skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The primary reason for Chrome’s success was literal billions of dollars in pervasive advertising (I remember years of Chrome TV ads and billboards), ads plastered all over Google’s products saying “better in Chrome”, and product bundling into many many pieces of software a user might download (e.g. Acrobat[1]). That’s not to say that it wasn’t a technically good product, but it wasn’t so much better than the competition that it would have got to the market share it has on its own merits.

[1] https://www.labnol.org/software/chrome-with-adobe-reader/201...
Oh sure - you can’t just let it go fallow. You have to strategically decide what to plant that provides adequate ground cover, which is NOT simple.

Now, rake, blow, shake, snow, wait. That’s what grass needs and it is easy and looks good.

Or you go with artificial turf or something similar and that has its own issues.
Sidecar works surprisingly well. With its latency and performance it’s barely distinguishable from a wired screen even running a HiDPI resolution.
Hello,

I would like to share my experience with my son, who is now 11 years old.

I introduced him to video games using emulators of old video games when he was 5 or 6 years old. We played together, and naturally, he developed a strong passion for video games. Playing together with video games was a stepping stone from earlier games, like Lego.

As he grew curious, he started asking me questions such as, "Have you ever made a video game? How difficult is it? Can you teach me?" In response, I provided him with context on how computers work and found some engaging books from the 80s on computers with good illustrations.

Later on, when he had a basic understanding of mathematics, I introduced him to Scratch. After playing together, he began creating his own projects. As his interest deepened, he expressed a desire for more, after some searches I've found that there was a videogame called "Game Builder Garage" for the Nintendo Switch, which I gave him as a Christmas present.

Similar to our experience with Scratch, we started playing together, and eventually, I let him explore and create on his own, leading to impressive results. He also began playing Minecraft, another excellent resource for children to develop creativity when supervised by adults. We spent time building various structures together.

Now, he has asked me to teach him how to code. I was initially concerned that coding might be tedious and frustrating for a 11-year-old, potentially taking away the fun. However, I found a Python book titled "Python Coding for Kids," and we began coding together, following the initial chapters. To make it more interesting, he suggested creating stats for Dungeons & Dragons characters, and we collaborated on such projects.

While he may not yet be able to code independently, he has acquired foundational knowledge about how things work in the field of coding.

Most importantly, we had a tremendous amount of fun together, and I had the pleasure of witnessing his skills grow.

I would encourage you to follow your own path and find tools that match your child's abilities.

Daniele
Wouldn't the employees of the day care be able to be considered as "child raiser" if I follow the meaning of the words?
Zuckerberg's AGI remarks follow trend of downplaying AI dangers
I worked at BK circa 1987. For a long time I believed BK burgers tasted better than McDonald's but about 10 years I noticed the taste change and now I think BK is worse. Lately I saw a YouTube video about how they changed the machine they use to cook burgers around that time.
I didn't even know they tried to change it. Fast food companies sell some items that shouldn't be legal, Dairy Queen had some loaded up "milkshake" that was nearing 2300 calories.
Perhaps plants and animals are not so far removed from each other as you think. At the cellular level they are far more similar to each other than to any bacterium. And as to why they manufacture similar molecules, i would suspect reason #1 to be that they derive similar utility. Plants and animals both perform chemical signalling between cells. Both use ion channels. Similarities go on and on. And when we're talking about molecules with only a few dozen constituent atoms, there really is a very finite set of possible combinations which are not toxic and structurally suited to perform some task in the biochemical mechanistic computational environment of the cell.

Also, this is not a refutation of your point, just interesting, but complete opioid synthesis has been engineered into yeast by at least two different teams at his point: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4924617/
It's not every day that I read someone complain about a product not being expensive enough.
I have a theory that one-pedal driving also improves traffic conditions by reducing the over correction inherent to two pedals. In traffic we hit the accelerator when space opens up in front of us, then switch quickly to brakes when the brake lights in front go on. The switch lessens our ability for fine control and it's exacerbated by the inertia of deceleration, so we almost always over correct. This has a cumulative effect in following cars.

One pedal driving allows us fine motor control without a drastic switch. The regenerative braking also encourages us to not over-brake (you grow to love the idea that you are recapturing energy and avoiding wear on the pads).
Having interviewed quite a few Gen-Z's coming out of coding camps, their unrealistic salary expectations are out of control.

No, I'm not paying someone straight out of coding camp $200k, let alone $150k.
Huh. I read the story more as an exploration on what the phrase "human life is sacred" really means. To me the whole AI thing was just a backdrop.
The problem with gmail's OAuth is the initial setup. After that is done, it works fine for years. First, you need to create an authorization token and a refresh token. If your authorization fails, you need to use your refresh token to get a new key. But the most damning part is: The initial process which gets you a refresh token requires you to login via browser. That's hard to deploy on a headless server. At some point I remember having to create a large enough swap space to run UI, install xorg, install google-chrome, go through the graphical process, then uninstall xorg and remove the unused swap.
It means terror inducing, not bad or substandard
>teach - which essentially is your only path to gaining experience/hours without having to pay for it out of pocket

Flying for a military organization is another path, is it not?

Or do the airlines no longer want former military pilots? I know they used to hire a lot of them.
I think their big advantage vs meta is no controllers, I also think that is an underrated advantage.
I hate news pages that are just a video. I prefer to just casually read news instead of having to watch a whole video on the topic. I find Apple News shows me a ton of these type of articles (looking at you MSNBC) and I wish I could toggle some option to never see pages like that again.
uh yeah, i remember it quite differently. everyone was dismissive of the ipad...i remember even thinking how phones were getting bigger and what was the point.
My partner and I love the "single-stair multifamily" building "Leilighet" that we live in Oslo, Norway. It was built in the 1920s and has 3 levels with each level having 3 units. We enjoy the people that we live near and we really appreciate that our son is able to be around so many people in our immediate community. For the most part, we are always seeing someone that we know when coming and going.

We have an access road behind the building that is between the building and the green space. This access road is gated and is used by all of us residents (especially the kids).

The green space has plenty of things to share (garden areas, berries, fruit trees, barbecues, tables, chairs, etc...) My 5 year old son has a lot of friends who live in our area and he's able to just be himself running around, climbing trees, digging in dirt, and exploring his world within a safe community.

The density and use of space is much more efficient than what I was previously used to in the Pacific Northwest. During the last five years of living in Oslo, we have only needed a car when visiting friends at their cabins. I feel privileged to live a car free lifestyle.
Please, child-raiser joke.
Walt Disney, Destroyer of Worlds
New management in the last company I worked for went on a crusade against silos.

Their strategy was to randomly shuffle people across teams. Literally random.

You could tell how productivity bottomed and soon after a lot of senior engineers left the company.

This is a multimillion american media company.
THE iPad supports a few things that the iPhone doesn’t, the main one being screen size, the two apps next to each other (iirc) and the pencil.

But lots of apps can just treat it as a big phone.
I don’t think that’s likely. It seems that the price is high because Apple wanted the 2030 headset today. If they get moderate success, they will release lower spec versions which will probably not match the Vision Pro for 2 product cycles. So the Vision SE 2 might be on par with the Pro 1. Pro 1 likely to be supported for maybe 6 years, assuming it’s not a big flop and Apple abandons headsets for awhile.
I do wonder how people figured out that Google was associated with Google+, Google Inbox, Google Reader, Google Talk, Google Video, Google Wave, ...

(I'm just kidding; I don't actually hold a grudge against Google for terminating projects. Although I do miss Inbox. And it does looks like Google Labs was killed too?)
I'm fairly novice with Arduino and interfacing with buttons/pots but I thought delays / loop interrupts were discouraged versus a reset-able counter variable?
Opera on Windows Mobile?
In the great state of Texas, as I understand the process:

-walk into a licensed firearm dealer

-show government ID (e.g. drivers license)

-fill out ATF form 4473 (approx. two pages)

-wait for background check (called NICS, Near Instance Criminal Background Check System)

-pay for firearm

Did I miss any steps?
I can resonate with the author, giving the context working on Scaleups and Big companies, where the coordination and communication plays a very heavy toil on the actual work.

I do not believe in this model of “big collaboration” with folks swarming around a problem and each one with partial context trying to fix something that structurally has a huge communication, coordination and technical coupling.

The best work experiences that I had was in teams that we establish the APIs, S3 buckets where the processed batch files will stay an maybe a e-mail list where someone will reply if something change.
It would be more useful if you could show progress %.
Heh knowledge graphs sometimes don’t feel acyclic, at least not to me anyway. Sometimes I’m stuck bouncing back and forth :)
Travelling Salesman GUI
I've created an online GUI for route planning. No installation, nor login, easy URL route sharing. No difficult forms, just paste the addresses into an textarea. The first is start, the last is finish and the rest will shuffle according to the shortest path.

The source code is here: https://github.com/e3rd/travelling-salesman-map-gui
compared to every other company out there, they are special. I also trust apple a heck of a lot more than even epic with my personal info.
Completely agree. I even had that situation myself - I misremembered how the mode switch/bluetooth pairing mode worked and was not able to connect my controller to a switch, thinking it was broken, until I realized what had happened. A small toggle switch really would be much easier.

Still think it's worth it, also to not destroy an original one. On the other hand, better to modify it like this than to throw it away of course...
Why would spotify support a feature that competes against them? Does apple music support spotify connect?
England has always been the first nation to suffer the designs of the elite. The bankster system, first in Britain. The secret services that have “license to kill”, ditto. A show for parliament and representation, the same. Emergence of a new elite class that wields power behind the throne, England. Political churches passed as churches of God, England. Surveillance and police state, England. 1984, also from England. Somebody in that Island knows where it is all heading.

p.s. and how could I forget. “Journalism” fleet street style, also England.
People made fun of it, but also noted the price.

Part of it was that the whole “tablet” idea hadn’t taken off and had been tried a number of times, so the general consensus was “it’s a good value for a nice version of a thing nobody seems to want.”
They polished the erection...by hand? Tell me more about the precise logistics of that operation.
Thread from last year,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37468342 (135 comments)
This is one of those utopian engineer fallacies that is on the same level as reliable networking and fsync. People don't work like computers and don't respond like API endpoints. There will always be backchannels, backburners, pidgeonholes, and all the other political games humans play happening even with an "API between them".

The problem is always management, and the solution is never "more management", IMO.
I don't understand why companies ask themselves good FAQs and then dodge their own question, I've seen it a few times recently. If you don't want to answer it, why are you asking yourself the question? It's weird
Meta has supported hand tracking since the Quest 1. It works fine but for many high speed action tasks (e.g., games), it doesn't work as well.
Great write-up. Next logical step is adding Bluetooth support so you can use it on the Switch:
https://www.instructables.com/DIY-ESP32-Bluetooth-GamePad-fo...
Hi from Argentina! The translation is very good, but it still sound ro-bo-tic. There are small pause betwen sylabes that are not natural. I listen to the first minute, and the translation is accurate. (I don't have the patience to listen to the full talk twice, to compare the content, and subtle changes.)

Somewhat related: It's posible to distinghish the accent of different countries. For example when I listen to some from Spain talking in English, it's very clear that the person is from Spanin and not from Mexico. It would be interesting to compare the automated translations of persons of different countries and see if it keeps enough accent to give some autenticity, but not too much to avoid been anoying.
Only time will tell. From what we’ve seen so far, VisionOS seems more like macOS, where a user will be multitasking across multiple applications in front of them at once. I’d be shocked if a user can’t watch a video or listen to music in one window, while doing something else in another. It would be DOA without that basic function.
Quest 3, the DPI looks somewhat similar to a non-retina Apple display.

It felt really futuristic to log into my office computer from a synthesized apartment via Virtual Desktop. The latency was fine for typing. Even YouTube video/audio was bearable. But the device itself is still too heavy. The fixed lens system can't be good for your eyes.

Apple Vision Pro is even heavier. Even as a hardcore VR fan I cannot imagine the current generation hardware to be useful in productivity tasks.
Internal Family Systems therapy has helped me understand and work through this a lot.

I have a very robotic "manager" part that spent a lot of time running things for me. It takes input from the nearest authority figure and precisely meets expectations, but doesn't feel, doesn't internalize, doesn't connect.

It was protecting a lot of confused, vulnerable little parts that had been kind of pushed out of conscious awareness when I was young, because it sounds like we had similar fathers.

I heard this great line that really helped crystalize part of it for me too:

When children are dealing with unstable parents, they don't doubt the parent. They doubt themselves. They don't stop loving the parent. They stop loving themselves.

It's a process I'm still working through every day, but at least it finally feels like I'm moving forward, not backward or spinning my wheels in place.
Which is why I said I don't believe the murder was premeditated.

He was able to plea to second degree in exchange for the location of the body and essentially a confession.

They convicted him of first degree because without the body, there was no evidence that he didn't plan on the murder as well. Ironic in a way. He hid the body to try and hide the evidence that she was dead, but turns out that only made things worse for him.

If he had called the authorities and copped to it as an "accident of passion", he'd probably be out by now.
Mark Zuckerberg's pledge to build advanced AI alarms experts
Training models is fair use, and i think the courts will agree with that. Saying its based on theft is not so cut and dry as youre making it out.
You can anonymously tip the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens and let them look into the issue if you're afraid of repercussions. Any screenshot containing evidence of PII being leaked will certainly help, and I doubt PostNL will have fixed their terrible terrible systems.

Under Dutch law your colleague would've committed a crime by downloading the data he knew he shouldn't be allowed to access, beyond what was necessary to conclude that there was a leak.

"Using" this indo during negotiations would've been blackmail, which is very much a thing you wouldn't want to do, especially with a company that big and without real competition; they'd go to the police, and you'd be screwed.
It's not like the criticisms for the iPhone were wrong. The iPhone launched at what would in today's prices be about $2000. ($700 is $1000 today, plus you had to sign a contract that would otherwise have given you a "free" phone worth a similar amount). Plus it didn't have an app store. Both of those would have prevented the iPhone's success, but both were very quickly corrected.

The 2007 iPhone was a limited niche product. The 2008 iPhone was not.
> I consider anyone raising a child as their parents

As do I. Parents are the ones doing parenting. Whether or not they are the biological parents isn't relevant to that.
I suspect they will sell a ton. For the most part, people scoffed at inflation and just kept spending. Unemployment is still super low and wages are rising. Reports seem to indicate people still have money saved from the pandemic (eg. travel is still super high) so I think people won't hesitate to spend $3500 on what could be a ground breaking piece of equipment (even if you don't think it is now).
He says

People are really bad at understanding just how big LLM's actually are. I think this is partly why they belittle them as 'just' next-word predictors

I think it's actually the exact opposite: People think LLMs are "intelligent" or otherwise special (for example capable of being belittled) because they don't understand how big they are. Eliza or some other rules based chat that has, say, dozens of rules, is transparently just a gimmick. LLMs are not different, they just have billions of "rules", obfuscated with some math. But people don't get that and imagine they must be sentient because they give such nice responses. If people truly did comprehend the scale of LLMs, they'd be less likely to believe in any kind of intelligence.
Not really an exploit if you have to have Test Mode turned on. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/i...
Long before we had dictation, we had dicktation
> "Once again, Apple has demonstrated that they will stop at nothing to protect the profits they exact on the backs of developers and consumers under their app store monopoly," Spotify said in a statement.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-68018618
I'm interested in why you're doing it in the first place?
Nope. I pick up most of the best things I've ever found in tech here. Books, courses. Lots of little things that I misunderstood about myself, others, and tech.

I think you have to go into HN with an open mind. You should be exploring and finding stuff, not waiting for it to come to you. Certainly not FOMO. Engaging with the people is part of the practice.

I hold on to the saying, "When the student is ready, the mentor will come." It's not that mentors are just lying around waiting for you to be ready. The mentors are everywhere, like buses on a route. It's more that when someone isn't ready to change their identity, they resist it. That's where the cynicism comes from. It's fine, because we can't be changing our identities every damn time. But when you're looking for the change, HN is a great pool of it.
tl;dr From the linked article: "The biosignature detected on K2-18 b is a molecule called dimethyl sulfide, a smelly substance that on Earth is produced only by living organisms."

From Ars, 3 days ago, a more cautious article: https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/01/no-the-james-webb-spac...
I’ve worked in freight tech for almost a decade (as in, I specifically work on a bunch of different software for drivers to use amongst other things).

Many of our customers are the biggest fleets in the world. Each has their own relationship to driver turn over.

The ones who don’t struggle with turn over do 3 things:

1) they pay them well (sometimes 6 figures+)

2) they route their freight in a way that gets their drivers home consistently and frequently

3) they don’t separate between “employees” and “drivers”…everyone is an employee, everyone matters

Truck driving is a top 3 occupation in America, everything we consume relies on trucking at some point in its lifecycle.

The simple fact here: everyone sucks at planning freight moves in a way that affords drivers ability to get home frequently. Almost all freight moves are the result of humans bashing away on keyboards connected to AS400 terminals. You’d expect some insanely well architected network optimization algorithm (and some fleets sort of have that don’t get me wrong), but in reality, planning freight moves is basically still just note cards on a cork board, just typed into computers. The dilemma here is that fixing these things with software is very hard, almost always requiring practical operation experience in trucking in addition to deep tech knowledge.

There are some leaders in the space who claim “we don’t have a driver shortage, we just suck at planning freight moves optimally enough”. I subscribe to that idea 110%, while also acknowledging it’s a generally unappealing job for an increasingly white collar-oriented younger culture we have entering the workforce.

It’s important we keep seeing investment flow into freight tech, and hopefully not too much into the misguided self driving truck efforts that will never be feasible in our lifetime for practical/legal/cost reasons (though I’ll admit the safety advancements those investments throw off are great…my point is just that trucks will not be moving without drivers for decades/potentially ever because of so many different variables, including the most important one: trucking is a single digit margin business, and Americans expect everything to only get cheaper and faster that they consume, so increasing logistics costs through more expensive automated equipment is at odds with the consumer demands).

It’s also important we respect truck drivers. They do a hard job most of us would never do, but we all depend on them doing it so we can live our cushy lives. They can’t be the butt of jokes.
That’s a poor attempt at gaslighting.

Nobody is offended. It’s just silly.
Delta is nice, but a lot of features are missing from the FOSS version.

Hudi is nice, but they are in the middle of a big format change right now.

Iceberg is nice, but is the most conservative and slow format out of three.