skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
God this shit is exhausting; having a functioning legislature would actually be really helpful right now by passing a bill that spells out whether or not ML on copy-written content is a copyright violation and/or what conditions it can become a violation. But instead we have lawsuit after lawsuit leaving a blatantly ambiguous legal situation to be interpreted in as many different ways as there are courts.

I wish our court system had a pathway by which a judge can rule "not enough information to make a ruling" and force the legislature to pass a bill disambiguating the situation.
How many testimonials like the one you’re replying to would it take to change that, though? If some popular Tik Tok/Youtube people had good experiences, it’s not hard to imagine that a ton of Gen Z buyers would decide they like being able to save large amounts of money they don’t have. “Made in China” has a negative connotation to older people but for anyone under, say, 50 that’s normal for almost everything else.
My instinct says "push 42 ; pop edi ; mov al, 60 ; syscall" instead, which makes use of the "push imm8 ; pop reg" trick to likewise avoid imm32s.
And the question is why would you do that?
They operate a website that hosts hundreds of millions of webpages containing images and text provided by their users. No products pass through their hands. They're a UGC host, just like YouTube or Shopify or Hacker News, all of whom deal with DMCA claims. The DMCA safe harbor provisions do not care about the reason for which a website is hosting UGC.
Worse, spammers are better at their 'professional job' (getting mail past other people's spam filters and inane preferences) than your tiny mail server or small group of employees who don't understand how to not look spammy. Like not having annoying email 'signatures' and other anti-patterns commonly found in corporations.
Do you want your laptop screen be as thick as an iPhone?

It’s just basic physics: you cannot have 1-inch sensor with a lens right on top of it in 3-5mm of total thickness. Just the same way your eye is not flat but 2cm long.
np - welcome to lurking!! Enjoy :-)
Show HN: BasedGPT, CarrotWeather meets ChatGPT
I felt like ChatGPT is useful, but is lacking in the personality department.

So I decided to make BasedGPT for fun.

Me and my friends have been getting a kick out of it, so I hope you guys do to.

Shout-out to: together.ai and NousResearch for making this one night project super easy!
I question how strongly I would recommend the years of working with it. :-)
Vacation for a few weeks? I never imagined taking weeks of vacation unless I’m between jobs or businesses. If you can take weeks, then you’re probably not needed at all or so sparingly an occasional email would do.
The fact that you cannot connect this to an HDMI device will be the death for this.

Now they are hostages of Netflix, YouTube or any content owner. Had they have HDMI in, we would be able to just use a Roku stick to project 4k hdr Netflix content, or straight up project an 8k resolution Mac desktop.
I had this exact idea while working on the growth team at Evernote, but couldn’t get anyone to buy into actually doing it. Good to see someone actually doing it.
So... anyone?
Face tracking. Even for my self, sounds crazy but a handful of my terminal aliases attempt to capture my mood by scanning my face so I can make a fun chart of my emotion while commiting code.

The fact companies sell products to stick mounting gear on a Macbook to mount your iphone to capture better video will tell you theres a market.
I'm also annoyed that using an Apple Watch requires signing into an iCloud account. I stopped using iCloud a long time ago (currently self-hosting everything). Garmin smartwatches don't need a persistent login, which is why I purchased it. I think I will stick to Garmin watches going into the future.
Is the experience any good? I've used VNC many times, and even over direct wired connections I'd describe it as "not great".
If the model is y = a + b * x + e, then we can precisely state probability distributions of a and b given x and y for reasonably general assumptions about error e.

If the model is y = f(x) + e, where for example f is a neural net, there is not much we can say about the “quality” of parameters of f. That is, we can’t attach confidence interval. We will have to resort to expensive simulations and for most practical applications this is not workable (size of dataset).

What you say is useful in a different context. Local linearization is a very powerful idea.
Imagine having latents on posters, poster-persona-moods, posts, raters, rater-persona-moods, ratings, latent space curations, and user preferences and moods.

User: "AI, what's my current reading status?" AI:"We're on your EveningSurfMood2, emphasizing StuffFromFriends, and your EclecticTopicsLarge (with Dang's HighQ Discussion v3, Alice12's Clueful Author Making Coherent Argument Filter, and hugging's UnusuallyInsightful51)." ... Later while reading, AI: "We've received a rating request from Mastatron: Is this post underappreciating the opportunity for rich human-ai computation hybrids at scale?" User: "Oh yeah".
Lot's of places spring to mind (I travelled the world extensively doing geophysical exploration work for decades)

Denmark, Esperance, Western Australia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark,_Western_Australia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperance,_Western_Australia

are small towns in a big (3x larger than Texas) Australian state.

Near zero COVID cases (by world standards) as the entire state went, Nope, screw that, and closed their borders (two roads and an airport) and kept on living life as per normal (with occasional bursts of masking up for the few cases that landed).

The south west of the state has good long term prospects re: climate, the area has forests, ocean, and hand tools.

Minimal pollution by world standards, relatively safe in many respects.

IT work from there is possible as is FiFo (fly in, fly out) work on massive global scale resource projects (iron, lithium, tin, LNG, etc).

It's a place where kids can ride bikes and work their way up to jumping off 50 foot sea cliffs into mammoth southern ocean waves - which is always fun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gViRfoNmGOg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFA6jUdJMb8

You can own a gun and shoot 5,000 yards ULR if you want (sans criminal record, domestic violence orders, etc), but there are very rarely mass shooting incidents | school shootings | car park arguments with guns, etc.
Apple uses AppleID to authenticate globally. If the experience degrades without one OR there is too much effort to support this, I’d be happy with Apple making this call.

I feel it’s very validation seeking to rail on a company for not supporting the most “privacy focused” use cases. If you want an uncommon use case to be supported, don’t expect a profit-motivated company to do this. It’s just not in their interest. Furthermore, I use these capabilities to improve my life. So, I personally don’t want Apple to be compelled to invest in an experience that breaks from the Apple-y way.

(Not a fan boy. Maybe I need to accept that I may be becoming one.)
> Who are these companies that either require a non-personal Apple Id or forbid a personal Apple Id?

They exist, but they're mostly the companies that are the kind you'd never see on HN: relatively high-employee-turnover medium-sized businesses entirely uninvolved in technology - that aren't large enough to have an adequately funded IT dept - or where their IT is outsourced to a nepotistic MSP.

...the kind where IT policies are set by the same-kinds-of-people that banks hire that tell them to actively try to stop users pasting passwords into their online-banking logon screens.
It would have to be significantly cheaper than the credit. That might be very hard to come by.

You also have to accept that many people will go out of their way for tax credits, even if they are literally losing money to get it.
You have one AppleID for iCloud and one for App Store, Music, AppleTV etc.

They can be the same or different. And this hasn't changed for years.
" (beyond the well-established Haskell-esque effects bad)"

read that as:

"beyond the well-established idea, from Haskell, that side effects are troublesome and need to be explicitly modelled and thought about."
the camera protrudes on iPhones making them not sit flat, why cant they add a little bump to the outter shell of the top of the Macbook to fit better cameras?

The options are 3rd party things to mount your phone that take up way more space.
That just seems reasonable. Those items are the interface with you, the human operator. Of course you'd want those to be of your preference.

I agree. Let work stuff be computed on work devices and I'll do my stuff on my own things. Still want the interface to be consistent and comfortable.
I can’t use my wife’s iPad as a second display.

Joined her on a travel trip. She went to the office, decided to try using her iPad as a second monitor via usb c… nope. Can’t do that.

No idea why. It’s unlocked. It’s trusted. Why can’t it be used?
Did you report these drivers to the app owner? Did they do anything?
nah, that has absolutely nothing to do with what they're saying. I've used it for over a year and this is a weird way for it to appear in conversation, I hope you're not astroturfing
They tried to set this game up for modders, so it kind of does matter.
Looks like you need to know someone to get in there, though. I'm not sure I do.
It is a *drug* store.
Sounds huge and big deal!
Isn't that effectively what the Netmaker showed? Netmaker was able to effectively saturate the 10-gig hardware, tailscale and nebula were close. Tailscale was the most CPU-efficient (but least memory efficient).
People will just join the military ranks. We will need a ton of meat for upcoming WW3. This will solve the unemployment issue. Also, no need to “bomb data centers”, Russia will use EMP weapon for that.
Look at the bits just before and after what you quoted:

> That is the second key to reaching cynical teenagers: they must be treated like men and women whose decisions and opinions matter. I was eager to learn from their observations and opinions. I genuinely believe I have as much to learn from my classes as they do from me. […] Students were eager to tell me of these conclusions because they believed (rightly) that I valued their insights and experiences. […] mostly to my attitude towards my students. Taking students seriously means setting high expectations for their work. This is the harder path: requiring more of students means investing more time and effort into their growth. […the part you quoted…] This process requires double the work on my part, but it makes the students better writers. Teach things that matter. Believe your students matter. Set high standards, but invest the time to ensure your students can meet the standards you set.

I wouldn't describe the approach as “terror and bullying built into it”.
> They employ a distinct brand of gaslighting and blaming-the-user that I have come to associate solely with them.

> Curiously this limitation wasn’t enough to make me return the device, despite it being part of my justification for it.

Why write such long winded post after considering the above quotes? In the end non of the considerations around work/personal apple id, MDM, etc matters when decisions are made purely on some brand persuasion. That's why Apple doesn't care
It's closer to bribery than not.

Or gambling? It's the lootbox of food...

With usps you are paying more for a guaranteed service. There are standards they'll hold that delivery to. You are paying for something specific and real.

A higher pre-tip on the other hand is paying for a hope and a prayer that you get what you paid for on time and in good working order. It's not the same thing at all.

If you paid a fee for priority Uber that let you jump the queue it'd be closer to not a bribe.
We need more old school forums. Decentralized communities focused on their respective niches.
> Not a fan boy. Maybe I need to accept that I may be becoming one.

Exhibit A:

> So, I personally don’t want Apple to be compelled to invest in an experience that breaks from the Apple-y way.

I'd say so.
The pay package wasn't determined by the Board. It was approved by them, sure. But they didn't set it. Why would it matter whether they had any independence?

If lack of independence is grounds for annulling the pay package, it's also grounds for annulling every other decision the Board ever approved. (It's the same Board!) That wasn't suggested; the grounds for annulling the pay package are different.
It's because Tesla had the lead, had many opportunities to keep the lead, but lost it.
> passing a bill that spells out whether or not ML on copy-written content is a copyright violation and/or what conditions it can become a violation.

how would legislators know an answer to this. lawsuits provide a platform for discussion based on which a policy can emerge. Guessing wrong answer in form of legislation will be detrimental to the society.
And Standard Oil
By that logic, everything is a monopoly.
The idea of FaceId is to minimize the use of a passcode so that wouldn’t be stolen in the first place.

In if you worry about that, then probably disable faceid for banking apps :-)

Apple also recently implemented optional stolen device protection in faceid settings just for this case: delay is introduced to be allowed to change the password and other related things.
It must depend on the demographics also, right? Which would apply some skew to our personal impressions, making it hard to say much.

I’ve lived in a couple college towns and they tended to have smaller populations, but pretty good taxi services—which makes sense when you have a bunch of young people who want to go out to drink, might not have cars, and probably are willing to spend money on that sort of thing, and tend to all go to and from the same destinations.

I bet the hackernews demographic skews toward college educated, so I wonder if people are commenting with truthful experiences, but from that particular (IMO, at least questionably representative) niche.
Truly, but my worldview is not so childlike to assume such systems scale.
I think it’s a lot simpler than that. If they require both devices are logged in to the same account, they don’t need to deal with authorization. You would not believe how much development time this saves.
First off, I'm glad we all got our daily thought about the Roman Empire in today. Secondly, this author is much more qualified than me to either agree or refute this; I believe we need to be incredibly skeptical when reading about Roman Engineering failures. I wrote and researched about this, using some of Vitruvius' writings last year: https://patdel.substack.com/p/why-didnt-ancient-rome-have-a-....

* Rome was incredibly paternalistic, so pointing out the failures of others without appropriate aristocratic station might not have been quite the exercise in pure engineering that we might consider engineering to be today, even though Rome obviously made great engineering accomplishments and one might think that celebrated Roman architects could not be writing anything other than in a strictly professional manner. I think that when we read Vitruvius through a modern lens, we might think, "Oh this dude was a real professional, he makes good points," when in reality I think, at least in the example I point out in my blog post, I think he might have been using an example of failure to say, "See? Only royals, aristocrats and rich people should even try to innovate."

Granted, there wasn't liability insurance for architectural or engineering failures as far as I am aware so this belief may have been prudent in terms of saving lives, but I think there was probably a primarily social-religious reasoning for it.

The idea of the rich, hereditary classes, the father of the household, the ones in charge being the only ones, "allowed," to innovate was deeply held in Ancient Rome, much like in Confucianism and other agricultural societies that have formed through human history. "Don't rock the boat."

I don't think it was until the 1500's or so that humanity started to collectively emerge out of that type of mentality as pre-industrialization and the scientific revolution began. Eventually the aristocrats (in Europe) saw non-royals being so successful at being industrialists, they wanted in on the game and removed laws that prevented them from engaging in capitalism.

The author writes:

> Its failure became a cautionary tale of an unrealistic project that sought to go beyond what nature allowed. Five decades later, the Roman senator and historian Tacitus claimed that evidence of this ‘futile ambition’ could still be seen in the rock faces near Avernus. Interestingly, Tacitus did not blame the vainglorious and weak-willed emperor alone, but also the architects who conceived the project and were judged to have ‘frittered away the resources of a Caesar’.

I read that as the author saying that Tacitus was angling the engineering failure analysis in a political way, not a purely engineering post-failure-analysis way. E.g., the project might have even been a success but then Tacitus just lied about it, we don't know.
They speak many different languages at home, but they all do business in Mandarin.
I’m not sure I want a strict determination by a legislative body on this.
> Now they are hostages of Netflix, YouTube or any content owner.

Apple owns Apple TV, Apple Music, and probably some secret service they're cooking specific to 3D cinema. I think they're fine.
I'll be honest. The gaming industry is going to use the AI tool exclusively. A lot of people will be fired.
Would have been nice to see more than one vague photo of the actual units.
I don't know if its been mentioned already, but I thought the minimalist entrepreneur by Sahil Lavinga (gumroad founder) was good.
One would think we would know how to consistently produce good stories that people would remember.
The Macbook camera ships with the same chip as the iPhone 5S (2013). It has sufficient pixels for what it is meant for with most of the processing done in software. That last bit is key.
Surely there’s an app for that: “Duet display” exists more than a decade (sidecar basically sherlocked it). Also something called Astra or Luna (don’t remember exactly).
Because the world should NOT be splited more and more.
Taxis prior to Uber SUCKED.
BYD's volume comes from selling tons of the lower end. My explanation above is why Tesla (Elon) didn't think he needed a compact car. So BYD is killing with compact cars because Tesla does not have one and won't for at least two years.
Also handy (regardless of framework, language, etc) is if you use feature flags, if you're using actual valid credentials against a service or a local testing service (eg S3 vs minio, etc).

Enabling this for non-technical users really helped also report any issues they would see, it was great for testing environments.

Plus you would probably end up needing all this information anyway if you do any error tracking, so it probably exists somewhere already :-).
Why slow computing was a better learning experience
I'm going to guess GP specifically meant katharevousa demotic Greek, or similar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharevousa
Yeah that’d be the dream
Where I am (Ohio, USA), drug stores like CVS/Wallgreens sell
beer, wine.

Hard liquor over a certain alcohol percent is only available at a state liquor agency.
> Some employers are just straight up control freaks.

Sometimes it makes sense, infuriating as it may be. My partner works for a bank and says that daily someone brings up an annoyance due to central IT's restrictions, but nobody wants to be a vector for exfiltration of customer data.

> Things like "looking uniform and professional"

Yeah OK, anybody like that is a control freak!

In extreme freaky control: Tom Siebel was like that at Siebel Systems: you can wear anything you want to work unless customers might see you, in which case you have to wear suit and tie (men) or equivalent. Doesn't sound so bad -- just salespeople, right? -- except that they would tour prospective customers through the development areas so...everybody had to wear suit and a tie.
MDM does not by default prevent users from logging in with their own AppleID.
I can't for the life of me figure out what you're trying to say
Surely you could just log in and log out under the two names.
https://programming-language-benchmarks.vercel.app/javascrip...
Bit of roundabout way to say ‘DRY’. Information isn’t a universal context-free quantity, it depends on the models involved. In this case the target is removing repeated words/code symbols and being concise.
Maybe not if there are many more parameters in f than there are samples in the dataset, but if there are a handful of parameters in f then a typical step is to take the inverse of the derivative of goodness-of-fit with respect to each fit parameter, to determine the precision with which each parameter was determined by the fit.
> Humans obey the laws of physics.

We agree.

> Eat less and you WILL lose weight.

Over a long enough time period, inevitably yes.

> You can do it by eating nothing but sugar, Twinkies, or Big Macs.

Great I'll eat it all before bed each day. Should feel great.

In the space between your advice, and actually losing weight, is the entirety of the rest of the task. Your advice is not helpful to anyone trying to lose weight. I see it countless times online. It's a pithy one liner people use as a morale high ground, but it's shallow and unhelpful.
If there were no other companies in the auto/space launch industries, and Tesla/SpaceX acquired most of they competitors, then maybe.

That's not the case though. There are large, well funded incumbents that could have taken the approaches Tesla/SpaceX did, and they choose not to.

Their competition also hasn't been bought out. Both companies have made IP, tech, logistics, etc acquisitions, but iirc those have all been compliments, not competitors.

Edit - They've also sold parts of their acquisitions they didn't want, like selling Maxwell while keeping the DBE stuff.

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/07/30/tesla-sells-maxwell-t...
I wonder if AI is going to change the equation here --- by making it much cheaper to run spam campaigns against thousands of different small forums.
The benefit of statically linking becomes moot when it doesn't reduce the number of dynamically linked libraries. That's the point.
No, I'm engaging in reductio ad absurdum and while I'd cheerfully agree it's lazy rhetoric this forum doesn't lend itself well to long-form arguments which unfortunately the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle indicates is required for a complete deconstruction of the standard anti-government babble that gets traded here and elsewhere.
> Hackers/smart people "locked in the basement' or talking only with their friends in their bubble is not ideal.

Sounds quite ideal to me.

> hope some smart people will put some effort to make the "average person" in the world wiser

I'd rather hope for a future made by us and for us instead.

"Average" people just don't care about this stuff like we do. They don't care. I tried to get them to care, they refuse to care about all this stuff that we care about. That's fine, people like what they like and that's that but why should we care about their concerns then? We should not. And I do not.

Truth is I couldn't care less about such an "average" human being. Why is everything always about the "average" person? Why must all technology serve this mythical average human? Where is the technology that serves me? My programmer's computer system and network?

Isn't that why we all come to Hacker News?

People chase these "averages" because there's money in it. The money mostly comes from advertising consumer products to them. That's why advertising destroys everything.
I'd go further and say that employers are also motivated to keep corporate hardware and personal hardware separate for security reasons. Allowing personal devices direct access to corporate ones is yet another attack surface. Separation of work and personal devices is a good policy for both employees and employer.