skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't believe someone could be so ignorant about the foundations of western civilisation. Try reading some Kant sometime, and find the part where what he says only applies to biological humans and not to self-aware, sentient machines. Try suggesting to anyone who's actually studied philosophy that Kant's philosophy is anti-human and see how far that gets you.
I don’t know if I’ve ever seen it investigated as a mathematical puzzle but there’s probably some interesting number stuff to be found in investigating the mathematics of an idealized swiss cheese risk model.

If you take a series of unit squares and from each one remove a random circle (ah, the origin of every protracted probability argument among mathematicians: a random circle selected from which distribution?), then stack them up… after n squares, what is the expected hole size? Or how many squares do you need to stack to reduce the hole size to below a particular threshold?

Circle intersection geometry is hard though. Probably easier to start with axis aligned square holes, which are what you get when you make your Swiss cheese out of milk from spherical cows.
I was just struggling, this morning, with the Apple App Store Connect Web interface.

We're in the final stages of releasing an app, so we're spending a lot of time on that Web app.

It's...challenging. I know that they have big issues with security, privacy, and sheer scope (I'll bet they get millions of submissions, every day), but the site is dog-slow, the CDN breaks constantly, I need to refresh the page quite often, and they seem to forget where I was, the last time; necessitating that I follow the breadcrumbs back to where I was (I have admin accounts on several orgs).

I've released over 20 apps on the store, and have dealt with this, for a while. It's actually getting worse.

But Apple is a multi-trillion-dollar company. I think they could afford for this to work a bit more smoothly, and, quite frankly, I'm surprised, as they have some of the best, and most experienced engineers on the planet, working for them. These are the types of things that lots of sites seem to be doing quite well.

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I worked at Twilio from 2014-2023 and had an incredible experience during those 9 years, including all of my interactions with Jeff.

One of my favorite moments was running into Jeff in the hallway at our Beale Street office just before he had to do a quarterly earnings call after we went public. I said "good luck on the earnings call" and Jeff said thanks then asked what happened to a link to a specific Stack Overflow question/answer from one of our docs pages that got removed. He had just been building an application and felt like that answer was particularly helpful for context in a certain programming language, and was surprised it was removed.

Jeff's always been software developer at heart even though he had a ton of non-dev responsibilities. There are definitely advantages and disadvantages in that mindset! But he created a tremendous company along the way and I wouldn't change working there for anywhere else during those years.
> People are not saying ChatGPT is a human, they're saying it learns like a human

Only its marketers are saying that.

If ChatGPT really did learn like a human, it would have by now learned about copyright, right?
Apple Vision Pro: Adult Industry VR Pros Weigh In
How would you explain increasing average height in the US youth in the last 30 years? It can't be food availability, because 30 years ago people weren't hungry either
From the article:

>Debate about whether to adopt the longer recording standard weighs considerations about cost and privacy implications against safety.

>The U.S. FAA has previously rejected the NTSB's call for mandating the retrofitting aircraft with new cockpit voice recorders, saying the costs would be significant at $741 million versus $196 million under incremental upgrades it proposed.

>Pilots have also opposed the move, with the union representing pilots for air-freight company Atlas Air telling the FAA the longer recordings would be an invasion of worker privacy.

Whether or not a "technical barrier" exists is a non-sequitur. Just because you can get a $10 audio recorder on aliexpress that records 200 hours, doesn't mean it takes $10 to implement this change per plane.
The problem with your argument is that there are already hundreds if not thousands of alien abduction reports.

(They probably didn't have turnips though, I hope that wasn't the point.)

The problem here isn't whether this is scientific evidence, but that the evidence isn't sufficient for scientists to form a reasonable hypothesis about what gives rise to the phenomenon (which could be (a) aliens are real, (b) some form of mass hallucination, (c) some form of synchronized fraudulent claim, (d) etc. etc. ).

I speculate that if somebody actually does a "literature review" of abduction reports they could pick out some signals to form some hypothesis, but presumably scientists have better things to risk their careers over.
unions. necessary, but often given too much leeway to overstep
I agree there. The Jellyfin integration here is the absolute killer feature. I hope to see the first documentation on how to set it up soon.
Crazy considering multiple iPhones (latest being an iPhone 11) haven't survived a few feet fall for me (no case...I'm extremely particular about using a case now).
Composite Mod from Scratch: Atari's Pong Sports IV
Sure, but I think it's fair to say that feedback has gotten too minimal when you have to put sleep(10) all over your diagnostic processes because there is no other way to tell if the computer/app is laggy or dead.
Disruption of the food chain, cultural blow and sighs of disappointed foodies worldwide.

Hilsa, a fish from the Bengali delta (India and Bangladesh), periodically has similar crises, but seemed to be dredging along its cherished existence. Here is hoping that the Tuna fisheries will pick up a thing or two from that brood and execute some good measures.
> PWAs are the next step in mobile Web

For subscription app may be, but all ads revenue websites will reject it.
Hopefully they have a battery maintenance program in place. Nobody wants to be the one to admit that the first Artemis launch was postponed because the crew transport vehicles' batteries were flat.
And cost, according to a FAA quote in the linked article.
I've been trying every SFF concept I can get my hands on.

The only thing I've found similar in size + capabilities to a Mac Mini is a Steam Deck or Asus ROG Ally.

The base Steam Deck is $350 now and the base Ally is $399.

My Ally with the Z1 Extreme is my primary gaming desktop. I got a nice USB C dock and it runs great on my setup. Anything more demanding than what the handheld can do I just stream through GeForce Now.

Outside of hardcore gaming, I primarily use an M1 Pro laptop (that I got after selling my Mac M2 Mini). Got it refurb, it is still insanely fast, works great for streaming games on GFN, uses basically no power, no heat, great battery, etc.
Came looking for new comments on this post, and couldn't find it.

Any reason this dropped from front page with 232 points and 271 comments in 2 hours to page 3?
> Hence you can't measure real-world distances using string and a paper map.

You very much can. The scale of longitude and latitude is just not the same so you need to do Pythagoras (usually by approximation rules).

There are usually lines to allow for that.
MH370 is maybe not a good example, but AF447 is a good one.
This device uses a puck. It’s going to be down on your belt right about where your cell phone with the same radios already is. This feels silly. Put on your tinfoil hat I guess? Even if you don’t own a cell phone, how often are you surrounded within several feet by up to dozens over people with one? If you live out in the woods then why do you care anyways?

In other words it’s a drop in the bucket.
Only when there are better options available in the same industry. Nobody is getting a CS degree from a good school then switching to nursing because they can make the same money with better hours (or better money with the same hours).

The gravy train might be ending, I just wish it would end with the jobs that actually do nothing (product) rather than engineering first, but oh well.
> but in practice browsers are much better sandboxes than desktop operating systems.

Do you know anything about sandboxing, or are you throwing that there for the sake of the argument?

> I would imagine writing a new desktop os would be even more complex than writing a browser app that runs on top of it.

Oh right, I guess you don't really know about sandboxing then. So it won't be a super constructive debate given that your position is apparently fundamentally based on your intuition about sandboxing.

> As a user I [...]

I don't know who invented that "As a user" thing, but I find it completely stupid. In my view it is just used as a justification for anything one wants when they don't have a better argument.

In this case users are perfectly fine running standalone apps on their smartphone, let's not pretend they would really not want the same model on their desktop.

> which to me feels like an implicit concession that desktop operating systems are indeed bad at sandboxing applications.

Not at all, I was just giving a real-world example of sandboxing of apps at scale.

> even mobile operating systems pale in comparison to a web browser when it comes to sandboxing

If your baseline is sending a full web browser with every app you make, on desktop you could run each app in a VM and it would obviously be better.

> A website can't even make a request to a third party domain unless the website has cors enabled.

An app can't make a request unless it has the internet permission, what's your point?

My point is that webapps move everything into the browser, going towards a world where something like ChromeOS is the only valid way to use a computer. I want to choose my OS, I don't want to rent an OS provided by BigTech, whether it is ChromeOS, Windows or anything else. The model where users pay for a product but don't own it is good for companies, not for users. "As a user", I want to own the product I pay for. And I want to pay for the product I want to own.
All creators maintain copyright in their works, unless its specifically stated that it's a work for hire, or you specifically transfer the copyright in a written document. Copyrights accrue to the creators of things, not the financiers of things. It is often the case that creators of things sell their copyright interest to financiers, so the financiers can capitalize on the exclusive rights the copyright grants.
Doesn’t matter if you live to 55 or 95 if you have some kids when you’re 25.
> You're not supposed to do that here.

To be clear I'm not talking about you but about the concept of it "you are not the target market", as if it's something we should consider socially acceptable. I've seen this used as a serious response to legitimize some nefarious/user-hostile behavior which is what I'm "derogatory" about. We should look down on business models that depend on users being clueless and accepting of corporate abuse/malicious behavior and I've provided examples of solutions that could achieve that.

> How else was I supposed to "engage"?

Presumably you're running an ad-blocker or privacy-friendly stack. Or merely willing to use the product by signing up and setting up your account first rather than being nagged into signing up after trying to access loginwalled content. Or maybe you are privacy-conscious and the email/number you provided isn't in any contact databases that Facebook has stolen over the years from unsuspecting users (aka you used a separate email/number from the one you give out to real people).

> How would they even know? Like I said, I hadn't even finished signing up yet.

See above - there's something about your software stack and/or behavior that makes you "naughty" in the eyes of Facebook. Just behaving like a power-user and not taking 10 minutes peck-typing your details in the various forms can be enough if at scale such behavior was correlated with what Facebook deems "naughty".
My point was if the Vision Pro does in fact fail, it wouldn’t be because of its price tag.

Apple already knows how to sell “overpriced” consumer hardware since they have a $5,000 Pro XDR monitor and $1,000 stand to go with that “overpriced” monitor in their line up.

The monitor is not a hit so there’s no reason to assume that $3,500 Vision Pro will be an (instant) hit, since it was intentionally priced to be out of reach of many people.

I guess people assume because it’s Apple, or perhaps because of the amount of buzz they generated with the reveal for the Vision Pro, every product they make has to be a hit
> 120 wafers per hour boils down to 1 every two minutes

Unsure if I’m missing something, but the math looks inverted…120 an hour is two per minute, by the numbers…
> anthropomorphically generated electromagnetic radiation

what?

you realize all living beings have been exposed to huge amounts of EM radiation since the inception of life in the universe, right? The fact that it's now human made doesn't give it magical properties that cause it to be more damaging. your body itself, right now, emits EM radiation. The piece of fruit next to you emits it. there is zero science showing that the energy received or sent by your every day electronic devices has any amount of harm to living beings. go stand outside for 5 minutes, you'll get getting a dose of EM radiation significantly higher than your phone pressed against your head for a year.
No evidence sounds definitive. "We _lack_ evidence" would be clearer, for instance, because it at least suggests that their _could_ be evidence, but it hasn't been found yet.
I worked at Twilio for 4 years and it was one of the highlights of my career. End of an era, for sure. Thanks Jeff for trying to build an anti-racist company even when it upset some of our investors.
Why starlink? Planes typically use Inmarsat which provides better coverage.

Various aircraft data are already uploaded in flight ("stream" would be an exaggeration though) as you can see from the MH370 example you cited. The data uploaded are increasing as companies like Rolls-Royce become more of a data company.

The black boxes are pretty robust (assuming you can find them!) and uploading the voice data is probably not worth the cost.
There’s a reason why companies break things and ask for forgiveness later

Can you imagine Uber or open AI trying to get all the proper rules out the gate? It would either be a non starter or extremely expensive. And at the end of the day it’d be a watered down version of what’s possible. The power is all in the established hands. Perhaps the AI is trained on newspapers but not movies.

By doing what they did, they showed what’s possible and how excited users are. Now there’s a balance of power and both sides can come to a compromise.

Additionally, if you ask for permission people have to imagine how things will be and for something innovative that’s hard. Can you imagine open AI explaining to the New York Times what chat gpt was going to be, before it was released? At best they’d have some kind of approximation or worst just not understand and seek to kill it.

I would’ve done the same thing as open AI because it’s the most valuable thing, there’s enough legal grey area to not be flagrantly in the wrong, and things will get sorted later. Same thing with Uber - technically it was “ride sharing”, someone is going from point a to b and you as passenger just happen to join them, but obviously quickly expanded beyond that
there are at least some, especially on very old machines
If you found this interesting and you do any data visualization work in your life, I can highly recommend Information Dashboard Design by Stephen Few and The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte. While some of the examples certainly appear dated these days, the concepts, best practices, and approaches to data visualization outlined in these books, such as the concept of data-ink and non data-ink, are timeless in my opinion. I actually can't remember how many times I've bought these books as I now work as an engineering manager and have the habit of giving away my copies to new developers.
> For example, browsers don’t furnish a tableview/datagrid or even a basic single column recycler view

<table> and <ol>? Or am I missing something?
Hi. Greg here. :heart:
Good job taking the steps to get help!
I've seen a few people bust out portable secondary displays or use a tablet in screen mirroring mode. Personally, I find the experience still pretty clumsy. The monitors are still not at an ideal height, they're usually smaller than I'd like, they take up a lot of table space. I'm not sure VR headsets are going to take off from this use case, but if the VR headset is good enough, I'd imagine the experience of the floating screens would be far better than having a portable monitor.

Busting out a portable wireless keyboard and putting on an HMD would be pretty neat IMO, if the HMD was good enough.
So they implemented recursion/reentrance as a special case?
Amazing how one can ruin a name for everyone else. See also Weinstein as the poster-child of the me-too era.
> Why is everyone trying to find reasons to blame the victims?

Not OP but I'm not blaming the victim. I'm just trying to explain the reasons why the situation is like that and suggested (regulatory) solutions - the only solutions that would actually work.
But it can't do all the same stuff as a MacBook Pro. It has all the same limitations as an iOS device.
Only if it's on a blockchain. *checks calendar* oh sorry, it's not 2021.
The Illuminati
There are many types of applications out there besides ads.
And costs, so airlines and the pilot unions are fully alogned, in the US, on that question so far.
>Currently half the Berkshire portfolio is in apple.

This isnt right. Roughly half of their portfolio of publicly traded companies is in Apple, but they have quite a few 100% owned subsidiaries that are not publicly traded (and a lot of cash, etc).

According to the most recent numbers I could find [0], Apple is slightly over 20% of their total holdings.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/berkshire-hathaway-portfolio/
>giving an IQ test to an AI is no less valid than giving one to an animal

Since you think GPT4 is so smart, why don't you ask it if this was a reasonable thing to assert?
Without theology, humans have rights because other humans agree they do: not because of things like them being conscious which doesn’t even have a good definition.

There is a group of terminally online futurists who’ve been making arguments about machines deserving human rights since before LLMs existed and it seems to me they’re taking this as their chance to play pretend and start making these arguments outside of their forums and futurist YouTube channels.

But this isn’t that abstract, when these machines become persistent agents who continue to learn, engage and grow in society as individuals you will have more of an argument for them deserving rights. I’m sympathetic to that and do believe that’s a real philosophical debate we’ll have in the next century or two.

However I feel we’re burning some of that political capital here in the hope of defending a simple statistical model at the behest of a corporation who’s making a killing stealing people’s hard earned work and reselling it. For every New York Times there are a thousand small actors who have been ripped off here.

If anyone really believed for a second these things were all that similar to humans they wouldnt be defending OpenAI they’d be demanding they face justice for profiting off of slave labor. That no one is making that argument says all you need to know.
Recently my optician kept getting me the wrong (Zeiss) lenses, i.e. I could see much worse with the new lenses than I could with my 3-year-old lenses.

I got excuses like: "oh, these are better for computer work but worse for distance". Great... why are my old lenses more clear for both computer work and distance?

I went home with the new lenses and tried them for a night and a day. Unusable.

I went back and the optician's second attempt failed too. Now for computer work they were better and for distance they were still worse.

Attempt #3 was a match for my old lenses. Neither better nor worse. Mission accomplished? $500 well spent.

I'm sure in all 3 cases Zeiss made impeccable lenses. But it comes down to the optician's interpretation of the prescription I brought in (from a laser eye center's 8-machine exam I got the previous week) and their clinical examination of my eyes.

I expect that whatever Apple's Standard Operating Procedure will be for supplying the right lenses to people, it'll be mostly superior to your average optician.
Nobody at the beginning of the industrial revolution could have imagined the types of post-revolution jobs we have now. So "tell me what job to get then" is the wrong mindset.
A human learns from consuming large volumes of text (among other things), a LLM also learns from consuming a large volume of text. Which part of that is "not true"? Or are you saying that because humans learn by other methodologies alongside consuming written/spoken text, this somehow justifies them learning from copyright content, while AI is unjustified in learning from copyrighted content because its sole methodology is learning from text?
The tech sphere is far from the only group of people using social media.
They serve big businesses now. They don't want small players coming in with potentially abusive behavior. Twilio worked hard to build its relationships with carriers and doesn't want to be dragged down by spam.
Many banks require you to use their crappy custom-made 2FA apps that require Android/iOS
There is no evidence that "ironmagma is a not a troll".

See, the 'no evidence' is used as a rhetorical device to make something 'appear' true.

Falling back on the old 'all evidence is questionable' because our eyes can deceive, and all perception is subjective, so all of reality is in doubt, is a rabbit whole.

Sure we live in a 'numinal' world. That doesn't mean we can't use thermometers to tell the temperature, even thought temperature itself is a construct.
Pretty sure the radios are down in the puck. Not by your head
Please. Copying is not theft.

And yes, I have gone to the library with my laptop, and rented DVDs of stuff I couldnt find. I then ripped them, and returned them.

And trust me, nobody cares about someone copying some early authored VHS or DVD of a 1950's-1980's movie. Not all of us archivalist/pirates care about current movie of the week. There's a LOT of older and really neat stuff trapped on VHS as well.

The real worry with copyright law is the super-long terms create abandoned content nobody has, and is stuck on obsolete formats. Its not all about "current movie of the week".
> "Reserve yours now, coming in Q4!"
I only hope that they mean this year. ;)

The sensationalist money collection for a non-existent inventions is something of a no go to me. Too many bad experiences collected by others in this regard throughout the past decades. Meanwhile, I can use that money now, for something I need now, on something that exists now.

Interesting read and experimenting on others though.
Because I distance myself from Meta as much as possible.

I'd buy the latest Quest in a heartbeat if it wasn't associated with Meta.
Another way to think about it is in terms of labor.

7.5 million is about 125 years of labor at the US average pay.

It is amazing society will pay this, and it came up more often, we simply couldn't.
The acronym is sort of suggested by this sentence in the Introduction of their paper [1]:

> The new algorithm is called SIEVE: a simple and efficient
turn-key cache eviction policy

[1] https://junchengyang.com/publication/nsdi24-SIEVE.pdf