skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the bank officer's angle, the strategy they used (find some info on the site and send it to the customer) probably works well over half the time, because people just don't read.

That you did, and got rightly annoyed by the response, probably makes you an exception from the bank officer's escalation experience.
> I have never understood this viewpoint. The world isn't rich enough, or Apple devices exclusive enough, for identity to weight so heavily in Apple's favor.

Apple has been a status symbol for ages but the iphone made it undeniable. If you've been unaware of that just check out articles such as these:

"New research shows that owning an iPhone is the most common sign of wealth" (https://9to5mac.com/2018/07/08/iphone-wealth-research/)

"Why the iPhone Is the Perfect Status Symbol" (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/status-insanity-why-the-i_b_5...)

"The ‘iPhone Effect’: Are iPhone Users More Attractive Than Androiders?" (https://www.forbes.com/sites/traversmark/2023/12/30/the-ipho...)

As for identity, you may have never met an "apple" person, but it's absolutely an identity for many. It's a subculture (https://www.wired.com/2002/12/mac-loyalists-dont-tread-on-us...). People have called apple users "cult-like" and their devotion to the Apple brand a religion (https://www.jstor.org/stable/3712458). I have met people who were convinced that they couldn't be a "real" artist without owning Apple products (in one case the person was talking about ipods specifically, not computers or cell phones). The influence of marketing on Apple users can be extremely powerful.

As for expense, even in the US the majority of the population (60%) lives paycheck to paycheck and their standard of living is in decline. The high price of the iphone drove up the cost of other brands so the price gap is smaller at the highest end, but most households can't easily afford to get everyone a $1,000+ phone and android devices offer a wide range of prices and features for families who can't afford the top of the line. Even those that can will probably still get more for their money with a flagship android device. Apple users also have to pay much more for software (https://9to5mac.com/2023/09/06/iphone-users-spend-apps/) and that's not even counting the 30% extra apple charges for their cut of in-app purchases that's been talked about so much lately. Iphone users spend and have more money in general for a reason (https://www.marketingdive.com/news/survey-iphone-owners-spen...) and convenience isn't it.

That said, I agree that the perception of Apple being easier to use does drive sales and for people already used to Apple's weirdness there would certainly be a learning curve in switching away from the platform which encourages people to stay.
Results of first offshore hydrogen production pilot
EPROM stored codes for controlling video recorder - the card has IR receiver and blaster, you record t-e codes from remote voa receiver, then the card controls the recorder.
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Advertisers need your dna to sell products that are applicable only to certain dna. Or for higher probability (ie, Alzheimer’s genes).
I highly recommend the book A City on Mars, which explores these topics in a humorous, but well-researched, light.
Unfortunately typst doesn‘t support HTML output. It can only generate PDFs.
Yes, but that's more of an accounting problem. Airlines will either have to increase ticket prices, or the state could insure them, or maybe non of that matters because there is a critical shortage of pilots right now.

For an early stage startup the potential loss of an important person is incalculable. 3 month delay could put you irrecoverably behind in the market, it could cause you to run out of funding as your efficiency tanks. Treating it statistically the same way you would for airlines does not work for startups that are fundamentally about being an exception to statistics.
If even judge and jury can't distinguish a murder from a tragic accident then how should completely biased and motivated general public do it?
> I can honestly say that has never once been a problem I have had, and I've had git information in the prompt for over 10 years.

What do you mean exactly?

Are you saying it doesn’t get out of date? i.e. you never change the state of the repository outside of your terminal session? I don’t think that’s reflective of how most people work.

Are you saying that it gets out of date but that doesn’t matter? If that’s the case, then it’s a strong hint that the information isn’t as useful as you assume. What’s the point in constantly, repeatedly showing incorrect information?

Are you saying that you work around the problem by hitting enter whenever you want an update? Then aren’t you doing the same thing as your colleagues who you mention struggle with Git? Hitting enter in your case is essentially a shortcut for running `git status` over and over, except you are doing it with literally every command you run instead of only when you need to.

> Also how is "enter" less convenient than literally any other command that you'd still have to type and run to get up-to-date information in a command line?

The issue is the space and attention used by repeatedly showing outdated Git information. Space and attention are at a premium in a terminal window; you can’t just dump all the information available to you in there for free.
I know these Japan stories for Americans might be awe-inspiring, but man if there isn't crap loads of waste from all the products they sell here. Yesterday during my grocery shopping each individual glass container product got its own separate paper bag, meat was given a plastic bag even thought it was already wrapped in plastic and my juices got another plastic bag. Even the wines I got were given this plastic wrap, just not to hit each other.

I get that compared to the US the recycling here might be better (and yeah, I do need to separate my trash), but this is pure "oh so mysterious and oriental Japan so great" article. What help is recycling for if you're producing insane amounts of unnecessary waste.
Simple approach to online learning NNs
Mlvwm –  X11 window manager with a classic MacOS appearance (2021)
Even the government (federal) didn't trust these numbers. Provincial government is heavily biased towards supporting anything related to fossil fuels and their political leadership deny climate change as often as possible.
China Added More Solar Panels in 2023 Than US Did in Its Entire History
It has little to do with a charismatic leader. If you don’t think Jobs would have been worse then let’s not forget Jobs wasn’t even in favor of the App Store in the first place.

It has everything to do with when a company is an outsider it tries to be consumer friendly, but then when it becomes the dominant player then it adopts all the characteristics all dominant players do of trying to attract as much rent from their business as they can, users be damned.
Is there a good choice available for running inside a browser, client-side? Without a server to create or run inferences
Speed limit is kinda good counter example. Like getting fine for going 12 in 10 km/h zone sound completely wrong... But going 144 in 120 motorway, yeah anyone complaining is stupid...
> I think another discouraging aspect is HTML CSS are so huge and bloated at this point that few people can implement a "reader" for EPUB/HTML. It's basically "go implement a new browser".

I don't think that's true. In the very least, you can use a WebView and feed it regular HTML. If the whole industry uses webviews for GUIs, it's hardly a stretch to use one to render Epub docs.
The Knight would work better as a cross with perpendicular line segments at the end of both sides of each axis.
Double-deck two-head tape decks show up at our reuse center frequently but never a single-deck three-head deck which would let you check your recording quality while you’re recording.. Quality tape decks need a lot of maintenance, your best bet is get a Sony deck with Dolby S on Ebay but at that price you can get two minidisc decks (and never have to rewind!)

Minidiscs even cost less than today’s “rubbish” tapes never mind metals or chromes.
Author here, I wished SingleFile would use less permissions, but it's unforntunately not possible from a technical point of view. Anyway, if you run some code I've written but are suspicious, you have to trust me or review the code which is open-source.
Canon has one of these too. I've been using it for almost a year, and I love it. I print a lot of reading material, and the cost per page is lower than laser. In my opinion the aesthetics are also better.

https://www.usa.canon.com/shop/p/maxify-gx6021?color=Black&t...
Yeah. It’s a dichotomy. On the one hand there is more full use of foodstuffs but single use plastic is a big waste as well as housing where they prefer to demo houses and buildings rather than renovate them. Building lifespan in Japan is btwn 30 and 40 years.
> If that makes me "thinking I am clever" then by all means, spend your life believing that. It increases my productivity though.

If it increases your productivity, then it’s the opposite of what I’m talking about.
Your logic seems highly flawed. I get what you are saying in the example, yes the government provides weapons which are paid for by the government but produced by defense companies.

But in the Microsoft example it is customers who are paying Microsoft to use OpenAI via Azure. Thats a free market of money inflows. Same with all the people using OpenAI directly. Not sure how you would even think of the money being recycled in this scenario. Yes of course there is some back scratching in the sense that Microsoft invested in OpenAI with a large portion of that investment in Azure credits which makes the investment quite nice from MSFT's side but there is still real demand for Azure services to use OpenAI apis.
https://archive.is/sfsw5
He was also against LISP, but turned around in 1999:

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD12xx/E...
"I must confess that I was very slow on appreciating LISP’s merits. My first introduction was via a paper that defined the semantics of LISP in terms of LISP, I did not see how that could make sense, I rejected the paper and LISP with it."
Glad they are selling for you. It's a known issue, so I just went to the Apple store and since my MacBook was brand new, they gave me a three-prong adapter for free.
I’ll be changing my password after this comment but here’s how I did mine:

<nickname unused since 12 years ago><phone number that no longer exists><another phone number but with shift keys><random http status code>
""“how can so many vector databases need to exist?”.""

Same with languages.

Why so many languages.

Why can't we all get behind a few, do we need more than 6? For every case/problem? Put all our combined resources towards a smaller set.

We need a few DB's, a few languages, a few frameworks. Do we need hundreds?

Like everyone rolls their own everything.
In the U.S. maybe.

In the EU Apple could have sorted this out with regulators without having to involve lawsuits and legal proceedings.

Unfortunately Apple has a strong deeply held conviction about its walled garden which it’s unwilling to compromise on.

Tim Cook’s hundreds of millions in salary/bonus are dependent on Apple being able to extract a 30% cut out of the entire app and media ecosystem.
Role playing games existed before DnD, they were story narrative games where people took turns extending the narrative. My elementary school set were very into these oral improv narrative games, with our favorite being "dungeon" - a game apparently played by one of our set's grandparents when he was a kid, that was very much like DnD, but without the purchased items like dice, characters, or scenario books, purely oral, pure imagination.
I have a bookmark-folder of release-sites and changelogs I visit ever some months. Though, they are on github, which has a Newsfeed, so at some point I switch to a feedreader or mail-forwarder to have this more under control. But I'm still searching for something good.
I made an extension (its on github) to ask questions on selected text via chatgpt (by simply sending selected text). Can this do that too, as in asking question about the highlight text?
Take a look at MathJax's website: https://www.mathjax.org/#gettingstarted

They have a link to JSBin which contains an easy example html page.
> Twitter being the rough equivalent to Vienna's Café Central

Presumably, what paved the way for that development was the recent and widely reported solution of the "nuance problem", such that we can now conduct philosophy debates without any need for going beyond a few thousand characters?
Fly will start charging for stopped machines
One can imagine all manner of horrors. The greatest risk is an unlived life.
Correct, but a filter that's flat to 16kHz with an abrupt cut-off above 16kHz would introduce a lot of noise and artifacts, especially with 80's tech.

Filters with a gradual roll-off are much smoother, cleaner and cheaper. 44 kHz allows a filter with only 20dB roll off starting at ~16kHz to be used instead.

Filters are necessary because if you digitize something at 44kHz, any noise above 22kHz becomes noise at a frequency < 22kHz, aka audible.
SingleFile, yes. Thanks. Did not see it within the edit-window.

I agree about permissions. In this case it looks like it needs a bit more, since it has some options like enabling auto-save after page-load for tabs for instance. Not a feature I have used, but I am sure it can be useful for semi-manually scraping sites.
I was an audio engineer at the time. Worth mentioning the ADAT machines which were basically the dominant way of doing multitrack audio in the late 90’s. All on VHS tapes.
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The problem with unrestricted GOTO isn’t that they’re never useful or that bad people use them. The problem is specifically that they make predicate transformer semantics (and probably other formalisms) pragmatically useless.

For example in a language without GOTO inside an if statement the guarding condition is known to be a predicate (at least until another operation changes it) whereas in a language with unrestricted GOTO there is no guarantee whatsoever that the guard holds since execution could have jumped past it.
I accept your points and agree that the kind of documentation you're thinking about sounds like a poor use case for HTML/EPUB. I do not regularly encounter this sort of documentation.

I've been boosting the idea in the OP, but more for things like "your local council's meeting minutes" or "your English class assignment" or "a research paper".

Though I do want to point out that even moderately complex specs, when designed for the web, can work well. For example, the HTML spec doesn't reference page numbers, but has extensive internal hyperlinking: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/

> Perhaps an EPUB format extended with everything necessary to completely describe a fixed page layout might become competitive with PDF

I highly doubt this will ever happen, for use cases which require fixed layout. But there are plenty of use cases where fixed layout is unnecessary and inferior.
If you aren’t interested in playing (or supporting) modern DnD, for the past few years there was been bit of an Old School Renaissance.

Modern reprintings of classic Basic/Expert rule sets in Basic Fantasy RPG or Old School Essentials are easy ways to get in. To say nothing of Dungeon Crawl Classics and of course getting your hands on the original TSR books.

There are dozens of kickstarters, fan zines, and self-published indie works out there, expanding, building, remixing, and making new experiences with the classic rule sets.

Feels like there is easily another 50 years to this hobby, if you look beyond Wizards of the Coast releases.
New Protocol Kills Dead Air for Quantum Communication
I still think that it'd be easier to maintain the script that runs on a single computer than to maintain a hadoop cluster.
Rethinking pricing strategy for self-hosted customers of ToolJet
Thanks. That might help.
That wouldn’t help with the issues described in the article, I think. That is, license violations (LLMs happen to produce almost-verbatim copies of copyrighted works at times) and lack of volunteers (you’d need to hire a technical writer to ensure the generated documentation is actually correct and complete, and nobody is going to want to accept being hired for cheap for fixing AI-generated documentation).
It is a powered scooter. The box space is lightweight & mostly empty unless the seat and handlebars are folded in. It's basically a stylistic differentiation.
That’s the viewer, and it has limits on what they can do and how they can describe it to users. On the desktop side, we have a long history of things surreptitiously installing other things or misrepresenting the source or capabilities of the software.

Here’s an old example: one of the researchers in the lab I worked at mentioned that his laptop was acting odd. A quick check revealed, yeap, loaded with malware including a browser extension injecting ads into every page. He mentioned that he’d been cruising video sites the other night and had installed the free viewer plugin on one of them…

Again, I don’t think that the situation is perfect or that the trade off shouldn’t be consciously reconsidered but there is a context of millions of people doing things like that. People making mistakes is a daily occurrence and even relatively savvy users can be socially engineered.
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Idle oil wells threaten health in California and will cost billions to plug
Maybe it was a great achievement for Google, but outside of Google I guess approximately nobody rolling out MapReduce or Hadoop read Dean & Ghemawat, resulting in countless analysts waiting 10 minutes to view a few spreadsheet sized tables that used to open in Excel in a few seconds.
The biggest of those is NPM, I think, which appears to be between 50% and 100% as big as the app store. Let's call that equal in size, shall we?

https://nitter.net/npm_malware has twenty postings in the last 19 hours, quite far from "without".
> You know.. HTML used to be hyper text. Some links. Add some figures/images, tables.

It still is.

> But then we 'needed' magazine-like design/layout. Still, it was document based, so actually pretty good.

Styling is not handled by HTML. It's a separate concern assigned to CSS. For convenience HTML offered default styling.

> After that, we tried to shoehorn HTML to an application distribution platform.

It's not shoehorned. It's the use case: render documents. A document is a tree of ui elements. It's the same with GUI frameworks like Qt or WPF.
>>Is there a name for this type of question,

Yes, it is called trolling - please don't feed the trolls.
As a note, the zed editor team were the creators of the tree-sitter project
The system was obviously very much not working. Some of the individuals that caused this acted on negligence, some careless ass-covering, some probably maliciously for their own gain.

But there are a few key points that made it essentially impossible for the accused postmasters to defend themselves against the allegations, among them as a key point the presumption that computer records are correct and must be challenged by the defendant, not proven by prosecution. And to challenge these, you’d need to have the internal records that you can’t access as defendant - no surprise that many of the accused entered a plea deal, knowing that they’d never stand a chance in a trial.

Then, the Post office boasting powers to investigate and bring cases, while not being held to the same standards as the Crown Prosecution, meaning no independent review, no challenge.

This basically made all efforts to defend hopeless, and you can see the results. The cases did turn on the outstanding work of a few heroic individuals and a stroke of luck - if not for those, this all would have gone away quietly, with the postmaster convicted, broken, silenced.

A system that allows for that is broken, and the same thing will happen again, unless the shortfalls are addressed, because careless, negligent and even somewhat malicious individuals are plenty, and heroic people defending are rare.

I can recommend reading this, which sheds some light on the legal details that made the scandal possible at this scale. https://emptycity.substack.com/p/how-the-legal-system-made-i...
Noting that AMD also operates OSS well in their NIC space. Onload and associated tools are on GitHub. Solarflare had the foresight long ago (>10 years) to be open source and that stewardship continued through acquisitions. [1]

As an OSS contributor, that available software (via tarball from their website) allowed me to make public Docker tooling and other projects [2]. I would be less inclined to do so with proprietary binary bundles.

But it wasn't "open collaboration" until recently -- but they were great on support emails! However, new GitHub projects are popping up from them even in the last few months! [3]

And thus, I can independently and openly work on issues [4] and integrate their software with other tools [5], just yesterday.

This all echoes to the recurrent Supabase thread of the value chain of OSS in companies[6]; there's a lot of reasons to do it.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20180108154033/http://www.openon...
[2] https://github.com/neomantra/docker-onload
[3] https://github.com/Xilinx-CNS/sfptpd
[4] https://github.com/Xilinx-CNS/sfptpd/issues/6
[5] https://github.com/neomantra/nomad-onload
[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39087837
> Rust is not a user feature, it's an implementation detail.

Rust is the new C. It communicates that something is fast, but also secure, and new or a modern reimplementation of something old. So, in that sense, is it a user feature because it has established itself in a way that tells the user some important details.
You are free to choose an android phone or an Apple one; that part of the market is absolutely free. Apple is the top seller of smartphones, I believe this qualifies as "competing successfully".
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Remove stimuli.
If it's noise, use headphones and earplugs.
If it's people, face your computer away from them.
If it's inbox, increase update or retrieval time.
You have the solutions.
At least as I see my colleagues who buy special keyboards to type code faster and still being hellishly unproductive, deleting and rewriting while I prefer to think before typing and have a solution that works when I type it in instead of iterating over solutions that cannot work in the first place. When I type it's fast, I just don't do it so much compared to my peers, but I am more productive delivering working code.

Writing with a pen I tried, but no-one, including me, can read it after...
I love this unreservedly. It's almost an embarrassment that something like this does not exist already. Big thank you to Will Crichton for putting all of this together and actually giving this idea a chance to take hold.
Assuming that an itemized breakdown was requested, this is a possible answer as to why it can't be provided. How can a prosecution continue following such answer is a different question.
LA seems perfect for a subway + scooters/bikes style combination.

The weather is pleasant year round and solves the last mile problem.

Public transportations agencies seem awfully reluctant to try out something new.