skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love listening to Donald Hoffman. Very unique guy. I do sort of subscribe to his theories - and not to take anything away from Donald Hoffman - but this concept comes from eastern philosophy and isn't necessarily his own.

"We are one"
"We are the universe experiencing itself"

These are tenants of buddhism and other eastern religions.

Dr Hoffman makes things a bit more interesting in his observations by relating these older concepts to modern understandings of simulation theory and physics (my own opinion).

Just some context. Ive listened to everything the guy has on YouTube.
Maybe I shouldn't have said that there was a perfectly fine store on Mac and Windows, that isn't really true. I mean they do their job but yeah.

But I can't even stay within Steam only if I wanted too. Which is well established as the standard platform, but that hasn't stopped publishers from pushing their own. Including Epic for that matter thanks to how popular Fortnite is.

Sure ok Windows Store sucks but that is changing the conversation here, I fail to see what features a general App Store on my phone would add that would truly benefit to me as a user.

But again my point here is that the choice on gaming has been removed from me if I want to play a particular game. Just saying don't play it, is not a valid argument to me.
Axioms of Systemantics
There is no collision _whatsoever_ between software freedom and security requirements. It's an illusion which happens to be highly convenient to those who want to promote an artificially controlled market and sell that as snake-oil security.
This is awesome, congratulations. I'm glad to see some text-to-sql models being created. Shameless plug: I also just realized you used NSText2SQL[1] which itself contains my text-to-sql dataset, sql-create-context[2], so I'm honored. I used sqlglot pretty heavily on it as well.

Do you think a 3B model might also be in the future, or something small enough that can be loaded up in Transformers.js?

[1] https://huggingface.co/datasets/NumbersStation/NSText2SQL

[2] https://huggingface.co/datasets/b-mc2/sql-create-context
The comment I referenced before contains a talk by 'mcpherrim as well that explains OCSP stapling's own deficiencies.

I think we all want a good solution here. But none of the currently widely deployed ones are that.
Your use case isnt complex/nuanced enough then
Miflo: A database schema migration tool for Turso, PostgreSQL, and SQLite
This is from a US small non-profit, and small for-profit operating with way less than $1M in funding, and not necessarily intending to deal with people in the EU context: Not every company has money to pay for the hours to ensure they are GDPR compliant, so they opt out of serving EU clients altogether. It's not always a problem forever, but it's definitely a blocker sometimes.
Here's the point I think keeps getting missed in these discussions: monopoly.

Why are we worried about social media? Because it's a system made by and for a small number of companies. We worry about how well these companies will bear the responsibility that new technology creates for them. Why do they have that responsibility in the first place? Why doesn't that responsibility belong to you or me or any of the other ~5 billion individuals who participate in this system? Why can't we have a piece of that responsibility? The answer is monopoly.

Our society got into this situation on purpose. It's in our laws, enshrined as a human right. The right to monopolize ideas. The right to intellectual property.

It all started out as a way to game the system. People saw that free information was incompatible with capitalism, so they invented a game that would resolve the incentives. So long as enough people participated in this game, the edges of the system would balance out to humanity's benefit.

Whether or not this game worked is a matter of perspective, but what is definitely clear is that the system that IP was originally designed to solve has fundamentally changed. Our ability to share ideas has grown exponentially. It costs practically nothing to share information today. Information can be shared by any person at any time any number of times to any number of people, and this can even be done anonymously. Participation in the game of IP has been an ever-growing problem, and no amount of threat or propaganda can keep it in line.

---

Ideas are not the only thing that social media companies monopolize. The next presents an even greater responsibility: moderation.

Social media moderation may be the most significant failure society has ever seen. The results of mismanaged moderation have fallen everywhere on the spectrum from petty argument to genocide. We all know that moderation is incredibly difficult, and nearly impossible to scale; yet we allow a handful of companies to manage it on their own! Billions of us participate in social media, and billions of us have zero leverage over what ideas and narratives we participate with.

This system is fundamentally broken. The most perversely incentivized party (the company who wants to make money from participation) has monopolized the responsibility for the entire system! How could we ever expect them to get it right? We're over here worried about the tools they use to do the job - which is certainly its own problem - but why did we ever let them have the job in the first place? The tools are not the core problem. The core problem is at the center of this system: it's the fact that this system has a centralized core in the first place.

We don't just need to liberate the exchange of ideas. We need to liberate the responsibility that comes with sharing them.
I’m trying to solve for this with my project using RAG and (at least based on what people say in Discord), it’s working really well for them:
https://github.com/vanna-ai/vanna
It's a very Steve Jobs tone, much more so than anything I can remember from Apple in recent years.
Thanks for taking the time to answer the questions and link those resources, really appreciate it and the work your team did!
> Maybe I'm missing something here?

Statistical literacy is difficult to develop, statistical intuition even moreso, even among well-intentioned and very intelligent people.
I'll update that to "The CDC doesn't recommend it", in that case.
> SQL is supposed to be the "better" already.

For non-technical people. It is not supposed to be the "better" for the technical people who end up using SQL in practice. QUEL was the "better" for us, being much closer to Codd's vision. But, alas, Oracle won with the business people and Postgres lost.
Usually you have a reference voltage for the ADC, that is the maximum you can measure.

A 1V band gap voltage reference is common.

You could also use 3.3V Vcc instead, but there is no guarantee that that’s actually 3.3V as it's provided by an external circuit.

The band gap voltage is always 1V, so I see why it would be the default.
> Lack of options?

The market is flooded with DRM-free Air Purifiers.
The article says that all participants were eligible for screening, but it doesn't say how many were screened or tested.

Also, this cohort would be age 28-36 years currently. The lowest median age for HPV cancer diagnosis is 50. https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/hpv/statistics/age.htm
Or you put the main table inside a horizontal marquee, and the column that contains your side navigation inside another horizontal marquee that scrolls at twice the speed.

Then the navigation "rows" the entire site across the screen.
One interesting switch up could be the EU elections this year.

Right, Far-right and EU-sceptic parties are predicted to become much stronger.

So their stance might change on some topics
There definitely will be a distribution of droplet sizes (plausibly not unimodal) depending on the mechanics of what's producing and dispersing the droplets. Broadly speaking, the smaller the droplet, the longer it stays in the air. I'm not sure precisely where the line is, but in the context of virology, 'droplet' and 'aerosol' are distinct. Droplets are large enough that they still fall mostly ballistically, albeit potentially a bit slowly for very small droplets. But once it's small enough that it doesn't really fall anymore, it's an aerosol. And they can remain suspended in the air for hours.
Well, you can always type "select from some_table" and then move the cursor back after select and have auto completion. For example Jetbrains DataGrip supports this.
> Why did she believe that? I like to believe are politicians aren’t completely insane

I'd hope that any appreciable amount of time spent looking into Michele Bachmann would disabuse you entirely of the notion that the presumption of good faith is appropriate for all politicians.
something like

select *
from employees
qualify row_number() over (
partition by role
order by join_date
) = 1

although I don't disagree with you. and `qualify` isn't standard SQL iirc
Mortuaries?
I don't think that's what that stat says.

For instance, if Amazon hired ten people in January, retained 5, fired 5 in February, and replaced them. Then, I fired 3 in March and replaced them. Then fired 2 in April, and replaced them. Then, fired 1 in May and replaced them. That's consistent with having candidates that only meet job requirements 50% of the time. But it would show up as 100% turnover.

That's not the same thing as people not wanting to work there. Warehouse jobs are demanding, but pay relatively better for unskilled labor than other jobs. And the workforce that is available for those jobs is often not the best in terms of skills and work habits.

These are things you learn when you run a small business. The American domestic high school educated workforce in most cities is very unreliable. You have more luck with immigrants, but if for some reason you can't hire illegals (like Amazon) then you are kinda at the mercy of having a workforce that often doesn't show up for shifts, has difficulty reading and following instructions, etc.

I encourage everyone that wants to fight for more worker rights to start a business that uses unskilled labor and provide those workers with some more rights.

Hiring American top-25 college grads to work in a startup isn't the same thing.
Given that comparable open-source models exist for free, it's near-impossible to exert a monopoly.
Plenty of people. In this case, it's pandering for votes/donations, but it's frequently to sell some alternative miracle cure or supplement.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/05/12/9936151...

> That selling can be big business. One of the leading anti-vaccine advocates, Joseph Mercola, is believed to bring in millions each year through his companies, which sell an array of branded natural supplements, beauty products and even pet supplies.
Jenkins is barely useful for CI/CD, so you might as well see what else you can do with it for fun.
That's my approach :). I have a brother laser that's great, but only print maybe once a month.
Which I think is a better outcome than if we’d gotten iPhones stuck on a local maxima of microUSB.

As a consumer, lightning is a more pleasant to use connector than micro and therefore, I’m glad Apple didn’t cave at that time.
For reference: https://github.com/chromium/chromium/tree/main/net/data/ssl

It's been a long time since I looked at them, not sure what's in there exactly any more. Ask Ryan perhaps :)
Sounds like the hypothetical AppStoreKit idea I suggested-

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30199125

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

If only Apple had deigned to try this before regulators appeared.
Uline is a 10b/yr eCommerce shipping supply company that has US-based customer support that will answer the phone, with a live person on the other end, within 3 rings max. Customer support is also open 24/7, 365 days a year including all holidays across US, Canada and Mexico.

The key to this being possible is 1) They're a private company 2) that's wildly profitable 3) so they can just hire a ton of customer support without having to answer to shareholders.
True, using "chip on board" (COB) assembly you don't even need a package. Alignment is challenging but certainly doable.
> avoid breaking apart 2 key words that should stay together

Yes, this is the correct usage of &nbsp;. That's much saner than using it as a spacing tool.
Indeed. The header reads to me as “the server says this content length will be…” so I have always taken precautions with it. Servers can be wrong as well as malicious.
It appears that these changes are not coming to UK. I wonder how UK users feel about it.
This is what I've been thinking ever since I bought my first printer in 1988.
Literally a few minutes ago Adam Neely (Pretty famous youtuber and Jazz player) posted a video specifically about this point[1], and I fully agree with his thesis: If you take out the "music nerds" as the gatekeepers, their place will be taken by Google/Instagram/TikTok indexing and MinMax algos and whoever can influence those.

The tech to create content may have exploded in the last years, but the ability to truly connect and discover (and I mean ways to build cultural, emotional and social connections in and outside of the internet) has plummeted.

I don't agree that technology is strictly at fault here, but this side of the equation has been heavily ignored due to the less immediate monetization options. We've gone for the "intensive farming" of art and culture compared to more "sustainable" approaches, and we're experiencing the equivalent of desertification following a monocolture.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RceZ8VS8PbQ
I think you may be missing part of what the GP is saying: the concern isn't (primarily) that an alternative App Store will overall become more popular than Apple's. It's that specific apps like Facebook will create their own App Stores whose primary purpose is to distribute their one or small number of apps without the restrictions Apple places on privacy.

So the Facebook app (and Instagram, WhatsApp, and whatever else Facebook owns these days) would be able to collect as much data as the OS itself allows, without any kind of warnings before install.

It could potentially even use private APIs of some sort to bypass Apple's OS-level permissions dialogs and collect data without even asking the user first—it's unclear, at this point, to what extent Apple would be able to police this sort of behavior from motivated bad actors like Facebook when they're not being distributed through Apple's App Store.
Here's the first I found:

https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=4cf111c139290637JmltdHM9MTcwN...
If you're an Einstein-class talent, luck doesn't have much to do with it. You'll find a way to do your thing.

One example: someone elsewhere in the thread mentioned John Carmack. Carmack's not a thief, or at least it would be a grotesque oversimplification to label him as one. But he stole an Apple II when his parents wouldn't buy him one.

What's critical is that once talent is identified, it's nurtured to the greatest extent possible.
American Airlines lowers data management costs
Was it any worse than nested div soups?
The tone seems completely professional? I'm not sure where you're reading the "palpable rage" from. Because they used the word "already"? I'm not seeing it.
> 2,000,000 installs is a minimum of $45k in fees, even with $0 USD revenue

> this seems obscene

This is why I never cared about the 30% take: it was combining all the costs you'd have anyway into one simple number. People just acted like those things were all free just because Apple wasn't explicitly listing them.

Could you optimise your expenses better by splitting them?

Probably.

And that may even be worth forcing the issue from a competitive PoV, because it means some customers will be effectively subsidising others: A weekly updated 2 gigabyte app that's free in the app store gets its bandwidth paid for in part by a 30 Mb app that charges a $10 monthly subscription and gets an update every 3 months.

But even then, companies are expected to make profits. What's the level where it's fine for Apple to say "we want this much extra just for us"? For a lot of people the answer seems to be "zero!" — while this probably would not disincentivise Apple from making iOS given they also profit on the hardware, it would almost certainly disincentivise Google from bothering with any updates to Android.
Fantasy Site Fires Employee over Cheating Scandal
Reinstalls -- RIP these budgets come new iPhone release season
Japan Reveals What Happened to Their Lunar Lander
And most people don't care at all what's under the bonnet.

They want something that reliably gets them from A to B and back, with occasional side trips to C, D and E. They want something that does that in a way that matches their personal style. They want something that isn't going to cost them an arm and a leg to run.

Forty, fifty, and sixty years ago people cared a lot more. Starting really in the mid-90s, that changed. Nowadays, there are probably as many gearheads as there were decades ago, but as a population they represent a smaller percentage. And there's a tiny percentage of people who care only so that they can mod their engines to run less efficiently so they can pwn the libz.

Inasmuch as people do care about the 1.3 4 banger — they choose it because it generally runs more reliably over time with fewer litres burned per 100km.
> Sure ok Windows Store sucks but that is changing the conversation here

It's exactly the conversation. The platform allowed for competition and better options to exist.

You think the Windows Store is bad now? Imagine if it was a captive market that didn't have to compete with Steam and others.

Lack of competition for payments on iOS means Apple faces no competitive pressure to reduce their fees. Developers and users lose out because of this.
And doing so could end up making it accelerate, possibly making the unviable business eventually viable: https://github.com/maybe-finance/maybe
Site ist not down, just inconveniently slow.
> just a court case about malicious compliance

This I don't understand. What exactly would the court case be about? "You're following the law but we didn't mean it like that?"

If you want them to do things differently, don't you need to either 1. prove that they aren't following the DMA, or 2. change the DMA?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malicious_compliance
In winter I bring my tropical plants indoors and that means lots of lights in the bathroom where I overwinter them. 20,000 lumens is enough to see the droplet spray. Gross. It definitely changed how I urinate and lid closure during flushing.
Looking through the comments here and I didn't see it. Does anyone have any idea how apple is going to track installs outside the app store?

Is iOS going to be sending data to apple on each app installed even people sideloaded it?

Also will iOS launch an un-notarized app that you side load? Probably not knowing apple, but if it won't I am not sure I consider that side loading in my opinion. This is because then that code still has be reviewed by apple to get notarized. This still gives apple the power to reject apps it does not like which negates the whole point of side loading.
> Frankly, during development, I always run my code in a debugger

For many Common Lisp implementations you don't need that. The debugger & source interpreter & compiler & break loops are always available. One also does not need to "instrument" code for a debugger.

> In my experience, trying to substitute a proper debugger with REPL leads to unnecessarily small functions

That makes no sense. The REPL includes a debugger and does not enforce a function size. You can call&debug functions of any size from a REPL. Stack traces can be detailed or overview. From within the REPL, which in case of break is a break-loop, which is a REPL with added debug commands.

> undocumented assumptions about pre- and post-conditions of all those tiny functions

The idea of tiny functions is made up by you. Common Lisp's debugging tools don't enforce tiny functions. Just the opposite, many CL code bases have large functions, which are also even larger after macro expansion.

pre- and post conditions can be explicit parts of Common Lisp code, since it has :before, :around and :after methods.

> every `let` binding adds a new nesting

Lisp uses nested lists. That's one thing to learn from day one when programming in Lisp. Nested code shows indented blocks.

> or due to predeclaring all variable as in ANSI C)

Not predeclaring variables is bad practice anyway.

> Scheme with its `define` is much better in this regard.

No, Scheme's "define" has to be at the top of a block, according to Scheme standards.
Ask HN: What steps would you take to go from a $130k/yr SWE position to $210k/yr
uf. I think a lot of frameworks had these issues. but nowadays its either rejection of the request or handlded like chunked encoding
I think you are underestimating how many apps get over 1M downloads. According to [1], the Google Play Store has over 34000 apps with 1M+ installs, I assume the number is similar for the App Store.

So if you have a popular free app, there is a good chance you will hit the 1M install threshold. This change is basically forcing you to monetize your app. Plenty of people can afford losing $99/year for having a free app that isn't monetized. Not many can afford losing several thousand per month.

[1] https://www.androidrank.org/categorystats?category=&price=al...
No it's not understandable. The iphone is a Turing complete computer. I should be allowed to install whatever I want on it.
If I want to install a reskin of firefox then I should be able to do that. It's certainly not up to Apple to decide this for me.
I would expect that insurance carriers get involved because the load passes through so many hands. Each "hand" needs their own insurance so that they won't just walk off with the load.

However, if it gets expensive enough, I would expect that the parent companies will start to self-insure.
It Is 100 Years Since Our Children Left (2018)
Weird, I could've sworn this was a coffee table book with a lot more objects than only twelve.
Fidelity has good customer support, but I imagine the relationship between the customer and the business in a brokerage is quite different from other companies.
Well there is research around it, it isn’t robust enough to make stupid claims like that, but you could make a decent case that older vaccines contained things (Thimerosal) which could be causing problems. Maybe she doesn’t understand most new ones don’t?
At this point, people realize this and realize what a ripoff these subscriptions are and they would leap at the chance to buy a printer that let them buy their ink or toner from anyone.
Of course this is only available in the EU. Why would Apple compromise its monopoly position everywhere else? Just like how Windows also only allows you to override Edge in the EU.

It's starting to get on my nerves that these basic freedoms are being locked to specific regions. It's obvious why it happens, but it upsets me as a consumer.
The embeddings with arbitrary dimensionality and lower cost sound very juicy! Never a word on latency though in any of these press releases, and if I'm building a chatbot or semantic search, it's kinda bad for the UX to be waiting > 2 seconds for something to happen...
We need more self driving cars in Los Angeles. There were more pedestrian deaths than homicides in 2023.
Most people who walk or bike in LA would rather share the road with an ever improving robot than a distracted human.
i still think the claim regular car users don't really care about the engine specs holds true ... you'd be hard pressed if you can tell the difference between an inline 4 and v6 these days tho (apart from how many more times you are hitting the gas station; some inline 4s even perform better than v6s)