skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their example is horrible, but I kind of see what they're (hopefully) trying to get at: more natural ways to "search" for places, specifically for people that didn't grow up implicitly learning _how_ to search [0][1]. We know to search "vintage store SF" because it'll give exactly the results we want, but there are still large populations out there searching with wildly inefficient queries e.g. full sentences, natural language, unrelated info, etc.

And a lot of these queries are valid questions/searches, but don't produce the answer the searcher is looking for. Depending on how this Maps system works, it might work better for those people -- and also provide a new kind of searching for everyone else.

Here's a great example from a different domain: a while back I built a book search powered by LLMs that helps you find books that you remember random details of but can't remember much else ("that one where the woman climbs the mountain and gets stuck in a cave for a week", "that one where two cities on opposite mountains communicate by reflecting light", "that one where the main character finds a dragon egg in his grandpa's garage"). Without indexing the contents, reviews, analyses, etc of each book, an LLM was a great solution for finding the right answer to this kind of query which, anecdotally, almost always fell flat in traditional search engines (google, goodreads, amazon, etc). In Maps, I could see this kind of search working well for locations with queries like "that restaurant in KC with the giant painting of a woman spilling soup out of her mouth", "that museum with the open-air room in the middle", "that coffee shop that only hires women", etc).

[0] Tangential anecdote from the far end of the spectrum: one of my grandma's first google searches was "Hello there, I'm not sure who I'm writing to but I'm hoping you can help me. Years ago, my friend {Alice} told me about a restaurant she went to in Des Moines that had amazing meatballs. I've looked all over and tried {list of places} but I can't find it. She lived near the YMCA near Main..." More than half of the query was ignored (max 32 words on Google) and not a single result was relevant so she just closed my laptop (and rarely used technology ever again); however, I bet an LLM probably would have given a much better result.

[1] There's also an argument to be made that people who didn't grow up around technology are a dying breed, but I think we'll soon find that technology moves fast enough that we don't quite grok all the latest tech -- and in that lens, we might eventually be the ones still using "that legacy way to XYZ" instead of whatever's next.
> So what is the problem? If you can recognize they are buttons in context, that sounds like a successful design.

Then you didn’t get my point about cognitive load or I wasn’t explicit enough. Sure you can recognize the icon-only buttons in context (mostly) but if they work worse in a sterile (or call it academic) example when compared to buttons with shapes, how are they better when in an UI? The UI will help but the cognitive load will still be higher than if they looked like buttons by themselves.

> If you implement your touchscreen buttons like this, I’m not sure what to say. It’s not a problem with the style of button, but a bug in your implementation. I can’t say I’ve ever come across it in the wild in anything that is remotely competently made, as it would basically be unusable.

I had this in several apps across the years. If it happens often enough, you develop an itch in the back of your head that makes you ever so slightly distrust buttons in that shape. Something that can be completely remedied by the solution I proposed.

> There’s a perfectly good reason why they look different. The back arrow is a navigation pattern that is used across the entire OS.

It’s a bad pattern, made by people who confuse website content with native GUIs. I can’t go as far as to explain all the reasoning behind this but just this much: The back arrow I proposed is something that – and believe me or not, I realised after I wrote the piece – had already existed in iOS before the flat nonsense.
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> They're too distant

I don’t know how you would know that. People are very bad at seeing distances at these scales.

If they were indeed satelites they could be starlink satelites. They are put into orbit as a bunch together and then they spread along their orbital path as they take up their position.

This article has a picture, maybe you can check if it is similar to what you have seen? https://earthsky.org/space/spacex-starlink-satellites-explai...

If you could recall more details then maybe we can figure out more exactly what this might have been. (Such as where you were, which direction you were looking at, when did this happen, how fast did they cross the sky and how far the dots were from each other. Were the line spread in the direction they were moving or sideways?)
* Pass through latency

* 6DOF tracking quality

* Ability to integrate with a Mac

* General high quality Apple software

* The hand and eye tracking features

I still don't think it will catch on. From all accounts it is less comfortable to wear than other headsets. Even with lighter headsets like the Quest there's literally no way 99% of people would choose wearing that for their normal work day over just using a normal computer. It's nowhere near comfortable enough.

People tolerate it for VR games because that's the only way you can play VR games. Apple seems to be targeting the AVP at stuff that you could just do on a laptop already.
Man I'd love to have a screenshake setting for that
I would have said "more than 90%", but from ChatGPT:

Prompt: "What does vast majority mean?"
Answer:
"The term "vast majority" refers to a very large portion or segment of a given group or quantity, often implying much more than a simple majority or over half. It suggests an overwhelming or significantly large percentage, typically used to emphasize that the subject in question constitutes the bulk or main part of the whole. For instance, if one says "the vast majority of people support a certain policy," it means that significantly more than half of the people, possibly upwards of 70%, 80%, or even more, favor that policy."
No one you know has kids? People with kids have to take calls, in case it's a facility with something to report, so they can't ignore any calls.
They are working hard on it:

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-6.0.2-MI300
Copyright is copyright everywhere, it's actually a much more annoying topic in lawsuit-friendly US.

GDPR - by now everyone knows what to (not) do to avoid problems with that: just let people be in control of their data. If you can't guarantee that, it means you're doing shady shit that you probably shouldn't be doing.
Lazyvim can help. https://lazyvim.github.io/

> Transform your Neovim into a full-fledged IDE
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To be slightly nitpicky, it is problems that belong to complexity classes and not algorithms. Binary search is an algorithm that solves searching in a sorted list.

Funnily, although we usually think of it as having complexity O(log n), that does not hold true for the Turing machine model, with which the complexity classes P and NP are defined.
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After watching a few presentations on Datomic, I'm totally sold on immutability in the DB and I really want to use it, but there seems, at least superficially, some difficulty associated with it being so "exotic". It's hard to tell from outside if it's worth it, though I know that in terms of scaling/performance, it fits my use case perfectly.
In fiscal year 2023, Apple's first quarter ran from Sunday Sept 25 through Saturday Dec 31. That's 14 full 7-day weeks.

In fiscal year 2024, Apple's first quarter ran from Sunday Oct 1 through Saturday Dec 30. That's 13 full 7-day weeks.

They're just setting the beginning and ending of their quarters such that they only include full Sunday through Saturday weeks.

If I had to guess, their first quarter in FY2025 will run from Sept 30 through Jan 3 and be 14 weeks.
It is not simple. Carbon tax is useless without carbon tariffs, which have high political costs. Not to mention without any kind of carbon dividends the whole scheme would be extremely unpopular.

So everyone is just pushing half solutions and talking a lot. Politicians will never go for hard solutions, especially when everyone is satisfied by talking about magic pills like "green deal", "more renewables" or (from current top comment) "climate advocacy" and "citizen engagement".

People just love talking. And feeling good about it.
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Bitbucket doesn't have to be a service. It can be an old-fashioned downloaded software that you install on your own machines. Not everything is SaaS.
I love The Money Pit.
Ah, OK. Thank you. That makes a bit more sense.

I appreciate the reply.
While, credit is due to Zuck and his team. Much of the turnaround was due to investor pressure to shrink the headcount dramatically and take the foot off the gas for VR.
Hackers also include biohackers.
Health news, science news, space news all might not seem like they fit but they do.

Seeing articles on how to apply makeup would be shocking
> The author is taking his own knowledge too seriously.

I don't think this even makes any sense. If it's your own knowledge, of course you take it seriously.

> a subject not in his wheelhouse but with firm confidence (against his own advice)

Not in his wheelhouse? He became probably 100x as wealthy as you are (guessing) by having insights about risk that most people don't have. This gave him time to read virtually everything relevant on the subject.

Granted, he doesn't have a piece of paper from a university placing it "in his wheelhouse." If that's important to you, you have my sympathy.

> to point out when leading intellectuals gaffaw,

"gaffaw" is not even a word. If you meant "guffaw" that doesn't make sense. Maybe English isn't your primary language, in which case this forum probably is over your head.
Yep. There's a reason for the way I did it, but clearly I need to change it. Thanks for looking.
This may not not a popular opinion, but this honestly comes across to me as a sad rant that has nothing worthwhile to say about security.

Consultants get paid to come in and advise, and internal staff are ignored? Suck it up, it's not a problem particular to security. I've seen it everywhere.

People don't choose hospitals because of their security program? Well, duh. They don't choose hospitals for all kinds of non medical reasons that are still vital for the damn thing to function. Get back to me when you're in surgery and the whole hospital goes down in a ransomware attack.

Honestly, if I had to listen to this person on my team for more than 10 seconds, I'd be on the phone to Deloitte before you could blink.
This is certainly not the same thing as your case study. You can be just anti-govt. That's ok. But you can't do these sweeping conflations to hoodwink people yourself. If you can criticize them for "hand-waving" then do not lower yourself to that level.
Presumably you're referring to commit subjects.

And no, they should absolutely not be as long as you like. It breaks things
Sophisticated money is generally not. The average retail investor absolutely is. Most retail investors invest based on emotion not on fact. A lot of tech company employees justify their emotions as providing them an edge because they're in the industry, but they often likewise get hung up on factors that they find emotionally relevant but aren't actually market relevant factors.

Look at this other comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39222007 in this thread. A lot of it is just idle speculation based on the commenter's personal values. These are the analyses that drive retail investors to invest. I don't mean to pick on this commenter specifically; I just felt it to be very illustrative of the kind of analysis that the average tech person does to justify or not justify an investment.
That's why I'm building my own AMD supercomputer, for rent. Let's build the developer flywheel!
The longer I got was:
"Brusselsaurus Titanium Rex + Johnny Depp in Ukraine"
Agreed -- slightly getting the name wrong does a national/international search! Searching for coffee shops often leaves out obvious results such as some Starbucks. Even more frustratingly it doesn't show particular businesses even when I zoom in, forcing me to manually search for the business name.
That sounds cool but also nothing like the AVP so it's not really relevant.
If I flip three coins and use the results to decide which color balls to put in a bag, I'll have one of these distributions: RRR,RRG,RGG,GGG. If I draw a red ball, I am more likely to have drawn from RRR or RRG than RGG (or GGG), so I have learned something about the distribution more than just how it was generated.
I use Ciphey instead in any reverse engineering stuff, far better.

https://github.com/ciphey/ciphey
Why incorporated into the light fixture?

I paid ~$280 for each U6 Enterprise and that's the only thing that limits how many I have. I'm sure it's the same for anyone that cares about wifi performance. How much of a premium would you pay for better aesthetics?
> The threat actor searched the wiki for things like remote access, secret, client-secret, openconnect, cloudflared, and token. They accessed 36 Jira tickets (out of a total of 2,059,357 tickets) and 202 wiki pages (out of a total of 14,099 pages).

In Atlassian's Confluence even the built-in Apache Lucene search engine can leak sensitive information and this kind of access (to the info by the attacker) can be very hard to track/identify. They don't have to open a Confluence page if the sensitive information is already shown on the search results page.
I think they are still tiny. Also don't networking systems routinely deal with temporary link disruption?
> He pretty much lost me with The Baroque Cycle. Those books were a chore.

I wouldn't call those "later writings," he's written quite a few excellent (and better) books since. Anathem, Seveneves, and Fall; or, Dodge in Hell were excellent. Termination Shock was a quick read.

I've since gone back and re-read Cryptonomicon. I don't know know if I'll redo the whole Baroque cycle, (Because it was so long,) but I do have fond memories. I suspect it's the kind of book that's better the 2nd time through.

BTW, Fall; or, Dodge in Hell ends the Baroque Cycle. Enoch Root is in that book and we figure out what he really is.
Clearly, yes.

What I mean in relation to the post is that it's hard to even make a question that ChatGPT will fail destructively without doing a lot of research in advance. In many cases, even if it fails, it'll have a reasonable mistake that a normal human might make -- and a normal interviewer doesn't have the time to fine tune, craft, and research how to mess up an AI
You see this all the time in business proposals. Executive summary at the top, typically 2-3 paragraphs max. Manager summary, 1-2 pages. Engineer detailed overview, 3-10 pages. Anything else is an addendum.
I remember chasing one of the iridium flares and it was very bright, even during the day
There's a quote from the author elsewhere in this thread stating he was broke and needed money and if that meant chopping off a chapter then so be it.
Thanks! Macroexpanded: Sorry Appin, we're not taking down our article about your attempts to silence - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39221337 - Feb 2024 (21 comments)

I'm having trouble figuring out which one of these articles has more information. Since the this one was posted earlier and is currently ranked higher on the frontpage, I guess it can be 'the one' for now. There are a bunch of techdirt-specific comments in the other thread that don't make sense to merge, so readers may want to check both.
I doubt that swimming competitions with PEDs would be worse than the NFL.
Google ships crap to Europe every other day, I find it hard to believe that they don't have quick processes for basic compliance.
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Initial phone call and tech screen, product interview with my co-founder, technical interview with myself.
In short: after sunset.
In higschool we did an experiment with one of our science teachers based on this fact. We measured the duratuon of the iridum flares and could use some basic geometry to estimate how high their orbit is based on where the shadow of the earth is.

I don’t remember the details anymore, but it was one of the coolest practical experiments we did.
This insight translates readily into machine learning in the form of "inductive bias". It is rare that I come across a model whose architecture actually bakes in the functional form (i.e. topologies and constraints) of the system being modeled. Forcing models to relearn what should be baked-in domain experience is the most common way to waste energy and training time and bloat your models' parameter count.
Yes, those images are not blurry, that's precisely the reason I described them as blurry. /s

If all you do is read things on a microscopic mobile screen, maybe the sizing didn't scale a raster image beyond it's native size. For those of us boomers that read things on screens with plenty of screen space, things get scaled with that fancy mobile first responsive layout so that images are scaled larger than their normal size.

So as soon as you're willing to accept that not everyone views the web like you, we can all have a better experience. That's not just for the web page's designer, but for other readers on forums making comments about things they don't know about.
Wrestling? You mean the show bizz variant?
I love my shield TV Pro, but I might `adb shell pm uninstall` the shit out of it, so I can launch my apps in peace.

The Update that replaces the old launcher was the biggest middle finger I ever saw. And it's a 200€+ device. This isn't your average 20€ Amazon Fire crap.
We use the chip general purpose. HFT simulation code, empirically faster.

The GPUs are to train a model. Separate use-case, but we use same hardware for both use-cases so that's why the big cache thing.
> a vessel of shareholder value, nothing more.

This is my general opinion of publicly traded companies, i.e. the primary product is their stock, but I personally haven't seen anything out of the ordinary with Cloudflare compared to other big tech companies.

I wouldn't say they aren't engineering companies though. There's plenty of engineering that goes on there, its just no longer the top priority once the company has gone public (same to some extent with VC investors).
The product was killed off due to being a failure ~2 years back. Presumably they don't want to manufacturer an alternative battery/alternative charger circuit and figure most people probably won't bother returning the drone as they forgot about it anyways so are just offering a full refund to anyone who remembers theirs even exists and is willing to mail it in as proof.

OTOH they almost certainly don't want a bunch of defective batteries coming in the mail when the ultimate resolution they'd perform is the same as you'd perform locally.
Although some browsers might allow you to disable CSS, this can also cause problems with some files. One thing is that some implementations of form fields will not work at all with CSS disabled. One alternative would be a mode to use ARIA for styling instead of CSS. If the web page uses ARIA to denote the custom form fields and other stuff, then this might work; however, I do not know of any implementation that is capable of using ARIA for such a purpose (usually they use ARIA only for people with disabilities, but it could be useful for anyone, I think).
The landing page of this site doesn’t load correctly on my iPhone.
> Analyzing the wiki pages they accessed, bug database issues, and source code repositories, it appears they were looking for information about the architecture, security, and management of our global network; no doubt with an eye on gaining a deeper foothold.

For a nation state actor, the easiest way to accomplish that is to send one of their loyal citizens to become an employee of the target company and then have the person send back "information about the architecture, security, and management" of the target company.

Fun (but possibly apocryphal) fact: more than a decade ago in a social gathering of SREs at Google, several admitted to being on the payroll of some national intelligence bureaus.