skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's reflective of how the products have changed.

Back in the day, you uploaded all your own media. you didn't have access to hundreds of thousands of streaming options across music, podcasts, and movies. Having a single app to upload your media and sync to your MP3 player was optimal.

Now that everything is streaming, and accessible on mobile without a need to sync to a local source, the benefits of media type unity is much weaker. It's easier to have individual apps that provide access points to each type of media library and optimized for that type of media.

But,

There are still those of us (such as myself) that prefer the local media sourcing, using iPods, etc, and that would love a unified app without any store. Just a window into my personal media library and the ability to sync it to a handheld device. Though the options for handheld devices these days are both slim and expensive...
Forth is still my goto language for a few things. A lot of my work these days involves doing board bringup on unique hardware so there's not much for docs on how the _system_ works. Just a schematic and data sheets on the parts. Nothing quite like dropping a Forth REPL on a bare board and seeing how all the SoC bits behave. :)
Light characteristic
Except that the apps that replaced iTunes are all awful (at least on macOS).
I thought virt manager was ok but honestly your complaints about it are specific and fair.
Anyone knows if it'll be available via poe.com ?
Yeah, averages are super helpful.

I wish my smart scale could pull the data from trendweight and just say "above" or "below". With the Hackers Diet that is all that matters is whether you are above or below the trend line.
Is this the soonest after launch that a Google product has been confusingly renamed?
> Eventually I think we'll see litho equipment make its way into the niche market similar to 3d printers...

Won't you be better served with a FPGA? Are there any cases, besides hobby projects, where making you own silicon on a process many generations behind the state of the art would make sense?

With 3D printers, there are parts that are simply impossible to make without them, and there is no programmable plastic, so it makes sense to use them. In fact, we are starting to see entire factories churning out plastic parts from FDM printers not so different from what consumers buy. In the case of Prusa, they even make the parts using the same printers they sell to consumers.
Are you seriously arguing, that there is no such a thing as scientific proof?

I think I stated clearly the philosophical limitations of that "Despite the fact, that nothing is 100% certain" but that still makes proofs a scientific thing.

"Einstein Relativity that was for some years only a theory"

And Einsteins theory was indeed controversial at first, but it was a solid piece of work, that indeed turned out to be true by experiment. But people were convinced before that, because it explained things in a satisfying way.

And string theory is indeed just a theory. But one that aims to explain something. (I do not find it convincing btw. but it is a somewhat working model)

But the stacking argument ... what exactly is it explaining? And when can it be tested?
Based on that logic I would expect you to use a web browser and nothing else at all.
Overcast had the exclusive feature to make all voices the same volume. It's really nice sounding once you use it.
Agreed. Putin is an admirer of Peter The Great.
When I ask ChatGPT4 what the length of its context window is, it tells me (4096 tokens).

When I ask Gemini, it basically tells me "it depends" with a few paragraphs of things I generally don't care about and then suggests I ask for a ballpark estimate (1k - 3k tokens).
>Now would be the time to unionize.

As someone who actually knows something about unions and their history, it literally never works that way. OP is correct. You can't make moves when you don't have power.

>Nobody wants to join a union during a hot market.

That's what has to change. I'm not saying it will change, but it's the only way. If your union is dependent on temporary conditions, it's weak. Weak unions are usually worse than no union at all. There are no shortcuts.
> As of Nix 2.19.0 you can also use the new CLI nix shell and flakes to define shebangs.

I wasn't aware of this, it's nice to know.
Now ...now...Are you implying Google faked all those amazing demos .... :-))
nah, the idea is to make it easy to execute javascript across multiple tabs
Since OSX has a lot of BSD... they kind of did already
I scrolled a bit and 90% of the thumbnails at least were content free 10 words per screen "sites".

Who has time to browse those?
With this setup, what is providing the emulated hardware devices? (emulated USB host controller, emulated interrupt controller, etc)

Is it still the original set of emulated hardware provided by virtualbox, or is it now whatever KVM provides?
it applies to human civilization as well....
From the pictures it seems he was living in Lignères, a small village in the Jura "mountains". For sure you have to be humble to live here when you could afford to live in Gstaad. It says all about the man and his priorities in life.
To be fair iTunes wasn't that great either, it was mostly a necessity to use iPhone (Update etc). Personally I haven't used any of these apps since it became possible to perform backups and updates without a computer.
It's just my opinion, but I like visual art that you'd say "wow!" or "beautiful!" when you first look at it.

Not "Hmm... now what's this all about? A soup can?" And then someone has to explain "Oh, this is Andy's fascination with consumer culture and processes of mass production."

Same goes for photography. For instance, that famous National Geographic cover photo of the Afgan girl. I was a kid when I first saw it in the '80s. I didn't learn the history behind it until many years later, but I didn't need that extra layer of description for it to be forever etched in my mind.
Very cool. I'll check it out.

The limitation, but also the real benefit of the Trend Weight is there is no tracking of food. Each day you can see if you are above or below the trend line and how many calories you are above or below where you need to be.

It's just the diff, basically.
> What makes you think that?

Well, he's said so.
Heraclitus would say: What did you guys really expect?
So how will iTunes now actually prevent me from playing a WAV music file? Will it first analyse the content for music-ness?
Beware of hallucinations with this kind of question. An LLM doesn't have knowledge about itself unless that was fed into a system prompt by the developers somewhere on the backend, or if it's Internet connected and does a search for itself. While they often do so in terms of e.g. basic stuff like its name and that it's an AI, context windows start veering into advanced details and I would much rather rely on official documentation on the service in this case.
Good thing Microsoft isn’t charging them a Core Technology Fee per app install…
You can probably do this for VirtualBox (and any Linux program) by using tun2socks to create a network interface that routes through a proxy (SOCKS5 if you want UDP support), and then moving that network interface to a new namespace. You can run VirtualBox or any other programs in that new namespace, they don't have to be aware of the proxy at all (since they just see a regular gateway).

https://github.com/xjasonlyu/tun2socks
IOS and OSX have a built in Podcast app that are great
As opposed to just ... a tab in iTunes?
There's a lot to hate about iTunes historically, but having the useful stuff in one place was not the thing to hate, and the additional value each app brings is almost nothing, whereas the clutter they bring is real.

It's good to be able to focus on things, but this is way too categorized and just drives even more clutter.
What are "podcast apps" for ? I thought podcast is just an mp3 that you download and listen to.
Is probably best to use the "result" symlink for that kind of use case.
I had to look this up: PWA stands for Progressive Web App and according to web.dev is “a webapp that uses progressive enhancement.” On iOS you can install a PWA using the “Add to Home Screen” function.
I skimmed the CSS and I don't see the appeal. There's no reason, in my opinion, to give a section a default `4rem` vertical padding. Given that the stylesheet is really small, I'd at best consider this a solution for a tiny proof of concept if you want to demonstrate something to colleagues. I'd rather suggest people copy it into their own CSS and use it as a template.

It also adds a margin to certain elements which is almost always a no-go. It's super rare that the margin around an element is part of this element's intrinsic properties.

In general I think people would get much more mileage out of https://every-layout.dev/ (not affiliated). It's one of the best programming related books I've read in a while and it really changed the way I think about CSS in general.
You can change your preferred color scheme temporarily in dev tools

I believe it's called concrete because of brutalist architecture and how it's almost always made with concrete
I was curious what the "per file" overhead was.

Time comes out to 93.6 µs/file or 10 684 files/s created.

% b 26*3600*1000*1000/1000000000
93.60000000000000000000

Space comes out to 296 bytes per file.

% b 276*1024*1024*1024/1000000000
296.35274342400000000000
giving it the hard sell now
You mean marketing landing pages? FWIW, I think it's helpful when the value prop is front and center.
Adam Smith uses the term "invisible hand" three times in his writings (only once in Wealth of Nations) in a manner which makes clear that it isn't a description of a mechanism but rather a remarking on the unknown nature of a complex process.

Smith was immersed in an atheistic tradition (a more overt contemporary would have been Smith's close friend David Hume), and "invisible hand" immediately suggests the more theistically-themed phrase "hand of God". Smith himself was not openly athiestic, and uses religious terms and concepts elsewhere (notably in The Theory of Moral Sentiments), but does seem to at the very least be liberally-minded. His mother, with whom he lived until late in his own life, was quite religious, which may have affected his thinking and/or writing.

But "invisible hand", again, should be interpreted as "by some unknown or poorly-understood mechanism", which is to say, an expression of ignorance, where it's most often interpreted or presented as a description of the mechanism, which is really inexcusable.
This discussion started with what a data engineer does, and the diversity of roles. I wasn't trying to push my workflow on anyone. With what I'm doing right now (which includes data and SWE; I'm now writing more holistically), there is a flow:

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Step 1:

- I do a lot of exploratory and one-off analysis, some of which leads to internal memos and similar and some of which goes nowhere. I do a lot of prototyping to.

- I do a lot of whiteboarding with stakeholders. This is also open-ended and exploratory. I might have a hundred mock-ups before I build something which would go into prod (which isn't a lot of time; a mock-up might be 5 minutes, so a hundred represents a few days' time).

This helps make sure: (1) I have enough flexibility in my architecture to guide likely use-cases, and I don't overengineer for things which will never happen (2) I pick the right set of things.

---

Step 2:

I build high-fidelity versions of the above. These, I can review e.g. with focus groups, in 1:1s, and in meetings.

---

Step 3:

I build production-ready deployable code. Probably about a third of the thing in step 2 reach step 3.

---

LLMs do relatively little for step 3. If I have time, I'll have GPT do a code review. It's sometimes helpful. It sounds like you spend most of your time here, so you might get less benefit than I do.

For step 2, they can often build my high-fidelity mockup for me, which is nice. What they can't do yet is do so in a way which is consistent with the rest of my codebase (front-end theming, code style, tools used, etc.). I'll get something working end-to-end quickly, but not necessarily something I can leverage directly for step 3.

However, in step 1, they've had a transformational impact. Exploratory work is 99% throw-away code (even the stuff which eventually makes it to prod; by that point, it has a clean rewrite).

One more change is that in step 1, I can try different libraries and tools too. LLMs are at the level of a very junior programmer, which is a lot better than me in a tool I've never used. Evaluating e.g. a library might be a couple of days of learning with the equivalent of 5 minutes - 1 day of building (usually, to figure out it's useless for my use-case). With an LLM, I have a feasible lousy first version in minutes. This means I can try a half-dozen libraries in an hour. That didn't fit into my timelines pre-LLM, and definitely does now. I end up using better libraries in my code, which leads to better architecture.

So YMMV.

I'm posting since I like reading stories like the above myself. Contexts vary, and it's helpful to see how things are done in contexts others than my own. If others have them, please feel free to share too.
Thanks. How are tech experts/IC different? Can you explain?

Also, in your opinion what is an absurd salary?
Does 4 stop sign mean cars have priority over cyclists? Sounds weird reasoning. But not living in this country I don't understand who would have priority if everybody has a stop sign.

Is it just a priority based on power? 18 wheeler > Buses > Cars > motorbikes > cyclists ?
Me with the old version of itunes that has an app store
Right. Stalin's luxury was the functional luxury that anything would be done for him if he asked, if it was possible at all.

Putin is much more like a monarch: rich to the point that almost nothing makes him feel rich. Which is why he's so desperate to pretend he excels at stuff: horse riding, ice hockey, shooting.

(He probably does excel at shooting)

Or perhaps he's more like an L Ron Hubbard with truly vast resources. Quixotic performative superiority.
Top AI Companies Join Government Effort to Set Safety Standards
What do you think is stopping tech employees from unionizing?
Search for it in the Play Store, first icons are Crypto.com and Gemini: Buy Bitcoin & Crypto options to install

Scroll past the screenshots of those apps

Scroll past the Limitied-time events

Scroll past the You Might Also Like and Similar Apps

OK now we see it, we install, it we launch it and..."Gemini isn't ccurrently available. Try again later."

Bravo Google. Great launch.
Yes, but the thing is that Poland and Ukraine did not really want to be a part of the evil empire. It just enabled some ambitious people who were not russian to raise to a leadershio position.

If a high ranking leader would have been estonian then you still could not say that because of this the soviet union would be "less russian" or something. Most of the people, officials, party members etc were russian and the soviet union was born from the russian empire.
The Erlang unit is defined in

ISO/IEC 80000-13:2008

alongside the bit (bit), octet (o), byte (B), baud (Bd) and shannon (Sh).

The ISO/IEC 80000 series of standards supersede the old ISO 30 SI standards.
You're correct. The pencil question is their signature gambit. When I interviewed at BB as a high schooler, I also answered this question incorrectly (but earnestly) and the hiring manager took pity on me, saying effectively "I like you, so I'll give you another chance. When the GM asks you this question you ALWAYS say 'stealing is wrong no matter what'".

You definitely dodged a bullet, btw! That job was my first lesson in corporate hell
This is indeed an impressive resource if you're compiling a set of examples for a slidedeck on the vacuousness of "design" in corporatised digital marketing.

Bookmarked.
iTunes on PC has always been so much worse than iTunes on Mac. I was on Android for awhile in no small part due to having tried to use iTunes with an iPhone (remember when you had to do that?) and hating it.

Apple’s podcast apps have been second rate since the very early days also. So they should just give iTunes for PC the Viking funeral it deserves.
It's also pretty well known that censorship may dumb down the LLM even in other fields. With mega prompts to ensure safety it has a lot of stuff to work with that can overwhelm the LLM and simply make it appear "dumber".
So what is the best app these for listening to your own music collection? VLC?!?
Not sure it's worth €12/month for me (Gemini Advanced in Google One)
“Do one thing well” isn’t the same thing as “make several almost identical copies of a monolith, all wearing different hats”.

I just hope this doesn’t actually come with three times the resource impact of iTunes. As far as I remember from my Windows days, iTunes was enormous and basically supplied half the macOS standard library and frameworks compiled to DLLs with it.
You're making a fundamental mistake in comprehending this. You're confusing the map for the territory. When I say the laws of physics I mean the map, and you're thinking about what they point to, the territory.

What is the most fundamental fact? What is the first step, from which everything then can be derived?

That first step is the fact that there's something observing. That observer can construct a theory.

That theory can posit "actually, there's matter, and there seems to be matter which does not possess this same capacity of observation, therefore this inert matter must have formed first, and then [insert hypothesis of your choice] that's how the observer arose".

That's valid.

However, it's not a fact, and it's not the only theory.

The theory I'm entertaining instead, is this: the observing phenomenon is as much a fundamental part of the universe as gravity. The reason some things don't seem to possess it is that we can't directly perceive other's observing phenomena, and it's only when this phenomena binds with matter in such a way (time, appearance, scale, complexity, frequency) that it can communicate with similar binding phenomena, then there is recognition: "you have a face, you're smiling, you seem to be alive, so I'm going to assign the observer trait to you".

Now that I recognize other observers we can communicate and form a theory, and see what we can agree on. Then and only then I can say "well let's pretend that there are no observers and see what we can agree on". And thus the laws of physics are born, as a mental model.
What's THE biggest inconvenience would you say? And do you find yourself using more of your laptop/computer to stay on top of things?
Of course there are plenty of definitions of what a simulation would mean, and I can give you a clear definition of what I meant by "escape".

In this context, I'm using simulation to mean any computational process that gives rise to my subjective experience if that subjective experience does not reflect the world in which that computational process runs. A computer would seem more likely, in a very broad sense, but computation is everywhere.

An "escape" in the sense I used it would be any means by which it were possible to find a flaw in the simulation that would allow us to either exfiltrate information and/or transfer computation out of it.

And, no I'm not saying it's possible. I'm saying it's interesting to think about the possibility.

> You're just starting with something you know, ie simulating something on a computer or other device and assuming there is something comprehensible outside it, just like how our reality exists outside a computer simulation.

No, I'm starting with the question of whether if we are in a simulation, there is something outside that we could find a way to interact with, and if so what the potential consequences would be.

Yes, this is all wild speculation - that is the entire point.

> In any possible "simulation" we live in, "outside" isn't going to entail any elements of what you perceive inside your (created) reality, just like software, other than with convenient assumptions to prop up the idea.

In an infinite set of possible simulations, the outside would entail elements of what we perceive inside our reality. In another infinite set, the outside would entail no elements. We don't have any knowledge that lets us presume to know what such an "outside" would be like, nor which would be more likely, because we don't know who would be running such simulations, or why.

> It may be a fun "mind wank" but don't take it seriously, because it doesn't make any sense.

It doesn't make sense to let it affect us without evidence, but the question matters because understanding it is to understand the limitations of our universe. E.g. anything that might lead us to believe it is less likely we are in a simulation would imply the odds are higher that we will face substantial limitations on computation and/or filters in the future (because if we find ourself not in a simulation, while we might just be first by chance, it might also imply that simulations will be rare or never happen). Whether we can find such indicators is another question.

Conversely, if we are in a simulation, then it raises interesting questions about whether it is possible to learn anything about the potential from that from probing the limitations of "our" physics etc., and whether there are any interesting testable hypotheses there that might tell us something about the odds.

It may never get us anywhere, but so what?
As-tu déjà penser à changer de banque .. ?
Les virements, comme les CB, c'est gratuit depuis des années chez des grosses banques comme boursorama
I used this method for a cache eviction/replacement scheme. For our use case it was better than traditional lru.
What up with the name change? If you change from a nondescript forgettable name why then pick another just as forgettable and indeterminate.
What is the difference to the previous version of the technical report?
We do not need automated content creation.

We need AI to detect incoherent garbage without censoring things people disagree with.
They've always had their "hi I'm a mac", "hi I'm a PC" commercials.
While it's true that this would be a difficult time to unionize, I think part of that is that companies are looking to replace software devs with AI over the next decade. Not entirely, but a future where companies can get the same amount done with half the number employees seems reasonable with tooling improvements.

Which is to say, it may not be the historically best time to unionize, but it also might be the best time that we'll see in the future, and the most critical time to do so.
I have different levels of access to Bard through different accounts, and the feature set varies wildly. Generating images and summarizing websites is enabled in _some_ configurations, but I have no idea what the rules are.

The feature set also seems to depend on other factors: The account that is images-enabled only does so if I ask in English, but not when asking in any other language I tried.
Theory (open for discussion): With ADHD you don't get addicted, the excesses are mostly to fill the boredom between the better things.
What about the official project? https://sqlite.org/wasm/doc/trunk/index.md
Does Apple Music (the app) no longer support that? It does on macOS, even without a subscription.

Also, foobar2000 of course.