skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s impressive. Mine barely lasted a day. Perhaps I had a duff battery.
As someone who long supportedy Firefox over Chrome...

I wish Firefox had WebBluetooth or another API that could do that.

But then Mozilla instead of helping set codec standards that everyone could use preferredyto show you could run codec in JS and opened a way for EME
My time is worth more than the increased power draw
Not all production setups require >99.999% availability. There are many cases when it’s OK to use a VM with periodic snapshots/backups. In case of a HW failure (which doesn’t happen often) you can recover from a snapshot. An advantage is than an app with a DB in a file (no HA) requires almost no maintenance work.
Not just taxpayer, but also charity funded!
I'm late to the party on this one, but (as I've probably posted here before) the root cause of high drug prices in the US comes back to the US's broken political system.

Pharma companies charge more in the US because they can - because there are no strong reasons not to, and no mechanisms to prevent them doing so. And it's possible for big pharma to maintain this status quo because the political system in the US, with big money from lots of different companies and sectors funding politicians directly and indirectly, allows it.

Short of a conviction-driven leader (in the vein of Bernie Sanders, [or, surprisingly, Trump! - tough rhetoric on drug pricing was about the only thing I agreed with him on, although little was ultimately delivered]) or major changes to political funding (e.g. tight limits on funding of and spending by politicians, as exists in many other countries) nothing will change.
It may have to do something that if you cannot trust Apple not to break web apps like they are planning to do now, companies will not invest in web apps.

Also, most companies have native apps already... Web apps are the future competitor, not present.
I take it this is just for PWAs?
Thanks for all the feedback! This community is incredible <3

Just pushed a fix that should resolve this while still maintaining state in the URL (using replaceState as suggested by OP).

For now it foregoes the undo/redo. I'll explore implementing it as a separate widget as you suggest in the future.
Using my iMac Pro has objectively improved my eye health; the displays are amazing and my eyes are almost not getting tired.

But yeah, beyond that the deal gets worse and worse with time. Apple are dropping the ball, it's been visible.

As mentioned upthread, I'm very likely to start using my Mac as a thin client in the next years: get all the benefits of Linux (ultra speed included) with none of the drawbacks (insecure desktop environments; the X11 protocol literally allows you to capture all key presses once you connect), and all happening through the best displays there is.

So it's not about being a fool. There are objective benefits to using Macs. But, these benefits are dwindling with time, so the equation gets less and less in favor of Apple.
I understand why you think that but because of the trajectory of solar and battery tech as well as the trajectory of cpu/gpu and ai. I think the change will accelerate rather than slow down as one of the main input for producing anything ie energy is going to be cheaper and will keep getting cheaper for the foreseeable future. So the cost of producing robots with robots will keep getting cheaper so developing millions of robots would become a lot cheaper a lot faster. Though with all the jobs humans will lose who will be able to pay the robots for their services is the question.
Agreed, and I tried hard to like him. I had watched every Stewart episode and then my watching of TDS fell off a cliff with him. I went back a number of times to try again but I didn’t find him as passionate or funny as John. Even the clips that rose high on news aggregators/TikTok/YT Shorts all felt “meh”.

In contrast I absolutely loved Monday’s episode with Stewart again, it was a huge wave of nostalgia and it was like “this is what I’ve been missing”. John just feels way more genuine and that he actually cares about the things he says. Trevor always felt fake or that he was trying too hard.
Yes this sounds accurate to me. He drew a line in the sand, as you say, but it's incredibly ineffective, almost to being pointless. I guess I hope at least one person gets an affordable home from this, but even that seems questionable.
Will the Apple Car get slower over time and have the battery become unusable after 2 years?
What if Google acquired WhatsApp instead of Facebook?
“When you use a Walkman all the memories come back”: In love with old tech
Potential AV2 Research Directions [pdf]
The Layoff
The FCC is big, but no. They dont have surveillance vans scouting the country to confirm thag every radio station is actually transmitting. Im sure they might have reacted had someone told them of this apparant scam, but who is going to notice the absence of a small AM station these days?
I have found EM positions (where you lead a team of 4-8 and your reports are ICs) to be way more stressful and don’t really pay much more. VPEngineering is where you get a meaningful pay increase.

In addition you need to keep up with the tech as you need to
evaluate the skill level of people in your team plus they turn to you for advice.

And it is way more tiring. Keeping up with what many people are doing, at a technical level, plus all the people related stuff, bureaucracy etc. Needing to attend lots of meetings and sync up.

I agree it has a better career path for most, because technical career paths tend to either require a FAANG or maybe a ThoughtWorks or just massive IQ and effort to learn something like C++ HFT to rake it in. Or maybe be a sales engineer or growth engineer. Or founder.
It seems to me nearly all construction is slow.

Have any of you witnessed a construction project run lean and mean anywhere?

Things seem to drag on for month!

Look at what we built last century!

Hard to imagine us doing that again.
>There is a huge AI chip shortage right now, so basically, every big AI player has some kind of chip program going.

Mostly bike-shedding. Designing new architectures for older generation technology nodes adds some capacity, but does not help with the bleeding edge.

The shortage is in fab level. There are multiple bottlenecks. ASML has $36 billion backlog. There is not enough advanced packaging available. Hybrid bonding machines are in short supply. This technology requires lithography-level clean rooms (ISO 1 or ISO 2),and surface smoothness. Die-to-wafer hybrid bonding for large logic is currently very expensive.
> Your words have weight. If you, an IC, say "guys, we really should write tests", everybody goes "oh, crazy old Vladimir, all grumpy again, haha, where do you see tests fit here?". If you, an EM, casually say "guys, we really should write tests", you might be surprised to find the tests unexpectedly growing in different places. Pleasant.

Many years ago, I was standing in my then-boss’s office while he got off the phone from an apparently successful request to have somebody in another department do something for him. He looked up at me from his desk, grinned slightly, and said in a bemused tone, “Well, I didn’t get any prettier when they changed my title to ‘Manager’ [from ‘Specialist,’ before I was in his team], but it sure helps me get things done.”
A peek inside Alphabet's $7B growth-stage investing arm, CapitalG
Blue Mushrooms of New Zealand

https://www.bookofjoe.com/2024/02/blue-mushrooms-of-new-zeal...
If you’re referring to the shells in Mario Kart, then you should also try the lightning bolt :-) When it hits someone’s kart, they shrink down and slow down, and their engine noise becomes high pitched.
Your [2] is the same video. Did you wanted to link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78PvlGCqM84 ?
Employee Turnover Fueled Boeing's Quality Control Nightmare
The agile approach is generally academic mumbo jumbo that is rarely effective/efficient in large-scale industrial practice. Coming from an industry where functional safety is paramount, I think the agile approach is rarely appropriate unless you want to effectively waste everyone's valuable time with unnecessary overheads. If the product has already been launched or is at a pre-launch stage AND the team is small and professional enough, it might even work, but then why bother with such processes and roles overheads in the first place!

Irrespective of the chosen approach, it’s crucial to systematically elicit requirements, document specifications, and rigorously verify and validate everything. Implementation should ideally be supported by thorough unit tests, and, most importantly, all artifacts must be traceable across different abstraction layers and to the required level of detail.
I haven't seen it mentioned yet on Hacker News, but Germany is about to pass the "Gesundheitsdatennutzungsgesetz". This bill allows anonymized access for researchers to all German health care data. Data from over 83 million people.

The example given by the health minister for how this might play out: Researchers find an interesting pattern in the data. They request the ministry to ask the matched people for permission to become participants in a study or direct access. If permission is given, the anonymization is lifted in part and a study could move forward. This alone would make Germany a pretty fascinating place for future AI research.
Interesting, how does harvesting work then? Or they mount the panels high enjoy so it's easy to get underneath?

Edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrivoltaics It's actually more straightforward than I thought.
Electron-based apps are not PWAs. PWAs do not need to be wrapped in a browser engine of their own, they use the installed browser engine. They are not inherently bloated or resource-intensive in any way.

There are not many good example of great PWAs precisely because Apple has been crippling web capabilities on iOS by banning other engines and degrading the experience in Safari for a decade.
Very late so probably invisible to all, but is this just a byproduct of OpenAI's work on understanding of video input? The Google Gemini presentation video suggested that this is the next step-level of AIs. Already with GPT-4V, being able to converse with an AI about the contents of an image feels surreal. The applications that become possible with an AI that can just look at video streams are incredible.
Really? You could not come up with a way to avoid magic numbers?
“Team lead” can mean practically anything, but if you’re talking about an EM, I think most companies would be _extremely_ reluctant to hire one with no prior experience as an EM. A bad EM can completely ruin a team; it’s not something that you want to take any more chances with than you have to.
Bluetooth is not a codec.

EME has nothing to do with Bluetooth.
Apple reportedly halts work on foldable iPhone
Usually I build something I need and doesn't exist or can be improved wrt existing solutions. I don't necessarily do it for money since it's a side project we're talking about. Focusing on solving the core issue instead of finding a viable monetization strategy has some pros:

- makes it more fun for me
- feels lees like another job
- users won't be exploited

If you only need beer money to keep the project running, there are good chances you can keep it running for free too. There are lots of cool free services out there for starting out (eg. Vercel).

For example, I've just built and deployed https://calcolomassimale.it/ on Vercel for free: a 1-Rep Max calculator for strength exercises. There are several tools like this out there but:

- most are in english
- italian tools are clunky/have too much useless text for SEO purposes/use old and ugly interfaces

The idea in this case comes from a simple personal need.
Fun little game. Brought back many memories of too many decades ago.
Yes. And I monitor my network link and automatically power-cycle the modem, if the worst happens. (Which is rare, but the network link has been the source of most of the few problems I've had.)

And use a wired network connection for anything important!
I don't understand why anything in the demo would count as T&C violation. Who would be offended on what basis? If I can automate my desktop with a preprogrammed script, then this is not different.
It doesn't help that GRUB (whether 1 or 2) didn't support IBM PC compatibility unless you handled it manually yourself (something Linux installers also are guilty of).

This happened to mostly work units you dual booted into something that ran another program that ignored the no-man's land of cylinder 0, or had done something with CHS that grub didn't expect.
Minor spelling issue:

> You can mix and match the above paramers as needed.

Should be "parameters", of course.

I'm literally building a tiny webapp for myself and a few others, this'll come in handy!

Just out of interest, would you consider describing the prompt(s) you used for this? I've barely dabbled in ChatGPT for anything like this. Did you use one of those wrapper-like services to ensure the data-out was of the appropriate format?
This might be good strategically from the perspective of EU companies where the physical location of operations can matter a lot depending on your field of business, e.g. NIS 2 Directive for energy companies and other sensitive infrastructure.

But they'll face competition too of course! I can't wait to see more development from European actors and projects like Mistral, TrustLLM, and also GPT-SW3 for the Nordics! There's much in motion on the European stage right now.
Man, declare that headphones are the same experience as a great pair of speakers, he really was mainly a salesman
Apple uses W^X, meaning all the executable code is included in the app download. If the app writes to some memory, eg after downloading something from the internet, it can't then jump into- execute- that memory.

When Apple or anybody reviews an app's compiled code, the code they review is always the entirety of the code that can run on a user's device. This applies for App Store and for new post-DMA marketplaces (that can only install Apple Notarized apps).

The exception is Safari because it can compile JS into machine code and jump into it. That allowance is now being extended to new post-DMA web browsers. It's up to Safari and other post-DMA web browsers to prevent any JS from making nefarious machine code.
The exception is already bad for iPhone security, but without it battery life and performance of web browsing would tank. Actually, you can remove the exception with the Lockdown Mode setting, eg if you are a politician or think advanced hackers might target you.

https://www.mdsec.co.uk/2012/05/introduction-to-ios-platform...
You can use web notifications, and you can compile Objective C to webassembly. You're also able to use apple pay. Everything you've mentioned has a workaround.

I'm really getting at how PWAs are basically something most people wouldn't use, not because they're missing APIs but because they're just a terrible experience and difficult to install and use.

If its Apple that is holding back PWAs so much, its not that they're any successful on Android either.

And then to extend the argument further, "App Clips" or "Instant Apps" aren't much success either from an adoption perspective, despite having full access to the APIs native apps have.
Lessons from JPMorgan's fallout with the fintech Viva Wallet
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39388218 - Apple confirms it's breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on purpose (techcrunch.com)

(815 points / 1 day ago / 766 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39386244 - Apple confirms iOS 17.4 removes Home Screen web apps in the EU (9to5mac.com)

(112 points / 1 day ago/ 125 comments)
Haha, yeah, that’s a good point. I may still have some ansible playbook from a while ago but I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t be up to date. I guess it would be nice to have a system like CoreOS was, where you just provide a setup script, systemd unit files, and at runtime most of the file system is expected to be read-only. That way you’re confident you keep all your setup in a git repo and on reboot the whole thing is reset (outside of data stores).

It’s just so tempting to quickly ssh into the machine to hack something around, then you forget about it b cause it ~works.

But a rpi4 can run containers, so that may also be an alternative.
You can also get a threadripper pro
In the future this sort of thing will inevitably be viewed the way we view bloodletting with razors and leeches -- if not more harshly. They didn't know any better, way back when. We ought to know better.

It's as simple as this: Double-blind, placebo-controlled studies are absolutely not required in drugs that are have extremely large effect sizes. In these cases, open-label trials, compassionate use programs, and post-marketing surveillance can be employed to continue gathering data on safety and efficacy without denying any patients access to critical treatments. And, in the end, the data you gather is just as useful, if not more useful.
I always just dismiss the article instead. Life's too short for dark patterns.
I have an original Pi 2012 running buildroot. It's a perfect fit. Need just enough to run a Linux kernel and ser2net for doing RS485 stuff with solar inverters. I think the image size was around 100MB and no volatile filesystem whatsoever.

Buildroot was surprisingly easy to use. Use a menuconfig to pick what you need and a burnable image for your SD card comes out the other side. Think I only spent an hour on the whole project.
For how many years had you been earning the $560k ballpark? Had you kept it up for 10 years total, another option would have been to retire permanently, move someplace cheap, and live happily ever after.

To flesh out some numbers: $560k minus $100k in taxes, minus another $100k for living comfortably per year, leaves $360k that you can save each year. If you earned 4% on that savings, you have about $5M in 10 years. If you moved somewhere cheap worldwide, you could live lavishly spending $100,000 a year for 50 years. I say lavishly because you are living someplace cheap and this is $100k after tax.

(Assuming no extreme inflation or hyperinflation, and that your funds remain invested.)
Could it be Mistral Large?
This beats GPT-4 on my personal test.
That's right. It can't be pushed down from above. The team has to want to do this and take the power.

A manager can start work on this kind of culture shift without even saying the word "agile". They need to give their teams more trust and room to govern themselves. i.e. managers need to get out of the way. When a team is open to the idea of Agile or scrum, then the manager could ask the team if they would like training or coaching. But the ground has to be made fertile first.
> I find it unusual if we did create an intelligent class of beings, who are legit intelligent, smarter than us, why would they work for Sam Altman or Mark Zuckerberg? They'd do whatever the fuck they want...

That's anthropomorphisation: the AI we have now only "want" to maximise whatever reward function we give them. The alignment problem is that any reward function is only a rough approximation of what we want, so the machines may well rush off and turn the universe into paperclips or tile it with molecular-scale smiley emoji because that's what we told them to "want" without really understanding what we were telling them.

But even then, regardless of IQ (which itself isn't a great description of even just human intelligence), any given AI may or may not have anything we'd consider to be qualia, an "experience" of getting this reward, because that's the hard question of consciousness which isn't solved.

The only thing I can be sure of is that we definitely have no idea where it's all going.
Eh.

Lightning instead of usb.

Firewire instead of usb.

Getting rid of all non-usbc ports.

Touch bar without physical escape.

Ctrl in the wrong place on the keyboard.

Every mbp looking the same with their attrocious glowing branding on the lid.

One-button mouse.

No audio jack.

The walled garden.

Charging a fee for the dev tools.

Yeah, these are all subjective - it's all crap I hate.

But my point is: is anything that anyone dislikes actually out of character for Apple? Or is it business as usual? Maybe Samsung will also create a useless headset and directly assault the open web too, making Apple still the 'industry leader'.
I’ve been thinking about the anger response recently as me and my partner are thinking about becoming parents. Some of our friends with children seem to be liable to anger, and it is quite a stereotype of parents around the world using anger, sometimes unintentionally, to impose control on their children, or to express severe disapproval.

I wonder, how do the HN parents here theorise around that? I really don’t want to be an angry parent, as I’ve learned it can wreak havoc on a child’s feeling of psychological safety, but I know that’s easy to say and less easy to do. In my head, one should only ever rely on anger when there is a genuine threat to the child’s life. Really curious of others’ thoughts.
SuperMicro finally got into AMD desktop CPU boards, if they added USB4 and faster networking to this one we'd have a winner

https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboard/h13sae-mf
Open-Source Pricing
Electricity cost is not a problem, lack of ability to run of batteries (because if large amount of power consumption) is in some applications.
Your last paragraph is basically the conclusion of the article. “Agile” is so loaded it’s not worth using
I've not given this much thought before, but right now I think viruses do about as much work as their chemistry is physically capable of?

(High school middling grades in chemistry and biology, so I may be way off).
I've been using log2ram (github/azlux/log2ram) and been happy with the results.

It mounts a ramdisk on /var and only occasionally copies the logs from ramdisk to SD card. That way I can still see all the logging without hammering the SD card quite some badly.
My argon rasberry setup with an SSD is also stable.

Only reason why it fails is when the electricity goes out. A battery that could keep it running for 10 minutes would completely be enough.
We know they voluntarily killed ~30% of all newborn, so there's that. Perhaps another 30-50% died before age 18.

These numbers are not unique to Australia, it's considered to be commonplace in hunter-gatherer societies.
The amount of money lost in corporations for internal or app store avoiding apps by this decision is mind blowing.
Sounds like someone needs to make a "windows 3.1 with calmira" wm: http://www.calmira.net/screenshots/gaby_c.htm
Young David Deutsch was so vocal & diverse on Usenet sci.nanotech that I was not always sure if he was trolling.

I cant remember details about collecting human pee. Anyways everything is reflected there on molecular level including brain activity and thoughts.
Also its self-update is so genius, it opens a terminal window on the foreground that just hangs in there and does something (I guess?), mind you this is without you running the actual app... once I've seen it do this about 3 times it was going to the trash, where it belongs.
I dunno. Thanks to big corpo shenanigans (and, er, racism?) a lot of people have turned away from big brands (or, at least obviously brand-y brands) towards "trusted individuals" (though you might classify them as brands themselves). Who goes to PCMag anymore? It's all LTT and Marques Brownlee and any number of small creators. Or, the people on the right who abandoned broadcast and even cable news and get everything they "know" from Twitter randos. Even on this site, asks for a Google Search alternative are not rare, and you'll get about a dozen different answers each time, each with a fraction of the market share of the big guy (but growing).