skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I loved Pebble. My wife and I had multiple watches and I was very active in the dev community. If Pebble were still around I’d still be a customer.

Pebble’s problem wasn’t the Apple Watch, although it certainly didn’t help. What killed Pebble was its growth. They hired a lot of people and rented a very expensive office, but they just didn’t have the sales to support it. The Time Round was an absolute marvel of engineering, but it should’ve been put on the back burner until the OG and the Time actually sold.

Out of all the money Pebble spent very little was for actually advertising their product. Outside of tech circles it just wasn’t a known thing, which was a shame.

It also didn’t help that their app store had no payment solution. One was eventually released by a third party but that didn’t help draw developers. Their SDK was a joy to use and Pebble Cloud was awesome. But if you can’t really get a return on investment because you can’t sell your app then nobody is going invest.

I miss Pebble a lot. I still pull out my Time Steel every so often just to admire it.
The claim that any form of life that has appeared naturally must use organic molecules based on carbon-carbon bonds is less strong than the claim that the speed of light cannot be exceeded, but nonetheless both claims refer to things that are impossible based on the current knowledge.

Either claim (and many other impossibility claims like them, e.g. that an apple cannot fall upwards) could be invalidated by a single counter-example, but in none of these cases we know of any circumstance that would make the counter-example possible.

In science everything can be changed by a new discovery, but any such new discovery cannot contradict the known facts, whatever was known to be true within certain limits must remain true within those limits and can become false only outside them.

If any other chemical elements could be used to make structures complex enough to grow and multiply, that would have to happen in some conditions so different of everything that we have seen in the Solar System that we cannot imagine them.

For features of life on Earth like the use of nucleic acids it is valid to say that this is something specific to the only instance of life that we know an other forms of life could store information is some others from the millions of possible organic macro-molecules.

On the other hand, other features of life, like the use of the HCNOS elements, cannot be said to be an accidental feature of the only instance of life that we know, because their usage appears to be an unavoidable consequence of the composition of the Universe and of the chemical properties of the elements.

Some ideas that existed in various early SciFi works, like silicon-based life or other such variants are in complete contradiction with the chemistry known for now.

One could suppose that somewhere, perhaps in the depth of a giant planet, there may be ambient conditions, like very low temperatures, very high pressures and a chemical composition that could make some molecules to be stable even if they cannot be stable in the experimental conditions that can be reproduced on Earth and where some chemical reactions that cannot happen on Earth could happen there. This is not completely impossible, because for now the simulations of chemical reactions are not precise enough to predict what happens in conditions very different from those that can be verified through experiments. Nevertheless, for now there are not much more grounds to believe in things outside the known chemistry than to believe in teleportation or warp drive.

Supposing that there would be somewhere such living beings based on an unknown chemistry, it is certain that they could not be extracted from their environment and brought to the surface of a planet like those currently known without being destroyed in the process.
All the commercial real estate “gurus” are looking quite foolish now with all the assets they can’t unload or refinance. If someone tells you the party is going to last forever, they’re a fool. Look at Airbnb “gurus” too, they priced themselves out. It’s cheaper to stay at a hotel now.
Yes, but how exactly are the bulbs arranged? Wikipedia says 'Not every hyperbolic component can be reached by a sequence of direct bifurcations from the main cardioid of the Mandelbrot set. Such a component can be reached by a sequence of direct bifurcations from the main cardioid of a little Mandelbrot copy'. Which sequences of bulbs have little copies at the end of them? And how do the little copies attach?
So if you don't have to charge every day it's not a smart watch?

It's not that difficult to produce a smart watch that can keep a battery for a week so I don't understand why you feel the need to condition people to get used to the horrible battery lives of popular watches as if it's the only way.

I'm a big fan of Garmin's hybrid watches that are smart "enough" but provide a 9 day battery life. Recently, Mobvoi made it possible to have an Android Wear smart watch with a multi-day battery (TicWatch). Something that Google Pixel will have you think to be impossible.
I'm all for alternative operating systems, but do I take strong issue with the framing of this situation.

Apple can "argue" all it wants, but at the end of they day they operate in our countries with our laws, and will be forced to behave the way we allow them to behave. They enjoy access to millions of customers in the EU because we let them, subject to very specific terms.

The overton window has shifted so far to the extreme, we're legitimately discussing whether laws still apply to them or whether the drivel that comes out of their lawyers' mouths will be allowed to just stand uncontested.
There’s nothing much to do. An environmentalist told me that it’s a few big companies that are causing it all but that I was greenwashing it by buying Terrapass so now I’ve stopped. I grew up in the city, too, but apparently that was the problem because you’re surrounded by a concrete jungle so now I’m buying a home in the hills. It’s pretty cool, honestly. I don’t understand why everyone doesn’t just live in the hills since it’s better for the environment.
There's money to steal, so a politician did something to help their cronies be the ones to steal it.
Moreover, ridiculous is that aliens would be content with staying in the closet and at risk of be uncovered, like a lover in cheating wife's closet.

Whatever the USG wishes, the first contact will be on the arriving party's terms. This is unless they made some very strong agreement with local governments to keep things secret. Which would be a a sign of a very bad thing for us.
Meanwhile I can’t even get them to approve a simple midi remote app…

They need to “investigate”
Capitalism is literally defined by the ability to exercise capital to accumulate more of it, which is literally the only way for a monopoly to exist. By definition, capitalism has nothing to do with so-called "free markets".
"I did find it entertaining."

I found it a bit disgusting due to how shotty the logic/ application was, even if the methods were sound.

"If you accidentally kill somebody on a bike you’re likely to serve prison time for manslaughter."

I wouldn't find this "likely". You have to be involved in some reckless or negligent action that directly resulted in their death. It is possible of course, and does occasionally happen. It's even less likely that it results in prison time, rather fines, probation, and diversionary programs.

"It is shocking to me that we accept so whole heartedly the risk associated with driving"

This shouldn't be shocking. Yes, there is a lot of risk. But people who understand the risks know that it's not as bad as what it's being made out as. About 45% of occupant fatalities are related to not being buckled in. Just buckling makes your stats look almost twice as safe. So buckle up (45%), don't drink (35%), and don't speed excessively (30%) and you've just reduced the largest risks significantly (not these are not additive due to overlap and other party risk).

Edit: why disagree?
I'm saying they're not falling for it. They're returning because they have to. Not because they believe they're more productive there.
"A stack is certainly the most intuitive data-structure with which to implement a lambda calculus."

This depends on the evaluation order. I think you are talking about call-by-value (eager) or call-by-name orders.

But normal order evaluation with memoization (what human computer would do - write result only once) uses graphs and graph rewriting.
Interesting that you mention that use. I've spent thousands of hours in court and never heard the term applied to expert witnesses, perhaps because their background is often stipulated.

The use the public would be most familiar with is the interrogation of the jury pool, by both parties, to make sure they are suitable (e.g. suitably biased) jurors before trial:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voir_dire
There are several different audits a company might need to do. Having a Chinese SaaS as a vendor would definitely prevent me from passing certain audits and doing business with certain customers. At minimum, it would be something I have to disclose and it would be a talking point, so better to just avoid it for simplicity.
Video-Game Companies Make Workers Relocate, Then Fire Them
Inflamatory comment from a completely new account. Not surprised.

It's frustrating that anyone can conjure up an absolute fantasy and other members of the community have to waste their time on this. Shame you weren't flagged for this baseless comment.
you can use fido to download all the images
https://github.com/pbatard/Fido
10 Reasons the Apple Vision Pro is brilliant
"inching" being the key term here
What is the point of ESG ratings?
Pharo 10 instances at this time.

I saw Pharo 6 and 7 and some 10 instances serving dozens of thousands operations per second in production reliably for years.
Was wondering why that link was grey for me. Yeah, these guys never miss.
We have very clear instances from history where the opposite is true. The amount of senseless wars and violence is staggering.
Arguably more often than not. I don't think this is different, we are going to disagree on that.
"Remote won", but I did not know there was a war? Am I being gaslighted?

I do prefer in-office work by a huge margin, to the point where working remotely or having more than a few colleagues remote would be a no go for me.
Okay, but what now?
yep. A few of us meet once a week in a shared office, and those who can't always attend are somehow ridiculed by one of the founders. I think this is idiotic, why hire people from hundreds of kilometers away then?
Apple's punitive compliance will burn its political and developer goodwill
I think you’re both right, they’re attempting to gaslight people but everyone actually on the ground knows the truth. They’re saving time and money while accomplishing all the same goals.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240121111311/https://www.newyo...
We have observed exactly one sentient species, (ours) and it is sending probes already. There are 200 sextillion stars.

For the opposite position (they shouldn't be here) to make sense, there has to be either no other civilizations, or our probe-sending habits are so rare that no other civilizations do it, or we are the first.

Any of those other stances seem vastly more improbable, as they assume that our sample-of-one society just happens to be ludicrously different than all others.
It's known that it's connected and simply connected. So if it's locally connected then I think it has to be contractable.
I think he means PHP in the sense that you're inlining code with markup like in PHP (i.e: a templating engine)
Remote work to Asian and Latin American subsidaries won.
I'll bite; what's happening?
In a way, we're in sync.
Think about it in reverse. If Palestinians and their land are emancipated into Israel then those illegal settlements in the West Bank will no longer be illegal.

That imbalance is a prime example why so much of the world believes the current situation, or even just comments to equivalent effect by senior Israeli leaders, is apartheid. If most of the world believes the current situation to be apartheid then its no stretch of the imagination to condemn words or action to remove, destabilize, or eradicate Palestinian prosperity as potential acts of genocide. The same qualifiers and equivocations were used by the aggressors to qualify genocidal acts that occurred in the Balkans in the '90s.

If Israel and Hamas leaders really wanted greater security then they would have already solved for these imbalances. Security is not the primary motivation though, domination is.
Unless you want to live in an area where entertainment and restaurants and specialized healthcare and all the other good things are plentiful.
Whatever the truth may be, we now have people testifying in Congress - under oath - that the UFO phenomenon is real. David Grusch has gone through the official whistleblower process in order to make this happen, and there have been private briefings with the ICIG and members of Congress, who have given credence to his claims [1].

So while it's difficult to know what the truth is at this point in time, it's either that aliens are real or there are a lot of nutjobs in the US government.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Grusch_UFO_whistleblower...
Is there a contest for the most stuffy and uncomfortable product reveal?
My solar panel inverters have this wonderful bug where they refuse to generate power for the rest of the day after a 5-minute power outage. I hope that's the exception rather than the rule...
I can see one benefit to this approach.

Messing up your .internal configuration won’t result in leaking queries to the public.

And maybe secondarily this may encourage tool development for supporting internal names and make it easier for setting up informal or per department configurations.
In my country if I enter the bank without phone, they can not do anything for me. Even if I have my passport and I am willing to recover something related to the bank account, they will not bother to do anything before the phone verification.
> In fact, you can be expected to die at the half-way point on average, meaning this "total time" in case of death is only half the trip length plus the loss of life expectancy.

If you die an hour earlier in the trip then you're dead for an hour longer.
Replying here in a flagged subthread because I really do think this is important:

So... those two accusations are so commonly made and debated that they both have their own wikipedia pages:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism_as_settler_colonialism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_genocide_accusatio...

I mean, sure, you can retreat to arguments about whether it's a personal accusation or just an abstract idea, or whether I can substantiate use of the combined pharse "genocidal colonizer" (which of course I can't). But we both know that's hairsplitting.

The point I was trying to make is that there is a large population of people[1] out there who AGREE with you on virtually every practical, relevant point of public policy or international relations.... but who will never make common cause with you if they perceive your goals as the invalidation of the nationality of nine million people. There's no solution here that doesn't involve Zionists, just as there's no solution that rejects Islam.[2]

[1] And in particular people with significant influence over the Israeli policy you want to see changed!

[2] Realistically there's just no solution, and it would do well for everyone involved to recognize that and resign ourselves to the policy of just reducing immediate harm as what amounts to a BATNA.
I can't think of a use case where a phone is or ever would be mandatory.

I can walk into:

- the banks I do business with and prefer this so they know my face. This also allows most accounts to be set read-only from the internet and to set additional security on ACH transfers that require me to be physically in the bank.

- the DMV/courthouse.

- the power company.

- the trash company, so I can pet their dog.

- I can mail a cashiers check to the IRS, though it makes me uncomfortable to do so because there is no receipt beyond delivery and I just have to wait and see if they send me a letter, but it is still an option. It would be nice if the USPS had a kiosk for this.

Anything else is entirely optional for me, or what some might call "nice to have". I do have the Mumla app so I can use my own self hosted uMurmur server but that is a nice to have. For driving in strange places I have a couple GPS map systems that I update at home and they just use GPS, no cell networks. I do have to remember to print out my proof of insurance and keep copies in the vehicle.
As a Britisher in the USA, the use of a/an for H-words over here is super confusing to me.

And I've never been able to figure out what the correct way to say "homage" is.
Oh, right, I’d blanked on the web version!
Numbers is actually great (the desktop app) if you are in the macOS ecosystem.
Wouldn't per capita emissions in a city be lower? Simply because of transport - we're far more likely to use public transport than folks living in rural areas.
The non-GH search version: https://sourcegraph.com/search?q=context:global+repo:%5Egith...

Your observation is proper in that it did not exclude the patterns you mentioned, but in this specific case not necessary because all 4 results are shaped the exact same way:

lib/Image/ExifTool/Exif.pm

#### eval Start ($valuePtr, $val)
my $newStart = eval($$subdir{Start});
unless (Image::ExifTool::IsInt($newStart)) {
#### eval Base ($start,$base)
$subdirBase = eval($$subdir{Base}) + $base;
}

lib/Image/ExifTool/MakerNotes.pm

#### eval Start ($valuePtr)
$newStart = eval($$subdir{Start});
}
#### eval Base ($start,$base)
my $baseShift = eval($$subdir{Base});
# shift directory base (note: we may do this again below
#### eval OffsetPt ($valuePtr)
$ifdOffsetPos = eval($$subdir{OffsetPt}) - $dirStart;
}
It is sad that out of all the things that happen in this space, this is the news article that gets to the front page.

Kirkpatrick has been contradicting himself for months now. Another recent Guardian article is more insightful. There has been a concerted effort to remove very specific parts from a new legislation about the disclosure of non-human intelligence and materials:

“If it is the case that there is no substance to the UFO/UAP issue beyond misperceptions, paranoia, delusions, hallucinations, gullibility and disinformation then the government, military and academic organisations need to openly and transparently look under every alleged rock in this topic,” says clinical psychologist Daniel Stubbings of Cardiff Metropolitan University. “But they have chosen to do the exact opposite, which increases the suspicion that there is something to hide.”

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/jan/14/what-happens...
It's not frustrating. Your priors for the odds that aliens have visited earth should be extremely low, and the odds of cranks existing fairly high. Given that, it's not 50/50 cranks/coverup. Intuitively you know it's a tiny probability.
> A modern CPU would be thousands times faster

And we'll waste all these cycles on JavaScript.
It looks like it's limited in speed.
I suspect there is a lot correct about what you are saying, PGE sucks. Hydro-Quebec is a crown corporation returning profits to the government unlike privatized PGE. However, the cost of generation is separate, Quebec has tons of hydro power and PGE doesn't generate power.

It seems that numerous remote communities are diesel powered, I know this is the case in the far north (https://www.canada.ca/en/natural-resources-canada/news/2023/...). Are there any communities in California not connected to the grid even in the very remote areas? I suspect the cost of electricity and everything in these communities is very high and also subsidized.

A few other questions I'm wondering is how much of the rural infrastructure in Quebec relies on the connections to the various (remote) hydropower projects (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Quebec_M...). Are communities very far from those connections also served. I can't find a map of actual communities connected to the electric grid.

Interestingly California has over 95% of the population living in urban areas compared to 70-80% in Quebec, not really sure which that would favor.

Yes, PGE sucks. However, I still think my argument stands that the infrastructure could be much cheaper if the 95% of people living in urban California weren't paying for the rural infrastructure regardless of the nature of tree trimming costs.
What this means though, is that a financial apocalypse is looming in commercial real estate and it will be followed by contagion in residential.
If you are an employee in tech, media, entertainment, or gaming things are much worse than a few years ago. If you are of an age where you didn't buy a house already, things are pretty awful. If you were low enough income that small price increases break your budget, things are pretty awful.
Southampton surgeons use 3D printed liver model in UK first
Yeah. That is true.

But also, you should be able to talk about different groups without it being classified as hate speech.

Perhaps I was being rude, to make a point, but the parent post was extrema in other direction, that any inference at all is hate speech. Just talking about Christians is deemed 'anti-Christian' hate.
Looks like just the kind of book I'd want to read. I bought a copy :)
Employee productivity is at an all time low. Low performers are being laid off left and right (see: Google, Discord, Etsy, Salesforce, ...). Tell me again how remote work is "winning"?
Are you thinking of Room 641A? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
Kirkpatrick has misrepresented things in the past. His whole thing is very suspicious and weird. I wouldn’t put too much weight on what he is saying here.
Same here. Which inevitably leads me to revisit the question “Does this make enough sense to me that I want to dig into it right now?”. The answer is always no. But I’m going to go look again right now.
I was comparing the App Store, which lets you freely set prices.

iTunes Store does offer you some control, within certain limits. You can set the “price tier” for different songs, which is why you see some songs for 69¢, some for 99¢, and most for $1.29. If you’re a prog-rock band who put out an album with 20-minute songs, one song per side, then you mark the songs as “album-only” and set the price for the album (or at least the price tier). Or you can divide the song into segments and let people buy those as individual tracks. I’ve seen both approaches.
I’m good at asserting myself at work. I’m no workaholic and no company man. But I like to get a lot done and move quickly. Like how some people actually enjoy running. So I went to a seed stage startup.
John Carmacks take:

I am skeptical of something like this making an impact for consumer VR, but it should be possible to integrate the sensor input at the OpenXR level, allowing it to work with all apps without needing per-app specialization.

However, it probably doesn’t “solve” motion sickness, because the vestibular system still won’t think you are going forward. The bouncing around motion of walking does have a masking effect that will help some.

Source: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1750557236798148613
Housing is a huge problem and while it has started to improve in some places that have started building a bit more like 'enough', it's going to take a while to turn that ship around. And there's still a lot of scope for reform in the US.

The good news is that it is something most people can help fix locally.

Like... look at this group of local NIMBYs trying to stop an apartment from being built in their neighborhood, where I live:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-compass-corner

That's entirely a local problem, not something the supreme court needs to fix.