skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing is that some times some things have to be made harder for end users good or for business rules protection.

It is sometimes hard to explain but as an example - delete confirmation - it gets in the way of user because user wants to delete stuff and be done with it. Preventing accidental deletes is more important than any specific user convenience.

Keep in mind this is most generic example I came up with on the spot. There are more complex scenarios that are complex for the same reasons. But I find people trying to remove such fences even if they don’t know why they’re there. Claiming simplicity and user convenience as golden rule.
I find it amazing that the NTSB has only 437 employees (stated in this video).
The iOS app runs ok on Apple Silicon Mac. In fact I prefer its UI to the desktop app I was using before it was retired
You can alternatively read `reinterpret_cast` as "casting or convesion used to achieve reinterpretation", which is clearly correct.
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Heating by gas is 6 times more expensive than heating by wood here.
For someone to look at files with od, sure. I do so when reverse engineering binary formats.

But for people looking at files with text editors?
“It’s a big job, but it’s not easy.” - Is this a problem? The way I understand this sentence is that: "It is a big job, and you might be excited about it, but it is not easy".

When talking to someone with whom we have a good rapport and good context, this conversation can be done faster.
Basically, I/O is slower than the CPU.

Some of the other sentences can also be explained in similar manner.
Dumb question: wouldn't non-conductive liquids be harmless? i.e., the USB port can in theory work even if it is immersed in some non-conductive liquid, no?
See also: Is it pokemon or big data https://pixelastic.github.io/pokemonorbigdata/
Appreciate the thoughtful comment!

I avoid the word 'recurring' because it's misleading and fake. Although, in a Twitter bio with 5 links, '$51K/mo' is much simpler than '$51K in the last 30d'

Also one thing I realised making a habits tracker with recurring revenue:

Subscriptions don't last forever. People churn all the time.

My income is much more stable with my one-time purchases than with monthly subscriptions.
I don't get it, what's cool about it? Einstein notation seems good enough for most of the things and they are equivalent. Is there anything interesting (i.e. new) that this notation allow?
After sharing this piece to a neuroscientist coworker, I got the same feedback. Interesting article, but should probably be taken with a grain of salt when the author interpolate from studies.
Some financial institutions are basically required to retain everything for years, Carta may or may not be outside some of those stricter requirements.

Given their customers are startups, but more specifically founders themselves, and they handle cap tables, I’m sure they’re getting plenty of direct questions from legal departments with the interest of C suites everywhere. Assurances might well be coming in to form of legal agreements and external audits, and possibly SEC investigations and discovery for lawsuits.
> But aging is just damage that accumulates over time, but damage can be repaired with the right tools.

No, that's outdated. Another theory that aging is an intentional, programmed process is gaining more and more traction lately. Damage does accumulate over time, but it's not because the cells are incapable of repairing it, it's because they deliberately don't want to repair it. The developmental program that starts with conception just turns self-destructive at some point. We "only" need to reset its state to such that corresponds to a younger age.
Body building is an interesting example to choose here. The top dogs often do die young. It seems like it's just kind of accepted as the cost of the sport.
I really hate this idea that any and all attempts to save electricity and/or reduce carbon footprint exist purely to inconvenience you and you alone as much as possible. I don't even feel like it deserves to be called a conspiracy theory. It's just dumb.
That's true but this particular crate exists to show an unevitable hole in the definition of memory safety, while you can do lots of stupid things (like, `rm -rf /`) only with absolutely safe code.
They bought Poly/Polycom and completely screwed up the knowledgebase and support information by replacing any unrecognized URLs with low-content marketing web pages. Does HPE truly not know how to put in place web redirects?
yes, excellent point.
Might be relevant: https://ggnotes.com/progress-is-a-journey
So you don't see significantly worse performance on 3bit quantized models compared to 4? Every 7/13b model I tried quantized gave much worse responses at 3 bit and below, whereas the differences from 4 bit to 6 or even 8 bit is more subtle.
So `totally-unsafe-transmute` (does not exist as of 2024-01-09T06Z) would be an actually safe transmute... right?
The amount of memory leaks I got while diving into Polars tell a different story.
It https://makelanding.ai/

Price started at $10/mo, like Framer
I realized that (not in so many words...) pretty quickly and do not like it at all :)
And so what? Your existence, as well as existence of Earth and anything else made of nuclei and electrons, relies on quantum effects.
Non-conductive liquids still might be corrosive, or might provide enough thermal insulation to cause heat build-up, or might leave some kind of residue that would be problematic, or...
That is interesting. Though I'm not sure that even if one of those came loose it would allow the door to move. There are supposed to be four bolts installed and if just one of them is installed I'm not sure how the door could move up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maLBGFYl9_o at around the 7:26 mark has a great explanation of how the door is secured and it seems like as long as there is at least one of the four bolts installed the door can't move. Now as you pointed out those loose nuts could effectively mean that bolt could become useless. And the NTSB didn't mention those other nuts, which I think they would have.
I think you can remove most of the bloatware with autoattend.xml installation:
reg delete HKU\default\software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run /v OneDriveSetup /f

Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -AllUsers -Online

Microsoft.Microsoft3DViewer
Microsoft.WindowsCalculator
Microsoft.WindowsCamera
Clipchamp.Clipchamp
Microsoft.WindowsAlarms
Microsoft.549981C3F5F10
Microsoft.WindowsFeedbackHub
Microsoft.GetHelp
Microsoft.WindowsMaps
Microsoft.ZuneVideo
Microsoft.BingNews
Microsoft.WindowsNotepad
Microsoft.MicrosoftOfficeHub
Microsoft.Office.OneNote
Microsoft.Paint
Microsoft.MSPaint
Microsoft.People
Microsoft.Windows.Photos
Microsoft.PowerAutomateDesktop
MicrosoftCorporationII.QuickAssist
Microsoft.SkypeApp
Microsoft.ScreenSketch
Microsoft.MicrosoftSolitaireCollection
Microsoft.MicrosoftStickyNotes
Microsoft.Getstarted
Microsoft.Todos
Microsoft.WindowsSoundRecorder
Microsoft.BingWeather
Microsoft.ZuneMusic
Microsoft.WindowsTerminal
Microsoft.Xbox.TCUI
Microsoft.XboxApp
Microsoft.XboxGameOverlay
Microsoft.XboxGamingOverlay
Microsoft.XboxIdentityProvider
Microsoft.XboxSpeechToTextOverlay
Microsoft.GamingApp
Microsoft.YourPhone
I don't get it. The authenticity overreaction is weird to me. Like something immature youngsters would be concerned with.
What were the problems you found? Or still is open source and as far as I see GPLv3, so why not revive it?
I don't know am alternative, that is why I ask.
Never let religious zealotry rule over science, especially where people lives are at risk. Just look at how many Jehovah Witnesses die each year because they refuse blood transfusions during surgery.
Sure, this is the same principle of, eg, the mineral oil cooled PC: https://www.pugetsystems.com/mineral-oil-pc/
If aging is loss of information, then why does reproduction work? How does a non-zero-aged organism, in which some of the information was supposedly lost, give birth to zero-aged offspring with all the same information intact?
The comments are pretty good. So I'll add this:

Work on projects you care about or use.

Writing the copy will be much easier, and knowing where to share too.
Could this backfire on Apple? They are already a target for antitrust. [1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/05/technology/antitrust-appl...
The advantage of combining them though is that you might be able to treat different subparts of the problem differently (which is the hard part), so that you could use an approximate algorithm for the hard part of it, and an exact algorithm for the easy part.

Thi of course assumes the problem can be divided in this way, which is fairly speculative.
It is much better for working with (a) low-rank approximations and (b) optimizing the order of operations. While (b) is "merely" a question of computational performance, (a) can have extremely important fundamental/theoretical consequences for the problem under study (e.g. finding efficient classical algorithms for modeling quantum mechanics).
I recommend you look at DuckDB and the duckdb-prql extension.

DuckDB allows you to work on your Polars and Pandas (and any data on Arrow format) directly using SQL without needing any data copying or duplication.

The duckdb-prql allows you to use PRQL (prql-lang.org) which gives you all the power and universality of SQL with the ergonomics and DX of Polars or Pandas (IMHO).

Disclaimer: I'm a PRQL contributor.
Nice code. But what about a x64 target? Or at least arm64. Shouldn't be too hard.
Wait wait wait, they advertise the iPhone as waterproof but still void the warranty and won’t fix it if their waterproofing fails? We lost the headphone jack for this?
No one ever said that about DRM. There has been analog right protections for media sense Macrovision in the 80s
To be honest I didn't look that hard
> But I don't see it as morally repugnant.

It is not seen as morally repugnant, it is seen as economically repugnant. If you were the server admin for a business and an old lady came in off the street asking if you would help her fix her computer, it is likely your boss would step in to put a stop to that too. The employer doesn't want to pay you to do things for other people.

If the old lady came to your house instead, nobody would give a rat's ass. Likewise, if 'Emily' were a real assistant and people were asking her out on dates using her personal email address, that'd be her problem. But when someone is paying you for your undivided attention...
> Airbus being found at fault but acquitted of involuntary manslaughter by a Paris court last year for the AF447 crash (a 2009 mid air stall with a few MCAS parallels) passed without comment

“Company isn’t found criminally negligent in case where it pretty clearly wasn’t being criminally negligent” isn’t.. news.

I’d be _really_ curious to hear what you think the MCAS parallels are (besides both cases involving a sensor malfunction) if you think that’s news.
> Dumb question: wouldn't non-conductive liquids be harmless?

Mostly yes, except for things like concentrated sulfuric acid which is highly corrosive but a bad conductor.
I personally feel their banning of chip sales to China is going to help China as so far chinese foundries were not able to compete so were not investing people did not see any big opportunity but now with huge addressable market given to the capitalists of China. They might get a lot further than with just Chinese government support.
Human organization (theory & practice)
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Which also change colour due to humidity changes.
I'm less focused on downsizing, and more on avoiding unnecessary churn driven by (popularly assumed) design or (Hanlon's Razor and my assumption) incompetence.

I managed to keep an android smartphone going for almost 10 years. At less than two years the Google Play Store would devour the entire battery in 9 hours, so I deleted it, and battery life rebounded to 5-6 days with normal use. Better than new.

Other android system apps began to unobservably consume obvious quantites of data with telemetry, so I installed netguard to identify them. Once those apps were identified I deleted everything I could without breaking the phone, and battery life rebounded to 4 days after six years of use.

The local police recently acquired a secondhand stingray and circle varying parts of the county with it cranked up to maximum acquisition and retention, for reasons perhaps related to unfamiliarity with the concepts of discretion and nuance and subtlety. Newer phones don't care, they switch to bands that old stingray has never heard of. My old phone couldn't, and calls simply wouldn't connect in or out when a certain Cessna was overhead (verified tens of times on ADSB). Clumsy dragnet surveillance on top of reduced service in legacy 4G bands broke my old phone. It outlived the world it depended on.

So I repaired a secondhand, rather less old, broken android phone, and now I'm trying out LineageOS. We'll see how far this one goes. It seems like a lot of effort and specialized knowledge to keep a smartphone usefully functioning longer than a goldfish. It's frustrating. I'm not downsizing, I'm avoiding the accumulation of things I have to figure out how to hack for maintenance instead of for fun.
I'm a former employee of a place that did Carta. Employees are already left in the dark about the cap table, liquidity preferences, venture debt, and the C-Suite's relationship with the Board. Based on this exchange, I'd now see usage of Carta as a red flag when looking at any new start-up. Maybe Schwab or Shareworks are ok (Shareworks has been fine in my own experience). The investors are already doing hyper-leveraged arbitrage with my labor, I don't need the HR Comp software to do that too (even if they say they don't, and even if they say that business is only worth $3m/yr vs $250m/yr for accounting). If they want to do that, they can pay me directly.
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You're right, I'm being misled by the United photo. Even if all 4 of those nuts were loose and the bolts came out, there'd still be the upper holding bolts on the plug itself.
Quick googling suggests 4k needs 25 Mbps, and 8k would need ~100. Seems like another limiting factor is the consumers internet connection.
Learn mathematics. Learn about orgs. Finances. Quantification keeps you grounded.
Because I saw this headline, I tried to hold my key fob to my head today to lock my car, but it didn't work and I had to walk closer. So, there's one data point for you. Maybe I'm doing it wrong
Was there ever an aircraft more cursed than the 737 Max? Sounds like it was designed by a team of accountants.
Ive been using the 2FA in bitwarden and it rocks.
David Sinclair is a social media influencer more than anything else. His insistence on life extension through lifestyle alone is telling, because it's so easy to sell to the general public. Except this doesn't work and can't work — if an organism has a goal to destroy itself, which it does as part of its aging program, it WILL destroy itself, no matter how much you change its environment. You need to overwrite that internal goal state to truly cure aging which can't be done through any manner of lifestyle interventions.
If your vehicle is a car, modern cars are a lot safer than the 90s cars. It’s not only about the structure and airbags in case of a crash, the stability control electronics have improved a lot in the recent years. Now you can turn the wheel to aim where you want to go and the electronics try their best.
Or to CS folks, a CEO(n)
Gato GraphQL released in the WP plugin directory
Old Rant: way back in the day Garmin made a capacitive touch screen watch for runners. Why did they think this was a good idea seeing that your hands would be sweaty and wet if you were running

2023 rant: if I press the button on my watch and tell Siri to “start swim workout” when I’m in the water, my watch still expects me to press a button on the screen while I’m in the water.
And then oops we'll change our mind again in 6 months because it was only $3m/yr revenue we lopped off. Especially as investor interest grows with falling fed rates. By the way, to VCs who want to invest in Carta: look it's only $3m/yr, we're saving so much brand by doing this and it's not going to hurt our valuation at all. You should probably value us like an OpenAI, we're capturing the light cone of cap table info!
I’d much rather compete with an immigrant who is in the U.S. and has the same cost structure as me than we someone based in India/LATAM and will undercut me on wage 3x.
Yeah, the key here is you must use a DisplayLink adapter. Most laptops other than Apple MacBook Airs don’t need this to have more than one extra monitor.
I’d rather be an exponential one then!
That's an interesting question. I haven't asked my readers what they used the ebook for so I don't have any data on that. I've found that many of my readers have passed on their physical copy to friends after though, so maybe having an ebook to send to friends is appreciated as a quick look at whether you'll be interested to read or not. Again, I don't have data.

If I turn it around, what would you appreciate most from an author in terms of extra content?
Ask HN: Which language has the clearest type syntax?
Or, what would be your ideal type syntax?
Me too. I switch to wireless charging when this happens and usually I don't get these alarms the day after.
Lmstudio (that they linked) is definitely not open source, and doesn't even offer a pricing model for business use.

Llmstudio is, but I suspect that was a typo in their comment. https://github.com/TensorOpsAI/LLMStudio
This is Mac, not iPhone.
The point being you would need a kind of quantum computer for real intelligence. It is at least a plausible requirement.
The op made some comment, now removed, about how if the us walks into Yemen we will be welcomed, or something to those lines. My point is that, the Houthi may be unpopular in America but they are semi popular in Yemen.
Shareworks, Scwhab
High quality comment
I can confirm. I work at a school with a massive fleet of Macs. The kids generally kill their devices with water by keeping their water bottle in the same bag as their MacBook. Doesn’t matter how often I tell them not to, they insist on doing this.
I'm not going retro, but I refuse to buy new things until old ones works. I'm also not comfortable to use things that are not repairable and software that tells me how to do things. I love technology when it serves for my needs, not when I serves for tech.

No IoT, no modern car, no gadgets, minimum to none proprietary software, wood heating, no TV...
The language itself may not do such string scanning, but reviewers and home-brewn scripts might.
this is really annoying to read.

go open the careers page for most mid-tier tech co’s (Coinbase, Rippling, Affirm) and count the number of SWE jobs in India/Latam/Eastern Europe vs the U.S.

Say you get your wish of no immigration. How are you going to force these companies to not hire abroad instead?

At least if the worker who competes with you is in the U.S., they have the same cost structure as you and won’t undercut you as much or at all on wage.
The only way this changes is through a war, in which case domestic production will become a primary concern above all others. But the consequences aren’t worth the benefits, peace and global trade is by far the best outcome for everyone.
I have experienced varying levels of buzzing that can sometimes be reduced by centering the cookware better but it had been minor, doesn't bother me, and I believe it's part of normal operation.
More specific tasks:

- Go on Linkedin or fiverr and look at the kinds of jobs being offered remote right now. developer, HR, bureaucrat, therapeut, editor, artist etc.
Current AI agents can not do the large majority of these jobs just like that, without supervision. Yes they can perform certain aspects of the job, but not the actual job, people wouldn't hire them.

A hard Turing test is a proper Turing test that's long and not just smalltalk. Intelligence can't be "faked" then. Even harder is when it is performed adversarially, i.e. there is a team of humans that plans which questions it will ask and really digs deep. For example: commonsense reasoning and long-term memory are two pureky textual tasks where LLMs still fail. Yes they do amazingly well in comparison go what we had previously, which was nothing, but if you think they are human equivalent then imo you need to play with LLMs more.

Another hard Turing test would be: Can this agent be a fulfilling long-distance partner? And I'm not talking about fulfilling like current people are having relationships with crude agents. I am talking about really giving you the sense of being understood, learning you, enriching your live etc. We can't do that yet.

Give me an agent and 1 week and I can absolutely figure out whether it is a human or AI.
No, but I remember the Cybermedia song [1]. Corporate anthems suck.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASVcY8woQoM&list=PLO1B9Gc9Ir...
I find it puzzling that stuff like this is allowed to continue while Nintendo tries to remove gameplay videos on Youtube.

I'm glad people do it. Just curious about the legal considerations.
I agree 100%. I have been using the language professionally everyday for a few years now, having converted our Erlang system to Elixir and Phoenix. The language is a joy to use, the community is great and José is doing a fantastic job in a kind way. I love being part of that community. Thank you for everything.
Apples to oranges. Unreal has always been a AAA engine that anyone had access to. But fortnite became their meal ticket and could more than cover any losses incurred by reducing fees considerably. Going down to 5% was an attack against Apple/Google over their 30% fees to increase fortnite revenue.

Unity have never been serious competition outside of being easier to pickup for indie developers. Trying to compete with Unreal was their mistake.
How was the beef stew?
>My local hacker space is struggling to keep its doors open. All my local electronics shops (in the Bay Area!) have closed down. The small independent hardware stores are closing down too.

I think a lot of this is just because the rent is too damn high. How can a local shop expect to compete against online sellers who don't have nearly as much overhead? Here in Japan, we don't have this problem so much: there are tons of little mom-n-pop shops all over the place. But many factors like rent and zoning help make it viable for small businesses to stay afloat, that wouldn't be able to in America. Here, a business can exist in a 20 m^2 space on the 5th floor of some building that has no parking at all; that's basically illegal in America. I imagine some things like that are similar in Shenzhen.

>Bringing chip fabs back is good.

It sounds like a good idea, but throwing money at the problem isn't going to magically make a skilled workforce appear that can operate these fabs.
The size of a bolt head is directly related to it's target/max torque due to the increased leverage from the larger rotation. This wasn't obvious to me at first but it's helped for rough guesses when I didn't know exact values.