skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes and just look at history. This has been the way most people live and have lived. As peasants, toiling for landowners in exchange for survival. It is a good long term strategy in that it has been the norm throughout history. The occasional violent uprisings are a cost of doing business.
This has always been such a funny argument to me. The "some" is carrying some much weight. Yeah there's a couple vocal apple users in hacker news that think a closed ecosystem is good, more private and secure, they trust Apple and they indeed have chosen the iPhone for this reason.

But more likely than not, people choose iPhone because everyone has an iPhone. People choose iPhone because when both parents have iPhones they buy their kids iPhones and then when their kids grow into young adults, well, they're already invested in the ecosystem to such a degree that it's impossible to get out.

More likely than not, they choose iPhone because iPhones are just what people think about when they think smartphone. Because Samsung phones seem "complicated".

I really doubt people even care about privacy and security. I mean, sure, if you ask them if they care they will say yes; because that's how polls work, no one wants to say they don't care and be judged. But if you were to ask people "why iPhone" I'd say the answer will be more on the lines of "because iPhone".

The modern world is made on marketing and Apple is the best company in the world at it.
> Used to be that newspapers were the fourth estate

This has never (really) been the case with "mainstream" media. "The media" in common parlance is a farce. Historical news has almost always been agenda driven, and was key to the American revolution, Labor reforms in the US, etc. Those things are not "mainstream media."
Outside of pricing, why would one buy Air vs Pro these days? I've had OG Air back in the day and tapered form factor was great. I recently was in an Apple store and looked at pro and airs.. they felt same, and also air seemed heavy (compared to ye olde tapered one). Now with Pro at 14" and Air pushing to 15".. why?
I read a study that put people in a dark room with a strobing LED and told them to dart their eyes left and right. 1000Hz was the limit before everyone stopped seeing glowing dashes and saw a solid line streak instead.
It's in the works under the EU Digital Identity Wallet Consortium (EUDI)[1]. Here's an example [2] of a specification being discussed that is similar to OP's QR code.

[1] https://eudiwalletconsortium.org/
[2] https://digitallabor.berlin/draft-payment-presentation-profi...
> Why would new reservoirs help? I'm not aware there is a problem with the existing ones ever filling up?

Assuming this is a serious question:

If you have 20 half full reservoirs you have twice as much water as with 10 half full reservoirs.
> I'd almost say anyone not doing that is being foolish

The problem is, such tricks are sold as if there's superior built-in multi-modal reasoning and intelligence instead of taped up heuristics, exacerbating the already amped up hype cycle in the vacuum left behind by web3.
Getting tossed around in an airplane capsule during turbulence is not my idea of fun.
80 to 90 people actively engaging with content would be surreal.
What switch did you buy?
I used this fact in an interview ages ago. The interviewer wanted a function, in Java, that shuffled a deck of cards such that every permutation was equally likely. I pointed out this was not possible using the standard library random functions since the seed is a long (akshually... it's 48 bits).

They inexplicably hired my know-it-all ass...
So many of us know about Goodhart’s law but willfully ignorant about how that applies to modern economies. We made money to be the metric we judge things by, and now we get to enjoy or suffer the results of overoptimization on that metric.
Related: Fire And Motion, Joel Spolsky, 2002 <https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/>
Agreed, some problem here.
$999 is for soldered 8GB/256GB crap. Add $400 for 16GB/512GB models.
> an unsafe language

No such thing.

> a compiler that defaults to “anything goes” as an optimisation technique

That's just FUD.
My phone's set to en_US.

Quite possible that this is region/phone-language-specific.

Many things on iOS are these days: For example, "find things in images" (no idea how it's officially called, identifying animals and places etc.) is available in en_US and de_DE, but not de_US (which I've been using for a while).
"Advanced" ovestates the content a bit, since they are covering functors, "Monads I" and difference lists as core content.
> Regarding 1, there are plenty of alternatives to iMessage and iCloud

So? The alternatives to iMessage and iCloud are different from them in a number of ways, just like iOS and Android are different in a number of ways. They're not identical alternatives.

> 2 and 3 are not relevant to monopoly claims.

We're not discussing monopoly claims. We're discussing why people buy iPhones.
I will say that DOI.org isn't the only dDOI resolver and that sci-hub in many ways behaves like one.
anecdotally, I have noticed massive wage growth for non-college educated workers.

My teenage son who was still in high school at the time went from $10/hr to $17/hr as a restaurant worker in small town Florida. This was 2022-2023. In the same period, my salary as a principal software engineer went up 3%
Generally the people in charge are old and don't need a long term strategy.
Nobody claimed that these two theories are converging.

I said our overall mental model of reality is converging with reality. We're zeroing in on the truth. One day that might include a unified theory.
From what I can tell this is a judgment against some sort of government services provider. So the damages will just end up being paid by the citizens via taxation.
Despite the promise of this making visual media feel more real, I can't help but feel like, for games, this makes the video games look like a cheap approximation of over-edited movies. For things moving real fast, or real close, or especially with non-ego motion, this all makes sense. But it is over-used for things like "the character turns quickly".

When I snap my head (or eyes) around, I don't see a blurry image, I see the new image, and my brain drops the intermediate data. You can test this by looking at yourself in a mirror, focusing on one eye, then another. Do you see your eyes or face or anything blur?

Adding blur just delays the presentation of the new view when moving your POV in games. It's distracting and unrealistic.
> Keep in mind that this set of notes is not the actual program; if a MIDI file is created from this progression of notes, the concurrent notes might be interpreted in a different order in the file, and create an invalid program.

Is the order of notes within a chord the _only_ extra info required on top of a musical score? If so, with some "tie-breaker" I think you could encode any Velato program unambiguously in sheet music.

For example, if notes in a chord were interpreted as commands from lowest to highest pitch, you could move notes up and down by octaves to determine the command order. Just a thought... I like the idea of piece-as-program.
> Couple of hours to get to the airport

Since when does it take a couple of hours to get to the airport for the average traveler? That would only be the case for someone who lives in a very rural area far away from the nearest major airport.

> arriving to the airport three to four hours in advance

3 hours is what's recommended for international flights, but even then thats a conservative recommendation to be safe. "3 to 4 hours" is quite excessive.

> a couple of hours to get from the airport to wherever you actually want to be.

Again, the average traveler is not traveling for a couple of hours to get from their destination airport to their final destination. I can't find the stats, but if I had to guess, the majority of travelers final destination is within an hour of the airport they land at.

I definitely agree with you that all of these aspects of air travel need to be made much more efficient, but inflating these times just paints an inaccurate picture of the travel time benefits that supersonic travel brings.
I also added a bit about accessible text contrast
True, but there is a lot of rain and snow water that is not used.
Prices in Europe still very bloated compared with US.
SEEKING WORK | Remote, Elixir/Ruby dev

* Location: Estonia

* Remote: Yes

* Willing to relocate: No for the time being

* Technologies: Elixir and Ruby

* Resume/CV: https://aloui.se/full-resume.pdf

* Email: me@thelastinu.it
If your garage is going to house cars or tools and it's questionable whether you need to run a network cable to it anyway, go for wired cable so you don't need a $500 fiber splicer. 300' is the maximum you can do, but the spec has some wiggle room.

If your garage is actually going to be a home office, you're a networking enthusiast and you feel running fiber would be a fun learning experience, and you've got a buddy who can lend you a fiber splicer (or giant holes you can fit a pre-terminated cable through) - then go ahead and run fiber if you like.

I barely use the network link I ran to my garage, and I literally have a CNC machine in there. Turns out sneakernet works fine when you've got to go set up the workpiece anyway, and I ain't buying a car that needs a wifi connection. A gold-plated setup would have been a waste of money.
> intentionally removing important historical information

What makes that information important?

> about what branch changes came from

Is it even "what branch"? Most of time I'm rebasing my changes from one commit on `main` onto a slightly newer commit on `main`, and when they're finally ready to be reviewed/pushed publically, I'll rebase (and fix) them onto the newest commit on `main`.

And I'm generally not doing it so the commit graph looks prettier. I'm doing it so that the changes are as self-contained and as easy to review (either now, or at some point in the future) as possible, because the merge commit is as simple as possible. (If it's even necessary.) If a merge commit involves a bunch of differences from both parents, that can be tricky for people to reason about.
The courts often handle new technologies by default simply by assigning responsibility to the people who operated it for the specific uses in question, such as reproduction.
+1 for lanshack, I've used them for pre-terminated cables for years!
The rules remains the same. If you reuse a significant amount of code as is, you are infringe copyright. If you internalized some new knowledge based on some code and come up with a new implementation.. this is how we human learn. This is expected. Why would it be different for llm?
The hunt for the missing data type
It would result in a significantly improved user experience… I really have no sympathy for Spotify intentionally refusing to improve their HomePod experience in order to avoid “weakening their complaint.”
> If I were building a replacement for git...

The biggest problem with git is anything that isn't just text (e.g. binary files). What's needed is a source control system that understands binary file formats well enough that it is capable of producing a user (developer) friendly diff.

For example, if git understood PNG you could do a diff on two versions of that PNG and it would show you that e.g. a color was changed or a TM symbol was added or similar.

I think git will be with us for a long time but whatever replaces it will be able to handle binary diffs in an intelligent way. Probably with AI-generated summaries.

Even then it might still be git... Just an improved version.
> Chinese arms and tech dealers are pretty open about who they trade with.

Are you meaning it should be excused or discounted?

And yeah, it's impossible the CCP wouldn't be involved in some way.

Those manufacturers are literally creating military weapons.
> almost all development conventions mandate directory intentionally kept empty or to exist before their contents exist

Never heard about this, nor can I imagine what purpose it could serve.
Because the lunatics who wrote the software turned it into a stupid contraption where the source files are mummified in xml and entombed in a zip file or some other proprietary binary container. PLC coding standards should be taken out back one by one and shot twice in the head.
ah, yes, "lay flat" and the new Chinese revolution. "We are the last generation"
> If a paper is being forgotten by the internet, that's a weak signal that it was not valued by its field.

That would be valid if the decision was made by popular vote.

It's completely invalid if a single entity is allowed to decide whether it lives or dies.
Most of this, I agree with.

I'd just say that the "federated" model works just as well for work as it does for government. People have boundaries and they're universally respected, but interactions between people still need to happen. Hence the "common" spaces mentioned in the comments in the article.

As for not liking the people you work with: there is NO group of 20 or more without someone you hate. Unless you're more bland and agreeable than most HN'ers. From what I can tell, every academic department is composed of people who hate each other.
The answer I come up with when I say do literally anything is woodworking or browsing YouTube. Not really solving my problems.
Case-study: sharing home-cooked dinners
Hi HN,

For the past year I tried to build onemoreplate in the "socializing in real life" space by helping hosts organize get-togethers over home-cooked dinners.

Even though it didn't really pan out, there are some important lessons I learned and I wanted to share here.

I think the concept has great potential but we didn't have the right formula to tackle the problem.

I would love any feedback you have on the post or the concept.

Cheers,
Andrei
SVN is still fine in 2024. I run a 1-man software business and see no need to take the time and effort to move to Git. I can see the benefits for a distributed team though.
IEEE President's Note: Let's Get Practical
If the Verdict was against Trump, he'd have immediately said - "I'll file an appeal". Now, why can't others do that as well?
With 1M tokens, if snapshotting the LLM state is cheap, it would beat out-of-the-box nearly all RAG setups, except the ones dealing with large datasets. 1M tokens is a lot of docs.
It's not crap, though. I am using the exact config with an M1 and it's really quite usable, even for development. Also I have hundreds of tabs open. You can even watch movies because the speakers are so good - opposed to any PC laptop I ever owned.
I'm compiling a lot of code, my hands got sweaty because of how hot the intel macbooks got.
And how are these numbers in subsonic flights?

A flight from London to Singapore. How much fuel would it need without stops, versus how much fuel in the least-fuel case (but more-stops case)?
I briefly worked for a company as recently as 2010 that didn't use source control at all, and didn't even do the "copy source files and version their file names" practice. Whenever they had to cut a release for an angry customer, they'd just find an engineer whose local copy actually built successfully, bump the version number in the code, build on his workstation, and release that. CEO didn't want his software engineers doing anything but writing code, including setting up source control, tooling, automation, tests, documentation...
Does this have 10x more censorship than the previous models? I remember v1 being quite usable.
Cable has always been ad-funded as far as I can tell.

Big print newspapers were mostly independent and subscriber-funded, so they answered to their subs rather than advertisers.

The Economist is still independent and subscriber-funded. But, most sub-driven publications now have to fight tooth and nail to stay above water, so the writing needs to be tailored towards engagement/clicks :/
Obligatory https://ldpreload.com/blog/signalfd-is-useless?reposted-on-r... post. :)

It's a divisive article, but I generally agree, saving you a thread is basically what it mostly does, and there's already enough boilerplate out there to do that. Plus you sacrifice portability.
i read it and i'm not sure the point you're trying to make? that section is about empathy from the POV of the person with BPD, not about empathetically listening to somebody with BPD

edit: it appears we're talking past each other. i like this piece of writing and you don't. that's fine. do you have any suggestions for me to read about how to listen, written by one of your favorite writers or poets? this will help me better understand how to listen to you.
Both the "heat" and "death" part of heat death are a bit of a misnomer: it's not so much about things being so cold as to be dead, and it's definitely not about being spread out so much no interactions happen anymore: it's purely about the universe being in state of thermodynamic equilibrium, where interactions can still happen but do not increase entropy. In theory, the entire universe could be a million kelvin plasma, but once it reaches universal thermodynamic equilibrium, that's its "heat death".
I store images, executable and DLLs in SVN without any issues. Most of the them are smaller than 10MB though.
I suspect LLM performance will be a differentiator for Pro and newer Apple laptops in coming years.

If Apple releases on-device AI, this will be an effective way of getting people to upgrade like they used to, but haven't had to recently. For example, I bought Pro-level computers in my younger years, but now would only consider an MBA, mini, or iMac. But they could get me to go for a Pro if it were the only way to get more RAM for better AI performance. It will also likely shorten upgrade cycles since newer computers would have the latest and greatest performance. When I bought my M2 MBA years ago I suspected it would last me a long time. Now I'm not so sure since I don't have a ton of RAM.
I've mapped Super to Caps Lock so that helps keep it ergonomic, and so I continue to use Super 1-10. Super+1 would not be fun to type otherwise, agreed!
With ephemeral NixOS, I'm reinstalling the whole OS (sort of) on every boot!
Please do follow this strategy if you are convinced of its merit.
Momentum can be a gift or a curse. Keeping average speed above 0 is often a more important metric than top speed when you are trying to go far
This Autistic hero has a youtube.
For me more and more looks like, tight relations with silicon manufacture doomed them.

If they have not so tight relations with hardware, they would show much more agile behavior to survive.
My response would be: "to validate the chosen stopband attenuation, compare the unwanted signal or interference that passes through the filter with the noise that you already have or with other factors that would make this unwanted signal or interference unnoticeable".
In the US at least, those requirements are quite straightforward. The major issue is that you probably ought to use outside plant cable for the outdoor run, and most outside plant cable is messy and not listed for indoor use. And if you run shielded cable, you’re supposed to bond both ends near the points of entry.

But you can buy indoor/outdoor unshielded OSP/CM cable, run it in conduit outside, and connect it indoors with no special considerations. (Also, unshielded Ethernet cable is fully galvanically isolated, whereas if you have crappy electrical wiring that confuses ground and neutral or an unnoticed ground fault, a shielded cable may carry “objectionable current” (yes, the code actually uses that term).

Those tiny 24awg conductors are not very likely to cause major damage even in the event of a lightning strike, especially if they’ve run underground. They will, however, certainly conduct enough lightning current to fry the magnetics at the ends.

(If you think the National Electrical Code means that your circuit breakers will safely and reliably trip in the event of a fault, e.g. a neutral-to-ground short or a cut, stripped live wire stuck directly into wet Earth, I have some snake oil to sell you.)
This page has some great stuff in it. Today I think about commercial airlines being so _optimized_ for efficiency in everything, I just can't imagine a US airline flying a Concorde overland at subsonic speeds. Assuming they flew Mach 0.95 then that's about at 25% speedup compared to today's subsonic cruise (0.78, although you might get faster than this if you're a big plane going a long distance, up in the low 0.80s). Also, the ticket prices they quote for that flight:

> 1979 Feb – May one way – $154 – $169 /Sept – Oct one way – $194

> 1980 Feb – one way – $227

so more than $900 today to fly one way on a flight that today you can have for $40 one way on a budget carrier! I guess I don't mind the extra hour it takes on a 737 or A321.

Although the more fair comparison would be to the competing prices at the time, not today's prices - any ticket was quite a bit more expensive in 1979-80, so that factors in.
This is correct. They are allowed to charge whatever they want via iOS subscription, so that they could cover the 30% "Appple Tax" if they wanted to. They just can't tell people that they could get Spotify cheaper direct, which is the source of this antitrust action.
Are Apple obligated to update your device too?
AI models don't eat.
No one is arguing that AI LM's can reproduce copyrighted material verbatim.

I have AI LMs running locally on my GPU. They cost less than a photocopier or CD burner to operate. Pennies.
Unfortunately its the other way around for web browsers :|
What's changed is public consumption/access to news about local issues.

Pretty much every local newspaper has been bought up and now almost exclusively talks about ads... err.. I mean national issues. And it isn't even articles that these papers write, rather just the same article published by someone like The McClatchy Company.

Same thing happened to broadcast news.
The elephant in the room that is driving inflation is energy prices. Every good has to be transported and that requires energy. Every production facility also requires electricity to run machines.

Energy prices happen to be going up because some people are ideologically committed to raising energy prices and reducing energy production in order to stop climate change. This includes the current US president, who signed a bunch of executive orders right after taking office that increased gas prices by restricting fossil fuel production.

The sanctions on a certain gigantic gas station that is currently at war with one of its neighbors are also a major driver of inflation. There was also transitory inflation due to pandemic era supply chain disruptions. When factories are shut down for health reasons, less stuff gets made and the price of that stuff goes up.

What did not cause inflation? People being able to buy houses, start businesses and find jobs because the interest rates were low. Raising interest rates and putting people out of work is just treating a symptom when the real solution to inflation is to lower energy prices by producing more energy. That means repealing anti-fossil fuel policies[0] and it also means trying to negotiate an end to wars rather than funding the belligerents forever with endless foreign aid.

[0]: Climate change is real and should be addressed via technology not austerity. We are not going to solve anything by making people in developed (1st world) countries poorer or by keeping people in developing (3rd world) countries poor. Those advocating climate austerity are the main motivating factor driving climate change denial because many people will assume its just a hoax powerful people made up to make them poorer.
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You and your son are literally on opposite ends of the current economy. Tech is in possibly the worst recession since dotcom, while in-person services and retail pay is booming

So the pay situation you describe isn’t surprising at all