skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Go read Lockhart's Lament. Maybe you actually do like math, but school is just terrible at teaching it.
Ok, so that I didn't know. Here's from the Oster website: "When this feature is selected, the toaster will automatically defrost your food and then toast it in one easy step." So the temperature is lower for a little bit to thaw the food then higher to toast it.
The fact that they even have an AI mastering service--which, to be blunt, is an exploitative scam to bilk hobbyist/newbie musicians out of their money--just shows how much shit they've been throwing at the wall, hoping it sticks. Mastering services, distribution services (SoundCloud for Artists, which lets you also post on Spotify), making some tracks eligible for streaming payouts, Next vs Next Pro vs Go vs Go+ vs...

They've acted like a company on their last legs for a while. The Insights view is the most frustrating; they half-rolled it out a few years ago, sending out an apology email because it was half-baked and didn't have the same feature set as the old statistics viewer, but now they've removed the old one and the new Insights still sucks. Just smells of a half-completed project that no longer has the engineering or product support it needs to actually be good.
I don't know if this is related, but I reported an issue back in September or October about conversations with ChatGPT 3.5 leaking into new sessions. I noticed that after having a semi long exchange, I could start a new session and ask a question about one of the previous sessions and the LLM would respond with details it could only obtain from one of the prior ones.

This was definitely happening with OpenAI's web interface. It might have been happening via API calls too but it's been a while and I don't remember.

Nothing ever came of the report as far as I know.
He’s talking about the US military. Why would they be in Ukraine or Israel?
He was stranded. A stranger offered help and a message: 'Today you, tomorrow me'
What happens if I move to the EU and become a resident for a year, and move back? How do they know I am a resident versus tourist? Will they make me change my AppleID user and geo-lock it? Not a fan of these 'geo' based liberties and limitations
No, dang, this isn't a generic tangent. Apple is forcing women to relocate to a state that will premptively threaten doctors with jail sentences for giving these same women life-saving health care. If you don't know what I am referring to, please look up the case of Kate Cox and all of the deep reporting around it.

Apple is forcing women to move to a state that treats them like birthing vessels and second-class citizens. Calling it out is our duty. Keeping silent on it is agreeing with the State of Texas that a non-viable fetus is more important than the life of a mother of two.
The things big G does with ads is quite immoral in many cases imho.

Seems it's even gotten much worse, ie: https://searchengineland.com/google-ads-reps-customer-servic...

Some time ago I had someone call big G and setup an adwords account - I didn't have time to mess with it, and it's the one thing you can do with google and get someone on the phone - actual customer support - so I figured it would be fine.

Well they set him up with some magic system that gets clicks and doesn't care about conversions, and bleeds your money and does not report or even collect the info about what keyword phrases were clicked on.

I messaged, emailed, engaged via chat, got put on ignore for several days at a time.. no apology, so explanation.

He burned through a few thousand dollars without knowing it, had a terrible experience and will never be a google ads customer again.

I've witnessed ads agencies that can't even control the waste when they know how the tools work.

Many of the ads customers don't understand how the money is wasted, but many are figuring out the juice is not worth the squeeze.

Google could make so many of these things better - but they have been maximizing for spend, not results.

Some of the things they have been getting away with just blows me away, but ruining the one main thing that makes them money for the short term gains is pathetic.

I wish there was more transparency around the staffing they have that actually handles customer support with ads.

really enjoyed some of the details that came out during the court case showing how much ads money was taken for what should of been top organic results (like iphone)

more and more it looks like a desperate company that had a monopoly for a long time printing extortion money with minimal physical footprint, and now they are pushing off even more of the work to 'AI' instead of humans who actually care about their customers..

The do good, then don't do evil, then do whatever you can to extract every last drop of coin from everyone possible.. well you have now become the yellow pages, with worse customer support.

And now it seems they are going to make it worse.
>Shops are closing-- I make it a point to try to find a model-railway shop and pick up something exotic when I go on holiday, but even pretty big cities don't have one

Tokyo has tons of them. They're even in the big, new shopping malls, along with huge dioramas.
> You can probably include development of SDKs and documentation as well.

With limited exceptions, platform vendors (Microsoft, IBM, Sun/Oracle, etc) are generally not in the business of paywalling their development documentation, tools, and SDKs, otherwise it makes their platform far less attactive to third-party developers that they absolutely need in order to.

...and ever and never-mind that Apple's documentation is sub-par[1], even with the billions of dollars they're raking in. It boggles the mind because nothing is stopping Apple from hiring the people it needs to ensure decent documentation and DX, which can be paid-for directly from the $99/yr developer membership fee.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25046691
Ask HN: What would you do if you could start over?
Does anyone here feel like they took steps that ended up unexpectedly slowing their career/progress? If you could go back 10 years with the knowledge you have now, with the sole goal of having an idea that could be a successful startup, what would you do different?

I'm looking for things such as:
-College major
-Career field
-Bad life decisions
-Relocation
-Finances
-General personal development (Not work/startup related, such as working out)
-Career development

Please feel free to add anything you think is fit, even if it isn't on that list
That sounds like a very Huberman-like statement. Is there any literature that shows this not only to be true, but to be effective enough to make even a minute change in your health outcomes?

Regardless, I'm going to continue enjoying my store brand whole cashews and leave Alex's shriveled nuts soaked in pH-balanced super-water to someone else.
Yes, starting a flamewar about abortion is a big generic tangent, and throwing in flamebait like "Thanks Apple!" makes this particularly clear.

"Generic" in this context has to do with replacing a specific topic with a larger, more general one that it perhaps has some connection to. The problem from an HN point of view is that it makes discussion less interesting and more flame-prone. The generic topics drown out the smaller ones the way a black hole will suck in everything that comes too close (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).

That doesn't mean the larger topic isn't important. Most probably it is very important, far more than the more specific topic is. That's not what HN is optimizing for, though (see https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...). Trying to stay focused on the specific rather than the generic, and especially the inflammatory generic, is a big part of keeping HN intact for its particular purpose. Otherwise it would quickly become purely a current affairs site, which it's not.
It's straight out physical chemistry. Chemical reaction speeds are temperature dependent.

The rule of thumb is that for every 10 degrees celsius increase, chemical reactions double in speed. (Conversely, drop that temperature by 10 degrees and the speed of your chemical reaction will be halved.)

In other words, drop the temperature of that battery by 20 degrees celsius and you quarter the amount of energy you can obtain per unit of time.
I’m not leaving the app to pay…
For context:

This is the result of an earlier court case that found Apple's anti-steering practices illegal. When the Supreme Court turned down Apple's appeal today the injunction was lifted and this is the result.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/01/16/epic-vs-apple-sui...

https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/01/16/apples-app-store-...
At this point, it's worth remembering that one of the points on which Epic lost was Apple's right to take a cut of transactions.

I found this discussion of the Apple v. Epic ruling to be informative:

> as discussed in the findings of facts, IAP is the method by which Apple collects its licensing fee from developers for the use of Apple’s intellectual property. Even in the absence of IAP, Apple could still charge a commission on developers. It would simply be more difficult for Apple to collect that commission.

Indeed, while the Court finds no basis for the specific rate chosen by Apple (i.e., the 30% rate) based on the record, the Court still concludes that Apple is entitled to some compensation for use of its intellectual property.

https://stratechery.com/2021/the-apple-v-epic-decision/

The judge hinted here and there that Epic should have sued over the size of Apple's cut, not it's right to take a cut.
Technically, third-party browsers are NOT allowed. The only browsers allowed are built using Apple's "open-source" WebKit.
It no longer works that way in Europe (or basically anywhere outside the US): most customers and banks insist that they see payments in real-time (in the name of fraud prevention (user-controlled credit card locks are a thing here) and convenience).
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> technically a monopolist with regard to its own products.

Which is irrelevant because monopoly law considers whole markets including consumers and not individual products.
This is shameful fear-mongering. It's not even any kind of "secret" that websites you visit will know you were there. It's literally the first bullet point in the list. Will Google now also be expected to mention that Incognito mode also can't do anything about Amazon or Facebook tracking you, or any of the dozens of other marketing companies that aggregate and collate IP address information to create profiles of people as they wander from website to website? Either you're using a VPN and a TOR browser or you will be tracked by marketing people who simply do not care how private you want to be. It's their literal 9-to-5 job to breach your "privacy".

I really expected ArsTechnica to know better than to spin this nonsense.
s/GTP/GPT/g
translation -> they'll do it with a new subsidiary
> Computers make the optimization extremely fast these days...

A lot of computer design is now aimed at optimising for tolerances in lens elements and mechanical housings to reduce precision necessary when assembling them: they can drop elements into the tube and ship them off with little or no calibration: this is done particularly with kit lenses which are price sensitive.
Because, honestly, beer and wine and spirits tend to attract elite level snobs.
The details of the process of getting approval for links may be out of line, but the idea that simply using a different payment processor would remove the entirety of the 30% commission was always a pipe dream. Apple has always been adamant that the fee is for the service of using the App Store, not the payment processor, and that you owe them for sales made regardless of whether they're able to take the money directly out of your revenue stream.

That part of this outcome was inevitable, and I don't think any court will rule against it. It was even anticipated in the original ruling:

> First, and most significant, as discussed in the findings of facts, IAP is the method by which Apple collects its licensing fee from developers for the use of Apple’s intellectual property. Even in the absence of IAP, Apple could still charge a commission on developers. It would simply be more difficult for Apple to collect that commission.
Did the windshield wipers actually work?
> At the time of the acquisition Uber planned to integrate Drizly into Uber Eats, but never came did.

"but never came did" Is this a grammar mistake or am I reading it incorrectly? Am I going out on a limb thinking that Techcrunch might be leaning into LLMs and reducing their editor's oversight.
> The generation of my parents (60s+) is generally not hugely tech savvy. They remember the days of windows XP well - endless viruses, trojans and expensive security software. One of the reasons iPhones are so popular with this group is they let them use the web without fear of dealing with that again.

This is a strange argument, given that Windows XP is more than 20 years old, and the problem already went mostly away 20 years ago, when Service Pack 2 came out.

In any case, the problem has long been a thing from the past. Moreover, I don't see anyone complaining about modern Windows or MacOS computers which aren't locked to an app store. So your explanation doesn't make sense.

I think the correct explanation is much simpler: These people are Apple fans, and fans will, occasionally, be irrationally loyal. Like PlayStation or Nintendo fans.
"of course you can have this fine oil, but I am only going to accept Rupees if you let me spend it on your vast array of Indian made 155mm cannon shells and electronics which the Americans don't want me to buy"
This is absolutely outrageous. I simply cannot believe people still support this awful company.
My above comment was talking about IOS and the mobile market overall (of which it has some half of market, give or take a percentage), not the App Store.

Even then, if we focus on stores: Google with multiple stores still does have a play store monopoly (formal, arguably legal given current lawsuits) on Android OS. And on top of that, the EU rulings with Apple mean your metaphor may not be as farfetched as you make it seem.

These aren't based on my opinions so much the fact that both OS are under legal fire. So I wouldn't dismiss this so easily.
Glad to see this getting some more mainstream traction. I'm hopeful something will change.

After this past year of layoffs it seems as though CEOs despite being paid 344x the average worker aren't actually taking 344x the risk.
You mean: I've picked my system components in such a way that kernel compiles are not i/o bound. But on an average machine a kernel recompile is very much i/o bound. To the point that people will go out of their way to get large amounts of RAM and very high performance i/o subsystems into their machines. But your average i7/8G run-of-the-mill machine is going to run into the i/o bottleneck pdq. On a 32 or 64G (or even more) RAM box with an NVME drive you probably can get it to be CPU bound. On my 16G laptop with SATA SSD it very much is, the CPU is only utilized about 60% or so.
Oh no, under my rule insurance companies don't get to cherry pick what they will cover. We have banned belief in acts of God.
I envy your experiences with other services. I've never seen any service's status page show downtime when or even soon after I start experiencing it. Often they simply never show it at all.
> If something will make your partner happy, why not do it?

Good practical advice, but my take is that the point of the story is to play on the irony that they were both making the same error.

They were both acting out of incompatible irrational instinct, the man and his lust, and the woman and her possessiveness, neither willing to sacrifice it for the sake of the other. Even going as far as to win the other over, the man through rational argument, the woman through emotional appeal.

It's a very elaborate and realistic tension.
Oh. You were "part of a team?" But what did you do? What? You mean your team added 20% more users with this feature, not you?

SMH.
> hedge funds use dark pools to make non-public trades, ensure fund liquidity, equity, lie, cheat, steal; etc.

No one is using dark pools to "lie, cheat, steal, etc." Plenty of market participants (including retail) use dark pools for goals like price improvement or sophisticated order handling like TWAP orders. Dark pools would not be possible without the lit markets that we all know and enjoy. All of these dark pool executions are reported to FINRA.
This is the same strategy that Apple pursued for dating apps in the Netherlands, after a court there forced them to allow third-party payments a year or two ago. Their argument is that the 15/30% is a general fee for use of their infrastructure (App Store, etc), and so they'll subtract the approximate cost of payment processing if you're handling it yourself but you'll still have to pay the rest of the fee to them.

Although I think this sounds extremely petty-bullshit of them, in part because that flat 3% is basically calculated to make this cost more for developers who do this overall, the court in the Netherland did go along with it. So we'll have to see how it'll work out under US courts now.

(I feel that them charging some sort of fee for the App Store isn't entirely unreasonable, though this seems too high -- we can debate the actual amount that'd be acceptable. It's the lack of an alternative via sideloading that makes this egregious.)
There's wine, but then again there's also 3d acceleration now (limited to some AMD cards).

Web browsers and such do also leverage the gpu for rendering.
This is a weird take. It’s similar to saying workers pre unionisation and labour movements were complicit in enabling poor working conditions.
It feels like you understand where he was going with his comment and are deliberately misconstruing it to have something to reply to?

As much as I do not enjoy the US doing all these things, I think it’s fair to say that they’re maybe the most benevolent?

I don’t think China historically has a great track record when it comes to military intervention, but they also mostly leave people alone.

The US seems to always go in with the best of intentions only to royally fuck it up.
I still think you fail to realize how significant it is that Z80 CP/M is an 8bit operating system and every version of DOS is a 16bit operating system. You could probably steal some ideas but any sort of translation makes no sense. If it was that easy, Digital Research would have had their OS done first.

DOS was designed to run re-compiled CP/M programs with minimal changes. And some people translated 8080 programs to run on 8086 but they're still just 8bit programs.

An operating system needs to be optimized and customized for the CPU it runs on. You're not going achieve much of value taking OS code from a different lesser CPU.
It's worth noting that the status page software they use doesn't auto-update automatically.

> Please note that with all that cState can do, it cannot do automatic monitoring out of the box.

https://github.com/cstate/cstate
Indian workers see Israel jobs as 'opportunity of a lifetime' despite Gaza war
What Is the Meaning of Life?
If you can legitimately blame the middle of a pyramid scheme for tolerating the top, you can blame app developers for tolerating apple. Both do so at the expense of those at the bottom.
Interesting.

I wonder why Apple didn’t pick Delaware or another business friendly state.
> A lot of these only died down ( a bit ) once the US Government took an official stance against App Store monopoly.

What does this "stance" amount to, given that the App Store monopoly continues to be perfectly legal in the US?
I can't read the article so I'm just going by the headline...

I was thinking about this over Christmas break. My wife and I live in Hammond, IN, a poor town near Gary and we were visiting my in-laws in Boca Raton, FL.

Until then, I had thought of income inequality in terms of billionaires and outliers. But as I walked the beautiful sidewalks along the pristine manicured landscapes between the gorgeous library I was working out of to the nearby Starbucks and Jamba Juice as BMWs, Teslas, and even a couple Ferraris passed, I realized there's definitely a lower level inequality as well. Where everyone in the town is just a bit richer than everyone in my town.

We don't have spectacular libraries and great walking paths. It was just kind of weird where everyone is "rich", even if no one is a billionaire. (There very well could be billionaires, too, but I don't think they would change much of what I was thinking. Billionaire inequality issues are like having too much power, that sort of thing.)
This is a lesson I've watched people, and companies learn for the past 7-8 years.

An end to end model will always outperform a sequence of models designed to target specific features. You truncate information when you render the data into output space (the model output vector) from feature space (much richer data inside the model), thats the primary reason why to do transfer learning all layers are frozen, the final layer is chopped off, and then the output of the internal layer is sent into the next model. Not the output itself.

Yes you can create a large tree of smaller models, but the performance cieling is still lower.

Please don't tell people to do this. Ive seen millions wasted on this.

When you train a vision model it will already develop a heirarchy of fundamental point, and line detectors in the first few layers. And they will be particularly well chosen for the domain. It happens automatically. No need to manually put them there.
Sure? The problem is largely a human/company culture/process problem and sure tooling can help remove friction but it does not fix the larger problem.
I still don't understand what they do. I have some ideas, but their websites are surprisingly lacking in application examples. It reminds me a lot of crypto pitches on startup accelerator events of the past.

The FAQ claims: "Clay provides key infrastructure like pre-computed raw data analysis, apps, an API, cutting-edge models, and benchmark tools."

... but I cannot find most of these. EDIT: Found something - the Product section does, after enormously patience-taxing scroll jacking, show off a few model capabilities.

(Getting that text required using the inspector, their FAQ page - you know, the page with the information you want to be commonly known - breaks copy and paste.)

They have funding from the Radiant Earth incubator, so they've been able to convince someone of this, but it must have been with better material than this website. Maybe they should share that one :-)
App store developers are suppliers, they don't work for Apple nor do they have to work for Apple. Technically Apple re-sells their product. But they could and should unite in order to increase their bargaining power. You see the same with every supermarket chain.

But what I think would happen is that there would be enough hold-outs from such an effort that Apple would come out on top because the players in the eco -system are more in competition with each other than that they really mind Apple. They want to pay Apple less but they want to put their competition out of business even more...
Well think about it this way:

I'm a driver, but I'm a safer than average driver. So why would I want a system that's better than "average" where average includes drunk people, speeders, new/bad drivers, driving in ice, etc.

I don't think it should be illegal to use a system that's actually better than average (which is 1 accident every 18 years), but many drivers might not want to.

Also when some company's financial success hinges on them reporting their safety being above a certain accident threshhold, I think any statistics provided by that company on safety should be doubted unless an indepedent third party can verify them.
Wut? Russia was well on it’s way to full integration when Putin decided to go batshit crazy.
Machine Learning Could Find All the Martian Caves We Could Ever Want