skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but if your "basic algebra" includes the popular inconsistent axiom that "numbers have a unique decimal representation (up to leading and trailing zeros)" you can equally well just disprove any of the rules of algebra that you used to reach the conclusion.

When people have (accidentally) been taught that, and then they're presented with a case where it's false, it's perfectly reasonable that they wonder whether it's that thing that they were taught, or something else that they were taught, that is wrong. You don't have to look very far to find cases where it was the other laws of algebra that they believed were wrong, for example the popular proof that 1 + 2 + 3 + ... = -1/12.

Even a mathematically sophisticated alien who comes from a culture that somehow never used the rationals or reals the way we do might at first think that this is a fact that leads to a proof that no object that obeys your rules of algebra exists, rather than a proof that 0.999... = 1.

Most people, even most university students, don't have the benefit of a formal mathematical education that actually clarifies these kinds of riddles.
Same thing happened with my work computer in the office network with a MITM HTTPS firewall. The IP address jumps between the coasts randomly confusing the Windows weather widget. Images failing to load on a lot of websites because the IP address change triggers something in their CDN. Everything is working fine when I'm WFHing so it has to be the office network.

Oh and this can also happen when a mobile user is jumping off their home wifi network to a internationally roaming data card. Why they would do that? Because data is cheaper this way, or they are actually tourists. So please do not block users just because they are doing this teleportation dance.
I find your comment very distasteful. It is written as if you know The One True Path, and anyone who strays from Your Path is unethical.

I find your comment particularly distasteful in light of the fact that you were replying to a comment by the writer in which he acknowledged that people might make different choices if placed in the same situation that he was in.

Finally, some of the things you wrote are obviously wrong. For example:

>We may not purposefully speed up anyone’s death

Nonsense. If someone is trying to kill me, I may be justified in killing them.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/02/apple-now-has-162-billion-in...

Apple has $162 billion in cash on hand.

They could acquire Netflix if they wanted (they don’t want to).

Much more likely they buy Pixar off Disney or something.
assume OpenAI's business model is the same as Ubers and you're not getting the full price for the current offerings, and it'll quadruple in costs.

Then ask if your product will survive that. If not, don't tie your wagon to their service without a secession plan.
>_Right now_, all of NATO combined can't even outproduce Russia alone.

What? Don't know where you're getting your sources but NATO combined definitely can outproduce Russia. Why it isn't, is that Russia is in war mobilization mode with all their industry running 3 shifts for the war effort, while NATO's industry is still in peace-time mode because they're not under attack.
Maybe I missed a point in the article, but I feel a broader shift that produced this situation is simply that the US is no longer building huge numbers of new factories and industrial processes that need lots of new machine tools.

We have left that phase of our country's development behind. We have relatively piecemeal demand for such tools, aside from the random new Tesla factory. And that kind of growth is what spurs development and maintenance of these kinds of supporting industries.

As a country, you fall out of the practice of building stuff, and the talent or ecosystem of it migrates away.

Look at railroad building. In China, they have entire industries of people building the tools for building railroads. They can call up 100 experts on design just for EV battery building machine tools and factory processes. Here you're lucky if you can find that many experts on any machine tool topic across all the contractor companies that have had to consolidate to make keeping this kind of talent sustainable. We just don't have this deep practiced industry knowledge in general across many businesses any more. And aside from some specialized centers (NASA, NIST, national labs) that doesn't exist much in the government either. We've outsourced it.

Maybe it's a natural evolution of a country. Maybe the tide can be turned with strategic investment, I don't know.
I dont even use the youtube android app any more, its become hot garbage.

infinitely better experience on android vivaldi browser.

Really looking forward to apple vision tbh. my last windows laptop became a macbook air, very very satisfied.

And like they say, apple has decent competing products anyway, so not kike device users are going to miss them.

They will need a tictok app tho.
First time in the wild I've seen someone else reference monotropism- I also feel like it describes me to a t. Thanks for sharing your experience here. Hope you're getting along ok :)
Edge has gotten really good, how much impediment is that?
They've been on AWS since before eu-west-2 was added, it's still not at the scale of eu-west-1. Capacity issues are still a thing (but getting much better), and only recently have they become pretty much feature parallel.
What is our society built for ? Climate change ? Social media? War? Covid ?

Your sentiment isn’t lost on me but there isn’t much evidence the future need be a catastrophe either.

I personally think society isn’t going in a great direction, maybe more intelligent systems will help us.
The YouTube web app allows you to download videos you might want to watch offline. Not sure about the other apps, but it's easy. So, no need for an app there.
It doesn't the user just fucked up. You can always run systemctl reset-failed whatever.service
Here's the code performing the allocation reuse:

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/25f8d01fd8bda339612d0...

It's not supposed to waste more space than a regular `collect()` or `push()` would when growing the capacity exponentially.
The nations they recovered artifacts from probably don't even exist anymore.

The previous homeowners were killed in the robbery, I didn't steal from any living soul your honor!
Favorite part of this piece:

> We were initially skeptical whether we would get to 10,000 results. But with nightly leaderboard gamification, we managed to break 15,000 results within a week. Out of fear of eating into our productivity, we closed the contest.

I've hosted a few of these corporate data labeling events. If sufficiently gamified / there's a good enough UX, they can be surprisingly engaging. It helps a lot if you have a large employee base though. Distributing results over 5000 employees is exponentially easier than even 50 - in practicality, even larger than the orders of magnitude.
But did they make those contextual in order to avoid conflicts with code that had existing identifiers before the new keyword was specified?
TheScore is good.
Because you can't have it both ways?

I thought people in Apple world desired the walled garden experience where the guardian is so strict to "monitor the quality and safety of apps" that you can't possibly allow for side loading.

Why allow subpart experiences onto a new platform that makers can't afford to make "safe and perfect"?
Ask HN: Do you stay away from Contributor Licence Agreements?
Hello everyone. So a while ago I stumbled upon Shopify's Polaris, which is a React UI framework. It seemed like a nice project overall, and while I appreciate it being an open source project (they didn't have to do that), it has a weird licence which is basically a modified version of the MIT licence but with a clause that prevents competitive usage.

Now, the other interesting bit is that the project also has a Contributor Licence Agreement (CLA) which also seems to provide all copyright to Shopify. I don't really understand how these legal stuff work in software, but I heard that CLAs have been used in the past to profit off contributors by moving to another proprietary licence (MongoDB and Elastisearch did that)

Then do you (developers on HN) stay away from CLAs? It doesn't sound too risky for me, and I've probably listened to one too many open source activists.

Another question, if I may, would it be possible to relicense a fork of Polaris to MIT (removing the Shopify clause?)
That's not the real price in the UK because manufacturers will negotiate a confidential price with NICE.

And the quoted price is not the price insurers pay in the US either.

As someone who has worked in this space, the EU is lower than the US, but for oncology drugs the difference isn't that large.
Apple control iOS, iPadOS and visionOS. Not only that, but they made their UI frameworks screen resolution/size independent some years ago. I am sure Apple will be able provide a premium ‘native’ experience for existing deployed iPad apps with minimal to no additional effort on their part. Does Catalyst ring a bell?
Wow Avatar was 15 years ago, and I remember all the hype for 3D studios and every television would be 3D…
It's not terrifying, it's mildly annoying. It's also fixed with 'systemctl reset-failed'. SysD doesn't know if 'systemctl start' was emitted by the operator or by a badly running script.
Oh good point considering they pitch it as being useful for airplanes.
Apple doesn't really have experience with building a platform for user generated content. Sure, they have the technological might, but content moderation, recommendation fairness, ad monetization, etc. are different beasts and usually come with awful publicity risks that might just not be worth the effort for the world's richest company.
Not sure why you're multiplying trade volume with their share price? It's a stupid scenario to think of, but the offer would be some combination of cash and shares they own, not newly printed shares out of the blue.

And if they did print more shares, how would it "tank their share price to 0"? It's not like a stupid acquisition would instantly vaporize a 2+ trillion market cap company overnight.
Where do you get a 12 dollar a year vps. Hetzner charges me 4 bucks a month and it feels like a steal
It's hard for me personally to imagine a 30-minute update query that is not written extremely inefficiently, or else a one-time huge data migration.

There are a lot of the former in the wild to be sure. I've had a lot of run turning minutes-hours into milliseconds. :)
Shadertoy is a blast, and if you use KDE, you can make your wallpaper use it[0]

0. https://github.com/y4my4my4m/kde-shader-wallpaper
Probably enough to annoy the users who really want to stay on Chrome and the Google ecosystem, but not enough to annoy the users who really like Windows on ARM since there's also Firefox for ARM64 Windows. Google is just being needlessly petty here IMHO.
I put "failure" in quotes because they absolutely did fail in what they originally set out to do. Nobody raises venture capital to build a "minimally profitable and very stable" business.

Thinking about it like the old joke that "if you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline."

Even if the outcome is desirable, it can be a failure if you started off with a different/bigger outcome in mind.
https://archive.ph/8xoZ6
eu-west-2 is a bit misleading, most of its nowhere near London, they've got DC's right up into the midlands. One of their newer ones for example is out in Didcot Oxfordshire, they've also got a few up towards Peterborough. All classed as 'London' despite being a fair distance away from it.
I'll read any book this guy writes
Apple Giving Employees 25% Discount on Vision Pro
That's not what I mean. It should just be one file, one HTML file, with styles in a style tag, images as base64.
Stairs are not expensivei they take space, but are cheay otherwise
I definitely feel an emotional response when I am interrupted from my line of thinking. Whether it's doing a task or thinking through a problem, any sort of request that I need to handle which isn't related to the task can be difficult to switch gears to. Fwiw, I was diagnosed autistic and OCD back in the middle of the pandemic because I loved lock down and didn't want things to go back to the way they were. I had so much uninterrupted time where I could think or solve problems. However I didn't realize that loving lockdown was not a normal thing; someone suggested I talk to a psychologist which is what lead to my diagnosis. Hope you can find some answers for you.
My favorite rejection letter - if you can call it that.

I had two interviews with a smaller agency that I knew of and really wanted to work there because of their reputation and the work they were doing.

The last interview was with one of the founders of the company. She was really cool and we had a great rapport. The interview was about 90 mins and we covered a lot of ground. She said she would be reviewing my resume with the other devs I interviewed with and asked when I would be available to start.

I figured, cool, I got this in the bag.

A week goes by. . . .then another four days and now its been around two weeks since I heard from them. I practically checked out at my last job thinking I would be leaving and now I was getting nervous.

By sheer coincidence I run into one of the devs from the company at a conference that weekend. He was stoked to see me again since we had some common hobbies outside of development. I immediately asked WTF was going on, I hadn't heard anything from his company.

He looks at me and says, "Nobody called you to tell you what happened?" I said, "Yeah, no man, nobody called me, WTF happened?!" He does that nervous look around and then looks back and says in a hushed tone, "Two days after your interview, the founder you interviewed with? She sent an email to the other founders just saying, "I have to flee the country, and I've taken all the cash from the petty cash fund. I'll send back my phone and laptop when I'm in a safe country."

So yeah, I didn't get the job because one of the founders fled the country, took the companies petty cash fund along with their phone and laptop.
Yes, but once you know how to use it, everything else is an annoying toy. Also, of course, it being the standard means there is no end of tooling designed to support it.

I can’t count the number of times I’ve been frustrated at my current job because I have to wade through layers of ECS bullshit to do something.

All that said, if you don’t need containers, turns out you can get a lot done with two servers behind HAProxy + keepalived, running stuff with systemd.
> or the lack of demand or immediate utility (eg. academia and research).

The problem with academia for me (at least here in the US) is the amount of money I have to piss away to even get a fraction of a chance to work in it. You could convince me to sacrifice money to work on something interesting, but you can’t convince me to pay you a shitton of money to have a chance of maybe working on something interesting.
Except that a lot of these companies have multi-billion dollar valuations currently...
Someone said "the greatest minds of my generation are focused on getting people to click ads".

That is what has lead to habitually poor executive function. Go look at YouTube shorts, or TikTok. There are videos which are literally two videos stacked vertically. Apparently this is because 1 video isn't stimulating enough to keep people from clicking away. That wasn't normal 10 years ago, and would have been uncomfortable for many people to watch. People's brains have changed, formed new habits, through repeated practice. I'm not insulting anyone, most people don't realize they are training their brain in a way they won't appreciate later.

ADHD was first recognized as a condition well before the internet. Clearly there is a way you can have this condition genetically or from your early environment. But now there is a boom in ADHD diagnosis, and it's not because the original etiology has become more prevalent.

Which do you think is more likely: single etiology with varying severity, or multiple etiologies presenting with similar syndromes?
You need to notify the customer and then deal with the support work when they roll the key. Also they will get some blame from the customer for having to deal with the situation. All that without much extra payment. It's much more profitable to not care.
I can get 8gbps symmetrical in Toronto.
Every tech company minus the few doing core research have been doing this for at least half a year. Generate training data with GPT4 or sometimes even 3.5 -> use it to do a QLoRA finetune on a llama or mistral base -> roll it out as a "proprietary" AI model -> management claims a big win and talks about how they're leaders in "[industry name] AI".

It is remarkably easy - it takes practically zero knowledge of ML and can usually be done with less than <$1k of cloud compute costs. The issue is that for most realistic tasks you can expect to end up with something roughly on the level of GPT-3.5, and its actually really hard to compute with GPT-3.5 on a cost level, at least if you use cloud GPUs.
Is the modern definition any different than the older one? It just means systems with feedback loops. A motion sensitive video camera is “cybernetic”. So is the Facebook feed algorithm and self-checkout at the grocery store.
Anybody have this downloaded and can paste a few examples?
Over/under on days before he renames the company to "Singularity?"
Nightcore lmao.

The other question will be, can music tuned to a higher A frequency increase heart rate and make a good pre-workout?
Im definitely not going to defend Apple here but I think this could drive people even more into the ecosystem. With new purchases Apple grants access to Apple Music and TV+ for some time and I think some people might stay afterwards.

As far as YouTube goes, I only use it in the browser due to my adblock working there.

Maybe I’m wrong but this could turn out as a win for Apple.
I've done some research involving parameterized summarization recently. GPT-4 does a really good (like, pretty outstanding) job in following the tone and density of a few one-shot example inputs. It's a lot more difficult to encourage the OSS models to do the same so you're going to have to experiment with a lot of different techniques to get it to what you want. In the worse case it could actually require some serious R&D investment to achieve the same results as an API out of the box.

All that to say, my general philosophy is to worry about vendor costs / scale once you start approaching an adoption threshold where it matters. If the core idea doesn't have legs there's no point wasting time in developing your own summarization layer.
In wonder whether Apple will change its rule about iPad apps. Currently they’ll work on visionOS, but the author has to give permission. Will they make work by default saying “I’m totally an iPad”?
API or not API is a technicality which bothers only tech nerds. The law would bother with such nuances.
Maybe it isn't VR they're shying away from, maybe it is apple.

I wonder if Apple's handling of the app store has finally come around to bite them.

Steve Jobs was a pretty good integrator, and got the people in different industries to work together. That's all over as apple turns inwards and doesn't do "relationships" anymore.
If we all non-smokers show up on a smokers list - There is zero downside for me, but someone is going to waste money targeting me as a smoker.

Will it narrow down if someone is trying to track me? Probably.
The runaway greenhouse effect does not need to "turn us in to Venus" to be a problem. The person who wrote their interpretation thay way deserves admonishment.

That said, the runaway greenhouse effect can, and absolutely will, negatively affect our ability to crop, graze, and inhabit large areas. It does put at risk our ability to continue to feed, irrigate, and house large portions of population, and it will cause increasing desertification and high prevalence of higher cost natural disasters and severe weather including both hot, cold, dry, and wet. These are all factors which deserve our continued attention and efforts, and they should not be dismissed by some of our conservative pseudo-science brethren so readily.
Indeed, this is a thoroughly solved problem thanks to countries like Japan where urban planning typically allows meandering networks of narrow, pedestrian-friendly streets.

This article has some nice points of comparison between typical American firetrucks and a Japanese firetruck: https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/article/Meet-Kiri-the-tiny...
Everyone needs it, you've just lied to yourself enough that you can talk yourself out of setting it up for your own apps. It's easy and free if you're in the Cloud, and nearly impossible on-premise to do yourself (i.e. why most VPS providers don't do it).
The code doesn't catch anything. People catch violations of the code. Community review is a place people can point out code violations. It's actually extremely embarrassing when this happens to a developer.

Buildings get built with infractions all the time. With the MFH buildings it's actually a point of law to see who gets stuck with the liability -- the person that built it or the person that bought it.
It is amazing how humbly you've lowered the barrier for programming programming languages. Aside from hobby PLs, I apply much of what I learned from your book elsewhere and I have become a much more competent programmer because of it. I recommend this book to anyone I know who likes a good programming challenge.
huh, that's not my definition.

Self hosting is your hardware in your house/property with your software.

but times change i guess. I do understand why that definition would change. but I feel we should maybe name it slightly differently.
> I have also had many close associations and friends lose children, relatives, and associates; often, to unnatural causes. It has to do with the demographic I hang with.

Perhaps this is morbid curiosity getting the best of me, but your last sentence was a surprise. What demographic do you hang out with that has such a high rate of death due to unnatural causes?
Possibly you and the OP would be better served to say “I wouldn’t be surprised if some claim about x%” is true. Or, “I would guess it’s true that”.

Back to the main subject Vertasium has a related video:

Is Most Published Research Wrong
https://youtu.be/42QuXLucH3Q?si=p9M0ZOAdHuowD30n
Something similar happened to me.

The crazy thing is like 10 months later I got hired as a contractor at that same company and asked one of the devs what happened to the manager I interviewed with last year.

They told me the woman was a bit of a firebrand and after several years at the company was fired because she was trying to hire more developers and upper management didn't have the money or resources to do so - but she went ahead anyways and tried to do it.

I was one of the casualties who didn't get hired because of her stunt.
> Every tech company minus the few doing core research have been doing this for at least half a year

I'm assuming you mean all those new 'AI wrapper' startups popping up.? I wouldn't say "every tech company". But yeh it seems incredibly easy, definitely an easy win and leaders get to feel ahead of the curve on AI.
Could be very intriguing for technical groups or other communities with discord continuing to bloat.
I would simply have small firetrucks in urban areas, and large fire trucks in rural areas.
Nah, I still like it for fun. The only downside is that it’s easier and easier to see horrifying kludges at work now.

“Oh, I remember doing this a year ago in my homelab… it was a mistake.”
So, best to do it without publicizing. :D
Taskmaster (TV Series)
That was the first one I saw and it immediately killed the site for me. Real rejection letters would be interesting to see.
The people who are excited enough about the Vision Pro and have $4000+ in fun money lying around to buy it on launch day are probably firmly in the demographic who have Apple TV/Apple One already.