skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Apple apologia anti regulation response to this comment is ironic because without anti monopoly protections Apple wouldn’t even exist right now.

Microsoft bailed out Apple with an investment entirely because of anti monopoly regulations.

More importantly, MS kept producing versions of Office and even Internet Explorer IIRC that allowed the Mac to remain an option because of their fear of being regulation.

Then after that it was EU anti monopolist regulations that struck down MS and prevented it from strangling the open web, which allowed the web to become an open platform which made it possible for both the Mac and iPhone (which didn’t even have an App Store on launch and relied entirely on web apps) to exist.

The only success Apple can claim credit that wasn’t directly the result of anti monopoly regulation was the iPod and even that wouldn’t have happened because Apple would have folded if Apple hadn’t been protected by anti monopolist regulations.
This is really awesome to have these live maps.

The map layout could be improved a bit to highlight the larger offenders.

I imagine there are a large number of these facilities where the flare has gone out and they are just venting methane straight into the open air.

They need to get the public more involved to help find these places .. because I imagine we could cut a significant amount of emissions by just poking the right people and saying "hey, maybe you want to re-light the flare at your facility"
But if you don't already understand the code and the concepts, you have no way of knowing if it's actually giving you accurate information or just hallucinating or confabulating. That's my fundamental problem with the entire idea of using llms to Aid with this kind of stuff, it's not easy to check it carefully enough unless you already know enough about the topic that you could have just done what you asked it to do faster if you type fast enough, especially considering the amount of time you'll probably have to spend arguing with it and refining the prompt and clarifying and thinking through the logic in detail anyway.
Not only the U.S., it is now all the major Western donors:

> Britain, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Finland joined the United States, Australia and Canada in pausing funding ...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/jan/27/uk-to-pause...
That's a fair point, I hadn't run the numbers on that. It being a significant problem was just based on having read articles on the US market over the last 5-8 years and not an in-depth analysis, so I can't cite any of them in particular.
Feel free to resubmit it on a slow news day -- my submissions tend to fizzle out.
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Thank you for this endeavour.

Do you have an ETA for the completion of the book?
Dying people explain what matters
Hey, I can see an addictive mini game being developed pretty soon… I’m sure one of the bright minds of HN will offer us this game so we can alter/control/influence this never ending battle of the two pongs :-)
If you walked at normal pace and stride I bet you’d just walk straight off the mat
> Remember Firebug?

What was Firebug is now built in to Firefox: https://getfirebug.com/

What are the compelling advantages of Chrome nowadays?

Chrome is working to limit the capabilities of ad blockers:

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2023/11/chrome-pushes...

Whereas a compelling advantage of Firefox is its support for uBlock Origin. uBlock Origin works best in Firefox:

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...

Advertising networks have often been vectors for malware. Using an ad blocker is an important security measure. Even the FBI recommends ad blockers:

https://www.malwarebytes.com/malvertising

https://theconversation.com/spyware-can-infect-your-phone-or...

https://www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2022/PSA221221?=8324278624
Homeowners with ocean views forced to flee extreme weather
Already imagining a black mirror Nosedive app that recognizes products in your location and environment and presents offers to buy or sell the stock of the companies that produce them based on your experiences of the produts in the moment.

The irony is of course is the adage, "Hate the service? Buy the stock" because it's so valuable people use it in spite of it sucking. Nobody ever thinks, 'this is terrible, how do I get long?' or, 'this is so awesome it can't possibly last, how to get short?', but that's how some traders make a living.
Lol. Can you imagine the ridicule a “join the KGB” video would get in the US if Russia produced one?
GP was precise in their phrasing: "aliens we could cross paths with". It would be much harder to actually meet or communicate with aliens that live in a dark ocean on a rogue planet than it would be for other aliens. ;)
I never worried about it, but do worry about science lacking the knowledge of millions of years of climate change being put into a few hundred.
ICANN persisted with their antics until the California attorney general announced an inquiry into the deal. Only then did ICANN change their plans.
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You mean like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRS0Uj2WdpA
That would limit the available energy inputs though, miniscule solar radiation, miniscule tidal forces, so unless you've got active plate tectonics or radionuclide decay, it's all going to become ice, presumably?
There’s a universe in which it will reach a yin-yang configuration.
I'm sure you're right that using a phone (in any way) is more dangerous than not using it at all. If I am optimizing 100% for safety I should turn it off, sure. But some messages are important. I don't want to complete a hour long drive, just to find out that the message I ignored means I needed to return to my start point. Pulling off the highway every buzz isn't a solution either.

Reducing cognitive load is why I want car mode to activate!
> This shows you have no idea how the US court system works. Meta's defeat leads to a build up of case law...

In many states, precedent can't be set in a small claims court.
Use a comment to drive the autocomplete on the next line, like:

”// a function takes an array of numbers and returns the array with negative numbers removed ”

In my experience this can match GPT-4 in many cases while saving the roundtrip.
The incident occurred at 526pm local time on the West Coast, so markets were closed. You wouldn't be able to trade.

I'm a bit surprised that question is being asked. Fundamental investing is all about understanding things about a company that nobody else knows. This is an age old approach to investing. If you happen to stumble on that information, it doesn't make it insider trading.

Where is crosses the line is if you're an insider and effectively breach your duty to the company or as a fiduciary. You're effectively stealing from the company. A passenger on an airline cannot steal information.
this seems really obvious. you're not an insider if you're ... not an insider? how is this question even being considered
Growing number of apps help automate pro-Israel activism online
It was expensive and underpowered but Apple Macintosh still changed the world
How would a random person know if that information was MNPI? How could you possibly prove that someone knew it was?
What's the definition of chaos here? I thought chaos implied the measurement error growing quickly during propagation, but here it looks like it's growing pretty slowly. In what way is this more chaotic than the movement of a single accelerating body (where the error grows linearly with time)?
Generative AI results might look really sad and confused in the near future. Learn how robots.txt disallows could reshape the future of AI.
There is no "conflicting alcohol evidence". Our body can handle at most 1 alcoholic unit per day (otherwise we would get alcohol poisoning from fruits fermenting during digestion).

Problem is: it's easier to not start drinking alltogether than being super careful about the quantities you ingest. Therefore the advice is indeed that it's simply bad and you should not have any.
Is this cave diving? I ask because there's "blackwater rafting" tourism businesses in my country, and they're raft trips through caves.
Israeli couscous is larger and has slightly better mouthfeel than the standard couscous. And I agree, these are the most sauceable for sure. Very spoonable.
This is literally documented[0] and reported to you when setting up bitlocker[1]/creating a user account[2].

[0]: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/finding-your-bit...
[1]: https://www.windowspro.de/sites/windowspro.de/files/imagepic...
[2]: https://www.anoopcnair.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/switch...
Ask HN: Do you think the mass layoffs will lead to any broader labor movements?
For the last decade or two, tech workers have enjoyed the easy money of speculation bubbles and widespread investments, from tiny startups flush with cash to huge companies with nearly infinite resources. Seems like that era has come to an end, and what's left of the capital has moved towards AI instead.

The tech sector has also traditionally been averse to labor organizing, with unions far and few in between. Understandably, nobody really cared about them when you could make 6 figures working 4 days a week from home straight out of boot camp, and double your salary every few years just by changing companies.

Well, that world's gone now, with hundreds of thousands of jobs gone and probably never to return. Employers and capitalists have their pick from the best of the best, while the average and below-average workers have been unemployed/underemployed for months.

To me this feels not that different from previous boom and bust cycles in, say, coal or manufacturing or cars or other industry, with a generation of workers displaced and very few re-skilling options available to them. I can't imagine most of those laid off becoming ML engineers within a reasonable timeframe.

So, what's next? Do you think this will lead to any sort of broader labor changes, either grassroots from the workers themselves, government interventions, local cooperatives, or anything at all? Or will we just continue on as before, finding jobs here and there where we can, hoping for another upturn, chasing the next bubble before it bursts, driving for Uber in the meantime?

Demographically, I wonder if this will also lead to US tech workers feeling more empathy with displaced red-state workers who saw similar career losses in the years prior, falling off the middle-class ladder seemingly overnight with no way to climb back up. No matter one's job, it's not a fun country to be unemployed (and unemployable) in.

Just thinking out loud here. What do you think?
Same, I’m curious too!
This topic has been fascinating me because I can't find reliable information.

It seems like most people don't necessarily care per se about wifi performance because you can stuff an AP every 30 ft and call it a day.

Most MSPs seem to become a shop of some kind based around a hardware that isn't necessarily the most performant, but good enough, cheap, easy to manage, etc. (lots of UniFi shops even though I don't consider it a good solution).

In terms of performance, though, I live in a very high density apartment so I have a niche use case: I've been trying to find the access point.

So far, ruckus has been outperforming every other access point I've tried (Aruba, Unifi, extreme, etc.)

I can't find any reliable data on whether or not Ruckus is just literally the best access point, and I still consider myself in the researching phase.

Is there industry knowledge to the contrary? Are there any actual engineering standards that companies aspire to, or is it just a "most people don't measure this, so whatever" industry?
yes, i have actually thought about this solution independently, but i still find it a little bit ugly to have to tell the parser that everything past a certain point is runtime, if I am understanding this correctly.
Imagine if MS had done the shit Apple is doing and blocked iTunes from Windows because it didn’t “add enough new functionality”.

And then when it eventually did allow a gimped version of iTunes charged Apple 30% of all the music and movies sold on it.

If they were being Apple like they would probably have even started charging 20% of the album price of every music CD users ripped to their iPods using iTunes.

And MS was a far more ruthless company. If it wasn’t afraid of anti monopolistic regulation it would have come up with other ideas I can’t imagine in a 1000 years to have absolutely destroyed Apple.
Epic has its store on windows where it charges 12 percent.
And it also regularly gives away some AAA games for free
Wait a second, is this the same font used by QBASIC.EXE and EDIT.EXE?
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Shamatha (Tranquility) and Vipassana (Insight) are effectively free practices (as in beer) (and as in Nibbana!).

For the most part all you need to be able to do is sit on the floor. Well, that and lead a moral (Sila) life.

People charging for 'mindfulness' apps and products really grind my gears!

Dharma Seed [0] is a website (and there are iOS/Android apps) containing hundreds of free to access Dhamma talks.

[0] https://dharmaseed.org/
That doesn't sound very extrudable. I'm not sure how amenable pasta is to 3d printing, but that'd probably be the only option. I assume that means the cost would be at least an order of magnitude or two higher than more manufacturable shapes.
Hey thanks! I didn't think people would actually care about this lol
> because trading on the basis of MNPI is itself illegal

"yes" in Europe, "no" in the US
I dunno, I tried it and greatly enjoyed it. I didn’t notice any uniformity problem but I’m also not that all that discerning when it comes to pasta.
Using climate models for weather forecast is ingenious. Really interesting paper.
Insufficiently expressive languages make the code long and repetitive. It becomes longer to read and harder to understand the intention. Hence more bugs go unnoticed, not less.

I'm speaking as someone who reads more code than writes for many years.

I nevertheless agree that writing clever code is a bad idea. Code should not be a riddle. But writing smart code is helpful in many ways. Dumbing down a language in order to prevent people from writing clever code looks like an obvious idea, but even such spartan language as C has numerous examples of contrived code, like the Duff's device. A more expressive language won't need these contrivances.
I would argue that OpenWrt is the best we've got. (I grant that the hardware side remains messy)
Considering that merely existing creates carbon, the choice of "offenders" is concerning. Creating or "emitting" carbon and methane aren't crimes and attempts to "hold offenders accountable" makes advocates of this position sound authoritarian. You can't outlaw living and force people to buy climate approved products. The narrative and wording surrounding the climate movement get worse every year.
The founder willfully worked for one of the worst companies of the Internet era - Godaddy!
If you're too young to remember, look up what kind of atrocities the SOPA and PIPA were.
I hope the founder burns in hell along with the rest of the GoDaddy management.
This is because of the decline in use of Twitter. When a major platform went down, there was always a notable and reliable surge in tweets on that topic. Tech reporters had running searches that would surface such surges immediately.

Now tech folks are more dispersed across several social media platforms so it’s harder to see trends.
how about some floating point sizes?

then again, thinking about code with timestamps in float makes me scared
Wait green bean casserole was a marketing ploy by Big Bean?

I've always wondered what it actually is when it crops up in American media, usually when Thanksgiving is getting ruined.

Edit: Not Big Bean, Big Soup wanting to sell onion soup mix! Just like a traditional dip in my country:
https://www.maggi.co.nz/recipes/original-kiwi-dip/
So if this was a smaller plane with only 20 people on it, it could qualify as inside trading in the UK?
I sometimes wonder what percentage of people from certain countries are posing as regular MS employees, but are actually working on behalf of their country's security service.

Is it 0%? Or more than 0? How much more?
If it wasn’t for government regulation Microsoft would have wiped out Apple before the 2000s.

Apple owes its existence to Microsoft’s fear of regulators.

So yeah, every penny of its trillion dollar market share is thanks to government regulation.
Nope. Microsoft had their own font that was different from Topaz.
Genuine question, as someone who is approaching the 10 year anniversary of working in the industry: how do you deal with the inherent verbosity and bare-ness that come with that level of simplicity? To this day, loops that aren't of the standard "go through array in order" kind still take me longer to parse mentally than some map/filter/reduce calls ever did, and repetitive/uniform code (like error handling in go) makes it very difficult for me to catch the details. And that's the code I've read (and had to write) for most of my professional career (most of it was procedural legacy software), so I don't think experience is the problem (unless I need more, in which case fair enough). But I think I haven't been able to make the mental switch to be able to separate the important details from the noise, and I don't really know how to
Agree, cavatappi is great. Works well for baked mac and cheese - at least the kind I like, which is not swimming in cheese goo.
My point is that they were objectively better than anything TI was producing in the calculator space for a very long time--the evidence is that engineering students at a state school were forking over what were non-trivial amounts of money at the time for them.

The problem was that places like the College Board allowed calculators in 1994. That meant that an "approved" list of calculators appeared and for a long time the HP programmable calculators were considered "too powerful" and disallowed. That "approved" list propagated to other things that used calculators in official capacities.

That absolutely killed HP as the volume all went to TI since everybody bought TI calculators and nobody was going to then spend on an HP calculator that might not be allowed on your test.

By contrast, look at business and finance majors where lobbying didn't create an "approved" list--you will pry an HP-12B from their cold, dead hands.
Here’s an example of a custom 4 bits/weight codec for ML weights:

https://github.com/Const-me/Cgml/blob/master/Readme.md#bcml1...

llama.cpp does it slightly differently but still, AFAIK their quantized data formats are conceptually similar to my codec.
That's definitely cool to watch, the patterns of territories get a lot more complex.
> And you're probably the person who flagged the other comment, too

No I did not, so please don't jump to conclusions. But I did notice that user created an account to criticize me. I guess I'm not the only one who needs a hobby.
For those who don’t know, you can use Teams entirely in a browser. I use Teams all day at work and have never installed the client application. I just load up teams.microsoft.com in Chrome. Works great.
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In the light of all this, the success of a company like framework honestly seems even more impressive.
Developers of major platform apps have a daunting job: adapting to the yearly or more frequent changes that come from the blue, and the various versions of hardware and software that exist simultaneously. I never went there, doing only in-house development tasks.

Though I use Apple mainly, I pay for few apps, partly because app developers too frequently pull the rug from under you, either voluntarily or not.

My real love is for free and open source. When Apple makes that impossible to install and use, I part company. "Are we there yet?" No.
5-10 years nuclear time means 10-20 I real time, it's a simple conversion really. Of course that is if it's not cancelled...
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> Space can expand faster than the speed of light

There's no basis for that assumption, other than it fits the model.
Australian capitalism isn’t that different to American capitalism, and the interaction of government incentives and market players has produced all manner of disasters here too (child and aged care are but two examples).

But in the case of the solar market things have turned out dramatically differently. The Australian rooftop solar market has worked so well that a large part of the market is now unsubsidised.
factor seems to be doing pretty well, and so is of course forth.
Is there an advantage to a 300MHz 8051 vs a Cortex M0? Predated their existence?

I know there’s a lot of 8051 tooling but I’m only a dabbler in microcontrollers and it seems like AVRs and M0/M3s have taken the place of PICs and 8051s in hobby world.
You’re right. Topaz is eerily familiar though, and I never used an Amiga. Wondering if a well-known MSDOS program used it. Turbo Pascal?
I thoroughly enjoyed watching 'Carlos' [0] on Christmas day and I would encourage anyone to watch it. I actually discovered it was being released because of this previous post [1] on HN.

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20417104

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36580128
You don’t need that, you just need to limit the initial torque.

That’s what eating up this tires. Jumping well past initial grip, then having traction control kick in after the fact.
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Yeah I understand, I wonder what would have been if school had 50/50 blend of both brands. Educationally speaking it would have propelled a lot of things forward... but I guess education institution weren't able to foresee that much of a leap.
At that point it seems faster to just learn how to write the logic yourself. Or get your answer from StackOverflow.

To me this seems like we're trying to re-invent SQL in a weird way, where you can "write code like how you write naturally!" - except you still need to logically piece your code together.

Programming is more like plumbing than it is like writing context independent functions.
> It doesn't sound like they have a great security team

That's an unfair comment. Even the best teams ship bugs. If you want to measure the quality of a security team, you look at their performance trajectory (for both detection and response) relative to the size of their total threat surface.
The same phenomenon occurs when he talks about securities like TSLA or Dogcoin.

Your entire comment lacks substance.
By "variable" I mean a name with a value attached. It doesn't necessarily have to mutate. Forth doesn't let you define these within procedures. Values are communicated implicitly on the stack in Forth, where other languages give them names and then use the names to say where the value goes. From a compiler perspective, you could think of this as the difference between JVM bytecode and LLVM IR.
The original Street Fighter II arcade game had the same problem, but Capcom managed to fix it: https://fabiensanglard.net/sf2_warrier/index.html
Thanks for providing the list from a borderline unreadable website.

(FYI King of Kong is listed twice as entries #26 and #42.)
Retirement doesn't necessarily mean passing time meaninglessly; it can also mean getting to choose the most meaningful ways to utilise one's time.

See also σχολή, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otium , and especially Russell, "In Praise of Idleness"

(compare also the independence from economic interests espoused by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldtian_model_of_higher_ed...
to the dependence upon economic interests espoused by TFA)
The town’s existing coal plant is winding down in 2030, so there need not be any new permanent construction. One set of workers will replace another.

There will be an influx of construction jobs, but there are a few small towns about an hour away which could help accommodate. Banks will know better than to lend for outrageous expansion.
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