skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“It is understood that after being contacted the business listing for Thistleberry Farm was changed.”

It sounds like someone other than Apple or the farm owners changed the information for the farm in Apple Maps.

I don’t know if anyone can do this, but I have reported problems with businesses in Apple Maps - marking them as closed, or changing contact information, or moving their position on the map when it was wrong. These changes don’t take effect immediately - I get a notification (usually within a few days) that the changes have been approved. I assume someone at Apple (or more likely, a contracted third party) reviews these suggestions and approves them.

Not to attempt to absolve Apple in any way of responsibility, but what I suspect we are seeing here is a sort of information warfare, where competitors/malicious individuals are reporting changes that they know will hurt the business in question.
I am not sure whether I can agree. Isn't this just another Goldilocks principle? In addition, not only company but also national culture matters.

Ref.:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38437104
> I think it’s obvious that a cop who recognizes a fugitive in public is acting reasonably while the same cop doing a facial-recognition search at a public school parking lot may not. Where does searching public Twitter photos lie? What if they’re only accessible with a login?

There are some pretty obvious and reasonable lines we could draw here. For example, is the thing available to the general population, or only to specific parties who haven't chosen to make it public?

This doesn't necessarily answer your question, because you might e.g. have a reasonable expectation that data which is ephemerally available to the general population is not being recorded en masse and indexed into a central database, but it provides a boundary that would have eliminated a large swath of the trouble.
> Large vehicles are important part of American economy and mostly driven by blue collar workers doing their work. For example things like plumbing, construction site work etc.

The problem is that this argument is demonstrably not true. Trucks vastly outnumber blue collar workers, and most blue collar workers would be better served by a Volkswagen Transporter or a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter. You're not seeing those in the US because they have an insane import tax.

The traditional target for pickup trucks, farmers, almost universally hate modern trucks because they are simply way too tall to be practical - they'd rather have a 1990 model than a 2024 one.

The vast majority of pickup trucks see zero offroad use, and practically never carry anything in their bed. They are essentially pavement princesses used to commute to an office job.
Reflog to the rescue: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-reflog
> The uncertainty you pointed out does seem to explain the downvotes I received.

Yes, even on HN people despise anything that violates norms (unless it's promoted by a megalomaniac).

Thanks for sharing your experiences. It's great there's now a tool for that need.
The government only claimed to identify you with that number for one purpose. The motivation for fraud would be a lot lower if that was the way it was still.

The problem is third parties abused that number for their own purposes.

Imagine if some company somewhere started using phone numbers as identifiers, and criminals started defrauding that company by "stealing" other people's phone numbers. Would you blame the phone company for that? Of course not.

The problem is that banks and anyone else using SSNs need to do more due diligence than checking SSNs, but they don't want to because it would be expensive and add friction to signing up for their "products".
Zprezto is a good alternative which is also faster. I eventually migrated to zim because of its minimalist approach.

I think starting from Oh My Zsh or zprezto can be a good choice. Once you get a feel of what zsh can accomplish, eventually probably you’ll one day find it too slow and/or too complicated and then would switch to something like zim to only load the things you know is useful from then.
I believe curve fitting is part of statistics.
And Atlassian’s own Jira Product Discovery (JPD) backlog management tool that integrates with Jira:

https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/product-discovery
To doubt that knitting existed in Roman Times is preposterous. Thats like saying they could not weave baskets. Instead, your incredible hypothesis lends credence to recent studies by internet sleuths that indicate history as we are taught may have an extra 1000 years added simply because dates have been mistranslated or misconstrued to read a 1 (one) where there is indeed an I or J symbol, denoting years since the Christ; IOW that that 1999 is actually J999.
The 30 year number is a bit disingenuous, appliances are conking out in 3-5 years which is why this is a conversation at all. In that time frame, innovation in most appliances is frivolous extras. Nothing fundamental about toasters has changed in decades. Fridges are adding TVs on the front because fridges are all the same technology and it's impossible to differentiate.

30 years for sure, that is a totally reasonable amount of time for an appliance to last. If it genuinely lasted that long I bet you actually did a few repairs in there too. Living the dream, actually even 10 years would be amazing. We could cherry pick examples of long lived products but the point for me is that people don't pay for longevity like you said, but we need it for other reasons. Reduce waste, improve consumer choice and power over their own objects.

In regards to efficiency, it's definitely more efficient not to produce a society worth of new appliances ever 5 years or so. Improved repairability aldo means improved recycling of the components too.
I don't really think it's that there is a feeling of _obligation_, more so fairness?

I.e. "if they are listing the other businesses then they shouldn't be able to discriminate against my business without good reason."

I think it is important to prevent that from happening.
The lack of AI-centric conspiracy theories is so thick, you couldn't even cut it with a knife.
To doubt that knitting existed in Roman Times is preposterous. Thats like saying they could not weave baskets. Instead your incredible hypothesis lends credence to recent studies by internet sleuths that indicate history as we are taught may have an extra 1000 years added simply because dates have been mistranslated or misconstrued to read a 1 (one) where there is indeed an I or J symbol, denoting years since the Christ; IOW that that 1999 is actually J999.
He is likely referring to retained mode rendering.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retained_mode

The app is running on the device, but the app is pushing the commands to render 3d models to the system.
It’s a soul-sucking type of work. At my company, engineers tend to blindly follow security tooling recommendations to the T without ever considering context. Quite frustrating. One example is hardening an internal-only, ten-monthly-active-users app as if it were public. Lots of misdirected engineering hours if you ask me, but go to tick that checkbox the auditor asked for!
I have always thought of ML (not DL) as phenomena that can be modelled mathematically.

It turns out that not all problems have a great mathematical model like self driving cars for instance and so the search continues...
£7,000 for a warehouse in Covent Garden, those sure were the days.
NYC isn't exactly forgiving the debt, but is working with a non-profit that basically buys debt for pennies on the dollar, and then doesn't collect on it, wiping it clean (and presumably updating credit reports showing it as paid)

They are spending $18M to wipe out the $2B.
Is DeJoy in jail yet? Otherwise he’ll just trash those chargers to continue his trail of destruction.
Curve fitting by gradient descent is not really.
eBay to lay off 1k workers as tech job losses continue in the new year
My personal Japan Trip Lifehack is to pay for all the small awkwardly numbered purchases (kombinis, supermarkets, fast food etc) with your Suica/Pasmo. This eliminates virtually all Y1/5 coins, since "proper" restaurants, transport, attractions etc universally round up their prices to the nearest 10 or even 100 yen.

I do regret Japan rolling back their previous requirement to have all prices tax-included, since now many budget places do the US thing of advertising nice round numbers but adding the tax on top.
Amazon is also charging less than half of what Netflix does, for 4k, and is still the cheapest of all the streaming services. I naively assume they're feeling the pressure more than Netflix does.
seems like a really good edtech tool
I’m sorry if you feel that way and looking at it now I do agree. Next time I’ll provide a more thorough analysis that is more in line with the standards of HackerNews.

I was mostly curious whether the sentiment of the post resonates, as I feel much of the coverage on the vision pro is focused on either technical prowess or how it could change the way we work with computers, rather than the openness of XR operating systems.
If you're short, you can't see a damn thing over the hood of those vehicles. An entire class of schoolchildren could be standing right in front of your vehicle and you wouldn't even notice.
the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation
What kind of gotchas do you mean? any examples?
Just four weeks into 2024, dozens of tech companies have laid off nearly 11,000 workers, according to layoffs.fyi, a site that tracks job cuts in the sector.
Show HN: Game to Practice Hexidecimal Addition
Reading a book about assembly and it suggesting practicing adding hexidecimal numbers. I looked for a simple tool to practice this and couldn't find one, so I gave up and wrote one instead.

Source: https://github.com/matt-savvy/hex_math
Regarding JWST and Hubble, see the link to the JPL person's comment. The rest sounds like Musk's talking points, and life is too short...
Debate is a good if you all have a shared idea of what constitutes 'good'. IE, simplicity, performance, whatever.
Huh, thanks. I'll check it out and see if I can drop that in.
Oh that's odd... are you accessing the web app through a regular browser like chrome, safari, mozilla, etc. ? I know the Google SSO does not work if you access the web app through something like Facebook's built in browser.
It's stifling.

I got into programming because I enjoyed programming. My first "real" job was not in FAANG, just some small company with about 2 other developers. And it was great, I had a lot of fun, I got to work with great technology and try new things.

Then I got lured into FAANG for the $$$ and free food. Now it's boring. There's no room to innovate. I'm not allowed to make any big decisions or play with fun technology. What's left? I enjoy my TC and that gets me through the day. You can't blame folks for focusing on TC when there's no innovation to be had.
Where should I go? I looked at Tidal, seemed like a possibility, but I'm not sure if they have the same selection. I have no interest in YouTube Music, Apple Music, or Prime Music.
It’s pretty clear to me why people feel that way - there are basically two mapping platforms in the global west that matter. This duopoly should expect increasing scrutiny of their operations and increasing regulation to ensure fairness in the way they handle things.
In 2024 you can buy directly from the artists in many ways that are more beneficial to them than a streaming subscription.

I make it a point to buy a couple of albums a month from Bandcamp. The artists get a much larger cut than whatever I have been streaming of theirs, and in exchange I can listen as much as I want, completely offline, without any surveillance of my listening habits.

https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/how-much-more-money-artists-e...
How "Shooting Stars" Measure the Distance to the Sun
a fully self-driving car need not have a driver's seat, so it might be quite different.
Yup pretty much this but you need to grind that $0/day work that you see right problems.
> Larger items are easier into a truck, IMHO, since you don't have to rearrange or remove the seating

Think less minivan and more Mercedes-Benz Sprinter. You load them more like a moving truck: giant doors in the rear, big empty space to put stuff in.
This is the most common failure mode I’ve experienced:

> A critical piece of avoiding endless debate is to know who makes the final decision and how it gets made. Consensus-seeking leads to endless debate.

Every rapidly growing company I’ve worked for has reached a point where we have product managers and program managers and engineers and engineering managers and stakeholders and suddenly nobody can even identify who is the decision maker.

Weak leadership then pushes a “we all have to work together to come up with a solution” angle that clarifies nothing and turns everything into a consensus-building operation. Progress slows to a crawl.

The second most common failure mode I’ve seen is, I hate to say it, similar to what this author is proposing as a solution: Product Managers who view themselves as facilitators of a process where they get others to come up with the answers about what to build. The product managers call meetings where they shuffle context and requirements and suggestions from stakeholders to engineers and customers and back and forth under the idea that their job is to lead others to the conclusion. I’ve worked with some product managers who produced prodigious amounts of meetings and slide decks and Figma charts and process documents and Notion pages and after meeting summary e-mails but can never actually conclude what we should build. They’re so enamored with process and documents and afraid of being prescriptive, so you only get questions and prompts and meetings and frameworks to follow to supposedly arrive at a conclusion about what to build.
And where does the nonprofit have the money from?
Which subscription (so I can avoid it)?
Thank you for pointing out the United Nations position on China. I don’t think all people would agree with you that they are the single source of truth on this issue. Here is a better summary of their position https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_and_the_United_Nations
Performance Gains in Ruby 3.3- String.dup vs. String#+
When I read this description, I assumed the skate was attached to the feet like a rollerblade, but after looking at YouTube, it’s more like each foot gets a little foot-sized skateboard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuR-uxPTGzI
The fact that Knouse had her own lab - she was not a subordinate of Sabatini - and she was the one primarily pursuing the relationship are rarely mentioned. Why is only one party being punished when both are culpable? It'd odd how the passive actor who, as you put it, "let the relationship start" has greater culpability than the one taking the initiative to start the relationship. Evidently the people enforcing these policies don't see women as equals, in their eyes women lack the same degree of responsibility and agency as men.

Furthermore, the claims that Sabatini had harassed other women are totally unfounded yet outlets continue to insist that Sabatini was a serial harasser.
Intel’s compiler was a bit better than some but still wasn’t great. Largely, Intel quickly lost interest in Itanium when AMD64 started selling well. HP had their own tooling, and HP was pretty much the only customer buying Itaniums. Intel quit investing in Itanium beyond what their contractual obligations to HP dictated.

I am curious about what could have been, but my assumption is that a mature and optimized software industry would be required. This was never going to happen after the launch of AMD64.
The rock is continuously applying pressure to the mountain. That's why we have round planets and not huge random looking rocks. On an atomic level, the atoms themselves are full of action, though that will take a really long time to see the consequences of that.

ps: I subscribe to the heat death theory.
True, the on-demand part is better, but I'm mostly talking about the breadth of the catalog. Turner was able to get broadcast rights to a whole bunch of movies that the studios didn't really know what to do with. This is partly why The Shawshank Redemption is now one of the most beloved movies of all time. It was pretty lackluster at the box office, but then in the late 90s and 2000s it was just on TV all. the. time. A lot of people who might not otherwise have watched it got to see it.

On demand is not that helpful if you don't want to watch any of the things that are available.
i can't take two steps around here without tripping over one of these boot camps. truly, how did we get here?
Another hypothesis about why humans don't find traces of aliens in the universe: The universe is quite young. We are just first in our local sector!

https://grabbyaliens.com/

> Advanced aliens really are out there, and we have enough data to say roughly where they are in space and time, and when we will see or meet them.
Flash memory is always erased during user-initiated writes in instances where trim is not used, or when there are not enough known-erased blocks to hold the write -- for whatever reasons these conditions may exist.

At a low level, a block of flash can't be written without being first erased. It might have been erased previously (which is ideal), but it might also might need to be erased immediately (which is much slower) in order for to perform a write operation.

And a trim command doesn't guarantee erasure of a low-level flash block -- it's up to the controller to sort out that out on its own.
The US government is completely MIA on this issue. There’s no reason people need these monster trucks to drive to and from their job every day or to and from the grocery store.
Im not talking about the consequences of the layoffs for those who are fired. We agree on that front entirely.

But i'm pointing out that if all the agents in a market acted against the interest of the relationship between the bussiness and the customers, we would have much bigger issues than just layoffs. Everything would be unnecessarily expensive all the time, insufficient volumes and supply. Development would be slower. The companies trying to minimize costs and maximize trade between them and the customers is not just caused by greed, or resulting in suffering, these are the basic drives behind the survival of modern life as we know it.
That’s more than GM.
I think "debate everything" comes from:

1. Uncertainty. People haven't done X before, and are concerned about the outcome, so they delay, by debating. They don't know whether they're right or wrong. They're really just trying to figure out their own opinion. So they will bring up objections, even if they don't actually have a concrete reason to object. They just literally don't know if something is valid, so they pose a hypothetical. Another form of uncertainty is lack of trust. If somebody has trust that an outcome will be acceptable, then they can deal with any fears they might have about whether a given approach will have the outcome they hope for. If they can't trust the process, or people, they'll bring out road blocks.

2. Ego. Let's face it, we work with people with big egos. People who are smart, and capable, and know it.If their egos don't feel adequately compensated, they will debate until it is.

I think "just tell me what to do" is easier to understand:

1. Apathy. It's a real killer, and it can hit any organization. Sometimes people care too much; if they don't feel like they can affect change, that turns into caring too little. Or perhaps they've just been burned too often at this job. Frustration builds until the stress or friction is too much, and they compensate emotionally by disconnecting. Some people carry this from job to job, like a form of PTSD.

2. Inexperience. When you have a lot of experience, you mostly know what to do already. But if you're working on something very new, or the organizational hierarchy isn't clear, or goals aren't clear, or processes, or you just don't have a lot of professional experience, you can be lost in a sea of uncertainty, not sure what to do. Maybe you have ideas of what to do, but it's not clear how to decide on it. So you relent, just waiting for someone to give you some guidance.

In each of these cases, the missing component is: leadership. There must be good leadership to help people do their best work and keep the ship sailing. Bad leadership, or the absence of leadership, will lead back to these problems.
What Is Freedom?
"All countries except Bhutan, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vatican City have compulsory education laws."
That’s why I pay cash out of principle at my local farmers market.

Bit of a hassle to walk to the ATM sometimes, but it’s worth it.
If by "full" you mean "might encounter a single one on your commute", then yes.
AI in user authentication: What's new for developers?
Over the last year, there have been many new developments in productivity apps to incorporate AI capabilities. But, it seems like there hasn’t been much new in user authentication, like with Okta or Auth0. Are there any chances for innovation in this area and potentially ease the workload for developers?
That is another reason. But the smallest trucks were put in the car efficiency standards. There used to be a Ford F100. Full size truck but lighter load capacity. RIP. Tax gas if you want people to burn less of it.
I was going to say ... pretty sure I saw this on TV in the 1980's.
Donations

They get funded
Through donations.
That sounds nice, but won't medical providers/companies just increase prices next year since the feedback they get is that everything is being paid?
I went straight into these comments hoping to find another HN (potentially narrow) boater!

What's interesting and somewhat amusing is that this map has determined that the section of the Soar that joins with the Trent just north of Loughborough is apparently unnavigable. This time of year I'd generally agree.
I've been following this issue for some time. Having a large trash compactor/incinerator in space sounds so cool. Would love to help or join the team!
It looks like they deliberately broke backward compatibility with existing infrastructure around 500-yen coins, perhaps so that they can better prevent the Korean 500-won hack.

Any machine that can handle the new 500-yen coin has probably been calibrated with lower tolerances to accept each version of the Japanese coin, but not the similarly-sized Korean coin with 1/10 the value. You can't just patch machines to accept a range of weights, because that would defeat one of the main purposes of introducing the new coin.

Meanwhile, you can still use the Korean 100-won coin to unlock any U.S. or Canadian shopping cart that takes a quarter. I don't know why South Korea ended up with coin sizes that are almost exactly the same as heavily-used coins in two of their closest economic partners, but they're probably stuck in the same situation as the Japanese: if they change their coins, they'll need to update a lot of existing machines.
Leadership Styles and Decision-Making in Finnish and Swedish Organizations [pdf]
Stereotypical but many locals would presumably maintain that the so-called "management by perkele" is nowadays a sure way to destroy a (technology) company. That's the other extreme discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39112848
How does a storage device shrink in capacity, and by what mechanism is that shrinkage communicated with the filesystem?
I'm very glad I learned tcl, even though it wasn't particularly enjoyable for the first few weeks of it.

We built an online retail trading platform in tcl. Do not recommend that, but I sure did learn a damn lot about computing. For non-technical reasons, that business failed (parent company got devastated in the LTCM bond fiasco and sold off all their satellite units, one of which was ours).

I've used it several times since as a glue language (where it's much more fitting, IMO) and that's been productive.