skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple pay subscription cancellation ease and refunds protect the consumer. I’m not here to defend all of their practices. I am saying there are very obvious consumer friendly parts of the ecosystem starting with the fact that I don’t need to run tech support on my families tablets and phones.

I barely ever see consumers complain about the ecosystem, mostly companies and developers. And I just don’t feel like they are going to use a more an open system to the benefit of the consumer. I trust them _a lot_ less than Apple.
Party balloons are normally filled with what’s known as “balloon gas”. It’s a mix of air and helium that’s not suitable for use in medical equipment.
> You get promoted if you are useful to the person promoting you ... That's not merit, that's corruption.

I don't see how you arrive at that description. Usefulness is a form of merit -- a very useful one.

> women might be promoted more [if] they're working twice s as hard

Doesn't this contradict your first assertion?
Well, my apartment building of 36 units has zero exterior outlets, for a start.
It's still 145 lbf and 145 lb mass. Under Earth's gravity the numbers are identical. (That is, a mass of 1 lb has a weight of 1 lbf).

The 10x difference comes in with metric units (kg and N).

Edit: might as well mention the rocketry connection... Probably the most well-known use of pounds-force is when discussing thrust of rocket engines (and other means of jet propulsion).
I would love love love this to become a vibe.
Session cookies are generally not available to javascript. The latter is true though.
With enough power, anything is renewable!
Right so the author has taken the most extreme level of weirdness and tried to use it as an example of normal image generator output. Thats quite dishonest.
Sounded right up my alley too, so I went digging.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39081133
So many IOT devices are slinging this garbage can.
it's not gonna stop people being smug and dismissive of ai images any time soon. their loss though
I cringe a little reading that list, but I do think people should spend time thinking about, and communicating their worth.

I'm in games development, and many years ago when I worked in a big studio we used to do these Friday afternoon meetings where people would stand up and show off the best work they did during the week.

The artists would show off a cool new character model, or a programmer might show how the pathfinder improved, or some nice new animation blending.

I'm sure some people hated it, but I think it was really great for the whole team to sit around and congratulate each other for what was achieved that week.
What you are engaging in is a double edged sword. In your case, what you have is incompetent management that needs some BS (metrics) to be constantly fed to themselves. The quarter you don't feed BS metrics to them will be the quarter they try to manage you out.

An alternative system is one where management is responsible for understanding the business value of the work and being ok with the outcome e.g. being ok with good metrics vs poor metrics both - whatever the outcome. It was the path they charted for some objective. They need to own the objectives.
you weren't kidding. dem wheels look incredible.
> You think that developers got a better deal when software was sold in brick and mortar stores? I remember when the App Store was first announced, there was much excitement among developers over Apple only taking a 30% cut.

Not among Mac developers who distributed their software over the web directly to customers, bypassing the middlemen.

Also, little did we know at the time that the App Store would inaugurate a race to the bottom, devaluing software. What does the cut even matter if you have to sell software at the same price as a music single?
When the supply is steady... yes, I bought waaaaay less food.
Politics certainly play a part in most of society. I'm not sure that it's more common or sinister in the office setting. I also believe that some enjoy it.. one need not look farther than the success of reality TV.

I believe it boils down to scarcity and the seemingly odd human attraction to drama. Even in the US, where there's plenty of wealth, life can still be darwinian.

Pessimism aside, there are definitely opportunities out there without these qualities.
Simply untrue. FAANG would be _very_ happy to not have to promote.
People that get high quality facial work, especially when they are younger, and don’t have negative reactions to don’t stand out as “people that had plastic surgery”.

At a certain point it catches up to you, but it’s very feasible for a 40 year old to look 30.
It was, Ars just missed where the compatibility layer was as you couldn't see it by booting a smartphone and seeing what it said the kernel was. Harmony splits things up into layers and one thing it provides at the base layer is a KAL to allow for multiple kernels for different devices. The point of allowing swapping the kernel layer for different device types to have different device compatibilities. In the case of phones it meant still being able to load Linux to run an AOSP base and in the case of smartwatches or IoT devices running the LiteOS kernel without AOSP on top. The Huawei specific SDKs target interfaces available in both environments so if you make an app in that ecosystem it'd work on all devices even though the smartphone versions were using Linux+AOSP (because it wasn't ready to replace the entire smartphone stack yet, just the simpler use cases). HarmonyOS NEXT is the version that replaces the whole shebang on all devices.

One could simply look at what you see poking around on a smartphone only and conclude that means they are finally doing something different but that explanation highlights the hole from the Ars article - it does nothing to explain other devices or the migration plan to HarmonyOS Next. At the same time it's probably fair to say Ars's other points in the article about Huawei's marketing being a little overdone, their documentation lacking, and the way you registered for it being crazy were still more than valid. They just missed the point of why HarmonyOS was being considered a separate OS due to the limited way they investigated it.
I have personally spent a little over an hour in water only slightly above 0C and I was periodically diving under water during that time too. This was to free debris from by boat’s propellor. I had a single layer on, kept calm and did not move more than necessary. I can assure you I am not dead :)
I think there needs to be another variable which is response time.

Because you can have a well partitioned system with good data redundancy, and you can take time to let the system become consistent which reduces availability.

But the actual practical outcome of changing availability is changing response time.

Therefore, consistency
time is directly and linearly related to response time.

And if the response time is below some threshold that you no longer care about then you have beaten CAP theorem.

So in a practical sense, you can beat the CAP theorem. In an abstract sense you cant.

But response time grounds the theorem to reality because it in every system, there's a point of optimization that no longer matters.
I don't know if something changed in their offering, but you can still find M1s available via the 'Dedicated -> Server Finder' page.
Right. The argument is especially silly for anti-aging treatments because the consequences of aging are horrifically expensive: look at the Medicare and Social Security budgets for starters. Governments and insurance companies would have every incentive to make them as widely available as possible.
Until recently, Formula One teams used Helium in their wheel guns as it spins them faster. In their push to be more environmentally friendly the sanctioning bodies realized that banning the use of pneumatic helium was an easy win.
I don’t think you should be apologetic about the small scale of your contribution: the animating principle of open source is that the aggregation of small contributions like yours can create outcomes that rival those of even the wealthiest organizations in the world.
Facebook doesn't need a secondary app store on Android to bypass the default one's privacy rules because the default one isn't stopping them from doing what they want to do in the first place.
Perhaps, but its very common to see the same look that I consider "bad" in young, wealthy, entertainment stars, where I would think they would have every means and incentive to get a good and subtle job done.
That's what health checks are for yo! ;)
The 737 has had four major generations. Each were safer than the last until the 737 Max. The safety history of the 737 overall was not a reliable indicator of the safety of the 737 MAX.

737 hull losses per million departures:

Original: 1.75

Classic: 0.71

Next Generation: 0.17

non-MAX (cumulative): 0.2

MAX: 4.0

This is the reason "past performance is not indicative of future results" is plastered all over every investment website.
Once you reach terminal (IC5), promotion velocity doesn't matter. Up or out is only for IC3-4.
I had too many shirts, so I eventually collected T-shirts for the wife.

I did get some funny looks asking for a (women's) small instead of large, but gotta bring home the goods.
Many mid size cities along rivers like Donau/Isar/Inn are worth visiting like Regensburg (old historic city)/Passau/Rosenheim/Landshut/Augsburg.

Some of the lakes in southern part of Bavaria like Chiemsee (Fraueninsel)/Starnberg/Tegernsee have some charm.

I personally think Salzburg and Garmisch-Partenkirchen are special as the sit right at the foot of the alps.
So did it crash, or freeze?
It's somehow Ozempic and not the always rising, already high prices for everything required for daily life?
Well sure, for pressure and slow cooking. You could say the same thing about the microwave.
I respectfully disagree. By these arguments, literally every deduction from revenue to calculate taxable income is a "loophole". How far does that go?

What's more absurd than life itself is that you can deduct 100% of a 6000GVWR truck which you financed for 7 years, but my engineers salaries aren't deductible because I'm "building some product" so that's "development".

I mean give me a freaking break.
There's an annoying paywall I don't care to ty to get around but the fact that your grocer can correlate you to your drug use is the real worrisome part here.
If you work in government there's way less of all that. Of course you can't top out a massive salaries like at FAANG but whatever most important ... tons of money & stress or a very good living and not much stress or drama (ppl in government mostly are not clawing at themselves to climb a ladder rather its a nice paying gig with mostly nice ppl doing their job).
If you have control of the opener, couldn’t you use the door’s learning mode and make it into a real opener?
Given how much less junk food you eat, it's very cost effective
FYI, Lumon HQ / the Eeron Saarinen masterpiece is Holmdel Bell Labs; this article is about the Murray Hill building.
For all practical purposes, it's Android and the use of Android/google services that relevant in this context and not Linux.
The document that I wished existed when I first tried access using OAuth 2 (2013
They are correlating it with Ozempic purchases according to TFA
Tiny details, textures is the most visible and almost always recognisable sign of a generated (unaltered) image.

In some ways, I think AI art resembles what you'd see in a dream. The "big picture" is there and logical, but otherwise it's full of little inconsistencies that don't make sense.
They are able to deform a protein involved in DNA transcription so that they can design drugs that will bind to and deactivate it.

Their approach stops all DNA transcription when applied to a cell, so it’s fatal to the cell. It would also be fatal if applied to a mouse or human, except that they don’t have a way to actually deliver it outside cell cultures.

This is interesting basic research, but is far from leading to new cancer treatments.

Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1217/
Thanks man, you put on a big smile on my face!
In fact, helium is such a mundane resource the US has been getting rid of its national helium reserves[1].

And before anyone says "god damn conservatives", this has been going on across the aisle and is ongoing as we speak. Getting rid of helium is a truly bipartisan agenda.

All of this to say: The claims of helium's value have been greatly exaggerated.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Helium_Reserve
Still falls into the definition of the OP.
Bell Labs in Holmdel (ala Severance HQ) is now "Bell Works", a combination of offices, restaurants, stores, and community space, including the public library. It's free to get in and you don't need to spend money to use the amenities. Walking around is pretty pleasant, the architecture is stunning and they did a good job of keeping the soul of the space. It's a bit of a rarity in suburban NJ.
> As long as it wasn't coerced.

By definition, it was coerced.
I wouldn't go too aggressive but lemme ask: despite a game stacked against someone would the better path be one of drug abuse, taking on debt, and living in a manner that doesn't take into account that rainy days are ahead or perhaps living in a smaller dwelling, with less material obligations, and setting education above entertainment
Ozempic is like $800 a month, do the people spending that also go to Walmart?
I believe the Apple Watch is a class 2 medical device because it alerts you if it thinks you’re having a heart attack. They probably got a 510k for this and based it on some other predicate device
> An increasing number of CEOs and investors are talking about how popular weight-loss drugs might change the economy and business. Earlier this week, the CEO of the maker of Pringles and Cheez-Its said the company is studying their potential impact on dietary behaviors. “Like everything that potentially impacts our business, we’ll look at it, study it and, if necessary, mitigate,” Steve Cahillane, the CEO of Kellanova, said in an interview.

Well that’s just dark.
Balloon gas is 97% helium, so from a helium consumption standpoint it's about the same either way:

https://www.boc.com.au/shop/en/au/balloon-gas
Why? I like party baloons. My MRI, not so much.
I think there are a lot of better options if that's what you want. From what I've seen the appeal of the Flipper is that you can do a bunch of fun stuff with a super easy to use interface (just select the thing you want to do and press go!) It's like the iPod of radio/rfid hacking.
I've been using vb.net for a while. I love how easy and fast is for small projects.
How typical of Congress to intentionally set up fights every 2-3 years over completely obvious BS, and summarily shut down the government and scapegoat something else like top-line rates on the "working rich" while playing class warfare politics.
That and any new tools being introduced need to not introduce anything "from earth" otherwise upon analysis you'll get false positives all over the place.
Yeah data is often recoverable by experts. But it’s too hard.

My VCS rule is that commit ids are sacrosanct. If you make a commit that commit is safe. You can do whatever the hell you want. Merge, rebase, whatever. But you can always go back to that commit.

This is kinda sorta true for Git. But that isn’t a first principle. And Git’s management of branch labels is super finicky.

Mercurials anonymous branching is a better default imho.
Even before Stable Diffusion et al, I had grown to detest the majority of stock image use (for articles/blogs). They almost never add to the article, and often mislead.

It's not a coincidence that the one place they are heavily used is marketing/ads. When people add a stock image to an article/blog post, they really are playing the ad game, even if they're not selling for money.

Not a big loss if they're all replaced with AI.
There’s a great answer here that describes a rolling code attack and above it, an answer describing that they have slack regarding where they are in the code sequence.

https://crypto.stackexchange.com/a/47440
Don't forget we have ~25% higher population than 1995 now too, so the current sales levels are quite worse than the even that 30 year low comparison.

The good news is rates are slowly heading down to normalish (4-5%) range, but the era of free money (sub 3% mortgages) are unlikely to come back. If those rates do come back, it will not be pleasant as it will be the other side of a fairly large recession.
Walmart runs a pharmacy, and most people use the same payment cards to check out for food and for pharmacy purchases (and also happily offer up loyalty cards and other tracking identifiers).

Walmart is also one of the largest users of facial recognition technology.

Why would it be surprising or worrisome that the people you buy something from know what you bought from them?
Why shouldn't they use WordPress? I'd be pissed if they'd wasted taxpayers dollars coming up with a bespoke system because NIH. It's a CMS.
> ... who survived history’s worst maritime disaster ...

Not the worst maritime disaster by loss of life (90K in Second Punic War storm; 100K in Mongol naval invasion typhoon disaster). Not even the worst of peacetime maritime accidents in the 20th century (Dona Paz, 1987, in the Philippines -- 4386 deaths). [0] There are easily forty WWII sinkings with greater loss of life. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_maritime_disasters
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_maritime_disasters_in_...
all they can do is mechanical engineering. anything they ship involving software is usually an abject failure.
Yes

1. Health insurance caps the annual price to a few thousand dollars, which is worth the money for most people for the health and social advantages

2. Wealthy suburban families shop at Wal-Mart quite a lot
I think my comment above is of equal quality to this article, do you not agree?
The usual wisdom here is that people often see what they think is X_1 post application of plastic surgery and ask why they they'd do that to the beautiful X_0 they were. The reality is often that people are talking about how X_35 is so much worse than X_34 and how X_34 was the epitome of natural beauty.

So it's a stopping problem. One might as well ask "You bought your Bitcoin at $0.01?! Why didn't you sell it when it was $60k?!".
It's fun, it's the opposite for me. I barely ever talk about my work with people.
Completely true. All you need to do is look around at professional associations. "Women in <industry>" abounds. "Blacks in <industry>" and "Latinos in <industry>" and "<Industry> LGBTQ+ club". Identifying with one or more "minorities" is your key to networking and belonging.

I grew tired of seeing groups which excluded me, so I joined some Irish and Scottish business networks. They are very small, and concentrate not on diaspora but on homegrown businesses in weird and disparate industries.

At least as a Catholic, I have been able to join ministries, retreats and service organizations for men.
Helium is a byproduct of natural gas production. Only a few wells are even setup to capture it because of the associated economic cost.

If we really care about conserving helium we would probably not vent it directly into the atmosphere while extracting natural gas.

Party balloons are not the problem here.
What you consider success is up to you. The criteria you listed may matter to you or they may be other peoples’ criteria of success.

Perhaps success for you is “known as important enough that I’m never on the layoff list”. And “get to spend time with my family; can avoid the death march programs”.
> I was at a AAA++++ brand FAANG.

> The politics, from the second I joined, were so over-the-top. It was like Wrestlemania. Everyone was smashing eachother and throwing elbows and it was like a spectator sport about who could club who first and the loudest.

This is phenomena I've seen played out in organizations which are flush with cash and want to hire "only the best", yet end up having multi-layered management building fiefdoms in order to affirm their importance.

Bored smart people will find a way to make their days feel important. If it is not in the work they do, then it will be the political fights they have.
I've still not seen a convincing answer from the legal world as to how MUCH human involvement makes an AI-assisted image copyrightable. Can I claim copyright on my picture of a pelican in a fancy hat or not?

https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/111489351875265358
I think with all these devices "accurately" is a loose term in the sense that it is accurate enough, but could be better. Wrist based ECG has been determined as accurate enough to wear on your wrist, but isn't as accurate as what you'd get in a hospital.

If it is accurate enough, then the particular number isn't necessarily the important, its whether it an measure the same number consistently, then track movements from the baseline. Which is why they often have a % up/down accuracy figure.
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Chatgpt API wrapper tailored for the company, all in vb.net. 7 months and counting.
So far I'm very happy with it, but it is not a stable product because of the nature of the API
In the linked example clang just compiled function to nothing. In practice it means that CPU will run over random memory after calling this function. It probably will cause a crash, but may be it'll format a disk, who knows.

https://godbolt.org/z/zTz1488P3
Yeah, for sure—I looked at the Flipper when it first came out and decided it was overkill for me.
My most successful product was a boilerplate for developers. But before that

- I grew a SaaS to $6K MRR
- I built an AI tool which I sold for $35K a month later
Eliminating tension between leadership and employees
I believe this is the way. That said, it might be a privilege to think this way. One can be nice to others and still play to a political advantage.
We all thought it was a bad idea, shutting down the Helium Reserve.
3 Lessons from Building a Chrome Extension with TypeScript
from someone who has never made a Chrome Extension and never used TypeScript
That's not what the article asserts; you're complaining about a strawman.

It asserts that some virus genes made it into our genome, and that some of those were useful in the eventual evolution of the placenta.

That mechanism is well documented: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endogenous_retrovirus
I thought it was because US had better quality controls and finer manufacturing specs.
how much paper can it hold down?
Video of removing the stuck screws

https://images.nasa.gov/details/OSIRIS-REx%20Asteroid%20Samp...
The article is from October 2023. If you or someone else has a link to a more recent article where they take it back, I would be happy to read it as well!
Despite all the shit people give wordpress, this works way better than yet another Node.js atrocity that needs 700 MB of JavaScript to render text.
IMO, this phenomenon is not specific to DevOps. I've seen this happen when there are official architects or architecture committees.

One of the problems about debating DevOps is that there's no single agreed upon meaning. That probably also impedes its success.

To me, the essence is that there are engineers whose job it is to give product and service devs the ability to do their own operations through software that simplifies basic shared concerns. That does not mean mandating solutions.
Love this Daniel.
My favourite F1 tire gas story is when Ferrari used a refrigerant gas (HFC 404a) to inflate the tyres instead of the usual nitrogen.

The gas has mutch better heat transfer properties and helped with cooling, which gave them a slight advantage.

Not sure if they utilised a full-on refrigerant cycle within the tyre (liquid being thrown against the inside and evaporating) or similar a higher density and heat capacity, giving improved connections heat transfer, but pretty interesting nonetheless. Was banned soon after, of course.

https://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/threads/ferraris-tire-gas-...

Edit: definitely the latter, pressure nowhere near high enough to go liquid