skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> how do you handle super users?

You did not indicate whether this is a "free for use" app. or a paid app. The answer differs depending upon this fact.

> It certainly makes me think about algorithmic complexity every day.

Realistically you should be thinking about this anyway to some extent for anything much beyond quick one-off's to get a sub-task done in a larger task.

> Should I just put my foot down at some point and say "no, actually here's hard limits X, Y, and Z"?

My opinion, no. It would be fine to say something like "above X amount, you (may|will) find performance may be reduced" but don't add hard limits.

> Or just suck it up?

Are the users paying for the app? If so, then generally you will likely want to do so, otherwise you'll likely lose your best users.

Is the app free for use -- if yes then also feel free to say "yes, that amount of usage is going to cause problems, I'll work on it when I can, but 'real life' means I have little time to do so..."

> These users are great at surfacing bugs that would've affected everyone eventually,

Which is one big reason not to alienate them with things such as "no more than 1000 X's allowed". Most of them should be understanding of "no time right now for fixing that, it's on the list" (provided the app's free). If the users are paying, that's a different story.

Another option you might consider, in the "pay" scenario, is a somewhat higher cost for extreme usage situations to help cover your time investment in supporting those extreme usage situations.
You might be surprised how interested people are in the tools of any trade

https://www.tagari.com/is-stephen-king-still-typing-away-on-...

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27407502

https://www.cassidycash.com/quill-pen/
> HTML + CSS were invented for this goal.

HTML (with SVG and MathML) is probably fine for most books, but CSS has spent 30 years resolutely resisting basic typography, i.e. default text baseline alignment.
I 100% agree and that is why in my original comment I explicitly said that we should put pressure on Apple to make the product they sell to developers better.
Yeah, I've noticed when reading about options that it's probably helpful to not try and find one size fits all devices. They the to cost more and yet still be compromised.
I don't know anything about mars, but I've messed with windmill math. This really doesn't make sense to me.

A 150 mph wind in 1% atmosphere should be a way stronger a 1 mph wind on earth?

You know the old formula,

force = mass * velocity * velocity

But with wind and water the more velocity, the more mass you get hit with in the same amount of time, so we get to multiply by velocity again.

wind force = mass * velocity * velocity * velocity

(This formula is why people die in fast moving water.)

So a Mars 150mph wind (0.01 * 150 * 150 * 150) would have 34,000 times more force than a 1mph wind on earth. Which works out to around a 32 mph earth wind.
The lidar on iPhones makes low light way better than cameras. If you don't do astronomy it will usually be better.

The Samsung NX had wifi and upload to fb.
Are you saying that they are just copying MS or MS is controlling the standard, or that we don't need the standard because we have CLR?

Regardless I think WASM and WASI are huge step in right direction since most if not all relevant languages are going to support it.
unfortunately wasi-threads is deprecated. You'll need to wait for threading support from "core-wasm" and that's a while off, there is no date on the horizon for this, as far as I know.

WASI-threads is not compatible with WASI-Preview2
Male power over females is not the default social dynamic in primates
Some animals are sensitive to oxygen deprivation. Humans are not.

Ask why you weren't told this.
Stockholm syndrome, look into it, seek therapy.
I honestly have no clue and will only speculate. The people criticizing the "rewrite it in Rust" or "written in Rust" monikers always came across as grumpy curmudgeons to me. I never saw an actual good technical criticism.

Also they might have made the mistake of judging a very big and heterogenous community by a few zealot loudmouths (and every community has those).

Informed and objective people shouldn't judge like that but I think it reinforces a preconceived notion that they already have.

The human brain can betray us like that. If you already dislike something, practically every criticism towards it, no matter how small, makes you immediately go: "A-ha! This thing is bad! I knew it!"
A lot of people are interested in the process behind good writing, up to and including what word processor or analog technology the author used.
Any stories that stand out/are worth sharing?
I think he meant it depends on how you define 'swim'
Whatever happened with all the "Russian Twitter Bots" that were promoting "conspiracy theories" like vaccine ineffectiveness, the contents of Hunter's laptop, Maui roadblocks and land purchases, East Palestine Ohio, and so on?

The previous history of reporting on "disinformation campaigns," especially on twitter, show how no one comes clean out of a bullshit slinging contest.
> However, it turns out that Fox News has been more damaging to our society than any video game

I would expand it and say that 24/7 news channels in general like Fox News, CNBC, MSNBC that are doing irreparable damage by pushing on sided narratives and demonizing their fellow citizens.
Not a fan of zipping everything.

One thing I missed about working with old .doc files instead of .docx, was that it was very fast to search a folder with hundreds or thousands of files for a specific word. Not possible for zip formats. (I just saved a file in .doc right now and open it with a hex editor and it does contain the contents in plain-text.) It is a problem to search zip formats or pdf files with grep, and I really doubt that the zipping is necessary for text with maybe a few thousand characters.
Most writing these days is also done by pressing buttons.
I've been enjoying it too as someone who only really became familiar with Apple in their 2000s renaissance with the iPod (I mean, I wasn't alive for long prior to that)

What's really wild to me is seeing the prices on these things, especially adjusted for inflation. The Macintosh XL was $10,000 in 1983, or a whopping $31,000+ adjusted for inflation!

It's quite incredible how the playing field has really levelled out these days. At least in the west, whether you're rich or not, everyone is using fundamentally the same technology. Maybe film production studios will spend tens of thousands of dollars on a specialized machine for rendering video or 3D worlds, but in most cases you're probably using the same or a similar device as the richest individuals on earth. Everyone from Taylor Swift to Elon Musk have smart phones and laptops that do the same things as mine.
(Almost) all Europeans take a long vacation in the summer, even if it only to some other point in Europe, either on the train or on intra-European air travel which is cheaper than domestic air travel in the US and the US and infinitely more humane. Many Americans take no vacations at all. See also

https://conversableeconomist.com/2023/10/27/comparing-eu-to-...
> some of the others just ignored the font settings, _even when an embedded font was packaged in the file_

To me, that's a feature for a document reader, not a bug (although it should of course be user-configurable). Part of the appeal of Amazon's Kindle platform, as much as I dislike the proprietary format and extremely poor document management system, is that books just look very consistent.

My ePub reader follows the publisher-defined CSS more closely (by default), and I've seen some truly awful fonts and margin defaults on its e-ink display.

Ideally, markup and design should be decoupled enough for both to be achievable: A publisher-defined look by default, but correct rendering when the user selects the option to disregard the publisher's CSS.

> All the more frustrating when you consider that the text was not English, and the embedded fonts were necessary for properly rendering the code points and not displaying question marks or boxes.

Ok, that's just an annoying bug then. "Override publisher font" should ideally be smart enough to figure out that it doesn't actually have a suitable replacement for some glyphs. It does get tricky for mixed cases though, e.g. while it would be ok to mix fonts for single words in different scripts, this can get very ugly when it's individual characters (e.g. accented latin characters).
The tech world is full of standards that didn't catch on universally for one reason or another.

If a new attempt can try the same idea, learn some lessons, and get more traction then I think that's a good thing.
This is a subject that comes up frequently in photography. I think this is because many novice photographers think they need a fancy camera to take good pictures.

Gear, particularly the lenses you use, matters depending on your preferred genre of photography. Beyond that, the difference between and low and high end cameras tends to be build quality and the ease of use.

It's important to remember that these are just tools. I've learned that everyone shoots differently, so it's important to find the right tools that work best for you.
More cases like this are going to increase calls for AI regulation. "Think of the children. Think of innocent people. They are getting harassed."
Yeah, about that... reread my entire post.

>Metrics are a popularity contest and nerds just can't win a popularity contest.

Even if Google SERPs are all garbage, they still win if most people are fine with garbage results. It doesn't matter if a loud minority of nerds bitch about it in their blogs and podcasts and research papers and hacker forums. Most people will still use Google and they will be "okay" with spammy results.

I know this sounds crazy, but if spammy results weren't drawing real numbers, they wouldn't be a viable business model in first place.
> I guess if we repeated that experiment nowadays it would be the other way round.

I doubt that. I'm not a pro photographer by any means, but my 2016 olympus pen-f (m4/3 format, so the sensor area is a quarter of "full frame") wipes the floor with my iphone 14 pro it's not even funny. Had a friend the other day comment on some random pics I took in a bar with the pen-f, as seen on the phone's display: "how come your pictures look so good?". The subtle gradients, the details in dark areas, the barmaid's skin texture, all this looks like plastic on the iphone.

Sure, neither is technically a "now-current" device, but I don't think there have been any earth-shattering improvements between the 14 and the 15. I hear some Android phones might have superior cameras, but again, I doubt it's a night and day difference with the iphone. The Olympus is 8 years old, and even when it was brand new it wasn't exactly state of the art. A recent model m4/3 would be a noticeable improvement, and a full-frame sensor would be in a whole different league.

But one point where the iPhone (and similar androids) have the "real" cameras beat: it fits in a men's jeans pocket.
I'd guess they're worth $50-70 each if they've been reasonably (ab)used and maybe $200-250 if in very good condition.
Perplexity AI in Arc Browser
If it's supposed to be like that: Why did the man struggle?

Call it a wild hunch, but my guess is he was struggling because some people were trying to kill him.
Just curious what tools are you missing on MacOS or Linux that are found on Windows?

I have been on MacOS the last 8 years or so but before that was all Windows and Linux. I prefer MacOS now but curious what I am missing. My colleagues that are using Windows machines all use WSL with dev containers so really just using Linux under the hood.

My experience is that pretty much everything is cross platform these days. I don’t do .Net or game dev though. Just Go, Java and some NodeJS these days.
Of course they don’t have years. But OP said they had “0 money”. There is a large gap between these two states.
There’s a couple inaccuracies you’re making, but here’s the most blatant:

> Jobs fundamentally hated the Macintosh and tried very hard to get away from it very early (Newton, anyone?).

Jobs had nothing to do with the Newton, it was started about a year after he was forced out, Sculley coined the term Personal Digital Assistant, and it was one of the first things killed when Jobs got back to Apple.
Unless a true alternative emerges (and I don't mean that hopeless current Android hardware), Apple's dominance will thrive undisturbed.

Google is unable to properly launch a phone worldwide, which is really stupid, giving their claimed "top talent", resources they have and market presence in the entire world. They support Pixel 8 in Ireland (5 million population), Norway (5.4 million), Denmark (5.9) but they don't in Poland (38 million, part of European Union for 20 years) where they bought one of the largest offices for over $600 million USD to support 2,500 employees (it's not a "developing country"), and Poles consider Pixel's price a fair price, not an expensive one. Not to mention lack of Pixel presence in at least some Asian countries with at least several hundred millions of potential customers. They even did not enter all radio frequencies in their version of Android, so that 5G or some Wi-Fi bands don't work in some countries. When you roam from supported country to an unsupported one, you may loose part or all connectivity. They did the same in Chromecast. Multiple layoffs confirm it's all about money at Google, so why they don't reach for an easy money from smartphone market? It's a rhetoric question.

Other phones compete with the same hopeless vision, Samsung being notoriously unstable, unfinished, downsized (in certain markets), overheating and just plainly idiotic.

No company offers easy and complete tools to exit from iCloud, just toy projects and non-viable software, make people stay with Apple even if they don't want anymore, because it's just easier for them.

Therefore for now no company with their Android hardware with dreadful UI and nonexisting/unfinished services is going to be able to compete with the biggest electronic religion, that is Apple.

Many years ago idiots from Microsoft killed their smartphone division, which had probably the best realtime OS any phone had at that time, the best basis for app development. They had made some good decisions, such as introducing very easy to use and performant .NET and a nice UI framework, then they have over-engineered it. Had they had the crew with brains inside, had they listened to customers, they would now be the dominant player in the market. But even the simplest feature requests were ignored by them and/or downplayed by their then-zealots.

I've read somewhere that Musk may be considering creating his smartphone. Looking forward to it, maybe it'll shake the market, bring some freshness and at least motivate some changes in the industry.
Mainly "actual historians and anthropologists" on reddit and in related circles. GGS is far less controversial outside these circles and often lauded - also by "actual historians and anthropologists".
Does anyone know how big the base installation is? I couldn't find an answer anywhere, and the link to the QEMU image appears to be broken, currently.

I'm curious how it compares to, say, Alpine with a similar set of packages.
> The CPU is probably the best cooled thing in a typical desktop (and it needs to be).

What? Surely it is discrete graphics cards which have the most sophisticated cooling systems, since they consume the most power.

> [...] the amount of power available to a PCIe card, especially one that uses fewer than 16 PCIe lanes; apparently a x4 or x8 card may be limited to 25W total

Maybe through the PCIe connector that is true, but discrete graphics cards have dedicated power connections.
How does a WW2 unguided bombing campaign remotely compare to <30m CEP munitions, ton-for-ton?
FTC Tech Summit highlights GPU shortages, concentrations of power
Of course there's ample evidence Apple is not on the brink of bankruptcy, but we've settled for current IP laws which permit companies to own stuff and charge consumers for it. If the price is too high consumers won't buy but given the current state of the app store it doesn't look like there's a lack of people and companies building apps despite the "Apple tax".

I'm not entirely against opening up the app store but it remains to be seen if that would change things for the better. Apple may censor a flag, but they also repel a lot of attempts by companies to get my personal data. I'm much more concerned about the latter and would gladly pay a bit more to have less tracking.
Everyone's paying. We have a 14-day free trial, but otherwise don't really jam with the freemium thing. Gets too overwhelming in the B2C space.

I've updated the post to include that it's paid.

> My opinion, no. It would be fine to say something like "above X amount, you (may|will) find performance may be reduced" but don't add hard limits.

Makes sense, and in general has been what I've been doing. I just feel bad not being able to solve everyone's problems. Our only hard limit is "if one of your documents is >1MB of text, something has gone terribly wrong."
I am confused about what exactly this means if we just have a personal domain for my professional emails. Which are just a couple a day at a max (really depends on if I am looking for a new job or not).

Does this make having email accounts like this viable anymore? Am I at risk of my emails not getting where I expect them too, particularly important if I am looking for a new job?

I use Amazon WorkMail so will need to see if that has done what is necessary, but still worried what exactly this will mean.

Edit: Is there a tool to validate that things are setup how we need it to be?
There is a "hobby" of consumerism like audiophiles who talk about FLAC and have tons of "good" expensive headphones they don't use. Same with photography. The best tied together hobby and consumerist collection is in trading card games.
While not an issue for musl-centric distros if they keep updated, note that e.g. Debian stable doesn't have that version yet, so good luck testing.
What if you don’t though? I’m not saying it’s accurate but what if they were like “ok you can side-load but we didn’t price that into the $1000 phone, side-loading costs $4000”
Just that you must have a DMARC record in place. Doesn’t have to be enforced yet.

That is a logical next step down the road though and IMO long overdue.
Imagine how impressive that would be if it's a really large company. The CEO wouldn't have to be very bright, as long as he gets to work with the issue it would be fkn revolutionary.

Now imagine the LLM is the CEO.

Running the company might be harder than doing phone support. Then again it might not be if one could some how be in 1000 places and have 1000 conversations simultaneously 168 hours per day.

It wouldn't have to get back to you on that. It can explore hiring a company, acquiring and cloning it in real time and bring the figures into the conversation while simultaneously talking with their competitors.

With other LLM CEO's it can draw up a 1000 page contract with many angles covered and triggers for renegotiation.
I think that's kind of the point though - in a free market with sufficient competition, distribution channels would be forced to compete on the quality of their review processes and users would gravitate to the marketplaces that have the best processes and hence the best reputation. So it is not clear that this is true mathematically: you just need one alternate channel with better review processes and for enough users to switch to it for there to be less malware distributed overall.

As it is, there is only one channel and no competition, so we don't know what the malware situation would be like in the absence of Apple's monopoly.
Apple chose to comply that way. We're arguing over poor design right now because this is a user story for no one - that's Apple's fault. There are thousands of ways to comply with the DMA, and the proposed one here is nonsense; Android and Mac exist as proof that you can give people choice without sabotaging them.

Ostensibly, you're right; why give the uninformed masses an imperative browser decision? If Apple was willing to make it optional or put it behind a Developer Mode, they wouldn't be faced with such stark regulation. Blame whoever you want, but the writing has been on the walls for years - Apple sabotaged themselves if they weren't prepared for sideloading.
I think it matters a little bit less than you think it does. If that were true we would've convinced people to stop using Chrome a long time ago. I've converted maybe two of my normie friends to Firefox, the rest just shrug and move on with their day.
I'd start with googling best places to raise a family and start digging in. I'm sure the lists change from year to year. I recently moved and started this way.

Also, there is no utopia so the "best place to raise a family" in the US might have other negatives, you just need to prioritize.
That last quote is kinda weird

>Unfortunately, you can’t turn a Nazi into not a Nazi. But we can limit the impact of the Nazis

Do they really think somebody cannot have a change of heart. If you accept Nazism once then you can never stop being a Nazi?
Rats simply like playing games, I'm not surprised that they thought pressing the button is fun.

But really this is a variant of the mirror test. These rats were freshly adopted and have probably never seen a mirror, and have no idea what they look like. If they were given a mirror for a while before running this experiment, we might see different behavior.

I found a paper [0] suggesting that rats do recognize other rats in mirrors, still photos, and video, but the results aren't very strong. I think the theory is that their eyesight is pretty poor and they rely mostly on scent to identify other rats.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5849344/
> The lidar on iPhones makes low light way better than cameras

How so? My iphone 14 pro looks like a cartoon if I shoot people or animals in low light. Never had any "actual camera" look that bad, and my newest is an 8 year-old micro 4/3 model.
Might be part of the nerd kingdom for you, but I recently made pretty cool use of WASM+WASI in a VSCode extension:

https://floooh.github.io/2023/12/31/vscode-wasm-wasi.html

Also quite a few 'CPU nerds' found my 'visual6502 remixes' useful so far:

https://floooh.github.io/visual6502remix/

https://floooh.github.io/visualz80remix/

Development experience with Emscripten and WASI SDK is fine really (in the sense that these are "just another gcc-style cross-compilation toolchain"), and with those it's not much different than bringing a C code base to any other platform. It depends a lot on how portable the code is in the first place of course.
Yes, it seems the two groups' wishes are mostly orthogonal.
They didn't mention the Pippin!
How America's economy keeps defying expectations
Yeah, up to 3000$ a year. Essentially as long as you live there, your monthly payments are deleted.

Not enough to be worth it in my opinion, the dark winters are too much man
Musk: Chinese EV makers will demolish' most competitors without trade barriers
So, you just solved general governance?

No, you absolutely can't set such an organization and expect it to work. You are marginally better giving the task to some government body, but expect failure either way.