skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Skate to where the puck will be (Wayne Gretzky). AI is backward looking (where the puck was) technology. It is trained on what is already widely known. In experiments it handles bar exam type questions well. But not systems engineering questions that require understanding the problem domain.

Of course, you could develop foundational IT knowledge: at least one programming language, an OS, a framework or two. But the key to long term success is becoming wickedly knowledgeable about some problem domain, e.g. biotech, some niche in finance, supply chain, medical analysis automation, etc.

Once you establish core competence in the domain of your choice, your future IT learning will be directed by the needs of the problems you are solving.
1) If someone is raping prostitutes, there are more serious crimes afoot than theft.

2) Sorry, but how have they broken the license? We seem to have missed a step in the conversation.

3) And on the thread topic, I don't even think they are clearly lying. They might just be mis-speaking.
Identifying and acknowledging past mistakes should not lead to the false notion that Western thought is inferior or that colonization was not overall beneficial.

The following link provides data supporting this view:

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/6-charts-show-world-improvi....

Western ideas, customs, and institutions that enabled significant technological advancements and population growth, which in turn precipitated colonization, should be celebrated, and yes, in some aspects, considered superior.

The continuous efforts by academic disciplines to humble and demoralize the majority through socio-economic critiques of their culture and traditions need to stop.
It can be a very empirical art. If you can't generate more data at the time you can sometimes invest in reviewing the hand labeling ground truth to verify no false classifications slipped by.
You don’t need thousands of apps. People don’t use thousands of apps day to day. They use the core system apps plus a few top social media apps and perhaps some banking stuff. It’s not 2010 anymore when all of the earnings calls for $AAPL and $GOOG were all about the number of apps on their respective app stores. The web has been highly consolidated since then and the average user only visits a handful of websites/apps. China also has the super app culture — their entire life is on WeChat so that’s really all they need.
Sounds like Patreon are using knowledge of their members' subscriptions to then sell this 'viewing data' to third parties. Patreon aren't even first-party to which videos are 'watched', they're just a middle-man for payments from end-user to provider.

It doesn't feel like a huge stretch beyond all the other personal data point selling gross-ness going on between big-tech and advertising, but it makes it feel as if there's nowhere to hide from this scraping of layers off one's digital soul.

And it could hurt the providers of content. I'm not paying for anything if all the parties in the payment chain are attempting to extract more value from me (my data) than I'm attempting to pay to a provider. Sorry provider, there are no safe avenues.
If your counter argument to consolidation is "Walmart", you're way off the mark to begin with, because they're a megacorp of their own.

But even then, in a very interesting twist of absurdity that is the current state of affairs, your argument gets even more funny when you consider that Walmart spends some 4 billion dollars on ads per year, and are one of the largest customers of Google ads and Facebook Ads. So even Walmart depends on those 3 'trees'.
> Seismometers placed on Earth’s moon enable researchers to measure shudders and groans that are mainly caused by meteor impacts, and the squeezing and stretching of its interior by the tidal pull of the Earth.

How would the moon still be squeezed and stretched when it is now tidally locked to Earth?
I think this is about sharing the viewing history with other peopl, whereas targetted advertising is you giving YT an ad, asking them to show it to people who watch X/Y/Z, and trusting they are doing that with your ad.
Unless I’ve misunderstood something, this is incorrect. According to this October article Tesla has produced 20 million of their own battery cells at their Texas gigafactory:
https://electrek.co/2023/10/11/tesla-4680-battery-cell-produ...

And their first gigafactory in Nevada as far as I know has been producing cells for years. I suspect they stopped buying cells from Panasonic years ago.
A first mover in what exactly? I think Palm and Symbian would argue they were earlier movers in the space and tried to build ecosystems.

To be clear, I don't really lean to one side or the other on this, I just find it interesting that both of these are common views to hold.
FWIW that phenomenon is a geometry thing, not just a fluke. If you are on a collision course with an obstacle at constant speed, than the angle remains constant (as the configuration preserves congruent triangles until impact) and the obstacle can easily remain invisible for a long time, until impact, hiding behind the pillars or even just hidden by the blind spot in your eye if you haven’t moved your head
how does that affect the fact that Apple invented the entire ecosystem for you to try to monetize your clone of candy crush?
Tangential: How do you guys decide which similarity metric to use? Euclidean seems the most intuitive but I'm sure others also have use cases. This situation is similar to the similarity metrics used to compare two distributions (KL for insurance, tho technically it's not a metric). Is there some art to it or is there really a systematic way to choose metrics for different tasks?
> From where I am sitting it looks like China keeps growing while the US declines

That just sounds like you're ignorant about what is happening in China.

The economy is in perilous shape after they allowed a completely unregulated financial sector to finance the property sector. Now there are major contagion fears as well as what the impact to consumers will be given 70% of household wealth comes from property.

Combined with a very low birth rate, rapid ageing and decreasing manufacturing competitiveness due to high costs the country is in serious trouble. Far worse than the US.
note - maybe for others suffering with it given your background but idk - I've had low-level tinnitus for ages, at some point it suddenly got really bad (hearing it over street traffic), turns out my ears were totally filled with wax which muffled sound and destroyed my SNR, therefore tinnitus

back to normal slight tinnitus once removed. very easy process.
I’m not sure that’s true. In Australia where we adopted tap payments very quickly and thoroughly I still find readers (especially public transport) that struggle with Apple Pay, while plastic works just fine.
StarRocks – sub-second MPP OLAP database for full analytics scenarios
> You have to go to the privacy center and “make a privacy request” and it takes 14 days

Yet another reason to leave them. Removing the ability to close the account from inside patreon and instead needing to allow an additional third-party to access my account is very user-hostile.
Additionally, isn't the "Patreon user experience" merely "pay money to selected provider".

I'm admittedly mostly unfamiliar, but how is the user experience degraded? Are they attempting to classify not-as-targetted advertising as a degradation of user experience? If so, they'll never be speaking for me.

There are quite a few laws that are inconvenient to quite a few businesses, but usually those businesses know to say the quiet part quietly.
What specifically do you think the iPad inherited from the Newton, that didn't come to it through the iPhone/iPod Touch lineage?
CALL TO ACTION

Go to your Patreon account, for any active memberships click 'Send Message'. Send something along these lines:

Hello, apologies for the disruption but I'm wondering if you would consider reaching out to your Patreon representative and voicing your feelings on their recent corporate behaviour, which I'm sure you'll find disagreeable

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/patreon-attacks-...

If it's possible to continue supporting you on another platform I would much prefer to do that.

Thanks as ever for your work.
There are several narrowboaters who record their travels on YT, perhaps the best, certainly one of the first, is "Travels by Narrowboat", with 6 seasons on Prime[1] and the more recent years on YT[2].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/s?k=travels+by+narrowboat

[2] https://www.youtube.com/@CountryHouseGent
That's what I'm wondering. This is regarded as one of the strongest privacy laws in the US and yet I all but entirely forgot it existed as I don't recall any cases against big tech with this law in the last 5 years.

but apparently it only protects 'subscribers' in a financial sense:

>In a continuing effort to limit consumer's privacy violations, Malley filed a class action involving Hulu in 2012. A San Francisco federal trial court found the VPPA's subscriber protections apply to users with Hulu accounts.[10] In 2015, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit found that those protections do not reach the users of a free Android app, even when the app assigns each user a unique identification number and shares user behavior with a third-party data analytics company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Privacy_Protection_Act#C...
The code in question was to decide if you need a proxy to bypass GFW.

Hong Kong does not have the (same) GFW, it is rightly to remove Hong Kong from that list.

That being said, use the locale to determine network connectivity is just.. wrong.
Yep. This is what makes QGIS such a great option. Being open source means it is both free and you can easily get your hands on old versions should you need them.

It’s success comes from having a good enough GUI these days.
uh... it is 100% is how men make friends...
Eventually yes, but in the near future seats will probably stay forward facing for crash safety and motion sickness.

Waymo's steering-wheel-less vehicle will be the Zeekr CM1e https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a45711737/zeekr-cm1e-waymo...
In China they only use a few apps and inside of those apps are the rest of them. They are like super-apps.
This is cool - makes me realize how incredible the Intracoastal Waterway is [1]: 3000 miles of mostly protected waterways along the US Eastern Seaboard. Definitely on my bucket list to sail it down one day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intracoastal_Waterway
Taxation: income tax is a relatively new re-invention. Even more for other types of taxation like VAT or capital gains. I’m all for paying for services though. But this is basically stealing or claiming from a person’s fruits of labor.

Passports/citizenship: Although most people will see a passport a sa travel document, you could also see it as a certificate of ownership. In many countries it is illegal to have multiple passports which supports this argument.

Try resigning from the United States. It’s very difficult. Also, passports and border patrol have been used to prevent people from leaving a country in order to exploit their labor, and slavery:

> During World War I, European governments introduced border passport requirements for security reasons, and to control the emigration of people with useful skills. These controls remained in place after the war, becoming a standard, though controversial, procedure

Lastly, if you do not comply or pay taxes to your owner, you will be taken by force and sometimes with the result of injury of death.
whoa. not even in the same reality of being comparable. what a shit example. if you think rape is something to just toss out as some techbro example, then you really have some growing up to do. even a prostitute has the right to say no, and you damn well better respect that. anything after no is rape regardless of their profession.
It was ambiguous to the owner. Not necessarily the FBI.

My understanding was the identifying info may placed by the customer inside the box, with the agreement being the box would not be opened by the hosts except under defined exceptions.
Disclaimer: I've worked in SRE.

My position is that early SRE solved the hard parts, before I was involved. Services and platforms became reliable. The field is mature. SREs still point to risks, but execs have called their bluff.

The takeaway is to make sure you are actually creating value. Maybe Twitter's SREs were not actually improving reliability much.
The link doesn’t work for you? That’s weird. It works for me. Where are you located?
No, you’d still end paying that but in subscriptions to several streaming services and then some extras to rent or buy shows that are not freely available anymore. In the meantime those other channels that a smaller number of people watched just get cancelled.

Unbundling was never going to make watching cheaper unless you limited the shows you watched and were lucky enough that they shows you wanted were available on the same services.
>SREs predicated Twitter would crumble when Twitter's SRE team was laid off. It had some hiccups, but seems stable now.

I think SREs knew better than to claim such. I saw tons of non-SREs claim that Twitter would surely immediately collapse. Then the 2022 FIFA World Cup occurred immediately after the mass layoffs ... and Twitter kept on working.
Shell 285 Hegenberger Rd
Europe. Blocked due to GDPR.
I think it depends on the amount of severance you receive. A layoff happening in November/December with enough severance to cover what would've been the employee's wages/salary through February or beyond is kind of ideal; that way I'd get to spend the holidays as, well, holidays. Otherwise, I'd prefer it to be after the holidays, when businesses are ramping back up into normal operations and therefore I can reasonably hope for a faster turnaround time (and thus less of my own savings drained).

This time I got laid off it was the latter (last week), and while it's still stressful, I vastly prefer it over the last time I lost my job (right after Thanksgiving, with no severance).
> I trust a lot of what he says, but not everything. He has an interest in the machines and his own career, not just in the coffee. Trust but verify.

Yes, as an example his lack of reviews on eureka grinders is very noticeable in comparison videos.
Agree.

It is ok as a blog, but I expect better on HN.
In 1979 the US issued a new $1 coin. Seemingly overnight, a black-and-silver sticker reading "This machine will not accept the new dollar coin" appeared on every single Coke machine in the country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_B._Anthony_dollar
Is this move intended to justify Patreon taking a bigger cut, so that they can justify the cost of our privacy? They could do that and still siphon off much less than YouTube would.

Alternately, can this be seen as a chink in their armor and a way for someone(s) new to compete in their market?
How about glitter nail polish?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6986327
My Little PGP Web App (WIP)
I wanted to learn PGP so I built this web app which is pure browser based.

It’s not remotely finished, but it is functional. Kind of.

If anyone wants to learn PGP through messing with buttons, dragging stuff around, then have fun with this. It has some cool features, such as downloading keys and being able to drop them into place.

Maybe someone can suggest ways to improve this?

Thanks.
I hate this so much around me in Massachusetts. Makes it impossible to know what the driver is going to do at an intersection when I can’t seem them. Often they resort to rolling down their window to be able to politely gesture at me, which would not be necessary if I could see them in the first place as should be legally required </rant>
A car and a smartphone are both basically just big batteries with some peripherals attached and a minimal computer interface
It's a long time ago but the thing I remember the most is that the binaries were huge, around 3x the size of x86 binaries. At the time we were very space constrained and that aspect alone was big concern. If the performance had been there it might still have been worth pursuing, but the performance never exceeded the fastest x86 processors at the time.
Constantly, but like I mentioned in the other 2 comments I just RTFM. Why would I need a chatbot to explain me something the devs put effort in explaining? New languages these days are pretty well documented. And you can read the entire C reference manual in an afternoon.

Asking GPT to summarize something like that is beyond lazy.

Side-note: stop using google as a verb, you're "searching", teach your peers that there are alternatives that are both better and won't ask you for your first born.
The Moon isn't fully face locked, there's still residue rocking back and forth, the Earth isn't at all face locked, nor is it gravitationally uniform so there's a small flexing delta G force there as the two move.
From his writing he sounds British, where class has a somewhat different context and from what I gather, can be inferred from speech/dress.
Minnesota's has expansive rivers feeding the Mississippi[1] and it has one million acres designated to a canoe wilderness -- the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness -- bounded by the Canadian Quetico to the north[2].

They are navigable by canoe by design, yet they are flitting dots.

It gives me pause; what is this site trying to convey? It's a fantastic effort, yet for the water we have, it doesn't match.

[1] https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/watertrails/interactive_map/inde...
[2] https://www.paddleplanner.com/tools/maps/bwcaqueticomap.aspx
I hate comments like these. I assume it gives some people who are Apple-loyal some smug satisfaction, but it's incredibly easy to win a bad faith argument against yourself.

There are so many things you could unpack, like for example, the fact that building an ecosystem costs so much now literally because you have to compete with Apple and Google, or, for example, that I don't actually think the issue at hand is how much Apple "deserves" to be able to charge for building an ecosystem, though I'm sure if it came down to it, "30% of nearly all monetary transactions for literally forever on most phones in the U.S." is not the value most people would come to.

I know there's going to be some temptation to argue about that, but sincerely, please don't. It's just not the point. My point really is, why? This thread didn't even have anything to do with this other than being about app distribution.
> I love how the general tone is "information is free!" unless of course when the one benefitting from it is China, in which case everyone suddenly gets out their magnifying glasses and GPL licenses.

I have _never_ gotten the "information is free!" vibe from HN. That was like 80s/90s hacker culture, not 2020s HN. There's a lot of devs and business people here, neither of which are fond of licenses being abused in general.
No, build the wall and make taxpayers to pay for it.
I bought the framework 13, but I'm just left wondering what was the point? Like... there's nothing to upgrade anyway.

When I buy a new laptop it won't be a framework laptop, that's for sure.

I'm not even convinced the hardware switches are real. When I toggle them on and off, my camera and mic still work so... clearly cant have actually been hardware switches.
AI PC hype seems to be making PCs better
it makes sense, you wouldn’t want to give people the impression that the car could still drive while it’s plugged in
I'm guessing you haven't done much with prompt customization. Try starting a conversation with something like "I'm the research assistant for a policy maker and often need to summarize complex topics for my boss. Please avoid any fluff or boilerplate language in your responses, including not reiterating the question, and favor brevity while still using a paragraph structure instead of bullet points." You'd be surprised by how much different your answers will look.
It's job security for him. Keeping bridges safe and flying rockets also requires substantial engineering work. I fail to see why the fact that work would need to be done should affect the outcome in any way. Zero reason to make their life convenient in any way.
The director is required to be a commissioned officer (and upon taking the role gets the O-10 grade) because they also head Cyber Command and the CSS (Central Security Service) but they don't really "run" the NSA like you'd expect say the director of the FBI or CIA to. Their role instead is mostly to coordinate the interaction between the NSA, CSS, and CYBERCOM on top of running CYBERCOM itself.

When it comes to actual day to day operations however the deputy director (who is required to be a technically experienced civilian) actually runs things and reports directly to the president. The director isn't actually in the deputy director's chain of command however one of their job roles is to provide advisory support to the director when needed.
You really think they are above forcing pregnancies? They could quite easily install some sort of Handmaid's Tale situation. They have the perfect government for it.
If you’re interested in knowing more, I just listened to a WSJ podcast about it.

https://overcast.fm/+SussgBq-E
Alt Text: Describing Images for Blind and Low-Vision Users
eBay will lay off 1k employees – 9 percent of the company
If we didn't have all these criminal statutes, quite a few more business models could flourish.
Over $500/mo but still nowhere near my goal ($5k/mo). Started as a tool I built for myself to brainstorm and convert ideas into diagrams. Still need to invest more time on SEO and writing. It's just hard to find time to do all that stuff :P

https://chatuml.com
this is the Tesla/SpaceX synergy. Apple needs to start a rocketry program or it’s gonna fall behind on the software subscription market
The author has no point, and this post is riding some kind of geek activism vibe.

The author complains that they couldn't use C++ on the iPhone or iPad, even though you can. They then complain that the Vision Pro isn't "open" but don't define what they mean. You can certainly write C++ application software the Vision Pro (see https://babylonjs.medium.com/building-babylon-native-for-the...).

I think they're complaining about Swift for the UI, but it's hard to tell. Maybe they're complaining that the SDK does too much for you.
From his writing:

Social and ethnic differences seemed to soften the male response, and such a softening was also noted when unicycling in Framlingham, a small Suffolk town to which I had moved from Newcastle.

responses varied between a large hard industrial northern England city and a softer more rural and idyllic town.
Upload, like flying cars, is a particular vision of a scifi future technology which may not come to pass.

You're prognosticating a future "when X...", when that "when" is a very big "if".
We don't owe Nintendo to let them sell their junk.
How exactly did they violate the license?
https://archive.ph/nJBHA
They're saying that asking whether they can share the fact that you watched a given video with Facebook would degrade your user experience. Sounds like the idea of simply not sharing that information with them hasn't occurred to them.
I liked the start of the Jason Bourne series, Unfortunately, for a lot of emergency scenarios in which you'd want cash and supplies, you wouldn't be able to access your SDB.

One use of SDB that I like is to get estate documents to heirs. My SDB includes a GnuCash one-pager printout of my financial accounts, usually current to within a few months. It also contains a one-pager that documents the remaining info that I think might affect my estate, like what health and renter's insurance policies I had.

Even if a neighbor in my apartment building leaves their unlit gas stove burner on before leaving town for the weekend (yes, this happened), this time obliterating me and any documents at home, heirs will eventually get the SDB, hopefully with exactly the documents they need.