skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like cities are mostly concerned with street lights and garbage removal and local crime.

Fixing a broader societal failure like the lack of housing and poor mental health seems like it should sit at a state / province or federal / national level.
My Problem with Using TypeScript in 2023 [video]
> Arm also believes that Blackhawk will provide “great” LLM performance. I will assume that this has to do with big CPU IPC performance improvements as Arm says that its Cortex CPU is the #1 AI target for developers. I didn’t run the developer or app survey myself, but this makes sense to me as most AI inference in the datacenter is run on the CPU. The NPU and GPU can be an efficient way to run AI, but a CPU is the easiest and most pervasive way, which is why developers target it. A higher-performing CPU obviously helps here, but as the world moves increasingly to smaller language models, Arm’s platform with higher-performing CPU and GPU combined with its tightly integrated ML libraries and frameworks will likely result in a more efficient experience on devices.

I feel like they are conflating 2 unrelated things?

There is "CPU inference" which is indeed pervasive and huge, and there is "generative ai llm inference" which is absolutely anemic on CPU, especially outside of tiny-context toy model demos, in spite of the popularity of llama.cpp and other cpu platforms
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I would hope smartphone users aren't running anything but extremely tiny llms on CPU. The IGP is not theoretically, but currently massively more efficient than any 2024 CPU could be.
> What monopolies have emerged out of venture capital in the last 3 decades? In any industry?

I think you may be nitpicking more than necessary here.

If you change it from “monopoly” to “dominant player” or “duopoly”, then there are many candidates, and ones which are (imho) causing problems:

- Google with search, with Bing a distant second, and Kagi and DDG being whatever.

- Google with user-created video via YT. TikTok has created a space for itself (so duopoly?), but YT is the elephant in the room for video.

- Amazon (various parts), with Walmart trying to figure out how to compete.

- AirBnB, with VRBO being a distant second.

- Facebook… FACEBOOK!!! It may have competitors, but it is the only dominant player in its section of social media. Ditto with IG.

- Uber, with Lyft being likely a permanent second (if it is able to continue existing).

As someone who has done business with Amazon, Google search/ads, Google YT, and FB, I will just say that they don’t really act like they are threatened by any competition — they are more scared of government interference/regulation. The efficiency of rent-seeking on their platforms is both impressive and appalling.

I’m not sure what the solution is, but I’m guessing that they will be whacked with the regulation hammer in some way due to having too much unilateral sway on business interactions.

As a simple example of what it might look like, the US federal government knows that it has a lot of potential power in contract negotiations, so it puts a lot of rules on itself so that it’s much more difficult for that power to be abused.
That's bs. There are whole industries that exist 100% because of regulatory capture and systems of control they've set up to protect themselves and are a million times more worthless. Tech is a shining star of people getting paid a lot to just try to figure out new ways of doing things and throwing off more value than any where else in the economy on an off day, and the industry was 1000 times better even with the wastefulness before than it will be if it becomes just some shit corporate world like old style companies.
This is mistaken. You use GPT-4 to generate new data using other data sources, for example text books.

Asking GPT-4 to create 50 new conversations from a chapter of a textbook creates higher quality data than most of “the pile” and can extend beyond what GPT-4 has in its existing dataset. This is exactly what MS has done with Phi.
The histories often talk about empty or sparsely populated lands. Which in some cases is dramatically different to what archaeology tells us. Either the historians were lying, or the diseases spread faster than the explorers. The jungle will quickly claim abandoned settlements, in merely years.
In case it helps anyone: I use Obsidian as a notepad. I put in text in notes and sometimes put those notes in some folder if it seems to make sense. It works great and the only plugin I added for editing is a latex helper. You don't need a system or many modifications to be a happy Obsidian user.
It can't be victim-blaming because there are no victims. 99.99% of people who have those mice will never find themselves in a situation where not being able to charge while using affects them.

The 0.01% who manage to find themselves with an empty battery will be slightly inconvenienced for two minutes while they charge it up enough to get to the end of their day.
Awesome comment.

In your opinion, what would be a language that comes closer to K’s functionality but at the same time be understandable to mere mortals?
I think they did this. I'm pretty sure you can activate a password-entry requirement for in-app purchases, if it's not enabled by default.
Before the industrial revolution, the primary way to refine gold from diffuse ore was to dissolve the gold in mercury, separate the amalgam, and then boil out the mercury to leave the gold behind. In large-scale mining, this resulted in local air pollution levels that were horrifying even when compared to the worst unmitigated industrial revolution era sites. Entire communities would get mercury poisoning from the air they breathed.
Swedish yxa is English axe?
Perhaps Apple’s hardware is unmatched in part because they profit from it by using the very mechanisms you don’t like. The engineering resources to focus on perfect hardware aren’t cheap. There is plenty of junk hardware out there that gives you more freedom.
Is Apple demanding 30% on all external purchases, or is it still the 15%/30% split based on total revenue like normal?

I've seen questions on HN before about who to use for payment processing for SaaS and/or software sales, and usually Paddle or Lemon Squeezy get suggested since they're Agents of Record that provide international sales tax compliance, chargeback protection, etc.

Both are 5% + $0.50 per transaction and you're good to sell worldwide without worrying about time-wasting nonsense when it's time to cook the books for the year.

I'm assuming Apple acts in the same capacity for App Store in-app purchases and subscriptions? (unsure, this is why I'm asking)

If it's 15% for the vast majority of app developers, the point where it would be more economical to use one of those two external payment processors instead of direct through Apple would be $4.99 per transaction -- how many apps are selling in-app purchases / subscriptions for more than $4.99 that aren't aggressive impulse purchases? I've definitely seen $9.99/week, $19.99/month, $99.99/year grift subscriptions for video editing apps, that kind of thing, but the people who are psychotic enough to pay that aren't the kind of person that would actually follow through with leaving an app and completing a purchase through a website.. so I guess I'm curious, how many apps are doing huge numbers with in-app purchases greater than $4.99?

I know that's a lot of dumb questions -- just trying to understand at what point does this tip over from minor annoyance to significant loss of revenue, and how large of a population of app developers / publishers does this affect materially?

Also, is this iOS-specific, or for Mac App Store apps as well? I can definitely see it being a problem with Mac software that costs $80 a license, but it feels like maybe it's not as big of a deal for the average iOS app?
> early every Google technology you know (maps, earth, gmail) started out as somebody's 20% project, I think.

maps and earth were both acquisitions
30% is a lot, but it's particularly egregious when your one and only option is to pay 30% to Apple, who is doing everything in their power to make sure it remains your only option. Apple is a monopoly in this specific scenario, and setting the fee so high comes off as a "fuck you, try and stop me" kind of move.
Because Apple is a rare non-shittified company and people are apt to let them do whatever they want, in fear of upsetting the balance that keeps Apple products pleasant to use.
I see the App Store no different than any retailer. If you want to sell your products in WalMart, then you agree to their terms (which happen to be quite onerous), and they set the price that they want. If you don't like it, you don't have to sell your product in Walmart. You can still sell it at Target (if you agree to their terms), etc., or you can try to open your own store and try to reach your target customers directly (and incur the related costs of doing so).
Totally out of the loop
Whenever I read about Obsidian or similar software, I feel like it's great, but I also feel ashamed, because... I have absolutely no idea what I'd write in them.

What do you people write about? Do you really have genius ideas all day long that you need to write down? Or do you want to keep track of everything you've seen / discussed?

Maybe I'm just an idiot
Read/use 13 of them.

The Phoenix Project is however used as toilet paper. This is a symbolic gesture after working in a very fucked up company who decided the management restructure wasn’t at fault and maybe if they bought a copy and gave it to everyone and we used it as a religious text then everything would be fine. It was a painful read at best.

Surprised to see Euclid’s elements. I have a volume from 1742 on the bookshelf!
A site similar to this I enjoy is Reddit Reads[1]. It displays the top books for most subreddits.

A fun way to learn about a niche, hobby or internet culture is seeing what that group reads.

[1] https://www.redditreads.com/
Ex-Hertz Tesla Model 3s Cost as Little as $14,000. Would You Buy One?
Each Facebook user is monitored by thousands of companies
Not everything on the Internet is aimed at you. Sometimes it's aimed at friends and family who the author doesn't see every week.
Which brings us to the second half of the parent's sentence: "not because they particularly care about the actual information you're conveying".

If you don't want to bond and spend 30 minutes getting cared about, just say "I'm fine, I just don't want to talk about it right now". Maybe follow with "And you, how are you?", but that's optional.

Again, they probably don't particularly care about the actual information.
Samsung extends Android and security updates to 7 years
It's not pointless. Social constructs are social constructs. The aristocracy twists language to reify into things what are social constructs.

For example the adjective rich. Which means people with money. Rich people being rich due to their relationship with pieces of paper is fetishism.

They are people in a scheme of relations of production with others, namely, workers.
According to [https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Cray/Cray...] there were about 2.5M transistors in a CRAY-1. I haven't found sourcing for a transistor count for a Raspberry Pi 4 but I have a feeling it's quite a bit higher, and they're all much closer together.
Aliens or even humans in the far future would be puzzled looking at our time and seeing overabundance of unused buildings and a lot of unhoused people at the same time and the same place.
But again, you have the choice of not using Epic. You can use Unity, or any other game engine, or even make your own if you're so inclined. With Apple, you don't have a choice if you want to be on iOS (which has close to 60% marketshare in the US).

And I'm not arguing that apple needs to reduce the fee. They can charge whatever they want for their IAP system. But, other companies that have software/services that are cross-platform, should be allowed to use their own payment processors without paying additional fees to apple imo. Apple should be able to put up the message that hey, you're leaving our ecosystem, you're on your own, blah blah. But I don't see a reason why they should also get a cut at that point.
Agreed. Either he must have different definition of AGI, or he has different idea of what might be huge or small change.
This is not at all what the article says. The argument is that the current classifications don't work, and that consensual sex should never be considered paraphilic.
It's not clear that hiring people you know directly into your team is even a good idea. I liked the Google interview system, and since leaving I have only seen worse ones.
The court decided that the anti-steering was anti-competitive and the SCOTUS said LGTM.
> It's really interesting what sort of things are considered problems with EVs that just get ignored with gas cars.

The very article you quoted says that range can drop 15% for a gas car in subfreezing temperatures, but 41% for an EV.

That's a huge difference! So it's not a double standard to notice the big difference.
I wonder how Apple thinks they're going to measure the transactions that take place. Simply clicking on the link and visiting the third-party-payment site doesn't prove anything, because the user could bail out before paying.
I'm not sure what you are talking about? I was generalizing for people not familiar with the area, and lumping together the entire "North East Bay" which includes all of the Bay Area refineries. West/North Richmond, Rodeo, Martinez, and Benicia all would be crazy expensive regions if it weren't for the massive health issues with living in those areas.
> running all sorts of processes in the background (at least one terminal, language servers, type checkers, linters and formatters, possibly extensions, etc.)

That's a terrible excuse.

Your terminal is a separate process and should not affect how the editor itself feels. The language server exists out of process. The linters / type checkers exist out of process. (Or at least shouldn't block the main interaction/GUI thread) If those things make editing slow, either the design or the implementation is bad.

Sublime text runs the same stuff for me and works much faster than vscode. No excuses.
We don't need to wring our hands over semantics here. If anyone could distribute software for iOS as easily as Apple can, then Apple would have more competition. Apple's actions arbitrarily prevent competition: it is anti-competitive. There is less competition because of Apple's policies. If they reversed policies, it would be more competitive. Whatever the law says, the reality is clear here.
Even assuming AIs wouldn't be able to do multiples of work compared to humans now, it would be a huge change for people not having to work.
Yeah, Wheezy does sound familiar as well. I ran a Woody server in a co-lo for a personal side hustle, so I was familiar with it. After that, work took me into the RHEL realm with lots of CentOS with much less interesting names like 5, 6, 7.
But then again, there's an error in the proof of IMO P3, in Fig1.f and Step 26. of the full proof in supplimentary material[1], which it states that ∠GMD = ∠GO2D, which is incorrect. It should be ∠GMD + ∠GO2D = π. I am trying to follow its logic but I cannot parse Step 25. Did it hallucinate this step?

It has the right idea of O2 being on the nine point circle though.

edit: I retract my statement. It looks like it is using directed angles[2] which then the statement becomes correct.

[1]: https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/DeepMind.com/B...

[2]: https://web.evanchen.cc/handouts/Directed-Angles/Directed-An...
> If you market your app on a website and sell there

...then you still have to put your app on the App Store and pay Apple a commission, because they don't allow sideloading.

Which clearly proves that you aren't paying Apple for marketing or lead generation, you're paying for access to the app market. If current antitrust law (mostly written a hundred years ago) doesn't cover that, it's time to update the laws.
Oh yeah, that answer is incredible. Makes me think of the "Obama Harry Potter Sonic Backpack". Don't worry thought, it can't hurt you in your nightmares.
I get the argument, but it falls flat for me. Consoles are basically appliances with a primarily singular purpose: video games. Smart phones, in my opinion, are general purpose computers that should be treated differently. Games are a small subset of what people use smart phones for.
I would expect any medieval lead and gold mines surrounding to be horribly unhealthy.
Not falling back to the argument that the output is infringing, not the archive.

If the archive can't produce the original work, it's not infringing.

If you printed the binary of Harry Potter and sold it as a painting, that would be fair use. It doesn't matter if the data is encoded in it, if it is not used for extraction.

Think of Andy warhol's Campbell Soup. Nobody is going to confuse the art for a can of soup and try to eat it. That's not being sold as a label for other soups. However, the original Campbell Soup data is absolutely encoded there.
If you lost your job and couldn’t find another one, you’d land on a couch somewhere. Most of us would.

Other people may be glossing over some legal technicality but the “it’s easy, we just need to spend more money” crowd constantly and deliberately glosses over the fact that the population we are talking about are not people down on their luck and just need a helping hand to get back on their feet. They are people that have alienated everyone in their lives and that no else in this world—-including each other—-wants to share space with.
Climate change isn't producing expected increase in atmospheric moisture
No, they set out to take the Kiev in 3 days. They never got close. It was a spectacular failure based on the power imbalance between the two countries.
If having good hardware means spending a lot on hardware development, then the price of the hardware can reflect that, rather than being subsidized by unrelated business segments.
As a largely outside observer, the arguments feel extremely disingenuous to me, the equivalent to cheating taxes by moving corporations "off-shore" while its real activities remain on-shore.

In other words, companies like to take advantage of all of the benefits purchased with taxes such as enforcement of copyright, the court systems, police, an educated workforce, etc... but not actually pay any taxes themselves.

To translate the headline: "Coming to grips with the government's unshakable sense of entitlement to taxation."

As an iPhone user, I'm happy to pay a 30% tax to avoid the relentless scamming, outright malware, and impossible-to-cancel subscriptions in every other software market out there that isn't similarly controlled. I'm happy to pay this in the same way I'm happy to pay my taxes so that I can live in a civilized society.

No matter how innocent everyone demanding this change claims to be, the inevitable outcome will be this loophole being abused mercilessly by everyone to avoid the rules and restrictions of the Apple Store. No more easy cancellations. Unclear terms. Personal data collection and onselling of that data in bulk to anyone with a checkbook. Etc...
Most Tesla owners' sense of how advanced other cars have gotten is influenced directly by the frames per second their infotainment systems run at; which, admittedly, is quite bad, but hardly a broad indicator.
Are there any places today that are like Google in the early days? I would love to work at a place like this.
Local was in-house. What we know of as Maps today is the merger of Google Local (Bret Taylor, in-house), Where2 (Lars & Jens Rasmussen, acquisition), KeyHole (John Hanke, acquisition), and probably a few other projects.
Washington state seems to be leading the way on this issue by spending $700,000 on boulders for the homeless. /s?

https://www.theolympian.com/news/local/article283855368.html
Not analogous at all. Amazon is the online equivalent of that.

You the consumer can go to a different store any time on a whim. You can shop anywhere online with a click.

Not the App Store, which controls what and how over half of Americans can access, and the barrier to switching OS-es is fucking huge. How is this remotely the same
If I was going to use this, I'd want you to monetise it. As I'd want someone incentivised to keep making the boring parts working and updated.
Cities are trying to build what they can get political will to build, but the scale and costs of what has recently been done so far are unbelievable. County of LA voters already voted to tax themselves over a billion dollars for homeless services and shelters. An audit recently found they were spending some half a million per unit on new shelter projects (1). There are by recent counts 75,000 homeless people in LA county, so at the prices LAHSA has been paying for new shelter beds the county would need to spend almost 40 billion dollars. That is the size of the entire LA county budget for reference.

1. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-02-23/city-con...
First SARS-CoV-2 sequence was already submitted on 2019-12-28
"only works if you learn to touch type"

So... "typing is only improved if you actually learn to type"?

This "article" is a whiny blog post with exactly the same empty content that is always repeated and absolutely nothing new or of any substance. Total drivel.

And yes, I'm a 2-decade Dvorak touch typer. If there were something better I'd use that instead, but haven't found it yet.
It was submitted by Chinese scientists to the canonical database (Genbank, part of NCBI, part of NIH) but didn't get published because it lacked some metadata (annotations of genes)
a) They always require your password for in-app purchases unless you disable it.

b) People have been conditioned over 15 years to treat all app purchases as being managed by Apple. So they expect refunds, disputes etc to be done in the App Store. This is changing. And so it's completely reasonable to clearly inform users about this. Because we have a long history of IAP being a major addiction vector.
From my vantage point, a combined strategy of mental health facilities with accessible healthcare and a social safety net is a good starting point. (Most likely will never happen in the US)

I seriously doubt that affordable housing or better employment opportunities are going to do anything, specifically because even people making six figures are struggling to find housing here (LA) so I doubt any amount of subsidized housing is going to solve or even make a dent in the number of homeless people.
I guess you could say Apple is

puts sunglasses on

Rotten to the core

YEAHHHHHHHH
The Not Rocket Science Rule of Software Engineering: Monotone and Bors
Did I imply that it was, no, so why imply it.

That's what social networks and email is for, not broadcasting it to the wider world, see, you're on Hacker News, me you, them and everyone in general.
Forkrun – A pure-bash function for parallelizing loops
it's not "bitching and moaning" to be concerned about the over collection and exploitation of surveillance capitalism.
It's not the implication, it's the association. Owning an iPhone of course doesn't logically imply the owner is rich. Empirically, however, an iPhone user is likely be higher income.
My software engineering skills are more that of a robot and if someone could make many of me, I/we could get a lot more done and that's a good thing. An actor has 1 likeness as their skill so it should be at their discretion. Plenty of overlap between the two situations, but to really replicate my skillset to the point where it could be harnessed outside of my control is a lot more sophisticated than replicating someone's image, voice, mannerisms, etc.
We've seen this with the Chrome Web Store. With a flat $5 fee, and a limit to how many extensions each account could publish, that was probably pretty effective.

Maybe it would help here too?

What other alternatives could mitigate the problem?