skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe relating is for certain contexts. If we are listening in a business meeting, there is a need to understand an idea or concept, not the person saying the thing. If we are listening in a personal relationship, the need may be to listen to how someone feels or what they are experiencing (which sometimes is work related).

If we feel something while listening to those types of conversation, experiencing a physiological emotionally-driven output, we can "relate" to the feeling through things that have happened to us personally. We may want to say, "I felt that before!" by explaining why, but it's likely enough to just say, "I feel" without changing the subject to our own personal experience.

Empathy, which is what many types of listening is about, is a whole other factor in good listening skills. If we simply note we understand the emotional output, that's not real empathy. It takes understanding it, feeling it in body, and then maybe taking a compassionate action to really hear and feel someone.
Speaking only of the Air here: The newer laptop feels thicker, since it doesn't have the nice tapered front. In general use, outside of only one external display in clamshell mode, the M1 feels similar. If you push things, like for video editing or rendering, the M2 or M3 are markedly better.

However, you quickly hit throttling if you push for more than a couple minutes at a time (like when you export in Handbrake, it will slow down and only run marginally faster than the M1, in my experience).
Caring enough to listen, then communicating that you actually did listen by repeating some of the words they said back to them. How is that manipulation?

In this context, wouldn't manipulation be where you don't listen then say some words which try to (falsely) communicate that you did listen?

(Contrast: not listening, and showing that with "I ain't reading all that. I'm happy for u tho. Or sorry that happened". Contrast: actually did listen but they think you didn't, leading to "I'm so angry about X!" / "How come X is bothering you?" / "I am not bothered by it, I am angry about it!, weren't you listening?!" poor communication. Where "what about X is making you angry?" instead reflects the feelings they said, showing you heard what they said, but does not seem manipulative).
> I’m glad there’s finally some cases setting precedent for the GPL.

There's been a few before: https://gpl-violations.org/news/
Toy project to create your Music playlists as prescriptions
Currently only supports YouTube Music, with Apple Music and Spotify coming soon...
What a weird way to place a—in a headline.

Interesting article though. It's the opposite view of the "elegant universe" where we're just incomprehensibly lucky, goldilocked, one among the infinite in some beautiful universe.

There's an almost gnostic coldness to the arbitrariness of us existing in some bizarre, anomalous tangled up mess of a simulation for some unknown reason.
I'll tell you a fact that isn't popular or commonly known.

At some point Google just took the headers of OpenJDK (GPL licensed) and used it in Android, without relicensing Android to GPL. ( https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/01/android-n-switch... )

Apparently this is fair use according to the US Supreme Court. Technically speaking the case that went to the USSC concerned some prior closed source version of Java, but Oracle doesn't to think there's a material difference since they're not suing Google again for that, and neither do I.

The FSF's argument that linking to GPL libraries require you to relicense the code to GPL rests on the legal argument that APIs, headers, etc. are copyrightable. USSC decided that, well, for only for Google's case, sure, fair use, whatever.

IMHO the GPL was drafted and marketed specifically to make its legal position seem uncertain, and the outcome of the Oracle v Google case doesn't make things clear. I'm not sure whether you'd actually see a court make a decision on the "GPL" given that the case would almost certainly be a matter of copyright infringement, not a matter of license interpretation, so the license text does not matter. If I were a lawyer I'd advice corporate clients to steer waaay clear of anything GPL.
Author here - I should maybe have made the disclaimer at the end more prominent - "All the bugs were discovered, verified, and reported. Any issued tickets were canceled and not used."
The two things we said aren't conflicting.
Better than Thinkpad T14, Generation 5 ?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39507171
> I also find that almost everyone is sexist (…) especially a certain type of feminist.

So sexism is bad, but raising your voice agsinst sexism is the worst?
Yes, the torusphere concept is physically impossible. Because the whole thing is a loop, the object doesn't even have any theoretical substance, it's all made of (artificially thickened) motion blur. Hence the title, motion blur all the way down.
Why would it be better? In the end, you would like your CPU to stay (at most) at, say, 40 degrees, not your heat sink — that thing can be at 35 if it needs to.
Another example is multiplexed LED 7-segment displays. These distort in different ways depending on how you move your eyes. Even 400Hz is too low to display a typical one realistically. If you use motion blur you'll lose the eye-movement-dependent distortion of the real thing.
> everyone on there had the personality of a delusionally dug-in activist

I question the credibility of people that use broad hyperbolic generalizations like this.
Or bad kerning.
Apple Announces New MacBook Air Models with M3 Chip
One of the other examples [0] features a "random number" which might not be entirely random [1].

[0] https://voussoir.net/writing/css_for_printing/#media_print

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controvers...
> Didn't stop you from selling your SW for the Windows platform without paying Microsoft a dime or Microsoft having any way to stop you.

If Microsoft could have, they would have. The only way to sell software was in boxes and intermediaries took 80% of developers money.
The MacBook Air gets an M3 upgrade
For the same effort you put into any piece of art, you could always do something more economical, and yet lots of people take their art very seriously.
How would you put this if it was a fact and not "biased"?
> Why is it that every time something is written in Rust, it needs to be mentioned

Correspondingly:

Why is it that every time it is mentioned that something is written in Rust, someone has to ask why it is mentioned?

Two answers for your question:

* Because Rust has some special qualities, and evangelism is real.

* Because we, as the developer audience, afford some additional consideration to choices made by the developers of the open source tools we use. Sometimes because we contemplate making changes, or at least reading the code to understand behaviour better.

No good answers to my question, unfortunately.
I know. I also read the press release. So Spotify has three options available to them:

- They make 30% less on iOS subscriptions compared to Apple Music

- They charge users 30% more compared to Apple Music

- They offer less functionality (don't accept subscriptions on iOS) compared to Apple Music.

Apple uses one area of it's business to disadvantage competitors to it's other areas.
> For whom was in tech during 90s and now in 2020s, what are the differences between Microsoft back then and Apple now in terms of why the regulators are so "soft" against an actor that is overplaying it's hand for consumers?

Microsoft had a monopoly with the ambition to capture the whole market: “A microcomputer on every desk and in every home running Microsoft software.”

It is impossible for Apple to do that, it is against their DNA. They only sell limited product categories, all their hardware products would fit on a desk in their Apple Store if the merchandize wouldn't be so spaced apart. Their products are targeting a higher price point and if a product spirals to a race to the bottom (mp3 players, wifi routers) they leave the market. They dislike to partner with other companies. They are targeting consumers/prosumers, not business market. This all means there will always be very large gaps in the market which Apple won't cater too.
I'll take any opportunity to rant positively about how great living in Chattanooga, Tennessee is: our local city-owned electric board provides (up to, customer's choice) 20gbps synchronous fiber optic to every single address it delivers power.

The reason coporations pay so much money fighting against electric co-ops (and unionized labor) is because it costs more money to offer better services — it's WORTH IT.

Congrats, SF, for finally escaping the clutches of Pacific Gas & Electric.
How’s this so much different than Nintendo? I’ve never been able to play any game I want to and I’ve always been forced to go through Nintendo or Sony to play games on consoles. (Or Xbox)
>OEMs were not free to install any other operating system.

All the PCs I bought in 90's Europe came without Windows OS preinstalled. What you're talking about it the deals between Microsoft and the likes of Dell/HP/Compaq, etc, but nobody forced you to buy those brands as there were plenty of other local assembled alternatives without OS in the shops back then.
Gleam v1.0.0
And, of course, it starts at 8GB of RAM to nudge you up from $1100 to $1300/$1500.

At which point you might as well spring for the Pro.

I can't fault the business logic but as someone who'd only use a Mac for occasional iOS development, this nudging upward dissuades me from pursuing that idea altogether.
what are you gonna spend your 50 cents on?
An interesting difference with the new pro models, if you want to pay around $5k,
is that you can have 128Gb unified Ram in them and run inference locally with exciting LLMs.
a full summer break, a semester of working on it on and off, and a full winter break, so about 7 months
How do you believe Apple's overall market share is related to the (pre-DMA) monopolistic nature of their App Stores? I can't see a clear connection between the two things.
I actually had the Golden Axe theme[0] on repeat for 4 hours and didn't notice =) I also have a feeling it wasn't the full song, but I had clipped it to a shorter length to fit into the space required for a ringtone at the time.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWkT180hNLE
I don’t have enough brain jam to spread on this systems stuff these days, but it seems to me that they’re ignoring the dynamics of the way these software systems operate within and around human social systems. Are they just seeking to describe a mathemagical model to predict the behaviour of a complicated system (ie. a 747), rather than a truly complex one (ie. mayonnaise)?

I didn’t get far enough to establish whether they had identified that each software system is not mathematically predictable, given they they will always (usually) be deployed, designed or behave differently, as a reflection of some human requirement (e.g. cost, ergonomics, supportability, speed, etc). That - to me anyway - is what makes technical systems-of-systems truly ‘complex’, as opposed to a series of complicated but entirely deterministic binary formulas.
Looks like Gleam is finally 1.0! Congrats to the Gleam team!
That’s really absurd, if two companies from non-English-speaking countries couldn’t sign contracts in English basically all of international business would collapse.
So I'm a ping-pong ball, good to know
>The only way to sell software was in boxes and intermediaries took 80% of developers money.

But did Microsoft take their money like Apple does today?

The internet and shareware distributions was also a thing back then, where you get the SW for free from anywhere, and send a payment to the developer and received an activation key over the phone/post.
I fly Texas to Florida pretty regularly for leisure with my kids. We all have clear/global entry. Our normal procedure is to pick 6-7AM flights with carryon only. This means leaving for the airport around 4 or 5. With a 2.5 hr flight that typically puts us out of the airport by 11 and generally starting our day by noon.
The X1s have been very much hit and miss over the years. I used several iterations and flavours, and can summarise things like so (apologies for not knowing the right numbers for some anymore, I had to return them):

- 2014 X1 Carbon: Amazing screen, so-so keyboard, great battery life. Heavy. Don't remember the fan noise.

- 2015 X1 Carbon: Horrible dim screen (yes, I know you can BTO an upgrade, but we got the defaults), good keyboard, too heavy, horrid battery life that was especially painful as I spent 2015/16 mostly on the road. Fan noise was a frequent nuisance when I was in my home office.

- 2022 X1 Yoga Gen 6 (https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2022/12/03/1600): Amazing display, good keyboard, nice weight, battery life seems OK for Windows but pretty short compared to my MacBook (as usual these days). Had to gimp it to have a quieter fan, and I've had days when my IdeaPad Flex 5 (which runs Fedora) lasts longer, which is just... odd.

As to the Carbon carrying an Intel Ultra... I really like Lenovo, but I bought an IdeaPad Flex 5 with my own money because it used an AMD CPU. Still haven't regretted the multi-core performance, or the iGPU (which was pretty great for that time).
Mods: extraneous apostrophe in title ("reservoir's")
I don't like git. I appreciate that it's great in certain very distributed environments; but I'm still using SVN, because my projects are not distributed, and I can do without the opacity of git.

The biggest whoopsie with SVN, in my experience, was "externals". That was both a bodge and a footgun, and got me into trouble more than once.
FTC to Protect Data of 1.6B People Tracked by Now-Bankrupt Data Broker
that's an unhelpful articulation that runs the risk of having the opposite effect from the one you want.

That would be a pity, because Quarto is really good. I haven't tried Observable yet, but in outline they have some similarities:

1. Documents written in Markdown

2. Ability to embed code blocks in the Markdown, with code executed when the document is rendered.

3. Ability to embed output of the code blocks in the rendered result (e.g. tables, charts).

4. Ability to render to multiple formats (pdf, static site, ...).

Quarto supports Python and R as languages in the code blocks (maybe more, not sure). I personally prefer it to Jupyter notebooks because the source is plain text so (1) there's a choice of editor and (2) moving between text and code blocks is seamless.

I can't say Quarto is better than Observable but it is good. It has depth from its history in RMarkdown (like rendering mathematical equations, naming & cross-referencing).

It's certainly worth consideration for anyone looking for a "code notebook" solution.
I thought this was the point of safetensors?
I hope the EU follows through, Apple's "compliance" is actually obstructing.
Apple pays for Spotify's streaming bandwitdh? :)

If you mean app installs, it's apple's fault for not allowing sideloading.
Modern HDR screens already cause the same subconscious perception as the sun would. You flinch, your eyes adjust, you even move a little bit back and feel a kind of warmth that isn't actually there.
I think you misread the comment
In practice, precedence has about the same legal power in both common law and civil law jurisdictions.

That is civil law courts tend to go with the precedent most of the time on the one hand. And on the other hand, a common law judge can always do a bit of nitpicking to argue why the case before her is special and thus different enough from the precedent (or she can pick from multiple different precedents, and then come up with a justification for why the one she picked matches the case before her the most).
> But you cannot just copy/paste the code from LLMs and push to production

For how long though? this is the state of LLMs today, but I'm not sure this will be the case in 3-5 years.
Okay, I will remove them!
Why blog posts? Wouldn't the codebase "self evolve" based on the proficiencies of other published code?
I like Spotify and I like Apple. But Apple do treat Spotify badly - I assume it's nothing personal but just sheer abuse of power to push their own product - Apple Music. Thanks to this I as a end user get a worse product - buggy Apple Watch App, connectivity issues, reduced functionality
Maybe imprisonment of the exec would do too. Unlikely to happen though.
You mean like no one forces you to buy iPhones because there are plenty of Android devices?
Gleam v1.0.0 Released
I do, people installed those malware by clicking on random ads, about the same way they now install those undesirable apps, funny how history kind of repeats itself.

I guess the biggest difference is that the OS manufacturer now gets a cut on those.
Yeah calling anyone who tries to relate a sociopath? I'd replace that paragraph with "I'm hurt" but I think thats no less silly advice.
I am just going to flip this argument to put things in perspective and add a bit of contrast.

-----

What is the value again? Playing music?

Spotify could just charge for services rendered, ie number of hours played, rather than a flat fee.
Sure, it's less than 10€ per person.
which version of the MacBook Pro 14" do i need to buy to have this feature?
>I don't think it's ever directly hurt my chances of promotion or anything, but I do think it makes socializing harder.

From what I’ve seen (in the US), people will frame in like it will hurt, because drinkers what to drink with other people, but competence wins out at the end of the day.

Being around when decisions get made outside of the office can have an impact though, and it sounds like you’re still there for that. I used to go out with the smokers on their smoke break for the same reason. I didn’t smoke, but going out with them let me be part of the conversation that was sometimes social, but often turned to work and strategy.
One problem I see with the GPL (all versions) is that they make a big deal out of 'linking' your program.

And in a world were C was the only language that mattered, that might have been fine. But more modern languages might have more diverse notions of what linking is and ain't, and there might be gray areas, too.
So if i loop back to the original message "Written in Rust", what they mean to convey is that "this is done by smart people" ;)
> It is impossible for Apple to do that, it is against their DNA.

Just wait until they've integrated their entire supply chain.
How would that increase revenue?
This is a really good answer.

> Apple has argued they do not sell a piece of hardware, but a platform.

This is exactly where the EU goes in and say that responsibilities follow when you sell a platform and you need to act responsibly in the market - Apple just acts up instead of accepting that they did not behave correctly, like a child.

The EU has even specified what it means to act reasonably in the market through DMA.
Spotify hasn't paid revenue to Apple in years... because Apple does not offer reasonable terms for Spotify to comply.

The 30% fee + no way to redirect users to better offers is kind of extreme, especially when Apple has a first party offering which doesn't need to go through the same hoops.
1. Google has taken the headers from OpenJDK (GPL licensed) into Android ( https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/01/android-n-switch... )

2. USSC claims Google's copying Java headers is fair use.

3. Many jurisdictions does not have a fair use doctrine.

So the question is, do you think Google is infringing the GPL by copying headers into Android, according to the most restrictive interpretation or the most restrictive copyright regime?

I think the unfortunate truth is that, for some reason, only US copyright law seems to matter.
Generally speaking, what changed was the value in the tech sector skyrocketing (enabling political lobbying as well as propaganda - the latter of which Apple is extremely good at, just look at the amount of HN comments mindlessly repeating their propaganda about how opening their platform is such a massive security problem. Meanwhile the App Store has been rife with spam and fake apps for the past decade; you literally can't easily find government apps here because shady app companies buy adspace on the searches and put up apps with similar sounding names but with aggressive monetization) combined with ~20 years of US regulators just not really enforcing much in the way of antitrust cases whilst the EU was still on the boat of "maybe we should ask nicely" since that usually works for local enforcement.

Things are finally changing on that end (far moreso in the EU because big tech basically keeps pretending it's just the backyard rather than to be taken seriously and it's pissing off regulators), but it's still somewhat of an oddly prescient fact that Silicon Valley/US tech companies broadly more or less "invent" old corporate crimes that take a decade to get enforced because regulators don't get that the difference between a physical form of fraud and a digital form of fraud isn't really that big.

EU is catching on and has been passing landmark regulations specifically to attack this crap, while the FTC is doing what it can in spite of the GOP having been pulling it's teeth for the past 20 years.
What science says about hybrid working – and how to make it a success
Captain's log: the irreducible weirdness of prompting AIs
I've often found EM's things on LLM usage to be quite helpful, and it seems he's gathered a lot of things on prompting in one place here.
Stop infantilizing adults. Teach them computer safety.
Is it cold enough that some of this water can be preserved in the mountains using ice stupas?

https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2023/07/07/ice-stupas-have...
I don't personally detect sentience, yet — but about 5% of my inputs result in some sort of interpretation and/or reasoning (sometimes I have to think for days "why did LLM.xyz make such a strange connection..?" only to realize the schizotypisms of machine aren't often wrong (just different).
Me neither. I moved to Source Hut. I'll be restarting my work on my previous research and pondering on whether I should keep its code at a Forgejo instance buried under a VPN, until it's ready to release.
I might be mistaken, but can't you still get models from HF that don't use safetensors?
I wish it was just an image of a middle finger.
The post says:

> Joined by Dr. Richard Hipp, creator of SQLite, we are building a distributed, scalable, high concurrency cloud database on top of 100% open source SQLite.

How exactly is Dr. Richard Hipp involved in this?
Great recommendation, one pithy comment in the podcast is the observation that unlike Freud, who was ultimately interested in deciphering the unconscious, the Surrealist approach is akin to _reciphering_ it. The goal is not to smooth things out but to encounter the 'marvelous', aka actual reality.

In HN terms, those weird things aren't a bug, they're a feature.

https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/courses/111...
> Flight times between Singapore and London would be cut from 18 hours on conventional aircraft at the time to just 10 hours.

This is very interesting, because current Singapore-Heathrow direct flights are around 13 hours. I wouldn't pay first-class++ fares for a 3-hour flight time reduction in a tiny, cramped cabin with worse pressurisation and ventilation than first class on modern A380s, B777s and A350s that currently ply the route.
Does this imply linux is growing, or that non-geeks no longer buy desktops?
France has a civil law system [0] which doesn't place nearly as strong an emphasis on precedent as common law does, so this specific case probably won't help speed anything up.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_law_(legal_system)
> While you may have no issue installing unsigned apps and dealing with any troubleshooting, their average user, or most users, don't.

These average users shouldn't come near a MacBook then.
Delays trigger concerns about NASA's plan to return to the moon ahead of China
Yep, that's what the GP said.