skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How's that reasonable? If it were possible they could have hosted the app on their own web site for next to nothing.
Fair enough point, but that’s not posh suburb material. It’s “we owned a house”.
Non-Cherry-compatible switches don't get enough love. But then again, most have been out of production for 20-30 years.
I made quite a sophisticated viewer as a teen, but boy was it slow to run back then, back on a 486.

Now people write viewers that run lighting fast in a browser thanks to WebGPU! Like:

https://www.reddit.com/r/fractals/comments/o7l4bm/please_try...
while the linked document is a good primer on menstruation, it doesn't say anything about the watch(es) capabilities in this regard.

thx anyways
This seems like such an odd argument to me. The distribution mechanism is what sells luxury devices at a huge profit margin for Apple. It's a value add for Apple to have a walled garden store.
So you can either pay the Gatekeeper money or you can pay the Gatekeeper money
> They own the result.

Care to divulge more? Seems like you're holding it in.
Battery life??
AlphaCodium
Interesting take.
We're just speculating here, it's a very extreme scenario so hard to say. The reason I'm skeptic about it is that most Israelis got used to quite high standards of living - comparable to say France or UK (gdp wise).
Complete isolation would bring Israel to the standards of living it had in the 50s.
But your point is important - some Israelis will certainly not give up no matter what.
Direct link to the goods: https://youtu.be/68YMEmaF0rs?t=203
I have a few examples of it.

One dev came up with their own macro that linked together the http client and json parsing into one magic macro which allowed them to also format the json, log it, and a bunch of other conveniences mostly for that dev. Unfortunately, the function was highly tailored to where it existed (with hard coded params and such). It's invocation ended up looking something like `(ht-j g foo 'log')` (because this dev also liked shortening everything).

Another example of this is some devs wanted to make a super generic data fetching... thingy... so they came up with this wild macro where you could feed in http urls and a custom configuration and it'd expose calls to that downstream services. It allowed for a sql like interface into several different microservices. Interesting in concept, impossible to maintain. That project was ultimately scrapped.

I was unaware of "the lisp curse" before my comment. This was just what my company experienced.
Yeah I do agree, I find Arch's PKGBUILDs and Alpine's APKBUILDs much easier to write than e.g. a debian package. Not that the debian package is impossible, but it's not as straightforward.
How do you receive funds if you effectively can not even register a bank account? Do you know any programmer jobs which are payed by crypto or cash?
Ask HN: Is ChatGPT becoming useless for many tasks?
I asked ChatGPT 4 to convert some code using a rather simple pattern, only to get get this message:

> Sorry, but I can't convert this as per your requirement.

Not explanation, no attempt to even do something. Not sure if this is a recent development; I thought v4 was supposed to be even more powerful that v3 (which at least gives me something).

I also constantly have to stop myself from asking it to perform even relatively simple programming tasks. For example, no matter what I did or the hints I provided (including sample code), it could not write anything resembling a correct implementation of the the following function signature:

const tokenizeWords = (
str: string,
args?: {
separatorCaseChanges?: | "upper" | "lower" | "all" | "none", // default is "upper"
separatorChars?: Array<string>, // default is white-space
}
): string[] ...

It could not even write unit tests for the function without making errors in test cases all over.

At this point it quite clear to me that it is more of a time waster than useful. I think the hype surrounding LLMs and AI coding assistants is far beyond the reality. Developers, you can relax knowing that your jobs are safe for the foreseeable future.
I buried split DNS (and (for the most part) private CAs for that matter) with ACME DNS-01.
It is a two-sided market and Apple naturally wants a bite on both ends.
Other Notes on West Africa
I want to be convinced why, 10 years down the line, we won't just be using PWAs or an equivalent web-on-home-screen tech.
It depends who you ask: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_BBC#Allegatio...
I also want to mention Godot, it has an IDE but it will get you started with a first implementation more quickly than an SDK like the two I referenced. It's compatible with C++, but also C# and their own GDLang... but not easily used from just C.
This is a feature.
I bought a new PC, checked some reviews about Win 11, decided to stay with 10 (wife and child are still believing in MS propaganda).
Probably the order of the planets was the same but we can't be sure of the eccentricity of their orbits back then. We do know Saturn probably didn't have rings back then.
They already have a giant distribution mechanism, the web. It's just that apple cripples the web experience in favor of their appstore, where they have control and get their cut.
You're right, it's a value add for Apple. If there were no non-Apple apps, I would not buy an iPhone.
That adds a lot of power drain.
Oh that’s nice. Would love to see someone put it through its paces though. Like really try to run. It would be amazing to see something like this that you can’t physically get off of no matter how hard you try. That would be the pinnacle of what this thing can be.
No, you would go into task manager and disable automatic startup, as you do with other applications.
It's a hassle to keep multiple devices charged. If 80% of people have the mental bandwidth to keep their phone charged daily, I'd say less than 50% would be able to do the same for 2 devices.

Part of the reason people like tablets as a second device is that you can turn off the screen and it'll maintain a charge for several days. If it had to be charged as frequently as a phone, people would just stick to their phone.
I was the same and eventually went back to the Apple Watch because the alternatives I tried were nice as watches but came up short in the ‘smart’ department.

I’m not as bothered by the charging since it gets enough of a boost while I’m in the shower.
Note that the problem the paper is about is that in real life, using precision instruments, the Feynman's sprinkler does rotate the other way under suction.

The counterintuitive asymmetry between blowing and sucking is already well understood.
I'd love to see how Apple justifies the 0.50 euro per person tax for third party app stores in the name of "security" or "protecting users" or if they abandon that pretense.
MS Windows is not user friendly. It never was.
I'm not so sure that you can use being "bi" to get "power" in this kind of group. There's some fairly heavy dislike of bisexuality. It isn't universal but is not negligible either.
Did the article say he took originals? I thought it said he only took one if another was still nearby, implying multiple copies.
https://now.tufts.edu/2022/07/05/only-7-american-adults-have...
Ongoing discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39128851
Disco Elysium is amazing because it's a story that is told in a way possible only in videogames. Your "skills" just create voices in your head that let you know things, giving you more information or dialogue choices.

You: What's a "contact microphone"?

Acele: A contact mic records sounds from inside things. Like this ice.

Encyclopedia: Your mangled brain would like you to know that there is a boxer called Contact Mike.

You: Yeah? Any news on my wife's name? How about my mother?

Encyclopedia: Nope. You're welcome.

--

Inland Empire: What if you only appear as a large singular body, but are actually a congregation of tiny organisms working in unison?

Physical Instrument: Get out of here, dreamer! Don't you think we'd know about it?

Volition: If it were true those organisms would not be working in unison.

Endurance: That's because some of them just don't have the best interests of the colony in mind.

Electrochemistry: Hey, maybe if the rest of you took a chill-pill every now and then, they'd be more motivated?

Perception: Shut up, we can't hear what he's saying!
These plots definitely align with my personal anecdotal experience.

I own both a Fitbit Vivo Active 4S and a Garmin VivoSmart 4.

In the daytime, as a watch, I much prefer the Garmin, but at night, as a sleep tracker, which is the main thing I want from these watches, I only trust the data from the Fitbit.

If I'm concerned about actual total sleep times, I do generally need to edit the Fitbit data in the morning. Over the years, my Fitbit watches have fairly consistently confused idle time sitting on a couch watching videos or lying in bed reading on my phone before or after sleeping as sleep. The data edit tools in the app fortunately make it easy to correct this (I'm not someone who falls asleep with the video playing, so I generally know when I turned off the activity at night and when I woke for the morning).

The data during the night, which is what I care about, I've come to trust on Fitbit watches over the years. I can't know if it's precisely accurate, but it's definitely directionally correct (if there's an overall scale factor error or similar from true sleep quality and time numbers I don't really care as the measurements are consistent enough that I can use them and benefit from them).

My Garmin I view as a random number generator as far as sleep tracking. My perception is it's probably a bit better about not misclassifying idle time before and after sleep, but not accurate enough to be actually correct, and I have not been able to find any simple data editing feature in the app to fix the misclassifications, so the wrong data stays wrong.

The Garmin data during the night I have zero confidence in, as anecdotally it feels far less "believable" than what I see reported by my Fitbit.

Edit added: another commenter just mentioned that Garmin uses a learning algorithm that needs about two weeks of data to hit good data quality. I've done a couple periods of sleep tracking with my Garmin, but I'm guessing I've abandoned it due to poor data quality each time at around two weeks. Sounds like I should give it another try and force myself to wait a month or so before making any assessments.
I keep a shot crow that won't fly again, in house, and her crow relatives outside bring us treats from time to time - they are definitely human treats (such as candy bars they steal somewhere), so they bring it to us, not to the crow... So touching.
I wanted to see the same but I think it might bring havoc to your balance control without training.
Yeah I think I ran an early build on a Pinephone and it was laggy. I’ve heard if you go Pinephone you have to go with the Pro version, because the previous model has no hardware support. Thus the poor quality software experience. Purism actually contributes to the software side so while it’s a bit lacking in quality, it is getting better with snappier ui and battery life.
Twitter community notes can be and are used to spread misinformation just like tweets themselves. It was only a matter of time until whoever wants to control the narrative learned how to influence the notes.

Sometimes misleading notes are corrected, but in those cases they are just silently updated with no history preserved so there is no accountability.

The one thing that could actually help identify bias (labeling tweets from accounts biased by association with, e.g., various governments, so that readers are aware and make their own judgements) Elon has killed almost immediately.
If you're going to care about metrics like "asset creation per hour," there already exist countless ready-made assets online, many even free to use. If you care about quality over quantity, then the value of an artist spending two hours on a single asset is obvious.

There is no aspect of asset creation where using AI to generate assets results in a better quality game versus human artists. Using artists to "improve" AI generated content is counteproductive because of the lack of direct control over what the model generates, something you don't need to deal with if a human is creating the art to begin with.

There are already tools available that let you create tiles that blend nicely. You don't need AI for any of this.

AI would be useful automating tedious and time consuming tasks. I've seen many artists say they could use an AI tool for automatically unwrapping UVs, generating spritesheets, JSON files, etc.. but the only thing AI ever seems to be used for is automating the creative process itself, and the results are at best technically competent (which is a result of simulating the work of human artists in the dataset) but never innovative or creatively compelling.
This is probably a better article: https://support.withings.com/hc/en-us/articles/1958311747419...
Incorrect. Demanding that autistic people change their entire personality to match your expected social norms is toxic and abusive behavior.

I would press you to reflect on why you think you have the right to tell a stranger how to behave. Why your opinion of "correct" behavior is the only possible valid option.

People like you have this assumption that autistic people somehow owe you. That you expect them to go through a great deal of stress and effort to act they way you want. If they do, you give them nothing in return. If they instead prioritize their own comfort and wellbeing, you give them abuse and call them toxic.

Edit: for perspective, telling an autistic person they're toxic for doing what they need to cope is the same as calling a person in a wheelchair toxic because everyone else has to walk slower to keep up. This is abuse and does real harm to people.
That trust in a distribution channel commands a price is fine. What is not is that no other distribution channel with equal access can exist on Apple devices.
When I commute regularly, the ~25m plugged into my car to and from work will keep my phone going all week. When I work from home, I'll be charging it every other day, or piecemeal on a wireless charger when I remember.

I love my mechanical watches because a few twists on the crown gets it moving and the automatic movement keeps it wound the rest of the day.
I legitimately do not understand this line of questioning. Do people really think that developing an OS and all those fancy APIs is free? Part of the R&D costs have always been recouped by hardware sales, and part have always been recouped by fees from the store. Did people really expect Apple to start working for free? And no, I don’t think the usual “they make enough from hardware” is a valid counter argument. Anyone who makes anything is free to decide what to charge for it.
I view cryptocurrencies as almost an open source alternative to the banking system. The fact that it even exists, and you can now transfer wealth across the planet without needing a bank/gov't intermediary to approve the transfer is huge, and can serve as a check on abuse of state power.

However the truth is the primary people interested in this will be people seeking to do illegal activity. The ecosystem is for criminals, organizations needing to pay ransoms, and speculators and that will never change.
Sure feels like Apple is doing their damnest to make that happen.

Oh a secure well established capable platform? That's what users want & the mighty service you provide? Yeah, well, uh, the rest of the world has a standardized one of those, it kind of rocks.
There is a Royal Tyrell Museum Speaker series video talk on this kind of dinosaur on YouTube. It's called "Oviraptorosaurs – The Growth and Hidden Diversity of North America’s Mysterious Bird-like Dinosaurs". Interesting for how scientists distinguish adults, juveniles and other species.
> “We are one step closer to having AI generate code better than humans!” posted Santiago Valdarrama,.

This is the kind of hype that I can't stand. If the long history of computing has taught us anything, it is that there is hardly anything new under the sun, and the hype around many claimed advances usually bears little connection to reality.

While naive businesses and clients waste their time chasing fads, engineers worth their salt and discerning companies keep their head down continuing to deliver solid value and incremental advances that actually push the ball forward.
It accomplishes the opposite of what they're trying to say. "You may as well let it happen" isn't what you should say to someone worried about getting raped.
My job use Slack and I find it quite frustrating. The UI could definitively need some work. Seems like they change the UI now and then but it doesn't really make it easier for me.
I think it’s a different thing actually.

When you’re forcing the water in, you’ve got a pipe with pressure greater than the water. Pressure is a measurement of force per unit area. The pressure of the water presses evenly on the tube walls, but there is no tube walls at the opening. So, there is a spot where there is no pressure on the tube. This means a net force because that lack of pushing on the opening is not canceled out. Since the pressure differential is in the direction of the rotational axis you get rotation.

In the reverse, there is also more pressure in the tubes than in the water. However, the spot where there is a net difference in pressure is the drain. The drain has an opening putting less pressure, so we get a net force. However the direction of the net force is perpendicular to the rotational axis—so we get no rotation.
> And please, just give us an attribute that adds a search bar...

That's the datalist html element.
Great. I am sure that you can understand why you’re probably the exception in:

1. Fully understanding the potential of the downside.

and

2. Being able to financially cover the downside.

The median transaction account balance in America is $5,300, which includes money in the accounts for things like paying mortgage and rent.

https://www.bankrate.com/banking/savings/savings-account-ave...

So the median person signing up for that plan has to be ready to liquidate half their cash on an electric bill. If you’re below the median you’re even more screwed.

And I'm sure to all this you'll say "I made an informed choice and I should have that choice," but I think that's a highly debatable concept that depends a lot on the details – one of those critical details is the maximum rate.
While this is true for many comments, often in “sensitive” posts (eg where there are more comments than upvotes) lots of “correct but unpopular” comments get downvoted too. The recent Apple post(s) are a good example.
A few notes, just to add to the overwhelmingness:

Re warranty - check out the RMA process from where you get your keyboard. Keychron is immensely popular currently because they offer lots of choices, and a great out-of-the-box experience, many people won't even want to customize it further. Its RMA process is awful though, if there are quality issues (and actually, there are), you have to ship it all the way back to China at your own cost. The common recommendation with them is to buy through a third party who are easier to deal with.

Re material - although PBT is considered superior, at premium keyboards/keycaps pricing, thick high quality ABS is just as good.
He spent a long time on Slashdot and other places speaking out against hackers of all types and it wasn't until maybe 1999 or 2000 until he seemed to concede that some aspects of hacking, such as the bug bounties of today, were valuable. Dissent around Mr. Stoll at the time is evident in Phrack and other material from the time. I have the highest respect for the gentleman of course, I'm just trying to raise awareness that he was very much against messing with systems at all, even for exploration or testing, and spent a lot of time in the early to late 90s telling non-computer people to be suspicious of anyone who seems to know too much about computers. It was very offensive to me at the time, but I do know that he did eventually see the light.

From Phrack #32

``The Cuckoo's Egg'' captures many of the popular stereotypes of
hackers. Criminologist Jim Thomas criticizes it for presenting a
simplified view of the world, one where everything springs from the
forces of light (us) or of darkness (hackers) (Thomas90). He claims
that Stoll fails to see the similarities between his own activities
(e.g., monitoring communications, ``borrowing'' monitors without
authorization, shutting off network access without warning, and lying
to get information he wants) and those of hackers. He points out
Stoll's use of pejorative words such as ``varmint'' to describe
hackers, and Stoll's quote of a colleague: ``They're technically
skilled but ethically bankrupt programmers without any respect for
others' work -- or privacy. They're not destroying one or two
programs. They're trying to wreck the cooperation that builds our
networks,'' (Stoll90, p. 159). Thomas writes ``at an intellectual
level, it (Stoll's book) provides a persuasive, but simplistic, moral
imagery of the nature of right and wrong, and provides what -- to
a lay reader -- would seem a compelling justification for more statutes
and severe penalties against the computer underground. This is
troublesome for two reasons. First, it leads to a mentality of social
control by law enforcement during a social phase when some would
argue we are already over-controlled. Second, it invokes a punishment
model that assumes we can stamp out behaviors to which we object
if only we apprehend and convict a sufficient number of violators.
... There is little evidence that punishment will in the long run
reduce any given offense, and the research of Gordon Meyer and I
suggests that criminalization may, in fact, contribute to the growth
of the computer underground.''

http://phrack.org/issues/32/3.html
It was always the way. Microsoft and Apple "fronting" like they were big companies before they were, as did everyone before them.

It's just easier to do nice web design now.
> Previously predominant links to Scandinavia were replaced by ones with France

William the Conqueror actually was a distant but direct descendant of Rollo [1], a viking who invaded Normandy. The influence of Scandinavian language was quite strong, as many names come from scandinavian [2]. So the French William brought to England was probably still a bit scandinavian.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollo
[2] (French only) https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toponymie_normande#Toponymie_n...
For the lazy, from minute 3:28
Beautifully said. The whole pacific west is a scary wonder. Only thing I’d contest is that it’s just as likely to happen today or tomorrow as next year. Best to be prepared.
Withings watches don’t seem to have a GPS radio, though. The advertised “connected GPS” means GPS date pulled over Bluetooth from your smartphone, correlated with other data from the watch by an app running on your smartphone, at which point it becomes unclear how this counts as a feature of the watch in the first place.
I host my own Seafile server behind a wireguard vpn that I use for cloud file storage. I love it. There's an app that runs on my phone that automatically uploads photos whenever I take them. Highly recommend!

https://www.seafile.com