skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple does JIT assembly, so it would be relatively 'easy' to release a new/factory OS version that has this feature disabled. Take the marketing of this feature down, or mark it as in development, and should be okay?

I don't know why they haven't just done the simple solution yet and are instead fighting this in court, continuing to lose sales, for a feature .1% of people will use?
The ongoing content moderation issues behind Substack's meltdown
Or there could be a very cheap license for AI training that doesn't allow other uses, much like radio licenses for music.

They could buy a bunch of content created (or specifically licensed) for purpose, the artists get paid, and the artists that don't want their work to go into the pipeline get what they want too.

But too many people consider the development of AI to be such a moral imperative that no objections can possibly be relevant.
Second time I'm linking this today, even more relevant here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Schoolcraft

Policing as an institution enforces these norms on itself, which is part of what we mean by ACAB. Good people can become cops but they can't remain cops: they conform or are forced out.
I'm not implying it's regulatory capture in the sense of a conspiracy of Big Toaster. It was more an observation that, generally, increasing complexity in regulation does have down sides in that it gives advantages to scale. Small and even medium sizes businesses are less viable than they were 30 or 50 years ago. Maybe we see the effects of that in the concentration of capital?
>As a vintage costume collector, Rivers Cofield recognized it as a dress from the 1880s — but despite its age, its delicate embroidery, bronze silk and metallic buttons appeared intact... She haggled the price down to $100 from $125. The price was higher than she usually pays...

A price that low for something this old, intact, and beautiful astounds me.
Is it still true that iOS PWAs cannot be opened with a link (except from a notification pushed to the app).
But then they wouldn't be able to make as much money.
This makes sense to me. I feel like we need a lot more creative destruction in American society. The ASA doesn’t want open science because it threatens their business model. So what. We have too many organizations that are basically do nothing more than try to perpetuate their own existence. They’re acting “rationally”, but only from the perspective of a parasite or a tumor.
BitMEX Technology Scaling (2018)
Images on the Command Line
"Circle to Search can help you quickly identify items in a photo or video. Relevant ads will continue to appear in dedicated slots throughout the page."

Whew, got scared if I searched this way I wouldn't see ads.
This looks like a cult I would happily dive into. Does anyone care to ELI5? I tried to read the code but did not understand a single line
Couldn't agree more.

And it's not just Google. Amazon is a mess. Social media is a mess. It all used to kind-of work but it's rapidly falling apart.
No, you can't. What you can is have a million or so people pay $16/month which pays for these insanely expensive series.

So, let's assume Netflix. It has 247 million subscribers. You do the math.

An audiobook (and audiobooks in general) don't have that.
people believe lots of things that are untrue.

In this case it's borne out of hubris in believing you yourself can do whatever you apply yourself to.
Also try to sit towards the middle of the bus too, so that you don't get sun exposure from the front or back windows.

When I read the title, I was expecting the site to give you an optimal "seat" (13A), but I suppose for this would need to know the exact bus make and model.
No what happened in the case on the news is a charging station was malfunctioning but did not report itself to the system as such.

If it has been in operation, there would have been no problem charging in the cold.
Most STEM grads don't work in STEM jobs
I think this answers all the questions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39029042
Native: (As a native app dev I much prefer native apps, but) 95+% of people don’t care

Offline: Doesn’t matter unless you’re on workation in the hinterlands - even cheap flights usually offer wifi now

I have to use Notion for my current gig and I‘ve never seen the offline page.
Nice.

> Some of the popular LLMs that we recommend are: Mistral, CodeLLama

1. Surprised Mistral (Mixtral?) is recommended for code generation / explanation alongside a fine-tuned CodeLlama?

2. Recent human evals put Microsoft's WaveCoder-Ultra-6.7B (SoTA w/ GPT4) at the top of the rankings with WizardCoder-33B, Magiccoder-S-DS-6.7B trailing: https://twitter.com/TeamCodeLLM_AI/status/174755128687745064...
SEC chair warns centralized AI could lead to 'fragile' financial system
I keep hearing more and more about OpenBSD. Lots of people including John Carmack, browse the source code and have nothing but good things to say about it. It's made me very curious to look at it myself
Zoning and racism are pretty intimately linked through time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusionary_zoning
Its a hardly used feature for me. I doubt its a feature that was a deciding factor for the majority of people.
I normally ignore these hey posts, but this caught my eye:

> But Microsoft’s brutish tactics also managed to turn an entire generation of developers against them. And the bill for that didn’t come due until Windows Phone. Nobody, and I mean nobody, wanted to lift a finger to help Microsoft gain a foothold in mobile. The wounds from the late 90s and early 2000s were still fresh in many developers minds. So many cheered as Apple went from underdog, favored by developers for their embrace of Unix roots in their operating system, to the dominant player on a new platform.

I was there. The only reasons for not building for Windows Phone for me were (1) they were very late and not very serious, (2) the development kit was similar (but incompatible) with their desktop target. The platform itself ran great on top notch Nokia hardware with live tiles long before iPhone ever got around to it (or Android showing the actual time on the Clock icon).

MS should have tried harder, but they were too blind to recognize a new market. Can't say that's true for Apple they're creating Watch, Vision, Silicon, etc. I don't like Apple's business tactics, but I can't say they're bad at it.
Somewhere on my parents attic there is a Windows magazine about Cairo project and all the cool things it would bring.

In both cases, Longhorn and Cairo, the only thing that survived were a bunch of COM libraries.
> It is by definition incapable of trying something entirely new

Only if the AI doesn't see any usage. But when you start using it, you get AI+human generating things that can be outside its training scope. Humans can input novel ideas into the prompt or include new information. Then AI gets to retrain on the data generated with human in the loop and improve. There is a chance for humans and AI to explore new directions.

If you got a simple way to test, like the DeepMind geometry problem solving model, then AI models can improve on their own by doing massive search and validation. Kind of similar to the scientific method - formulate hypothesis, validate, observe outcomes, and repeat. Works for code too, or any AI output that can be "executed" and generate a validation signal.
My reading of the article is different, though it's not terribly clear:

> Apple has developed a software workaround to the ban that eliminates the function from its devices. Last week, the US Customs and Border Protection agency approved redesigned versions of the watches that didn’t have the oxygen reader.

Why would Customs need to approve a redesigned version that doesn't have the oxygen reader if this was a change in software only? It seems that the first sentence may not be directly related to the second. Yes, Apple can develop a software workaround to remove this feature from being accessible. This is obviously true. I believe they tried to do this in order to be able to import the already-produced devices despite the ban. But Customs might say that this wouldn't satisfy the ITC ban because the actual sensor, which is the patented item in question, is still included in the watch — even if the user can't access it in any way. This would explain why they then sought approval for a new device that does not have the sensor.
Auto-reverse means Auto RDNS zone creation. Where you're usually trying to translate hostnames to ip addresses, a reverse lookup translates an ip address to a hostname.

So, if I have an internal record, record.example.com @ 192.168.1.2, I can query the server to ask "Hey, who is at 192.168.1.2?" and the server would reply with "record.example.com". This works by creating not only the example.com zone, but also a "1.168.192.in-addr.arpa" zone with the proper mappings. Technitium server will ask you to create the zone if it doesn't already exist when you create an A record for a zone.

https://knowledge.digicert.com/constellix/standard-dns/rever...
Nothing to see here.

Pay no attention to the robot behind the curtain.
Interesting blog! Makes me wonder what a comparison between Pinecone + ChromaDB + Pgvector would look like..
In my Star Trek-esque ideal world, post-scarcity sharing of the resources required to live.

Realistically, it's a part of the reason IP is "too big to fail". The fallout would effectively destroy the US.
Perhaps another angle is that the incoming and young workforce find it extremely convenient to take everyone else's work and make it their own.

It is nature after all, to spend the least amount of energy to attain a goal.

It would be convenient to accept it as par for the course.

The problem seems to be is that copyright laws are basically ignored nowadays.
ChatGPT is poised to have a video feature
https://archive.ph/7DzkT
This is the right take — whatever your position on the future of this technology or its costs and benefits for humanity, the hypocrisy mentioned here shouldn't go unacknowledged.
Although not quite as drastic, same with the Ĳmuiden region in Noord-Holland (originally Koninklĳke Hoogovens, "Royal Furnaces" -- just as royal as Shell) [0]:

> Due to exposure to particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide emitted from the Tata Steel site, Wijk aan Zee residents have a life expectancy that is 2.5 months lower on average

> approximately 4% of the future cases of lung cancer in Wijk aan Zee will be attributable to the current emissions of particulate matter

> around 3% of future [asthma] cases will be associated with the current emissions

And currently, also DuPunt/Chemours in Dordrecht [1]:

> Chemours, which spun off from its legal predecessor Dupont (DD.N), opens new tab in 2015 to regroup the latter's performance chemical business, complied with its permit before July 1984 but that after that it should have better informed the towns surrounding its chemical plant in the city of Dordrecht

And separately, there is an investigation against the local government because then-DuPont was tacitly allowed to exceed the amount of pollution granted by their permit.

[0] https://www.rivm.nl/publicaties/bijdrage-van-tata-steel-nede...

[1] https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/dutch-court-rule...

(edit: found link in English)
Do you think it's reasonable for artists to want a way to forbid major AI corporations from training on their work? Because some people will stop producing/stop making available their work if they don't get access to a different way of doing so.

Much like how some artists are uncomfortable with making high-quality scans of their work available online, because it becomes prohibitively difficult to prevent people from selling prints. Forget the current legal framework, it seems fair to me to say "I don't want that happening to my art" when "that" is a corporation finding a way to monetize it. Even if the AI is using less than a pixel of your work, I think it's fair to ask that it not.
You mean other than those parishes in Cancer Alley where there are white majorities and the primary source of household income are the chemical plants, you mean?

Because I grew up in St. Charles Parish, which is 71% white, in the shadow of the Monsanto plant that makes the world's Roundup, down the road from a Dow plant, and across the river from Motiva, Shell, and Exxon refineries where you can see them light up the night sky with flares to burn off their excess gases.
Chinese Lab Mapped Covid-19 Virus Two Weeks Before Sharing Information Globally
I don't (and won't) use Google Calendar, so there's still a cost to me.

In fairness, I don't use Notion either, and wouldn't start for a calendar (I've tried, but I seem to be one of the odd people for whom Notion is radically, deeply unintuitive), so this particular switch wasn't on the table for me in the first place.
Found a bug on the first search I ran, where the right side is preferred, despite having more sun (10.55%) vs. the left side (6.64%). Not sure how. All other searches gave more expected results.

Parameters:
- Toronto to Montreal at 3:21PM EST.
Oh thanks! That somehow went past me.

I'll be downloading a native port though.
Talking about fullstack.

How far away is network support?

Like hosting bitsnbites.eu on it?
>"russians are conquering neighbouring countries and simultaneously threating with nuclear attack"

So you want the US to do the same? It had already "conquered" some countries. I do not think anybody likes the outcome. It looks more like a crime.

>"And another powers are not?"

I thought whataboutism is strictly Russian domain and is frowned upon (I personally have different opinion).
Same with open-core - if you can't self-host the thing on your own infra then its not REALLY OSS
We agree that the placement of data is important for HPC programmers to control. Locales are the means of controlling such placement in Chapel, whether directly (as in this article’s simple examples) of via abstractions like distributed arrays (whose implementations rely on locales).

Once the data is created, computations can be executed with affinity to a specific variable in a data-driven manner using patterns like `on myVar do foo(myVar, anotherVar)`. Alternatively, an abstraction can abstract such details away from a user's concern and control the affinity within its implementation, as the parallel iterator implementing `forall elem in MyDistributedArray` does.
Well I'd tell you that this already exists. It works well and drives a bunch of software in industries you've never heard of.

I'd also tell you not to do it because there's no money in selling tools to developers that makes developing easier, with fewer people. Indeed programmers are exactly not the target audience. The sweet spot is empowering one-man operations who find a niche and dominate it.

But you're right in one sense, all the value is in solving the edge case. All the grunt work is taken care of, so what's left is programming in the corners.
I'd love to give it a try, but the permissions list in the auth dialog is crazy. Including: "See and download your organisation's G Suite directory", "permanently delete all the calendars that you can access using Google Calendar", "permanently delete your contacts".

I am reasonably sure they need (maybe _need_ here is too-strong a word) those permissions in order to perform certain operations on my calendar, but it just seems so scary to give another company that level of control over my Google account.

I do wish we had more granular permissions across a lot of services out there (e.g. Google, Slack, GitHub), because I can't be alone in not trying something that looks cool because it has the ability to wipe my account out.
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I don't see a point of that versus middleware engines, with much better tooling.

WebGPU/WebGL are like JavaScript, something that we have to put up with, because on the browser there is no other alternative.

No need to constrain ourselves to the browser limitations when there are other options.
We have surpassed 6 of the 9 planetary boundaries that sustain human life (2023)
For example, it can be a bad reason if it's going to make you more unhappy than it makes them happy, or if to make 1 person happy you have to make 3 people unhappy. Speaking more personally, I think it's a bad idea to do things (especially major life decisions) to make other people happy. You should find out what you want to do, do it, and be with people who'll be happy with it. It's a waste of effort trying to please people who'd rather you were different from how you are.
I guess some people figure that if pilots can do it, they can too.
I’ve rebuilt using brewfiles a few times. Surprisingly painless.
Never Let Me Go
Seems to be common with calendars. Sunrise (iOS) became Outlook. RIP my most favorite calendar app ever.
So they(WSJ) forced him to write a piece defending their need for butts in seats? comes off inhuman. Cant think of a logical reason to allow this other then absurd laziness and apathy from the WSJ leadership.
I misread the title as "I'm a Supercomputer".
You actually exemplify - `To see a miracle, be the Miracle`!!!

Congrats!!!
I still curse the IPv6 designers for not making it backward compatible with IPv4. IPv6 is definitely better designed but the lack of backwards compatibility makes moving to it an absolute bear. I know the designers thought the transition would only take a couple of years but almost 30 years later... here we are.
I’ve worked on a product where half the backend (basically, the control plane but not the data plane) was completely serverless: lambda, DDB, step functions, api gateway

I think it was generally convenient as being very low maintenance. The only availability canary alarms are when the underlying services go down, which is almost never.

Debugging and running locally are the weak points. Eliminating an entire class of things to think about (container health, scale in and out, and so on) is very nice. Since it’s a control plane, tps and costs were low.
Yes, same one. I find de-classified articles and books now, and share them with former colleagues. All the designs I worked on were meant for space. And I have no idea if any were actually deployed.

As I noted in the “handle” post, k310 is the office number I had at Itek, as well as a nifty sonata by Mozart.

I later worked for Lockheed. More space optics and other cool stuff. I was in the R&D division.

I hope you can make good use of those lenses. I stuck with commercial optics (Nikon and Hasselblad). My optical hacking never exceeded making some adapters with a Unimat SL that I got. Surprise, computers got my attention, and my first “real” computer was an IMSAI that I built.

I read a lot. Kingslake, Smith and so on. A nice book, if you can find it is “Photographic Optics” by Neblette. It goes over all the classic designs, including all the familiar camera lenses from the 70’s and 80’s. Nowadays, computers do all the designing, and you can’t recognize “classic” designs like the tessar, Sonnar and so on, in them. But TBH, I finally got a new 105 macro lens with unrecognizable (to me) design from Nikon to augment the old 55mm macro that I started out with in 1970 or so. A simple double-gauss design.

Did you know what those “P” and “H” and other suffixes meant on Nikon lenses? They are the number of elements, in Optics Latin. H for hex, or 6 elements, P for penta or 5, and so on. The old lenses, without the “AI” aperture index gizmo, fit the new mirrorless body with the FTZ adapter. I gather that they were no-go on the DSLR’s. I skipped the DSLR generation entirely, since I used a Coolpix with 24-1000mm effective focal length for many, many years. Heck, it worked and got me great photos.
There are a lot of colloquialisms that come from French, or mix in French terms.
If I create a sculpture and put it on my front lawn, I think it's fair for me to complain if you scan it and start 3d printing and selling copies, even if I intended it to be in public view. Just because I want the public to be able to enjoy my version of something, doesn't mean I want people to feel free to ingest it and monetize it for personal profit.
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> Almost 1 in 4 Americans listened to an audiobook in 2021? That seems... high.

Yes. A book. That's one single book. As with anything, the majority will listen to a few popular titles like self-help books and Harry Potter.

No idea how you arrived at $24000 for ASOIAF and then decided to randomly double it
Use AI to build things for yourself. You get the benefit in those things, it doesn't matter if anyone else copies, as long as you're not selling content.
Otherwise known as "Pass it on" or "Pay it forward".

I hit Turin in Italy coming from France, all my money was in big denominations. I needed a smallish coin to complete payment for my train ticket, and the railway station was out of change.

The guy at the ticket counter said 'That small amount isn't going to break me.' and took the extra money necessary for my ticket out of his own pocket. That was back in 1988. I have 'passed it on' many times in memory of him.
I read “supercomputer” and was ready to hear the inner monologue of a machine.

Didn’t get that but also wasn’t disappointed!
I get your points. Some comments:

1. Some topics are easier to write about than others — certain types of complexity will not add to the quality of communication. I agree that the salary negotiation article of Patrick’s isn’t particularly complex.

2. High level texts don’t have to be inaccessible. One of the best high level texts that I’ve seen was a Turkish article that ostensibly looked like a sports story on football/soccer but was actually very high level political commentary. Some of the stuff that African story tellers do is absolutely mind-boggling in its ability to communicate on multiple levels.

3. The salary negotiation article may be simple for you and for many folks on HN, but I can’t tell you how many people I’ve sent this article to (with purpose) who didn’t even finish reading it. Specifically, I think the structure is longer and more involved than some folks like. Some of the (important, imho) topics also can put people to sleep — fully-loaded salary costs comes to mind.

4. I’m not sure what the view on the salary negotiation article is now, but it was an eye opener to many people when it was written. The way salaries are decided in tech companies is quite a bit different now than it was in 2012, and I think this article played at least a small part in that cultural change.

5. Even in an article on a relatively mundane topic like salary negotiation, Patrick comes up with gems like this: “If you have a kid brother who majored in Flemish Dance and got a modest full-time job at a non-profit, his fully-loaded cost is still probably $4,000 a month or more.” There is a lot of cultural load in that one. It might be easy for HN folks to parse it, but it’s not that easy for large swathes of the population, especially if non-native populations are included.

If I run into any of Patrick’s writing that showcases his some of his higher level stuff over the next 24 hours, I will reply here. It’s a busy day, so I’m not sure I will have the time.

As a fun side thing, here is a high-level text from Obama when Seinfeld ask him what sport politics is most like:

“It’s probably most like football. A lot of players. A lot of specialization. A lot of hitting. A lot of attrition. But then every once in awhile, you’ll see an opening, you hit the line, you get one yard, you try a play, you get sacked, now it’s like, third and 15… you have to punt a lot. But every once in a while, you see a hole, and then there’s open field.”

A reasonable comprehension question to ask on a text like this would be something like “Based on Obama’s comment, what are some specific occurrences in politics that might have conceptual parallels in [American] football?”I assure you that this passage is basically like Klingon to non-native speakers who have not immersed themselves in American culture.