skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google works like crap sometimes. So does stackoverflow. The takeaway here is just that information provided by a stranger should always be taken with a grain of salt.
I wonder if we're talking about different things.

It sounds like one of your concerns is being catastrophically unlucky with the sampling rate:
> This is because you run into aliasing with the samples being collected at unhelpful points.

I interpret this as you saying "we sample at times T, 2T, ..., but there's a hotspot that hits at T+0.001, T+0.003, ..., T+0.999, 2T+0.001, ..., and we never get to visit it". I'll grant that this could happen, altho it seems contrived, but my claim is that by sampling at "T+/- epsilon, 2T +/- 2 epsilon, ...." sooner or later you're going to start hitting that hotspot. And before too long if, say, 5% of the time the CPU is executing that code you're going to hit it, on average, 5% of the time.

It'll be aliased, sure, but in a way that smears across all frequency bins instead of getting missed. You won't be able to recover the true frequency (at least not without fancy sparse methods) but why do you care? The important question is "where is the CPU spending its time" and not "is this function being entered 100000 times per second or 100001 times".

Here's another general objection. The things being sampled are square waves: a function is either in the call stack or it's not, the program counter is either at a particular location or it's not, and so on. That means you're going to have energy at all odd partials, which you'll have to account for somehow, but however you do it it's not going to reflect the underlying behavior.
You're missing the point entirely. The idea of a "freedom to install" is incidental to what happened in the market which is that Apple made a platform that people felt secure and happy in. Consumers Apple's product to the extent that Apple became a dominant force in the market.

That's the house they chose to live in. It's a house in which no knives existed. Now you're saying "let them put knives in, how dare you restrict them from having a knife!" whereas most consumers are saying "I like this house, wow living here feels great.". It's not a knife issue. You're trying to make it a knife issue.

The success of the iPhone was never obvious from day one. To attribute Apple's success to monopolistic behavior and consumer oppression, rather consumer behavior and expression, is just denying reality.
Anyone permanently burned their retina yet?
Do you have any support for this argument?
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SF is probably the second worst managed organization I interact with on a daily basis.

PGE is the worst.
I like the story about how Andy Hertzfeld 'sold' RMaker to Apple for one of the first LaserWriter printers ($7,000 USD in the early 80's)

https://folklore.org/RMaker.html
We'll have to wait and see, for the moment I think it's mere posturing coming from some European leaders.

To begin with, the European nuclear deterrent when it comes to keeping Russian on their toes is a joke compared to what the American have as part of their arsenal.
The average Sprit customer is price-sensitive compared to a Delta customer and will have lower spend per basket (or just rely on vending) than a Delta customer might bring overall to your business.

(This is ironic, because generally every time I line a low-cost-carrier up against a mainline airline like Delta, once the baggage is added that is generally free on a mainline the ticket cost is within $50-100 of each other, and worth paying the extra few bucks to not have as much hassle.)
I mean you always have to have goals if you know what I mean. ;)
Don't forget the Tennessee Valley Authority.
I don't know, I personally have a slight preference toward hg, the UI feels a bit nicer.
So how does that play out when I work as a contractor for multiple companies which have some overlap?
Yes, they are saying that Apple can require any app in the app store that wants to sell a subscription also must allow the user to cancel the subscription through that App Store UI (even if the user doesn't pay for the subscription through Apple).
This kinda exists now with the newer partial clone options: https://github.blog/2020-12-21-get-up-to-speed-with-partial-...

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> Apple's conduct, which lasted for almost ten years, may have led many iOS users to pay significantly higher prices for music streaming subscriptions [...]

Apple Music and Spotify subscriptions cost exactly the same.
Based on the above, yes.
i remember making my own camera in the mid 1970s. the lens was one of those crappy macro things you could screw onto a proper slr lens, and the film was actually photographic printing paper. the body was cardboard and tape, and the shutter a bit of cloth.

after you had taken a pic, you had to rush into the darkroom, develop the paper and then reverse print it (cannot remember how, or even if i did).

all a bit weird, but it kept me amused back then. i haven't been involved in photography for nearly 40 years.
The open source world seems to always be decades ahead from "most companies" on every single dimension.

Just look at all the craziness about being able to manage software dependencies by publishing different microservices versions, or all the emphasis on software testing without any other kind of correctness verification getting the spotlight.

Oh, and those are the advanced companies out there. Most of them aren't even there yet.
> Do you also want to take away everyone's cars because of traffic deaths? That's far more serious than someone's parent installing malware on their shiny digital toys.

This isn't the same thing. The equivalent in your anecdote is that Car A comes with a three point seatbelt that you don't want to use, and you want Car A to be sold without it so you can use your preferred safety device, despite multiple current owners of Car A telling you that they _want_ the three point seatbelt. And you can always buy Car B if you want to install a lap belt instead.
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The YouTube Music Apple Watch app works flawlessly for me. Maybe the problem is Spotify not putting in the effort to make a good watch app?
Those answers are answers to the question and deserve to be on the site. I've often benefitted from answers like these.
What's the point of defending a multi-trillion-dollar company? Apple is abusing its market position. Let's not pretend that they are strapping for money because getting a working phone platform is expensive. Apple doesn't provide 30% of the value of a company to deserve 30% of their profit. If they wanted to make it fair, they would charge a fair usage cost of the app store. Charge for hosting apps, delivering updates, appearing in featured apps, etc. Heck, companies already spend money on marketing, let them opt-out from appearing in search results if they want.
Well, it's posted here by someone for some reason. I didn't search for it, but was curious what the purpuse is of this idea, since I have a lot to do with MIDI, algorithmic composition and programming languages.
I'm not really sure because it was one of the tab opened in my mobile browser. My best guess would be that I originally saw this link in a post on Mastodon.
Not sure if Decimas poetry could be considered an example of this. Personally I always believed everything is related to everything.
> After killing its manufacturing industry

Manufacturing's share of US real GDP has remained relatively stable over time: https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2017/april/us-manu...

i.e. the quantities of goods produced is growing about as fast as the economy. The reason manufacturing is dropping as a percentage of nominal GDP is that inflation for manufactured goods has been lower than for other goods.
Unless the GPl'd work provides a novel API that the GPL code implements; that has been tested in court. The API is protected, by copyright, and linking to that API requires the use of the API. That's why you can't just link to GPL'd code will-he–nill-he, without the possibility of serious repercussions.
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> Okay, that's a nice anecdote. Is your point that no one should be allowed to have the freedom to install whatever they want on their devices because your parent was incapable of dealing with the responsibility?

That this isn't "infantilizing".

> Do you also want to take away everyone's cars because of traffic deaths? That's far more serious than someone's parent installing malware on their shiny digital toys.

My mum did that for my gran when my gran got Alzheimer's and my mum realised she'd been driving for 6 months without paying road tax.

And then the same happened to my mum.

Also, you're giving the exact argument in favour of self-driving cars as soon as the tech is actually ready, and also the reason that crumple zones and seatbelts are mandatory.

And also the reason we have (revokable) driving tests to be allowed to use the vehicles in the first place.

> What about taking away kitchen knifes? Those things sure are dangerous!

https://www.gov.uk/buying-carrying-knives has a high degree of popular support, and has done since I was a kid myself.
Well, it's a deterrent fine, giving a warning to other businesses tempted to do the same.

Repeated offenders will not get off so lightly though.
In that case, good for the EU, just another form of tax collection.
There was a lawyer and a judge in the Epic case that in fact did rule that Apple wasn’t a monopoly…
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I like reading old books, but I often struggle with them because of the archaic language they use. I thought that LLMs might be a way to improve this, so I started working on AItheneum. It's a library of classic philosophy books enhanced with LLMs.

So far it has three features:

- Reading level: It displays the original text alongside two simplified versions ("medium" and "easy" levels).

- Explain: Highlight a section of the text, and you can ask it to explain that extract for you.

- Search: Search for specific themes within the book (e.g., "religion," "purpose of life") and get relevant sections highlighted.

I've only added the First part of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and I'm working on adding more sections of it and more books. But I thought others might find it interesting as it is right now.

Some of the translations and explanations are not that accurate, and the search feature is a bit confusing. But I'm working on it, and I'd love to hear your feedback.
He clarifies that he had prior written agreement to work on shareware and this software specifically. You can do this at most established big tech still today (possibly tougher at startups).

And hey it worked out great for Microsoft— they got the software they wanted at a great price (1x used corvette * ~1.8 for taxes) with no negotiation, and they already employ the guy who wrote it so I imagine integrating it was even easier than they expected.
I suspect a big chunk of this is simply visibility: if you deploy an application using your cloud provider’s native features, you get an itemized bill telling you where your money is going. That’s not perfect (you still need to tag resources) but it’s mature and familiar. If you run everything in Kubernetes - which, to head off a popular tangent, is not just following a fad but a trade off - you have to build and operate the equivalent infrastructure to have the same level of visibility, but since the entire Kubernetes cluster is overhead it’s very easy to get stuck in the IT shared services pitfall where there’s a constant pressure to direct limited resources towards application-visible work.

The survey’s reported breakdown feels right – you need solid leadership to resist the urge to skimp on indirect infrastructure costs and I’d bet most of the 80% know this is a problem but have been too busy to spend time on it:

> just under a fifth (19%) had access to accurate information, while 40% said they estimated their Kubernetes costs. There was no monitoring in place for 38%.
...excepting the by-far largest one - the water table - which is still in absolutely dire shape.
They are mathematically equivalent
Yeah but if your eyes were tracking it smoothly, it would not appear blurry. You could try to approximate _that_ with eye tracking but achieving such low latency might be even harder than cranking up the FPS
I think where they are coming from is that the copyright holder has the power to pick any license, multiple licenses, or make up a license. So they can give you rights that the GPL doesn't, as they are the copyright holder. IANAL so I don't know exactly how it would be made legally binding, but they do have that power.
They don't have a choice as long as they are doing business in the European Union. It will be probably taken out of their Accounts in the European Subsidiary after going through the usual process of People/Companies not paying.
Apple unveils the new 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with the M3 chip
I am telling you why I wouldn't use an obscure license if I wanted to share my work.

When I don't want to share my work, I simply keep my work to myself.

You are indeed free to choose whatever license you want.

I have zero issues with that.
> these fun projects advance the art of mankind

In which way?
Exactly this. Who is clock watching the ceo…?
The yellow tab was nonvolatile memory so season progress could be saved. This comment is a complete lie and should be disregarded.
You house hold AI is your friend:

So in summary, in 2021:
- Number of Nintendos sold in EU: Over 7.1 million game consoles were sold total, and Nintendo Switch was the best-selling console.
- Number of iPhones sold in EU: Around 56 million iPhones.

Another commenter mentioned in another discussion something that is very much applicable here:

I'm under impression that Americans freak out because they tend to go full technical on laws, that is, they don't care much what the governments are trying to achieve with the laws but work within the limits of strict technicality. So a lot of Americans were freaking out here on HN when GDPR was introduced, some shutting down personal projects because were afraid to get in trouble with the EU laws and find themselves in huge and expensive lawsuits.
> If you're an engineer and you think the way you make money is by writing code, and there's no need to leave your house to write code, why aren't you working for yourself? Serious question.

I _loathe_ the sales process.

Being my own boss is fun and all, but then I'd need to have a roster of clients to keep myself employed at all times - and bill enough to afford vacation days for my mental health. I would also need to be healthy, a two-week COVID infection is really bad if you're a contractor with deadlines.

I've had much better experience working for good companies that recognise that their employees are the thing keeping them successful.
And Google, too.

Try using an popular Android application without being forced to install Google Play Services. You can't do banking, can't get notifications, etc. Many of the most critical apps will simply refuse to launch.

Google slowly turned Android into a Google service thanks to developers having to rely on Google's proprietary APIs.

I work at a small independent app studio, and we just decided to required the Google Play Services in our Android apps because too few people don't have it (why try and do without then). It's like all websites only supporting Chrome and nobody complaining (except a few nerds using custom ROMs). What a shame.
The fee is somewhat for paying apple to make and maintain the APIs they put into iOS, including perpetual access to all future APIs. Not Apple’s fault if Spotify then refuses to e.g. integrate with the HomePod for years after Apple made the APIs to do so.
That's true. Honestly, when I was thinking about the topic, I didn't consider cam sites, as that's not something I'm too familiar with myself... I assumed most users (or useds, as Stallman would say), were just browsing the billions of free material.
Batteries are good. But we must definitely find a way to do load shifting of high energy demand industries and processes to peak of solar. Wonder what can be shifted to 4 hour window without impacting the overall economics ?

There is a good chance solar per Kwh may reach 1-2 US cents LCOE by 2030. Off course this does not include storage, transmission. But this is an order of magnitude difference from many energy sources only a decade back.
Recall the fable of the grasshopper and the ant: https://read.gov/aesop/052.html

Everyone should have a reserve of everything they need to the extent it is practical. A reserve of meds should be a high priority.

Reserves act as an accumulator or a capacitor.

When we ants stock up in good times, it primes the supply chains to be ready to provide a little extra later. If half the customers buy 10% extra over time, the supply chains expect to provide an extra 5%.

When shortages hit, we ants are taken care of, and do not stand in line competing with the grasshoppers for the last few bottles of pills.

Because we ants primed the supply chains when stocked up in good times, there might even be an extra bottle of pills in addition to fewer customers fighting over it. We ants perform a public service by stocking up.

The vast majority of meds in the US say they are "made in the USA," but the precursor chemicals are usually made in China.

Trans-oceanic trade was cut off (for a while and severely reduced for longer times) in World War 1 and again in World War 2. It can happen again.

It is a common scam to buy something from China, claim to make it in the USA, and resell it at a large markup. This means that a lot of things we think are made in the USA will not be available if international trade is restricted or stopped.

I expect massive shortages of meds when/if the balloon goes up in the South China Sea.

Natural selection often eliminates certain populations in short, sharp corrections.

I hope I am wrong and the grasshoppers do just fine this winter.
Sure if you ignore that generating and modifying images is one of the leading usecases. Anyhow I think the combination "your mom" joke and thinking valuation == spend has revealed this to be a fruitless conversation.
>I presume the quick temperature rises are specific to modern Ryzen CPUs, perhaps others too. Maybe this is due to more accurate sensors, or even a less-than-ideal thermal interface.

It’s because the cpu is designed to push itself to a thermal limit and have its output performance decided by how you keep it at that limit so it essentially goes full throttle to 90deg then slows down if your cooling can’t keep up which causes the fan spikes.

So I’m told from the research I did.

My latest machine had the same issue but just updating all drivers, setting some auto curves and adding easing for the fan spin up time completely solved it.
> when it was never even defined why would we call something a heap in the first place.

Cultural conditioning, technically, "just [the] reality", "you know what I mean", etc colloquially. It's a broadly "known" meaning, despite no definition, that's where the paradox comes from.

Lots of things are like this, the requirement(!) to fight wars for example - there's no objective definition for why we must do it, we just "know" that we must. And if you disagree with me, just ask anyone and see what they say (watch out though, quite often people will trick you and answer both yes and no to the same question, with complete sincerity).

Watch children playing house and listen carefully to how they talk, how they describe the details of their imaginary world, etc....its an innate feature of human consciousness, it never goes away, but it becomes cloaked by education, culture, "facts", etc.
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> You kind of have to be serious about something in order to invest many hours into creating and finishing it.

Well, then at least there must have been some vision or goal, thus my question.
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Also this lets Someone Else take care of the boring stuff like taxes, payroll, sick leaves, hiring etc. I can focus on the code.
This is the most lucid explanation of aliasing I think I've ever read.

I mostly deal with this stuff in the realm of audio where the matter of analog vs digital rages regularly. The reason one hears "Nyquist says" so often from people defending digital audio is that the pro-analog people are imagining stair-stepped signals in which the information that is "lost" results in a noticeable degradation in sound quality. This (11-year-old) video is the gold standard for addressing this concern:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIQ9IXSUzuM

Curiously, no one ever seems to mention the actual problems (like aliasing).
> But before someone replies to point out that malware gets past the App Store tests: yes, of course it does, I see all this as a "defence in depth" strategy, not a silver bullet.
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lets face it both are forgettable
> The most severe, prevalent danger is people thinking these things are too complex and then trying to roll their own alternative on bare VMs

No it's not. This was simply just not the case before k8s. Running a stateless app behind a (cloud) LB talking to a (cloud) DB has never been the hard part, and it's even easier today when something like Go is essentially just starting a single binary, or using docker for other languages. People seem to have forgotten how far so few components gets you. But incentives for too many people involved aligns towards increasing complexity.
In the video she mentions there are only 17 different wallpaper designs.
As it turns out, there are only 17 possible planar symmetry groups [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallpaper_group
Impressive benchmarks here. The 90% eval for one of the math categories on 0-shot vs 74.5% GPT-4 8-shot is nice.

https://twitter.com/AnthropicAI/status/1764653830468428150
Sounds a bit like Blinkist for the classics. Nice idea.