skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What did you miss in functionality vs a native app?
Hardware virtualization can still emulate peripherals. If your virtual machine thinks it has an ethernet card that doesn't actually exist, it may be nice and fast for CPU operations, but networking will take a hit.
Vercel elevated 522 errors when served through Cloudflare
> Our engineers also noticed an elevated 522 errors when sites are served through Cloudflare Proxy, and they are working with Cloudflare to have this issue sorted.
Translation: It costs more than minimum wage employees to operate.
They can. They have little interest to. Very miniscule reward (the only ones winning in a class action are the lawyers... I am due for a solid $20 from Google though!) for a huge risk.

I'm repeating the words of another commenter, but most app devs aren't competing against Apple but other devs. They aren't billion dollar businesses that stand to benefit by trying to get a lower rev share.
I'm newly in the PNW after living in Texas for a decade. I was hitting some walls on energy and mood, and a coworker suggested it might be seasonal affective disorder. They suggested I grab some vitamin D, and I grabbed a multivitamin as well.

Could be the vitamins, the placebo effect, or some other change, but I've felt remarkably more energized and motivated since starting. I'm inclined to keep taking them.
Walmart has 'scan and go' in the app for Walmart÷ subscribers.

https://www.walmart.com/cp/scan-go/9679980

And I believe Sam's, the Walmart wholesale club, has it in store.
Cydia was live on iOS before Apple's App Store.

Which is to say, I agree.
Really neat!

And I did not realize how much Gemini Pro lags behind GPT4 in terms of quality, wow!
It is not freeing people to do more useful jobs. It is just making them unemployed. I like self checking, sure, but the employment result of it is not better jobs.
> Move to Texas or else: Apple sends some California employees clear message

Will they also change "Designed in California, made in China" with "Designed in Texas, made in India" ? /s
I don't want to eat vegetables. Checkmate doctors.
A lot of these look like very big stretches. Most of the things you've listed are either already being done by humans or is something that an LLM simply can't improve upon. Even if you had the best writers and most complex AI in the world, you can't really sugarcoat a gas chamber past a certain point.

Fake writings and fake imagery are already easily created by humans, but as far as I know, it's not practiced widely because it's known that you can't easily trust wild claims if it's not backed by real people. Digital image editing opened up the doors to creating any type of misleading imagery, but nothing has really changed since then.

And I have no idea how any of the "all IPs from Russia" or "scan everything on the internet" could even work. If the US government has infrastructure that can scan for this kind of info, they don't need AI to use it. If they don't, well.. an LLM isn't gonna magically make every bit of internet traffic accessible to them.
Kernel Hacking Guides
https://archive.ph/NzwBk
As am I. Starting with film in a similar era and moving along with every 1 or 2 major generational shift in CMOS since then, I’m delighted to be at a point today where my output is bottlenecked by the actual 55000mbps M2 SSD in my MacBookPro for whizzing through hundreds of GB of stills for every shoot to distill down to about 10 best ones.
make sure to expand your social circle and connect with peers and professors.
All production requires resources. So plunder is not always in terms of jewels and gold, if you capture a country and force them to buy fabric from your mills or enslave people to work in the plantations or kill all natives and capture the land for the plantation it is a form of plunder.
The market obviously exists. Apple is the seller, numerous other businesses are buyers, and they are buying, hence the current amount is an amount "the market" is willing to pay.
> and neither leaves nor florets were edible.

How did he know that? Did he try to eat them?
"Bigger number = better" marketing is still easier than something more fine-grained, even if YT is the leading platform.
Plus that little red marquee looks rad against the infinite universe.
Is profit margin not partly a function of competition? A retail business is easily replicated, hence retail businesses have minuscule profit margin.

Insurance companies have lots of competition, also low profit margins.

Making a top of the line smartphone does not have a lot of competition, hence higher profit margins.

Medicine is patented and hence does not have a lot of competition, also higher profit margins.
Who's right wing droid?
Super cool! Kind of in the similar vein: https://natrongithub.github.io/
Parent is talking about the "Opium Wars" which weren't legitimate drug business.
Some classes of models diverge rapidly on noise. When I was working on ragdoll physics in the 1990s, I discovered that a one-bit change in a 64-bit floating point joint angle was enough that a ragdoll falling downstairs simulation diverged visibly within one second.
Isn’t that a super budget lens? How’s the pixel peeper performance?
Firefox too.
You can use your intuition in the sense that if what you measure just has a constant error without an integrator in the loop that error will never be closed. Think about a motion control system with a proportional gain where you are pushing the actuator with your hand away from the current position. The proportional gain will apply a force against your push but generally that will leave some residual error in steady state. This is where the integrator comes in. And I agree with the parent that I've mostly seen the D term dropped from controllers, definitely with motion control, though sometimes there are other weird components or multiple loops which may end up having a similar effect.

One thing that I think is often confused the matter is that P, I, and D all relate to what you measure and what you're controlling. E.g. you might measure velocity or position in a motion control system, and generally your output is going to be current. In a temperature control system your measurement would be temperature and your output is likely going to be current (which influences acceleration, not position or velocity). Ofcourse velocity being the derivative of position means that the meaning of "P" is different. I haven't done PID in a long while but I've always used to ground myself in motion control systems to get a sense what I want to put the loop over.

EDIT: E.g. IIRC it's common in motion control to have a PI loop over the position error and an additional proportional controller over the velocity (and then filters, feed-forward and a bunch of other components ;) ).
The XR20 is anything but forgettable and worse in quality.
Real users can also run a bot for their real use cases, the correct way out is not to mislead
How can Amazon pricing be so competitive if the cut is so large for third-party vendors?
Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Bolívia, Cuba off the top of my head. Feel free to look up a complete list if you want to.
Yeah, you definitely buy into a paradigm and ecosystem that has its own flaws. It's all tradeoffs and right for for sure.

My new project requirements for well with NextJS. I was mainly pointing out that there are a number of benefits for the drawbacks.
I think you are pretty close. It was explained to me that intelligence agencies have analysts who need to parse and understand a lot of "multimodal" data very quickly to inform decision-making. Maybe the thinking is that LLMs could help with it? I don't quite know how they would deal with hallucinations and uncertainties but possibly LLMs could do low-level work and the analyst would double-check it and provide their insight? Let's call it "LLM-facilitated human-in-the-loop intelligence synthesis and augmentation" :)

Disclaimer: I don't work on LLMs or NLP and not for any agencies, so I am likely dead-wrong here.
Any single application on iOS(/iPadOS) that allows you to browse the Internet is in some way based on Safari. The in-app browsers are just using one of the webview UI elements based on Safari/WebKit instead of opening up Safari.
> The word "digit" is defined as 0-9

Lots of people seem to think that, hence the -2 rating of my comment, but that's not the modern definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_digit
> This community has not been reviewed and might contain content inappropriate for certain viewers. View in the Reddit app to continue.

Thanks for the heads up—first time I'm hearing about this, will investigate.

Glad to hear paper journaling is working out for you, fair assessment of concerns around online journaling.

> I really don't want to talk to AI.

I've received similar feedback from a few users, the "Kind AI" feature has had low engagement, and I'm not using it much myself—I think I will probably remove it this weekend.
Show HN: VoiceReplace – Simplest drag-and-drop AI voice replacer
Considers profit "unethical", gives work away for free, mad that people take free work and use it for their own purposes.

You can't have it both ways. You can either give stuff away and realize that once you give it away you have no control over what anyone does with it, or you can charge for it and get paid up front (and ultimately still have no control over what happens to it after it leaves your hands).

Are you making art because you want to share your vision or what? If so, then share it and be glad that your vision got out there. If not, charge for your work and make sure you get paid first. Don't whine and cry that you didn't get paid after you decided that getting paid was evil or whatever.
This is a biased view that disregards basic available metrics. Apple is a hardware company. Developers are instrumental to its devices success and a point can be made that 30% might be too high of a fee. On the other hand many of those developers wouldn’t have a job in the first place if it wasn’t for Apple creating the App Store.
Why not? Veggies are great. Tasty and good for you? I wish more things were as addictive and beneficial.
First visit? Welcome!
I'm curious to see if they'll do a Japanese style apology where senior managers hold a press conference and actually say it's their fault, bow deeply etc. Japanese firms do cover-ups, PR, and damage control as much as anyone, but the Southeast Asian style of formal public apology is almost unknown in the west imho - it's much more common to see financial settlements without any admission of liability, or anodyne formulas like 'mistakes were made'. I can kinda see it happening in this case because it would deflect some of the blame away from people in the UK political establishment onto those naughty foreigners, bringing the episode to a tidy if embarrassing conclusion. But I can also see such an apology raising expectations for other corporate actors over the longer term.
Thankfully, no virus could possibly escape a lab in China!
I'm glad your healthcare was not so overpriced that it's not worth it. That's a bleak statement to have to make.

Suppose we built a Byzantine system around food like we do for prescription drugs. Food can be powerful medicine after all ... so imagine if you needed a nutritionist to prescribe specific foods in specific quantities. When you go to the grocery store, you're not allowed to just pick whatever, and you don't find out the cost of anything until weeks later. Grocery billing specialists send endless documents back and forth. Everyone in this society spends twice as large a portion of their income on food as their peers in other countries, but the food is worse. Food becomes so expensive and costs are so unpredictable that employers provide grocery insurance benefits that pull down the salaries they can pay. But when you're hungry, you need to eat so of course you "value the food you've received recently more than the price you paid for it". Does the fact that a hungry person with no options will pay a lot to not continue being hungry really imply that the high prices in this system match high value being delivered? Or can we perhaps recognize that the value being provided (food to be eaten) is similar to the food-value provided at much lower cost in other systems, and therefore the high prices in this system do not imply that its services are especially valuable?
For laughs I one time gather a bunch of research (from the cutting edge to the practically applied) to do 1) large scale solar distillation for sea water desalination and for ethanol production. Think big arced mirrors focused on liquid salt tubes. 2) very large cannabis fields. If you water it it will grow in the desert without further aid. 3) yeast to turn the leaf materials into ethanol.

Apparently a tiny chunk of Sahara could make a serious dent in energy consumption. (One can of courses also use biomass to make biogas or solid fuel)

Yield is up to 1200 ton per square km. 205.2 ton ethanol per km2 (261 400 liter) 1 539 646 kwh/km2 If we use 100 000 000 barrels of oil per year 162 820 000 000 kwh The farm would be 0.1 million km2, the Sahara is 9.2 million km2, it would take little over 1%, say 2% US total farmland area is 3.6 million km2

Recycling yeast and chemicals gets much better at scale.

We know how to pump crude into container ships but oil is a dangerous substance. Ethanol doesn't require state of the art safety measures, it can just spill, the boats can just sink without horrific consequences. On the contrary.

The process on that scale leaves behind a lot of stuff that will have to be used for something. Seeds and seed oils are very valuable, hempcreed and bio plastics can be used for construction, can make fabrics, clothes, paper etc

One could also make solar biochar and enhance the soil. Hemp by it self enhances the soil. Add some compost and some bio char and you should be able to grow other things too.

The surprising thing to me was that there is a lot of ongoing research for each component of the plot. We kinda know how to do all of it but we also know very little, there is much to learn still.
There's plenty of digital goods with low margins that apple forces a 30% cut.

e.g. Spotify, Twitch, Patreon etc. Most of the funds go to the creator. Completely breaks the model when Apple forces a 30% cut of gross.

That being said, i'd also argue Apple's app store is a complete monopoly on iPhones. Iphones and app stores are such an essential part of life, they deserve to be neutral a la internet neutrality. Not sure how we all become pro internet neutrality but somehow suffer Apple's 30% tax.
Ha, came in here just to find this sort of comment.

For international readers: In ZA we have this thing backwards, and during an electricity crisis nearing 20 years soon. Everyone who can afford it (middle class and up) is installing backup inverters & batteries, and solar if they can afford that extra cost. However feeding back into the grid is a net-negative for citizens, as the power utility charges a fee to do so and pays less than the cost of solar output to these producers. Even Cape Town's payback scheme which came in last year as a "great solution" is still at best a break-even for some.

One of the consequences is that many renewable energy producing houses don't feed back in and are also not consumers of grid power. Over time this may leave the main revenue stream of the state power utility to be only that of poor & non-paying municipalities.

Our only refuge from the madness is coming to HN and seeing others actually do this thing right, and wishing for things to be better.
I don’t think the op meant that in the literal sense of the word “forced”. I took it to mean that arguments were used as a scare tactic to get you to take the multi-vitamin. I don’t think anyone can force people to take anything, but some doctors might be upset after seeing test results if some vitamin levels are low.
Sounds like there’s a massive market for tools like wix, squarespace or webflow to just scrape off your site and remake it into one of the many templates using chatgpt.

Surely something like this should already exist.
This is probably an unpopular opinion, but I think it's totally okay to go to school at any time even if you won't help your career and you can afford it.

I'm going to finish my cyber security masters 11 years into my web dev/software engineering career and I have no regrets because I have learned so much. I have no plans to become a cyber security analyst or anything like that. I just want to know how computers and the Internet work and how to write secure applications.
Building the Worlds Smallest Escalator
"L" has a red ring and everything!
How's your hydration? One thing that I overlooked for years with what I called SAD was my Winter hydration, which was actually pretty crappy if you tracked every millilitre across a week.
Didn’t they basically say they’re no longer going to bother paying for songs earning under $3 USD per year.

It seems like the only people that will be impacted are the abusive auto-generated spammer accounts with thousands of garbage tracks uploaded garnering 1200 streams a year by people accidentally playing them via Google Home misinterpretations etc.
> Being further pedantic - aren't all digits base ten? I thought that was part of the definition of digit.

We call computer circuits "digital" even though they work in base 2.

Regardless of the word's origin, digits are simply the symbols in a positional number system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_digit
You just proved your point wrong.
Hundreds of million is peanuts, and it’s very improbable that it covers anything near the HR costs of Apple’s App Store infrastructure and department.
Yes, that should be reduced, not added to.
In other news, water is wet. Back to you.
> Apple is acting like a state within their domain.

Someone unironically complained yesterday that developers who don't like paying the 30% fee probably don't like paying their taxes, and I made the exact same argument that Apple was acting like a sovereign state [0]. And now Apple is doubling down by announcing that they'll be performing financial audits just like the Internal Revenue Service if you include a link to purchase content/services outside of the app store.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39007657
I wish there was study based on whether multi-vitamins help for those of us who are professional sitters (eg, in tech, so we sit on our ass all day), and who most of the time do NOT eat healthy diets, and do not get enough exercise.

In those circumstances, does a multi-vitamin a day improve things?
You're literally dismissing the fact that the USA executed a coup in my country because I didn't acknowledge that it would be bad if Russia did the same thing.
If you're playing with this on a BBC micro emulator, the best way to get this code into the emulator is to download the disk image from the above link. The actual basic program is named "PROGRAM" on the disc. List the code by typing LIST20, (the computer will lock up if you try to list line 10).

If you just want to see the result, type MODE 1 and then press return, then type *LOAD SCREEN and press return again.
Apple has thankfully figured out that there's good money in online sales so they'll in fact get a cut if you buy stuff on Safari, although only if you use Apple Pay and even then they only get a miniscule 0.15% (or less) cut. I imagine this is because they don't have the technology to skim off all transactions yet and laws prohibiting excessive processing fees.
Yes, there's a very real sense in which the world is better for having had Apple than not. They have made technological life more beautiful.

For that reason, people seem strangely committed to defending them through their rent-seeking period.

Apple cannot be both a good company and a monopoly.

As their users, we should not accept the false framing and false choice their management presents of either monopolistic control of the mobile ecosystem or endless spam and a Wild West free-for-all.

I do not understand why people's hearts are still drawn to Apple as the company of Steve Jobs, when it is clearly something very, very different today.
Where it matters, you can just write that part in a low-level language and call out to that.
Actual anime VR high school where you'll get proper qualifications
I understood what was meant, I'm just curious what people have found effective in terms of over-the-counter supplements versus prescribed meds.
Google gets mild-mannered, disappointed commenters sighing about how they've messed up search, the web, and has no product/customer support. When Apple comes up, people get on their soap boxes with expletives about how society and the world is fundamentally being ruined. The tone just isn't comparable at all.
> That Israel wants to hire labourers from a distant country than hire Palestinians, to further impoverish them, is controversial in India:

Indians are also hired by companies like Google to move to and work in the US. Would you also describe that as Google wanting to hire labourers from a distant country than hiring canadians to further impoverish them?

I mean, look at a map. Palestine isn't even the only country bordering Israel. What exactly compels you to portray hiring a candidate as refusing to hire some other hypothetical candidate?
I wonder why, as the alternative are hand scanners that you carry around the store, and those even have +/- buttons to adjust product amounts. Is that not the same opportunity to cheat?
I'm more of the opinion that most people don't benefit from multi-vitamins because they're in a range where they're not in deficit or the body cannot absorb it when taken orally.
It’s mostly implicit. See how the spheres are symmetric about the centerpoint? (Well, almost, the camera is at Y = -0.1.) The (X, Y) coordinates of their centers are simply (-1, -1) and (1, 1), given by the `I = SGN U` variable at the end of line 40. The Z is implicitly zero. Their radius is 1. The plane is basically defined by `P = Y - 2` at line 60.
The basic fallacy of the article is that the plunder did not become "the investment". Yes plunder is not sufficient but in all the history it is the necessary condition. No country has ever become rich by methods we now consider just.
Giving something for free doesn’t mean giving it for others to make a profit. We have copyright and other legal rules for a reason. Likewise, many open source licenses don’t allow for people to profit off what you donated to the world. It’s not a forgone conclusion that everything must be exploited for money by someone.
> admittedly, could be managed better

That sounds like "nominally and not actually".
Mostly, the BSD people think that POSIX and ISO C are just forks of Unix documentation, that are mainly used for making non-Unix systems look Unix-like. BSD comes from real Unix DNA and so following those is optional; whatever direction BSD takes is Unix by definition, as if it's forever 1983.
Not to state the obvious, but you know what the problem is and the solution. The issue is more of execution.
I'm running this on a BBC micro emulator running at period-accurate speed, and it's taking just under a minute to draw one line. So I think it's going to finish in about 4 hours, which would make sense - approximately twice as fast as the Acorn Electron.
> Collecting data will not enable anything.

Historically, this has not been the case. Collecting data enabled speech recognition, image recognition (and subsequent breakthroughs), machine translation.

What is so special about Robotics that collecting data will not enable anything?
the ironic thing is that the way you describe apple is the way 99% of people outside of hackernews would describe the people of hackernews (or tech ppl in general).