skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd love to see more analytical humility in this area.

> "The problem – economics research has repeatedly shown that this is not the case."

And economics research has also repeatedly shown that this IS the case. I'm not supporting that argument, I'm just saying that you have conflicting bodies of research. Everyone here is engaging in motivated reasoning, depending on who they think the boogie-man is.

Humility means being clear about how much you can possibly say from the evidence at hand. Humility means thinking more about confounding factors than about things that you believe to be true.

I'd also love if we talked more about access to resources instead of money.
> how to build a business whose goal is to be a not going concern?

You've hit upon the recurring problem with such ideas. There's a rich history of programs to incentive people to solve issues with invasive or troublesome species. They seem to almost invariably fail and also often end up making the original problem worse. My search-fu is failing me but IIRC classic examples include paying for rats in England and venomous snakes in India. Both of which ended up causing people to factory farm the desired species. Perversely, once officials realized what was happening the incentive programs were halted, the farmers stopped and their uncashed crops escaped into the wild making the problem even worse.
Light meter controlled / tracking louvers would be the quick fix.
Maybe things are better in the Apple Silicon days, but I tried using an external "carry it with you" monitor that used DisplayLink on an old Intel MacBook and it was an endless stream of headaches. Frequently the computer just wouldn't see the monitor at all until I restarted both of them, custom settings like color and rotation would often reset, etc. The DisplayLink drivers seemed like total shit.
If you don't assume that the drydock is sitting empty while the construction plans for the next ship are being thought up, why would it sit empty while you wait for supplies?

Presumably you'd get everything lined up before you finish your previous project. Hardly any construction just simply starts the day someone approaches a manufacturer anyways.
Every big tech in the beginning looked fragile/no moats.

I think we'll see that data, knowledge and intelligence compound and at some point it will be as hard to penetrate as Meta's network effects.
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I'm inferring from people using GitHub copilot that they're using co-pilot. Reflexivity.

So either they believe it isn't a copyright erasure tool, or they believe it is and don't care, or they haven't formed a belief in either direction.

That case analysis looks complete to me.
Devs who haven't worked in industrial controls won't believe it, but the overwhelming majority of critical OT software still doesn't.
Apple could dramatically improve performance if they just tasked one Metal engineer on llama.cpp. Like, just to finish up flash attention and quantum KV cache, and optimize the Metal kernels.

I wouldn't be surprised if they could double performance.

I know Apple is pushing MLX, and MLC-LLM is fast too, but in practice most Mac users (I think) are using llama.cpp based stacks.
My first job in 2012 was still working this way....
> allowing me to do so would not undermine any of the value I've pointed out.

That’s a hard claim to make. The “just works”, “gets out of your way”, nature is very much helped by a closed and restrictive ecosystem.
What sys admin? They don't have any. The kiosks are entirely blackboxes managed from the US central. It works if it has a working network. The store manager can manage it from their iPad lying down on a beach. The card terminals send data directly to a bank and it doesn't matter whether the box burns down while it crashes, the payment is recorded.

I built similar kind of self service box (self checkout) for a local store chain. I know the problem well. Main problems are costs, system administration and management. Our solution is just a simple Chrome kiosk mode browser window too. It's a smart solution.

We run it on AWS because no reason not to - simply pushing the SPA to S3 behind Cloudfront beats any other kind of deployment/hosting method. Some backend stuff runs in Lambda, some runs in ECS containers. All data in a managed RDS DB. Easy to use, easy to maintain, easy to upgrade, easy to deploy, easy to scale from 0 to several thousands kiosks...

I used to be a Windows admin (though admittedly the last Windows I managed was 2003 R2). Just the word IIS makes my neck hair stand up.

Especially if it should be holding payment data... Huh, damn. Wow.

You'd need sync to a global service anyways - it's a multi store chain. Your suggestion just makes everything harder and more convoluted - and it's just wrong, the payment terminal has its own network connection and doesn't need the kiosk to work at all. The kiosk just initiates the payment but the rest of it is handled out of it - and the kiosk waits for central service to confirm the payment. It's bullshit to connect the kiosk to the bank, we support many banks and keep adding support for more, and what if it's stolen, should we always be ready to rotate the certs on 1000s devices - the bank doesn't have appropriate api, so it's either that or again, a central service? Nah, we just turn it off in our admin panel.

I also used to be a Linux sys admin way before clouds. I built one of the first cloud services in my country to solve the problems of that. The company ultimately was out competed - but not by traditional hosting. By the big public clouds. Apparently the problems are real.

BTW coincidentally I'm just about to launch a new cloud platform. Nothing fancy really, but it's built on dedicated servers for performance. Last 3 weeks I spent working on stuff I could've done with 100 lines of Terraform/Pulumi with AWS. Maybe a proper sys admin like you could teach me? I am not happy with it at all, it's a major headache and I'm considering a hybrid setup because I just don't want to lose sleep over customer data and site availability.
"Respondents shared that they see team and individual awareness and self-discipline as the best ways to help get the overspend under control (68%)"

Another benefit of running small, cross-functional teams. It's a lot more difficult for bloat to become overwhelming when teams have strong autonomy over their own decisions and stacks. Think this will naturally shift down as larger orgs make switch to small, 8-12 person autonomous teams.
It was pretty fundamental. At the time commercial aviation was a different two horse race between Boeing and McDonnell-Douglass. The aviation industry in Europe was not doing well and those industries and their suppliers represented millions of jobs.
Hey, that's really handy. Thanks for sharing!
I'm on my first M1 but even with intel I got 5 to 6 years out of the Macbook Air.
What if your customers were smart, but also lying? (Able to get by without your product, but willing to buy it for cheap).
It's a common mistake to assume that Trust and Safety is primarily about enforcing rules around hate speech or committing wrongthink.

Anti-scam (pig butchering) is commonly the most important function, removing users who have used online services to facilitate real world crimes like physical violence, sexual assault, money laundering, or theft is also arguably the most important because of the seriousness of what it represents even if the volume of infractions is relatively lower, fraud or automating user activity for purposes of advertising, pushing agendas, astroturfing, state actor stuff, etc.

I'll give you though that it would be simpler to form an opinion around Trust and Safety if we had more generally understood finer-grained terms for the function though, perhaps separating the stuff I mentioned from the stuff you probably assume Google is focused on with their TNS into two separate terms. Crime and fraud prevention vs community health or something. It's certainly an opaque industry.
> I would adopt rust if it were easy to get up and running just while(1) loop applications.

It is: Install the toolchain (eg `rustup target add thumbv7hibf`); install probe-rs; `cargo run`. I think getting applications up and running in embedded rust is one of its strengths.
On the surface: The world would be premises and stories would be proofs.

Linear Logic for Non-Linear Storytelling by Anne-Gwenn Bosser and Marc Cavazza and Ronan Champagnat has an example.

Then generating proofs means generating valid stories. Linear logic is tough though, it is a logic that admits contradiction so straightaway most logicians are clueless in how to handle it.
Kind of disappointing that they seem to have discontinued the 11” model. I bought one 5 or 6 years ago and it’s still working fine. Compared to the 13” and 15” models, it feels so much more portable and lightweight.
Could be an additional benefit to provide a tool-interface to educate people that [manufactured] inflation helps large companies with their debt - because their amount of $ debt owed doesn't change, yet if they generate revenues - they are now generating more $ to pay off their debt faster; this will work slightly different between governments-states amassing debt vs. companies that have debt.
What if we used character tokens?
Should disambiguate from https://astro.build/ and various other name collissions in your title somehow, maybe "Astro App | Explore the Night Sky" ?

Also the "Identifiers" section and some other things have extremely low contrast text, 2.35:1 instead of the recommended 4.5:1 for body-size text. You can check on issues like this using the accessibility tab in Firefox or Lighthouse in Chrome.
That's going to fall under clean language. There are some written examples on the aforementioned Clean Language wikipedia article[1] under the examples section.

The point I take away from it is the following question, "Who's doing the framing here?" If you're supporting the other person in framing things themselves, then it leans toward clean language. If you're interjecting your own framing, then it leans away from clean language. Personally, I struggle the most with trying to avoid labeling something as "good" or "bad" for the other person. They're full human beings with their own ability to decide how they feel about something and the best way, in my experience, to decide how you feel about something is to put it into words and notice the feelings that come up as the words are said.

If someone is interjecting their own takes, it gets in the way of that noticing.

I'm really curious what you think about manipulation when you envision yourself listening this way.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_language#Example
A mod for a game I help develop uses SVN still. Granted, the Mod started development around 2010, but for games it seems like it works well
There are a few ways to think about this. One is deterrence based on cost-benefit analysis, which is essentially a game theoretic way to think about firm behaviour. The logic here would be to fine the firm enough to deter anti-competitive behaviour, as has been mentioned.

Another way to think about it, is to say that we care about safeguarding the process of competition itself. That could include ensuring that competition is fair, ensuring that firms can enter markets, ensuring consumers get to choose which firms to consume from, etc. There's lots of precedent for that in EU competition law [1]. Taking that view, Apple was using its dominant position to restrict the economic freedom of Spotify (and others) and thereby harming the process of competition. Specifically, it limited rival firms from "fully informing iOS users about alternative and cheaper music subscription services" (as per the press release), thus harming competition.

All that to say, if we take the objective of EU competition law as being to prevent large firms from exercising power over smaller firms and to protect the process of competition in a general sense, then these big fines are easier to justify.

[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3166005
Dilution is only a solution if the total amount isn't harmful once diluted. That's not the case for greenhouse gases, at the very least. To say nothing of the other end of the equation: limited supplies of the raw ingreadients. The earth could likely only support a fraction of the current human population if they all lived rural lifestyles.
Fly the carbonated airways: http://www.concordesst.com/history/events/pepsi.html
> That's why it's for the best if you avoid ads as much as possible.

I wouldn't exactly just avoid them, though most are useless, so it's not a bad idea. You just want to understand what they are... even honest ones will only present information that is a reason to buy.

E.g., when I saw the iPhone 15 ads and the best thing they could say about was that it had some titanium, I knew it was a product I could ignore. (Not that I have an iPhone 14 either, but I already knew that one wasn't worth an upgrade to me).
The period during which the majority of mainstream news was a venerable “fourth estate” must have been for an exceedingly brief period of time. Generally the news has always been owned / controlled by wealthy and powerful interests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism
The $1B Plan to Fix Paris' Dirty Secret
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>Humans are getting priced out

Yup. Soon enough it'll just be two guys arguing over a fair price for Canada.
Thanks for pointing out! I'll try to fix it ASAP
I think photography dealt that blow.

Surrealism was quite late to the grave-dancing ceremony, perhaps 80 years after the first photograph, so not much connection. Maybe there had to be an Impressionist interlude, with some transitional squinting at external reality, before art could become truly introspective.

Surrealism was even a few decades after Freud, but hot on the heels of Cubism, other fin-de-siècle Modernisms, and roughly contemporary with stream-of-consciousness writing (Proust, Joyce, Woolf, also Kafka).

[Also, the role of WWI cannot be underestimated. It cleared the landscape in many ways, destroyed old contexts (e.g. death of Futurism), launched desperate soul-searching, and was existentially challenging at every level - a long sidebar to be had there.]

Culture seems rather slow to adapt to science. Interestingly, there is little traffic in the other direction, but math & physics also had their modern moments just before - Paris Math Congress 1900, Planck 1900, Einstein 1905...

Perhaps sci-fi fiction prefigures future technology? But while there are a few famed prophets (H.G.Wells, W.Gibson), they are mostly hindisght/survivor bias. The genre has success in the same way that a shotgun kills a pigeon. Very little insight, lots of trajectories, few hits.
Regardless of emergence, in the context of "putting safety at the frontier" I would expect Claude 3 to be augmented with very basic tools like calculators to minimize such trivial hallucinations. I say this as someone rooting for Anthropic.
It’s interesting because the whole M# line started with a smart phone and built a pc out of that. As a result it has some unfortunate restrictions that aren’t there when you build a machine out of capable yet pretty clunky intel hardware. I don’t doubt there are similar tradeoffs in the WoS world but I’m not aware of what they are specifically.

The restriction I am most annoyed with these days is the lack of external GPU passthrough. I’m not even sure the asahi Linux folks have gotten that working yet.

So folks are probably just happy they’re not having to deal with as many compromises and tradeoffs (they get to have their PC that works almost just like a smartphone but does more things their intel machine could now). That’s totally understandable.
I'm a senior software dev that is still using the last of the intel macs (granted a maxed out 16" not an air).

These kind of comparisons are still valid for me. There are plenty of others less technical than me that want these too. The youngest intel Airs only just aged out of applecare coverage last year, and for most casual users getting 4 years out of an Apple computer is totally expected.
Yeah, I agree that being confident about this is a good sign you don't understand it.
> coercion

yup, puts them way over the bar here.

But there's a meaningful distinction between posting transactions, and recommending prices for new transactions. A public market does the former, but relies on participants to ultimately set prices. The latter is probably fine too, iff the prices represent some good-faith estimate of a 'fair' market price. However, recommending systematically inflated prices with the intention of raising the price level globally is probably price-fixing on its own, even if there's no coercive element.
I’m curious how or if that affects physical training, like gymnastics or martial arts.
Maybe? I've flown out of Europe to the US many many times and never encountered any special security measures. Certainly not LHR (Terminal 2 usually I think) and not Frankfurt just a few months ago.
Which every sane scientist and individual predicted a few years ago. But were shouted down by climate change zealots as blasphemy. I remember climate change lunatics used to post pictures of 'bare' mt rainier. Now, not so much...
Depends on the ISP and the teams doing the install. I used to work middle mile fiber along roadways from town to town and every bit of that was spliced on-site. There were very few exceptions where we would spec a pre-term cable for cell towers and certain buildings but we would often be splicing inside a building.
It would send a very convincing message, though.
Same here but I still love TFA!

Fiber to the home and then the fiber cable goes into an ultra cheap fiber/ethernet (either 8P8C/"RJ45" or SFP) converter: an Alcatel MC220L "Media converter", installed by the ISP. Then it's simply cat cables into the walls with plugs in each room.

> Aside: SFP is fantastic! It's absolutely awesome that even cheap, consumer switches have SFP ports now. Just bought a 2.5GBit ethernet switch for $50 the other day that had 4 2.5Gbit ports and 2 10GBit-capable SFP ports

What's the brand/model?
JFK-LHR is still one billion dollars in revenue for British Airways alone.

The innovation that killed Concorde was the lie flat business seat. You could be cramped in the Concorde’s leather bus seat for three hours, or you could save money and get a sleep in for six hours.
That and Google’s incredibly deep hierarchical structure. Nowhere else have I seen VPs report to VPs and directors report to directors. At Google this is quite common, and not just now - it was quite common under Schmidt and Page, too. It’s never clear what those people do, and by the time information filters up to the CEO (who, let me remind you, can’t tell a tensor from a hole in the ground) everything is hunky dory. Previously the CEOs were technical and much harder to bullshit. Sundar isn’t technical. He truly is the Ballmer of Google, probably setting the stage for someone else.
We largely do have the resources, it's just that they're all playing video games, trying to get people to click ads, fleecing people out of their retirement money, doing drugs, posting on Reddit, watching TV, posting on Instagram, managing their brands' social media accounts, lobbying against more infrastructure, etc.

You're right that it's going to be massively disruptive to how we currently live our lives. A good chunk of us are going to need to find new jobs. IMHO the trigger will be when money becomes worthless, when we see the first billionaire die from a climate-related natural disaster and money can't save them. But I'd question our inability to save ourselves. In the Great Depression we built huge swaths of infrastructure in very short time periods - the Hoover Dam was constructed in just 5 years, the Golden Gate Bridge in 4. That was with 90-year-old technology; when we pull out the stops, we can do even better today. The Oroville Dam spillway was reconstructed over 6 months [1], while Foster City just built a new levee around the entire city in 3 years [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oroville_Dam#Investigation_and...

[2] https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/foster-city-sea-...
Ah to return to the days of William Randolph Hearst, when journalism was free of corporate influence
It seems like their question struck a nerve. Did you really feel it necessary to bring up hot political issues to explain why it's interesting that the new apple laptops can drive two external displays?

Just for clarity, it's so far from novel in the world of windows laptops that it's genuinely confusing why that would be an advertised feature.
They were, if you were born in 1993?
I'm not sure that availability of alcohol on a flight is crucial/essential when deciding whether to take given flight or not...
Read what you just wrote again.

Do you see a difference between training and reproduction?
At the start of the piracy era the media companies went after individuals, but through some combination of bad PR and bad ROI that was abandoned long ago and they changed their strategy to get ISPs held accountable.
That's actually funny. My ThinkPad with Arch Linux also supports Microsoft 365, Canva, and Adobe Firefly! Since when are we advertising a list of "supported websites"?
The one point on the list that Go doesn't automatically bring is #3. All the others are there.

Also 5) it will keep working over time.

I know that if it's in Javascript, it will take a while to make it run at all; in Ruby I've spent too long reading your site, it's already incompatible; in Python it will break in a couple of years; and in PHP it will keep doing what it promises, but I'll have to work again and again to keep it only doing what it promises.
It doesn't make them look worse, it makes them look too realistic: I think this one is an inversion of the trend, in that people expect movies to look like movies, not like reality.
I'm also feeling reluctant to buy name brand anything in a grocery store these days, except Wild Turkey 101 I guess.
True, they might know, but a push is probably what they need.

Listening is disjoint from giving advice. In fact you need to first listen to be able to give advice.

And yes, some people just want to be listened. I am not against it as such

I usually talk actionable stuff more than not actually but I understand that some people might not be like me.

Yes, my last quote there means that making someone feel just better for a moment while keeping something for which there could be something about is probably suboptimal. Idk if bad, just suboptimal. The honest feedback in a conversation is critical to solve our own problems.

Sometimes I found out things noone would have ever told me by people that really appreciate me and that is a good thing that improves me, not a bad thing that should make me angry or annoyed.

I have the feeling that we are doing something wrong with this kind of advice. The generation that comes 20 years after me or 30 (I am 40) are mentally way softer than before and I think this kind of behavior promoted by the article promotes this kind of feedback.

The biggest difference I have seen compared to Europe from living in Vietnam (for 12 years) is that they have a much stronger mind.

They have better and worse things, as every culture. But I relate this kind of advice as a fundamental mistake.

We need positive listening, we need things like that, sure. But we also need to deal with frustration, with failure and with negative feedback.

Those things teach us to deal with fristration, to naturalize it and to be able to deal with it as well.

So my advice would be more, without being a therapist, train your kids as Toni Nadal trained Rafa Nadal. Hard minds are ready for good and bad times.

Soft minds only for the good ones.

So I would be wary of promoting that kind of "everything's cool let's be positive never mind". I'd rather promote "be careful, this is the problem, can we deal with it?" If so, how? If not, we cannot win all the time which is also a lesson that humbles us.