skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not you. It's high interest rate.
In a bid to get the inflation down, the fed has been increasing the interest rates. Currently, they are at a 22 years high. Unemployment rate is at 3.7%. Most of the big tech companies have been doing a mass layoff last and this year. The job market has to absorb them too.
The data is relevant to the other central point. If you compared the standard of living between 1AD Rome and 2024 US, the difference isn't because the US is better at plundering.

It is hands down technological innovation.
Walmart is the thousand pound Gorilla, yes. But countless clothing brands exist outside of Walmart & probably wouldn't want to be in Walmart anyways.

It's some weak sauce weasle wording to say, "you might have some other options". This position seems slanted as heck: working overtime to convince everyone that Walmart puts people through the ringer (true) & is the overwhelming desirable option (false), as if that justifies Apple being an awful squeezer too. As though Patagonia, North Face, Colombia, Gap, Saks 5th Avenue & every other brand only dream getting in the big store, as if they live horrible worthless lives now.

No, there's a ton of ways to sell clothing. Volume is one way to do it, but there's a free market here with lots of possibilities and no one is railroading brands and makers into awful decisions. There are also online only folks who just have their own e-storefronts and/or others. There's so many channels. Apple's App store has a unique in the world today, of dominating a massive sales channel it's customers cannot escape, on one of the most general purpose soft devices on the planet. For basically happening to do their job of building a consumer OS and not a lot more.

(Steam I think is a more interesting case, where they compete freely & without anti-competitive hacks, but still basically are the de-facto middleman.)
They fixed the pipes there[1].

[1] https://www.abc12.com/news/flint-water-emergency/flint-reach...
> [...] why not have them also do ratings?

So the government is supposed to codify what makes pasta is tasty? Or whether pineapple on pizza is good or bad?

> If I was overlord of the US, I would be actively pushing US companies to start doing this with heavy US government coopoeration. You know, like China did to us.

Huh?
Is this meaningful news? Can’t say it feels like it is to me.
Agreed - one of the best - just wish bartenders outside of Ireland knew how to pour a proper pint.
Lars is a fantastic writer, and I suspect he visits HN. He's active on Reddit and works in IT.
C99 and C11 have no special treatment for a size of zero. Since "memory for the new object [of size zero] cannot be allocated, the old object is not deallocated and its value is unchanged." (emphasis added). This is exactly what BSD does.

C17 says "If size is zero and memory for the new object is not allocated, it is implementation-defined whether the old object is deallocated" (emphasis added).

What standard, exactly, is BSD violating?
I think the etymology of “edge computing” is derived from “network edge”, ie the outer shell of some network/autonomous system.

The closest point within your control that interfaces with devices outside of your control.

Seeing the term get used to describe client devices themselves kinda muddies the terminology.
Principles are great, but a full wallet...now that really motivates a man. See: this and the return of altman
>I don't want to go anywhere near name-calling or derision, that doesn't help anyone.

Characterizing your opponent's argument as an appeal to "underpants gnomes" struck me as derisive, if you don't mind my saying.

If space ships operated by an alien civilization appeared in orbit above Earth, wouldn't that constitute a potent danger? I'd say it certainly would because the aliens might be (and probably were if they could travel here) better at science and technology than we are. The AI labs by the own admission are trying to create an alien intelligence as good at science and technology as possible. Yes, they're probably at least a decade or two away from "succeeding" at creating one better at science and technology than well-funded teams of humans are, but the AI labs might surprise us (and surprise themselves) by "succeeding" much sooner : everyone including I'm sure the researchers at OpenAI were surprised when GPT-4 was able to score in the 90th percentile on the bar exam.

Because even the researchers creating these frontier models don't understand them well enough to say for sure that the next model they spend hundreds of millions of dollars of GPU time training will exceed human ability in something dangerous like inventing new military technologies, the time to stop creating new large frontier models is now.

GPT-4 has a lot of knowledge of the world, but it is much less capable than a human is (and more to the point, than a capable human organization like the FBI or Microsoft is) at devising plans able to withstand determined human opposition. One of the things I'm worried about is new models that are much better at such a planning task _and_ have lots of knowledge about things like physics and human nature. One reason to worry that such a new model is not far off is that AlphaZero is better than humans at creating plans that can withstand determined human opposition (but of course AlphaZero has no knowledge of and in fact no way of obtaining knowledge of any part of reality beyond a Go board).
At least Ilya's crew was working on alignment (https://openai.com/blog/introducing-superalignment). If only the rank-and-file had been more vocally supportive of that, instead of enthusiastically boarding the Altman train. Look where that train is headed...
>bewilderingly naive

I am guessing none of your friends or family have been a victim of aggression directed by the Pentagon?
Cobain, Gödel, Weill, Russell, or Vonnegut?

Were you friends?
No, I'm really just asking what level of scrutiny can be applied to their claimed justification for the fees. I feel those examples are illustrative of how Apple's decisions aren't really aligned with their claimed justification. One could absolutely come up with a rational explanation (as some commenters have) even if it's not the actual explanation, I'm interested if that's all Apple needs to do to fend off claims of them exploiting their market power.
Please save off the page for the future. We were so naive in 2024.
Organized labor has effected plenty of change, both directly and indirectly. Safer working conditions, 40 hour work weeks, sick time, pay raises, etc.. Companies without unionized employees are incentivized to offer reasonable work conditions and benefits to stave off unionization. This has all happened under capitalism.
Hard to argue at this point. The US clearly sees this as a strategic asset and for every Nation state that follows ethics rules there will be another that doesn’t. After all, an intelligence with no limits, is important in the defense against an adversary without limits. The AI race has begun and I sense nothing but bad things will come of this. Oppenheimer will almost certainly be turning in his grave.
Can you explain why the mean life is so much smaller than the reliable or operating life? Or was that meant to be 3000 hours?
> Programs written to the C99 standard can resize a dynamic vector down to empty with a resize(ptr, 0).

C99 has no resize() function. Assuming you mean realloc(), C99 does not guarantee you can use realloc() in this manner.

See also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38850575

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16759849/using-realloc-x...

https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/plugins/servlet/mobile?c...

https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2023/07/26/checking-u...
Don't have much to add, but this article was so pleasing to read. Those diagrams with the light dispersion really tickled me - is that spectrum real or is it a render?
I think we are slowly realizing Sam won and we all lost
> Look where that train is headed...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalhead_(Black_Mirror)
Yeah it's kinda contradictory. It's part critique and part self reflection on an ideology that I have mixed feeling towards. In the same vein as the Programming Language Checklist for language designers.

https://www.mcmillen.dev/language_checklist.html
Can I set my region to another country?

Sideloading should work for someone who used a phone without an Apple ID (if that’s possible)
I assumed they meant "pretty much every beer _type_" has a different strain, which you pretty well proved in your reply. That might just be an assumption, though.
ISMO on learning american expressions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNV0rMdeW60
Then why is it constantly starting wars over oil?
It's also helpful in that you can now take insights from <older concept> and apply it to <popular architecture>. Many things are easier to reason about when framed a little differently.
Edited - thanks
Pickem is straight up normally so would be money line bets essentially.

The spread is designed to make the bet a 50/50 so it would need to take into other factors or compute it’s spread to determine if there is an edge on Vegas.
urllib3 is fundraising for HTTP/2 support
One of the giants in this industry, Lionel, has been struggling for the last 30 or so years to stay alive. It’s been through several sales and I think two bankruptcies.

One thing about them though is they continue to innovate with new ways to put effects into their locomotives. Other companies have contributed as well, like MTH, ESU LocSound, SoundTrax, Broadway Limited, and others.

Model trains have a pretty loyal following, but the industry continues to narrow year after year.

IMHO all of these companies, but particularly Lionel and MTH missed out big time in the “maker movement” due to their closed, proprietary command and control systems. The patents have expired though, and many people have started to reverse engineer everything about them.

I think they also have completely failed on the marketing aspects of their businesses. Model trains have so many educational opportunities, and pitting this against video games could be a big win for them IMHO. The great thing for programmers and engineering types is it’s low threat to us since there is still a lot of software and hardware that could be built around model train products in the form of control and automation, and maybe even gamification of the operations of a model railroad.

But all of this is coming from a long time model train (and real train) enthusiast who is software engineer by day, so I’m biased.
Let's disregard that the USA encouraged Sadam to invade Kuwait and implied he would face no recourse if he did.

Would you have been okay with Russia going to Iraq's aid when the USA invaded the second time? You think it's fine if Russia not only fought American troops in Iraq, but bombed the USA as well? That would have been defense by your logic, since that's exactly what the USA did to Iraq in 1991.

Fascinating worldview indeed.
So its a good decision ... For the large airlines.
Google Translate does not seem to differentiate between these, giving only an option for "Norwegian", so I have been a bit perplexed about what to put there. Thanks for this explanatory article.
To counter this polemic comment with a more serious one: the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq after the 9/11 attacks was a central watershed moment in history that lead to a massive shift in the public opinion concerning the US military politics in many countries (and has stayed quite critical of it since then) - including lots of allies of the USA.
A lot of those go from tank to serving so fast now that they're still fermenting actively when served. They're also brimming with hop matter, organic alcohols, and odd yeast byproducts that get produced when certain yeasts eat a lot of certain hop compounds. Some people don't tolerate that mixture very well.
If this is true, then this is probably a great ruling for JetBlue; they can buy up the scraps at bankruptcy if Spirit liquidates.
Section School discriminatory pricing model?
"Young professionals" ages 30 and under can sign up for a membership for $300/yr. Ages 31 and over pay $995/yr.
Except that it isn't a cartel and there is no evidence of price fixing.

And there is nothing preventing other companies e.g. Samsung making their own store.
> Yeah, fair use implicitly uses the constraints of typical human lifetime and ability

Authors Guild, Inc. v. Google, Inc. strongly disagrees with you on that (the "Google Books case").
Lychrel Number
"Honestly, I think the industry (led by Musk) made a huge mistake in trying to "skip over" plug-in hybrids."

Is this suggesting there is a connection between "led by Musk" and "made a hug mistake".
Right, it wasn't Epic's pipe dream, but somehow that's the idea that got popularized on HN and elsewhere. For example, just a few hours ago the comments on the thread about the Supreme Court's declining to hear the case [0] were mostly operating on the assumption that developers would now be able to offer a substantial discount for people selling off the App Store.

That only works if developers actually could save significant money by selling through alternate storefronts, which was never going to be possible because Apple was always going to pick something approximately market rate as their valuation for the payment processor portion of the fee.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39014642

For example:

> It seems easy to kind of shrug at this, but this does seem quite significant because of many mobile apps are 'free to play.' Apple pocketing 30% of all of these transactions, and forcing users/devs to go through Apple, is a major part of its revenue. And all of those apps now have the option to direct users to alternative payment methods, where they can both charge users substantially less and make more profit doing so.
Or acknowledging that interns perform a valuable role and celebrating their selfless sacrifice of their very lives for the good of the company.

That we should all die such a noble corporate death, at the hands of a colleague possessed by strange galactic energies.
I used a PD controller for a specific application where we were trying to maintain a specific temperature in the future, and cared more about the trajectory of the temperature over time to reach the goal. We didn’t much care for the integration of that temperature since that wasn’t important in this particular case. An integration factor would actually wind up the rate of temperature change too much!
Or they received a classified briefing showing how far ahead China or other adversaries are in terms of AI for military use and felt obligated to not let the US fall further behind.
I am sorry, maybe we lived in a different time. I only have heard an advice "don't let women get in a way, they are unlimited in supply" from very disrespectful man back in the days. That is all.

Or is that a joke? Not very funny anymore. I have met a lot of smart women. My wife is definitely one of them. I wish I have met her in my 20.
It also could have just been a joke, not one they were actually going to put into practice...
Does apple still charge people annually to develop apps for apple ?

Because charging people to charge them again to make Apple useful seems abusive.
> It's some weak sauce weasle wording

If you think a chain that can afford to open its own stores is the same thing as a company making a single thing or even a couple of things, then you're well beyond weasel words and are in a delusional state. Most people make something and need to have it sold at other stores. You've made hell of a leap here to try and call me a weasel

We're talking app makers. The equivalent would be pre-internet days of selling software at computer stores or again big box retailers. Again, your options are limited. If you're an app farm that just shits out clones of other software, you can burn in a fire and I don't care what happens to you.
Most Norwegian you will encounter in such contexts is almost certainly Bokmål; a rule of thumb is that you are pretty unlikely to encounter Nynorsk unless you are actually in Norway itself, or consuming a lot of Norwegian media.
The case against Google had a completely different fact pattern. One that resembles the US v MS more.

Google essentially pressured and bullied OEMs and other third parties into doing stuff that was beneficial to Google in exchange for licenses and special deals.

At that point, you’re throwing your weight around, something that Google “had” to do because they started with a relatively open platform.

Apple, on the other hand, preempted needing such tactics by making their ecosystem closed and heavily regulated from the onset when they were still nobodies within the market. That makes it extremely difficult to prove antitrust issues.

Had Apple, say, increased the commission from 30% to 33%, then it would’ve been pretty close to an open and shut case because then it’s easy to argue that Apple threw its weight around once everyone was inside the ecosystem.
But the opposite happened.

This is also one of the reasons why everything Apple does is restricted and limited from the onset. It’s always easy to loosen the reigns later, but at their size, you can never go the other way without risking antitrust liability.

FWIW, even MS, with their egregious behavior, got a lot thrown out on appeals and prevented being split up. The DOJ ended up settling instead.
How are you using it? I need to find some sane way to use this stuff from Helix/terminal..
OpenAi employees are very employable. Several of them were probably lured by Altman’s want-to-better-humanity stance. Only to find out now that the man is deluding himself and betraying everything OpenAi said it wouldn’t do.
Some people just come across as the type of person totally not any fun to hang out with.
We've been waiting on Replicate to launch per-token pricing for LLMs because their previous pay-per-second model was uncompetitive - but it looks like they might have just turned it on with no big announcement! They'll go straight to the top of the priority list.

Do Lambda have a serverless inference API? Not aware of them playing in this space yet.

Presume you mean MPT not MPS - yep we'll look into MosaicML soon.
In terms of Microsoft products, I think they have a bit of an understanding with Microsoft* that they won't host any Microsoft OSes newer than the Windows XP betas.

Microsoft probably doesn't see much threat from people downloading a copy of Windows 98 to run in a VM.

*Based on a past takedown request: https://forum.winworldpc.com/discussion/9882/rule-do-not-req...
WMDs anyone?
As with general relativity, those rules are not only yet to be disproven, but also evidences seem to make them everyday more solid.
I'm sorry, I'm having trouble parsing this sentence. Could you rephrase it more clearly?
I thought tc only worked on outbound. How did you get it to work on inbound packets?
Well, history is certainly written by the victors eh? The military is a tool used to maintain the empire of an unsustainable culture of consumption. This military is KILLING people in Yemen (a country with which the US is NOT at war) because they are delaying shipments of stuff. Stuff getting from a to b on time and for cheap is worth more than human life.

Go live as a civilian in a country that our military has decimated with bombs and then say again that "military bad" is just a vibe.
I’ve seen enough brainless execs and startup founders around here that you have to take stupid ideas like that seriously. I hope it was a joke, but it’s not very funny for an intern.
>bewilderingly naive

Or perhaps they're aware of the history of militaries / intelligence agencies.

>Strengthening partnerships with our government certainly doesn't make me mistrust OpenAI.

This strikes me as bewilderingly naive.
The problem is it throttles everything by a constant factor. So if at full speed response A arrived after response B, it still most likely will, they will all just arrive slower.

It’s like the safety car in Formula 1: the cars will all slow down to crawl, but they won’t change order because they can’t overtake.

Better to test a scenario like in F1 where one car hits another, and then takes a few more out with them. That will really scatter the order and timings of things. That’s more how the real world of Wi-Fi and cellular connections works, so being able to handle that level of unpredictability is going to lead to way more robust apps and a better UX.

I have a dream of opening a co-working space for developers where you can connect to “Free Airport Wi-Fi” to really test your web application is going to survive in the real world.
I hated arithmetic (still do), but liked algebra, geometry, and calculus (forgotten most of it).
PID get real fun when you model physical systems, like say filling a tank while trying to maintain liquid depth and temperature or maintaining a constant reaction rate. You get to start taking laplace transforms. I had a ChemE professor who’d tell stories from the 30’s when chemical engineering was forming as a discipline. Common practice back in the day (before the theory) was to manually adjust parameters until things went unstable, then back off 5%. Turns out the optimum point is the inflection between stable and unstable behavior.
Amazing question! Yup. Refractive index is a function of wavelength. I bet you already knew that on some level, because that's why prisms do their thing. As an extreme example, imagine X-rays: they barely refract at all, they just pass straight through stuff! Also, the change is actually quite smooth.

https://refractiveindex.info/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispersion_(optics)
Forgive the unrelated reply, but can you actually downvote on this site? I only have an up arrow next to everything.
> buy software for digital download on the Internet for significantly lower overhead

But you are looking at that through the lens of an end user.

As a developer, Apple's total acquisition cost i.e. 15/30% is far less than what it costs me to acquire customers through other channels e.g. Paid Ads, Referral etc.
Share a VSCode plug-in that gives you a great development experience
It supports most mainstream UI libraries. When you use these UI libraries during the development process, it will give great code tips, such as what properties are there, what are the properties, what methods are there, etc. The details will make you reduce or no longer rely on checking official documents. Of course, it can support jumping directly to the documentation of the corresponding component in vscode.
ALOHA robot learns from humans to cook, clean, do laundry
I Learned about Embeddings
Should I share more like this?
I second OpenTracks[0]! I use it for running, hiking, snowboarding, exploring potential terrain, etc. I can then export easily the data in QGIS3.

[0]: https://opentracksapp.com/
I don’t think you’d be required to use alternative app stores. You could keep using the Apple one if you wanted. Market forces should allow the best store to win.

Having another “store” doesn’t necessarily mean having to get apps elsewhere. E.g., the one platform app store has severely degraded my ability to enjoy audiobooks. I used to be able to buy books directly in Audible (on Android anyway). It was convenient and Audible offered daily deals. I’d get books on a whim and discover new authors that way. Once Audible had to start paying a 30% tax, that feature went away. Now I have to browse & purchase in a web browser, which is far less convenient.

Incidentally, both Apple and Google sell audiobooks. Presumably they aren’t paying a 30% tax themselves and can use that as a builtin price advantage. But, then I’m tied to that platform.

In this case, you'd be making an "in-app purchase" with your Amazon account. There's no new annoyance in payment management and there's no new store to browse. You just get a more convenient way to buy content.