skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sympathetic to the idea that users should be able to choose to remain within a walled garden if that's what they actually want. There are benefits to Apple being able to use their market position to enforce certain rules on behalf of their customers.

The problem is that same leverage can just as easily be used to enforce rules that benefit Apple at the expense of their customers. In theory competition from other platforms limits the extent Apple can abuse their position in that manner. But there's only one other major platform in the mobile space. That's not a lot of options for the market to optimise around.

Further, Apple is a large, vertically integrated company which does a lot to try to lock consumers into their ecosystem. If I'd like to chose a more open mobile phone operating system but feel like I can't because Android isn't allowed to interoperate with iMessage or AirPlay or AirDrop or AirTags or Apple Watch or iCloud and I like those products and want to continue using them... well, that's a problem.

There's also the software freedom issue. As a consumer, once Apple sells me a piece of physical hardware it should no longer be their place to dictate what software I'm allowed to run on that device. If I want to install an app that's not on Apple's App Store but Apple doesn't want me to, there's no question in my mind as to whose rights should win out in that scenario.

Overall, my take is that Apple should be allowed to offer a closed ecosystem to users who want that, but they shouldn't be allowed use technical measures or anti-competitive bundling to force or coerce consumers into remaining inside that ecosystem. If consumers want to buy their apps exclusively from Apple's app store because they see a benefit from that, then they should be allowed to. But if they don't, Apple shouldn't be able to hold their entire ecosystem hostage from the consumer as leverage to prevent them from leaving.

I realize this gives Apple a bit less leverage in their ability to advocate on behalf of their customers when dictating the terms under which companies can sell products within their walled garden, since those companies will now have the option of going over Apple's head and selling their product directly to consumers, sans Apple's rules. But that's how free markets work, in contrast to the monopoly-like situation we're currently in. If enough consumers see the value in Apple's rules to avoid other app stores with less restrictive policies, companies will still have to comply with them to access those consumers. (I'll note this is basically how things already work on Android. Google still operates the most popular app store on Android despite competition being allowed, and they're still able to dictate the terms under which apps are allowed in that store.) But if those terms are so egregious that consumers start to prefer alternative app stores instead, that's a good thing too.
I’ve worked for businesses that were starved to death by customers who told us they needed our services to function.

Management is not nearly as smart as they want us to think.
> Starving your workers to death is not a good long term strategy.

It is when you have an unlimited supply of workers with zero protections. The breaking of the social contract makes all the old rules no longer apply. They will drive us to the absolute edge of torches and pitchforks and keep us there, forever. They will come up with newer and better ways of determining where that line is, and just how far they can push it. And we will sit here like obedient dogs and take it.
> web standards are really a thing now.

Chrome starts a proposal, implements it and “intends to ship” it before anyone really has time to discuss it. Recently (2 months ago?) they introduced a new WebExtension API that nobody cared about nor really understood the need for, but it’s still there, making it look like it’s a “standard”
The law allows up to 10% of global revenue.
Mine requires no driver, it's plug and play. I just get the Apple Security nag when I plug (anything) in.
> if they can't stay on the road for more than say 15 years we're just committing to an endless loop of replacing every car on the road more quickly

Of course that is the desired outcome by EV manufacturers - it's the dream scenario - along with locked down, non-replaceable and impossible to buy batteries [0] (or seemingly possible to buy - just prohibitively expensive)

Unfortunately people with their "after me, the deluge" attitude (as already displayed in this thread) are are unable to prevent this scenario from becoming reality.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/leaf/comments/16es7gn/can_someone_s...
These are all real issues with Rust, though it's worth noting that many of the integration challenges mentioned also apply to external code written in C and C++.

Some of the survey responses highlight one of the biggest hurdles to rust adoption I've experienced though:

Rust has an education problem. People dramatically overestimate the correctness of their [C/C++] code and underestimate the potential severity of failures to meet that expectation. I've found very few projects where a bit of poking can't turn up memory safety issues. Even people who are far more skilled programmers than I am routinely write silly mistakes.

Unfortunately the response I often hear to bringing these issues up after the code exists is "it's working code, why should I care about these theoretical issues?"
We used to live under the flightpath for the departures from Heathrow to the US, not far from Reading. The evening flights would go over, which you could feel in your body, then moments later catch the light of the setting sun as they headed west. It was quite inspiring.

The Vulcan is (or was!) my favourite plane sound, beating out the Merlin-engined stuff and even Concorde. Four Olympus engines, plus the howl. Can't be bettered! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_ARSE8jEHQ
How did everyone solve it at the same time and there is no published paper (that I'm aware of) describing how to do it?

It's like every AI researcher had an epiphany all at once
Startup Ideas which are crazy
Recently all the startup ideas seem to be about AI, but most of them are very common and are being pursued by dozens of companies and a large variety of those are the one's which can be easily replaced by more advanced foundational modals. So I thought about asking about some Hard-Tech or crazy and unconventional ideas which
which might be in the mind of the community.
Any issues with sleep? This was the one thing preventing me last time I was trying to move permanently to Linux for work a couple of years ago. Laptop wouldn't sleep properly and the battery would drain.
Once you keep your eyes out for the look, the usage of vintage lenses in modern movies can be pretty apparent, for example a Helios 44-2 was used in "The Batman" for the car chase scene with the penguin. There must be a few floating around the Hollywood rental shops, the Helios has a pretty distinctive bokeh pattern. You'll see it shot wide open looking directly at the subject for dramatic affect

Luckily these lenses are pretty cheap (The USSR made many of them), I purchased two in late 2022 that shipped from Ukraine

A video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYvWpavSXeE
The linkage file is probably missing a lot of linkages. As someone who has done some genealogy research, at a certain point you just start guessing based on last name, age, region and hope its right. There's also a big trend of people getting to a point where there are multiple options (similar names, ages, region) and picking the most well documented lineage to hook their genealogy on to.
Two main reasons:

1) Future proofing (the main geek justification we all tell ourselves when considering fiber hehe): There's terabits of potential in even the cheapest fiber. "I'll never have to run cables again!" This is actually nonsense since everyone needs outlets in new places from time to time. Better just get used to the idea that you'll be sweating your ass off in the attic (wear a proper respirator!) every few years no matter what you install =)

2) Long distance runs. You can run fiber kilometers and even the cheap SFP adapters will give you a solid 10Gbit connection.

A few secondary reasons:

Runs between buildings: Have a detached garage? You can run fiber from your attic to the garage in the air and not have to worry about lightning strikes destroying it and all your stuff/equipment. Just make sure to use a type of fiber cable that's made for that or it'll slowly droop until it breaks (or just gently wrap it around some strong rope that can withstand long term exposure to the elements or use tubing/pipe, etc).

Size requirements: You can cram a lot more fiber cables into the same space as you can Cat 6/8 (which are much thicker and stiffer than cat 5/cat 5e). I have some "outdoor" (buryable) Cat 6 that is nearly as thick/stiff as RG-6 coaxial! If you have a tiny hole/pipe and you need to run a lot of wires through it fiber is what you want. I bet you can cram 5-6x more singly-jacketed fiber cables through a 1-inch PVC pipe/conduit than you can Cat 6. A LOT (100x) more if you use a fancy cable with lots of individual fibers within (there's a lot of different styles).
By making a percentage of those people less likely to migrate to another platform.

Of course it's a guessing game to try to put any numbers (amount or $ values) to any of that.
And my stance is that if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, then it's a duck. Purchasing something already has an established definition and strong implicit contracts associated with that. Sooner or later this BS shall pass and I will be able to buy a phone without agreeing to a EULA and own the phone in the same way that I buy a banana and own it without having to agree to a EULA.
Is it possible we're reaching a world where we get our news from AI bots exclusively because the companies behind said AI bots are the only ones willing to pay for access to "The News (TM)" ?
The unlimited supply of workers parameter is less and less true as the days go by.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39589924
Yes: That's essentially their fine-tuning offerings. They rewrite some weights in the top layers based on your input, and save+serve that for you.

It sounds like you would like a wrapped version tuned just for big context.

(As others write, RAG versions are also being supported, but they're less fundamentally similar. RAG is about preprocessing to cut the input down to relevant bits. RAG + an agent framework does get closer again tho by putting this into a reasoning loop.)
Applied and never heard back...
SSA form is functional programming. As in the paper, but also it's quite literally true.

The really gnarly part of compiling languages is dealing with load/store. If you translate a functional language to SSA form, what you get is an IR which doesn't have load/store in it. I.e. that's easy mode.

I'd suggest compile to SSA with implicit memory semantics, then somewhat later splice in the part of the language runtime that deals with memory management and now you have an imperative SSA form, continue as usual.

That is, they're the same problem really.
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Parking at Boston Logan is expensive even with Economy Parking (which I joke is in Canada); the airport is very close-in to the city. In my current job, no one has ever pushed back on me using a private car service and, if I'm traveling on my own, it's usually for long enough that the car service is at least breakeven relative to driving/parking.

After a couple issues, e.g. arriving on a cold 10pm night to a flat tire I couldn't get off, I mostly just won't drive in any longer.

There are a couple bus services from the burbs but I haven't really been motivated to check them out for years.
Someone should sell a little app for Mac that glows red when an upgrade would have been useful (e.g, when you maxed out your max Mac).

I suspect mine would be green almost all the time, even on this almost three year old M1 Max.
But in the short term it pays dividends, bonuses, and raises. It's kind of a tragedy of the commons type problem, none of the leadership and investors care about the long term (the negative effects on the corporation or society) as long as individually they succeed.
>I would adopt rust if it were easy to get up and running just while(1) loop applications.

Doesn't embassy_rs make that pretty easy?
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Of course it is. Usage naturally stops growing during a supply shortage concomitant with a contraction of the original primary consumer. If your goal is prosperity, consumers tightening their belts is a negative signal, not a positive coincidence.
Legally speaking, there is no such thing. iOS is not a service, it is a good.
> The idea of bringing down wages to tame inflation is rooted in the theory that if we reduce the costs of labor in the production process, firms won’t have to increase prices as much, and thus the rate of inflation would fall.

The root cause IMHO is that especially in the US there is barely any competition any more. No matter where you look, it's at most five to six different (multi)national megacorporations... and so they can extract many billions of dollars from the economy every month. Enshittification, just on macroeconomic scale.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_LLC_v._Oracle_America%2...
It’s far from perfect but no comparison to our lowest point in history.
Your reply is rather hyperbolic.
Once you’ve taken all the data in the world and trained a sufficiently large model on it, it’s very hard to improve on that base. It’s possible that GPT-4 basically represents that benchmark, and improvements will require better parsing/tokenization, clever synthetic data methods, building expert datasets. Much harder than just scraping the internet and doing next token after some basic data cleaning.
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I was talking more about science.

On the people-direction side, I expect the span of control will substantially broaden, which will probably lead to fewer manager/leader jobs (that pay more).

You'll always need someone to do the last 5% that it doesn't make sense to data engineer inputs/outputs into/from AI.
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> The way jpegli handles XYB color in a JPEG image is by applying an ICC color profile that maps the existing JPEG color channels to XYB.

That sounds like it might negatively affect compatibility with older decoders that do not handle color spaces correctly.
> The CDC is saying it's okay to infect other people because pretty much everyone on earth has already been infected with the novel sars-cov-2 virus and taken their risk already with the first infection.

Spreading respiratory viruses is really called living in a normal human society, and for whatever reason medical professions abandoned every conventional advice and emergency plan of the past that was prepared for responding to novel respiratory contagious disease of the sort a coronavirus would be, that spares the vast majority of healthy people, and resorted to what I call Open Air Surveillance Fascism.

I'll never forget the absurdity of healthy people on a beach, which was probably the safest thing a person could do with maximum ventilation and full sunlight, with some moron shaming everyone while dressed in a reaper outfit.
The M1 Max MacBook Pro can drive four monitors + the screen, at least.
Maybe you don't really need a Max chip?
Thanks, very helpful. I’ve used ARPACK extensively and have had no complaints with it, but I haven’t tried this particularly pathological case.
I don't know of any big company that acts more like the little lord of everything than Apple.
Yeah I'm skeptical of that one, depending on the context. I think relating is a critical part of normal human relationship building. How could I ever get to know someone who only ever listens to me and never relates back to themselves? They would get to know me, but I would never get to know them.

However, I do think it seems like the right advice for the orthogonal goal of being supportive to someone, either in a professional support setting (therapy, mentoring, coaching, etc.) or just if you can notice in the context of personal relationships when that's what the other person needs or would benefit from in that particular setting.

Like, if I'm just out for a normal drink date with a friend or my spouse, just chatting and shooting the shit, it would be ridiculous to never relate back to them. But if they texted me and said "hey can we meet up? I'm really struggling with my dad's illness and want to talk", then yeah, keeping myself out of it is the way to go. (Which I don't often do a good job of though... so maybe doing that more often in more situations would be good as practice.)
> Not everything seems as useless on the surface.

And vice versa.
It's worth reading the paragraph on BPD in that page.

Being conditioned by your BPD partner to excessively validate and center them is not the same as empathy.
Me doing them. E.g if I'm making eye contact with you, I'm thinking about making eye contact with you, not what you're saying.
I guess it is a rite of passage to rewrite it. I'm doing it for SciPy too together with Propack in [1]. Somebody already mentioned your repo. Thank you for your efforts.

[1]: https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/18566
Preconditioning is useful if you live in very cold climates. You just tell your app to start warming up your car, and you get out there it is nice. I guess being an EV is also useful since it doesn’t create fumes or make your car a target for theft.
Did sleep work properly out of the box?
It was the case just a year ago when I flew out of LHR. US flights were out of terminal 5 and a special pre clearance zone. I’ve been through Frankfurt’s pre clearance as well. Maybe things have changed very recently? It flew under the radar if that’s the case.
>It is also bizarre that someone could take BSD code, make trivial modifications, and now such cannot be sent upstream or used under the original license.

No it is not bizarre. That is precisely how the BSD license is intended to work. If you want to ensure that changes fall under the original license, then you want GPL.
This is far from a "genuine" question.

It's easy to deduce that it's a big deal for macbook air users because it wasn't possible before.

It's easy to deduce both from the article and from other comments here, which presumably you read if you're going through the trouble of responding to someone else's comment.

I typically despise this type of question, where you're obviously trying to make a point but playing dumb and playing it off as if you have no clue what you're talking about.

This type of question is used all over the place and super obnoxious.

I'm not American, genuine question, why is it a big deal that you're getting free healthcare? I've had free healthcare my whole life, shrug.

As a European, genuine question. Why is it a big deal that Biden wants to forgive student loan? I've gotten free education my whole life, shrug.

As an apple user, why is it a big deal that Dell is extending it's warranty to 2 years? My apple device gets updates 4 years later, shrug.
> I can't tell the difference between my new M1 Max MacBook Pro and the new M3 Max Macbook Pro

I don't know why you bought a new one. You can have two ways to look at this, one way is your ultra pessimistic view, my view is I don't need to upgrade my laptop ever 2 years anymore.

Before the M1 Max I was upgrading so often because intel macbooks sucked so much. Now I can comfortably say I'm keeping my M1 Max for a decade.

As for being "exploited" by ads, just don't be, stop mindless consumption...
I can see that as a requirement allowed to maintain customer security. And Spotify is already obligated by european law to allow easy cancling.

If apple requires them to use an api to pass "basic techincal compliance" (they could just use a callback and let the app handle the rest) that would be very much in the spirit and the letter of the law.
To be fair, most of the criticism upthread embeds the criticizer credentials just by the fact that those problems are very hard to notice.

The thing that you can't easily criticize is that the UI isn't very clear and gives no confidence that what you are doing is actually correct. -- But I imagine at this point, it's safe :)

Other VCS out there do have better UIs, with concepts are are more clearly told apart (or not confusingly separated, like tags from commits). But none is so much better that it's worth abandoning everything an copying them.
That would still be listening level 1. If you're asking questions and worried about how it makes you look, that's focusing on yourself.

My examples don't come across good via text; I would edit more fleshed out ones if I could.

But in any context, if you're focused on yourself, you're not listening.
It's fully possible, much like it's possible to compile Windows programs/libraries on Linux today.