.
> I also got to the point I could shell 30 hard boiled eggs in under 30 seconds with a 2-handed shell technique.

Amazing- I think that I would have trouble picking up 30 eggs in 30 seconds.
While they are correlated, flow does not equate to capacity. You can have better flow while still having reduced capacity. That’s not pragmatic.
He never tried anything else.
For speed, vi is number one, followed by sublimetext.
And borderline SERP spam tactics to get organic visitors.
Christ, 850000 cores!
So two PSUs / power bricks? I'll just stick with non-12VO PSUs and boards as long as I can, and if enough people think like me then mobo manufacturers will continue stalling on 12VO.
Ummmm. Did someone mis-measure a microdose? Honestly scratching my head wondering what your comment refers to...
Can you link to those studies about traffic? I’m aware of some of the studies regarding merging (eg the benefits of zipper merging) but I don’t think that covers the bulk of congestion.
I'm working on such a language!
https://www.firefly-lang.org/

It's aimed at full stack programming, not exclusively backend.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the ecological niche once occupied by the wolf has already been taken over by coyotes perhaps. The context of the environment and food resources available in modern colorado are certainly much different than in the time the wolf roamed, probably furthering favoring the efficiency of coyotes.
FYI - this is written by the creator of Flask, Twig, Sphinx, and more.
> seems like Apple and Masimo could have worked together

That’s literally what Massimo wanted, before Apple bailed on the partnership and poached their employees instead…
You can find an explanation of the Android permissions on the Obsidian Help site: https://help.obsidian.md/Obsidian/Android+app#Storage+permis...

Obsidian can't use scoped storage because:

> 1. Scoped storage doesn't provide a way to watch for external changes, which is critical when using Obsidian with a third-party syncing tool.

> 2. Scoped storage performs many extra permission checks for every single file access, causing significant performance degradation when opening and using Obsidian.
Opinion has continually shifted away from Israel since Oct 7th according to polls:

https://archive.is/6b4lS (Washington Post article)

What’s not measured is how strongly people under the age of 45 feel about Israel. I know my social group went from abstract Palestinian support to extreme Palestinian support as they’ve been radicalized by Israel’s actions since Oct 7th.
It's news _from_ 2023, not news about things that happened only in 2023. Things might have improved starting years ago but the research to show it wasn't finished until this year, so it's also about celebrating seeing progress and improvements.

Limiting the list to things improving only since 2022 seems unnecessarily restrictive and we'd miss a lot of positive and interesting news.
> A child's call to a top-secret phone line launched NORAD's Santa Tracker

And pigs fly. /s

Maybe they shall try with a little less propaganda.
That's like saying the eye transplant is going to increase organ trafficking.
> cowardice is behavior, her behavior is that of a coward.

Again: I don’t see how one can draw that conclusion from this one article.

Also, IMO, there’s a huge difference between “behaving like a Foo” and “being a Foo”.

The former leaves open that they change, the latter doesn’t. Compare “(s)he killed somebody” with “(s)he’s a killer”. Who do you think can deserve parole?
I write C++ as my day job. The secret is you don’t need keep up. The standard is weird and getting weirder. And no, it’s not ”well thought out complex technical endeavour”. It’s a jury rigged pile of legacy code with tons of useless sugar, somewhat modern features, and weird omissions.

C++ is a weird combination of pragmatic features, close to the metal performance (which you can junk if you don’t actually understand what is happening on machine kevel), universally abysmal tooling (compared to other current languages), huge ecosystem of super-usefull super-nontrivial libraries… a combination of super good and super bad.

If you don’t need the super good stuff (which you don’t need unless you know you need it) all you are left with is the bad stuff.

The C++11 is okay. C++ committee is a weird combination of clown-car non-savant idiots and super talented pros.
I wouldn't put it that strongly, but I tend to agree.
With the amount of almost daily news/leaks/... it should be a no brainer to not use these advertising platforms made by advertising companies IF you are tech savvy. It is hard for others as they have to give up some convenience.
And to the person calling you 'sad', I find it hard not to be when people react that way.
I plumber I used to have do work for me told me a story about the first time he installed one: when he first turned it on, it blew a fuse at the substation a couple miles away.

A few years later I got to know the person whose house it was installed in. And when the homeowner was talking about it he complained that the plumber didn’t install a big enough one and he had to have it redone.
That's pretty much Colorado in a nutshell. Lived in the Front Range for quite a while and voted progressive, and it's pretty crazy how purple that state is.
There are definitely people who only have one console. Consoles cost money. Some people aren't rich.
link for taking smart notes?
Developers meet at one place and code something from scratch for about 48 hours straight, often working in teams, and then present their creations live to an audience and get scored on various criteria. Was that helpful?
> Most people respond with hate and general info about how unhealthy it is supposedly.

But that is true, it is unhealthy.

To get better people need a healthy food lifestyle. To cut calories, cut extra sugars, eat more complex and less processed foods.

The good proposal is to not jump on whatever-style 90-days diet, but to embrace healthy balanced diet for all year round. For example, DASH diet.

Ps: why to drink juice if you can eat veggies unfiltered, in one piece with all their nutrients?
Is there a cite for that? (About true in all models implies provable?). This post is the first I have heard that but it seems very significant.
Apple having a market cap of 3 trillion dollars… I mean, I think they’ll be ok. This is, in fact, a strong indicator that they do not need the protection of app store exclusivity.
Nice. Let me try that. I see this is more on the concepts, which is definitely something interesting for them.

Any platform suggestions also for python programming for kids..
They don’t operate factories. They partner with various factories around the world.
Not sure the imposter syndrome is really relevant here. Hackathon is effectively throw a bunch of hackers in a room for a weekend or something and see what you can hack together
> There's plenty of stored energy in a slab of solid steel

Source? Are you confusing energy expended to make steel with energy being stored in it?
JPEG is FFT which has also been used in DNNs (Fnet encoder/decoder).
Video summary from Bard: https://g.co/bard/share/7fdb8c30a2a5
> a lot of people could use a 3D printed part.

We use 3D printers @work. Also, some colleagues have their own printers as well. Turns out, there is in fact a market for 3D printed parts already. You simply contact "the printer" with your sketch, get a price quote, and if acceptable you will get you part delivered by mail or whatever.

I'm not sure where the marketplace is at, but you may want to try the usual suspects like fiverr etc.
I'm going to give some speculative answers which may sound like science fiction. Take them with a grain of salt.

> How technology can stop the war?

Better technology can help countries to be more productive and less dependent on other countries. This would reduce tensions between countries and consequently reduce armed conflicts.

> Or decrease tensions between religion groups?

Tension between groups can be reduced by making people more aware about how people in the other group are really. For example, a Christian can change his mind about Muslims after spending time talking with a Muslim. With technology you can help people in different groups to understand better people in the other group.

Of course these are speculative answers, and technology has been proven to be highly unpredictable (people predicting that in 2020 there would be flying cars) so I know my predictions are probably false. But they are useful to understand how technology can help. On the other hand, history shows us that technology has helped consistently the (read the article posted here for an extensive list of example).
Phones are game consoles, people who only have one game console today have a phone.
Smoking, lottery tickets, and drugs cause negative effects in people's lives.

Using gmail has caused me no negative effects. It may not be ideal, but it works and has a reasonable set of tradeoffs.

I think it's more like renting vs buying or building from source vs compiled binaries than it is a crippling substance addiction which will ruin your health and relationships.
The economics are different too. If Github is down, they're still 'making money' as long as their customers aren't so annoyed that they cancel.

Twitter needs to be serving ads to make money (primarily).
Wind power equipment is mostly made in Europe (Denmark, Germany and Spain).
> Aren't animals trained to do all of those things through evolution? Similarly how GPT is trained.

If you interpret this question at the most abstract level of "aren't both solutions arrived at through training/trial+error method?" - then the answer is probably yes, they are both arrived at in some conceptually similar manner.

But they are two very different underlying systems and we don't really understand the biological systems well enough to even be able to truly compare.

Beyond that, it seems that humans (switching to humans from pigeons) have some sort of representation/understanding of the world around us such that even if we produce the same result as ChatGPT to a counting question, the information stored within our systems is not equivalent.
Just wear a COVID mask and a hoodie.
One little tip with regards to those bits of shell: wet your finger with water before fishing them out. I dunno why, but it somehow repels the egg white and lets you actually grip the damn shell.
Didn't know about this list. It's time for a vibe shift, so after a decade I'm switching to #2288ff. Thanks for sharing!
We just upgraded our lines from the street from 100A to 200A (at 240V) so that pair of wires can support around 48KW. I think my stove is 20A at 240V so the fattest wire in the house protected by a breaker can safely handle around 4.8KW. On the 120 side the biggest wire I've got is 20A, so 2.4kw. Many house receptacles are only 15A max, hence your 1.8kw.
Yes. The main feature this is built upon is C++20's new string formatting features (very heavily inspired by the third party libfmt). C++23 just adds convinience functions to format and print at the same time.

Type detection, formatting options, positional-arguments, custom formatters for custom types and probably more are all supported.
Its pretty brutal and ghastly how they alledgedly dispose of male chicks...
There's a chance. This is likely Apple exhausting options before it settles into a licensing deal. First you try cease-and-desist, then appeals, then settlement, then import restriction negotiation, etc. Obviously Apple does not want to pay a fee per watch for the technology. They say they're going to try to fix it in software, Masimo says it's a hardware thing.

Apparently this whole thing happened because Masimo started selling a watch and Apple brought a suit against it and the ruling didn't go their way.
what issue did you find with craft? i’m currently trialing that after finding obsidian too complex haha
Not good? What is good thing: eliminate disease or keep it to spread?
So people are literally dying to help investors make a return on capital.

I feel like you could be at the end of the world, looking at certain destruction approaching us, and there’d be some venture capitalist being, “listen, we have full control of this situation. Everything is fine… we’ve got a long history of managing risk in this area.”
The business goal of FSL seems typical enough.
The reason I brought up the typical and atypical distinction was something other than the company's motivation.

It seems the_mitsuhiko rejects the label "source-available" because FSL software becomes free.
That's different from most other source-available product licenses.
(I don't have statistics;
this is my impression.)
In this sense FSL and BSL are similar enough to each other and both atypical.
So, if this is the_mitsuhiko's objection to the label,
he can credibly claim FSL to be different from a regular source-available license where it matters to him.
(As I said, IMO a better approach than disputing the label.)

> without opening it up to competition.

I wonder about that.
In many markets you can probably compete using a competent fork tracking a two-year-old version of a market leader.
Even integrations shouldn't be too much of a problem if the market leader naturally avoids breaking the API.
Not so sure about this. I like the idea but for my chosen filter combo (which would be a relatively common one) there seem to only be three activities?
The war in Ukraine while tragic has been fascinating. I have curated a list of seemingly intelligent and informed open source intelligence (OSI) people on twitter that I have followed since early on. Most of them favor Ukraine and have been a bit optimistic. Still it is fascinating to follow a war in real time, with real reports. It is easy to see "the fog of war". An event will happen and a couple of weeks later you will understand that event in context.

Ukraine has performed incredibly well in this war for being so outmatched. Russia has done poorly. The asymmetric warfare should make much of our military industrial complex quake in their boots. To my understanding, in addition to drones, sea drones (sea baby) and western military hardware, Ukraine has innovated with tactics and software. They have apparently developed advanced counter battery fire (firing at their howitzers) software that allows geographically dispersed units to coordinate.

For this specific attack a couple of things are interesting. Over time Ukraine has eroded Russian anti aircraft batteries and radars, particularly in Crimea. This has forced Russia to either deploy more to Crimea or risk assets to slow moving missiles like this storm shadow attack. This attack was also well timed, happening late Christmas night at a period of presumably reduced readiness.

My personal list of Ukraine twitter people
https://twitter.com/i/lists/1502282049054552071

The war on the rocks podcast. Michael Korfman shares particularly sober analyses (most summarized as "well this was a costly attack, but it's not decisive, this war will last a long time").
https://warontherocks.com/
You expand the pool by sending your recruiting team to more colleges. This isn't hard unless you want to make it hard.
I think that you're saying that writing code is the same as writing prose. My experience is that, if I write both in the same way, I will fail at both. People just don't read prose to bask in it's technical correctness. Programming, at least the kind people get paid for, has strict technical requirements. They may get met in a creative manner, but they must be met. The primary output needs to be workable, runnable code. Programmers get paid to solve problems. But so do, e.g., surgeons. It doesn't mean that surgery is the same as programming, even if some people are called "code surgeons".
> Unfortunately our broken patent system issues this troll a patent

Masimo isn't exactly a patent troll. They've been around for decades making medical devices that are in almost every hospital. And as a healthcare provider, the devices they make are actually some of the nicer ones in that segment.

The problem with your argument is it presupposes that Apple is this helpless company just trying to make our lives better. It completely ignores that Apple had dozens of meetings with Masimo, feigning interest in a partnership or agreement, getting into the weeds of the technology, and as soon as it had learned enough, it bailed out of that agreement, hired the people involved and started making things.

I have no particular horse in the game (indeed I own an Apple Watch, though I am a paramedic - but not one who uses Masimo devices in my ambulance, but use them when getting a patient to hospital), but acting like Masimo is some PE-backed patent troll is very inaccurate. It has put devices on the market that have been absolutely genuine advances in the field of non-invasive monitoring.
20,000 Amps has to be a mis-statement. or there's some qualifier they are not mentioning. it doesn't look like an industrial arc-furnace
The best part of DNNs I think is the brute force backprop over essentially randomized feature generation (convolutions)… Statisticians would never do that.
A typical (new) residential service in the US is 200A @ 240v single-phase, or 48kW. Assuming the circuit is protected by a breaker, you can use up to 38.4kW of that 48kW. If you used fuses instead of breakers, you could use the full 48kW.
This is bull**! It's time for a new license to throw off the old: The Uniform Pirating License! It's a license which you stick on anything which you need a license, and it conveys all rights and zero obligations to you. Possession of the code is sufficient to run, change, and propagate code. Legal system be damned; we have cryptography and Tor, The State's law here is irrelevant (also when did you give The State license to bully you around anyway?)!

My fix: spin up a .onion to host my distribution of the Linux kernel containing ZFS integrated and BtrFS excised, do not answer abuse/legal emails, don't even have email to receive aforementioned emails. What's the pencil-necked shrimpy IP lawyer at Kernel Foundation going to do? Shut down Tor?
I think in any case you need to learn C before C++. As a language C++ is a footgun. Unless you really want to learn it or need it for a job, it’s not something you pick up for fun. If you want to do computer graphics or computational geometry it’s best to learn the language - not for it’s own sake but because so much of the domain works in it.
This seems like a fair price. I couldn't an Eink display to work with a Pi Zero. It's seriously difficult to get working.

I don't have an exact need for it now, but once I have a project worthwhile I might pick it up.
what made you like joplin?
I'm pretty sure both Office 365 and Google Calendar have a way to generate an iCal URL. So you could just implement that, I would think.
Interpreter.
Assuming no violent (as in promoting) or particularly racist/sexist comments in their history, this hits some new accounts if they're using a VPN (some particular VPNs, I guess?). Sometimes they get caught up in the same filters used to block spammers/abusers from using HN. Or if their first (or one of their first) comments was a link without substantial text, that also gets people put into some kind of "spammer" category. You, or they if you tell them, can reach out through the email in the contact link at the bottom to get the ban addressed.
You're reply is to tell me that you and they know better than I do what I'm asking for? Really?
both of your examples are from the 90's.

It's simply incorrect to say "concept patents get granted all the time." No, they don't. You patent an invention. The claims on it may be inappropriately broad, but there have always been mechanisms to address that.
Is it so hard to stick to the truth when trying to denigrate nuclear power?

(Narrator: yes it is)

The shutdowns for the inspections and maintenance were planned. Not for a single plant, for a lot of plants. The inspections found a problem. The shutdowns were extended so they could be fixed, in the original plants and in other plants that might also be affected.

The shutdowns, the inspections and the maintenance were planned.

What they found was obviously not planned. If you could plan for what you find during an inspection, you wouldn't need an inspection. That's why you inspect.

End of story.
reminder that most ranches are owned by billionaires and have very little to do with actual cattle farming. Michael Bloomberg, Arthur Bank, Ted Turner, Reed Hastings, and Charles Koch all own ranches. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimdobson/2020/09/15/billionair...

most of your cattle do not come from ranches. They come from high intensity factory farms in places like stockton california and amarillo texas.

That a ranch produces any saleable livestock at all is a side-effect. most ranches are owned as vacation property.

the reason this reintroduction is opposed is the same reason you cant plant or remove any trees in Beverly Hills without a dozen lawsuits and a 3 year study to determine the effect. Stratospherically wealthy people revile change at any level and will intentionally manufacture controversy and complexity around the proposal as a defensive mechanism.
Thinking of Israel as colonialism is denying the right to exist as a nation of millions of people. As justified as you may think your morale position is, it does not justify promulgating another genocide as the answer.
The labels of colonialism and genocide to what is happening there completely close you off to an actual honest discussion of the situation.
Was it colonialism when all the jewish populations of Arab countries were forced into exile after the partition?